English Learning

When it comes to English learning, I remember that I was forced to memorized words and grammar without understanding when I was a junior high school student. I believe most people at my ages have the same experience. We can read and write well(I mean, comparing to speaking), but we can not speak naturally in English. What we do the most is translation.

After I relocated to an environment of English, I've had some English courses for speaking and listening. It makes me feel that learning language should be related to our lives more and not just memorizing.

Here is a website - EngVid for English learning with lots of topics. It's free and useful and I have been watching it.

My first wood project - Standing Planter

I like to make something by myself. When I was looking at those old pallets in my working place, an idea came to my mind - I can make a container to grow some vegetables. So I went google and got some nice ideas about making standing planter.

According to the size of the pallets that I collected, this planter is 90 × 50 × 80 (width × depth × height ).

The following are some photos about the working process.

Baby-face

This video is talking about problems of baby-face.

"Are you kidding me? You look like only 20." That's the reaction of most people after hearing my real age. At first I thought that's a compliment, but things getting worse especially at work. New colleagues who joined our company after me always said "You are new here, right?" when the first time they saw me. Elder colleagues treat me as a teenage who is lack of experience and seldom show their respect, though they definitely know my age. People just get confused by my appearance.

Homemade Pizza

WOW, delicious!!!

Bee Hummingbird蜂鳥

這種鳥類本來我只在書上看過，來到這裡就在庭院看了兩次，這次我就趕快拿起手機把牠拍下來。這種全世界最小的鳥，來匆匆去匆匆，翅膀振動的聲響跟甲蟲差不多大聲，急促的程度猶如蜜蜂，所以我們肉眼就好像只看得到牠的身體在空中移動。

The Red Wagon

PS. 不知為啥上面會有越南餐廳廣告

據說這是溫哥華最有名的早餐店，於是我們起了個大早(??)火速前往享受美食，但是很顯然的是這裡的人也是被美食所吸引，沒關係，還有比台灣人會排隊的嗎？

Tips for 2048

2048 is one of the most popular App games recently. It's very easy to play but the final goal is not so easy to achieve.

You can merge similar tiles by moving them in any of four directions to create new tiles with bigger numbers and a new tile with value of either 2 or 4 shows up automatically at a random empty position after each move. When you create a tile with a value of 2048, you win the game. However you might end it up with all stuck tiles.