Feb 1

I started to do 10 step yoga and the vinegar-egg on Feb. 1.

中华字经的学习十月二十一开始

Chinese character classics is an amazing learning material for anyone who wishes to learn Chinese.  The material contains 4000 characters and each character occurs in the material only once. Every four characters form a sentence and every eight characters produce a rhyme. Such a format makes it easy for young kids to mimic and memorize. Testimonials from parents indicate that kids as young as 2 can quickly associate the meaning and shape of those characters.

Some sites claim that finishing learning these 4000 character material takes 162 hours and learner's reading ability of materials written in Chinese will increase by 15-20 folds.

On Oct. 20, I showed students a video clip showing a 2 year old reading character classics and they were hooked.  They all raised their hands wanting to start the materials.  On Oct. 21, I started lesson 1 astronomy with them.

美国medicare 的申请时间

刚才在网上看了一则消息，现记载如下：

老年人到65岁时，一定要记住申请政府的医疗保险，如果过了65才申请则要被罚款，而且是终身罚款。这条消息的来源是：http://www.backchina.com/blog/135369/article-233566.html

Cancun's food

八月二十九号到九月五号去了坎昆。这是我们第三次去了。原以为我最期待的是那儿的食物，结果这次让我最失望的就是食物。有一博客网友在网上说她儿子在墨西哥饭店打工后就再也不愿意吃墨西哥饭，对墨西哥食物的卫生管理嗤之以鼻，心有余悸。我这次回来，脖子上起了一片红点子，很痒。起点子的地方皮肤变厚，变红。我想肯定是和那儿的不干净的食物有关系，特别是鱼。
回来后连续吃了几天黑豆汤，红点和痒感才慢慢消失。据说黑豆里有一种化学成分，也帮助人体除去过多的尿酸。

AVC started this week

Some one wrote in the earthclinic saying that AVC helps to lower high cholesterol.  So I started this trial this week.  One teaspoon plus some honey in a glass per day.  After drinking the AVC water, I do have some kind of relaxing feeling in the body. 

optometrist vs opthamologist

Optometrist is called 验光师。 Opthamologist is an eye doctor.  The pronunciations for these two words sound similar.  Also my optometrist acts and looks like a doctor.  So I always think Dr. Ishibashi is a real doctor.

Torrance facility is located at 20790 Madrona Ave off Emerald street torrance.
Opthamologist is in 1050 West Pacific Coast Highway Harbor City 2pm 0813
Dermatology is in carson medical office 18600 S Figuroae St. Gardena 90745 8:30 am 0817

start oil pulling today

I started oil pulling today.  Used sesame oil and coconut oil. Some says coconut oil is better than sesame oil.  We will see.

Also went to see Dr. Shah, an Indian lady.  She said the brown spot on the side of the left face is benign and I don't have to worry too much about it.  I made two appointments, one is this Wednesday at 2:15 with an optometrist and one for Aug. 17 at 8:30 with a skin doctor.

Jay just called inviting us to a dinner at his branch at 6pm this Thursday.