Some thoughts Being healthy is the most important thing in the world. If your body size is overweight, maybe you should go on a diet and make your body size become normal. Why? That’s because being overweight will lead to lots of diseases such as hypertension, you just need to follow few easy tips to help you avoid obesity. For example, exercise everyday is a key way you ought to do, and if you have a sedentary lifestyle, you need to exercise in every 30 or 40 minutes. But at present, people are sick of pursuing the “perfect body” in order to become prettier than the others. It’s an inappropriate and weird phenomenon around the world. It’s silly to follow a trend which hurts you. In recent years, I heard that model industry have the minimum weight in order to avoid those girls who use the worst method to be a model. It’s a good start to decrease such things happen. Except for that, government should promote the idea “not pursuing the perfect body” through all kind of social media. Last but not least, personality is an integral element to judge a person rather than their appearance. You should enrich yourself and do not waste time in doing those stupid things.

The word "zeitgeist" According to the dictionary, it said that "zeitgeist" means the spirit of the times. But I think it is too abstract, can anyone explains it and gives some examples?

Three words "Stagnation" "recession" and "downturn" I know they have similar meanings, but I think they still have some differences. How to tell these three words and how to use?

Whether I should be an exchange student or not Recently, I have had the idea that I want to be an exchange student because I want to see what the outside world and experience different cultures. But there is a big problem that bothers me. I may not graduate from my college punctually. But I really think it's a good opportunity which I should, and need to seize. If I make the wrong decision, I might regret it for good. :(

Is there any difference between ''move on'' and ''keep going'' Is there any difference? Or totally the same?

Finding English tutor in Taiwan Recently, I want to find a English tutor in Taiwan to improve my English ability, but I found that it's difficult.There is a big problem that I want to practice the real speaking in English so I hope that my English tutor is a foreigner and need to live in Taipei or Keelung, but I don't know how and where to find them. If you guys have friends who live in Taiwan and want to be a English tutor, contact me and introduce him/her to me, please.

How to improve speaking ability in English? I know it's best to find someone who speaks English fluently to talk, but people near me are not good at English, neither. Going to cram school or finding a tutor is expensive. Are there any simple ways to practice English speaking ? Or is there anyone interested in doing language exchange through Skype with me?

TV series I've watched lots of TV series during this summer vacation. Here's parts of the lists: 1. How I Met Your Mom (My favorite TV series!!) I love this TV series so much. It's funny and kind of crazy that always make me laugh. My favorite character is Barney Stinson. He is awesome and legendary. I'm looking forward to the new season on September 24th, 2012. 2. Game of Thrones (A song of ice and fire) That's a book franchise making it to the TV screen. At first, I was confused because there were numerous characters and I couldn't recognize all of them. After I watched two or three episodes, I found this drama was amazing. I would like to borrow those novels(Chinese Version) from library. By the way, I really like British accent, it's charming. :) 3. Legal high This is a Japanese drama which talks about law and humanity. Both of the main actor and actress are lawyer. The main actress just gets lawyer license and wants to be a lawyer who has strong sense of justice. In contrast to her, The main actor has been a lawyer for many years and he just focused on money. My favorite sentence of this drama is the main actor talked to the main actress. "The justice you talked about is just the compassion for those people who are worse than you, and you just feel sympathy for those poor guys who stand in front of you. We are not god. How could we know what the justice is? The justice you talked about only exists in Hero dramas and comic books." I think it is true. We can't judge one thing by our own opinion. Sometimes, there is no difference between evil and justice. Maybe you think it is justice, but in the eyes of others, that is evil. ---------------- Wow... It's a long diary I wrote today. I hope that you will like it and you can recommend some TV series to me. :)

The new semester The new semester starts on September 17th,2012. I have lots of things to do and some of them are troublesome. For example,my parents asked me to find a tutor to practice my English conversation but I don't know how and where to do that. Besides, I set two new goals for this new semester. Firstly,I want to do things more efficiently, and secondly,I want to improve my English ability. I was born in the countryside and I'm the only person in my family who studied at college. What I can do to return the kindness of my family is to study harder and find a good job in the future. That's why I really want to make progress in English. I know that I'm not good enough...:( Last but not least,it's the first day of September. Hope that everyone has a wonderful month. :)