Already 20 Years

Today is my 20th birthday. Time goes by so fast. All of a sudden I am in my twentieth. I remembered when I was younger I always dreamt of what I would become when I am in my twentieth. I thought that I would be more mature, understanding, and smarter. It turns out that I am still the same person, inside and out. Is it a good or a bad thing? I can't say. Future will tell me.

As for now, I should still work to become the person I always thought to be. A smart, independent and understanding individual.

PS. tonight I had a wonderful evening with my closest friends. I feel extremely lucky to have them by my side. Love you girls <33333

Here it goes, iPhone 4s

I feel that I have to write something about it, since I just got the phone 2 weeks ago. I like it very much. The phone indeeds changes some of my routine ways of doing things. For example, before I had the phone, I check my emails every two of three days since I found the process of going to the web page and sign in to my account annoying. This often leads to missing some important mails and not responding in time. Now, the process becomes so easy, I just need to press one button and I am at my email inbox. I check my mails several times a day and I can get notified immediately every time I receive a new email. I found it very useful.

The apps are also very useful. I download dictionaries, bus schedule , expense tracker, recipes apps, and reader. Similarly to emails, I just need to press one button and I will have access to the information that I was looking for. This offers me incomparable convenience than what I used to do with my laptop. I would need to turn it on, open a web page, go to google and then search for the info.

However, this convenience is a double-edge sword. With the same effortless one button-pressing, I can get to my favourite games and starting playing it. I found it very distracting when I have the phone around me while I am studying. I had a hard time controlling myself not to play with it. Nevertheless, my self-control is gradually improving. I found ways to counter its attraction: I need to put the phone in the bag while studying. In this way I could ignore and forget its existence and therefore stay focus.

Siri was among the main factors that drove me to buy the phone. However, after playing with it, I found the function less useful than I expected. First you need to have internet access in order to use it. Since I dont hava a data plan so I need to be in a place with wifi in order to use it. Second, you need to say you order clearly and slowly, enunciating everying word correctly, or else Siri would have a hard time trying to understand. In the meanwhile, I can see that the function still has a great potential. I am sure that with time Siri will become smarter and more accurate.

 In short, I really enjoy using the iPhone. It is convenient, easy to use, and incredibly entertaining.

Warm and refreshing pink rosebud and date tea

Winter arrives! Thought this year seems to be particularly warm, there is still cold wind blowing so hard that you would feel you are being transported to North Pole. In such weather, nothing warm you up better than a hot beverage. Today I am going to show you my own recipe: the Pink Rosebud and Date Tea. The rosebud can rejuvenate skin and the red date can restore and increase blood flow. The tea is easy to make, requiring 5 minutes of preparation and 15 minutes of boiling.
You need:

10 pink rosebuds

 4 red dates (jujubes)

then add 850ml (3 cups) of water.
put the ingredients in a bowl
bring water into ebullition
reduce heat intensity. Slowly boil using low heat for 15 minutes.
And here you go!

iPhone 4s...

It has been a while that I has an internal debate about whether I should buy an iPhone. This little glass-and-metal device has nothing that looks the other phones. It is edgy and cool. Starting from one year ago, most of my friends gradually shifted to iPhone. First I was amazed by the phone's glass-like appearance and the swiftness of how it reacts to my fingers' movement. As I became more familiarized with the product, I was stricken by its seemingly countless applications. You can find every imaginable and unimaginable functions.

However, the product's negative consequence began to show as people grew increasingly dependent of the phone.

I remembered there was one time I went out to have a dinner with my best friends. It should had been a re-union night since we had not been together all of us for a long time. The evening was pretty agreeable but there was one thing that bothered me: my friends just seemed unable to separate themselves completely from the phone. From time to time, one person was updating what she was doing and where she was on her facebook where as another girl is checking on the feeds that popped out on twitter. Since the night was also to celebrate one friend's birthday, we took pictures and videos of the birthday girl and with all of us. When the photo seance was done, they immediately started to edit the photos and to upload them on the web. Since they all had iPhone and were doing the same thing, I was kind of left alone, not knowing what to do.

So was it because the fear of being an outcast that I wanted to buy an iPhone for myself?

But this phenomenon of "people cant get themselves off the iPhone" is not only happening to my friends. As I walked on Sainte Catherine street this afternoon, I saw a young couple shopping. Their one hands were holding together where as the other hands were holding iPhones. Both the guy and the girl were not talking to each other, or observing around, or looking at their steps. Instead, they were concentrating on their individual iPhone. This scene was rather interesting for me to see. The couple was physically together, at the same place and time, but their minds wondered in I-don't-know-which-corner-on-the-web-or-in-the-numerous-apps...