pray for the people of sichuan

Students take part in a candle-lit vigil for victims who were killed during the earthquake in Sichuan province on May 12, at a university in Beijing, May 13, 2008. Picture taken May 13, 2008.

The earthquake brought Sichuan province into a devastating mess of disaster..The stench from the cropse,has filled the air with sadness,sorrow,and despair..Nevertheless,this catastrophic event that took place in Sichuan province, definately taught humans,that life is certainly a brief candle..One may stay as fit as a fiddle and happy-go lucky always,and suddenly time might hand us grief..Humans certainly cannot predict their destiny,however time and tide,will mould a person's character..Humans can plan,but God is the one and only one whos allowing it to happen or take place..All I wanna say is that,we as humans should appreciate our life,love our life,and live our life to the fullest never be in a state of discontentment..As this 5.12 Sichuan earthquake would be a very significant event that could happen only once in a lifetime and also a lesson to be learnt for other fortunate individuals who did not endure the pain and struggle of the earthquake victims..
I hope people from different countries,would just spend 1 minute of silence,to pray for the safety of the victims,and may the deceased ones be held in God's arm...God bless!

5.12

Thirty-three people were extracted from the debris Friday, four days after the seism in Sichuan (south-western), the rescuers continuing their research with the hope of new miracles, announced the agency China Nouvelle.
In the only district of Beichuan, touched hard by the seism, 33 people were released alive in the course of the day, among them a child found under the ruins of its college in the town of Beichuan (even name that the district), according to the agency.
The civil soldiers and volunteers who excavated the tons of concrete and scrap thought of being able to save other survivors, voices calling the Help! being still perceptible under the debris of the school.

" There are good lucks so that we can the secourir" , one of the rescuers said, quoted by the media. " To give up is a word excluded from our vocabulaire" , he added.
Chinese president Hu Jintao, made Friday in the disaster area, and which directed teams of first-aid workers, ensured: " Where there is a net of hope, we will not save our efforts to save those which are still bloqués".
Among the 33 survivors found in this district of Beichuan, new China added that a great number had been hospitalized.
A 46 year old survivor, Peng Zhijun, told to have succeeded in holding during these four days under debris with his cigarettes, of the paper napkins and by drinking its urine, paid new China.
Friday with Beichuan, the rescuers also found two people buried together during 95 hours in the ruins of a building of offices, always according to new China.
And a 23 year old nurse was left alive the debris of a hospital, according to the same source.
President Hu informed that the helps had entered " in the phase more cruciale".
The seism magnitude 7,9 struck Monday at the beginning of afternoon, at one hour when all the offices and schools were crammed.
The government started to prepare the population by giving for the first time Thursday an estimate of more than 50.000 dead.

speak out L.O.U.D!

I like Lou Dobbs; not his opinions so much as his style. The guy yells at the government all the time, he's terribly opinionated (in the name of discussion, I hope) and he wants a straight answer on the issues, like why are Americans dying in Iraq, supporting government troops who are fighting militias that are funded by Iran...does this sound like Vietnam to anyone else? I channel surf a lot, so I only caught a snippet of dialogue from the show but what stuck in my mind was this: Lou or someone else was bitching about the trade surplus with China, among other countries...I think a congressman was talking about how unfair it was that the Chinese wouldn't spend their money on our economy.

Look, you are absolutely right on that and I have no idea what I'm talking about here, I'm just free associating for the fun of it. To get developing economies to spend money on North America, they need to have some kind of cultural motivation, and we don't necessarily have to be equals with the rest of the world, but we can at least attempt to extend the cultural franchise, which is to say, we can take the rest of the world seriously, and the gravity of the decay in our own systems. The basic extension of the franchise would entail the sucessful exportation of capitalism married to liberal democracy. The Chinese government is capitalist, but not democratic; a lot of Chinese don't know the political realities in the country like those in the West, and vice versa I'm sure. If and when this happens is open to question and is perhaps a little besides the point here.

What I would suggest is this; social governance has to evolve. To me, that is input and discussion from all sectors of the society. Practically speaking, this means ending the war on drugs and the war on terror and allowing labor to be like capital and move freely across borders. Most of the problems in the world have some kind of global origin and a local solution, or vice versa, or some combination of the two. This is an incredibly complicated line of inquiry and I'm really only mulling it over because it's most of what I'm trying to write about; I'm trying to arrive at some kind of reasonably servicable distortion of the current time in the interests of entertainment and satire.

I'm going to suggest that it's a question of attitude. North America was built on risk and by theives in the form of robber barons. They ended up as philanthropists but not before social democracy also took root. We have gone over the edge of moral hazard in terms of the penalties associated with risk; it became too risky to be risky and in turn, people took even larger gambles with things that should never be on the table, like liberty. So, I think that if we are going to get ourselves out of the mess, we have to innovate our culture. We are saturated with consumer goods but the market for cultural goods is just beginning to be explored; most consumer goods come with some kind of lifestyle tag anyway, but we are just beginning to tap the potential of people and their hunger for, well, cultural goods like entertainment and catharsis. If foreign consumers aren't spending money on us, it's because we aren't marketing ourselves properly.

I have no idea how to do this; it's not the simple force feeding of rock and roll and democracy of the past; democracy has to re-prove itself by cleaning itself up and stop waging unjust wars and the last time I checked, rock and roll was more or less defunct. The good thing about file-sharing is that it will likely force musicians to find alternate routes to make a living other than selling massive amounts of albums. Further to this is the line between appropriation and genuine interchange (witness Gwen Stefani and her Harajuku girls who were far cuter than the real thing) and all the issues of racism. I don't really see how any of this can happen without expanding one's frame of reference. There is always connections to be had and money to be made, and I think cross-cultural interchange is the way of the future. That is why I'm writing the novel I'm writing to explore what would happen if the cultures of the world were foricbly combined by a gradual series of environemntal and political changes...

I think that anyone in the culture can occupy the necessary space to effect some of these changes. Drugs are defacto legal, there is probably an immigrant amnesty coming in the US and hopefully somewhere in the mess of the middle East, a moderate Arab opinion could be cultivated...it's the culture that's going to save us, and if I was a celebrity I would endeavour to take as many risks as possible...someone like Lindsay Lohan who really doesn't have anything to lose, or maybe just an unknown actor or actress...rock the fucking boat, take a risk, turn some heads because, for what it's worth, there could be a cultural gold-rush in the making. Or maybe not, but isn't everyone just a trifle bit, bored?

living a life without colours

living in the world of black and white....

...is not that bad afterall

colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans..living in the world without colours evokes many kind of expression and feelings..as those pictures above potraits array of different emotions..

everyone has a colour,

WHATS YOUR COLOUR?

s.p.e.c.t.a.c.l.e

After a long time choosing and browsing for a new pair of spectacle in the optic shop,I've finnaly came out with this simple yet magnificient spectacle by Ted Baker..the design of this spectacle is just too simple and plain,which suits me alot..I love plain and simple stuffs..

Although having this Teller 001 by Ted Baker as my aset,it was rather a liability because every part of this spectacle is worth every single penny I paid for....and my responsiblity is to take good care of it,which I don't..

For the past 3 years,I've purchased quite a number of spectacles..however,none of them made it through even for a year..worst of all,one of the spectacle i bought, barely live even for a day!

Nevertheless,I am proud to be the owner of this spectacle and would try my very best to keep good care of it! *laughs*

september eleven

The morning of September 11,2001, was at first only unusual because of the exceptional brilliance of late summer. The clear weather held for days, as this nation and the world looked on uncomprehendingly at the unfolding devastation of terrorist attacks on two towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Virginia, and the crash of a hijacked jet in south western Pennsylvania. The coordination of the attacks and the ensuing destruction and loss of life as well as the method of the attacks were unfathomable that day, and so they remain.

The first news reports simply stated that an airplane had hit one of the World Trade Towers, and building had a gaping, burning hole in it. It was 8.50a.m, on Tuesday morning. Soon it became clear that it was a fairly large jet had crashed into 1 World Trade Center, also called the south tower, and all tv stations then had their cameras trained on the towers. The panic in the building coupled with confusion outside and in the second building where some heard an announcement not to evacuate, soon became a general panic at 9.03a.m. As a second plane flew over the city into the second tower, there was an exploding of glass and fire out the other side. The clear image of the plane hitting the north tower of the World Trade Center, caught from various angles on camera, is imprinted on all of our minds.

The horror of the situation was very clear to those New York who were trying to escape or trying to help. Firefighters and police swarmed to the scene. Those in the twin towers and surrounding buildings had to decide what to do, and how to do it. People on streets watched small objects plummet from the building, which slowly realized to be bodies, either jumping or falling, some on fire. In the days following September 11, harrowing death emerged about what precisely was going on at that time - cellular' phone conversations to loved ones, scrambles down smoke-filled hallways and flights of stairs, snap decisions that saved or lost lives.

At around 9.45am, a third aircraft that had been on a course toward the White House turned and smashed into the Pentagon, the home of the National Military Command Center and symbol of American military might. News of this was just getting out when, at 9.58am, the most devastating aspect of the attacks unfolded. The north tower, the second one hit, began to collapse, as the floors exploded in glass and smoke, and fell one by one until the entire building collapsed in on itself as a torrent of debris and smoke billowed up and out from the site. Ash and dust coated people who were able to run ahead of the falling building and obscured lower Manhattan. It was an unbelievable sight of destruction that, even more than the sight of the second airplane, brought the reality and magnitude of this attack home. In less than two hours after the first plane strucked, both 110-storey buildings were gone.

As the dust cloud from the collapse of the first tower billowed out from New York, and the slow clearing revealed that the entire tower was gone, news of a fourth airplane crashing in Pennsylvania at 10.10am came across the airwaves and added to the panic thought that this was just the beginning. The collapse of the entire second tower in New York at 10.28am marked the end of the immediate effect of the attacks, but more than three months later Americans has still to lose the feeling of imminent danger and to recover a sense of security. This marks the loss of a usual way of life in America as so many commented on in the days following September 11.....