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

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!

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

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.