Hi, ifgogoers! Happy New Year!
It's really a great 2007 and we have successfully set up this blog. Anyway, I will add lots of new features to this blog and I will make it bigger. I will make it useful to all the readers and authors!
I ever heard when I was very young that LOVE and DEATH was the endless talk among people. And now I do think so!
Since Love is so pop in current world and particularly in youth, I am not going to say more here but focus on Death. My theme is what we die for, so thus what we live for.....
I was educated to live for others, so that heroic complex sit in my heart for a long time. That was in the last century, which seems far from current time. However, I got to know after so called "Great Revolution", there was really someone wanted to be an emperor and behaved in the name of hero. But history proves that such persons are merely ants, busy with their own benefit while let so many good people as their victim.
When I finally got to know that one should die for some meaningful life, other than love with someone, I was not so young. Nevertheless, it was not late for me to struggle for that vigilant idea and then I put it into action. I left government post, stayed far away from those places where I could see bribe as well as corruption and began to do some solid jobs in a root level. Though I am no longer an official now, I am happy that I am living valuably!
I am not an example but I do believe my life is of signification and without any regret! I will be unperturbed to face my death.
Hi all "ifgogoers"! Merry Christmas!
(via XKCD)
So, let me talk about something related to the Christmas today.
Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. It refers both to the day celebrating the birth; as well as to the season which that day inaugurates, and which concludes with the Feast of the Epiphany.(via Wikipedia)
When discussing about ActionScript3 technologies, I met Stephen Oliver. A 15-year-old guy from Sydney, Australia. He's a very smart guy and he is a very faithful Christian. He told me about how the god save the human, and how Jesus come to save everyone of us.
I cannot believe I was talking to a 15-year-old boy at that moment, for when I was at that age, I knew nothing but passing the exams. So when I passed one and one exams, and all those damn exams. I was so empty at my 18-year-old birthday.
I am not a Christian, but I know people have to believe in something. It's a pity that most of people in China believe in nothing.
There are over six billion people in this world and each person has his or her own thoughts about God. So what about yours?
Actually there are plenty of applications like this on the Internet. But when the biggest i18n SNS(Social Networking Service) website tells us the statistics data, it's even much funnier than you can image. Now thanks to Facebook.com, I really find out something funny.
Here is a list of "The most popular places people wants to visit". ( The list was generated from the Facebook users who installed a "I've been" application, among which are mostly from U.S and Europe countries. )
According to the numbers, I got many funny conclusions:
So, please feel free to share your opinions here! Do post a comment :)
First, I don't want to cheat anybody with this title for page views. This is neither a children's day style post, nor a post for McDonald's. I'm serious, and you should proceed with caution.
You know, what we can do at this age, and what we can afford, here in China mainland, are just the same as teenagers in the States. We have almost the same freedom from our parents, and in the society (except something like GFW and I'll talk about that later), as a kid in the States, like freedom of going out, having sex and not doing things right. Why? Because we've just got economic independence as an American kid. Those kids earn money on their own, and can afford an XBOX 360 in a year, right? If you have your own XBOX 360 fund, how much would you put in it each month? I'll take $50 from my salary and put it into that fund, so that I can get an XBOX 360 in 6 months. Not much better than an American kid, right?
The ridiculous part is that, we are just like a kid who doesn't have full liabilities. Government is acting as parents , and take those liabilities from us. So it has to do what parental liabilities demand for, for example, turning on "parental control" of the Internet. What helps then? What makes us liable? Assets! If you have assets, you're liable for sure. You can mortgage your property for freedom. In fact, currency is the only valid vote on the world. More products means more votes. That's why we got to increase our productivity. As long as we individually are not richer than a American grown up, nobody can grant you permission to vote or any other kind of rights. (In other words, only universal richness may bring universal suffrage.)
So, the path is clear. Rushing to the States doesn't help you improve your situation. Only properties in your brain and your pocket can use to trade for a better future. But, hold on, and think about whether you really want a better future indeed. Think about it carefully.
I finally finished all my final exams and projects at last week, so I decide to have a "enjoyable weekend".
I slept 11 hours a day. I bought kinds of food at supermarket. I cooked. What's more, I spent all the rest of time when I was awake before my computer: watching soap operas and eating potato crisps, chocolates, crackers, and any snacks I could reach on my table. There were a pile of dishes waiting for washing in my sink, my bedroom was mess, and my carpet needed to be cleaned. But I did NOT care~ I just wanted to "enjoy" myself.
However, I stopped. It seems someone was shouting at me "That's ENOUGH!" Who was that guy? Mom? Anyway, impossible. She is in China, thousands miles away from me. So that guy was just myself. Yes, enough was enough. I stopped; I stopped in the mid night of Sunday. I threw away all the empty wraps, tided my bedroom, washed dishes, cleaned carpets, and finally I fell on my bed.
I am thinking. If I keep on eating, will I be obesity? If I keep on watching, will I be stupid? If I ... Fortunately, I stopped myself. It seems sometimes people going on with addiction. Like when we were kids, we eat so many candies until some adult said to us "Enough!". When we grown up, there are plenty of things like the childhood "candies": money, power, position, relationship and etc. They are shinning; they are luring. Sometimes we really do not know when is enough, and there will never be someone telling us, except ourselves. Even for some "good" things. Some people stay more than 16 hours a day in the lab. It may benefit to the development of technology, but harmful for their health. That may be why the dean in my department always says "You need to balance your research and life."
Yes, enough is enough. As an adult, as a grown up guy, I need to figure it out, not by someone else, but only by myself.
Sometimes, I think about this, and I am sure everyone thinks about this.
After I watched The Count of Monte Cristo and The Shawshank Redemption, I was shocked that if you have a beautiful dream and a very strong determination, the future can be so beautiful.
But after I watched The Butterfly Effect, it was rather sad. No matter how hard you try to fix, bad things still happen. The worse thing is, even the only solution is to sacrifice yourself.
The Butterfly Effect2 is really a very poor movie, but its tagline is somehow remarkable: Can you change your past without destroying your future. - Yes, sometimes we are always thinking about changing our past, and somehow no one cares the future.
Sometimes, You may think, if you made that decision in another way, things would be very different by now. Sometimes, You may complain that if you had never joined this company, you might be much richer than you are. But it's that the truth?
The only truth, at least so far, is that you can never change the past. Even if you don't care about ruining your future, still you can never change your past. There is never a man like Evan Treborn.
But you can also change one kind of "past", that is "now". "Now" is not the past, but it's going to be the past. Actually, as for The Shawshank Redemption, The Butterfly Effect, no matter which one, is telling us to live in the present.
Never care the past and never worry about the future. Everything we get is the present. The present will be the past, and it will also be the future :)
Hi everyone,
I am a Chinese guy in Edmonton pursuing my Master degree. This city is not as famous as other Canadian cities like Toronto or Vancouver, but is a nice and quiet place.
I began my oversea study form this August at University of Alberta, majored in Computer Science. (Seems a lot of CS guys here. :P) I find that in my department there are so many Chinese graduate students. Sometimes I even feel I am still in China. Anyway, Chinese are never the minority in my departement.
It is very nice to join this website. Gathering people together and sharing feeling in English is an exciting idea. And also the experience of being an auhor will be wonderful.
Wish we all have a enjoyable time~
Cheers,
Jichuan
As you know, Facebook is famous, but I did not have passion to join there until today. Yes, I change my mind today, and I will be more open in future.
Before I talk more about Facebook, I want to say something about Xiaonei.com. That site looks near the same as Facebook The concept is the same, so is the style, and even the user interface. No doubt, that is a site copying everything from Facebook. Anyway, I liked there very much, especially in the last few months before graduation. I was attracted by such kind of site for first time.
About three months ago, I tried to take a deep look at Facebook and consider whether to sign up. I shadowed my friend for a while and found it was really dizzy. I did not mean the color, but the uncountable gadgets and links scared me. I did not feel ready to get involved in this complex ecosystem.
Now, I feel I have changed a bit. And I made a real progress that I finally join Facebook now. Hey friends, I am new and open here. Please feel free to share your good or bad emotions with me. :)
P.S. Is there any plug-in for Facebook that enables user to post blog items to a WordPress hosted site like this? I think it could be a good idea to write blogs in Facebook and post here, then use RSS to integrate items in Facebook. It is a win-win solution, as I do not want to write English blog on two sites. :P