Friday, March 30, 2007

Yoga


Yoga is very polular all over the world. I looked it up in the dict and it gives a defination as "A Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity." I really like this kinda exercise 'cuz it will not only make me feel healthy physically but also give me a peaceful mind.


I'm not that kinda person who will stick to one hobby for a long time, but I never get rid of Yoga. I also like the way it is taught. Most Yoga coaches will say: Just try your best, but never give yourself too much pressure or force yourself to do something you obviously cannot achieve.


There certain types of Yoga


One was called Bikram Yoga( also called hot yoga) so popluar recently. Bikram yoga is done in a room heated to 105°F and accompanied by specific dialogue. The reason why it must be conducted in 40.5°C is to simulate the local tem of India.



Pilates


Actually Pilates and Yoga come of quite different origin but I think there are lots of similaities between these two. But I think that Pilates have a great effects for fittness. One of my friends went to Singaple for Six months, when she came back she looked like a different person. She told us that she lost 30 pounds. When she was in Singaple, she met a very sophiscated Pilates Coach and he recommend her to take some course focus on fittness. So she took the Pilates course for three months and it's like one hours for a week. After 3months, she turned out to lose 30Pounds...Isn't it amazing?

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Culture Shock

Five months ago, I frist stepped in Canada. I have never been excited for coming here, 'cuz I had already known there would be tons of difficulties I had to overcome, not only the language. Calgary is a really good city, I must say, except the weather..... THe people here are almost friendly. However, I just feel that it is not my city. I cannot feel like this is where I should settle in..I cannot explain why. I know that I might come across the culture shock. I really feel like I am a different person here cuz I grow up in an alternative culture. When I'm in China I'm really a talktive person as I can talk to my friends on the phone for more than one hour.. In Canada, things change a lot. I don't feel free to talk to people any more even sometimes with my Chinese friends. I worked at a Hongkong restuarant before and a lady there told me if you never talked, your English will never have progress.. I know she is right but I just cannot talk even I wish I could. It always seems like the poeple around me have nothing similar with me. Sometimes I just wish if I could come here when I was a little bit younger,thus these complex stuff will never happen to me.
Now I feel much better than I first came here, I hope time can solve all the problems and everything will gonna be better....

Friday, March 16, 2007

Corpse Bride


Recently I just watched Tim Burton's Corpse Bride which is a Animation. I like it very much. The story is setting in the 19 century of a small town in England. A young man named Vactor is going to marry a pretty lady named Vactoria, EVEN though they never met before. One day, Vactor and his parents drop in Vactoria's house to discuss the stuff about the wedding. Ocasionally, Vactor met Vactoria and they are a kinda fall in love. On the wedding day, because of his neverness, Vactor made tons of mistakes in front of the Alter which lead to a failure wedding. Vactor was so sad that he went to the forest and talked to himself.... Because of some mistake, Vactor married a Corpse Bride who named Emily. And a series of storeis begin...


Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Hmmmm............. Japanese Anime

Let's talk about Japanese anime-A great part of my life>>

When I was a little girl, I spent most of my spare time watch these kinda thing....And never tired of them. I know it's a kinda childish..but I can never stop myself addicting into them>>
One of my best animes is City hunter! The greatest one in the history of catoon>(in my opinion)I love the author so much that in a period of time he was always my idol! It talks about a private detective's adventure and it's really interesting!Here's a picture of it.
Another one I like very much is NANA> wHich tells a story about two girls who have the same name but total different characteristics. Both of their name is NANA.aND one of them is a singer who is also a punk,And the other one is a sweet sweet girl who is really cute>Two different or a little kinda similar girls meet each other and have a great amount of storeis>aND because of the popularity of this anime, It was adapted and put in to the silver screen>HERE is the poster of the film.
Here comes the longest anime I thought in the history, Which is detective Conan. It has more than four hundred TV show and lots of OVA and also ten movies now. It tells a story(really long story) about a detective name Conan who is a middle school student. At the beginning of the anime, because of seeing some crime which was commiteed by a very evil community, He was force to take some poison.After that he became a little boy but has a intelligence he had before. See how cute he is in the following picture>>
THe last one is Dragon Ball,which I watched a lot before and also very long . i don;t know why it was so popular when I was in middle school. Sometimes we even read the catoon books in class. It's hard to get rid of it.