Stunning Hotels in Manila
The Henry Hotel Manila
With its garden pool and fence, "The Henry" is typical as a holiday resort — except it's in Pasay City. Grab a book from the library, relax outdoors on the chairs or try a classic Filipino (菲律宾的) breakfast: longganisa sausages or milkfish with fried eggs and garlic rice.
Price: from 7,500PHP (£99).
Admiral Hotel Manila-MGallery
The hotel is known for its art decoration style. The rooms are rich in hard lines and brass fixtures(黄铜夹具). For the best sight, head upstairs to Admiral Club. If you want to experience more, head downstairs to Ruby Wong's for some drinks and Filipino-Chinese food.
Price: from 7,600PHP (£137).
King's Hotel
Newly built in 2022, King's Hotel has all the features you'd expect from the Europe-based brand, including facilities from IKEA. In the hotel, guests can have an interesting outlook: the space is a glass-structured wonder, with stylish hanging lights and wooden art works.
Price: from 12,700PHP (£229).
Shangri-La at The Fort
It's all charm at the Shangri-La, lifts with hanging lights and in-room lights as bright as in a mall. Yet, it all fades in comparison to what's outside: the hotel's 576 guest rooms include floors 18-40 of a 755-foot-high building, giving visitors an unlimited view over the Bonifacio Global City district.
Price: from 15,500PHP (£270).
Even now, I have vivid memories of my last day of high school. In my mind's eye, I'm cleaning out my locker, and then staring at the emptiness for a few extra beats before slamming it shut for the last time. I'm wandering in the halls with my best friend, blissfully ignoring the bells going off every 50 minutes on schedule because, just today, we're allowed to break the rules. I'm sitting on my desk, swinging my feet, and chatting with my English teacher, Mr. Carr, in a way that makes me feel almost grown up.
It was maybe my favorite day of the whole year. Like the final layer of watercolor, the freedom and lightness I feel seeps (渗透) into the rest of my memories of that day and turns them just a shade rosier.
If the school year hasn't yet ended for you, consider what you can do to make the ending count. Why? Because when it comes to human memory, not all moments are created equal. Instead, our remembered experiences are disproportionately(不成比例地) influenced by peaks(the best moments as well as the worst) and endings(the last moments). Nobel Prizewinner Danny Kahneman, who discovered this phenomenon, called this the peak-end rule. It suggests that our judgment of a past experience is largely based on its most extreme point and its endpoint.
I took advantage of the peak-end rule years ago, when my girls were young enough to want a bedtime story each night. I remember thinking that whatever trouble and stress had occurred that day, I could make the last moments count. I could end on a note of calm and act like the patient mom I hadn't quite managed to be just hours before.
Don't mistake all moments as equal insignificance. There's a reason why yoga classes end with savasana (挺卧式). There's a reason we eat dessert last. Do organize endings carefully. As Pete Carroll might say: Finish strong. Last impressions are especially lasting.
You probably get your eyes tested to protect your sight, maybe have a yearly hearing test to check your ears—but, protecting your nose... eh? Recent research has discovered more than 600 genes in the human body associated with the sense of smell and that it's actually important to the human body.
Smell can help keep us alive by warning us of dangers such as food that might make us sick or the threat of fire, and it does this within only 100-150 milliseconds of breathing. "Smell also helps create the flavour of food and plays a role in controlling the variety of our diet and the nutrients we consume," says Jeanne Hort, a professor at News Zealand's Massey University.
In fact, each of us has a unique sense of smell and the strength of our unique smell is related to the genes you inherit (遗传) from your parents which determine which smell receptors (感受器) are expressed in the nose. Other factors further determine how sensitive your sense of smell is. Women generally have a stronger sense of smell than men, while damage from air pollution means people who live in highly polluted cities have a less sensitive sense of smell than those in rural areas. "We also know the sense of smell declines with age," says Professor Hort. "And if you've damaged your nose through head injury, illness or breathing in something that causes pain and discomfort, your sense of smell can also be negatively affected."
Protecting your nose from such damage is therefore the first step in activating your sense of smell. Avoid breathing in strong scents like chemicals. Then, keep your nose busy. For example, sniff (唉) vegetables and fruit as part of determining ripeness before you buy them and sniff more different smells exposed to your nose. "The sense of smell is a bit like a muscle, you can train it to become stronger by exercising it," says sensory expert Eugeni Roura.
Scientists are now digging into precisely why exercise holds so many benefits for our mental health and memory. The answer, studies say, lies in our brain chemistry.
Each time you work up a sweat, your body releases feel-good happy hormones (荷尔蒙), including endorphins, dopamine and endocannabinoids, the latter being responsible for the so-called runner's high. Now researchers are also pointing to myokines (肌肉因子) as an important contributor to the mental health benefits of exercise. When our muscles contract, myokines are released into the bloodstream, helping your muscles and organs communicate. They think this communication increases resilience to stress, reduces symptoms of mental suffering and anxiety and has a direct effect on depression.
A 2021 scientific report published in Neuropharmacologyshowed evidence that myokines boost brain function, like improving memory and mood. "Myokines reduce systemic inflammation (炎症), which is especially beneficial for people with drug-resistant depression whose low mood is linked to high inflammation," explains Dr Jennifer Heisz, an expert in brain health and associate professor in the department of kinesiology at McMaster University in Canada.
A recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine showed that treatment for depression can be much more effective when physical activity is added to the usual care. Participants found benefits after 12 weeks of exercising for 30 to 60 minutes a day. "While exercise is not a replacement for professional mental health treatment, physical activity can complement and enhance the effects of the treatment," says lead researcher Ben Singh, a research fellow at the University of South Australia.
"It is amazing to consider how moving our bodies can heal our minds," says Heisz. Whether you're cycling, walking around your neighbourhood or doing yoga, getting sweaty is good for your body and mind. To get the biggest overall health boost, the key is to zero_in_on sports and activities you enjoy, so you'll keep going back to them.
For people who are not self-disciplined, their life is full of pain, and all pain comes from their own inability.
So how do you achieve self-discipline?
Have control over body. Self-disciplined people will not be so bad; those who can lose weight successfully have high requirements for themselves. Health is the most important foundation of your self-discipline. They work for one hour and charge for eight hours, and the efficiency is extremely low. If you don't have time to exercise, you can only spend time seeing a doctor after the red light of your physical condition.
Have a good sense of time. The more self-disciplined you are, the more time you'll have to manage. A precise schedule can save you a lot of unnecessary time costs. The beauty of time front allows you to use more free time to read, exercise, master a skill, and severely surpass the person who is still sleeping in bed.
Self-disciplined people will not be willing to stay in the comfort zone, but will keep developing their own new field world with the mentality of giving it a try. Choosing ease and obeying instinct(本能)will bring the game of life to a dead end. And self-discipline may not always let you win. If you decide that suffering is what you deserve, then the light will unavoidably come to you the same way.
A. Have a feeling of freshness. B. But it will never let you lose. C. Keep breaking personal ceiling. D. People who do not work out are like a red light. E. People who do not exercise are like an aging battery. F. A self-disciplined person lives a particularly advanced and free life. G. In addition, self-disciplined people will create time for themselves-get up early. |
James Baldwin, an author, once said, "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." Looking back, I have found this was 1 . As a child, I was not the best 2 , but I did learn valuable lessons by 3 my elders.
While in elementary school, I was caught into 4 . A classmate had a quarrel with me because of some 5 and he even threatened to beat me. I didn't know how to 6 him and I was even 7 to go to school. Then my father 8 my trouble and decided to go to school with me. I wasn't sure what he was planning to do, but I felt 9 around him. When at school, he talked 10 to me and the boy I had issues with. He explained that we needed to solve our differences and learn to 11 our friendship. He told us a 12 in which he resolved（化解）the differences by an earnest（真诚的）talk and made friends with another man. Then he 13 and we had to solve the problem ourselves. There we stood, face to face without a word. I broke the 14 first and a heated discussion followed. Gradually, both of us 15 we had a lot in common apart from the differences. At last, as my father 16 , we extended our hands and 17 our differences. It was at that moment that a lifetime friendship was formed.
What my father said did not 18 me much but he set a good example of 19 this kind of problem. This is a reminder that it is more effective for elders to teach children by their 20 .
"The Great Wall symbolizes the firm backbone of China, while the Grand Canal is the bloodline flows through the hearts of Chinese people," said Shan Jixiang, former director of the Palace Museum.
(get) a better understanding of this "bloodline", Zhejiang Art Museum is running an exhibition called The Grand Canal as Epic on Earth.
With history of more than 2, 500 years, the Grand Canal consists of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Sui and Tang Grand Canal and the Zhedong Canal. It (stretch) nearly 3, 200 kilometers and is the world's longest man-made waterway.
(connect) the north and south of China, the Grand Canal extends trade and shapes culture. However, as some sections of the canal have dried up and been disused due to historical evolution and climate change, some people seem to forget its (culture) value.
China Daily reported that urbanization (城市化) has led to garbage and other waste being piled up on the waterway by residents, and others have even built illegal (structure) beside the canal.
(fortunate), many measures has been adopted so far toward restoration of the Grand Canal. For example, in Gucheng county of Hengshui city in Hebei, a new policy was carried out—a river chief system. A total of 70 river chiefs at county, town and village levels have been assigned to clean and restore 59 river lines, helping each section of the canal to reach its targets for reducing (pollute) and controlling flooding. The Grand Canal is taking a turn for we are hoping for.
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With the aim of enriching our school life, our school hold a chorus competition last week. Our teacher encouraged us take an active part in the activity. Late, we carried out a heated discussion to select songs. Finally all student in our class agreed on sing "Defending Yellow River" in the competition. In the chorus, we sang with full of passion under the direction of our conductor. Which excited us most was that we won a first prize. During the competition, not only were we proud of us triumph, but also deep impressed by the meaning of cooperation.
