It has been some time since some friends talked about going to the gym with me. I collected some advertisements on the street to compare. Finally I chose one which is near our office and bought a year card on 22 June, so my exercise period has started.

It was not so hard to persist in the first week. I tried to go to the gym as many times as I can. I also tried to do different exercises everyday so that I wouldn't get bored quickly. Yoga was ok. At least I could follow, though my gesture was not standard. The Latin-america dance was hard for me. Many parts of the body had to move together, so hard to follow.

The most thing I used was the running machine. It

Yesteday was the first day to stop using plastic bags. I saw a handwriting notice in Carrefour the day before that 31st May was the last day to provide free plastic bags. There is no doubt that the big shopping mall will carry out the new regulation. However,  how people will execute the rule in places like vegetable market is hard to say.

With my curiosity, I went to buy vegetables in the market near us yesterday morning. I took my own bags with me. I thought at least there would be a limit to use plastic bag in the low-cost and non-standard market. However, before I arrived the market, I saw that people on the way home from the market all took vegetables by plastic bags as usual! 

I went to buy vegetables myse

This is my opening article in this blog. I should write something pleasant here. However, I have no way to be pleasant. The big earthquake on 12th May still keeps so many of us in oppression and strains our nerves. Thinking about those poor people and their situation, we can't even crack a smile. From the moment we knew the shock happened, we have been deep in anxious and sorrow for people who are pressed under the ruins, who lost lives, who lost their beloved ones, who become homeless and who become disabled,but we can't do anything to help except paying close attention to the news everyday, donating a little bit money and praying for them.

Many people may not know that those places which were shocked had been very attractive, because all we