natural disaster

I think that all of you guys know about the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan on 11th march 2011. It is very powerful. The quake was the fifth-largest in the world since 1900. I have seen a lot of news and videos on TV. The news reported that 350 people are dead and about 500 missing, but it is feared the final death toll will be much higher. I feel sad and scared. I cannot imagine how I live without home, water, food, electric city, phone and internet. Moreover, there is another problem of the nuclear power plant. I am so scared and hope this will not happen to me.


But on 24th march 2011 at 9 p.m, I felt something. I was in my bedroom and watching TV. I shaked and felt dizzy. then I knew immediately that it was the earthquake!! I was frightened and panic. I ran outside my house and thought about what was happed in Japan. I waited for a few minutes, made sure that there was nothing. Then I came inside. From this situation, I realise that our life is so short. Terrible thing can happen any time. So we should pay attention on every minutes in our life. And do the best for everything so when something happen I will not regret for the thing I have done.

Chocolate: Only Fat-Rich Snack?

I believe that many of you have chocolate as a favourite sweet including me. Chocolate is a very popular dessert for many people who are crazy in it for a long time. However, there are some chocolate lovers who are still afraid of eating it. Chocolate is often considered something poison or something you should not eat. It is always blamed that can cause many problems such as obesity, acne and even the cavities because it is full of sugar and fats.

However, there is some good news for chocolate lovers. The researcher shows the study that phenol in cocoa can lower the blood pressure which can be dangerous for the heart disease by selected parallel group at random studied evaluating the effects of cocoa products or black or green tea for at least 7 days. For people who try to avoid eating chocolate because of the effect on health, after you have known about this thing you would change your mind.

Consumption of cocoa is a good way that can make the consumer healthier. The study suggests that flavanol-rich cocoa can improve blood vessel function and reduce the formation of damaging clots. So, apart from the phenol in chocolate will help to reduce heart disease, cocoa beans also help the blood pressure lower and a reduced risk of death. Moreover, in dark chocolate, there is the anti-dioxidants in cocoa which is same in the fruits and vegetables. This anti-dioxidants has the benefit that reduces the risk of developing cancer. Therefore, eating chocolate especially dark chocolate could be the healthy way for people who like to eat it. It means that the darker chocolate you eat the more cocoa in chocolate that make you healthier.

For the people who afraid of the effects that come with chocolate such as obesities or cavities, if you choose to consume chocolate in the right way you will not suffer from that effects. It is not chocolate that causes weight gain but it is sugar and milk to make it sweet and delicious. In contrast, there are certain substances in the cocoa of chocolate which are known to actually kill off the bacteria that cause your tooth decay, resulting in cavities.

Moreover, this fact is especially for girls like us, the components in cocoa may actually help improve the appearance of women's skin increasing hydration, decreasing skin roughness and scaling, and helping to support the skin's defense against UV damage. And this is the reason why some of models like to eat chocolate before they will be on the catwalk and many skin cream and cosmetics products has chocolate as an ingredient.

Finally, I would like to warn that everything in this world has both sides including chocolate. Chocolate has both advantages and disadvantages. If you choose to eat it in the right way or in the moderate amounts, you will get many benefits from chocolate. However, if you eat it too much, you will suffer from many diseases.

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To Do What You Like or To Like What You Do?

My friend complained to me that she has so many things to do everyday. She spent so many times on her boring job instead of enjoying life and doing things she likes. But she is not sure about quitting the job or not because it is paid very well. I don’t know how to comfort her from the despair. I remember someone said that you should like things you do not to do things you like.
In China, plenty high school students choose the major that they can reach the grade in the University Entrance Examination instead of the one they actually interested in. Four years later, they graduate form the University and start their job hunting. Things become worse and worse. People pick whatever they can fit in the recruit. Even the job has nothing relative with their major. Like a Biology major student works for an import company or a MBA student works for a government documentary department.
Nowadays, the hottest job in China is working for the government so that the civil service examination became the harder and harder. Even so, people still rush into taking the civil service examination like a swarm of bees. A friend of my, who studied English for six years. She could be a good translator. Nonetheless, she became an official. She stays in the office all day by doing some paper work without any English using. Oh, man, what a waste!
Personally, I used to believe that people should like what they do. Today, I am not sure about that. Why we cannot go for the one we like at the beginning? If unfortunately people failed choose in the first time, come on, you can do it better. There are opportunities for everyone; you can stop making it worse then change it in doing thing you interested. People are chasing the government job because the good pay and benefit. They fight the job like fight for a war. People chased a job so bad and frustrated the job soon. It doesn’t make sense. In my opinion, people are wasting their knowledge and time. In another word, people don’t choose the major they interested; they don’t use the knowledge the learned; they don’t work for the job they like. What a life!
For me, I only live in the world once, I want make it worth and fun. How about you?

TRUE BEAUTY

What is the value of ‘Beauty’ in the modern age? Many women dream to have a gorgeous face, good shape, silky hair or bright skin while many men hope to have nice muscle and a charming face so that those appearances can attract other people. To fulfill their dreams, people try to find many ways to improve or make them look better. Ones pay a lot of money for cosmetic products while some women (even men) devote bodies to the pain of plastic surgery. Moreover, many women eat little or no food for the losing weight reason. Can those bring people the real beauty? What is the real ‘beauty’?

So, I would like to recommend you an American TV show “True Beauty’ which contestants have to compete to find out who is the most beautiful and will get the prize. The significance of the show is that the contestants don’t know that beside they are judged on their attractive appearances or ‘outer beauty’, they are also judged on their behaviors or ‘inner beauty’. Therefore, most of them are quite confident of their looks which they believe that can make them to pass to other weeks. The show has hidden cameras in everywhere they go or do activities. Several times, we can see them act inappropriately such as swear rudely to each other, gossip and be selfish. In each week one of the contestants has to be eliminated with the reason of ‘inner beauty’ and the secret of the show will be revealed by the hidden cameras. Many of them accept their false and promise to focus more on their inner beauty. But not everyone to understand that, they insist that outer beauty is the most important in their lives.

Personally, I think it’s good to have good appearance because it can make me feel confident when I have to meet people or live in the modern society, however outer beauty is not the only one thing which help me to succeed in my life or makes me feel happy. I think people should have beauty from inside such as to be kind, honest, helpful and friendly and I believe that those characteristics will make people to be more beautiful. So, what’s about your true beauty?