Wednesday, May 16, 2007

What will happen tomorrow?

Life, cold as the freezing fog. Where to go? What to find? Mystery awaits as we forge ahead.

Intelligent beings sometimes choose to stay. Moving ahead brings too much unknown. Bliss is what some claim as the resting place.

Seeing only a few feet ahead, the mover walks with anxious steps. At times, he wishes he will find a resting place.

Friday, May 11, 2007

Did China invent the '4 Great Inventions'?


Its hard to understand how they managed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=454160&in_page_id=1770

China has earned a reputation for perfecting the faking of Western fashion, perfumes, DVDs and CDs to a fine art.

Now it would seem the country is capable of copying whole theme parks after a phoney Disneyland was exposed.

A banner over the entrance said, "Disney is too far, so please come to Shijingshan".

The park’s deputy general manager Yin Zhiqiang denied any copyrights were being breached.

"The characters in our park just look a little bit similar to theirs. But the faces, clothes, sizes and appearances are totally different," he added.

"The face of Disney’s Cinderella face is European, but ours is a Chinese. She looks like a young Chinese country girl."

Being a Chinese, although born in Singapore, I felt uneased by such irresponsibility.

Here's an attitude from a reader,

Surprisingly, or not surprising at all, this thing is state-owned.
So basically China is trying to say "We can copy whatever we want!" as a country.
I guess there is no concept of copyrights in China...

- Macfan, NY

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Feet hurt?

Pedestrians in Singapore were crowned the world's fastest movers, walking 30 percent faster than they did in the early 1990s, and in China, the pace of pacing in Guangzhou has increased by more than 20 percent.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/05/04/255.html
No wonder my feet blister and leg sometimes hurt after a day out.