Review

Almost 3 years..... I mostly post small idea on facebook, so, I think it is good to collect similar posts in here. Starting from Dec, 2013.


Politics, Society:

i thought the democracy is a way to teach people how to choose, to let people fulfill their will and create a better world. democracy is like ability of walking, give the child some time, few fall and get up, they will know how to walk, how to make a good choice. But i am wrong. some race, some people, some nations are just lack of the capability. Just like fish can never learn how to walk, they die when trying. If people make a bad choice at the beginning, somehow, there is no way back, they fail once and fade away.

中國人裏總是“槍打出頭鳥”，但大家又是很明白“三個和尚冇水洗”既道理。柏楊所謂的醬缸就是這些。而因為這些那些文化背景，香港人不要做無謂抵抗，拱手張特區交出來，香港死先中國都不遠了。

quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?

the result of regulations is that even the worst, problematic bank can survive whenever it meets the requirements of the regulations. Who know the regulations are prefect that would not create problems? Somehow, when some stupid shit happened in Hong Kong, i feel glad. Hell yeah~

讀錢穆，便知中國已絕。

Although education is common and popular, independent thinking is still rare. Does that mean individual thinking is off-syllable or non-teachable ? independent thinking means that, the conclusion is after analysis of facts, not after others opinions. One testing of independent thinking is that, what are the meaning of every words in the conclusion. If someone cannot even give a clear explanation/definition of a word, how he can understand what he is talking about?

The polarization of a society , may be not from the government's policy or the system of the society. It is due to the people. One group of people purchase wealth, knowledge or higher value, while the other group of people seek for welfare, fun or anti-intelligent. It seems that these two groups are mutually exclusive and their own tendency will lead them to the polarization.

難度中國士大夫的價值觀跟農夫差很多嗎？當代有士大夫嗎？

How about using Bitcoin as a way for online voting system? When there is an election, the electron holder, or the government, issue a bitcoin to each registered voters. The voters can "spend" their bitcoin to each candidate's "account" and the bitcoin can only be transfer once and be invalid after the vote. Thus, a secure, anonymous, fair electric voting system may work. People can vote for every issues, every hour and everyday.

人事有代謝，往來成古今。
江山留勝跡，我輩復登臨。
水落魚梁淺，天寒夢澤深。
羊公碑尚在，讀罷淚沾襟。

文明如何戰勝野蠻? 羅馬帝國失敗了，美帝都搞極端組織唔掂。只有更野蠻才能戰勝野蠻。不要說這是變成野蠻，因為我地知道野蠻是為了守護文明，那班野蠻人只知道野蠻。警察落力d打個班野蠻既鳩烏啦！向警察致敬！

點解唔索性暴力抗爭? 絕食? 不如上天台扮跳樓啦。仲有效。

除非有人封所港交所或政總特首辦，又或擊退警察(還拖)，或解放軍出動。否則我以後不會再過問香港政情了。 欽此。

大國邏輯: 唔斬晒d沉香樹，我屋企個舊邊9值錢!

點解拾遺係罪? 點解銀行犯錯可以唔駛負責? 咁d呀婆周街執紙皮係唔係犯法? 流浪猫狗人食垃圾係唔係犯法? 去沙灘郊野公園執垃圾係唔係犯法? 點解跌錢污染環境，好心市民幫手清潔係犯法? 去商場享受冷氣未有問商場係唔係犯法? 各位睇到這段文字又未得本人同意係唔係犯法? 咁股市下跌股東可唔可以唔駛負責? 我唔小心生意失敗，可唔可以拉晒同過我做生意既人，告佢地拾遺不報? 六合彩買馬唔小心唔中，可唔可以要賽馬會俾返錢我? 咁有日我唔小心跌左散紙然後離去，係唔係都受到法律保障，可以拉晒d執錢既人? 我好想問下唔小心跌錢，跌路障，跌盾牌，跌左示威人士，d差老去清場係唔係拾遺不報?

如果當年愛迪生規定唔可以用金屬來做燈芯，就算佢不斷嘗試，發現了不同的失敗方法，也做不出鎢絲燈。歷史不會記得和同情失敗者，因為要失敗太容易了。失敗的人總可以自比聖人來求得安慰，推卸責任和不思進取，但偉人從來懷著遠大的理想，行動力和意志來做自己。

Philosophy:

重溫人生三本必讀名著：弗洛姆的“逃避自由”，“自我的追尋” 和 “愛的藝術”。這三本書是三部曲。第一本講現代人身在於種種枷鎖之中而不自知，什至投入其中。由之而來的種種得失和困惑。第二本是第一本的續集。進一步解析人性本質，透過了解自身而指出如何認識自我，突破自我。了解並追尋自己的價值，作為安身立命的一塊基石。第三本講人與人之間關於愛與被愛的原由，進而了解愛的本質與實踐。三本書環環緊扣，互相呼應，形成弗洛姆的主要思想。雖然看完後不能立刻帶來實質上的改變，但單單觀念的改變，命運也改變了。所以，我明白點解我沒有女朋友。哈哈。

精神貧乏。Mental poverty, a sickness of modernization. Eric Fromm suggests the salvation is CREATIVITY in his book, escape from freedom.

may be, we are just replacing an entity/concept by another entities and their relations. we haven't explained anything but only discript it with the help of others. in a very fundamental level, may be we can just discript how it related to surrounding, but cannot explain why it do in that way. just like point and line. for example, what is an apple. we can say it comes from a tree, it growt from a flow. it has red skin and white pulp, etc. but why apple is like that? may be we have some answers by looking at how the evolution shape it in this way. But at the end, are we really know "what is an apple"? or the question is, what is "what"?

Which book shall i bring to go to an isolated island for the rest of my life?

Chess 201: sacrifice. Bring suprise to the opponent while creating a new dimension on the board. Although losing material, it gains some squares or broken the piece structure, even rip off the king's defences. Remember, the pieces on board are the mean to capture enermy's king.

黃帝遊乎赤水之北，登乎崑崙之丘而南望，還歸，遺其玄珠。使知索之而不得，使離朱索之而不得，使吃詬索之而不得。乃使象罔，象罔得之。黃帝曰：「異哉，象罔乃可以得之乎?」

華夏文化一直講「情」。以前中學讀「情」與中國文化。從來沒有提過「愛」字。不知道文獻中「愛」出何處。

想改變而不破壞是不可能。印度教中，濕婆是創造改變之神，也是破壞之神是很有道理。

麻袋中的麻袋如何把最外邊的麻袋套進去？

執到老虎都唔還，燒俾啊爺唔好? 最鐘意損人不利己無私和平非暴力既野。

According to Wiki:
侵害隱私行為一般而言，侵害隱私的行為包括：
1)侵擾被害人之幽居寧靜或秘密
2)公開披露使被害者感覺困窘的事
3)發布資料使大眾對受害人產生錯誤的印象
4)為被告自己的利益而僭用被害人之姓名與肖像
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number two is ill-define that it is very subjective. e.g. A teacher told the parents of a kid about the grade, and that made the kid felt bad, does the grade be counted as "privacy"?

Idea:

If putting a mirror beside of a lamp, we will recieve the light from the "image of the lamp". If there is a mirror, which reflect any meson, can we say the mirror world affecting our world? If we can create a mirror, may be curved, that reflect graviton, to create an image of a massive object, and use the gravitaional force of this image to drive a spaceship.... Because the podition of this image can always be adjusted, just like a carrot hanging in front of a horse....

If there is a mirror reflect 100% neutron, a half sphere of uranium at half of the critical mass moves close to the mirror will trigger the chain reaction. That could make a tiny atomic bomb.

until, Dec, 2014

一篇謬論 ： 愛是什麼

或者所謂愛一個人，只是假借她的形態，把自己的幻想具體化，是偶像祟拜的天性，是化抽象為實在的本能。其實愛這個幻想多於那個真實的人。所以當所愛的人沒有滿足自己的期望(愛得不到回應)便感到傷心，其實只是妄想被揭穿。瘋狂是想像跟現實相差太遠。這種假借亦是期望和妄想的根源。若然仁義禮智信孝悌是所謂的道德，亦正如康德之道德，那麼愛是不屬於道德。因為愛雖然可以是自發自定，但沒有回應的愛是跟呆了的電腦一樣令人沮喪。愛是為了解決寂寞(心靈上)的需要，正如佳餚是為了滿足口腹的心靈。愛是技藝，跟用電腦或駕車差不多。奇怪的是，中國從來不講愛，只有情。情是比較綿延，是關係。交情，友情，親情。愛比較屬於西方，比較個人。中國文化中，對於人在社會應如何，卻是由道德中出發，籍由格物，致知，意誠，心正，達至修身，才有能力齊家，治國，平天下。愛(的方法)，如琴棋書畫，是技巧。

鍵盤戰紀之新世紀鍵盤戰士 (3)

作者: 向東一江春水

我好記得，當時TVB既皇牌資訊節目《東西張望》，搵左個女主持係遮打花園附近訪問左唔同人士對於「佔中八百死士」既睇法……

的士司機：「超（嘟！）都唔知班友係到做mud鳩（嘟！）」

白領OL：「Eh…都尊重佢地和平理性表達意見既，不過就有少少阻街囉。」

自由行旅客：「耶挺油Chu呀！真味省過腥港人可以姐young爭取綿主。真絲耍B！哈哈哈哈！（字幕：也挺有趣呀！真沒想過香港人可以這樣爭取民主。真是傻B！哈哈哈哈！）」

之後鏡頭一轉，轉左入錄影廠，女主持宣佈今晚《東西張望繽紛選》既題目係：「你對佔領中環有咩睇法呢？A. 好阻街；B.好無聊；C.無所謂。」

結果呢集《東西張望》引起網民強烈反感，紛紛發起罷睇TVB，廣管局亦都收到幾百宗投訴，不過唔知點解，後日既娛樂版頭條依然都係：

「全城熱播！TVB台慶劇　《On Call 36小時 III》首集收視30點 過百萬觀眾收看！」

佔中八百死士最後梗係mud q都爭取唔到。佢地訓左七日之後，有D繼續返工返學，有D決定移民。不過朱教授同戴牧師真係好有恆心，佢地覺得香港人值得擁有一套更好既政治制度，亦都唔願意移民放棄香港，於是決定每年九月，都會籌辦佔中，話要「將商議式民主既種子深耕細作，發揚光大」咁話。搞下搞下，今年已經係第五屆。

講返開心公園現場既「佔領中環五周年」研討會，朱教授同戴牧師又係度講咩商議式民主理論，滿口學術用詞，真係悶到死。在座既學生得個小貓三四隻。都正常既。今日既香港大學，相當國際化，過半學生黎自內地各省各市，仲有一大班細細個就移民英美澳加，擺到明純粹返黎香港為搵食既ABC、BBC同CBC，好似我呢D真正係香港長大既既學生，連三成都冇，試問有幾多個會聽過佔領中環呢單野？

講完理論，阿朱教授話：「好咧！我地今日好高興，邀請到第一屆參與佔領中環既朋友黎做我地既嘉賓，同我地分享下佢當年參與佔中商討既經驗。」

下？ 嘉賓？我望雲四周，台上得阿朱教授同戴牧師，邊有嘉賓呀？

下？點解班搞手學生係到搞個Projector，將部手提電腦駁入去，然後開Skype打長途電話俾一個叫陳生既人既?

嘟嘟嘟嘟…嘟嘟嘟嘟…電話接通。

朱教授：「陳生你好！ 點呀收得清唔清楚呀?」

我係Projector到見到個中年阿叔同我地say hello，佢背後有間別墅，周圍鳥語花香，仲有幾個鬼佬係佢身後行過。

陳生：「收得好清楚呀！咁多位同學大家好！（揮手）」

朱教授：「點呀Melbourne個邊天氣點呀？」

陳生：「幾好呀幾好呀！今日幾好陽光。呢邊時間係（望下手上隻Rolex）……下晝一點幾到，岩岩食完飯。哈哈。」

戴牧師：「同學們！陳生呢，係我地佔領中環第一屆既參加者。今日好開心，佢係澳洲Melbourne都專程用Skype黎同我地傾計。我地俾D掌聲黎歡迎佢先！」

「啪！…啪！…啪啪！」

台下反應冷淡。係得個幾個搞手同學係到懶熱情咁笑住口拍手。

陳生四萬咁口，欣然接受掌聲，侃侃而談：「我係五年幾前，係第一屆佔中既參加者。當時我覺得呢，我自從三十幾年前大學畢業之後呀，剩係識得掛住搵錢，冇咩點諗過政治，都係時候，要為香港既民主，出番一份力。所以，我決定左，要去佔中，當係為香港既下一代，做番D野。直至到而家，雖然我已經移左民去澳洲，但係我都係心繫香港，支持香港既民主運動，仲有年年Keep住捐錢俾佔領中環。

「我好記得，當年我地係遮打花園，綁手綁腳咁，訓左足足七日。塊地板呀，真係好硬呀。晚晚都訓得好差，腰酸背痛。我覺得呀，香港既民主前途，而家真係要交俾你地呢班年輕人。你地呀，要記住，民主係唔會無啦啦係個天度跌落黎俾你地。而家D年青人呀，咩都係老馮既。唔識得去捱苦，去爭取。我覺得呢個心態係要改。」

我望住陳生，真係O撚晒咀。再望下台下既學生，我而家先認得其中幾個，係活躍社運既出位人物黎，有個仲係咩學聯秘書長。我見佢地，有D著住件哲古華拉Tee，有D著著住件A&F，不約而同揸住杯Starbucks，係度若有所思咁點頭，好同意陳生所講既野。

仆街……我有種天旋地轉既感覺。我覺得我眼前既發生緊既事，真係三個字：好撚荒謬。仆街！你班友讀咁多書，個腦係咪裝屎？有mud撚理由，搵個移左民，上晒岸既人，黎同你講，叫你犧牲自己黎爭取民主？台下班友又係到up咩頭呀！

我個人真係好頹。但係又唔知點樣發洩我既憤怒。我好想企出黎，指出呢班友有幾荒謬，有幾不知所謂……但係……我只係一個剩係識係網上打文發洩既小毒撚，講就兇狠，做就碌撚……何況，講左出黎，發洩完，又有咩用呢？

唔理得咁多咧！ 我終於忍唔住，行上台前，對住陳生大嗌：「你條仆街！移左民上晒岸，人都唔係香港，而家住洋樓養番狗！仲係度講mud撚野風涼話呀！」

然後我轉身對住班社運人士：「你班友又係度up mud撚野頭呀？搞社運飲咩Starbucks呀你老味！著mud撚野A&F呀！你知唔知自己係度做緊mud撚野？」

當我講完，雖然我真係有少少鬆一口氣既感覺，但係我知道：我金翅，仆街鳥。

鍵盤戰紀之新世紀鍵盤戰士 (2)

作者: 向東一江春水

幾經辛苦先逼到香港大學站落車，上樓梯出月台個陣，又俾把兩把女廣播聲嚇到半死。

「大家好！我係珠珠！」
「我係HiHi！」
「我地係地鐵小天使：珠珠同HiHi！今日我地同大家笑談廣東話，順便介紹一隻護膚精華俾大家……」

我即刻雞咁腳跑出去站，直奔Kong U。今時今日搭地鐵，心血少D都唔掂！

去到Kong U，雖然已經過晒九半，十點都黎緊頭，遲硬到，但係當我行過開心公園，我真係忍唔到住停一停低。原來有個政治系系會，有班學生搞左個「佔領中環五周年」研討會，邀請左當年發起「佔中」既朱教授同戴牧師做講者。

真係唔講都唔記得，今年原來係「讓和平與愛佔領中環」五周年。幾年前，有班中年香港人誓神劈願，話要為下一代爭取民主公義，要搞公民抗命，堵塞馬路，逼政府俾真普選香港人。結果二零一四年九月，當七一遊行過左成兩個月，D民怨攤到凍晒，連蘋果頭版都只係報導「全城熱炒iPhone 7」既時候，政府突然公佈政改方案，提出沿用當時既提名委員會制度，按比例將委員會增加至二千四百人，提名門檻為三百人，提名最多三個特首候選人供全香港合資格選民選出。泛民主派本來一致反對，喊打喊殺，又話要辭職公投，又話要訓街抗爭，佔領中環又盛。眼見公民抗命一觸即發。點知只係隔左一個星期，政府再公佈「優化方案」，將提名委員會增加至三千六百人，提名門檻降低至一百五十人，可以提名最多五個候選人，班泛民一見到自己友實有機會入閘，即刻紛紛轉軚支持，話方案「符合民主」，大家應該「收住貨先」，「有幾多攞幾多」，「接受左呢個方案先再爭取個更民主既方案」。

本來佔中真係如箭在弦，一觸即發咁濟，點知俾泛民一個回馬鎗，當堂將阿朱教授同戴牧師一鑊翹起。不過當年仍然有唔少市民唔接受方案，紛紛讉責泛民背叛選民，社運人士乘勢發起包圍立法會，並發起「萬人跪拜大行動」，號召市民上街跪求泛民議員憑良心投反對票。政改表決個日，立法會圍左成十幾萬人，係資深社運人士（唔開名喇…自己估啦）既帶領下，跪晒係立法會門前，行三跪九叩之禮，場面偉大壯觀，仲俾蘋果記者係上空影左個Long Shot做頭條：「萬人跪拜，我要真普選」。

結果點？政改方案獲大比數通過，參與跪拜既市民和平散去，資深社運人士發起成立「真真真普選大聯盟」（簡稱「真真真普聯」），並將聯盟註冊成為有限公司，長期抗爭，長期籌款。佢地仲夠膽死向「健力士世界大全」申請，將「萬人跪拜大行動」註冊成為全世界「最和平理性非暴力非粗口既民主運動」，用呢個記錄黎做佢地每年籌款既生招牌。

「萬人跪拜大行動」之後，香港人爭取民主既士氣已經消耗得七七八八。我仲記得當年行出街，個個人都面如死灰，去茶餐廳食野，成日聽到人話要移民。但係朱教授同戴牧師真係香港既良心，佢地冇放棄到爭取民主既信念，明知會好少人，明知會衰梗，明知不可為而為之，都要背水一戰，發起佔領中環，免得辜負無數當年參與佔中商討日既市民。

最後，係佔中當日，有八百個市民響應上街。佢地被蘋果形容為「佔中八百死士」。個日係星期日黎，氣溫都成三十幾度。呢八百人，係朱教授同戴牧師既指示下，用麻繩將自己既手腳綁起，訓係中環既遮打花園。佢地本來想訓皇后像廣場，但係個度已經一早俾菲傭佔領左。經過幾輪商討，佢地覺得遮打花園樹蔭比較多，地板冇咁熱，佔領起黎應該冇咁易中暑，所以揀左遮打花園。呀，唔記得講，佢地本來係想堵塞馬路既，但係經過幾輪商討之後，佢地覺得咁樣會有可以引起交通意外，傷及無辜既市民，於是唯有放棄。

呢八百個人，結果係遮打花園訓左足足七日。係呢七日入邊，一個解放軍、一架坦克車都冇黎過鎮壓佢地，傳說中既防暴隊亦都冇出現過，現埸連一個鐵馬都冇，只係有幾個軍裝警察在場戒備。

鍵盤戰紀之新世紀鍵盤戰士 (1)

作者: 向東一江春水

大家好，我係向東，英文名Eastward。我正職係學生，副業係鍵盤戰士，亦即係世俗人眼中既，毒撚。但係坦白講，我覺得我呢個毒撚都做得幾成功，因為我經常都係網絡媒體輔仁網投稿。呢個網既總編，容總，都算唔話得，每個月都會俾番幾舊水稿費我做零用錢¹。試問做鍵盤戰士，有咩正得過係網上寫文，有專人幫你貼文，搵配圖，Post上Facebook同你推，仲要有錢收？

今日係二零一八年九月三日，亦即係開學日。今日我要返早。唉，返早最憎就係逼地鐵。八點幾去到油塘站，個月台已經塞到爆晒棚，條人龍排到上樓梯口。冇計啦！今日我地香港既人口已經直逼一千萬。而家既單程證配額已經增加到每日二百人，而自由行呀、優才計劃呀、內地生來港讀大學呀，年年政府都話要加大力度，令香港能夠「全面面向祖國」，咪搞到人口爆棚囉！呀長毛、社記、白鴿、工黨、左廿、學聯學民個D，一日到黑上街，一邊呼籲市民唔好歧視由內地來港既新香港人，一邊又話咩要爭取政府增加配套設施，減輕人口增加帶黎既壓力。收皮啦好心！呢D野班友嗌左十年都黎緊頭，由中學雞到大學雞，由青年人到老年人，政府十年黎都係睬佢地有味。

呢舖起碼要又要等十幾班車先上到車咧！幾經辛苦我先落到月台等車，身邊既打工仔學生哥個個粒聲唔出係到玩電話。我都唔明，都已經逼到好似沙甸魚咁，仲可以夾硬拎部電話出黎督。月台對面既廣告牌係度大大聲播廣告，嘈死人。

「先生唔該行前少少等車丫！先生唔該合作下丫！」突然間有把女高音係我耳邊大嗌。

頂佢個肺！又係個D咩上車師奶輔導員！心血少D都俾佢嚇撚死！前幾日睇報紙，先有個阿婆就係因為上車行動慢，俾D上車輔導員催到中風癱左！

晨早流流要好似沙甸魚咁逼地鐵，仲要俾個上車輔導員嚇餐死，真係火都黎！「得啦！我有分數啦！你老……人家唔使操心咧！」

嘩！好彩兜到！冇講到粗口！今年立法會史無前例，係建制派同泛民主派支持下，以大比數通過《講粗口刑事化法案》，係公眾地方講廣東粗口，會被罸款五千，最高監禁三個月。法案通過之前，輿論普遍擔心法案會侵犯言論自由，當時泛民主派有個資深大律師議員，話會為民請命，盡量將法案對言論自由既侵犯減到最低。結果佢爭取左D咩？就係新法案只適用於廣東粗口，其他地區既粗口，包括英文粗口同普通話粗口，全部獲豁免。唉，都唔知笑佢天真定戇鳩。

每當有車黎既時候，D人就會博晒老命咁將自己塞到個車廂到，博命塞博命塞，完全唔當自己係人，而係貨咁夾硬塞入去。塞左幾輪，終於輪到我。咁岩身邊有個背心短裙既OL，同我身對身逼到實一實，係到對住我gip gip聲。阿姐，我知，我唔係洋人，我亦冇錢，我只係一個香港本地毒撚，一身T-Shirt牛仔褲，個Look好頹好廢青，亦都唔識得好似某社運女神咁，會去買名牌包裝自己，大搖大擺著住件GAP去支持工運。但我唔係變態咸濕佬。你今日要同我一齊逼地鐵，捱張年年加價，而家加到成廿幾蚊一程既過海飛，你同我一撚樣ja ! 有本事就搵個有錢佬嫁左佢，你咪變上等人，唔使同我呢D廢青逼地鐵囉！

好不容易先捱到去北角。不得了，一開門，幾百人爭先恐後咁湧出黎，賽跑咁跑去對面月台轉車入港島線。北角站既月台隧道特別長，當我被逼跟住人潮逼出車既時候，我覺得自己好似一條精蟲，一生都要不停博命同其他精蟲賽跑，當你唔夠其他精蟲跑得快，你既下場只有一個：就係死亡。

「哎呀！」我俾個OL kick低，成個人仆左落街。身邊既人無情咁行過，甚至有條西裝友直行直過踩左我一腳。曾經何時，香港人好樂意幫人，就算係冷漠D，都唔會衰到踩多人一腳。不過近幾年黎，有好多大陸人係條街度扮頭暈身㷫引人問候，然後再屈人錢既騙案，令到香港人而家普遍怕係街邊幫人。

「先生先生！唔該上前等車丫！唔該合作下丫！」又有個上車輔導員衝埋黎，用把機械式既高音催我上車。

我終於忍唔住，喊左出黎。我覺得我似精蟲之餘，亦都好似一隻豬，而呢度就係一個豬圈。豬圈入邊既豬，每一日訓醒，俾主人餵飽之後，就要驅趕去勞役、繁殖。當佢地俾主人利用完，搾乾搾淨，就會俾屠夫一刀劏死，製成豬肉俾主人享用，食完，痾番出黎，化為肥料，再用黎餵飼更多既豬。

我依晞記得，係我好細個個陣，香港唔係咁。曾經，呢度係一個人人讚好，安居樂業既好地方……

There is always a story behind.

long time ago, i watched a TV program from CBS - Castle. One thing that really resonance with me is, the character is really charming, just kidding. In episode 1, he said to a self-protective female detective that

".... there is always a story, you just have to find."

For example, recently, my friend lost her phone on bus. it may suggest that she tired and fell asleep that she was holding her phone. and why her phone was not in her bag but outside? that must because she was using it or holding it and waiting massage. If she was playing some sort of game, then she must be very tired that even a game can not keep her awake. then what make her so tired? her job? bad sleeping? stress? If she was waiting massage, that person is meaning something to her, yet, the response is not quick so she fell asleep. anyway, there is a story that reflecting her status.

And if we know more about a person, about his habit, his live, that gives us more clues on constructing the story, a more close-to-real story. that is why our mothers know us well.

this kind of thinking always happened on me, and "There is a story" always reminded me that others foolish act or suffering is probably inevitable because if we know the story, know the history of the person, we will understand why he made that decision but not the others.

because i know it. sometimes i will act against my instinct, or roll a dice.... however, does it help to deny our fate???

Is language just a tool?

well, hello my dear audiences, really long time from last post. i was busy, and fucked up. lack of topics and most importantly, lack of motivation.

OK, well, past was past.

May be in contrast to many answers, i will say "yes, it is just a tool". Imagine a world with only 1 language., COMPLETE fine. From bible, we known that when people were constructing Babel tower, they are speaking 1 language. But the stupid gods afraid people can finish the tower and reach him, he made people speak in different language. The similar fail argument is programming language, that, different kind of computer languages were invented for specific purpose and tasks for simplify the work load. There is a universal programming language, the machine code, which is something like what R2-D2 speaking.

Some people may argue that, single language is just not enough to express everything, for example, there are many word in French about wine and food that English don't have. But hold on, logic alert. This argument only shows that these 2 languages have their own limit but does not implies that there is no universal language that can express anythings.  For example, most people will agree that mathematics is the language of the nature.

in more practical point of view, the story of Babel tower still happen frequently in modern era. When i work with Japanese, French, German, etc, because non of them is native speaker, (me neither), sometimes, when we discussing, the phrases we used or the meaning of single word may be different. Moreover, some expression may be regarded as rude but the speaker did not aware in his own culture. All of these makes international corporation still, not really as efficient as all people speaking in same mother tongue.

There is no room for argument that the primary purpose for language is to communicate. From this point of view, only 1 single language is enough for communication. And the other function of language is just a side-dish. As it is a tool, just like any other tools, it can have other functions as sword can be well decorated, people can study the decoration. Or, this tool can be used as other circumstances, like it can be served a a social status. But the nature of it is a tool, which people used it on purpose. Language itself can be well studied. But this is beyond our topic as we can always study somethings as study how the study that study those studies.

Social welfare

This post start with Simpson's wisdom. Look at social welfare, most of them just gives people money, so called the "safety net", which protect people from being too poor. in some sense, it also encourage people, for give an illusion to people that they can be lazy.

i still remember an experience from UNICEF in Africa. Long time ago, around 1980s, a lot of civil conflicts or wars in africa and made people suffering. The emergency aid is sending food, water, medicine to them. However, even after the chaos, the societies cannot rebuild and UNICEF thinks, by sending food or medicine can help them, people can save themselves automatically. However, the plan run for decades but the people still suffering. what's wrong?? it is because the people don't have the skill to saving themselves. Many doctors went to Africa, but the death rate still high. it is not because the doctors did a poor jobs or not enough of doctors, it is because people don't know how to take care of personal hygiene. in chinese words, "touching the surface but not dealing with the root". Now, the policy was changed. They build schools, teaching people to drink clean water, telling them how to farm, etc. Within few years, people start to saving themselves, and become independent.

this story is similar to social welfare. by giving people money, you can save them for a while, but not for long. This philosophy applied to young adult. How about old people??

the best solution is that old people have saving. hm.... stop pension later...... people will do the best they could.......... teaching people....... learn by lesson..... medical care by government..... like police, firefighters .....  i lost my patient on typing... may be continuous later....

Somethings about Science, story and human

science, I mean pure science, deals with matter, even biology is about cell, micro-organism or the ecology.

story, deal with relationship. if one thing is related with the others, there is a story. thus, a story on how the doomsday happens, how butterfly mate and travel, how nuclear matter formed and has several properties, how a supernovae exploded, how money flow through the economy, how the WWII begin, are stories.

however, not every story is interesting, I mean, interesting to human. take Hollywood movies, there must be human relationship inside a story. there are alot YouTube about matter's story. say, how to make a bicycle. it may be interesting for some people. but it is hard to imagine all YouTube are this kind of clips, only deal with matter, death things. Or even living thing without human, say how bee finds the way home.

I always wonder, is it possible to write a story, interesting to human, but does not have any human, or human feeling in part of it (as the lion king, wall-E).

in certain extend, being a scientist, most of the time is dealing with matter. however, it does not mean we can survive without interaction with human. sometimes, life is boring because it is dun, only on one thing but not others, it is like unbalanced diet.

in Chinese society, Chinese are so enjoy on human relationship, rather then matter. I am not sure other society. one reason is that, it is much closer to us, we have to cooperate, live with others. and that may be why Chinese never develop science. some say Chinese feels politics is dirty and avoiding it. I think it is just modern Chinese. Compare the history, Chinese take part in politics very much. but the lack of science, or the logical thinking,, we never break through the kingship and develop democracy.

A flaw of democracy

nowadays democracy is indirect, we elected someone to represent us in the council. even in general election, every people vote for themselves, we transfer some power to the representative, say, president.

during the election, candidates can imagine many things, can give a vision, an imagination to people, to "sell" themselves, to image themselves as the most suitable person.

however, there is no guarantee thy what they said will come true. this is the flaw of democracy, or more precise, the flaw of right transfer, the flaw of election.

in hk, there are many politic party, before the election, they publish their attitude on certain issues. Say, they support general election, extend the transparency of the government, etc. however, after they were elected, sit in the council tight, they take action totally opposite by objecting related bills, acts, etc..

not just in hk, I can see in Taiwan, every in US, candidates will say something they cannot do. Although in catholic country, there moral standard is higher then Chinese, they are more careful when talking about sensitive issue. however, the democracy is mean to wipe out the fluctuation on human moral standard. the best is minimum the effect on moral. of course, that does not mean we don't need a good moral of leaders.

so, may be, we require all elected candidates are required to their wealth to the failed candidates, or opposite party. When ever they do something violated what they said during election, their money will be donated to charity by the opposite party.

however, as the councillors are not sitting there forever, they have to face another election after the council was over. people will "remember" why they did and not voting those cheaters again. that seem to be a good counter action to regulate councillors. and who regulate the opposite party for donating the money??

but that may be not enough. What if someone, mean to do bad things and just want to be a councilor once?? he don't mean to be re-elected, but just want to do selfish thing?? moreover, people have to be a good memories to remember what they did in last few years. to be honest, it is hard to do!

I know this is not the best answer. the idea is that, they are immediate facing a drawback on violate promise. and they are always be watched by the opposite party, or even the media.

media can only make their image bad, but for those real evil, they don't care. there must be some way to regulate those are not honest. and make every candidates to say something real practical and realistic.

On the doubt about general election in hk

it is very surprising that, among those well educated teenagers or young adult , not to mention those older, believe that general election is not suitable in hk. their argument is that, hk people are not wise. people will elected some idiot and make bad policy.

for those, I always tell them an analogy:

If you go to a resteraunt, you chooses some shit, you can order something else next time, if your dishes with a cockroach, you can change it! however, if you were forced to eat some shit, you have no choice and have to eat it day by day!

it think it is very obvious. if we make mistake, we can learn. but someone make us have a bad day, what can we do? ok, we can fight back. but it is not a good or easy way.

another analogy I would like to tell the
is:

a fresh graduate always faces a problem on Jon hunting - experience required. everybody complain about this. I need to have some experience to have some experience? take a time machine? something apply to general election. people cannot say, since this city never have experience on election thus, we may do it wrong, so better wait until we are more "wise", more "experienced". I think it is totally bullshit. I bet that no parent will tell their kid don't learn to walk, since you have no experience, you will fall an be injured, you better crow for your whole life.

After I told this to may friend, they suddenly realized that "not wise" enough is not the reason for not having a general election. it is just the power-holder don't want to share the power, coz no matter how deep shit they made, they are not the one who suffer.

I hope this idea will well spread among the hk public.

one more thing, people will also argue that, many people were blindly supporting china interference on hk issue. but I think, as long as they are hk people, live in hk, they also suffer from bad policy. through general election, people will discuss, talk, and educate each other. by time to time, only the goo will pop out.

自嘲

古典瞬間：自嘲是一種高級幽默



孔子是善於自嘲的大師級人物，他在鄭國與弟子們走散，獨自在東門外彷徨。子貢到處找老師，有一個人告訴他說：「東門外站著一個人，看上去就像喪家之犬的那位，是不是你的老師啊？」子貢找到孔子並且轉述了那人的話，孔子苦笑著說他形容得傳神：「是啊，我確實像條喪家之犬啊！」

　孔子在亂世之中到處遊說，到處碰壁，尷尬又沮喪。他能認識到這一點，說明他是十分自知的。看來，自嘲的第一要素，就是要有自知之明。

　魏晉文人劉伶是喝酒的高手，也是自嘲的高手。劉伶醉酒之後，並非如死豬一般酣睡，他能妙語如珠，令人莞爾。他瘦小乾巴，其貌不揚，有次喝醉酒之後，與人發生衝突，那人捋出袖子伸出拳頭準備「修理」劉伶，劉伶也把衣服撩起來，不過他不是來動武的，他露出猙獰可數的一排排肋骨，慢條斯理地說：「你看看，我這雞肋骨上有您放拳頭的地方嗎？」那人大笑著離開了。劉伶及時的自嘲，有四襾撥千斤之效，不但免了一頓皮肉之苦，還留傳下來一段佳話。

　自嘲還需有開闊的胸襟墊底。因為胸襟開闊的人，一般都比較幽默，而幽默的一條重要原則，就是寧可取笑自己，絕不輕易取笑別人。自嘲，是自知、自娛和自信的表現，是一種高級幽默。

　宋朝詩人石曼卿，氣宇軒昂，詩酒豪放。有一次，石曼卿乘馬，馬伕一時失控，馬受驚疾走，曼卿墮馬落地，摔得不輕，馬伕嚇得要命，但他慢悠悠對馬伕說：「幸虧我是石學士，如果是瓦學士的話，豈不早被摔碎啦？」

　最近看到兩則墓誌銘，寫得特別風趣、充滿自嘲。一位是書法家啟功，他66歲時自撰墓誌銘。銘文曰： 中學生，副教授。博不精，專不透。名雖揚，實不夠。高不成，低不就。癱趨左，派曾右。面微圓，皮欠厚。妻已亡，並無後。喪猶新，病照舊。六十六，非不壽。八寶山，漸相湊。計平生，謚曰陋。身與名，一齊臭。

　還有一位是著名戲劇家翁偶虹，他在一九九三年不幸病逝。這篇《自志銘》是翁先生生前對自己一生的總結：是讀書種子，也是江湖伶人。也曾粉墨塗面，也曾朱墨為文。甘作花虱於菊圃，不厭蠹魚於書林。書破萬卷，只青一衿；路行萬里，未薄層雲。寧俯首於花鳥，不折腰於縉紳。步漢卿而無珠簾之影，儀笠翁而無玉堂之心。看破實未做，作幾番閒中忙叟；未歸反有歸，為一代今之古人。

　詩人北島說，依他看，沒有多少中國文人懂得自嘲，故非重即輕。我的理解是，自嘲的輕重很難把握，自嘲過輕，如隔靴搔癢，有矯情之嫌，而自嘲過重，將自己貶得一錢不值，又近於自輕與自賤了。啟功的「身與名，一齊臭」，有些言重，翁偶虹的自嘲恰如其分，「寧俯首於花鳥，不折腰於縉紳」，大概也是所有擅長自嘲的文人最本質的底蘊。

　因為職業的原因，文人常常受到各種攻訐，文人選擇自嘲，潛意識裡就有這樣的心理：我自己早就嘲笑過甚至「自輕」過自己了，你再處心積慮地挖苦我，又有什麼勁？

　如賈平凹禿頂，他說到禿頂的好處，其中第二條就是「沒小辮可捉」，真是絕妙的一語雙關，而其他諸如省洗理費、能知冷知曬、有虱子一眼就能看到、隨時準備上戰場、像佛一樣慈悲為懷、不會被削髮為民、怒而髮不沖冠等，無一不透著「聰明絕頂」的高級幽默。

How much my parents spent on me on schooling (so far)

recently, it said it required 5millions HKD for a child to properly study in HK education system. it is all bull shit. if we put this as investment, that mean most HK parents are not a efficacious investor, who spend a lot of money in cheap stock.

i asked my parents about how mush they spent on me:

kindergarten 3 years:  my mom forgot the exact number, but she said not more then 10k a years
Primary school 6 years:  free, only on textbook, from 1000 HKD a year to 2000 HKD a year.
Secondary School 7 years:  free from 1st year to 3rd years. then 500 HKD a month. text book is around 2000 a year.
University 3 years:   Free from grand from government, (~ 120k, living cost borrow from government. )
Graduate school (M. Phil) 2.5 years: 105k
Graduate school (Ph.D) 3 years : 0
Extracurricular activities:
          Swimming (age 6 to 9): many be 3000 HKD in total
          Martial Art (1 years): few hundred, say 500 HKD
          Judo (1 year ): ~ 500HKD
          Tutorial (english, 0.5 year) : ~ 2000 HKD in total
          Graduation trip (to Europe for 1.5 month ) : ~ 50k

Total : 238k < 240k HKD

compare to the "rich" educations ~ 5000k, my parent only spent about 5%.

in my opinion, if thinking children education is an investment, thus, parent spend so much is bad investor.

the important of education is critical thinking, think analytically. not remember a lot of facts, rules. i mean, of course finally we have to know such thing and remember them,  but it is not the goal.

in chinese, about 2500 years before, there is a famous book, called "way of learning" or "the university" (大學), in there, already wrote a famous quote

       comparing with criticizing and analysing is the way of knowing. 致知在格物

2 rooks or a Queen?

This is a very controversial question. People posted a lot of discussions on the issue. Basically, it is quite a personal favor and depends on great varieties of the chessboard.

let's just assume there are 2 rooks and a Queen, all pawns are stripped. my opinion is, the queen attack direction is a point source, but 2 rooks can be from totally difference direction(row an columns). The total square covered by a Queen is 7x4+1=29, which is 45% of the board. the 2 rooks, if they are not covering each other, it can cover at almost 7x4-2+2=28, a little smaller. If the 2 rooks are on the same row or column, the covered area reduced to 22, 7 squares lesser, which almost a row. however, since the tools are covered each other, they are not threaten by the queen any more. while a single queen movement is truly restricted.

in order I checkmate, the Queen has to work together with the King. the only way to checkmate is the King pushing the other King in close range. in case of 2 rooks, the checkmate can be done by theirs own as long as they are not on same file. thus, If the queen can forcing the rooks on same files and moving her king toward the other king. possible checkmate.

this is an ideal case, since the 2 rooks can also get help from their king to not occupy the same file by staying close to their king. this also proving a castle for the king to avoid check and forcing draw.

now, we think about checking and avoiding checking in the queen side. to check the queen's king, the rooks have to put on the same file of the king. if the queen is on the same file of the king, the number of possible checking square is 5 for a single rook. for 2 rooks, as they are not threaten by the queen, they can always check, either directly or behind the queen. in fact, the Queen should be avoid to stay on the same file with her king, otherwise, a pinning will loss the queen! thus, the danger square of the queen or the effective cover area of 2 rooks is 28.

In the 2 rooks side, their king can be attacked from any direction if the rook are far away. however, when the rooks are near, the possible attack direction reduced to 1.

OK, i am tried. the last thing we should think about is the possibly of forking a single rook.  

logic 101 (class 3, set)

Somehow, "half-knowledge (mis-understood) is more dangerous then foolish". it is because, people like to guess the non-told part, or be confused for the non-told. lets go deeper into logic.

before, lets go back to a fundamental thing : set.

    set is a group of objects

for example, a family is a set, it contains family members. the stuffs on a desk form a set. the people in a country form a set. nevertheless, there is an empty set. say, the tree in Antarctica. Thus, by naming the common property of some objects or a rule on selection, we have a set. in reverse, all elements in a set share some common properties or rules.

among a set, there may be some "sub-set", say, the kids in a family, the women in a country. this concept should be easily be understood. 

To get the feeling of set, we usually draw a picture. the area inside a circle represent a set, and another circle inside the circle represent a sub-set.

Now, we have to introduce 2 simple concepts: AND and OR

     AND : the common objects in 2 or more sets.

     OR : any thing in 2 or more sets

in a picture, AND is the common area of 2 circles. OR is the total area of 2 circles. We should be very careful that, in logic, the OR has only 1 meaning. but in human language, which also follow some logic, "or" can be mean "either A or B, but not both", or "either A or B or both." 

the application of it is very powerful. say, we have a set of  "what to do in raining", thus, we have many elements inside, say, "bring umbrella" , "stay indoor", etc. If we draw a circle A of  "what to do in raining", the circle B of "bring umbrella" is another circle that cross circle A. and "stay indoor" also another circle crossing A but never touch B. 

what does it means?? it mean that, there are some are of B, which is not lay in A. thus, when someone bring an umbrella, it does not mean it is raining! we just illustrated the logic why "If A then B" and "if B then A" are not equal by graph!! 

and we can see, the circle B and C don't touch each other, which mean, when we stay home, we never bring umbrella and vice versa. then we have a logic, 

    if B then not C   equal   if C then not B

ok, Now, we introduce "a universal set", which contain everything we are concerning. (it is not the set of everything, which does not exist.) we draw a rectangle which contain every circles.;thus, the area OUTSIDE  a circle mean "not this circle". in our example, "not C" is outside the circle C.

thus, we can see, B is a subset of not C. and we have a very important concept.

   if A then B  equal    set A is a sub-set of B

OK, lets apply on our case. we immediately see some problem that, circle A is not a subset of circle B! how come?  this mean, our logic has problem. we missing an assumption that, we have to add a circle D, "out-door". i will let reader think about where the "shape" (not circle may be) should be placed.

logic 101 (class 2)

i just posted about logic yesterday, and i saw one logic error in facebook today. (facepalm)

let put it in here,

    man cannot change destiny, but personality can change it. 

it seems OK, right. lets just don't discuss what is "destiny" in here, and i reply the post by asking,

   can man change his personality?

by i asking this question is that, the sentence indicated that "man" and "his personality" are independent. and this is natural to ask that "what defined the personality?" it can be anything but "man", say, weather, horoscope, etc. i just want to clarify that. If man cannot change his personality, then the so call "destiny" is really out of man control. and we are all helpless in front of "destiny", like a chess piece.

my friend replied,

  man definite can change his personality.

thus, we can see, "man can change destiny", which contradicted to the statement. because by associative law, we have

   man definite can change his personality.
   personality can change destiny.
   thus, man can change destiny
   but, man cannot change destiny !
   Contradiction!!


Now, we can understand the contradiction, which can be symbolic into.

    Given B, if A then not B.

logic 101

i planned to write about logic for public long time ago. coz i saw many people made logic mistake during debates and arguments, especially more and more people joined discussions on public issues. And never the less, the new HK chief executive always using "double negation" statement, or logic, to fool people around.

here i will give a fundamental logic with minimum mathematical jargon, hope people from any background will understand it easily.

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first rule of logic is, we only talk about something that can be proved to be right or wrong. Expressing a feeling is not part of logic.

   Eunice is beautiful. <-- this is not a logical statement, since it cannot be right or wrong.

   Bill Gate is rich. <--- this is a logical statement, since we can prove Bill Gate is rich or not. of course this can also be an expression of feeling.


Most people understand the  conclusive logic.

    if A has property B  and C is part of A, then C has property B.

an example is : All human will die, John is a human, then John will die. a little explanation is, C is part of A. if C is not part of A, then the logic fail. an example is, i like apple, i am human, then human likes apple. obviously, we know that NOT all human likes apple!

we can generalized the logic as

   if A then B

which mean, A will cause B, expressing a relationship/consequence. for example, if my cell phone run out of battery, then i could not use the phone.


Most people can use associative law very easily:

     if A then B and B then C, then A then C.

an example is, if i work hard, then high score in exam, and if high score in exam, my parent happy. then, if i work hard, then my parent happy.

Now, a common mistake made by people is

  if A then B = if B then A

let me give an example of this mistake. if it is raining, Mary will bring an umbrella. OK, when we saw Mary bring an umbrella, some people will say, "oh, it must be raining." or, if it is not raining, then people will ask Mary, "why do you bring umbrella?"

i see this mistake happen very common. another example is. If i respect a teacher, he is a good teacher. and what if i don't respect a teacher? is it mean he is a bad teacher? NO, i simple Didn't Say anything when i not respect a teacher!

take the example of raining. we now know that if it is raining, Mary will bring an umbrella. But how about it is sunny, what Mary will bring? WE DON"T KNOW! Mary can bring anything or nothing, we just don't know.

let make a clear illustration here. we have 4 possible combination of A, B, not A , not B.

   a) if A then B
   1) if not A then not B
   2) if not B then not A
   3) if B then A

we now should be clear that, a) is not equal to 3). and 1) is simple wrong, or we cannot know by just given a). How about 2)???

Now, this is what i want to let everyone know.

    a) = 2) | if A then B = if not B then A

using if it is raining, Mary will bring an umbrella as an example. we now sure that, if Mary does not bring an umbrella, then it is not raining. we see here a double negation statement, which make many people confused.

so, to clear things, here is a conclusion.

if we given a statement, we can only know 1 extra things. and ask 2 questions to make sure we understood.

    if A then B  =  if  not B then not A
    1) what if not A ??
    2) what if B ??

美國知名智褲蘭德公司的報告 ---：美國智庫對中國人的15條評論

轉貼.........美國知名智褲蘭德公司的報告 ---：美國智庫對中國人的15條評論
(值得兩岸中國人深思與警惕)

1. 中國人缺乏誠信和社會責任感。中國人不瞭解他們作為社會個體應該對國家和社會所承擔的責任和義務。普通中國人通常只關心他們的家庭和親屬，中國的文化是建立在家族血緣關係上而不是建立在一個理性的社會基礎之上。中國人只在乎他們直系親屬的福祉，對與自己毫不相關的人所遭受的苦難則視而不見。毫無疑問，這種以血緣關係為基礎的道德觀勢必導致自私，冷酷，這種自私和冷酷已經成為阻礙中國社會向前發展的最關鍵因素。

2. 中國從來就沒有成為一個法制社會，因為中國人的思維方式與守法行為格格不入。中國人老想走捷徑。他們不明白這樣一個事實：即成就來自於努⋯⋯力工作和犧牲。中國人傾向於索取而不是給予。他們需要明白一個道理：生活的真諦不在於你索取多少而在於你能給予社會和你的人類同胞多少。

3. 大多數中國人從來就沒有學到過什麼是體面和尊敬的生活意義。中國人普遍不懂得如何為了個人和社會的福祉去進行富有成效的生活。潛意識裡，中國人視他們的生活目的就是抬高自己從而獲得別人的認知。這樣一來，一個人就會對“保有面子”這樣微不足道慾望感到滿足。“面子”是中國人心理最基本的組成部分，它已經成為了中國人難以克服的障礙，阻礙中國人接受真理並嘗試富有意義的生活。這個應受譴責的習性使得中國人生來就具有無情和自私的特點，它已成為中國落後的主要原因。

4. 中國人沒有勇氣去追求他們認為正確的事情。首先，他們沒有從錯誤中篩選正確事物的能力，因為他們的思想被貪婪所佔據。再有，就算他們有能力篩選出正確的事情，他們也缺乏勇氣去把真理化為實踐。

5. 中國人習慣接受廉價和免費的事物，他們總是夢想奇跡或者好運，因為他們不願意付出努力，他們總想不勞而獲。很少有中國人明白一個事實：威望和成就是通過一步步努力的工作和犧牲實現的，不付出就沒有所得。簡單來說，如果是為了謀生，那一個人只有去索取；但如果是為了生活，一個人必須要去奉獻。

6. 由於在貧窮的環境下生長並且缺少應有的教育，大多數中國人不懂得優雅的舉止和基本的禮貌。他們中的大多數人著裝笨拙粗鄙卻不感到害羞。他們在青少年時所受的教育就是如何說謊並從別人那裡索取，而不是去與別人去分享自己的所有。

7. 中國是一個物產豐富的國家。但無限制生育政策所帶來惡果使得中國成為了無限廉價勞動力的輸出國。這些輸出也包括那些受過教育的勞力輸出，除了他們的教育水平，實則和其他一般苦力沒有本質上的區別。

8. 中國大規模生產的便宜產品降低了鍵入這些產品的地區的商業信用度。由於技術落後，管理失敗，中國製造的單位能耗要比發達國家如日本、美國高出很多。因此，隨著出口額的增加，中國在擴大生產的同時喪失著寶貴的能源。同時，這種行為也嚴重地污染了環境，使中國變為全世界最不適宜人類居住的國家。

9. 目前中國正在遭受著資本主義社會兩大邪惡的折磨，環境的破壞與人性的喪失。由於中國人天生的貪婪的本性，他們可以毫無保留的接受資本主義的陰暗面即無止境追求物質利益、忽視人的尊嚴。中國人對西方的技術與產品狂熱追求卻對西方管理文化所強調的坦率、直接、誠實這些品質漠不關心。

10. 由於中國文化不鼓勵敢於冒險這種優良品質 (??)，所以中國人極力避免冒險，他們也不想尋求機會來改善自己的生活。中國人對於生活的平衡性和意義性並不感興趣，相反他們更執迷於對物質的索取，這點上要遠遠勝於西方人。大多數中國人發現他們不懂得“精神靈性”、“自由信仰”以及“心智健康”這樣的概念，因為他們的思想尚不能達到一個生命(補：即肉體和靈性的並存)存在的更高層次。他們的思想還停留在專注於動物本能對性和食物那點貪婪可憐的慾望上。

11. 在中國人的眼中，受教育不是為了尋求真理或者改善生活質量，而只是身份和顯赫地位的象徵和標誌。中國的知識分子從別人那裡得到尊敬並不是因為他們為了別人的幸福做過什麼，而只是因為他們獲得佔有了相當的知識。事實上，他們中的大多數只不過是一群僅僅通曉考試卻從不關心真理和道德的食客。

12.中國的教育體系很大程度上已經成為一種失敗和恥辱。它已經不能夠服務於教育本應所服務的對象：社會。這個教育體系不能提供給社會許多有用的個體。它只是製造出一群投機分子，他們渴望能夠受益於社會所提供的好處卻毫不關心回報。

13. 中國可以培養出大批的高級人才，但卻很少可以培養出合格的可以獨立主持的管理級專家。服務於一個公司或者社會，光有技術是不夠的；還需要有勇氣、膽量、正直和誠實的領導才能，這恰恰是大多數中國人所缺少的品性。正如亞瑟•史密斯(一位著名的西方傳教士)一個世紀前所指出的，中國人最缺乏的不是智慧，而是勇氣和正直的純正品性。這個評價，雖然歷經百年，如今依舊準確診斷出中國綜合症的原因。

14 .大多數中國畢業生對選擇出國並為外國工作不會感到內疚，事實上他們首先欠下了中國人民在教育上為他們所做出的犧牲。隨著傳統文化價值觀的破壞和逐步衰弱，大多數的中國人(包括受過教育的人)都徘徊在精神和內心世界的路口，像迷失的狗一樣不知何去何從。

15.……………………(最後一條留給我們的讀者)

桃花

桃花塢裡桃花庵，桃花庵下桃花仙。桃花仙人種桃樹，又摘桃花賣酒錢。

酒醒只在花前坐，酒醉還來花下眠。半醒半醉日復日，花落花開年復年。

但願老死花酒間，不願鞠躬車馬前。車塵馬足富者趣，酒盞花枝貧者緣。

若將富貴比貧賤，一在平地一在天。若將花酒比車馬，他得驅馳我得閒。

別人笑我太瘋癲，我笑別人看不穿。不見五陵豪傑墓，無花無酒鋤作田。

If people are same as me

When i saw nokia commerical long time ago. People are all the same face. I wonder, what if all people are same as me.

First, I think all singers or movie stars are poor. i am not a fan for any one. In fact, I hate to be a fan of someone. Why I have to admire you just because you can sing a good song? I rather like to admire the song then the singer. Coz even a good singer can produces shit. and I really don't understand why people pay so expensive concert ticket to watch their star. for me, I rather spend those money with friends, family.

basketball, football etc will be gone. I just cannot understand why watching people doing that instead of playing the game by ourself. why people attach emotion feeling on something that is not belong, or not even not related to themselves? every time I watch a game with my friend, I just cannot sit but really want to play by myself. Ok, I think if people watching as a learning, may be fine with me.

apple will fall. I don't like apple's produce. Simple they are arrogance and "think" their way is the best, you "must" follow. It is same as technology Nazi for me. sadly enough, I am using my iPhone on typing this post.

Bookshop will be very popular, coz every people read.

ar, lost of concentration... May be continuous next day.