Trying to make a living in Taiwan by playing the violin

What if I were to stay in Taiwan even longer. I might have to find a way to make a living. I could either teach English or play some violin.

I guess my medical license from the USA wouldn't be much good here in Taipei Taiwan.

I was playing in a Restaurant (translated roughly as Lotus Garden) - it was a vegetarian restaurant. It was pretty empty, but at this get together arranged by my mother in law - her singing group and singing teacher had an opportunity to eat lunch together, and I had an opportunity to play the violin in front of an audience.

These pictures also gave me an opportunity to show off my new haircut and new glasses.

Pictures taken by Tammy Wu, MD - Plastic Surgery Modesto

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inanchor: google command for SEO success

Inanchor:

One of my hobbies is learning SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I'm particularly interested in some of the commands available in google search which help with SEO. Today's topic on my mind is the "inanchor:" command.

Inanchor: is a google search command to search on the "anchor text" of web spages. Results are listsed based on text used in the outside links pointing to the web page.

For example you could type inanchor:taiwan
or inanchor:"breast augmentation modesto"

There's supposedly no space after the ":" and use quotes if there's to be more than one word for the anchor text.


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A view of mountains in Taiwan - road trip

We took a road trip out to the country side today. This picture is a view from one of the rest stops on the way. There are plenty of mountains adding to some beautiful scenery of Formosa. You can click on the picture for a slightly larger view. We were going to visit one of Tammy's family's former employees who has since retired, but has treated the family very well. She lives about 3 hours away from Taipei. The nane of the city she lives in is Chung Hua.

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Advantages of Titanium eyeglasses frames

I just got a new pair of glasses today (8/1/09). I'll go into more detail in a later post.
My previous post on new glasses that I got in Modesto about 1 year and a few months ago.

Despite being more expense, there are many
Advantages of Titanium frames for eyeglasses

• Titanium is highly rust proof - doesn't create a green rust
• Without painting, it will also remain bright for a few years
• Being corrosion resistant makes it better use compared to steel
• Lightweight - Titanium is about 40% lighter than steel
• Flexible, bendable - without breaking and returns to it's original shape
• Bendable
• Inert - rarely causes skin reactions - used in many human body surgical implants even.

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Body Fat Percentage is a better measurement than BMI (Body Mass Index)

With my previous posts about BMI:
Lee Hyori's BMI (Asian Celebrity)
American Celebrity BMI
How to Calculate your BMI (upper half of page)
Asian BMI adjustments (lower half of page)

I've also known that there are limitations to BMI. BMI may be easier to calculate because we have easy access to our height and weight. But because of the limitations and problems with BMI calculations. I think that Body Fat percentage is a better assessment of one's health risks and a better way to set goals.

The main limitations of BMI include not taking into account the weight of muscle. However, it isn't easy to find body fat percentages of celebrities. So BMI still has some usage :)

Measuring body fat isn't super easy and fluctuates with the amount of hydration. One could try to measure oneself with electrical impedance gadgets at the same time every day - that might help to minimize fluctuations in measurement. There are hand held devices or scales that can measure bodyfat these days - so it requires a bit of extra technology.

The American College of Sports Medicine divides the charts into subjects over and under 40-years old as well as fitness and health recommendations. If a person falls above these guidelines, he or she would be considered obese.

Here's some info I copied over from:
http://fitness.suite101.com/article.cfm/body_fat_percentage

Female (under 40) - 16%-28% Fitness, 20%-35% Health
Female (over 40) - 16%-33% Fitness, 20%-38% Health

Male (under 40) - 5%-15% Fitness, 8%-22% Health
Male (over 40) - 5%-18% Fitness, 8%-25% Health

Men need to maintain a body fat percentage of at least 5% for health reasons. A layer of fat surrounds all the body’s organs in order to protect them. Without this fat, the organs become susceptible to impact injuries.

Women need a body fat percentage of 15% to maintain a healthy menstrual cycle. The longer a woman is lower than 15% body fat percentage the less likely it is that she can become pregnant. The hormonal imbalances can cause psychological diseases such as anorexia and bulimia.

Fun fact:
According to Charles Poliquin, people can start seeing the upper row of abdominal muscles with a body fat percentage of 15%. To have “6-pack abs,” one must have a body fat percentage no higher than 9.8%.


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Lee Hyori BMI, Asian Celebrity BMI (weight standardized by height)

In my previous post, I had focused on American Celebrity BMI - Actresses (and some Actors)
I was looking for Asian pop star or TV actresses or actor's BMI's (Body Mass Index) and had some trouble finding height and weights, but I stumbled upon a discussion on Korean pop star:

Lee Hyori


This was the web page: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=607239

In the recent episode of ‘Family Outing’ with Lee Soo Kyung as guest star appearance, pop diva Lee Hyori had directly revealed her height and weight on the show.

The discussion was that she had revealed that she was 53 kg (117 lbs), and for some reason many felt that she was "too heavy" and many people felt they had to defend her weight as being "healthy" and "acceptable".

I quote:

• "i don't think hyori is fat, i think she's just fine."


• "I have seen people with ribs sticking out, now that's disgusting. Hyori is healthy. "


• "Ppl, remember that most of these korean netizens are crazy! "


• "it doesnt really matter bout wat deir weight is as long as dey look good"

Here's a picture of Lee Hyori (I managed to get it placed on top of this blog)

So I figure I should figure out the actress singer Lee Hyori's BMI and see how it stacks up:

53 kg weight, 166 cm height

Lee Hyori has a BMI of 19.2 - now by any standard - that is not "fat". So I don't understand why so many people had to defend her weight. They should have just figured out her BMI and found that she's on the low side of Normal weight (by Western Standards) - end of discussion. But I guess the discussion was according to Eastern Standards, which I'm still in the process of figuring out what Normal Weight/height BMI would be.

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Body Mass Index of America's Female Celebrities comparing height and weight

BMI's for Celebrities... Standardizing Weight by Height.
Compare your BMI (if you dare)

So BMI (Body Mass Index) questions have been flooding my head - especially now that i know that I am for sure overweight by American, and Obese by Asian BMI standards. More questions came up from my friends when I decided to figure out the BMI of my wife who's considered thin, then suprisingly she didn't fit ideally into average Asian BMI standards which puzzled me and my friends. For starters I thought I'd find some BMI for celebrities.

I've decided to look on the web for some BMI data on American Female Actresses. I couldn't find much except that at some point, Cindy Crawford had a BMI of 19, and Marilyn Monroe had a BMI of 20.

First I had written a "how to calculate BMI" blog
Then I found this page on some estimated Celebrity BMI's:
http://diet.health.com/2009/01/08/surprising-celebrity-bmis/2/

and this page which had height and weight of female actresses but without BMI:
http://fitnessblackbook.com/fitness-babes/the-height-and-weight-of-10-hot-female-celebrities-revealed/

Also some great diet / weight / averages and trends from this third website:

http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2007/04/15/female_body_shape_in_the_20th_century.php?page=2

It states that:
Mean (average) BMI US females (aged 20-74): 28.1 in the 1990's.

So I'm attempting to put the two pages together with just BMI:

Data from the first BMI webpage listed above:

These are Estimated BMI

Angelina Jolie BMI: 17.9
Beyoncé BMI: 21
Tom Cruise BMI: 26 (5'7", 166 lbs)
Tony Romo BMI: 28.8
Serena Williams BMI: 22.1
Jennifer Love Hewitt BMI: 21.9


From the Second webpage. I've had to do the calculations of the BMI myself. Hopefully the BMI calculations came out correctly without typos:

Adriana Lima BMI (Victoria's Secret Model) : 16.1
Jessica Biel BMI (7th Heaven): 16.4
Kate Beckinsale BMI (Underworld) : 17.5
Gabrielle Union BMI (Bring it On): 16.7
Jessica Alba BMI (Into the Blue): 19.9
Megan Fox BMI (Transformers): 18.4
Roselyn Sanchez BMI (Without a Trace): 20.4
Eva Longoria BMI (Deserate Housewives): 19.2
Selma Hayek BMI (Desperado): 21
Kelly Hu BMI (Scorpion King): 20.3


That's it for now for Celebrity BMI's

the original BMI Categories/classes:
Underweight = <18.5
Normal weight = 18.5-24.9
Overweight = 25-29.9
Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater

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