零點的邀約

在幾乎以為沒有機會去的時候抽中了

在推力很強 拉力很大的情況下就決定要要去英國流浪了 (即使英國政府合法斂財 光各項費用就將近台幣 4.9W (而且還是台幣走強還要快5W....

在此VISA申請表單詳細步驟, 感謝兩位前人的腳步.... 這邊只記錄一些自己看到覺得比較好笑, 跟需要留意的地方.
｛英國｝最新圖解2020英國打工度假簽證申請＋IHS＋VFS教學、注意事項及消息（不定期更新）

[英國] NHS牙醫就診分享
今天簡單分享一下我在英國用NHS看牙醫的簡單心得.....
首先, 如果牙齒有任何問題 請務必 不 要 拖 

 [英法旅遊] 省錢小撇步 夜巴從巴黎回倫敦啦!!!

前情提要:
這次的旅行目的地是法國的史特拉斯堡 Strasburg 而不是巴黎
但但但...倫敦直飛史堡實在有夠貴 1個月前才看機票 最低也要600鎊(沒有廉航) 後來想說那乾脆飛巴黎再搭火車去好了 
花費如下 共44.31鎊

[英國] 省錢小撇步 用Trainline一個月購票3次 獲得超過￡30 現金回饋!!!
 

最近買車票的時候發現Trainline導我去另一個 cashback的網站, 本來有點怕怕的, 但後來有成功收到錢錢, 所以上來分享給大家。
這個方法可以搭配 Top cash back網站一起使用! 還不知道甚麼是Top cash back 嗎? ↓↓↓↓

[英國] 跨國電匯 從台灣匯款到英國 (Wise) 2022

今天終於實際用通過Wise將台灣的錢轉了一些些到英國來 (主要是卡房租啦)
如果不想要麻煩遠在台灣的家人幫你幫銀行, 先在台灣搞定Wise將Wise帳號跟台灣銀行帳戶申請好約定帳號,就可以自己在網路上操作跨國電匯~
國際匯款-Wise 
這是一個搓合的機構, 主打可以用比一般銀行還低的手續費進行跨國匯款

 [悲報] Pret A Manger 飲料訂閱+邀請碼+心得 
今天要訂閱Pret 咖啡訂閱計畫的時候發現 原本首月免費，現在只剩下首月半價 £12.5/月, (2022年8月) 之後每月是£25/月 追記: 2023是每月30鎊
一樣是每天飲料5杯任喝 杯與杯之間要間隔 半小時, 掃QR code即可

【食記】古亭 水牛城美式炭烤牛排
2022.4.2 在二樓用餐。

樓梯超抖真的要很小心, 而且一樓樓梯口 還是送餐口, 但店員會提醒一直提醒你要小心。 另外下雨天鞋底濕濕更增加走樓梯的難度。
不過在二樓的好處是自成一家...我們包場了二樓,感覺很不錯XD

基底模板感謝，感覺技能有增減.....
https://home.gamer.com.tw/creationDetail.php?sn=3863079

7/27 Film Study

In the second year of ITI, we don't have clubs anymore, whereas having elective courses. I've chosen film study in order to learn more about movie history and culture. In the first class, Oliver introduced the first movie " A Trip to the Moon" made in 1902. It's the first time that people tried to create a story rather than filming daily life. The plot and characters' outfits are hilarious. The main story is about a group of scientists creating a big bullet, and firing it to the moon carrying 6 of them inside. The scientists were dressed in wizard costumes, but mot laboratory clothing. After Oliver had shown the film to the class, I found that I've watched it before in an exhibition.

Later on, Oliver gave us homework to check one of the classic silent films "Metropolis" (1927), which influenced a lot of movies afterwards. It's a sci-fi story based on 2026, and people are divided into 3 classes. Rich and powerful people can live in beautiful, luxurious skyscrapers, on the contrary, workers can only live underground and have to work long shifts. The lead character, Freder, the son of the city ruler, saw a pretty woman from the underground named Maria, and fell in love with her. Freder followed Maria to the underground world and learned the differences between the two worlds. Maria asked Freder to become the mediator between the two classes, but at the same time, Freder's father wanted to destroy the relationship between them. The film surprised me a lot by its costume and background design. It's costume also affects the catwalks designers. Metropolis is also the first silent film I watched, and the acting is very different from today's films. Without verbal communication, actors needed to be more exaggerated to show the emotions of characters. Also, the written dialogue is not easy to present because they have to be powerful but short. Plus the right selection of fonts helps me to imagine how the actors are speaking in person. I was also amazed by the special effects. It was hard for me to imagine how they did all that in 1927. After 1 hour of watching, it became a little bit boring. The pace of Metropolis is much slower than the modern pace. It gave me the same feeling in the end. I usually expect a twist at the end, but it went smoothly till the end. Overall, it's still a nice history lesson.

Chinatown 唐人街 -Neo Noir
1974
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway

Sunset Boulevard  -Film Noir
1950
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
Joe Gillis is an unsuccessful young scriptwriter and facing financial difficulties. Once he was chased by debtors, he ran into Norma Desmond's house. Norma is an ageing silent film star, but she wants to get back in the limelight, so she asked Joe to help her with her script. Norma makes Joe stay in the house with her, later on, she falls in love with him. Joe doesn't feel happy with the situation, but he struggles between freedom and money. 

The Toys that Made us - LEGO

Starting from term 1, Oliver has kept encouraging us to watch films to learn both English and culture, he also strongly supported us to watch Netflix. Since Netflix has a trial service for 1 month, I gave it a try. After the trial expired, I found that Netflix's Advanced plan allows families and friends sharing one account, also allows 4 people to watch different programs simultaneously. I asked other 3 classmates to share the cost with me. However after the first 2 months, the workload in ITI started to increase, I was afraid I will get addicted to the endless TV drama. I ended up becoming " the denominator." During this term break, I finally re-opened my Netflix, and continued watching a documentary " The Toys that Made us." I tended to choose episodes that I had played with in my childhood, so I skipped some episodes and chose to watch "Lego."

Originally, Lego was a company that produced wooden home products including wooden toys. When the depression hit, they decided to switch their focus to only toys. The also changed their company name to Lego, which comes from "leg godt" (meaning play well in Danish.) During World War 2, the company produced plastic bricks as the main product. The colors they chose were inspired by the painter Mondrian, which are brighter and more colorful. 

A few years later, they invited the most important idea in Lego, the system. Every brick, including people (minifigures) and trees, perfectly fit together. With this concept, they created the city series, and it became a best seller. Years later, the second generation saw the potential of combining Lego bricks and programming language together, and presented " Lego TC logo." The company introduced the system to schools for education, and it became a worldwide robotic competition. I think it is good for its company image. Unfortunately, Lego also had some downturns in their history. The first crisis was when the patent expired, lots of companies were producing the exact products and sold them at half of Lego's price. Another challenge for Lego was video games. Lego started to fave a decrease in sales and was forced to lay off employees. What even worse, they also made some wrong decisions during the downturn period, including publishing video games, which ended up as a big failure. Thanks to Lego Bionicle, the cool skeleton figures with an extraordinary story and animation, Lego has been making profits again. Based on this experience, Lego found how stories support products, so they launched the Ninja series.

Watching the documentary of Lego was like meeting a good old friend from a different time. When I was a child, the only thing that interested me was how interesting the toy was, but now I am also interested in its background, such as company, design history, anｄ inspiration. I do believe the producer of the toys that made us share the same feeling as me.