The interesting fact about the garbage truck

     While you live in Taiwan for a while, you will be used to listening to the garbage truck sound when you are ready to throw your garbage from your home. In my neighborhood, the waste disposal is regularly collected 5 times per week whereas the recycling activities will be held three times per week. 

    Frankly speaking, I really enjoy throwing garbage or recycling as I can connect to my neighbors and have some small talks with them. The knowledge of how to separate the recycling stuff is very important for every citizen. We have to know the categories and how to cope with them.

Is teamwork important?

     In my work place, teamwork is more important than an individual's job. If somebody only focuses on his or her task on every project, the projects cannot go very smoothly or be successful. Every stage or process needs an engineer to cooperate with the owners and finish them on time. 

    Teamwork can boost productivity and bring a greater variety of knowledge and skills to the table. It also benefits the individuals themselves, not just the company they are a part of. It allows people to broaden their horizons by learning from those with other specialties. It also helps people sharpen their interpersonal skills, including communication.

    Interpersonal skills, communication is crucial to everyone. If the person is not willing to connect with others, another person will feel more frustrated to communicate with the person. Ideally, interpersonal skills should be nurtured in early childhood, parents should set some examples through chores or collaborative games. 

What factors do you think influence the infection cases of COVID-19?

     Even though the higher vaccination rate in developed countries such as Germany, Austria, and other western countries, the infectious cases still purges at the higher rate and worried the economic activities in this coming Christmas by next month. The news reported that almost all symptoms are less frequent in infected vaccinated individuals than in infected unvaccinated individuals. In addition to the front line nurses and doctors are mandatory to be fully vaccinated by this early January, but the efficiencies have been degraded after almost a year.

    The vital influence factor is the variant of the virus is rapidly growing and out of control from the vaccinations. People still be mandatory to wear their masks and keep the social distancing for a long time. The Asian people are willing to sacrifice themselves to save the community, whereas the western people are struggling to get more freedom for their living lives. The lockdowns and restrictions laws lead to exhaustion and mental strain. Western people are going to repel or hold more protests against the government policies. The frontline workers have quit their jobs amid the mounting pressure on health services.

Talk about my sister

      My sister and I are two peas in a pod. Our appearances mostly look like our mother. Even though we have the same biological parents, grow up in the same home, live in the same town, go to the same schools, and have similar experiences, but we have totally different personalities. 

    When I was a child, I was very naughty, I used to be beaten by my parents for my bad behaviors. By contrast, my sister used to study and always keep her nose in the grindstone. Her exams results have gotten far better than mine. Eventually, she got all A's in her SPM official Malaysia exams and successfully to apply a scholarship for Singapore University.

    I am extroverted and optimistic with my life, self-confident, and love to socialize with any person. However, my sister is kind of an introverted person and pessimistic, always thinking too much and hardly making decision by herself.

Cognitive Revolution

     14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time, and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang. 

Atoms: Matter, energy started to coalesce into complex structures

Molecules: Combined of atoms

Chemistry: the story of atoms, molecules, and their interactions

Organisms: Certain molecules combined to form particularly large and intricate structures

Biology: the story of organisms

Cultures: Organisms belonging to the species and started to form even more elaborate structures

History: the subsequent development of these human cultures

UFO vs UAP

     The word of "UFO" is sounds very familiar with but the word of "UAP" which stands for unidentified aerial phenomena, sounds more intriguing and confounding. 

    

Hereafter movie

     Do you believe in the afterlife with tenderness and beauty? This is plausible when the afterlife comes with the idea of consciousness and feeling peace.

    In my real life, I have a friend who can telepathy with the dead ones. She said she has been forced to be given genuine psychic gifts. She can bring some messages beyond the grave that her clients asked something about their loved ones in her living mind. She can detect my dead dog which has passed away but still stay around me in spiritual mode.

    I am not sure whether the gift is true or not. I just want to make sure she is safe and good at another space. I hope heaven has visiting hours and I can ask her something.

Humanitarian Crisis

    Poland Prime Minister has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of sending migrants over the border  at Belarus border with Poland in revenge for EU sanctions.However, Belarus leader denies the claims. The surge of migrants at the Belarus/poland border is escalating the EU is threatening to blacklist airlines to believe are tracficking migrants to Minsk . While the Bella Russian President is threatening to cut off gas supplies to EU. We know that 2000 migrants are stuck in freezing conditions in a forest. Some have already died of hypothermia in recent weeks.

    Some videos showed the people try to force their way through using bolt cutters, tree trunks and group force, while Polish guards defend against it with tear gas. This is the first time in 30 years that Poland’s border security has been so brutally attacked. 

Poland, Lithuania and Latvia , which are all part of the EU, have seen a surge and declared a state of emergency on its border with Belarus. The EU, Nato and US all accuse Belarus of luring migrants with the false promises of easy entry to the EU as part of an inhuman, gangster-style approach.

    Activists say the migrants are being used as pawns in a political game between Belarus and its EU neighbours.

Single Stick Day

    November 11 represents four ones, or four singles standing together, which literally translates as "Single Sticks Holiday" and become the largest online shopping day in the world. This day was usually celebrated by unmarried people or single people, which have been widely used in online shopping platforms to increase more online sales.

    In 2021, the most famous online retailer, Alibaba founder has been disappeared for a while. The Chinese economy is degrading especially since the estate developers are facing a lot of debts and consumers are suffering the power crunch, and inflation issues. There are very few promotions or mottos published over the air. I am curious about if this day has been forgotten or become less popular this year. I am not sure, I am not a shopaholic, not frequently go to shopping, just to buy some necessary things when I am available.

Herb soup

     Herbal soup in Chinese culture is one of the most beloved dishes. It is a cure-all for illness, for imbalance in the body, for boosting the immune system function, and keeping you warm during the winter.

    What are the basic herbs for making Bak Kut The? You should prepare a pack of pre-packed Bak Kut Teh herbs, 8 pieces of garlic, pork ribs which cut into pieces, some mushrooms, tofu puffs, a little bit of dark soy sauce, a piece of rock sugar, and water. The boiling method is the same as the normal procedure, nothing special, just need to take whole pieces of garlic into the soup and boil them until softer and the smell could be very strong and intense.

Endowment Effect

     The endowment effect describes a circumstance in which an individual places a higher value on an object that they already own than the market value. As a seller tries to overcharge a buyer for something they own, as they are more focused on losing that item than the money they might miss out on if the buyer doesn't agree to their price.It can be clearly seen related to emotional or symbolic significance to the individual

    This effect is often associated with loss aversion(損失規避） and ownership. The fact that we own something will make us fear losing it more than enjoying gaining something else. Since loss aversion plays a vital role in the endowment effect, we tend to stress more on what we may possibly lose rather than what we may potentially gain. As a result, when making some decisions, this effect causes us biased and dire consequences.

Even though something may not belong to us, yet we may feel it belongs to us. We may develop a sense of ownership over something that isn't necessarily ours. As a result, sometimes by being allowed to touch a thing before buying gives people a sense of ownership.

Apart from that, this effect may lead to investors making bad decisions blinded by their inherent bias and the false value they attach to an object.

Certain ways to avoid falling victim to this effect:

1. Set up reasonable prices, try to set a price that will be viable for the customer

2. Take suggestions from unbiased professionals

3. Keep an open mind towards changes, accepting a change might open gates for potential gains for you

4. Look for opportunities where you can use it to your advantage by triggering a sense of ownership, exploring offers like free trials, and trying and buy to attract buyers.

Body idioms

    Body language is essential when I communicate with the person face by face. There are so many body idioms that need to be digested before using them. If not, it would be very funny and hilarious.

1. When I was thinking about a movie name, and it is almost to be remembered, the name of the movie was the tip of my tongue and I need to check it through the internet. 

2. My friend is very good at organizing the structure of a story, so I picked his brain to integrate my report in the appropriate way.

3. Off the top of my head, I remembered there are 7 legs for the experiments to validate the thermal cycling resistance.

 4. If you want to change the substrate process from subtractive to semi-addictive, it will cost an arm and a leg.

5. My customer decided to stick their neck out when the samples cannot meet the final visual inspection target to meet their customer target schedule.

6. Can you give me a hand to fill the information into yellow blanks?

7. Keep your chin up, the COVID-19 pandemic will pass soon!

8. I am all ears, please say it again!

9. After Richard argued with my boss, he has given him the cold shoulder.

10. We cannot wait to go on our travels. We have itchy feet!

How to harvest water from thin air?

    Water is most precious and becoming scarce in these few decades especially in arid countries or deserts area. The new technologies are pivotal to harvesting fresh water from thin air. Despite that we know that water can be renewable, how do we use our ingenuity to come up with strategies to use that in an effective way?

    Let us start to learn a new technology on this topic. A type is known as metal-organic frameworks(MOF). The hubs are small and seem like a set of super-tiny Tinkertoys. Engineers can get green plants to take up the building blocks of MOFs and then assemble them. These MOF can filter toxic chemicals from the air and then store them or help break them down. They also can pull carbon dioxide from industrial smokes and sore hydrogen for electricity-making fuel cells. These can capture plenty of water molecules just from the air. 

    The most challenging situation is how to harvest water vapor in a low humidity area which its humidity level of less than 50 percent.

Air pollution worsen after celebrating festivals

    Despite the climate talks COP26 held at the Glasgow conference, hundreds of millions of Indians burst the firecrackers this Thursday night, worsening air pollution levels. My mother showed me the photos that Indians around our house who burned a lot of fireworks in the park to celebrate the festival of Diwali.

    The air quality in Delhi turns toxic especially when farmers burn crop stubble, vehicles, and industrial emissions, and the bad weather makes it become the world's most polluted capital. Even though the government has banned the sale and bursting of firecrackers this year to tackle pollution problems. However, this problem still existed.

    The next morning, a thick layer of smog blanketed the city and people complained of itchy throats and watery eyes.

Kaisa crisis

     After Evergrande still faces $8.1 billion in interest and debt as much as $300 billion of debts, and the principal payments on its offshore bonds before the end of 2022. This company, Kaisa has become the latest developer to miss a payment to investors. Meanwhile, Evergrande has sold a UK-based asset, electric motor making business Protean, as it tries to raise funds to meets its obligations on Saturday. The domino effect has come effect, the company falling one by one.

    The Shenzen-based developer also facing enormous pressure on its financial debts because it has been downgraded by rating agencies and making it harder to borrow money in the near future.

    According to the Japanese economist estimated that the Chinese total combined debt to be more than 5 trillion dollars, that is almost the size of Japan's economy

What is happiness

     The formula for happiness as reality minus expectations. The equation is simple; people are generally happy when the reality of life is better anticipated. Unreasonably high expectations are often a recipe for disappointment.

    Some expectations are given by society values, family, or your friends, if you do agree with the expectations and you will try hard to achieve it. If you keep your expectations low, and you will be easy to immerse yourself in happier environment

How to live in the moment?

    Despite the news about COVID-19, climate change, flooding, drought, and pollution constantly broadcasting over the air, how can I still live happily in this frustrating decade? Some historians estimated that happiness is equal to reality minus expectation. However, some expectations are slipping from our grasp. The people are still unemployed when they are waiting for a new high salary job in this pandemic. Some children in poor countries have started dying of starvation as they cannot find money from foreigners. Many kinds of problems are out of our control, why we should take them into accounts and affect our daily life?

    From my point of view, we need to stand the way that we can make it in progress gradually and improve it a little by little. Do not rush the works and push too hard to see the consequences in a short time. We are still young and have enough time to tackle climate change. As we know that so many people suffered the climate crisis in their countries, this will push more people to be more cautious about their attitude toward protecting the planet.

Fasting in Thursday Traditional

    As my father always obeys fasting on Thursday. I am curious about this fasting rule. I found that this rule originated from the day of Guru, Brihaspati, or Jupiter. In order to remove the obstacles of married life, also gives the person the power to improve health, and financial condition.

    The fasting process can give you both spiritual as well as physical benefits. It also gives you an opportunity to connect with your spiritual God and receive their blessings. According to horoscope observations, Jupiter is weak, then fasting on Thursday will be beneficial for you. Some situations are recommended to be fasting on Thursday, who is suffering from any stomach disorders, who is unmarried and looking for a life partner, who has trouble in your relationship, who wants to energize your body.

    There are many advantages of fasting on Thursday, detoxifying your body, not affected by negative forces or evil spirits.

• Nevertheless, I am so curious about why is Thursday? That is the period translation by every 4 years. It will become unreasonable to follow rules based on mathematical calculation.