The age of 20 can be said to be a turning point in my life.
In the summer when I was 19 years old, I went to Hokkaido alone, 2,800 kilometers from Taipei, and started a one-year study abroad.

To keep myself out of the comfort zone of a country with the same language, I took a variety of different courses, participated in the training of the varsity basketball team, and most importantly, worked two part-time jobs. Working in Japan was absolutely impossible for me before the age of 18 when it was even a bit awkward for me to ask for directions in Japanese when I went to Japan, much less for me to work in Japan. But one year later, I really worked part-time in Japan—and in two jobs, no less.

"Anyway, I have already ventured to Japan to study, what else dare I not do?"
I responded to a vacancy ad at a doughnut chain store. I still remember the manager asking me during the interview if I wanted to work at the front counter or back in the kitchen. I didn’t hesitate to say that I would work at the front counter. After all, a cashier works with customers and then I can practice my Japanese.

However, the store manager was quite strict on part-time front counter workers. I still remember that at the beginning of that stint I spent all my time outside my classes on practicing the language used by restaurant servers, from the most basic いらっしゃいませ（welcome） to a tongue twister ありがとうございます。またお越しくださいませ。（Thank you. Please come again.）

The audience who watched my live broadcasts during that time may still have the impression that I even practiced these sentences during the live broadcast.

However, the most difficult part for me was to repeat the name of each doughnut while helping the customer to check out. The name of each doughnut was different. Some were complicated rappers. It took me a solid week to remember them all. But also thanks to this, I can say that my Japanese improved rapidly during that time.

Over time, working at the counter became a breeze for me. The store manager sometimes even let me work alone at the counter, and my Japanese has improved to the point that I could even deal with a sudden phone call to the store with ease. At this time, I had only been in Japan for half a year, and I really had a great sense of accomplishment from being able to improve my Japanese so much so fast.

People often ask me on live broadcasts "How do I learn Japanese?", "How can I go to Japan to study?", "I'm a senior in college. Can't I go to Japan as an exchange student?" I like this section of the lyrics in Eve's "As you like":
"Don't say you can't"
"Say no more now."
"There is no big answer"
"Unnecessary to say anything. I can't do it anyway."
"Unnecessary to say anything. This is the way things are."
"No answer is absolute."
There is nothing that cannot be done; there is only I who dare not take that step.
There is nothing too late; there is only I who fear the outside chance of failure.
The age of 20 is a turning point in my life.
I have done a lot of things that I had not dared to do, and I have done a lot of things that I could not have thought of before.

And all of this actually started when I didn't succeed in my college entrance examinations. Because I didn't get into the department of my first choice, I decided to  work hard to get a chance to be an exchange student in Japan. Because there was nothing to do except studying, so I started trying to make YouTube videos.

Instead of agonizing over the things that were not done or not within reach, it is better to get up and do the things that can still be done.

Kazbom【Twenty-year-old playlist】
01.Eve〈As you like〉
02.Mrs. GREEN APPLE 
03. Kenshi Yonezu + Masaki Sugada 
04.My Hair is Bad〈True Red〉
05. Yorushika 06. Kazuyoshi Saito