Birth control/Carlos Pueblo

 Birth control/Carlos Pueblo

The world population has been expanded for generation and now it becomes all kinds of issues, such as the pollutions, global warming and cooling, food shortage, etc. You can feel the pressure because the world space is limited while the population goes to a different direction. I like to take my family as an example to start my argument.

My parents had seven children while my dad was barely a salary worker while my mom was a home maker. We had barely enough food on the table every food was in ration. My mom always reminds me not to get marry unless I was ready to provide the new family a good life to live. I got my first child  two and a half years after my marriage and a second child two years after the first. I have lived in the best managed nation in the world and I have taken advantage of this opportunity to be prevail. I believe that I have less stress than my dad and out live him more than 10 years without any of his lack of money stress. 

It is a basic calculation 2 versus 7 children. Increasing world population will have more demand of foods and other necessity. It will create more pollution, air and water. No matter how much progress the current technology can be achieved. Birth control is a fundamental theory to control all issues.

The U.S. is a well managed nation in birth control; therefore, its birth rate is in minimum; however, the national population is always increased rapidly because immigrants are coming faster than the nation can manage it. Immigrants to meet the workers demands. No matter how you do think of the immigration, immigrants do help to build the U.S. and make the nation prosperous. From the individual point of consideration, we must think ourselves first to plan our family in order to be successful.

計劃生育／莊峻華

 計劃生育／莊峻華

世界環境問題，例如全球暖化，夏天如此炙熱，空氣污染，水源污染，糧食不足等等，都和世界人口急速增加有關，先進文明世界，早就計劃生育，我在大學時代，台灣政府推廣計劃生育，我非常同意，先父母生育七子女，一生做牛做馬，毫無享受，培養七子女成長，比起一些小家庭生活，我們是困苦許多，所以我結婚後，十分在意子女人數，絕對不讓子女無謂吃苦，當然我說的是美國，美國提供最理想之生活環境，讓世界羨慕，許多人都想移民美國，在美國定居。我的網球伴告知，中國人排隊美國綠卡要17年，亞洲印度人則需一百年以上，我已經無暇注意台灣人需等候多少年？

台灣國家民主化27年，1945－1996，加上有日本近代化統治50年，1895－1945，加上台灣人勤奮上進，奠定台灣經濟發展，加上蔣家統治51年，1945－1996，堅決反共抗俄，維護台灣和平安定，所以家兄為五位兄弟姊妹和先母辦理美國永久居留權，有兩家庭選擇居留台灣，因為彼等職業關係，選擇在台灣退休，因為他們在台灣已有基礎，無需來美赤手空拳打天下，我觀察世界先進國家國民，均仔細衡量移民美國之得失，我認識一位鄰居日本家庭，有機會在美國生育，而選擇提早返日生產，這是日本國民對日本之自信。

世界上許多國家之國民，無法在本國生活，只好想辦法移民美國，美國有移民局，有移民法執行移民政策，有些美國人厭惡移民，像川普之流，主張取消在美國出生者入籍之權利，美國是一工業農業極端發達之國家，找不到人來工作就業，美國生育率低，完全生育計劃，所以無移民無法完全國家經濟，民主黨執政者考慮到此危機，想圖謀解決，但共和黨人反對，很奇怪共和黨總統雷根，是最近一次簽署移民特赦令者。

1975年美國許可我入境求學，迄今滿48年，我計劃生育擁有兩子女，包括我在內，三家庭都繳聯邦所得稅，當然要感激這難得之移民美國機會。

Revisit Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2022/Carlos Pueblo

 Revisit Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2022/Carlos Pueblo

Our cruise ship sailed at night from Bar Harbor, Maine to Halifax, Nova Scotia. I know that is similar to going to my own kitchen every day because that I have been to disembark at this harbor almost every time on this itinerary; however, it is a very nice to walk along the harbor and once in a while I may run into a naval drill like a week before. I did see the mighty air carrier Gerald Ford yet they finished and gone. Did I mention that I also witness British Queen Elezerbeth II on her maiden voyage to Halifax Bay one year on my cruise?

The city has provided an excellent pedestrian path from the cruise dock to another end at a hotel with a casino. I have been familiar to this route and always stay with the walk for my day at Halifax. You can also visit the hilly downtown and view the beautiful Canadian city. I always think that I always come back to visit the city and am happy to finish my walk.

This is an area in the north America attracted tourists. I regret that I haven't had the opportunity to visit this area by a vehicle especially during the fall or in the spring. I took it back of my statement, I once did drive from Quebec City across New England in the early spring. We were on our trip from Boston to Niagara Falls, Toro

nto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and back to Boston. Of course, my regret is is not including the northeast east Canadian Provinces. The only regret is the Prince Edward Province. 

二度重返加拿大哈里法克斯港2022／莊峻華

 二度重返加拿大哈里法克斯港2022／莊峻華

結束緬因州棒港，郵輪夜航，清晨重返加拿大哈里法克斯港，這是馳名之加拿大東北三省之一，新蘇格蘭省，郵輪必停靠之處，再來就是新布朗西維克省之聖約翰港，第三省是愛德華太子省，鮮能過境，至於魁北克港則是另一航線，也非常暢銷加拿大旅程之一，我也有機會在魁北克船上過夜，也都是重覆同一路線旅行。

北大西洋公約國之海軍演習，已經結束，上週我提過也親睹福特號航空母艦，幾年前英國伊莉莎白二世號航母，也在哈里法克斯灣處女行，讓我遇見，這海灣很平靜，據上週我舊日鄰居念華之描述，她們搭乘當地渡船，可以更靠近福特號，我甚遺憾未身逢其境，只要下次有機會。

我還是沿海灣步行徑，觀賞海灣和海岸商店，我和一般遊客不同，就是不購物，節約旅行，精打細算，旅行購物，增加行李重量，就是在家裡，我也甚少出外購物，幾十年如一轍。

約是中午過後，我就回船午飯，船上也有一些活動，當然賭場和商店關閉，因為不與當地稅務糾纏不清。

The community swimming pool/Carlos Pueblo

 The community swimming pool/Carlos Pueblo

Our subdivision swimming pool is a well maintain Olympic side facility regularly open from April 1 and close on October 1 every year. In recent years, I have developed a habit to swim after tennis every morning and fully utilized such facility. I like to do 20 laps each time about 4 kilometers which would help me to take a couple of naps during a day and makes me have a quality sleep almost every night. I feel that I am very fortunate to have this pool in my last stage of my limited life.

I learned how to swim when I was at 8 years old at a small mountain town at the center part of Taiwan, Puli. The elementary school arranged a 6 grader as a leader to walk us back to home after school. That tall handsome boy took me to learn how to swim at a small creek by a liquor factory. The water quality was excellent back to that time and I was very impressed. Later in my life after leaving Puli, I had went back to that town and attempted several times to locate such creek in vain. The township needed the space and put a cover on the surface of the creek. Before we moved out of the town, my dad's company converted an old sugar massecuite pool, the left over of un-crystallized sugar pulp, to be a swimming pool with bamboo bottom. I did see my dad's swimming once at that pool with a former swim suite which was a gift from a Japanese friend when he couldn't bring back to Japan after the War.

My dad did ask his engineer colleague, Mr. Tzu Wan Fu, to teach and improve my skill to swim. I still remember this gentleman, a young graduate from the current day Cheng Kung University. He recommended me to follow him to swim in laps as much as we could.

As I noticed, swimming is like a meditation of respiration. You must practice in take the air and expel the air from your lungs like the lotus sit in Buddhism. I can't do well in lotus sit; yet I can swim 4 kilometers at one time and maybe more.

游泳池2023／莊峻華

 游泳池2023／莊峻華

晚年恢復游泳，尤其最近一兩年，社區有一座標準奧林匹克游泳池，每週定期維護，待我發現時，已經甚晚，夏天四月開始啟用，到十月截止，為避免人擠，今年我在清晨網球局後，逕赴游泳池，場地似我專用。游泳和網球都是幼年無意習得經驗，成年後變成嗜好。

我在山鎮南投埔里成長到十歲，八歲時讀埔里國校，學校安排路隊，下午下課時有一高年級路隊長，帶隊走回糖廠宿舍，這位路隊長家住更遠，需要超過糖廠到埔里路方向，我仍憶得這位路隊長高大英俊，一日他帶我到酒廠旁冬烘溪游泳，這冬烘溪水是埔里酒廠紹興酒水源，後來我回埔里幾次，都找不到該溪，原來溪面已加蓋，冬烘溪入烏牛懶溪，就是土語黑牛睪丸不雅，中國人到來後改稱愛蘭，原埔里高中今日暨南大學校址，就在溪畔，愛蘭溪水湍不宜幼童。埔里糖廠一度開闢一泳池，借用糖膏蓄池，池深舖竹版墊，有童陷竹縫溺斃，池遂封閉，那一年先父年約46，為工場主任，著泳裝帶我，我仍有美憶，該泳裝非常正式，是黑色上下一裝，像是今日女泳模式，後來我研究是日人北工校長遺傳，蓋戰後日人遣返，攜帶有限，該校長滯留交接，為先父安排住埔里糖廠宿舍故也。

到雲林虎尾總廠後，總廠有一游泳池，也是奧林匹克型，需要申請游泳證，先父關心我游泳，特別懇請工都導處同事工程師傅祖望先生教練，傅公為台南高工高材，今日成大工學院出身，他是才女張富美之大姊夫，他帶我圈游，就是我現在的20圈四公里。

我在郵輪上，也可以游泳，再過三週我又可以上船，郵輪游泳池稍小規模，但也差強人意，換洗容易方便，當然夏威夷加勒比海海灘，倫敦皇家海德公園湖水游泳，更是別有風味，只是需要繳費。

Trump is facing the U.S. Law/Carlos Pueblo

Trump is facing the U.S. Law/Carlos Pueblo

The former U.S. President Donald Trump is facing the U.S. Law for what he has done to violate the Law mainly 91 criminal indictments. He thinks that he has done nothing wrong and he still denies his election loss in 2020 to Joe Biden. He doesn't have any regret at all of what he has done wrong. His only hope is to be re-elected again in 2024 and pardons himself if he is found guilty. Do you think that he is a ideal person to lead the Nation again?

Personally, I don't think that he can be re-elected again in 2024. People like me who have not voted to him in 2016 and 2020 will not vote him again. We don't believe that he is the only one who can save the U.S. or make America again. America has been great all the time so far as I have known of. We don't need to invite a crook to steal the U.S. again.

I don't believe that there is no justice in the U.S. laws and courts. Trump must pay what he had done illegally. When the insurgent rioters broke to the Capitol Hill to stop the regular procedures he watched and enjoyed the turmoil. He has been so stupid to think that those 10,000 plus rioters would topple a great nation of the world. He refused to call on National Guards to help local polices to maintain order. He is guilty at least on this account.

We can not let this mad man to manage our great nation again.