酸奶减肥法
　　买低糖酸奶或低脂酸奶（脂肪含量1。0~1。5%）当然可以。如果没有，用蛋白质含量>2。3%的普通酸奶也没有关系。注意不要买蛋白质含量>1。0%的，那不是真正的酸奶。

　　一般来说，饭后30分钟到2个小时之间饮用酸奶效果最佳。人在通常状况下，胃液的PH值在1-3之间；空腹时，胃液呈现酸性，PH值在2以下，不适合酸奶中活性乳酸菌的生长。只有当胃部PH值比较高，才能让酸奶中的乳酸菌充分生长，有利于健康。饭后两小时左右，人的胃液被稀释，PH值会上升到3-5，这时喝酸奶，对吸收其中的营养最有利。

豆浆减肥法

　　每天除了喝大量开水，还有一种饮品是–豆浆，因为豆类含有丰富蛋白质与纤维质，具有良好的新陈代谢作用，又有养颜美白的功效。

　　餐前或用餐中饮用，豆浆在消化吸收的过程中，不断地发挥瘦身效果，所以用餐中饮用更佳。如果想利用豆浆的饱食感来防止饮食过量，也可在餐前喝。每天饮用的最好时机，是肌肉活动量大的上午到傍晚。活动量小的夜间，因为容易囤积体脂肪，所以应尽量避免。

魔芋减肥法
　　魔芋食品的主要有效成份使得人食用后不在胃中消化，能有效吸附胆固醇和胆汁酸，并能抑制肠道对胆固醇和胆汁酸的吸收。具有降脂、降血压、开胃、通便、防癌、减肥、养颜等功能。

　　1、排毒通便者：魔芋粉5-10克，加沸水约200ml搅拌均匀饮用！一日1-2次！
　　2、体胖减肥者：清晨空腹，魔芋粉5-10克，加沸水约200ml搅拌均匀饮用！一日1-2次！
　　3、糖尿病病人：饭前5-10分钟，魔芋粉5克，加沸水100ml搅拌均匀饮用！一日3-4次！

七日瘦身汤减肥法

　　在7、8年前流行的7日瘦身汤，因为被认为“效果太神奇”，而且熬煮时必须把所有食材一起丢进去搅，又被称为“巫婆汤”，据说王菲的竹竿身材，除了决明子茶瘦身有功外，据说巫婆汤也帮不少忙。

　　巫婆瘦身汤的煮法是用2到3个大西红柿和1整个高丽菜，加上2个青椒和1小把芹菜及2个洋葱放到大锅子中熬煮到所有的菜变软为止，在喝前依自己的喜好加盐、胡椒和香菜，除了每天建议可以吃的食物外，一觉得饿就喝巫婆汤，一大锅可以喝七天。

食醋减肥法

　　醋在中华民族传统烹饪调味中的应用十分广泛，能去鱼腥、解油腻、提味增鲜、生香发色、开胃爽口，同时醋还有收敛、固涩的效用，可帮助肠胃消化。下面介绍几种常用的醋的食疗方法。

蜂蜜+白醋：

　　有效的减肥美容方法，在日常饮食规律不变的情况下，以1：4的比例食用
　　具体方法：

　　1、早餐前20分钟空腹喝； 2、中餐和晚餐后立刻喝

　　值得注意的是在挑选白醋时要选择经大米，高粱，黄豆等加工而成的，尽量避免含有化学品的。同时建议不使用果醋因为果醋是保健醋，相对于减肥就逊色些。同时，蜂蜜和白醋的比例可以根据个人需要调整，如果更注重美容就可适当增加蜂蜜的比例。

蜂蜜减肥法

　　蜂蜜有排毒、美白的功效，早上喝一大杯温温的蜂蜜水，即可以“叫醒”大肠小肠，也可以将一晚上所沉积的毒素排出体外，换得神清气爽，下面就介绍一些蜂蜜的瘦身美体方法。

　　早饭以前可以在喝水时加入蜂蜜，午餐与晚餐时则吃少量的粥。一般人在吃蜂蜜两天后就感觉到身体轻松，心情愉快。五天以后可以吃面条等容易消化的东西，然后慢慢恢复原来的饮食。

　　采用这样的减肥方法，许多人在3天以内就减肥3公斤。其次，便秘的症状以及焦虑不安的感觉也可以消除

The USC website didn’t include details of the event, such as whether it was a talk on techniques in photograph or his personal experiences. That was why it surprised me when the auditorium was filled with people when I arrived. I got in just early enough to sit at the first row under the big screen. The room soon became so packed that some people had to sit in the pathways while some were standing outside of the door.

Mr. Burtynsky was extremely humble despite his overwhelming popularity at USC. He started a slide show quickly without spending too much time on his personal biography, the usual “how I become great” speech. I appreciated that after working all day, driving an hour to get here, and spending a little over 10 minutes devouring a Chicken Caesar burrito for dinner.

My most memorable photos were the ones showing vast holes in the ground, the mine fields. They are so vast and deep that it reminded me of the picture of people building the Tower of Babel. Only this one is direct towards the center of the earth. For one of them, Mr. Burtynsky said it was 500 miles to the bottom using the tracks. My favorite part of the talk was when Mr. Burtynsky said that humans are usually in awe of nature. We see ourselves as dwarfs in the face of nature. Mine fields inversed the idea. Nature is not the fear. It is man’s needs that we are in awe of.

Humans opened up these holes for resources. They are permanently visible on the face of the earth. It doesn’t end here. The last part of the slide show showed photos of waste. The beautiful photo of a red river which is the poster picture of tonight’s event is in fact a river filled with waste with little traces of iron that are not worth extracting. ( So no, it is not a picture of a sunset over a river.)

This is not something we sweat off by blaming it on greedy corporations. We all benefit from and partake in this activity. I went home and, for the first time, seriously thought about what they called a more sustaneble life style.

Mr. Burtynsky also showed pictures of a developing China, including photos from Three Gorgeous Dam, to skylined Shanghai, industrialized factories as well as rural countrysides. These photos have become almost a cliché to me because I am Chinese. However what seems old and recycled to me may still be mind-blowing to American audiences. But I think I might scream if I see just one more photo of “The One Child Policy” in these exhibitions. And yes, I did see one in Mr. Burtynsky’s slide show. China remains a fascinating place to foreign photographers not just because it is an easy target for many stereotypes including sweat shops, human rights, environmental issues, etc. I overlooked an important budget issue. A photographer can come to this one country and cover all stages of the development of capitalism as I saw in this slide show.

The talk wasn’t all serious and all about environmental issues. There was an aesthetic side of it as well. Mr. Burtynsky said he tries to make photos that make people stop and wonder. He uses scale, perspective, and light to trigger “wonder”. I thought it was a great point for even amateur photographers.

2010 sounds very Sci-Fi.
I should be flying, um…some kinda object, by now.
I should have wall sized monitors by now.
I, or people with enough money, should have the choice of taking vacations on another planet by now, instead of the same old routine, of driving 4 hrs to vegas, for LAers at least.

When I woke up mid day on Jan 1st of 2010, I looked outside of my window and realized that none of the above happened.

Maybe it is a good thing that the world has not changed as fast as we imagined. My parents still have things that they can relate to me, and I too to my offsprings, if any!

Now onto to the New Year resolution~~
In 2010, I resolve to doing less and maybe, just maybe, in the distant future, I can eventurally, desire less.

This picture is taken in of afternoon of Xmas Eve at the Griffith Obvervatory.

I wonder, sitting up there overlooking LA and the coast line, what they are thinking about….

I have nothing to say.
Everything I want to say, have all been said before….
over and over again…

every emotions I feel

I was borned too late…
That is my complain.

I don’t follow the weather reports so imagine my surprise when I woke up yesterday morning and saw the rain pouring down outside my window…
Not just the rain, it was a storm. The soaring wind thrashed the trees just outside my windows so hard that it looked like the trunk would give up at any moment and break into pieces.

On the brighter side, the plant has been kind to me. Monday we got the very first bloom. We didn’t want to jinx it so we pretended we didn’t care and wouldn’t give it much attention.

After that, it seemed like a new flower thrived through the husk by the hour.
Yesterday there were three flowers. Today, five!
There are many more in the making! We are going to have a full bloom by Christmas!

Looking back at my old posts, it was only weeks ago when we searched through the kitchen, found this glass container, poured water in it and filled it with stones and, of course, the onion like bulbs.
Now look we got! Why can’t everything in life be as easy and rewarding as this?