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It's a pleasure to seehandsome guy show in front of the camera to tell and demonstratehow to cook; moreover,  he provides not only some tipsabout which goes perfectly with which but also some basicknowledage of cooking.  Though some materials are quite hardto find here in Taiwan or at my home,  to watch the programmeis the luxury of my life so far.  
Today, I found a word-epicurean.  With capital E, the wordrefers to one party in philosophy who prefer to live inenjoyment.  This word can also be an adjective or anoun.  Both of them depict people who love totaste delicious food.  Everyone is epicurean and forme, to cook by my own is a great joy and  anachievement.
Here's the cuisine quiz for anyone who interests incooking or English in cuisine. 

After doing a whole lot of exercises,  i found that my English is not that good at all.  Actually, my English is quite poor.  The fact strikes my confidence down.  Happen to see this quiz on BBC website and it's quite fun that you never know there's such an idiom.  See if you can get the correct answers.
1: The police _______ him for hours about the murder.  a. chopped  b. washed  c. diced  d. grilled 2: The situation _______ over and soon people started shouting and fighting.  a. steamed  b. boiled  c. roasted  d. sliced

對一個沒駕照的人而言....Cars are only one type of transportations.
What this article really attracts me is that the subtitle isabsolutely exaggerated.

"It’s so comfortable you can runover anything up to a medium-sized fox and not evennotice"

在TimesOnline看到個標題"Thousands of buy-to-let families facetax shock" 
well...tax shock這不新鮮 因為明天就是所得稅申報的到期日
在家裡看到感覺手續很繁複、數字更是令人眼花撩亂

Wednesday May 9, 2007(excerpted from The Guardian)
The French seem to have the perfect lifestyle: long lunches, short hours, great food and plenty of ooh-la-la. But their new president is determined to make them work harder, faster, more efficiently - just like the British and Americans. Merde alors, says Stuart Jeffries

It was perhaps the second glass of wine that did it. That, or the dessert of millefeuille aux poires. Or it could have been the blanquette, the bourguignon, the pot-au-feu or whatever Le Firmament in the Rue 4 Septembre in Paris's second arrondissement was offering as the day's special. Whatever. After lunch, I would stroll back to my office, shadowing my eyes from the 3.30pm sun, nod off at my desk over the lunchtime edition of Le Monde, to be awoken by my own snoring. Only then, with the proper morosité of a grumpy Frenchman, would I contemplate returning to work. Unless Nicolas from the economics agency across the courtyard came round and asked if I wanted to have a quick beer, which I often did. I had gone native: I didn't live to work, but worked to live. And live well.

Yes! I did not live to work but work to live 'coz there're whole lot of things for us to explore.  Today, I felt empty, busy like a bee but feeling empty.  Reading too many articles of insects, snakes, whales or global warming alerts me the sense of beening a member of Earth, even arises my guiltiness?  It's too difficult to come up with an answer.  Whoo~ I want to live well.
--to see more paragraphs about " goodbye to la belle France"--

Taiwan men seek mail-order brides fromVietnam 
By Ralph Jennings Reuters
TAIPEI (Reuters) - In Taiwan, some men choose brides from the comfort of their living rooms by watching a TV show that airs photographs and biographical details of Vietnamese women looking for husbands.

The women are willing to marry men sometimes decades older than themselves to exchange a life of poverty at home for relative affluence abroad. These couples often don't live happily ever after. Vietnam native Nguyen Chi, 28, was kicked out by the husband she married five years ago and now scrapes by working at an electronics factory in Taipei. Ten of her 20 Vietnamese colleagues have also been dumped by their Taiwan husbands.
"We've all got the same problem. We're divorced or our husbands don't want us, and some of us are raising kids," said Nguyen, speaking in Mandarin learned during five years in Taiwan.

寫IELTS練習時第一篇便出現這個標題-Information Overload
讀完short script 還是很卡
單字不夠、邏輯不嚴謹、缺乏組織這些都是顯而易見的有待加強點

而且還有個致命點-我的閱讀理解力在下降當中

By Deborah Zabarenko（retrieved from www.rawstory.com)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most American young people can't find Iraq on a map, even though U.S. troops have been there for more than three years, according to a new geographic literacy study released on Tuesday.
Fewer than 4 in 10 Americans aged 18-24 in a survey could place Iraq on an unlabeled map of the Middle East, a study conducted for National Geographic found. Only about one-quarter of respondents could find Iran and Israel on the same map.

British Food           
Vocabulary used in the show his reputation what people in general think about him British cuisine the British way of cooking a stereotype a kind of fixed idea many people have about something, which may or may not be true soggy wet and soft, usually in an unpleasant way stodgy food food which is heavy and makes you feel full to be proud of yourself to be pleased with yourself, maybe because you have done something well Britain's national dish a meal which many people associate with Britain a frenzy a state of great activity and excitement