A Colorful place in NCKU-- Cheng Kung Lake

Since that the department of Foreign Language and Literature is located beside the Cheng Kung Lake, I ride my bike and appreciate its scenery almost every day.  Thus, I have quite a few of feeling to share with you.

Cheng Kung Lake, which is located at the Kuang Fu campus of National Cheng Kung University, is a relaxing and colorful place. There is a verdant lawn surrounding Cheng Kung Lake. On the right side of the lawn, a wood-made billboard showing the name of the lake to people and twelve bunches of yellow flowers make it the most popular spot for tourists to take photos. There are three wood chairs and a rock table being set right under coconut trees on the other side of the lawn. It’s a place that people are fond of chatting and playing chess with each other. When the wind blows, people can feel the breeze kissing their faces smoothly. In the middle of the lake there’s an isolated land. Colorful stones and tens of tropical trees intersperse the land.

In addition, a red brick-made, antique bridge connects the right side of the lawn to the isolated land. When walking on the bridge and touching the coarse handrail, I sense bitterness when I realize that time flies. In the lake, nearly twenty ducks are swimming freely with a school of tiny fish. A slightly sour smell is often produced by the ducks; however, the breeze will always blow the bad smell away and bring the fragrance of the flowers around the lake. With the sun light spilling, the lake reflects the shadow of the coconut trees and show brightly green on the surface. Decorated with two fountains, Cheng Kung Lake is picturesque. Yellow, red and green are main colors of the lake and also the satisfied feelings of the viewers.

Hurt by Commuting

I have seen a news on the Internet that indicate a long commute may cause both physical and psychological problem. I am really interested about this issue, so I have find some information through the Internet.

 According to a new research reported by the Royal Society of Public Health:” the average time of commuting across two countries reached fifty-six minutes in 2013, with the majority of people spending this time on transportation, or inside cars,” people have to commute for a long time nowadays. However, commuting is a stressful journey. Take driving as an example, the stress levels of people who drive will probably increase while commuting to the destination. What’s even worse, the level of blood pressure increases at the same time. Therefore, the longer time a person spent on commuting, the higher the chance of getting heart diseases is. Also, because of the long time spending on commuting, people reduce their sleeping time, which makes them become weaker and have difficulties in concentrating on the condition of the traffic. As a result, people may increase the consumption of snacks and fast food in order to stay awake while the commute. Although it may be a good way to stay awake by chewing some food, the high calories are consumed by people. As time passed, people who undergo this kind of situation will face overweight and some heart diseases. Moreover, people may cut down on the time participating in physical activities and gathering with family and friends. Lack of exercising makes people catch a cold easily and seriously. On the other hand, people who always busy commuting and neglecting the importance of gathering with family and friends may feel exhausted easily, and might get depression gradually. In conclusion, a long commute definitely hurt people not only physically but mentally.

The disadvantages of the wind-power electricity

I have introduced my hometown, Wu-Chi, in the first blog. I remember that I have referred to that there're quite a few of wind turbines, which produce wind-power electricity, built aside the bicycle lane. Therefore, as I rode my bike over and took a rest over there, a question flashed into my mind. That is, how much money does it cost to build a wind turbine and is it a beneficial way to  operate the wind turbine to solve global warming problem? Thus, I have do some research online.

(photo from google)

When it comes to global warming, experts suggest the government use renewable resources instead of fossil fuels which produce lots of carbon dioxide. Taiwanese government advocates citizens to reduce the emission of Greenhouse Gas by building plenty of wind turbines to produce wind-power electricity since the Occasional Monsoons provide Taiwan with strong winds especially in winter. Although wind-power electricity seems to be a perfect solution for Taiwan to reduce the usage of fossil fuels, it has two disadvantages which are the high cost and the operating noises. To build a wind turbine, which only operates for twenty years, costs 120 million New Taiwan Dollars at average.

Nevertheless, some experts still believe that the wind turbines can produce a great amount of green energy and save money for the government to buy fossil fuels and nuclear-power materials. However, the truth is that the cost of wind-power electricity per kilowatt is 2.8 NTDs, and the cost of nuclear-power electricity per kilowatt is 0.63 NTDs. The cost of the wind-power electricity is almost five times higher than the nuclear-power since the technology of ‘Energy Conversion Rate’ of the wind-power is still immature. Therefore, it is not efficient to build wind turbines. Furthermore, although the wind power generation is eco-friendly, the operating noise is still a serious problem. When a wind turbine produces electricity, it makes deep noise while spinning its large-sized fans. The annoying noise may distract people, so the wind turbines can only be built near the sea or somewhere wide and sparsely populated. In other words, wind turbines are not able to provide great amount of electricity, since it can’t be built wherever available. As the well-known commercial function goes,” The more one produces, the lower prices the item will be”, it is also why the price of wind-power electricity is difficult to decrease. All in all, the technology of wind-power electricity is still immature, which provides the problem of high price and noise. Therefore, the wind-power is not really a beneficial solution to deal with global warming especially at a dense country such as Taiwan.

McDonald's app(麥當勞報報)

This week, I am going to introduce you an app that lots of people, including me, use it every day. That is-McDonald's app(麥當勞報報).

Since the price of having a meal at a McDonald is a little bit expensive, this app  absolutely help you to decrease the expense.In addition, McDonald's app is a free app that can be downloaded from google play or app store from an iphone. In other words, McDonald's app is quite accessible.

After opening the app, you can check the weather today and   also the range of the temperature it may be today. Rumor has it that the weather report from this app is extremely accurate., even better than weather report from the news. Moreover, you can set an alarm clock that remind you to take a look at this app and also to draw a lottery of a coupon.

To our pleasure, there's even a coupon that provides a kind of hamburger in McDonald that you can buy one and get one free, which is really worthy.

However, since I had said that it is a kind of "draw a lottery", sometime you will get a smiling face as your prize which means you don't get a coupon today. Nevertheless, don't be upset. After collecting six smiling faces, it can combine with another coupon!
So, why not to download  the McDonald's app  right away, and enjoy a cheap McDonald hamburger!