Consuming beer wisely

Man like beer. I like beer too, and have a part-time job selling beer in a cold-beer store. I guess quite a portion of my customers are not rich, why? because they come to buy beer almost every day, buying small quantity, 6-pack cans or one or two bottle.
This consuming method is not wise, why not buying a big quantity, say, 24 cans, putting in fridge, and drinking for a week? The unit can price of 24-pack is cheaper, and you save time going to beer store.
I have this thinking for a long time until one day my co-worker provide an explanation about it, that is, the customers are really beer lover, capable drinking a lot in just one night, say, 12 cans. So they have to control the purchasing everyday, otherwise they can not afford it. Alcoholic is really existing, I learned.

A scenery of Beijing

You may think of the Forbidden City, the Great Wall or the Tian'anmen Square when somebody remind Beijing, the capital of China, to you. Yes, that are all world-famous touring-pursuing of Beijing. But, can you image a scenery like the picture is also taken in Beijing? Not just you, a foreigner to China, even many Chinese can't guess right.

Beijing is a quite big city, equaling about 15 Hong Kong's area, in which there are much geography variety. This picture is taken in one of the suburbs around the inner city, very different from the modern city.

What scenery is good and beautiful to Chinese is that, it has 'Shanshui', or 'mountains and rivers(lakes, sea)'. This picture is beautiful because it has 'Shanshui', both mountains and lakes. Do you think so? 

Moon Cake and Mid-autumn Festival

You may heard of Moon Cake, a traditional Chinese seasonal snack.

Chinese eat it mainly, if not only, at full moon day of September, when the moon is believed to be the most bright and round in a year, and celebrate it as mid-autumn festival. Generally speaking, moon cake is round shaped, and shared by family members together in the night watching the perfect moon, symbolizing the round moon, as well as reunion of family members. Just like Thanksgiving in north America, mid-autumn festival is the second important festival in China only less than Spring festival. 

Chinese don't eat much sugar as Westerns, but it is an exception for moon cake, which is very sweet and greasy, wishing life to be sweet too. In the photo you can tell an round seasoned egg yellow eye, usually duck's, which also symbolize the round moon, and taste delicious too.

Warm up before exercise and game playing

So you think you can dance? Are you confident how to work out or playing game? Did you get hurt on exercise and fiercing sports? You must remember to warm up before active your body.

Warm up is easy, and cost you only minutes before running, jumping, and/or bending, which makes you ready both physically and mentally.

Some typical warm up I always do includes:

• Stand with your knees contacting, bending waist, bending knees, body rotating around knees, 8 times clockwise, 8 times anti-clockwise, repeat 4 times.
• Bending one leg ahead, stretching another leg behind, lowering and forward body to the ahead bending leg, 8 times; then exchange legs, repeat 4 times.
• Stand vertical, raising one foot let toe contacting ground. rotating leg though the toe clockwise 8 times, then anti-clockwise 8 time. Then another leg.  
• Stand vertical, raising leg jump as high as possible, alternating legs fast, like runing in same place. 

How to solve Sudoku in three easy steps?

Do you play Sudoku? Do you want to learn solving Sudoku? Want to active your brain in leisure time? Want to kill time in waiting, coffee-break, or boring? Want to improve your children's intelligence?

Let's play Sudoku!

Sudoku is a logic-based combinatorial  number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes that composed of the grid contain all of the digits from 1 to 9.

The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid, which typically has a unique solution.

I am a Sudoku lover, and would like to share my Sudoku-solving-experience with you by this 20 pages "How to solve Sudoku in three easy steps" Ebook, which is easy to read and learn, with lots of figures.

The three easy steps are:

1. Scanning and Checking by Digits

2. Scanning and Checking by Rows and Columns

3. Scanning and Checking Boxes

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I am sure you will grasp Sudoku solving skills after the reading.

You will find fun inside the solving, most important, you can always easily access Sudoku puzzles in many, if not all, newspapers. 

Which sport will prevail, soccer or basketball?

Soccer or basketball, which one is becoming prevail? Not only kids argued much, but ESPN columnist Henry Albert wrote the other day, predicting that the basketball will become the world's first sport. How this concluded? When the world soccer fans, especially the English fans, watch players wearing athletic shoes, running in the Football Would Cup game court, they don't think so. But to NBA, this prediction and the the possible future feature a huge advantage undoubtedly, as well as some specialized sport wearness manufacturers, such as Puma, Nike, developed quite a few specialized basketball shoes to suit the trend, in which including the new PUMA DRIFT CAT, Puma Ferrari F1, PUMA CHAUSSURES, Nike Max Shoes, NIKE AIR MAX TN, Nike Shox Shoes, and NIKE SHOX Torch.   
Baoman, secretary general of The International Basket Association expressed the same opinion in an interview, also proved basketball in Europe and even in the world is prevailing gradually. “If taking a broad view at the whole world, you will discover, in 14 to 18 year old age section, regardless of the men and women, the basketball is the sport which most welcomed.”
Is this real? Very difficult to find the most real answer, because this need vast survey and investigation. But the existing investigation data, as if favored the basketball. For instance, the International Basket Association surveied and investigated in Britain, France, Germany and Spain, found that in these four European countries,  there were 33,000,000 basketball fans of the age from 15 to 24, with better society and education background.
In April, 1997, some survey companies have carried a 35000 samples investigations in the whole world, finally demonstrated that some 11% people playing basketball. The survey result also showed that in places such as Asia and Australia, the basketball has surpassed the soccer, becoming the world first sport. 11% the number maybe a little exaggerated, but the basketball community expanding day by day, is actually undeniable. At the same time ,the American Investigation Company submitted data demonstrating that the basketball has also become US's young people's favorite sport. The following data is carried on the investigation at the American some cities of the people aged from 14 to 17: Basketball: 9,182,000 people, American football: 7,184,000 people, volleyball: 5,558,000 people, English soccer: 5,498,000 people, baseball: 5,464,000 people, softball: 3,970,000 people, ice hockey: 2,477,000 people.
Having the all data above, are you sure the basketball will become the world first sport in the future?