和中国做生意的五种办法

１, 热爱并支持达赖

萨科齐波兰见达赖


巴黎市授予达赖“荣誉市民"

空客领衔 法国企业获中国227亿美元巨额订单

2, 绑架中国人

7名中国公民在喀麦隆被绑架

中国向喀麦隆提供200万元人民币无偿援助

3, 欺负中国渔民

日本与中国上半年贸易额创记录新高

4, 抽中国政府耳光

中海油田附属获挪威长期石油钻探合同


5, 将冲突发展至最高潮

中美冲突进入最高潮

2010年中美贸易额有望超3000亿美元

My throught on Liuxiaobo's winning

Civilized world outraged again over China's picking on its Citizens
China also outraged again over civilized world's picking on Nobel prize

Top10不当翻译

中文里有很多词，其实并没有和英文翻得对照起来，但我们会发现有的词，被宣传部门稍加利用，足以起到破坏大众逻辑和判断能力的作用。

排名不分先后：
1，country， state-》国家
英文里这是两个完全不同意义的单词，但在中文里确是一个词，这完美的符合在中国党即政府即国家即是你母亲的宣传政策，很多所谓愤青看到别人反共就是在反华，看到别人帮你骂骂政府就相在骂他自己，概念完全一团浆糊。

2，traditional chinese medicine -》中药
这个词应该是英文翻中文的，老外都是明白人了，翻得很清楚，强调的是traditional，中文里为什么叫中药而不是传统药呢？ 无非是利用“中药”和“西药”的对立关系偷换“传统药”和“现代药”的对立关系，再加上中国的一点就燃的爱国主义和遗毒至今的封建迷信，中医药这种文化历史遗产也就有了巨大的医用市场。

这和西式民主这种说法有异曲同工之妙，巧妙的将封建和现代用东方和西方的关系偷换过来了。

3，drug -》毒品
英文里毒有专门的单词poison, drug就是drug为什么会被翻成毒品呢，中国人对drug的无知我觉得跟这个翻译有很大的关系，极大的误导了人民群众，中国也就成了一个该吸的“毒”不吸，不该吸的“毒”猛吸的奇怪国家。

4,Ecstasy-> 摇头丸
说到了drug,不得不说到Ecstasy,我认识的中国人里不管有没有试过Ecstasy的，对之都没有太好的印象，吃过ecstasy的中国人对它的评价不是那么的高可以解释为中国本身就没有CLUB和DANCE的文化和氛围，吃Ecstasy就相戴手套手淫一样没有了快感，而没吃过的人也对它很反感，除了中共的宣传外，我认为这个翻译也有很大问题，在一个乌七八黑烟熏缭绕的地方傻不拉几的不停摇头，多蠢的事情啊。。。一个“摇头”，把ecstasy本身字面的美，更把它背后巨大的快感，音乐，艺术，舞蹈和时尚文化全都掩盖起来了。

5，appreciate-感谢
中文里很难找到一个词能和appreciate完全对应起来，也许这也是我们常常粗暴对待艺术和美的原因？
其它的日后再写。。。

世界上最牛B的移民法

自从美国鸭梨商那州通过一个什么移民法以来，美国的新闻网站就老是能看到讨论这个的新闻，不过我从来没有点进去看过，因为我知道，就美国这样的国家定个移民法能牛B到哪去，必竟我是在北京待的人，什么没见过啊。。

结果今天新闻里又说，连这么个号称美国历史上首个XX的移民法，也被最高法取消了，说是违宪，而且有种族歧视的问题，点进去看了看，这移民法主要的内容是什么呢，很简单，一句话，就是警察叔叔如果在街上看到个人感觉你有可能是非法移民，那么有权盘查其证件。

我估计所有在北京生活过的“外来务工人员”看到这样的新闻都有崩溃的感觉吧。

要不说广东福建的农民拼了命拼了家产也要偷渡喃。

前些天FP评了世界上前五个最HARSH的移民法http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/04/29/the_world_s_worst_immigration_laws?page=0,1 但最后的结论是就算是这五个，也比不上美国这个牛B。

我蛋定的笑了笑，要让他们看到这样的新闻，估计他们都不好意思把那几个称为移民法吧。。
http://www.google.com.hk/search?client=aff-os-maxthon&forid=1&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&hl=zh-CN&q=%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC44%E6%9D%91%E5%BA%84%E4%B8%8B%E6%9C%88%E5%B0%81%E9%97%AD%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86+%E5%BB%BA%E5%9B%B4%E5%A2%99%E5%87%BA%E5%85%A5%E5%87%AD%E8%AF%81%28%E5%9B%BE%29

韩国龙平滑雪

我唯一一次出国滑雪就是去韩国的龙平，去之前期望就不高，所以倒是玩得很尽兴。

虽然比国内的好不少，但可以想相比起欧美日本肯定差远了。

去之前先在首尔喝了两天酒，结果在那边待了三天只滑了一天半，其它时间都在睡觉OR喝酒。。。

雪场是韩国最大的，但也就比万龙大点点，不过缆车多不少，且都是高速，相比万龙的冻慢缆车舒服不少。

雪道和万龙差不多，可能和北大湖相当吧。天然降雪好相多点，不过也都压过了。

最长的一条有五公里，不过全是新人，而且只有十米左右宽。。。

很多双板高手，滑得刷刷刷的，我一直觉得国内新人现在很多选择单板是因为第一次去滑雪的话在国内特别是北京周边的雪场全是姿态和装扮都特别丑的滑双板的，所以第一印象就不好了。。

配套设备都很好，晚上吃肉喝酒的环境估计崇礼再等个三十年差不多。旁边的小镇也很好玩。总得来说，想滑雪的话就不用考虑韩国了，但现在周未去次万龙也小2K，如果想顺便玩玩韩国，那到可以去一次。

我觉得首尔是个很好玩的地方，姑娘们的裙子要比北京短点，夜生活比北京丰富，但价钱却只贵了一点点。值得一去。

5 Reasons Chinese Goverment Should NOT Legalize Marijuana

"Drug" is translated to "poison" in Chinese when it comes to recreational use. Not only the drugs themselves, but also any drug related discussions and debates are strictly forbidden in China.

The propaganda against drug use is so strong that most mainland Chinese not only have no idea what drug is but also try to avoid any drug related discussion, anyway, only stupid people want to talk about "eating poison".

So it's interesting to think about what will happen if the government legalize some relative harmless drugs, like, marijuana~?

of course they will never do it. I list my top 5 reasons.

#5 People will be so pissed off because
The government put almost no restrictions on tobacco and alcohol use,no matter what's your age, no matter where you are... this is the most important reason why there are 300million people addicted to tobacco, and more than 1million people die from alcohol related disease or accidents every year. anyone has dinnered with local government officials knows most of them like forcing people to drink Chinese wine with 52% ABV,they are just so crazy about cigarettes and alcohol. but at the same time the government runs a ridiculous propaganda against other drugs and heavily punish any people commit an offense. what a weird country...

#4 Why to have problems with lots of money
The tobacco industry brings billions of billions of money to the government every year and shit loads of people work for the state owned tobacco company. and the economy of several provinces heavily rely on tobacco and alcohol. so at least they don't want any drugs can be easily home made...


#3 The opium war...
Every Chinese starts learning "You must love Communist party" kinda things since first grade, and almost all of those things start with the "shame" during Opium war...so the government links their legal status to what they had done to get Chinese out of that miserable "drug" life 100 years ago...

#2 subculture
"Every culture and subculture gets the drugs that it deserves," writes Douglas Rushkoff in his forward to Tim Pilcher's <>, In fact, almost every major cultural movement in history can be traced back to the chemicals it did or did not have. Obviously the CCP doesn't like culture, so they lead the Culture Revolution and then set up a Ministry of Culture to ban all the culture.

#1 It organizes people
Anything that can organizes people are strictly forbidden in China, like facebook and twitter something are seriously blocked by GFW and even cellphone texts are censored nowadays.
how many people are prone to get addicted to drugs in China?imagine the on line computer game addicts in China is 10 times more than the rest of the world combined. How much more fun it is to get stoned than on line computer games?
Imagine again a China's 420 smoke out day, that will be the first thing the government can not control in China

5 Reasons Chinese Government Should Legalize Marijuana

Also, there are 5 Reasons they should legalize marijuana

#5 Save animals in the world
Legalizing marijuana will definitely trigger lots of debate about drugs the first time in China's history, some people will eventually know how to treat drugs with a scientific attitude, so there will be less people eating weird things in China eventually, you know , someone believe eating tiger's penis helps on bed, eating turtle helps living longer...animals are going to be all in zoos or on dinner tables in this way...

#4 tax income
Again, if even the on line computer game addicts are 10 times more than the rest of the world combined, how many pot addicts there can be in China?although the state owned cigarette company would see a huge profit cut, they can make more from issuing a drug tax.


#3 Hemp for Paper making
China is the most polluted country in the world, and people still want more from their land. Hemp has arguably been proven one of the best plant for forest and its high efficiency for paper making. This is exactly what we need.


#2 Better for themselves...
There is a smoking culture in government offices all over China if you don't smoke you're seen as a different guy and will never get promoted. so if you have to smoke something , why not marijuana,which has been proven less harmful than tobacco no matter in terms of dependence or physics harm.

#1 Relax People
There are tens of thousands of protests in China each year, most of them become serious riots eventually. if the CCP wants making more money , they have to keep fucking Chinese people, how can you calm down all those miserable lads? Get them stoned!

欧洲国和北京国

欧洲表面上有几十个国家，中国号称的共产党领导下的大团结大和谐之国，但其实到底哪个更相个一个国家呢？

欧洲没有统一的语言，但很多人会说英语，你只要会基本的英语不管去哪个国家都不至于没办法，有的地方说英语的人确实很少，特别是一些小地方，但在这些地方找到个会说英语的人的概率和在中国小地方找到个说普通话的人概率其实是一样的。在中国，特别是中国南方农村，有时村东和村西的方言都可以是完全不一样的。

欧盟有欧元和英磅，中国有人民币，港币，澳门币，新台币。

欧盟人可以自由内部流动，任意定居工作，合法享受各种福利。并可自由前往中国香港，澳门和台湾。

中国人需申请前往香港澳门，不可个人前往台湾。

中国人不可自由在境内流动，虽不相朝鲜设有关卡，但警查可盘查甚至入户盘问，到了外地无法享受当地福利和教育，外地就业面临严重歧视，制度性歧视。

中国人存在严重的地域歧视。

比一比欧洲，中国真的不能算一个国家了。

A片之父挂了

最近在TIME上看到了Gerard Rocco Damiano的悼文，才知道了这个名导演的传奇。

Gerard Rocco Damiano是美国上世纪七十年代成名的A片导演，准确的说是hardcoreA片的导演。我意外的是原来仅仅就在三十年前，人类社会还如此保守，据说当时第一部作品取名叫Deep throat,居然没人明白什么意思，街头的大妈听说了，竟还以为是拍长颈鹿的动物电影。。.

想想这些先驱是多么的伟大，没有他们，后来的男人们会少掉多少性福。

而没有A片，中国的男生在成长过程中会少掉多少回忆。。。

我特别喜欢那篇悼文的最后一句话
Sometimes it takes a smart softie to make a hardcore phenomenon.

可悲的中国护照

今天看到欧盟已经准备给台湾护照免签待遇的新闻了，其实我很惊讶现在才给，英国和爱尔篮早就对台湾开放了，要偷渡的话这两个国家对亚洲人吸引力比大陆国家要大多了吧。

见网上有人在讨论，纷纷感叹，但重点是放在了中国政府在这件事的不作为上。

这是一个很奇怪的看法。你去别人家作客，你只要代上礼物，去了好好玩，别玩了不回来，人为什么不让你去呢？

其实现在出国玩的中国人，绝对是很多经济不振国家最受欢迎的人群之一，比如都喜欢住酒店，很少去hostel,购起物来眼都不眨，而且还都很老实，什么酒后斗殴，贩毒什么的很少有中国人，而且只要能拿到合法签证出国的非法滞留的可能性相当相当小，可中国护照还是世界上最不好使的护照之一.

其实你看看欧盟的免签国，洋洋洒洒一大页，还有很多南美国家，好多其实人均收入并不高，经济其实只是一方面原因。

这件事怪政府吗？当然怪，但不是怪她在这件事上不作为，而是她“领导”下中国日益增大的贫福差距。

当年波兰加入欧盟，在第一周里全国出境一百万人，如果欧盟现在对中国免签，中国会出境多少？ 不敢想相。

就相现在日本和韩国对中国的个人签证一样，只要你能证实你是个大城市工作的“城里人”，基本都照签不误，
但他永远不会免签，因为中国人对自己人的压迫足以让天文数字的民工跑去外国打黑工。

想想中国底层百姓的生活和遭遇吧，他们是中国最辛苦的人却过着最惨的生活，这样的事绝不会发生在任何一个国家哪怕是非法移民身上。

除非天变了，否则中国人就会一直拿着基本没有“护照”功能的护照。

写到这想到最近的食品安全问题，网上基本上每天每月的都能看到各种食品黑作坊的曝光，地沟油，豆腐什么的，触目惊心，每一个中国人其实都是受害者。

但这又是谁造成的呢？

监管不力当然是原因，但是什么原因让那些人做出这种事呢？

有人说是没有信仰，我不认为。中国这么多非法移民，出国了也基本上做与饮食相关的行业，但却从来没出过什么黑作坊的事。仅仅是国外监管得力么？

在中国做这些食品的基本都是城市最底层的百姓，还是那句话，看看她们的生活，说猪狗不如都不是形容词，而只是一个事实描述，连他们的孩子都得不到最基本的生活资料和保护。你能指望他们做出多卫生的东西呢？

如果他们知道只要自己好好做，就能和家里人在这个城市里体面的生活下去，每天下了班还有空去PUB喝杯啤酒，周未还能休息，每年能渡个假，买东西的人见他就说你好，买完就说谢谢，还有多少人能做出什么都不管不顾的东西来呢

当一个社会缺乏对人最基本的尊重，又怎么能指望人能尊重这个社会呢？

所以还是那句话，你可以不关心政治，但政治却在时时刻刻的关心你。

成都熊猫

我第一次也是唯一一次在成都体会到nightclub的快感就是两年前在成都，虽然全场只有十几个人，但是不管从音乐，还是跳舞的人，还是那种VIBE，都已足够在成都这种地方显得太过超前。

从十二点疯跳到三四点，还遇到了在北京玩white rabbit的人，太巧了。

遗憾的是，此后两次回成都，却发现成都这唯一一个CLUB却连十几个人都凑不够了，其它的地方，都是典型的中国所谓慢摇吧，也就是贵点的大排档而已。

所以今天在gochengdoo看到这样的REVIEW，难免遗憾，谁不希望家乡好呢。。
Reviews
MajorMafanSaturday, 29th May 2010
Basically that place is dying, thanks to the new owners. It breaks my heart to see Chengdu's only club with ok sound & dancefloor to be taken over by a bunch of tasteless douches. Oh and the drinks are horrible.


另外在这网上还惊奇的发现成都有个叫HEMP HOUSE 的地方，真不知道是怎么通过审批的，不过工商局的大妈们估计也不会知道这些。。。虽然我在成都从没遇到过stoner，但希望下次回去这个地方能丰富下我的过年生活。。。

Top10 Tourist Must-See&Do in Beijing

OK, I decide to share my top 10 list about what to see&do in Beijing, I believe it beats all the other travel guides about Beijing on the internet.

北京旅游十大景点：

#10 Drinking in Summer Palace：
One of the few places in Beijing to escape the mass(during weekdays!!),it's so beautiful that I've visited it for more than ten times. When you rent a boat and stay in the centre of Kunming lake you can feel so peace that you can't believe you're in an insanely packed city.

And of course, you're in a country without any actually laws about alcohol use, just bring your own chilled beer and enjoy yourself.

Why you have to bring alcohol? because this is what the emperor did 100 years ago, or how could he ever bother to build such a lake:-)

The Greatest Soccer Player , Ever, Rivaldo!

今天无意中又在youtube中点进去看了RIVALDO当年打VALENCIA那场比赛，又一次差点泪奔。。。

在那场比赛之前就已经迷了他三年了，追着他也看了三年，甚至踢球射门都从右脚练成了左脚，那场比赛直接把我对他的迷恋带向了最高点，也害我如今看哪个球员都觉得差几条街看不下去。。。

除去感情因素，这个帽子戏法无论从重要性，对手的重视度，时间点，精采程度任何一方面来讲，个人认为都可算作史上最牛比的一个帽子戏法。

所以我觉得我有时还是很幸运的，至少在电视上经历过那个疯狂的夜晚。

转一篇当年卫报上的文章，于我心有七七烟

On Second Thoughts: Rivaldo

A common, if slightly cringeworthy, observation of pundits in this country is that, if you could marry British will with continental skill, you would have the perfect footballer. Such a mixed recipe was thrillingly in evidence in Diego Maradona. Since then, however, perhaps only Rivaldo has fused the two qualities. Yet when we discuss soccer's AM (After Maradona) greats, Zinedine Zidane invariably comes out on top, with Rivaldo well back among the pack. While it would be dubious to argue that Rivaldo was a better technician than Zidane, it is arguable that, if you took everyone playing at the absolute peak of their game, Rivaldo was the best and most unstoppable footballer since Maradona.

Yet despite his bona fide, bandy-legged genius, he is to some extent forgotten, still ploughing on with the Greek travesty that is the lingering death of a genuinely great career at clubs as irrelevant to the bigger picture as Olympiakos and AEK Athens. It is potentially anomalous to argue that a former World Player of the Year was underrated, yet even at his peak Rivaldo often played under a cloud. He was frequently abused while playing for Brazil, whose fans believed he spared his best for Barcelona and who had never forgiven him for a crucial mistake in the 1996 Olympics; at club level he inspired both awe and loathing on La Rambla, and his departure on a free transfer in 2002 was mourned by few, even though he had just starred in Brazil's World Cup win.

That summer, the Spanish football expert John Carlin wrote that Rivaldo "combines to dazzling effect the two essential qualities of the ideal footballer: artistry and efficiency". The same could not necessarily be said of Zidane. Sir Alex Ferguson once observed that Zidane didn't really "hurt" teams and, while it sounded sacrilegious, there was a degree of truth in it. In terms of ball retention he was probably the greatest player of all time, blessed with such grace and supernatural awareness that he could play a game of real-life Pac-Man and never be caught, but to some extent his work was done in less dangerous areas. He needed good players alongside him.

A team of 11 Zidanes would kill you time and time again, but a team of 10 Nevilles and a Rivaldo could on occasion do the same. Zidane was an avant-garde footballer, as rich in subtext as it is possible for a sportsman to be, whereas Rivaldo was a rudimentary blockbuster. Yet the suspicion remains that some appreciate Zidane without knowing exactly what they're appreciating; that they are perpetuating a discourse for fear of being seen as a philistine. Nobody wants to admit that they thought Citizen Kane was crap.

The cerebral genius of Zidane, nonetheless, makes him the ultimate fantasy footballer, whereas Rivaldo was the ultimate Fantasy Footballer: he dealt relentlessly in the hard currency of goals (86 in 159 games for Barcelona and 34 in 74 for Brazil, outstanding for a player who invariably played on the left) and assists. And if there were another category by which we judged players – coronaries induced in opposing fans when they get the ball within 30 yards of goal – he would surely be top. When he was on one, he was utterly terrifying.

Apart from a right foot, Rivaldo had everything. His wiry strength allowed him to bounce off defenders, he was a outstanding dribbler, and he had a left foot that was both educated and thuggish, subtle and a sledgehammer. He could larrup the ball in, arrow a daisy-cutter a few centimetres inside the far post (the winner against Denmark in the 1998 World Cup quarter-final is the best example, but there were so many), coax a free-kick high or low, left or right, and also pass the ball in (my colleague Mike Adamson pointed out how underrated the precision of his finish against England in 2002 remains). And his control – best exemplified by a stunning, über-Le Tissier assist against Deportivo in 2002 (after 5.00 of this video) – was sensational.

Most of all, however, he had bronca, the word used repeatedly in Diego Maradona's autobiography to refer to "anger, fury, hatred, resentment, bitter discontent ... [it was] his motivator, his fuel, his driving force". Zidane had rage blackouts, but he was rarely in a high state of bronca: for the most part, as we saw in his movie, he was a wonderfully still footballer, whose game existed in a vacuum of technical perfection, such as the volley in the 2002 Champions League final. But he could not win a game on his own by imposing his personality all over it. Rivaldo could.

Rivaldo often looked apathetic and sullen – his smile was so rare that, when it came, it broke a thousand mirrors, and at times he seemed to dither like a posh boy pretending to have commitment issues – but when the mood took him and he fancied the challenge, he pursued it with the remorseless will and purpose of Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men. "You know how this is gonna turn out, don't you?"

Three examples spring to mind. There was his coconut-shy at an inspired Paul Robinson in a Champions League group game against Leeds in 2000, when Rivaldo finally equalised in the last minute to (temporarily) postpone Barcelona's exit; an astonishing tour de force against Manchester United in 1998 when, in a game Barcelona had to win to avoid elimination, he equalised twice before creaming an unbelievable shot off the bar and ingeniously creating another gilt-edged chance for Giovanni; but best of all there was the greatest hat-trick of all time, against Valencia on June 17, 2001, a midsummer night's dream of a performance that deserves a book, a film and even a Tim Lovejoy tribute all of its own.

In a straight shoot-out for the final Champions League place, which was worth tens of millions and even more in terms of pride, Barcelona needed a win and Valencia a draw. Twice Rivaldo screamed Barcelona ahead from long range, the second hit with such fury that it knocked him off his feet; twice Ruben Baraja equalised. Then, in the 89th minute, he scored with an overhead kick from outside the box so perfectly executed that it even swerved away from the dive of Santiago Canizares. Even now, it beggars belief.

Rivaldo also scored eight goals in two World Cups – including five in consecutive games in 2002 – and two in a Copa America final (in 1999, when he was voted Player of the Tournament). So why is he not in the pantheon? The slow fade of his career does not help: he has been in Greece since 2004, when he almost ended up at Bolton. Nor does a disastrous 18 months at Milan, during which he was even voted Serie A's worst player. Or the fact that he seemed to be the mardiest of bums.

He doesn't win on longevity, either: for most his peak lasted the five years he was at the Nou Camp, even if he played superbly for three years at Palmeiras and Deportivo before that. And he was rarely involved in the latter stages of the Champions League, but that was mainly the fault of a typical Louis van Gaal defence. Rivaldo was absolutely beyond reproach in the early exits in 1998 and 2000 in particular.

Yet much of the enmity towards him stems from his pitiful cheating at the 2002 World Cup, when he got Turkey's Hakan Unsal sent off. It was shocking stuff – described by Richard Williams in this paper as "an act so despicable that it deserves to rank alongside Toni Schumacher's assault on Patrick Battiston in 1982 and even the Hand of God itself in the tournament's gallery of infamous moments" - but, as Slaven Bilic could tell you in four languages, disgracing oneself in a World Cup match is not a barrier to widespread popularity.

Yet with Rivaldo, the deception seemed to reflect a personality defect so prevalent that one Spanish writer said he had "a kind of autism". He had the hapless air of a noir patsy, and seemed forever hit by ill-fortune. Those two awesome performances against the Uniteds of Leeds and Manchester meant bugger all in the end. When he was enduring the worst time of his life in Milan, his wife Rose left him. If he had a family pet, you just know he'd have reversed over it.

He was essentially clueless: whereas Zidane's headbutt on Marco Materazzi was impossibly cool, Rivaldo's act of World Cup skulduggery was hideously ham-fisted. For that he was reviled as a typical continental (even though, in reality, British players dive as much as anyone), but with the ball at his feet not even the most nationalistic stereotyper would deny that he gave us the best of all worlds.

简单的道理

我最喜欢这样的文字，用最平淡的语言组织起你最熟悉的事，讲一个你懂但很少反复提醒自己的道理。就相那本the emperor of lies一样是我最喜欢的书之一。


Jul 6, 2010
Xie Xie and Zaijian

from Beijing Calling by The Fragrant Harbour
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Today is my last day in Beijing.

It's my last day living in the Chinese capital after three years, two months and about three weeks.I came here in April 2007 eager to have a greater understanding of the country and to find out if it really is going to be the next superpower.

When you first arrive, you are impressed by what it has achieved so far and think it has so much potential to be greater.

The people in general are good, honest folk, but their lack of common sense and basic skills can lead to frustration. Just go to any restaurant and flagging down a fuwuyuan or waitstaff is a test in patience, as they'd rather ignore you.

The newly-constructed buildings look shiny and sleek, but after a few years they are still unoccupied, or look run-down due to the low-quality building materials or lack of management.

And then you begin to see the numerous contradictions in the country, like how in the constitution people have the right to petition the central government and many make the journey to Beijing. But once they get to the capital, they are whisked away and thrown into "black jails" where they are illegally held for days, months, weeks before being sent back to their hometowns.

People spend their hard-earned money to buy an apartment, only to have it confiscated later by government officials who have sold the land to developers in return for kickbacks. The developers take over these properties by cutting off the gas, water, electricity, and then even sending thugs to beat up the so-called owners of the place.

While the country's GDP was at double digits for several years until last year at 8 percent, and holds some $2 trillion in US Treasury bills, these mind-boggling numbers do little justice in explaining the real situation in China.

The income gap between the rich and the poor is staggering to see in person. The Liu family living on the border between Beijing and Hebei Province at the Simatai section of the Great Wall live the simple farmer lifestyle, waking up with the sun, tilling the dry patch-work fields and eating mostly vegetable dishes before going to bed early.

Meanwhile the uber rich have no qualms ordering everything expensive on the menu, force each other to drink baijiu and smoke up a storm before leaving behind several dishes barely touched. They also think they own the road, especially when they drive SUVs.

How the wealthy gain their riches is an interesting mystery, while how the majority of the population scrape by on a few thousand RMB a month is another.

There's no question that people's lives have improved significantly in the past 30 years, but at what cost? Rivers and lakes are so polluted that "cancer villages" are springing up near these water sources. Climate change has also resulted in dried up river and lake beds that decades earlier were teeming with fish.

It seems like Beijing has a strong consumer culture -- people buying up all kinds of things from clothing to cars, everyone carrying at least one shopping bag.

There is so much noise pollution, hypnotically telling people to buy more stuff, or on-going public service announcements that are so vague they hardly mean anything.But this is the way the government wants things to be run -- it doesn't want its people to know too much or to think they deserve more.

It continues its mantra that China is a big country and so managing it is a big task.However, when you look at it, the Communist Party of China has had over 60 years of experience in governing the vast country and the world's largest population.

One would have thought that by now it would know how to administer the place in an efficient and effective manner.But the only way the CPC knows how to do this is mostly by force.

This was seen in how Tibet and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region were governed and these two areas in particular continue to see repression. Instead of trying to understand and integrate cultural differences in policy, the Chinese government believes economic development will create harmony.

Ah a harmonious society. Practically everyone I know here mocks President Hu Jintao's slogan. How can there be harmony when there is such a discrepancy between the rich and the poor, environmental degradation, a persistent consumer culture and lack of respect of people's rights?

It's really all about the Party. It's not about improving the welfare of the people or creating a better environment. It's about preserving the Party's power. At any cost.

Which is why it was reported today that best-selling author Yu Jie was taken by police for questioning on Monday. They threatened to imprison him if he continued with his plans to publish a book criticizing Premier Wen Jiabao.They warned him that Wen was no ordinary citizen and that the book, China's Best Actor: Wen Jiabao would harm state security and national interests, which could lead to a prison sentence similar to rights activist Liu Xiaobo.

"People cannot tell the truth," a friend remarked to me the other day over lunch. "If you do, you get into trouble."

But some believe it is important to forgo all personal consequences and try to tell the truth for the sake of the greater society.Tan Zuoren was jailed for five years for trying to help those who lost their children in the Sichuan earthquake almost two years ago; and Liu for 11 years for helping to write the Charter 08, calling for multi-party elections among many things.

And there is also Gao Zhisheng, the human rights lawyer who was detained by police, illegally I may add, and then released, and now detained again and no one knows where he is.

The government is terrified of these people -- scared of them for saying that the emperor has no clothes on.

But it is true. How can there be any civil society in China when basic human rights are ignored, and actually trampled on? How can China ever become a great power when it cannot stand dissent or criticism?

Meanwhile we in the west cannot compare China to ourselves -- it must find its own way in establishing a just society, and looking back at its past can give it some inspiration.

So on this note I bid zaijian.Thank you Beijing for teaching me a lot of things about China I didn't know.

The country is still a work in progress and hopefully the Party leaders will make the right choices for the people.

After all, it is the People's Republic of China.

Cold beer

"Is there anything like it on a friday afternoon?

The "ssshhhh" on opening the bottle. The smell of hops and barley oozing out of her.You put her to your lips and she releases every drop of nectar she conceals.

And then the luscious re-sounding belch that a polite person can make only on their own in the comfort of their own homes.

It's good to be a man. A polite man, that is."

I love beer

4/20 pot smoke out day，哪里能参加啊

曾经在北京参加过一次4/20 smoke out party，胆战心惊，生怕被关起来。

也是在那时第一次对所谓drug产生了知识方面的兴趣

我觉得中共之所以如此宣传所谓drug, 把它搞成一种人人喊打的状态，有三个原因，一个是科普毒品就需要科普科学，科普科学就会开启民智。二是人HIGH过后我觉得会更去思考生活的真地，这样有可能更对现世不满。三是，没什么原因，就是一个政策惯性，必竟当年的执政合法性之一，不就是对外族的战争么。

My top 11 Beijing Bars&Clubs

#1, zub: 我永远的最爱，第一次真正感觉到音乐舞蹈放纵快感的地方，当年爱上五道口的原因之一。关了很久了。。。不过好相从那里出来的syndicate还一直活跃在北京。

#2, Fubar，京城最不显眼的酒吧之一，但环境轻松，酒水超正，每次代外地朋友去都能惊呀到对方，今年被XX评为北京酒吧LIST No1,我真是不能同意更多了。

#3, GTBanana ， 典型的中国式恶俗CLUB， 喜欢它只是因为是我第一次在北京去CLUB的地方，还有paul van dyk 曾在那里代给过我一个难忘的Party

#4, D22, 在这个曾经几乎就在我楼下的小酒吧里，第一次认识了当代中国的地下音乐，虽然中国的文化管制必定永远不会放开，但还是希望这些地下音乐能成为中国的地上音乐。

#5, tango,也是个恶俗之地，只是常有超大Party, infected mushroom去过那里，很难忘记。

#6,ten yuan bar,在NLGX最喜欢的地方，每次路过定会进去喝一杯，没什么原因，就是喜欢这样的地方。

#7, white rabbit，曾经酒后最信赖的地方，现在重新开在了三里屯，听说还是一样的

#8, propaganda, 住在五道口时最常去的地方，酒水，音乐一无是处，但架不住当时离家近啊。。。

#9, danger doyle, paddyoshea, 曾经在limerick连续一个月一天至少5pint Guinness,回了北京后想享受一杯黑啤的时候，也就只能去这两家了

#10, obiwan, the boat. 都在湖边河边，环境超好，音乐超好，Obiwan还有北京唯一的goa trance DJ

#11, Kai, Tun,poachers, 太多次的疯狂和烂醉的发生地。。。

Top 10 things Keep China away from a developed country

#10: "naked" KTV

The expensive "naked"KTV make the prostitutes less available to normal Chinese guys,if only the rich business man or government officials can pay for sex , you can not say China is a developed country.

#9: Japanese Porn
Every developed country has porn industry, but if the Japanese keep making decent porn, which can be easily downloaded, Chinese don't bother to make their own.

#8: Hot pot
There're too many sichuan restaurants and hot pot places in every single city of china, once you get addicted to spicy food, you'll have less requirements about food quality.

#7: Olympic medals
The Olympic achievements make Chinese feel so better when it comes to sports, but I don't think women weigh lifting or letting two people dive at the same time are real sports, even pingpong, I never know any Chinese who actually paid for a live pingpong match except Olympic ones. The fact is we don't play sports, we don't even watch sports.


#6: Cantonese pop
It's all about let cute girls singing lovely songs or pretending to be cool guys sing some "heartbreaking" songs. China needs real music.

#5: Club MIX
It's too easy to get laid even for guys as normal as myself if we try to visit clubs like MIX regularly , which are more and more like a burning cash place with lots of Chinese guys trying to flirt with girls by shaking fucking dice, so Chinese are too busy having sex that no one bothers to work harder


#4: Cigarette
It's more likely to be hit by a crashing plane than seeing a Chinese smoking marijuana on China's streets , While there are more than 350,000,000 people in China smoking cigarette everyday, so I think we need to figure out what "drug" actually means.

#3: George W Bush
This poor guy let Chinese know that democracy is not always "good", especially when you have a wrong guy as your president for some reason.

#2: Dalai Lama
This guy is so powerful that he can make all the western world have a bias on our "Great, Glory, always right" communist Party .

#1: Beer

The beer in China is so cheap even the most famous Qingdao beer is only about 3rmb/bottle, so it's too easy to get drunk and many smart guys like me know we should take this advantage, so much more time is spent on dealing with hangover than doing real works.