I've not been entirely true to myself

We are all inherently weak. Human, by nature, is prone to temptation, desire, vanity, and immunity is not guaranteed. It is a disease that has plagued humanity for eons and as such has brought forth advances in psychology, biomedicine, and engineering to overcome such hurdle, hurdle to temptation and desire. You may be more inclined to one form of sin than the others, e.g., wealth and money for those who strive for the abysmal satisfaction of upper class accessories, knowledge and publications for those who strive for higher education or faculty/research position, relationship and intangible love for those who desires breakthrough in singleness or loneliness, fame and recognition for those who can't escape the thought that they must achieve what Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame. Irrespective to which rabbit holes we would like to tumble we are all ultimately the victim of our true self, and how one shall overcome is a must, but that is not for us to decide.

I'm the victim of my own self, which I've not been entirely true to myself. I have been daydreaming in this wonderland which I've built from ground up. Day by day since end of March I've been laying bricks, block by block, layer by layer until I have almost construct a perfect seemingly impregnable little room which I am willing to spend my life in eternity. That is very dangerous until recently, like today, the unforeseeable happened - that room was firmly built and I was pushed in from the outside, by a force so great, that I could not resist. All the way until I realize this is not what God intended me to do, and it is how the destruction will carry on if I insist so.

"Let go, you will survive and you will be stronger than ever," says He the Almighty. And, from that moment on I truly realize once again how weak are we human beings. How a little thing such as one-way street can be blown out of proportions, by your incompetent formulation of what relationship is supposed to be.

I'm shattered and I've not been true to myself. Hopefully, I will wake up and mend the gashing wound until it is fully healed. Until then, God be with me and everything will follow for the faithfulness can bring you joyful bountiful everlasting content beyond your imagination.

A giant leap forward on human rights in China

I'm sure everyone of you who's following the mainstream media will inevitably stumble upon the news that Liu Xiaobo, an ethnic Chinese who advocates human rights in China for the past 20 years, has been awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. In the Middle Kingdom where a citizen's right is extended by his/hers connection to the Politburo and/or the amount of bribery he/she pays in the event of injustice, this good news comes as a giant leap forward for the land of 1.3 billion. The Nobel Prize represents hope and relief to the brothers and sisters who continuously struggle for unequivocal rights for all of its citizens in a country where authoritarian rule is still absolute. Especially when they are wronged daily by the very system which brought them up and indoctrinate their thoughts with skewed beliefs, the Prize comes as a soothing remedy to all the years of harshness, brainwashing, and isolation from the "real world."

Hopefully, one day China will be more lenient on human rights and those rights of individual who wants neither discrimination nor abomination for the work, religious affiliation, or belief they have. Until then, more people like Liu Xiaobo is a must in this country of 1.3 billion, who is not there to abide by the authoritarian rule but rather to challenge the system and to let the Politburo knows that its citizen is not afraid of advocating unequivocal rights, including but not limited to freedom of speech, assembly, and religion.

I, for one thing in this very October 2010, is proud of being a Chinese, even if that China is from across the strait. I also have not given up the notion of peaceful reunification, which may just occur in the foreseeable future when one day unequivocal rights is no longer an ideology amongst the thoughts of the Chinese dissidents in the Mainland, but rather an exercisable reality in the very Middle Kingdom itself!

雨真下一整晚

雨真下一整晚~ 謝謝大家支持忍耐寬容與勸導~



周杰伦 - 雨下一整晚

作词：方文山 作曲：周杰伦

街灯下的橱窗 有一种落寞的温暖
吐气在玻璃上 画着你的模样
开着车漫无目的的转弯 不知要去哪个地方
闹区的电视墙 到底有谁在看

白杨木影子被拉长
像我对你的思念走不完
原来我从未习惯 你已不在我身旁
街道的铁门被拉上
只剩转角霓虹灯还在闪
这城市 的小巷 雨下一整晚

你撑把小纸伞 叹姻缘太婉转
雨落下雾茫茫 问天涯在何方
午夜笛 笛声残 偷偷透 透过窗
烛台前 我嘛还在想
小舢舨 划呀划 小纸伞 遮雨也遮月光

白杨木影子被拉长
像我对你的思念走不完
原来我从未习惯 你已不在我身旁
街道的铁门被拉上
只剩转角霓虹灯还在闪
这城市 的小巷 雨下一整晚

周杰倫 - 超人不會飛

大家好我不是周杰倫, 不過沒關係因為音樂是不分界線的, 所以愛怎麼欣賞就怎麼欣賞! 呵呵~ 此下是周董五月新出的專輯, 雖然已經過了三個月, 這首個還是相當迷人... 哈哈~

還是Firefox最好! 用Google Chrome寫Blog居然還會當機! 他媽的~ :P

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周杰倫 - 超人不會飛

主唱：周杰倫
作曲：周杰倫
填詞：周杰倫

媽媽說 很多事別太計較
只是使命感找到了我我睡不著
如果說罵人要有點技巧
我會加點旋律你會覺得　超屌
我的槍不會裝彈藥
所以放心不會有人倒
我拍青鋒俠不需要替身
因為自信是我繪畫的顏料

我做很多事背後的意義遠比你們想像
拍個電視劇為了友情與十年前的夢想
收視率再高也難抗衡我的偉大理想
因為我的人生無需再多一筆那獎項
我不知道何時變成了社會的那榜樣
被狗仔拍不能比中指耍大器模樣

我唱的歌詞要有點文化
因為隨時會被當教材
CNN能不能等英文好一點再訪
時代雜誌封面能不能重拍
隨時隨地注意形象
要控制飲食不然就跟杜莎夫人蠟像的我不像
好萊塢的中國戲院地上有很多手印腳印
何時才能看見我的掌

＊如果超人會飛　那就讓我在空中停一停歇
　再次俯瞰這個世界　會讓我覺得好一些
　拯救地球好累　雖然有些疲憊但我還是會
　不要問我哭過了沒　因為超人不能流眼淚＊

唱歌要拿最佳男歌手
拍電影也不能只拿個最佳新人
你不參加頒獎典禮就是沒禮貌
你去參加就是代表你很在乎
得獎時你感動落淚
人家就會覺得你誇張做作
你沒表情別人就會說太囂張
如果你天生這表情
那些人甚至會怪你媽媽
結果最後是別人在得獎
你也要給予充分的掌聲與微笑
開的車不能太好　住的樓不能太高
我到底是一個創作歌手還是好人好事代表
專輯一出就必須是冠軍
拍了電影就必須要大賣
只能說當超人真的好難

Repeat＊

Rock is fucking dead

Fucking classic rock industrial music from my beloved Marilyn Mason.

Enjoy!

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"Rock Is Dead"

All simple monkeys with alien babies
Amphetamines for boys
Crucifixes for ladies
Sampled and soulless
Worldwide and real webbed
You sell all the living
For more safer dead

Anything to belong

[Chorus:]
Rock is deader than dead
Shock is all in your head
Your sex and your dope is all that were fed
So fuck all your protests and put them to bed

God is in the T.V.

1,000 mothers are praying for it
We're so full of hope
And so full of shit
Build a new god to medicate and to ape
Sell us ersatz dressed up and real fake

Anything to belong

Rock is deader than dead

[Chorus repeat]

God is in the T.V.

Fucking loose yourself!

Sixty-one million viewers can't be wrong, you know? ;)

So, go nuts!

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Title: Eminem - Loose Yourself lyrics

Artist: Eminem Lyrics

Look, if you had, one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment
Would you capture it, or just let it slip?

Yo, His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting
What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's chokin, how everybody's jokin now
The clock's run out, time's up, over bloah
Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that
No, he won't have it , he knows his whole back city ropes
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
He's so stacked that he knows
When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again yo
This whole rap s**t
Better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

[Chorus:]
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo,

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime you better,

His soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping
This world is mine for the taking
Make me king, as we move toward a, new world order
A normal life is borin, but superstardom's close to post mortom
It only grows harder, only grows hotter
He blows us all over these hoes is all on him
Coast to coast shows, he's know as the globetrotter
Lonely roads, God only knows
He's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold your nose cause here goes the cold water
These ho's don't want him no mo, he's cold product
They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
He nose dove and sold nada
So the soap opera is told and unfolds
I suppose it’s old partner, but the beat goes on
Da da dum da dum da da

[Chorus:]
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go-o
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo, you better

No more games, I'ma change what you call rage
Tear this m*********n roof off like 2 dogs caged
I was playin in the beginnin, the mood all changed
I been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
But I kept rhymin and stepwritin the next cypher
Best believe somebody's payin the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact
That I can't get by with my 9 to 5
And I can't provide the right type of life for my family
Cause man, these g****m food stamps don't buy diapers
And it's no movie, there's no Makai Pheiffer, this is my life
And these times are so hard and it's getting even harder
Tryin to feed and water my seed, plus
Teeter-totter caught up between bein a father and a pre-madonna
Baby mama drama's screamin on and
Too much for me to wanna
Stay in one spot, another day of monotony
Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only m*********n option, failure's not
Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's lot
So here I go is my shot.
Feet fail me not this may be the only opportunity that I got

[Chorus:]
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime you better,

You can do anything you set your mind to, man

A movie on Facebook

How hilarious! Now, remind me again why would I want to waste time on social networking? It's like World of Warcraft, online video games and other social networking bullshit which are their so that humanity can have a sense of closure and belonging in this ever isolating age of digital electronics. I have said many times. Need I say more?

No, I'm not planing to open a Facebook account or any other "social networking" accounts except Orkut, which I accidentally enrolled in thanks to invasion of privacy from Google. Yes, you may enjoy the following preview, and no I'll not spend precious $11 watching this bullshit.

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极品男人的十大重要特征【图】

An article in Chinese from Lao Nan Ren, on what are the ten most important aspects of being a perfect gentlemen. I'm still far away from it. :D

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文章概要：懂得把握平衡原则的人在多么紧张工作的情况下，都知道该怎样调节自己的生活节奏，怎么体味生活中的情调和趣味，保有一种从容的心态和风度。在成功几乎成为衡量男人的最大标准的今天，失衡的生活就像漂亮的塑料盆景，外表的风景再美，也掩盖不了背面的粗糙。

上品男人不能说有，但是的确少见，在这里只小谈一下上品男人的十大心理特质，积极创造人生……

一、品格： 积极创造人生，善於适应环境，有良好的人际关系，对爱人极其温柔，很自信并且要有强烈的道德观念。

二、健康： 包括生理健康和心理健康，首先五官要端正，声音要悦耳，头发要好，口腔要清洁，双腿要直，个头最起码要在176CM～185CM之间，外观要整洁，这是给人视觉美的一个前提，射精量应达到5ml，科学鉴定认为这是前列腺健康的最直接表现，身体要左右完美对称，视力要好，要有平衡的肌肉力量，同时，要拥有健康的社会联系。

三、幽默： 熟话说，女人要优雅男人要幽默，从一个人的幽默中可以品味出一种独特的机智，男人的幽默就像一口泉，智慧之水在涌动中展示魅力，让女人总想捧一口来尝一尝。

四、财富： 男人不一定是成功男士，但是男人要有财富，并且男人财富源于自己喜欢做的事业，这是智商的标志，这样他才会投入生活并且有快乐的感觉，我个人认为，老婆、孩子、家庭就是一个男人终身要经营好的事业!

五、平衡： 工作和生活的平衡、事业和家庭的平衡、外界和自我的平衡。懂得把握平衡原则的人在多么紧张工作的情况下，都知道该怎样调节自己的生活节奏，怎么体味生活中的情调和趣味，保有一种从容的心态和风度。在成功几乎成为衡量男人的最大标准的今天，失衡的生活就像漂亮的塑料盆景，外表的风景再美，也掩盖不了背面的粗糙。

六、要有涵养： 在男性一生所扮演的角色当中，不可避免地受到竞争所带来的心理压力，同时也更容易受到一些心理健康方面的困扰。但是他们会调整好心态，重新面对竞争和压力，懂得自我宣泄。

七、要有文采：自古就有才子佳人”有说法，虽然不至于学富五车，有妙笔生花之才学，也要有思辩的头脑和恰倒好处的诙谐。

八、风度： 我始终认为，风度是与生俱来的一种气质，男人的风度不仅仅表现在果敢与坚决，更表现的是谦虚与忍让的智慧。

九、骨气： 代表的是一种精神，从容大方，要有一定的情感原则，对感情要负责任，不必重言承诺，即使他是一个专职丈夫，也不失男人的本色，如果男人的精神已经垮掉，外表无论如何美都“帅”不起来。

十、家庭： 男人在本质上是用头脑去思考爱情(当然，他们也有感情，但感情服从于头脑)，上品男人的爱情尽管是多姿态多彩的，但是他如果没有一个幸福的家庭，他就是一个彻底失败的男人。

13 Facts About Women…Men Forget

So fucking true. Read on if you're interested...

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Modern Life?

So totally true! speed_demon

FIFA World Cup 2010 TOP 10 GOALS

Yes, I'm bored at work like everyone else, especially when your supervisor sucks!

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8 Financial Tips For Young Adults

For those fucking idiots who has no respect for their cold, hard earning cash, here are some tips on your financial future. Yes, that fucking idiot including my beloved brother who's spending money like drinking water. You DON'T have to spend your life away just because you're earning meager income!

8 Financial Tips For Young Adults
by Amy Fontinelle

Unfortunately, personal finance has not yet become a required subject in high school or college, so you might be fairly clueless about how to manage your money when you're out in the real world for the first time. If you think that understanding personal finance is way above your head, though, you're wrong. All it takes to get started on the right path is the willingness to do a little reading - you don't even need to be particularly good at math.

To help you get started, we'll take a look at eight of the most important things to understand about money if you want to live a comfortable and prosperous life.

1. Learn Self Control

If you're lucky, your parents taught you this skill when you were a kid. If not, keep in mind that the sooner you learn the fine art of delaying gratification, the sooner you'll find it easy to keep your finances in order. Although you can effortlessly purchase an item on credit the minute you want it, it's better to wait until you've actually saved up the money. Do you really want to pay interest on a pair of jeans or a box of cereal? (To learn more about credit, check out Understanding Credit Card Interest and our Debt Management feature.)

If you make a habit of putting all your purchases on credit cards, regardless of whether you can pay your bill in full at the end of the month, you might still be paying for those items in 10 years. If you want to keep your credit cards for the convenience factor or the rewards they offer, make sure to always pay your balance in full when the bill arrives, and don't carry more cards than you can keep track of.

2. Take Control of Your Own Financial Future

If you don't learn to manage your own money, other people will find ways to (mis)manage it for you. Some of these people may be ill-intentioned, like unscrupulous commission-based financial planners. Others may be well-meaning, but may not know what they're doing, like Grandma Betty who really wants you to buy a house even though you can only afford a treacherous adjustable-rate mortgage.

Instead of relying on others for advice, take charge and read a few basic books on personal finance. Once you're armed with personal finance knowledge, don't let anyone catch you off guard - whether it's a significant other that slowly siphons your bank account or friends who want you to go out and blow tons of money with them every weekend. Understanding how money works is the first step toward making your money work for you. (To find out how to have fun and still save money, see Budget Without Blowing Off Your Friends.)

3. Know Where Your Money Goes

Once you've gone through a few personal finance books, you'll realize how important it is to make sure your expenses aren't exceeding your income. The best way to do this is by budgeting. Once you see how your morning java adds up over the course of a month, you'll realize that making small, manageable changes in your everyday expenses can have just as big of an impact on your financial situation as getting a raise. In addition, keeping your recurring monthly expenses as low as possible will also save you big bucks over time. If you don't waste your money on a posh apartment now, you might be able to afford a nice condo or a house before you know it. (Read more on budgeting in our Budgeting 101 special feature.)

4. Start an Emergency Fund

One of personal finance's oft-repeated mantras is "pay yourself first". No matter how much you owe in student loans or credit card debt and no matter how low your salary may seem, it's wise to find some amount - any amount - of money in your budget to save in an emergency fund every month.

Having money in savings to use for emergencies can really keep you out of trouble financially and help you sleep better at night. Also, if you get into the habit of saving money and treating it as a non-negotiable monthly "expense", pretty soon you'll have more than just emergency money saved up: you'll have retirement money, vacation money and even money for a home down payment.

Don't just sock away this money under your mattress; put it in a high-interest online savings account, a certificate of deposit or a money market account. Otherwise, inflation will erode the value of your savings.

5. Start Saving for Retirement Now

Just as you headed off to kindergarten with your parents' hope to prepare you for success in a world that seemed eons away, you need to prepare for your retirement well in advance. Because of the way compound interest works, the sooner you start saving, the less principal you'll have to invest to end up with the amount you need to retire, and the sooner you'll be able to call working an "option" rather than a "necessity".

Company-sponsored retirement plans are a particularly great choice because you get to put in pretax dollars and the contribution limits tend to be high (much more than you can contribute to an individual retirement plan). Also, companies will often match part of your contribution, which is like getting free money. (To learn more, see Understanding The Time Value Of Money and Retirement Savings Tips For 18- To 24-Year-Olds.)

6. Get a Grip on Taxes

It's important to understand how income taxes work even before you get your first paycheck. When a company offers you a starting salary, you need to know how to calculate whether that salary will give you enough money after taxes to meet your financial goals and obligations. Fortunately, there are plenty of online calculators that have taken the dirty work out of determining your own payroll taxes, such as Paycheck City. These calculators will show you your gross pay, how much goes to taxes and how much you'll be left with, which is also known as net, or take-home pay.

For example, $35,000 a year in California will leave you with about $27,600 after taxes in 2008, or about $2,300 a month. By the same token, if you're considering leaving one job for another in search of a salary increase, you'll need to understand how your marginal tax rate will affect your raise and that a salary increase from $35,000 a year to $41,000 a year won't give you an extra $6,000, or $500 per month - it will only give you an extra $4,200, or $350 per month (again, the amount will vary depending on your state of residence). Also, you'll be better off in the long run if you learn to prepare your annual tax return yourself, as there is plenty of bad tax advice and misinformation floating around out there. (To learn all about your taxes, visit our Income Tax Guide.)

7. Guard Your Health

If meeting monthly health insurance premiums seems impossible, what will you do if you have to go to the emergency room, where a single visit for a minor injury like a broken bone can cost thousands of dollars? If you're uninsured, don't wait another day to apply for health insurance; it's easier than you think to wind up in a car accident or trip down the stairs. You can save money by getting quotes from different insurance providers to find the lowest rates. Also, by taking daily steps now to keep yourself healthy, like eating fruits and vegetables, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, not smoking, not consuming alcohol in excess, and even driving defensively, you'll thank yourself down the road when you aren't paying exorbitant medical bills.

8. Guard Your Wealth

If you want to make sure that all of your hard-earned money doesn't vanish, you'll need to take steps to protect it. If you rent, get renter's insurance to protect the contents of your place from events like burglary or fire. Disability insurance protects your greatest asset - the ability to earn an income - by providing you with a steady income if you ever become unable to work for an extended period of time due to illness or injury.

If you want help managing your money, find a fee-only financial planner to provide unbiased advice that's in your best interest, rather than a commission-based financial advisor, who earns money when you sign up with the investments his or her company backs. You'll also want to protect your money from taxes, which is easy to do with a retirement account, and inflation, which you can do by making sure that all of your money is earning interest through vehicles like high-interest savings accounts, money market funds, CDs, stocks, bonds and mutual funds. (Find out all you need to know about insurance in Understand Your Insurance Contract, Five Insurance Policies Everyone Should Have and Insurance 101 For Renters.)

A Financial Basis for Life

Remember, you don't need any fancy degrees or special background to become an expert at managing your finances. If you use these eight financial rules for your life, you can be as personally prosperous as the guy with the hard-won MBA.

When the Engineer plays football

No fucking kidding... That's totally me playing right there! :D

That's why the closest thing I've been kicking are those bitches and motherfuckers who messes with me!

Kidding of course... ;)

Too bad I can't get the video sizes right. Any suggestions would be more than welcome!

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Hitler finds out that Germany loses against Spain in the FIFA World Cup Semi Finals 2010

I know, I know, FIFA World Cup 2010 is already over, but this clip is still worth a laugh, especially the "Paul the Octopus was right" part. One hilarious clip!

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Moonlight Sonata

A classic and soothing symphony from Beethoven. I'm sure all of you have heard it one way or the other.

Too bad it's not done by professionals; otherwise, it would've been much more soothing! :D

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What it's like to own an Apple Product

With the newly arrival of iPhone 4, we have gotta make fun of Apple; otherwise, what's worth living? You can view the rest from The Oatmeal.

Five things to know about iOS 4.0

Five things to know about iOS 4.0

So fucking true Mr. Jobs. Stop fucking with our money and mind, period!

A princess in ruins

I, speed_demon, hereby shall reaffirm my position of not ever serving princess. If the princess shall so choose to indulge in luxury and wanton deviance, it is solely her choice and I shall abide by her rightful judgment.

I, being a servant of God the almighty, has only one purpose and that is to attain to higher learning and understanding of the omnipresent divinity, and I will not falter to the lusty temptation of the mastermind devil.

Hardship

Hardship awaits those
Who disregard their
true purpose of
life and why
they are where
they are, whereto
they will venture
until eons passes-by

What I actually meant to say is equivalent to changing "hardship" to "stupidity." ;)

Ikuko Kawai - Sun Flower

A beautiful and soothing song from Ikuko Kawai in her album Wuthering Heights which I would like to share with you. Too bad because of the DMCA copyright infringement takedown notification the best I can do from now on is share it on eSnips.

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棉花糖

好吃的棉花糖,邊吃邊有好感,一但吃完了卻又沾牙,又口渴,而且說不定還會發胖.有棉花糖在身邊,吃不吃隨你,但如果吃到吐,後果不堪設想,一定要能自治才行!

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As cruel as Winter may be, yet as beautiful as it will sound

The Vivaldi's Winter from the Classic violin concertos Four Seasons. Truly as cruel as winter may be, yet as beautiful as it will sound. And, as surreal as it may be, it truly is a wonderful song.

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昨天

昨天氣候風吹雨淋,打濕我軟弱的身體,害我迫不及待的躲到它家屋簷下避雨.上帝真的不饒人,晚上天氣轉涼又下起冰泡,砸的我頭破血流,幾乎面目全非.但是祢的手種是扶著我,給我力量去面對一切困難與挫折.謝謝祢,唯有萬王之王的寶座上才能稱謝祢的名,也但願祢能控制這天氣變化,讓它風平浪靜,好讓我度過這人生的一大挑戰.

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Poison

A pleasant fragrance whirlwinds our heads and minds
Tantalizing, mesmerizing and blurring ones thoughts and deeds
Yet unsuspectingly renders willing victims full compliance
Until poison unleash and invade our body incompetence
Hopelessness, struggle to breakthrough we all attempt
Yet powerless, motionless, confound we all contempt
Until poison sweep and devour us whole
Then can we ascend and flourish from powerful hold

We have all swallowed poison in this or the last life time. Yet, it is how we choose and how we stride this treacherous course is the most tantamount to our very survival. Alas, truth will crystallize and I shall prevail and shed this great burden until Christ, the Saviour, look down upon my battered face.

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Expo 2010 confirms how China has moved to world’s centre stage

The rise and dominance of China in the global arena is putting everyone off guard. Especially after the resilience to the financial downturn which China has lavishly shown to the world how it not only can sustain its economy, but also to propel and flourish with the establishment of worldwide ventures when every other nation on Earth is struggling to survive. It comes natural then for a newspaper outlet, such as the G&M, one which often works as a conduit for the government to spread propaganda, deceit, and to direct and impose public opinion, to publish such article that strongly criticize the resurgence of China since the 2008 Summer Olympics. Of course, we should all be aware of the resurgence of China, and perhaps use it to our advantage in the near future.

這是我給你最大的祝福~

我錯了, 我好笨, 我白痴, 我墮落及腐敗! 我真的被老天考倒了! 我真的不知道這步驟不能走那麼快. 現在狐狸尾巴都露出來了, 我想也是沒戲唱了~ 說不定原本就沒戲唱! 何必在為難自己呢? 不過我居然還有勇氣面對你, 我自己也很驚訝. 也許我沒付出很多, 也許我沒喜歡很深, 也許我能夠自控與自拔, 我不知道. 說不定是那以前的過去所造成的.

這是我給你最大的祝福
雖然我不配陪你一起過
但我求神讓你我都找到
自己美好的另一半好讓
這一生更加美好與幸福
直到永永遠遠天涯海角

我累了, 我渴了, 我不想在付出了~ 到此為止, 我要發憤圖強, 努力向上, 給自己的未來創出更美好的奇蹟與機會!

I'm not going to serve princesses

Yes, that's the motto which I will take to heart. I'm not a playboy, and I have never been one and I'm not intended to be, but I will never, I swear to God, on my lifetime ever, ever serve princesses and treat one like princesses. I'm an intelligent individual with clear conscience of what's happening, and although I've failed, I will raise again, conquer, and persevere. You will not be the cornerstone of my downfall, and I will attain to my eventual goal of getting that intangible title.

Love is not eternal
Love is not forever
Love is not diamond
Love is not food
Love can be erased or destroyed
Love is blind
Love is forbidden
Love is wasteful
Love is playful
Love is childish
Love is hollow
Screw her

I'm a Canadian, and I'm an individual with a heavy endowment on the male superiority complex. Canadians do things differently than Chinese, and we do not rely on emotional and childish up brings through that unsubstantial thing called love.

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One sweet day

One sweet day, a classic pop from Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men. Of course, it can be interpreted as a Christian lyric, and that's exactly what my intention here is at this very hour. Oh Lord, although the sun will never shine the same again, I'll always look to a brighter day. Lord I know when you lay me down to sleep, you will always listen as I pray, and my truthful prayer will be answered and fulfilled before the end of time. May you give me the strength to tackle difficulties, face criticism, stifle opponents, and walk the line fully until it finishes.



One Sweet Day

Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say
And now it's too late to hold you
'Cause you've flown away
So far away

Never had I imagined
Living without your smile
Feeling and knowing you hear me
It keeps me alive
Alive

[Chorus:]
And I know you're shining down on me from heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way
And I know eventually we'll be together
One sweet day

Darling I never showed you
Assumed you'd always be there
I took your presence for granted
But I always cared
And I miss the love we shared

[Chorus]

Although the sun will never shine the same again
I'll always look to a brighter day
Lord I know when I lay me down to sleep
You will always listen as I pray

[Chorus]

Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say

Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist

A little laughter amidst a stressful and nerve racking week.

Disease

A contagious disease befits your tranquilizing smile
Ensnares the weaklings and unsuspected passersby
Victims beware as there is no return 'til oblivion
Relentless struggle until death do you apart

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蘭亭序 - 周杰倫

又是一首周懂的老歌蘭亭序，給大家分想一下。



蘭亭序
作詞 : 方文山　作曲 : 周杰倫　監製 : 周杰倫

蘭亭序為書聖王羲之的書法作品，有天下第一行書之美稱。該書帖完成於東晉永和九年，距今一千六百五十五年。現傳世所見之蘭亭序為唐代書法家摹本，真跡據傳在唐高宗與武則天合葬之乾陵內。乾陵位於陝西乾縣北，至今完備，尚未被盜。

蘭亭臨帖 行書如行雲流水
月下門推 心細如妳腳步碎
忙不迭 千年碑易拓卻難拓妳的美
真跡絕 真心能給誰

牧笛橫吹 黃酒小菜又幾碟
夕陽餘暉 如妳的羞怯似醉
摹本易寫 而墨香不退與妳同留餘味
一行硃砂 到底圈了誰

無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
而我獨缺 妳一生的了解

無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
而我獨缺 妳一生的了解

無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
獨缺 妳一生了解

彈指歲月 傾城頃刻間湮滅
青石板街 回眸一笑妳婉約
恨了沒 妳搖頭輕嘆誰讓妳蹙著眉
而深閨 徒留胭脂味

人雁南飛 轉身一瞥妳噙淚
掬一把月 手攬回憶怎麼睡
又怎麼會 心事密縫繡花鞋針針怨懟
若花怨蝶 你會怨著誰

無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
而我獨缺 妳一生的了解

無關風月 我題序等妳回
手書無愧 無懼人間是非
雨打蕉葉 又瀟瀟了幾夜
我等春雷 來提醒妳愛誰

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Blogging on the go~

Checking out mobile blogger. I have been wanting to do this on my iPod.

The best thing is I can type Chinese! 哈哈！太好了~

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克服

天下凡事鬱與愁
人生煩惱必而多
腳步踏石份內走
心想事開天涯广

I'm only human

I'm only human by speed_demon.

I'm only human
I'm only human with dreams and visions
I'm only human with roller coasting emotions
I'm only human with happiness, sadness and in-betweens
I'm only human with passion and compassion
I'm only human with pride and jealousy
I'm only human with prejudice and discrimination
I'm only human with sympathy and tolerance
I'm only human with tenacity and perseverance
I'm only human with capability and motivation
I'm only human with eccentricity and oddities
I'm only human with vanity
I'm only human with wounds and scars
I'm only human with imperfections
I'm only human with genetic inheritances
I'm only human with broken heart
I'm only human with sorrow and despair
I'm only human with forgiveness and forget
I'm only human with guilt
I'm only human with innocence
I'm only human with strengths
I'm only human with weaknesses
I'm only human with desire
I'm only human with lust
I'm only human of fresh and bones
I'm only human because God made me so
I'm only human because that is who I am
And that is what I want to be
And that cannot be changed
Until the end of time

但願天長地久，海闊天空。

如题~

Frugality is becoming the common norm

So, if America becomes a frugal country like China is, who will than be the consumers? Definitely not the bankrupting Europe. Perhaps, African nations and Middle-east will take up the burden. Is that a possibility with ongoing civil war and oil dispute? Or, perhaps another major international conflict to boost up its economy by bloody arms sale?

The worst thing is with America being frugal, it's consumers would have no other choice but to save up - by buying below-cost products from, guess what? China! So, it's actually prescribing a full circle of economic retaliation from China. No wonder Obama is more keen on closing this trade imbalance by demanding a floating Renminbi.

Save up America, otherwise, the twenty-first century would for sure be the century of Chinese!

Time to rebalance
Mar 31st 2010
From The Economist print edition

America’s economy is set to shift away from consumption and debt and towards exports and saving. It will be its biggest transformation in decades, says Greg Ip (interviewed here)


STEVE HILTON remembers months of despair after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Customers rushed to the sales offices of Meritage Homes, the property firm Mr Hilton runs, not to buy houses but to cancel contracts they had already signed. “I thought for a moment the world was coming to an end,” he recalls.

In the following months Mr Hilton stepped up efforts to save his company. He gave up options to buy thousands of lots that the firm had snapped up across Arizona, Florida, Nevada and California during the boom, taking massive losses. He eventually laid off three-quarters of its 2,300 employees. He also had its houses completely redesigned to cut construction cost almost in half: simpler roofs, standardised window sizes, fewer options. Gone were the 12-foot ceilings, sweeping staircases and granite countertops everyone wanted when money was free. Meritage is now catering to the only customers able to get credit: first-time buyers with federally guaranteed loans. It is clawing its way back to health as a leaner, humbler company.

The same could be said for America. Virtually every industry has shed jobs in the past two years, but those that cater mostly to consumers have suffered most. Employment in residential construction and carmaking is down by almost a third, in retailing and banking by 8%. As the economy recovers, some of those jobs will come back, but many of them will not, because this was no ordinary recession. The bubbly asset prices, ever easier credit and cheap oil that fuelled America’s age of consumerism are not about to return.

Instead, America’s economy will undergo one of its biggest transformations in decades. This macroeconomic shift from debt and consumption to saving and exports will bring microeconomic changes too: different lifestyles, and different jobs in different places. This special report will describe that transformation, and explain why it will be tricky.

The crisis and then the recession put an abrupt end to the old economic model. Despite a small rebound recently, house prices have fallen by 29% and share prices by a similar amount since their peak. Households’ wealth has shrunk by $12 trillion, or 18%, since 2007. As a share of disposable income it is back to its level in 1995. And if consumers feel less rich, they are less inclined to spend. Banks are also less willing to lend: they have tightened loan standards, with a push from regulators who now wish they had taken a dimmer view of exotic mortgages and lax lending during the boom.

Consumer debt rose from an average of less than 80% of disposable income 20 years ago to 129% in 2007. If other crises of the past half-century are any guide, America’s consumers will spend the next six or seven years reducing their debt to more manageable levels, reckons the McKinsey Global Institute. This is already changing the composition of economic activity. Consumer spending and housing rose from 70% of GDP in 1991 to 76% in 2005 (see chart 1). By last year it had fallen back to 73%, still high by international standards.

The effect on the economy of deflated assets, tighter credit and costlier energy are already apparent. Fewer people are buying homes, and the ones they buy tend to be smaller and less opulent. In 2008 the median size of a new home shrank for the first time in 13 years. The number of credit cards in circulation has declined by almost a fifth. American Express is pulling back from credit cards and is now telling customers how to use their charge cards (which are paid off in full every month) to control their spending.

Normally, deep recessions are followed by strong recoveries as pent-up demand reasserts itself. In the recent recession GDP shrank by 3.8%, the worst drop since the second world war. In the recovery the economy might therefore be expected to grow by 6-8% and unemployment to fall steadily, as happened after two earlier recessions of comparable depth, in 1973-75 and 1981-82.

No bounce-back

But this particular recession was triggered by a financial crisis that damaged the financial system’s ability to channel savings to productive investment and left consumers and businesses struggling with surplus buildings, equipment and debt accumulated in the boom. Recovery after that kind of crisis is often slow and weak, and indeed some nine months into the upturn GDP has probably grown at an annual rate of less than 4%. Unemployment is well up throughout the country (see map), though it declined slightly in February.

So if America is to avoid the stagnation that afflicted Japan after its bubbles burst, where is the demand going to come from? In the short term the federal government has stepped up its borrowing—to 10% of GDP this year—to counteract the drop in private consumption and investment. Over the next few years this stimulus will be withdrawn. Barack Obama wants the deficit to come down to around 3% of GDP by the middle of this decade, though it is not clear how that will be achieved. Indeed, if the rest of the economy remains moribund, the government may be reluctant to withdraw the stimulus for fear of pushing the economy back into recession.

Tighter credit and lower consumer borrowing are not the only drivers of economic restructuring. A less noticed but significant push comes from higher energy prices. A strengthening dollar and ample supply kept oil cheap for most of the 1990s, feeding America’s addiction to imports. That began to change a few years before the crisis as the dollar fell and emerging markets’ growing appetite put pressure on global production capacity.

A fourfold increase in oil prices since the 1990s has rearranged both consumer and producer incentives. Sport-utility vehicles are losing popularity, policies to boost conservation and renewable energy have become bolder, and producers have found a lot more oil below America’s soil and coastal seabed. Imports of the stuff have dropped by 10% since 2006 and are likely to come down further. When natural-gas prices followed the rise in oil earlier this decade, exploration companies used new methods to get at gas trapped in shale formations from Texas to Pennsylvania. Abundant domestic shale gas should radically reduce America’s gas imports.

America’s economic geography will change too. Cheap petrol and ample credit encouraged millions of Americans to flock to southern states and to distant suburbs (“exurbs”) in search of big houses with lots of land. Now the housing bust has tied them to homes they cannot sell. Population growth in the suburbs has slowed. For the present the rise of knowledge-intensive global industries favours centres rich in infrastructure and specialised skills. Some are traditional urban cores such as New York and some are suburban edge cities that offer jobs along with affordable houses and short commutes.

A burst of productivity could lift incomes and profits. That would enable consumers to repay some of their debt yet continue to spend. The change in the mix of growth should help: productivity in construction remains low, whereas in exports the most productive companies often do best. But the hobbled financial system will make it hard for cash-hungry start-ups to get financing, so innovation will suffer.

The outlook for business investment depends on whether it is for equipment or buildings. Spending on equipment is expected to be fairly strong, having largely avoided excess in the boom period, and indeed in the fourth quarter of 2009 it raced ahead at an annual rate of 19%. In February John Chambers, the boss of Cisco Systems, a maker of networking gear, called it “one of the most robust, positive turnarounds I’ve seen in my career”. Demand for new buildings is far lower: empty shops and offices attest to ample unused capacity. And business investment typically accounts for only 10-12% of GDP, so it will never be a full substitute for consumer spending.

The road to salvation

As consumers rebuild their savings, American firms must increasingly look abroad for sales. They have a lot of ground to make up. Competition from low-wage countries, mostly China, has increasingly taken over the markets of domestic industries such as furniture, clothing or consumer electronics. Yet shifts in the pattern of global growth and the dollar are laying the groundwork for a boom in exports. “There’s a world view that the United States is the consumer of the world and emerging markets are the producer,” says Bruce Kasman, chief economist at JPMorgan Chase. “That has changed.” He reckons that America will account for just 27% of global consumption this year against emerging markets’ 34%, roughly the reverse of their shares eight years ago.

The cheaper dollar will resuscitate some industries in commoditised markets, but the main beneficiaries of the export boom will be companies that are already formidable exporters. These companies reflect America’s strengths in high-end services and highly skilled manufacturing such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, software and engineering, as well as creative services like film, architecture and advertising. Thanks to cheap digital technology, South Korea and India now knock out the sort of low-budget films that compete with standard American fare. But only Hollywood combines the creativity, expertise and market savvy to make something like “Avatar” which has earned $2.6 billion so far, some 70% of which came from abroad. That adds up to several jumbo jets.

Exports are a classic route to recovery after a crisis. Sweden and Finland in the early 1990s and Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea in the late 1990s bounced back from recession by moving from trade deficit to surplus or expanding their surplus. But given its size and the sickly state of most other rich countries’ economies, America will find it much harder. It has been exporting more to emerging markets than to developed ones for several years, but if other countries, particularly China, do not sufficiently boost domestic demand, “the unwinding of the global imbalances could reverse quite quickly in 2010,” says an IMF staff paper.

America’s current-account deficit, the broadest measure of its trade and payments with the rest of the world, shrank from 6% of GDP in 2006 to 3% last year (see chart 2). Could it come down to zero? It nearly did in 1991 after five years of booming exports. This time the deficit started out a lot larger and the rest of the world is weaker. Still, even stabilisation around 3% would be a blessed relief because it would slow the growth in America’s indebtedness to foreigners.

America’s imbalances were years in the making and will not be undone overnight. But the elements of a rebalanced economy are already visible a 40-minute drive to the south of Mr Hilton’s offices in Scottsdale, Arizona. Around the same time that Mr Hilton was watching sales of his homes dry up, Brian Krzanich, head of global manufacturing at Intel, was finalising plans to spend $3 billion retooling his company’s massive semiconductor factories in nearby Chandler. Mr Krzanich knew perfectly well there was a recession going on. Intel’s sales were down and 3% of the staff at the factories had been laid off. But he also knew that once global demand rebounded, Intel would have to be ready to produce a new generation of cheaper, smaller and more efficient chips. “Unless you think your business is going to shrink for an extended period, like seven years, it always pays to make that investment,” he says. In the last quarter of 2009 Intel, helped by resurgent demand for technology, enjoyed record profit margins, and Mr Krzanich was approving overtime.

Mr Hilton, for his part, runs his company on the assumption that the days of easy money and exuberant consumers are gone for ever. In his office he has a yellowed copy of the Wall Street Journal from September 18th 2008, the week when Lehman failed and American International Group was bailed out. “Worst crisis since the 30s with no end in sight”, reads one headline. “I wish I’d had that article in 2005,” says Mr Hilton. He keeps it around as an antidote any time he is “feeling all happy and slappy”.

Dangerous - Michael Jackson

She's Dangerous, she's so dangerous. A classic song from the late singer, song writer, and King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

Truly, she's dangerous. Stay away from that one!

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Title: Dangerous
Artist: Michael Jackson

The way she came into the place
I knew right then and there
There was something different
About this girl

The way she moved
Her hair, her face, her lines
Divinity in motion

As she stalked the room
I could feel the aura
Of her presence
Every head turned
Feeling passion and lust

The girl was persuasive
The girl I could not trust
The girl was bad
The girl was dangerous

I never knew but I was
Walking the line
Come go with me
I said I have no time
She said don't you pretend we didn't
Talk on the phone
My baby cried
And left me standing alone

She's so dangerous
The girl is dangerous
Take away my money
Throw away my time
You can call me honey
But you're no damn good for me

She came at me in sections
With the eyes of desire
I fell trapped into her
Web of sin
A touch, a kiss
A whisper of love
I was at the point
Of no return

Deep in the darkness of
Passion's insanity
I felt taken by lust's
Strange inhumanity
This girl was persuasive
This girl I could not trust
The girl was bad
The girl was dangerous

I never knew
But I was living in vain
She called my house
And said you know my name
And don't you pretend
You never did me before
With tears in her eyes
My baby walked out the door

She's so dangerous
The girl is so dangerous
Take away my money
Throw away my time
You can call me honey
But you're no damn good for me
Dangerous
The girl is so dangerous
I have to pray to God
'Cause I know how
Lust can blind
It's a passion in my soul
But you're no damn lover
Friend of mine

And then it happened
She touched me
For the lips of
A strange woman
Drop as a honeycomb
And her mouth was
Smoother than oil
But her inner spirit and words
Were as sharp as
A two-edged sword
But I loved it
'Cause it's dangerous

I cannot sleep alone tonight
My baby left me here tonight
I cannot cope 'til it's all right
You and your manipulation
You hurt my baby

She's so dangerous
The girl is so dangerous
Take away my money
Throw away my time
You can call me honey
but you're no damn good for me

Dangerous
The girl is so dangerous
Take away my money
Throw away my time
You can call me honey
But you're no damn good for me

Dangerous
The girl is so dangerous
I have to pray to God
Cause I know how
Lust can blind
It's a passion in my soul
But you're no damn lover
Friend of mine

My Lord, why have you forsaken me?

Life is full of encounters, disappointments and traumas. Especially as one grows older, more mature, more thoughtful, and put forth more dedication towards a single goal, traumas are deemed to occur one way or the other. Some traumas are lighter than the others, and when a traumatic experience that is so great that it can easily devour ones thought and sanity than one must turn to the lord for the unexplained. Reading a passage from the bible and contemplating on its meaning is often a soothing, welcoming, a great way to relax, and to exercise self-control. A passage that best explain the unprecedented traumatic experience is probably Psalm 22, which I have listed below.

Psalm 22

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?

2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.

3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.

4 In you our fathers put their trust;they trusted and you delivered them.

5 They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

7 All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:

8 "He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him."

9 Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast.

10 From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.

11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

12 Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

13 Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

16 Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.

17 I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.

18 They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

19 But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.

20 Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.

21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.

22 I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I will praise you.

23 You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!

24 For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you will I fulfill my vows.

26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the LORD will praise him may your hearts live forever!

27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,

28 for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.

29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him those who cannot keep themselves alive.

30 Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.

31 They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn for he has done it.

May God give me the strength to overcome my weaknesses, and the will to continue on so that one day I may attain my goal and be fruitful and everlasting.

Me Against the Music - Britney Spears and Madonna

Me against the music from Britney and Madonna. Two of the hottest female singers together in one MTV, who could imagine?



"Me Against The Music"
(feat. Madonna)

All my people in the crowd
Grab a partner take it down!

[B:] It's me against the music
[M:] Uh uh
[B:] It's just me
[M:] And me
[B:] Yeah
[M:] C'mon
[M:] Hey Britney?
[B:] Are you ready?
[M:] Uh uh, are you?

[B&M:] No one cares
[B:] It's whippin'my hair, it's pullin' my waist
[B&M:] To hell with stares
[B:] The sweat is drippin' all over my face
[B&M:] No one's there
[B:] I'm the only one dancin' up in this place
[B&M:] Tonight I'm here
[B:] Feel the beat of the drum, gotta keep it that bass

[B:] I'm up against the speaker, tryin' to take on the music
[B:] It's like a competition, me against the beat
[B:] I wanna get in the zone, I wanna get in the zone
[B:] If you really wanna battle, saddle up and get your rhythm
[B:] Tryin' to hit it chic-a-tah
[B:] In a minute I'm a take a you on, I'm a take a you on
Hey, hey, hey

[CHORUS]

[B&M:] All my people on the floor
[B:] Let me see you dance
[M:] Let me see ya
[B&M:] All my people wantin' more
[B:] Let me see you dance
[M:] I wanna see ya
[B&M:] All my people round and round
[B:] Let me see you dance
[M:] Let me see ya
[B&M:] All my people in the crowd
[B:] Let me see you dance
[M:] I wanna see ya
[B&M:] So how would you like a friendly competition
[B&M:] Let's take on the song
[B&M:] It's you and me baby, we're the music
[B&M:] Time to party all night long

[B&M:] We're almost there
[B:] I'm feelin' it bad and I can't explain
[B&M:] My soul is bare
[B:] My hips are movin' at a rapid pace
[B&M:] Baby feel it burn
[B:] From the tip of my toes, runnin' through my veins
[B&M:] And now it's your turn
[B:] Let me see what you got, don't hesitate

[B:] I'm up against the speaker, tryin' to take on the music
[B:] It's like a competition, me against the beat
[B:] I wanna get in the zone, I wanna get in the zone
[B:] If you really wanna battle, saddle up and get your rhythm
[B:] Tryin' to hit it chic-a-tah
[B:] In a minute I'm a take a you on, I'm a take a you on
Hey, hey, hey

[CHORUS - as before]

[B&M:] Get on the floor, baby lose control
[B&M:] Just work your body and let it go
[B&M:] If you wanna party, just grab somebody
[M:] Hey Britney
[B&M:] We can dance all night long

[M:] Hey Britney, you say you wanna lose control
[M:] Come over here I got somethin' to show ya
[M:] Sexy lady, I'd rather see you bare your soul
[M:] If you think you're so hot, better show me what you got
[M:] All my people in the crowd, let me see you dance
[M:] C'mon Britney lose control, watch you take it down

[B&M:] Get on the floor, baby lose control
[B&M:] Just work your body and let it go
[B&M:] If you wanna party, just grab somebody
[M:] Hey Britney
[B&M:] We can dance all night long

[CHORUS - as before]

[M:] All my people in the crowd, let me see you dance
[M:] C'mon Britney take it down, make the music dance
[M:] All my people round and round, party all night long
[M:] C'mon Britney lose control, watch you take it down

Will China Achieve Science Supremacy?

Another good debate from the editors at NY Times. The attacks from NY Times on topics such as China are ever more prominent and emerging on deep seeded issues not only about the pretext of human rights but also on technological advances and the scientific dominance in between the two giant super powers.

I'm seeing examples everyday as more Chinese scholars and students come to this foreign land to not indulge on luxury but rather to endure through hardship, learn and achieve greatness in academia. Even with fewer students eager to return home and willing to embrace the Western ideology, the lump sum of those returned would for sure make China the most technologically and scientifically advanced nation in the near future! Debate or not, it will happen in this lifetime.

speed_demon

Even your ASS is contributing to global warming

It's official! Even your ass is contributing to global warming. So, watch out those hairy and stinky asses, they may one day wipe out the entire pristine and precious forests of what we called Canada. No, I'm dead serious. You see me laughing? Chuckles...

speed_demon

Why does China prevail in the toughest of all times?

Through my amateurish yet naive analysis and observation, I have wrote many articles on the changing China and the critical roles which it will play in the foreseeable future. Yet, what I haven't write is why China prevails in the toughest of all times. In this article, I will attempt to examine the various aspects of how China comes to dominate others in the global finance arena.

We first have to look at the economy turmoil and market crash of late 2008. Look at how the Western society tumbles to smithereens because of the credit crisis, and how many banks, institutions, and companies has to be rescued by the governments with a tantamount injection of cash flow so to keep the infrastructure afloat, despite how this would eventually inflate the currency to astronomical values. We are witnessing abundant examples from the most recent on the European Union's reluctance to support the nearly bankrupt government of Greece to the exemplary example of the already bankrupt Icelandic government almost a year ago. For those not lucky enough to be rescued, filing bankruptcy and ditching client responsibility was usually the next best option, except by doing so often meant leaving countless hardworking people in the dark. The victims were often laymen earning meager wages, who with a slim hope for financial success invested their lifelong savings to trusting institutions, but eventually succumb to greed and an unforgiving network of loopholes which often allowed the fund managers to exploit for their own personal gain at the cost of their clients. The consequence of above completes the vicious circle with consumers forfeit buying power fueled by their lack of earning and default on the investments which means more cash injection from the government is required to keep the various vendors afloat.

So how exactly does China do it? How can it not only merely survive but profit and proliferate in the toughest of all times when other cash tight nations are scrambling to find solution to safeguard their very own existence? In the following, I have attempted to list and categorize several aspects of the financial success of China. This list is by no means complete yet at least it gives you an insight as why is China exceedingly more financially comfortable than any other nations at this very moment.

1. Population: China has the largest population, 1.3 billion and growing to be exact, which gives it tremendous advantage over other nations. The largest population means the largest workforce, requiring the largest demand and supply to keep its economy in check, making China one of the most attractive investment destination for both foreign and domestic companies. Thus, even in the midst of this economic downturn, China is still able to thrive due to the rise of a dynamic consumer-oriented middle-class, bringing forth significant investments opportunities for anyone who is willing to invest.
   
2. Labour: With the largest population comes the largest labour force available. One which significantly brings down the production cost due to the extremely cheap labour, and with the command from high above anything humanly imaginable is possible. Especially in the current downturn, the cheapest labour cost is often the most favorable for producers when both foreign and domestic consumers are struggling to seek deals with the most bang on their cold hard cash.
   
3. Perseverance: Chinese are like the Japanese in the fiftieths right after World War 2, right after their liberation from the imperial nuisance. In that era, the Japanese were able to endure and adapt to the constant hardship and humiliation to eventually propel itself as a global economic power with innovative breakthroughs that benefit mankind. By being a net exporter, Japan's economy was also more responsive to any sudden unexpected fluctuations. Likewise, China is now able to shake off the amnesia since the Culture Revolution and reposition itself as the next major economic power almost twenty years after its economic reform. Due to its wide income gap, Chinese citizens are ever more frugal and thanks to consistent savings years ago they are better equipped to handle crisis like the downturn than any other global residents.
   
4. Renminbi: By pegging the Renminbi at a lower than expected value and together with a handful of workforce always available to produce anything, China has the advantage over other nations when it comes to flooding exports with competitively below-cost pricing. When the average consumers worldwide are looking for bargains on almost everything to adjust to the economic downturn, this is one of the foremost leverages China has when it comes to providing a better service for the millions of bargain hunters. By doing so, it also guarantees the economy of China will not falter but persevere and flourish in this downturn.
   
5. Competition: Due to an overwhelming demand from the ballooning population, sales in the domestic market often encounters significantly more competition than those in other countries. Competition in a dynamic, market-driven environment bring forth numerous benefits not only for the Chinese consumers but also possible innovations, cost savings and reforms benefiting the state, which can ultimately use it as a leverage to bargain with other foreign states.
   
6. One Party System: The one party system rules over others, squelching dissidence, suppress opposition, eradicate unrest, which is the necessary evil when it comes to the fulfillment of a harmonious and cohesive society. Especially during the downturn, when inflation starts to rise the one party system can often effectively stabilizes and fixes the market price to ensure consumer satisfaction and lessen those complaints which would otherwise surge when price is no longer affordable. A precise and efficient way to execute the party doctrine is also another virtue of the one party system which "western democracy" lacks, especially when the public consensus maybe detrimental to the overall outlook of the entire nation.
   
7. Education: Chinese tradition stresses on education from the extracurricular lessons in piano or violin when one is young, to extra night classes in high school, onto university and finally post-graduate education after twenty two or earlier. The massive nationwide university entrance exams written annually creates the greatest proportion of young talents ever imaginable that can gradually replace the core of the aging think tank in China as the twenty first century progresses. Whereas other countries may not have this luxury, scholarly contributions by Chinese authors in internationally renowned academic journals are already surging, foreshadowing the dominate role China will play in technological innovation in the near future.

As I said, the above list is by no means complete but at least these indicative factors which other "democratic countries" lack are how China will most likely to dwell in, persevere and flourish in the long run. These factors are also partly why China is able to amount to massive collection of US bonds and debts when even the US itself will be unable to shake off perhaps within this century.

That is exactly why the emerging China will be the most fearful and daunting topic in this very century!

speed_demon

Google's ever expanding presence in your digital life

Google's newly integrated service, Google Buzz, will once again simplifies how we communicate about within the Web 4.0. The Buzz smartly bypasses copyright infringement by outwitting similar services like Twitter, etc., with the exceptionally brilliant idea of integration with the ever expanding Gmail service. Recent addition onto the Gmail client including the daily task manager with the possibility of Google Calendar integration, Google Talk voice and recording, labels and etc, most of which simplifies our digital footprints with the all-in-one catch. However, as our digital life ever more being absorbed by this single entity, how can we be sure that our digital imprints are safeguard by the database at Google Inc.? Will Google be more reluctant to release our data when there is government pressure or sanction imposed? Will Google be more forthcoming about our accounts been hacked and privacy been stolen by known entities originating from a known country when the bulk of their finance depends on the consumer culture of that particular country? It is really hard to say. For now, Google is the David against the giant Goliath of the Chinese government. But, what if in the mere future, the market share is more favorable for Google to operate in China. Who can then we turn to to safeguard our privacy?

Google, like all other corporation, savors the bottom line. And, when it can be ballooned to unimaginable proportions by the increasing number of Chinese middle-class Internet users, Google will most likely not be as merciful as it is now. If that can happen in China it can happen anyway Google roams.

Me, myself, and my dreadful landlord

After enduring for almost 2 and half year, I'm finally fed up with my current landlord and I will move to a different place that cheaper and is free of landlord's interference. I should have done this earlier but I was anticipating the possibility of moving into the adjacent room that is quieter and warmer than my existing room. The place I live in is semi-basement, double tenant occupancy, shared kitchen and bathroom with another tenant, nearby the south entrance of the UVic, and the landlord family lives upstairs with shared entrance and shared laundry.

Although it may seem nice in the beginning with spacious open place, in the close vicinity to the university, and under the companionship of "friendly" tenants, but unbeknown to the naive tenant, the room is cold and extremely noisy due to single-layer window and the house being located right on the street of the busy Cedar Hill Cross Road. Now, if it is just noisy and cold, that would be alright, I can survive, but you would also have to content with the "friendly" landlord, who turns out not friendly at all, but a vicious bunch, especially the female one, with demands and acts of revenge especially when you are trying to exert your full tenant right. By full tenant right I meant by staying at a place which is warm, friendly and free of "trouble." The worst thing the landlord can do is complain that you are wasting his electricity when it is he who should have looked after potential tenant's wellbeing and have foretold or solved this chilly issue before the unit is being advertise for rent. Now, that would be alright if a heater is given to the tenant for use, but the landlord somberly complains once again when the heater is used on a regular basis. And, not to mention the phone which she initially said you may use in case of emergency, but when you started to use sparingly she cut the line off, yet secretly revived the line when you no longer use.

The worst thing which she uses as a revenge for "bad" tenant behavior is the preferential treatment of tenants which I despise the most. It would have been alright if she is honest and give equal treatment to all tenants, but she goes great length to deceive and lie especially when you are also in the house and she is about to give favor to the other "favorite" tenant. By "favor," I meant chocolates, candies, cereal, instant coffee, sugar, ice cream, soft drink, cookies, chips, and other stuff she has made, which are all "supposedly" can not be bought in China, bullshit! She is a great cook I admit, probably the only good virtue of hers. Even alright if she is honest and do what she does. She calls herself a follower of Buddhism but I really take pity on how Buddhism taught her to deceive and be a perverted woman she is now of no conscience whatsoever. It really saddens me to see how Buddhism have brought up her moral line as it is now twisted and degraded beyond recognition. And, I really take pity on her son and daughter for having to content with this kind of greedy mother of no sympathy and no leadership skill.

Moreover, what I don't understand is that I'm paying the monthly rent in "cash" which means they get $5,760 of tax-free income per year, $13,890 for the entirety of my stay, and yet they are still complaining. So, screw you, I'm moving to another place with a cheaper rent, warmer place, and with no interference from the landlord.

Her last name is Fung, and if you happen to stumble upon the post for unit 2053 on that street, do not bother responding. You will save a lot of trouble in the long run.

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone.

speed_demon

Winter Olympic without the Snow

I guess my prediction years ago is about to come true. An Olympic without the "white stuff" will truly make Vancouver 2010 a special one worth remembering for eons to come. Now, come to think of it, who really benefits in the end of this fiasco? I bet you those Olympic "contracts" were all awarded to "friends" and close relatives of the friends of the politicians. Of course these weren't be obvious at first, but after unraveling layers and layers of documents and connecting the dots probably thirty years from now from fed up taxpayers, this is what we will most likely find out in the end. Now, with their pockets full, hands shaken, meals eaten, and connections solidly established, the ultimate miserable victim of this prank will be you and me, the taxpayers, the hardworking families, and the impoverished who have to increasing worry about how to get the next meal and a waterproof roof to sleep in due to the ever rising unaffordable cost-of-living and rent. Ultimately, all those promises, provisions, and compromises the culprits ever made will be nothing when it compares to the number of years laymen will have to put off in order to completely payoff the Olympics.

This Olympic is a testament of forced evictions, police brutality, face saving, tax rising, tongue rolling, and residents losing event. Of course, we all want our neighbor south to know where exactly Canada is, and we all want Canada, especially Vancouver, to be recognized as a world-class city. But when it comes to being taken advantage of by your home-grown politicians, it really infuriates us to just standby and not do anything. Perhaps, we will be lucky enough and not be as debt laden as Montreal once was. Perhaps, we will not be so lucky as our economy is still recovering from the trough of a financial roller coaster not long ago.

一首歌的時間能改過去嗎?

Sometimes I think it's quite childish that I post these love songs. But, when you're in the same time frame and situation as me, a song which has good lyric and rhythm is always worth posting despite its childish content. :D



Translation/pinyin/lyrics by Ho@multistars.com

给我一首歌的时间
Gei wo yi shou ge de shi jian

Composer: Jay Chou (周杰倫) (周杰伦)
Lyricist: Jay Chou (周杰倫) (周杰伦)

雨淋湿了天空
yu lin shi le tian kong
毁得很讲究
hui de hen jiang jiu
你说你不懂
ni shuo ni bu dong
为何在这时牵手
wei he zai zhe shi qian shou
我晒乾了沉默
wo shai gan le chen mo
悔得很冲动
hui de hen chong dong
就算这是做错
jiu suan zhe shi zuo cuo
也只是怕错过
ye zhi shi pa cuo guo

在一起叫梦
zai yi qi jiao meng
分开了叫痛
fen kai le jiao tong
是不是说
shi bu shi shuo
没有做完的梦最痛
mei you zuo wan de meng zui tong
迷路的後果
mi lu de hou guo
我能承受
wo neng cheng shou
这最後的出口在爱过了才有
zhe zui hou de chu kou zai ai guo le cai you

能不能给我一首歌的时间
neng bu neng gei wo yi shou ge de shi jian
紧紧的把那拥抱变成永远
jin jin de ba na yong bao bian cheng yong yuan
在我的怀里你不用害怕失眠
zai wo de huai li ni bu yong hai pa shi mian
哦
o
如果你想忘记我也能失忆
ru guo ni xiang wang ji wo ye neng shi yi

能不能给我一首歌的时间
neng bu neng gei wo yi shou ge de shi jian
把故事听到最後才说再见
ba gu shi ting dao zui hou cai shuo zai jian
你送我的眼泪
ni song wo de yan lei
让它留在雨天
rang ta liu zai yu tian
哦
o
越过你划的线我定了勇气
yue guo ni hua de xian wo ding le yong qi
的终点
de zhong dian

Repeat (Show)

雨淋湿了天空
yu lin shi le tian kong
毁得很讲究
hui de hen jiang jiu
你说你不懂
ni shuo ni bu dong
为何在这时牵手
wei he zai zhe shi qian shou
我晒乾了沉默
wo shai gan le chen mo
悔得很冲动
hui de hen chong dong
就算这是做错
jiu suan zhe shi zuo cuo
也只是怕错过
ye zhi shi pa cuo guo

在一起叫梦
zai yi qi jiao meng
分开了叫痛
fen kai le jiao tong
是不是说
shi bu shi shuo
没有做完的梦最痛
mei you zuo wan de meng zui tong
迷路的後果
mi lu de hou guo
我能承受
wo neng cheng shou
这最後的出口在爱过了才有
zhe zui hou de chu kou zai ai guo le cai you

能不能给我一首歌的时间
neng bu neng gei wo yi shou ge de shi jian
紧紧的把那拥抱变成永远
jin jin de ba na yong bao bian cheng yong yuan
在我的怀里你不用害怕失眠
zai wo de huai li ni bu yong hai pa shi mian
哦
o
如果你想忘记我也能失忆
ru guo ni xiang wang ji wo ye neng shi yi

能不能给我一首歌的时间
neng bu neng gei wo yi shou ge de shi jian
把故事听到最後才说再见
ba gu shi ting dao zui hou cai shuo zai jian
你送我的眼泪
ni song wo de yan lei
让它留在雨天
rang ta liu zai yu tian
哦
o
越过你划的线我定了勇气
yue guo ni hua de xian wo ding le yong qi
的终点
de zhong dian

哦你说我不该不该
o ni shuo wo bu gai bu gai
不该在这时候说了我爱你
bu gai zai zhe shi hou shuo le wo ai ni
要怎麽证明我没有说谎的力气
yao zen me zheng ming wo mei you shuo huang de li qi
哦请告诉我
o qing gao su wo
暂停算不算放弃
zan ting suan bu suan fang qi
我只有一天的回忆
wo zhi you yi tian de hui yi

Repeat (Show)

Translation/pinyin/lyrics by Ho@multistars.com

Give Me The Time For One Song

Composer: Jay Chou (周杰倫) (周杰伦)
Lyricist: Jay Chou (周杰倫) (周杰伦)

The rain has drenched the sky
It's ruined very particularly
You said you didn't understand
Why we held hands at this time
I've dried out the silence
I've been very impulsive with regret
Even if this was something I did wrong
It's just that I was afraid of missing out on it

Being together is called a dream
Being apart is called pain
Are you saying dreams that are unfinished are the most painful?
The consequences of getting lost
I can bear it
You only have this final exit if you have loved before

Can you give the time for one song?
Tightly turn that hug into forever
In my arms you don't have to be afraid of insomnia
Oh, if you want to forget I can also have amnesia

Can you give the time for one song?
Listen to the story until the very end before saying goodbye
The tears you gave me
Let them stay on the rainy day
Oh, crossing the line that you drew I've set the final destination for courage

Oh, you said I shouldn't I shouldn't
Shouldn't have said I love you at this time
How can I prove that I don't have the strength to lie?
Oh, please tell me
Does a pause count as giving up?
I only have the memories of one day

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