Friday, August 31, 2007
An American Dream
many people in the world, want to have an American Dream -- has a good job or business, buy a car, buy a house, has a beautiful wife, happy family, and a lot luxury. in some sense, an American dream is living in paradise.
well, part of the dream is worth to work hard for it. but most of it, is only for American. i mean, is not what we really looking for.
let me focus in Hong Kong. in Hong Kong, people is not really need a car, except those who live very far away, only taxi and mini-bus were provided. in Hong Kong, so far i see, the public transport system is the most brilliant in the world. Fast, cheap, most covered. London, also has good bus and metro system, however, always get jam. NYC, the subway is the oldest one in the world, well, NYC is quite a big city, it is impossible to cover all place within 20mins walking distance, and you can see, the yellow cap is everywhere, waiting anywhere to drive you somewhere else. Paris, people like walking, so, you can imagine. Zurich, people has bike. Car in hong kong is pure luxury and environmental enemy.
in States, they are poorly designed city/town plan, houses and offices are scatter everywhere.most cases, you can not found all you need in one city or town. and you have no choice but driving. so, i will say, Car is an essential in States because of the poor city plan. Stupid Americans. you can see, there is a loop -- when the city scatter, they need a car; when they has a car, they plan their city more scatterer. dame it. they gave themselves a good result for the need of cars. <- Skyscraper
House: ..........
Luxry: ..........
Goverment system:.............
the way of Aemrican is not what we need. coz we are not american, we have our own culture, 5000 years, we can develop in the way that suitable our way. <-- Phu, it related to the Culture revoution.... we lost our culture.
extend link : http://gucciproxy.blogspot.com/2007/05/free-slave.html
well, part of the dream is worth to work hard for it. but most of it, is only for American. i mean, is not what we really looking for.
let me focus in Hong Kong. in Hong Kong, people is not really need a car, except those who live very far away, only taxi and mini-bus were provided. in Hong Kong, so far i see, the public transport system is the most brilliant in the world. Fast, cheap, most covered. London, also has good bus and metro system, however, always get jam. NYC, the subway is the oldest one in the world, well, NYC is quite a big city, it is impossible to cover all place within 20mins walking distance, and you can see, the yellow cap is everywhere, waiting anywhere to drive you somewhere else. Paris, people like walking, so, you can imagine. Zurich, people has bike. Car in hong kong is pure luxury and environmental enemy.
in States, they are poorly designed city/town plan, houses and offices are scatter everywhere.most cases, you can not found all you need in one city or town. and you have no choice but driving. so, i will say, Car is an essential in States because of the poor city plan. Stupid Americans. you can see, there is a loop -- when the city scatter, they need a car; when they has a car, they plan their city more scatterer. dame it. they gave themselves a good result for the need of cars. <- Skyscraper
House: ..........
Luxry: ..........
Goverment system:.............
the way of Aemrican is not what we need. coz we are not american, we have our own culture, 5000 years, we can develop in the way that suitable our way. <-- Phu, it related to the Culture revoution.... we lost our culture.
extend link : http://gucciproxy.blogspot.com/2007/05/free-slave.html
Bargain
is it only in Poor or developing country??
today, i went to Mexico, the shop there will not show you the price.
i am so tried......
continuous another day
today, i went to Mexico, the shop there will not show you the price.
i am so tried......
continuous another day
why i travel??
what i travel everytime, i will ask myself the same queastion.
i spend money for what reason behind? is it worth? how to measure?
everytime, i go to a city, i will try to take a signafician picture, that poeple can tell where it is, without any caption.
everytime, i go to a place, i will try to buy one thing to represnt the place.
everytime, i go to a country, i will write down what i have done.
is it the reason for travel?
the value of a men, is not from what he take, is from what he give-----Martin Luther King
so, what i give?? what i learn?
i spend money for what reason behind? is it worth? how to measure?
everytime, i go to a city, i will try to take a signafician picture, that poeple can tell where it is, without any caption.
everytime, i go to a place, i will try to buy one thing to represnt the place.
everytime, i go to a country, i will write down what i have done.
is it the reason for travel?
the value of a men, is not from what he take, is from what he give-----Martin Luther King
so, what i give?? what i learn?
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
a link to a comment
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14452724&postID=4642586607391859926
i will develop more about this in a whole big picture.
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well, read between the line, the title is reflecting something. "we only think, without action." we have alot opinions, ideas. so what?
the problem arise from the article is complicated. i guess, even the writer can't not clearly write it down. but good try.
i think, the problem is. when a culture, the honor is lost. people will lack of self-confession, self-inspection. people only think of themselves, what kind of benefit can bring to themselves. people become selfish and only see other false.
i will think about this issue. and re-read the article later.
in American, as i see, they are selfish, but also considerate. how? well, in their point of view, selfish is not a bad thing. this is nature. the first consideration should be one's self, right? so, they will not try to cover their first motivation when move. however, hong kong people, always emphasize on consideration. but in my view, i think they only want OTHERs consider themselves. is some kind of selfish covered by "Consideration". well, no matter you got it or not, when i back to Hong Kong, i will tell you.
think about it : when people going to help you, you don't need to think whether they have other purpose, they already think about themselves before helping you! i guess, Selfish is some kind of easy misunderstanding word.
i think, it is more a cultural problem than a social issue. and it seems to beyond my knowledge and observation.
American are simple. they also prefer short term happy. they prefer to live simpler. i see, in some sense, HK people and them are the same. however, the way to move is different. i would like to say, HK people is not independent, not even close. American, they will make their own way, neglecting others's eyes. they like to try, no, i will say, they are not afraid to try, not afraid to be fail. even old men in here, they like to take a risk.
more over, they focus on their own history, they know where they come from, what they have done. and they value the ancient wisdom and knowledge. today, i walked in the business district. i saw inside a bank, there is a free public historical museum. amazing. and this museum is not "HEA". very serious. in there, i can feel the connection between the bank and the people, the land.
what i want to say is. the link to the past, is a way to make people proud of themselves. to gain honor. by educated ancient or past wisdom, we will have some "common sense of the common sense"( a common sense of what we need to know)
thus, the problem may be originated to the recent history of modern china. in the school, we know how great is the china, 1000 years ago. how about now? how many people in Hong kong, know about Hong Kong History in recent 50 years? no, not even HK people, mainland people don't know their recent history too. i mean, they only know little.
ok, the recent history is empty, or almost empty. how about ancient part? we learn Confucian school, and than, many teachers will tell you, this is outdated. Fuck up. who say human mind has been change for only 2000 years? only in few hundred generations? if our mind did not different from the ancient one, why Confucius can not be applied? and the most important thing confucius told us is the attitude of life. nevertheless, in school, we only learn knowledge, not attitude. knowledge is like gases, and attitude like the car itself. ( i am sorry, i can't not give a proof of this) so think about it. and i almost spend out my point too wide and lost contest.
so, all in all. our historical sense is almost empty, we lacked something to enrich our culture. we learn form outside without a real action. our financial market become the only way to our attitude. (i am not saying it is not good of our financial market, but i think, there is a better way to let the market enrich ourself, it need creation, ok, thing back to creation. and creation will be back to knowledge and attitude. a terrible but easy loop to solve individually.)
i will develop more about this in a whole big picture.
***************************
well, read between the line, the title is reflecting something. "we only think, without action." we have alot opinions, ideas. so what?
the problem arise from the article is complicated. i guess, even the writer can't not clearly write it down. but good try.
i think, the problem is. when a culture, the honor is lost. people will lack of self-confession, self-inspection. people only think of themselves, what kind of benefit can bring to themselves. people become selfish and only see other false.
i will think about this issue. and re-read the article later.
in American, as i see, they are selfish, but also considerate. how? well, in their point of view, selfish is not a bad thing. this is nature. the first consideration should be one's self, right? so, they will not try to cover their first motivation when move. however, hong kong people, always emphasize on consideration. but in my view, i think they only want OTHERs consider themselves. is some kind of selfish covered by "Consideration". well, no matter you got it or not, when i back to Hong Kong, i will tell you.
think about it : when people going to help you, you don't need to think whether they have other purpose, they already think about themselves before helping you! i guess, Selfish is some kind of easy misunderstanding word.
i think, it is more a cultural problem than a social issue. and it seems to beyond my knowledge and observation.
American are simple. they also prefer short term happy. they prefer to live simpler. i see, in some sense, HK people and them are the same. however, the way to move is different. i would like to say, HK people is not independent, not even close. American, they will make their own way, neglecting others's eyes. they like to try, no, i will say, they are not afraid to try, not afraid to be fail. even old men in here, they like to take a risk.
more over, they focus on their own history, they know where they come from, what they have done. and they value the ancient wisdom and knowledge. today, i walked in the business district. i saw inside a bank, there is a free public historical museum. amazing. and this museum is not "HEA". very serious. in there, i can feel the connection between the bank and the people, the land.
what i want to say is. the link to the past, is a way to make people proud of themselves. to gain honor. by educated ancient or past wisdom, we will have some "common sense of the common sense"( a common sense of what we need to know)
thus, the problem may be originated to the recent history of modern china. in the school, we know how great is the china, 1000 years ago. how about now? how many people in Hong kong, know about Hong Kong History in recent 50 years? no, not even HK people, mainland people don't know their recent history too. i mean, they only know little.
ok, the recent history is empty, or almost empty. how about ancient part? we learn Confucian school, and than, many teachers will tell you, this is outdated. Fuck up. who say human mind has been change for only 2000 years? only in few hundred generations? if our mind did not different from the ancient one, why Confucius can not be applied? and the most important thing confucius told us is the attitude of life. nevertheless, in school, we only learn knowledge, not attitude. knowledge is like gases, and attitude like the car itself. ( i am sorry, i can't not give a proof of this) so think about it. and i almost spend out my point too wide and lost contest.
so, all in all. our historical sense is almost empty, we lacked something to enrich our culture. we learn form outside without a real action. our financial market become the only way to our attitude. (i am not saying it is not good of our financial market, but i think, there is a better way to let the market enrich ourself, it need creation, ok, thing back to creation. and creation will be back to knowledge and attitude. a terrible but easy loop to solve individually.)
the in-resistable trap
well, when you are first time in New york city, you may want to go to the Status of Librety, or the Empire State Building. in general, every touristic city, there is always some place must be visit.
so, i am falling a trap. the price to the touristic place is often un-reasonably high, (excpet washington DC, the museums their are all free!! and Great!) however, if you don;t go there, you will somehow regreted when you leave.
so, i go to the Empire State building. the entrance fee is 18USD, just for go up to 86th floors above ground. well, in avange, you spend 1USD to go up 4.8 floor. or you spend 1.7 HKD to go each floor, sound fair enough, coz the building costed 41 million USD. anyway, i hope the elevator goes slow. but the fact is, they got the fastest one in the time its complete. 8 second for 10 floor. thats mean, i spend 2 HKD per second. ok, i hope it worth to burning money in this way.
when i waiting to buy ticket, there is a sales, trying his best to sell the audi-tour. "only 20 USD more, you can have great detail expanation of the city, without that, you don;t knwo what you are looking at...... (skipped 100million words)" i said in my mind "fuck it, i can take picture on the top and serach to the web if i really want to know which building is which. google earth is a great thing, except it don't has night version. by the way, why i need to know that? is it really instreating?"
and the most silly thing is, they will take a picture to you in front of a green screen, and use computer to put you on a picture of the builing. it is free for take picture. oh, they are business man. when you are leaving, they will give you a hard copy of the picture, and said "20 dollars you can take it home." oh, thanks, my picture is not so good. and i gonna to waste your time and cost to print it out. you already charge me for 18 dollars and you don't give me that fucking photo for free?? you're mother fucker?
in my estimation, they can earn about 360usd per second (say selling 20 tickets a time), and they open from 8am to 1:35am, around 19 hours a day, 360X60X60X19 = 24 million a day!!
well, being a tourist and this is international city, who can resist to go there??
thing to learn: to make an in-resistable place for tourist, then you got a money-tree!!
so, i am falling a trap. the price to the touristic place is often un-reasonably high, (excpet washington DC, the museums their are all free!! and Great!) however, if you don;t go there, you will somehow regreted when you leave.
so, i go to the Empire State building. the entrance fee is 18USD, just for go up to 86th floors above ground. well, in avange, you spend 1USD to go up 4.8 floor. or you spend 1.7 HKD to go each floor, sound fair enough, coz the building costed 41 million USD. anyway, i hope the elevator goes slow. but the fact is, they got the fastest one in the time its complete. 8 second for 10 floor. thats mean, i spend 2 HKD per second. ok, i hope it worth to burning money in this way.
when i waiting to buy ticket, there is a sales, trying his best to sell the audi-tour. "only 20 USD more, you can have great detail expanation of the city, without that, you don;t knwo what you are looking at...... (skipped 100million words)" i said in my mind "fuck it, i can take picture on the top and serach to the web if i really want to know which building is which. google earth is a great thing, except it don't has night version. by the way, why i need to know that? is it really instreating?"
and the most silly thing is, they will take a picture to you in front of a green screen, and use computer to put you on a picture of the builing. it is free for take picture. oh, they are business man. when you are leaving, they will give you a hard copy of the picture, and said "20 dollars you can take it home." oh, thanks, my picture is not so good. and i gonna to waste your time and cost to print it out. you already charge me for 18 dollars and you don't give me that fucking photo for free?? you're mother fucker?
in my estimation, they can earn about 360usd per second (say selling 20 tickets a time), and they open from 8am to 1:35am, around 19 hours a day, 360X60X60X19 = 24 million a day!!
well, being a tourist and this is international city, who can resist to go there??
thing to learn: to make an in-resistable place for tourist, then you got a money-tree!!
I LOVE N Y
when i walk in the street of NYC, i saw a lot people wearing a T-shirt, white in color, most of them, and 3 big words I, N, C with a red heart on it.
i wouldn't buy this shirt. this shirt is a syblom, which say,
"i am a tourist, i have been new york city, and i just like others."
frist, New York City, what a big deal? just a place that million people live inside. the city, for me, is not so lovely at all. although there are many things to see, to explore, the city just without a focus. the people in the city, some is rich, many are poor. some is beauty, many are trying to be beauty. that's suck!
2nd, many people wear this shirt, that makes me sad. or a reflection of the mind of the people. people will buy magazines about fashion, about beauty. they buy it, they read it,, they follow it. and the city simply lost itself, coz everyone look like almost the same. imagine a jail, every one wear the same outfit, everyone look like the same, the souless.
i have bought a shirt, which is from Empire state building. i bought it coz it has no words on it, at least big words, and propabliy, no one will know it is form the building.
i want to buy another shirt. " Central Park, NYC" on the shirt. the "NYC" is pretty small.
all in all, i don;t like those shirt has obivous meaning. for me, look like only stupid will wear it, coz you display something obvious, just like talking bull shit.
however, NYC is a great city, the art, the plays, the museum, and the central park, the skycrapers, decorate the city well, and that is the city soul, only in downtown.
i wouldn't buy this shirt. this shirt is a syblom, which say,
"i am a tourist, i have been new york city, and i just like others."
frist, New York City, what a big deal? just a place that million people live inside. the city, for me, is not so lovely at all. although there are many things to see, to explore, the city just without a focus. the people in the city, some is rich, many are poor. some is beauty, many are trying to be beauty. that's suck!
2nd, many people wear this shirt, that makes me sad. or a reflection of the mind of the people. people will buy magazines about fashion, about beauty. they buy it, they read it,, they follow it. and the city simply lost itself, coz everyone look like almost the same. imagine a jail, every one wear the same outfit, everyone look like the same, the souless.
i have bought a shirt, which is from Empire state building. i bought it coz it has no words on it, at least big words, and propabliy, no one will know it is form the building.
i want to buy another shirt. " Central Park, NYC" on the shirt. the "NYC" is pretty small.
all in all, i don;t like those shirt has obivous meaning. for me, look like only stupid will wear it, coz you display something obvious, just like talking bull shit.
however, NYC is a great city, the art, the plays, the museum, and the central park, the skycrapers, decorate the city well, and that is the city soul, only in downtown.
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