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First love and youth（初恋与青春）------ You Are The Apple Of My Eye 《那些年，我们一起追的女孩》2 Actually, some people believe that this movie is an unfortunate combination of cynicism and jealousy due to them doubting the idea that girls are liked based on their looks and not their personalities. To some extent, the idea makes sense because we have to admit that we are living in an brand new era that is full of sex and material desires. Anyway, I still think being level-headed is a good option to set yourself apart from this complicated, commercialised world. Personally, sometimes I lose myself in this cruel material world. With the economy of China booming, the world moves in a pace that is very fast for us, in addition, it's a good option to kick back and relax by watching a pure and innocent love moive.We still need to find inner peace among loads of materialistic people. In the end, hopefully all you guys can find your true love soon and all your stories have a happy ending.

First love and youth（初恋与青春）------ You Are The Apple Of My Eye 《那些年，我们一起追的女孩》1 最近看一部电影《那些年，我们一起追的女孩》，感觉还不错，所以写些观后感，虽然本人一向讨厌谈论爱情的事情，因为觉得太拖沓繁琐了。如果你也看过，那顺便告诉我你们的感受吧。Hi, guys, This is my new essay. Please leave your comments Recently there was a very popular Chinese movie released called “You’re the apple of my eye”. The movie talks about puppy love between two students in a Taiwan high school, Ke Teng and Jia Yi who are the main actors in this movie. After the teacher punishes Ke Teng due to his mischief, he tries to get close to Jia Yi. At first, they dislike each other but that slowly changes as they build a good impression of each other. Eventually Ke Teng decides to pursue her and his classmates also get involved in their pursuit for the same girl. Some would say that this movie merely depicts a typical school love story, however it reminds me of my good old days and my youth. Some friends said it is more like a movie about youth but not as much as a sweet quickie. In truth, every person who has gone through adolescence would know that our youth is a wonderful thing – it is so full of anguish and of magic. Just like the tagline of this movie, adolescence is like a heavy rain; even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again. Perhaps you didn’t get through a phenomenal love experience when you were in high school; perhaps your whole school life is dull and normal as most of the high school student’s life; perhaps you dreamed of being a superhero to save the world and change human being’s lives. Yes, the youth is always full of dreams and tons of precious memories. When we are young, the strange and bitter miracle of life is nowhere else so evident. Our life is so short but nevertheless a long journey; we'll like many people and be liked by many other people. We'll eventually settle down and spend the most significant and wonderful moment with people whom we love. But there is no doubt that the first love is so unforgettable, because it's about our youth.

Chinese food (Shuo Zhu Huo Yu 水煮活鱼) The Chinese cuisine has become world-renown, loved by people in all countries and all walks of life. Chinese food offers dishes that are known to be some of the tastiest and the most unique in the world. Essentially, the colour, aroma and flavour are not the only the key elements in chinese cooking, however nutrition is also a priority. I still remember a very famous proverb from the spring and autumn periods------the path to your friend's heart and soul begins from your cooking. So let me introduce you to some Chinese home-style cooking（Sichuan cuisine）, including Shuo Zhu Huo Yu（水煮活鱼）, Hui Guo Rou（回锅肉）, Ma Po Dou Fu（麻婆豆腐,） Shuo Zhu Huo Rou（水煮活肉） etc. Perhaps you have eaten some Chinese food or even heard of some methods to make/prepare them, but honestly, when compared with popular western dishes, most Chinese dishes do not require complex processing or special equipment in the kitchen. The methods mainly include stewing, red-cooking (my favorite one), roasting, boiling, shallow/deep frying. The following dish I will introduce to you is Shui Zhu Huo Yu(水煮活鱼). To begin with we need to prepare these ingredients: On one hand, salt, cooking wine, starch, a pot of boiling water, hot pepper, bean sauce. On the other hand, we also need ginger, sliced garlic, and dried chilli (smaller). Well, there are four steps to make this dish. Step one, we need to clean up the fish and cut it lengthwise from its head to the tail, the next is to cut into sections. Step two, we will need to add salt, starch and cooking wine. Step three, we need to fry the fish pieces with cooking wine for 3 minutes, which can then reduce the fishy smell/taste. At the same time, we fry pepper slowly about 2 minutes. Then add the dry hot pepper and bean sauce, and stir-fry until fragrant. After 5 minutes, please place the garlic and ginger into the pot. For step four(Finally), we pour the fish meat sections into the boiling water for 3-5 minutes, but you should watch the time, or the fish meat will be too tender or too overcooked. You're probably gonna ask me what's the next step you should do, that's a very significant question for you when you are starving. I only have one answer but it’s also the key answer------you guys enjoy(lol). Due to my limited time, I can't introduce every single dish's cooking method for you, but if you're interested in Chinese cooking, you can definitely contact me and we discuss it together whenever you want.

cooking (2) It's said that a good way to get a man's heart is through his stomach, so if you know how to cook, your relationship could get even closer (It's time to stop talking nonsense, let's get back to cooking). From the last paragraph we've already known that we need to control the fire (heat), seasoning, as well as time. Now I want to remind you of the importance of how to use seasoning properly. As for my cooking, the seasonings usually include pepper, salt, oil, spices and herbs. The oil is very important if you want to be a good cook, just control how much oil you should add in your dish and when to add it. You can't make everything just fried or you will only be able to taste the oil. For the other seasonings, of course they are the number one element to our food, otherwise your meals will become too bland and have nothing seasoned. Nobody will be able to appreciate your cooking skill, not even to mention your expectation for any praises from your friend and family. In other words, if your dishes are too salty or watery and even burned this is never allowed to happen in your cooking. I guess that all you folks must have watched the Desperate Housewives show, whereby Susan's cooking skills are totally a mess which resulted in her divorce. You will not be able to imagine that there would be anyone who can stand his own wife being only able to cook one food and still be of awful taste. I really reckon so. What a pathetic housewife she is, frankly, people rarely can screw up macaroni and cheese, but she was able to do it, unbelievable! I can't help wondering if my future wife's cooking skills will be as bad as hers, I absolutely will need to open a restaurant to save my miserable marriage. If I'm not skilled enough at running it, my fate could perhaps be worse------to be a traitor of my marriage (lol). To be honest, wish me luck and don't ever let me meet such a “special” girl. In the next little essay I will maybe introduce a few traditional Chinese dishes to you. See you soon!!!

Cooking (1) Recently, I often cooked for my family, mainly for lunch and dinner. Actually cooking is my favorite hobby, whenever I do get a chance, I will cook without any hesitation. What I long for/crave for and am able to cook well is unquestionably Chinese food, including longevity noodles, smothered pork chop and traditional Chinese desserts etc. Personally, every time before I cook, it is paramount to observe the preparation of the dishes’ ingredients. You know, the quality of the dishes you’re going to make is naturally related to every single ingredient you've prepared for your dish. There are three significant things that you have to control------ fire, seasoning and cooking time. These factors are of tremendous importance for you during cooking, because if the fire is too strong, the food you cook will probably be too dry or way overcooked and very soft/mushy. On the other hand, when you cook your meal, you should not over apply seasoning but neither do you just use them inadequately, because in doing so, you've already failed half of it at the very beginning. Last but not least, you definitely have to be aware of controlling your cooking time, which is the key element of your cooking. In knowing how to control your cooking time, you will never screw your meal up. It's said that a good way to get a man's heart is through his stomach, so if you know how to cook, your relationship could get even closer (It's time to stop talking nonsense, let's get back to cooking). From the last paragraph we've already known that we need to control the fire (heat), seasoning, as well as time. Now I want to remind you of the importance of how to use seasoning properly. As for my cooking, the seasonings usually include pepper, salt, oil, spices and herbs. The oil is very important if you want to be a good cook, just control how much oil you should add in your dish and when to add it. You can't make everything just fried or you will only be able to taste the oil. For the other seasonings, of course they are the number one element to our food, otherwise your meals will become too bland and have nothing seasoned. Nobody will be able to appreciate your cooking skill, not even to mention your expectation for any praises from your friend and family. In other words, if your dishes are too salty or watery and even burned this is never allowed to happen in your cooking. I guess that all you folks must have watched the Desperate Housewives show, whereby Susan's cooking skill