writing practice(How to make Croquette)

I do love Japan, and love Japanese food always. No matter what kinds staple food or traditional dessert. Croquette (ころっけ) is one of my favorite Japanese foodstuff. In Taiwan, it is very rare to see this which can be called a snake or a staple foodstuff. In fact, it is not a very expensive food in Japan. Just because rarity, we can see the price is not quite acceptable to everyone.

First, you should prepare fresh potatoes, toast, wheaten flour and some eggs. Second, steam the potatoes and make sure each one is totally tender and cooked, then use your own creation to make the shape you think it look like delicious (Maybe you can add some ham or vegetables you like). Third, let the potatoes add wheaten flour, eggs and bread powder (bake the toast then use squeezer to stir it). Remember, you have to step by step accordingly.Forth, throw all of them into hot oil between 180~200∘C at least ten minutes. Before you take out of it, turn the bigger fire in order to let inside oil come out. The last step is to find a pretty plant to match the croquette. Trust me, the more simple you choose the more look like yummy and gorgeous.

It could be succeed at the first time. And you may fail so many time that you really want to give up. But please, please try again and do your best. And you will love it forever and ever. : )

movie reflection

The Devil Wears Prada

Summary

In New York, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity as a temporary professional challenge. Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life and the relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices.

reflection

Despite everything against Andrea in the office, she will consider the experience as a challenge. I think it is an inspiration to me. There are times that I thought of giving up, but when I think about Andrea I would keep holding on want I am doing. Because her tasks, for example: to obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, which was much more demanding than mine. At the end, with playing a perfect assistant of Miranda, Andrea kind of sold her soul to a devil. The naïve girl had gone. I think it happens a lot when facing people. Some always stay true to themselves, but there are many that would suppress their own feelings and thoughts in order to appeal to others. I believe there are some circumstances that being ourselves aren’t that easy, but some somehow we must find a way to balance it, so that we won’t lost ourselves forever.

movie reflection(wrote in 5/22)

Frida

The Inside of Diago

Diago, he has perfection that supporting the Communist Party (CP). For example, when he was be invited to America, in order to help an influence able corporation draw their wall in the office lobby. People in the U.S keep protesting what he drew was too Nazi and asking him to change it. But he had his own opinion which standing by it so firmly that the boss of the company fired Diago in the end. It is truth that Diago did not keep the job in his last life, but what he did is to insist on his original faith.

reading reflection

Charlotte’s Web

Story Summary

The story took place in a farm. It is mainly about a friendship between a PIG (Wilbur) and a SPIDER (Charlotte). Wilbur, a spring pig, who is supposed to be killed at Chirstmastime. He luckily avoided death with the help of Charlotte and some friendly animals. Charlotte impressed the people in the farm by weaving words that describe Wilbur on her web.(those words are: “SOME PIG”,”TERRIFIC”, “RADIANT”, and“HUMBLE”) Through several times of efforts, Wilbur survived. Even though Charlotte died at the end, but their friendship would never be forgotten.

Person Feeling and Thoughts

I think this book has two points: the first one is about Fern, a girl who has a loving care heart towards animals. She treated animals like human beings. My favorite line of her is: “The pig couldn’t help being small. If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?” It shows that every animal on earth has the same right to live. Men can not decide their fate.

The second one is about the friendship between Wilbur and Charlotte. I think the author was trying to tell people that: even animals can have such unbreakable friendship, so can human. Nowadays, many people make friends through the generosity of spending money - so called fair-weather friends. When one’s rich or power, he seems to have friends everywhere; but when desperate time comes, those friends would get their selves out of him at once. This book tells what real friendships are.

Recommendation for the book

Charlotte’s Web has friendship, love and caring. It expresses them in a special and creative way, that is---through animals. Through animals’ eyes, I see a different kind of word.

movie reflection

Chocolate Factory

Story Summary

Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory is inviting five children to do inside to see the mystery working process. Those five are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, the book’s lead, is a poor starving boy. While visiting the amazing factory, the four children except Charlie have done something inappropriate and were no longer in the tour. At the end, Charlie has won Willy Wonka’s factory because he is honest and kind, brave and true.

Feeling and Thoughts

None of the kids sent home has a loving personality. Augustus is a greedy little boy. He just couldn’t stop eating in any situation. Veruca is a badly spoiled girl, she wanted anything that she has her eyes laid on. Violet is a gum addict. And Mike Teavee (TV), on the other hand, is obsessed with television. Those four youngster might be an insinuation of some nowadays children. This story may try to pass message to reader: only the kind-hearted boys or girls like Charlie would have such happy ending. The book also shows us how far people’s imaginary could go. Roald Dahl created the chocolate factory which has all sorts of marvelous things inside.

Things that ordinary people would not dream of have appeared in this book. It is like a wonderland of chocolate and candies. I think it is OK to have some fantasy. Fantasy takes us away from real life to let us take a break. After reading this book, I had had another place to let my mind relax.

too terrible

today I saw terrible thing

OH MY GOD

my dear English grade

ops...my God!!

i miss

since entered the college i start to miss my mommy, daddy and my sweet sweet home
when studied in high school
always saying that
i want to choose a college which is far away from Taipei
even thought about go to Hualien or Kaohsiung
how crazy i was

this song is talking about a man traveling or residing far away from home
how much does he anxious about going home
just like me
right now, right here, in the dormitory...

HOME Michael Buble

Another summer day has come and gone away

In Paris and Rome, but I want to go home

Maybe surrounded by a million people, I

Still feel all alone, just want to go home

Oh I miss you, you know

And I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you

They each were a line or two, I'm fine baby, how are you

I would send them but I know that it's just not enough

My words were cold and flat and you deserve more than that

Another airplane, another sunny place

I'm lucky, I know, but I want to go home

I got to go home

Let me go home

I'm just too far from where you are

I want to come home

And I feel just like I'm living someone else's life

It's like I just stepped outside when everything was going right

And I know just why you could not come along with me

That this was not your dream, but you always believed in me

Another winter day has come and gone away

In Paris and Rome, and I want to go home

Let me go home

And I'm surrounded by a million people, I

I still feel alone

Let me go home

Oh I miss you, you know

Let me go home

I've had my run, baby I'm done

I've got to go home

Let me go home

It will all be alright

I'll be home tonight

I'm coming back home