Terrence Miao's Blog

Comments on Beijing gives Rio a $30bn war chest

2009-03-14T17:21:00.002+11:00

Good dictatorship is always better than worst democracy.

Have a look of people's face in U.S and China now, which country do you see more smile after this disaster financial crisis? Democracy is not the only solution can dig the screwed Average Americans out of the sub-prime hole.

Without vast natural resources this country inherited, Australia is still a country you call "Republic of Banana".

This country has missed a lot of opportunities last few decades. From economic view, is it because of lack of investment in infrastructure and entrepreneurship? From human being's view, is it because decision makers prejudiced and unimaginative?

To Australian politicians, please don't be dogmatic if you are in power. Always remember “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

To those narrow minded "un-Australian", please go and visit some other part of the world. You will be amazed how lucky you are live in Australia, without working hard for 12 hours a day, earning less than $1 a day.

2009 元旦赠友人 - 一切皆缘

2009-01-02T00:04:00.000+11:00

缘，是春光明媚下我与你一起起舞
缘，是阳光沐浴时我默开在你身边
缘，是黄昏的时候我扬帆与你同行
缘，是风暴来临前我陪你一起翔翱
缘，是秋风枯萎你和我的容颜一起
缘，是冬天的清晨我伴游你的左右
缘，是风雨的时候我为你撑起的伞
缘，好似一杯绿茶：饮之浓烈时，感净肝洁脾的苦涩；喝之清淡时，觉静心清肺的甘甜
缘，是前世的五百次回首，才换得的今生一次擦肩而过

我的美好的圣诞一天

2008-12-25T00:06:00.003+11:00

平安夜之日不平安：

上班，lunch time BBQ (Barbeque), table tennis. 早早下班，却找不着一个 tennis partner, 辜负一个美好的天气。Back to home, 忙着给自行车换辐条，之后再打扫已经半年没有清理的房间。I was in the hot water shower, singing "silent night, holy night" when you online. Right now ，在做绿豆粥。圣诞晚餐是粥加豇豆咸菜，再 watch NBA Rockets vs. Nets - 姚易对撞。

这就是我的美好的圣诞一天啊！

Comments on American, and Japan, and China

2008-10-19T13:02:00.004+11:00

But I think I know the problem. Because America is a new country, the people who live there have no sense of history. And if you have no concept of “the past”, it is extremely difficult to grapple with the idea of “the future”.

If you think a bar established in 1956 is “old” then you will not understand the idea of next week. So why bother building for it?

We see this short-termism in everything from the average American house, which falls over whenever the wind gets up, to the way chief executives are treated. In Japan, you are given 25 years before you are judged on whether you’ve turned the company around. In America, bosses are given two months. And if there’s been no financial about-turn, they are fired.

AIG and Lehman Brothers got caught out because they were being run by people who live only in the here and now. They couldn’t see that it would all come crashing down in the future because there’s no such thing.

-- Jeremy Clarkson

So that's British people asked why half of the population of world leader are idiots after they re-elected George W. Bush to his second term of the President of the United States.

The closest world leader's underdog - Japan is a country full of perverts.

China - the biggest population country in the world is a 神仙经常出没的地方...

相识20周年北京2008全国同学大聚会

2008-10-18T21:57:00.002+11:00

> 在 MSN 上听取了楚蓓蓓同学传达的聚会通报，久已枯萎麻木的心灵又一次感受到党和人民春风秋雨的滋润，灿烂阳光的照耀。
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> 伟大改革的胜利成果（等侍有人来“踩斋”），国内莺歌燕舞的靡靡生活（盼着宾客去“饷狩”），诱惑着一颗颗孤聊无助，但又蠢蠢“臊”动的海外之心。
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> 希望 2008 奥运成功，希望今年 9.11 美国不再发生意外，希望十一时股市翻番，希望国庆间能订到机票。
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> 做好回去大病一场的准备，做好回去再次被灌翻的储备。

这是我在 2008.03.13 在 5460 上的留言。

奥运成功了, 全球华人为之振奋。9.11 美国到没发生发生意外，但次债引发的全球金融危机，十个 9.11 加起来还不如。搞得十一全球股市被拦腰斩还不够，还要沿脚面砍下去不成？

2008 真是不寻常。大事如美国被从牛B神坛打下去，中国人开始笑傲江湖。小事如澳洲农民的房子盖得没影，MM 泡得没谱，工作忙得转瞎，聚会没得成行。

先道一声对不起。希望明年有机会回国一一拜会过去。

在党的正确方针指引下前进

2008-10-18T21:20:00.004+11:00

1992年初邓小平在南方谈话中指出：“两手都要抓，两手都要硬” 。

释解：一手抓挣钱，一手抓理财。
中共中央总书记胡锦涛要求全党同志一定要牢记毛泽东同志倡导的“两个务必”－“务必继续保持谦虚、谨慎、不骄、不躁的作风，务必继续保持艰苦奋斗的作风。”

释解：不要以为有了一点点收入和积蓄自已就是中产了。要务必继续保持谦虚、谨慎、时刻防范金融投资的风险。务必继续保持勤俭持家，以苦为乐的生活作风。
实施西部大开发，是关系国家经济社会发展大局，关系民族团结和边疆稳定的重大战略部署。

释解：在墨尔本西部 Sanctuary Lakes 投资买房。

Job Hurting or Job Hunting?

2008-10-01T22:55:00.001+10:00

My biggest commitment

2008-08-12T16:33:00.003+10:00

Just like Coco Chanel who gave women the freedom, and Yves Saint Laurent who gave women the power, I want to be a person who help women take over the world. So there will be no wars, no political regimes. And men can stay back, drink beer and enjoy sports everyday.

My thought of the day...

Start up a new business? To a friend of mine...

2008-07-20T19:32:00.002+10:00

I have thought about the pro and con for two days whether to join the team, finally, the natural burning passion win the battle.

Really don't want to miss an opportunity that we can start up, maybe a prosperous business in future. Let's hope we can steer it unstoppably into the unknown water for a long long time.

One thing I want to share with you is that I was in Unico company's Town Hall meeting last Friday. One of the two co-founders of the company, Mike Palmer, gave a speech in front of whole company's 160+ colleagues before his retirement. He briefed company's history, started from two people, and ups and downs during the last 24 years. There are several things impressed me in his speech:

a company must has its culture. And this culture must be from top down
when Unico started, they have the goals like do the interesting work and be proud of the work been done

"Treat other people like the way you treat yourself" is the final punchline of the speech. This the same one of my favourite quotes from Confucius - If you don't want something done onto yourself, don't do it onto others.

This IT veteran career story really make people think. But what a coincidence you called me on same day night about work on the project. Is it an omen?

Maybe I'm talking a bit too far from right now. Anyway, back to business. Start the engine and let's rock.

More why I ridicule Unico's 150MB per month download quote policy

2008-05-28T14:32:00.003+10:00

More brain food for 150MB per person per month policy:

1. One of my good mate is a TPG (ISP) customers. He is on 600MB per month plan. My mate is not a computer junkie. He only uses internet mainly to check his hotmail, send his kids' latest photos around, and read news online. And he uses all his quote every month. So there are always a few Spanish Inquisition days every month, he has to be tortured by TPG downgrading his internet speed from blissful ADSL2+ to brittle 64kb dial up.

TPG declares 600MB is designed to people do internet surfing and email. Several other ISPs also have the similar package. It seems that it is common practice 600MBish is let people jump on the internet.

2. Last night I set up all my browsers (Firefox and SeaMonkey) to disable load all images, install AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock plugins. Browsers are much quicker while loading pages. They are more like a Lynx Windows version now.

However, while I check web usage today, I find there is not much different comparing the first two days when the browsers in their full blow mode. Google site still the top one, still eats as much quote as used to be.

If you don't have enterprise level knowledge based solution, if you don't have a decent desktop search engine help you find info at your finger, Google is still the first place you want to go.

Google represents the trend today that more and more companies moving from traditional desktop applications to web based, network centralised solution. To enforce this quote policy, with such low permit, IMHO, it really frustrates people who want to get shared information and knowledge from the net in a more intelligent and efficient way.

Why I ridicule Unico's 150MB per month download quote policy

2008-05-26T16:06:00.003+10:00

Don't know how Unico implement quota on Squid Proxy. Unless can have more sophisticated quote solution, e.g, depends on different projects you are working, individuals can have different quote. This "one size fits all" solution seems more impracticable than achieving great cost savings.

The point I reckon is that the company should respect staff as professionals. The majority want to come to office and get job done, happily. Pay too much attention on those small issues really distract people from their work and will kill the free thinking, creation and productivity in work place definitely.

Things I I like to see is people know that a line over there, know that big brother is watching you, and you know you shouldn't cross that line.

However, you don't need to have to check how far away you from that line everyday...

Thank you.

勇敢善良的中国心 - tolerance , diginity, courage and love

2008-05-24T19:51:00.008+10:00

几天前在５４６０上转发自我博客的“有信仰的人是坚强的，有爱心的社会是和谐的”文章，号动在澳洲的中国朋友踊跃为 Earthquake Relief 捐款，但不知何故被“删你没商量”了。
闲着没事经常胡思乱想在中国现在物欲横流，道德水准一路下跌的今天，何时还能出现像老毛，老邓这样的英雄。常自言自语道：“世上无英雄遂让陈希冠这个竖子成名”。但地震让我明白了“英雄不常有，只是未到时”。
这次地震中新闻报道中的高开放，高透明度体现了一个真正大国应有的自信。历史上许多转折点往往伴随着重大事作的发生。有感这次汶川地震可能成为中国开始走向有中国特色的民主与自由的始发时刻。
看到吾辈同学自愿领养地震遗孤，深深感动。管子曰：“仓廪实而知礼仪，衣食足而知荣辱”。富强的中国才能做到“人人为我，我为人人”。
地震联系你我，患难之中见真情。贡献无所谓大小。感谢此时此刻的你为中国呐喊加油。

Rev. Cleophus: "DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT?!!"

Elwood: "What light?!"

Rev. Cleophus: "DO YOU SEEEE THE LIGHT?!"

Jake: "YES!! YES!! JESUS H. TAP-DANCING CHRIST... I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!!!"

-- from cult movie The Blues Brothers

"YES, I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!" 我看到了中国的未来与希望...

有信仰的人是坚强的，有爱心的社会是和谐的

2008-05-18T19:53:00.022+10:00

May 13, 2008 is a normal day to me. I finished work till 2:30am. Before I fell into sleep, I had a quick check of the sports news on Sina. Suddenly, the news about biggest earthquake in Chinese recent history (中国地震局将汶川地震震级从7.8级修订为8.0级) in WenChuan, an unknown country town SiChuan Province and more than two thousands people already died came across me. I was totally in shock. Immediately, I made a call to my home in Beijing. Luckily there is no network congestion at all. My father answered the phone. Everything OK there. When I finished the call, it's already 3:30am.

The morning in office is totally uneasy, full of anxious and worries. The Sina website was overloaded. I couldn't open any other pages except the front one. I tried several times after work to call home again. This time all failed to reach.

Next few days after earthquake erupted, I followed all the news I could get. A lot of old time memories came back to me. Year 1976, 唐山大地震后的第一天，我父母抱着我和４岁的弟弟，穿着雨衣，坐在两个板凳上，与一群无助的人们，在雨中待了一天一夜的情形始终历历在目。

When I saw the photo several kids crumpled together under the debris after rescue workers found their bodies, I couldn't hold my tears. Why human beings are so vulnerable (感觉人的生命是如此脆弱)? Why 佛祖 (Buddha) 说生命只在呼吸之间? I can only tell me this is life.

However, almost on the same day, when I saw another photo, a student holds a drip and helps his schoolmate trapped in the rubble of a high school in Beichuan, waving people for help, suddenly, I felt human beings are also so strong IF YOU BELIEVE hope still alive (感觉人的生命又是如此的顽强). Because human beings are also live in a cooperated community (团结协作的群体).

天道无情人却有情。Soon after the catastrophe happened in China, Earthquake relief donation has been quickly set up by Chinese Consulate in Melbourne. 做为炎黄子孙的一员，I urge all the people if you still have 中国人的血液在流淌, please show your love, sympathy, generosity and support to all the WenChuan Earthquake victims and their family, no matter you have already realised your dreams oversea, no matter you still in fighting with any other kind difficulties here. One thousand dollars are never more. One dollar is never less (一千元不算多，一元钱不算少). This is the time. This is the time that we can show to the world - 中国人不仅可以成功地举办奥运，而且中华民族是一个伟大坚强的民族，中国人是永远不会被任何艰难险阻打垮的。

爱的宣言 - Why it's so hard to live a life on your honesty and integrity?

2008-01-15T18:28:00.000+11:00

“问世间情为何物，直教人生死相许”。Today, Jan 15^th, is the two years anniversary Sharon and I knowing each other. I want put that sentence in a paper greetings to Sharon. Ironically, I have to go to the Magistrate's court this day to celebrate it. I'm defending the case Sharon Li (李杉) accused me stalking her.

I get up earlier, take the public transportation to the Court. I have collected a lot evidences to tell the Judge the stories, the true stories, nothing but the whole true stories between Sharon and me. And also the evidences against the false allegation listed in Sharon's complaint.

I have been there waiting for whole day, but Sharon doesn't show up. So the case is stuck out in the end by the Court.

Here is final words in my testimony I prepared.

"Sharon, I will still stand with my words I said when we broke up - Whenever you need my help , no matter where you are, I’m only one call or one email away.

Sharon, you asked me before do you believe I can find a man 比你更出色? My answer was 'Yes, I do'. At this moment, I still believe that.

Sharon, if you can find such man, 比我更出色, 比我更理解你, 比我更爱你的, show me."

爱的宣言 - Why do I do so?

2007-12-31T12:32:00.000+11:00

This chat is excerpted between I and the good lady who introduced Sharon Li (李杉) to me.

Just let you know I went to Sharon's place yesterday. Let her know I want to finish two years obsession to her. Time to move on. I reckon I have done all the best I can do, as a man with responsibility, although I was numb, blunt and stupid a lot time.

I have published and I am going to publish more true stories under the series title "爱的宣言" about Sharon and me on my personal blog, without her permission. I know it's not nice. But I still can't calm down inside me to a few things she said and did to my other friends and me.

Call me a narrow-minded guy. But I have my words here - I will forgive Sharon one day, to all she did inappropriately I reckon to a person who once really loved her and was very nice to her. But not now, not at the moment.

I just want to say many thanks to you for introducing Sharon to me. Although it's not a happy end story, I don't regret at all. I found more new friends, knowing myself better, and becoming maturer and stronger in mind during last two years.

Meanwhile I have to say I'm a normal man as well. I have my selfishness and weakness. Although I shared some my experience with you, you can take as a reference, not as an advice. I am failed and tumbled on my personal relationship too.

I really don't know about girls two years ago. I never had a formal relationship with girls before. From now, I can see I missed a lot of opportunities. Sharon has already signaled to me, but I hesitated. Maybe I was too greedy, selfish and never satisfied. In fact, I didn't have my commitment at all at that moment. As soon as I realise I need to catch up, it was too late. This is bad luck. And maybe just Sharon and I don't have this fortune to be together.

But there is no harsh feeling to you at all.

Furthermore, I don't think Sharon is a nasty girl, although she has her upfront, dominant characteristic to others that really upset me when she already in her mature age. These are just the things happened between two person. No one is absolutely right, no one is totally wrong.

爱的宣言 - Do you think you are God?

2007-12-31T03:00:00.000+11:00

When I asked Sharon Li (李杉) whether I could do a favour for her, because she was out of job for a while, because I had some personal business connection I reckoned maybe help. Sharon told me:

"Help what? Do u think u r the God? I M FINE. Mind ur own business. Get a theropist (therapist. Actually Sharon means psychiatrist) first."

I replied:

"Sharon, I'm not God or Superhero. I'm just a normal man loves his girl, wishes she's all right, wishes she can live a better life, has freedom to choose what she wants to do, not what she has to. I try to bring you more opportunities, security and make the pursuit of your dreams a little easier. This is my obligation and commitment."

爱的宣言 - 相识以来从没与你讲过的事

2007-12-30T23:05:00.000+11:00

To Sharon Li (李杉) :

Sharon, 我想跟你讲几件我们相识以来从没与你讲过的事：

1. 你我和欢欢见面后的第二天，欢欢就打电话过来讲她对你的印象，并问我喜欢你什么。欢欢说你很文静。之后，我跟你开玩笑地说"文静，我怎么没有看出来？"但我没有告诉你的是为什么让我喜欢你。

我跟欢欢说"你们两个人很相似，不仅非常爱美，而且都有着十足的，迷人的女性魅力。"欢欢听了很高兴，但你明白话题的主角是你，你才是这个有着十足的，迷人的女性魅力的主角。不信的话你可以找欢欢去认证。

2. 当我们在一次电话的 conversation 中，谈到了你是不是漂亮女孩。我说你不是那种在女孩子堆中一眼就能被认出来的漂亮姑娘，但你是那种越看越让人觉得有味道的女孩。然后我就等着你问我你最美的地方是什么，但到今天你也没有问我这个问题，所以我一直没有机会向你传达这个信息。

Sharon, 你最美的地方是你的那双明亮清澈的眼睛，那是最能打动我心的地方。我不知道你是不是也这么认为。我相信我的品味，你也可以拿同样这个问题问一问其他人，很容易分出层次和高下。

3. 有一次我陪你坐在回你家的火车上时，你给我讲解如何品评好的红酒。虽然我也对此有一定的研究。但当你告诉我品酒有着前，中，后，最后你总结说好的红酒应该是 the more sophisticated the better 时，你还记得我当时说了什么吗？

我什么也没说。我当时为你这句话而倾倒，一句话也说不出来了，amazed in awe. 这不仅仅是对红酒，生活中的任何事情皆是如此－the more sophisticated the better. 我是从那一刻起，才真正意识到你是一个 different, special girl.

Sharon, 你看我平时总是说你不应该这样，不应该那样，但你知道么，最美好的 Sharon 是深藏于我的内心深处。这么多一年前发生的事，我仍记忆尤新。我不是没心没肺之辈，我是有心之人。

这是我第一次把我对你的爱中最 subtle 的讲给你。因为我觉得爱应该像春雨一样，润物细无声,是不需要过多的言语的。爱是要用心去体会，用心去感受的。

Sharon, 你明白我的心吗？

爱的宣言 - Life without passion is like a broken pencil... pointless

2007-12-30T23:04:00.000+11:00

Once upon a time, not long long ago, not far far away, there is a beautiful Chinese girl called Sharon Li (李杉), who came from as same city as mine Beijing (北京) China, to a far place from home - Melbourne Downunder. I knew about her after a romantic opportunity when she came across into my life. With her very special personality and some magic connection between us, soon I fell in love with her.

Sadly, not every story has a sweet beginning always finish with a sweet end. Here is a story between two person, her and me. And I'm telling this true story with my true feeling, with my true love...

True OO (Object Oriented)

2007-12-19T12:51:00.000+11:00

Don’t go forcing your design into a pattern just for the sake of using a pattern. Simplicity should be your first concern, but if it’s a toss-up between your approach and an equally complex, well-known, standard design pattern, go for the pattern.
Keep Variable Scope as Small as Possible; Reduce the Visibility of Things As Much As Possible
Code to interfaces. Declare a variable, return type, or argument as an interface type rather than a specific class type. Using an interface as the type lets you expose only the definition of what your code can do, and leaves the implementation flexible and extensible and maintainable.
Use abstract classes when you need implementation functionality.
Less is more. Whenever you see a nested if or anything other than very simple logic flow in a method, you should seriously consider redesigning that method or splitting functionality into separate methods.
Classes (and thus the objects instantiated from them) really should be specialists. They should do the kinds of behaviors that a thing of that type should do, and no more, no less.
All methods should be non-static unless you have a truly good reason to make them static. OO (Object Oriented) means objects all the way down.
Do not reinvent the wheel, and do not use any libraries other than code you developed and the core APIs. It isn’t worth giving up the benefit of using standard classes that others are familiar with, and that have been extremely, heavily tested in the field.
Catch Low-Level Implementation Exceptions and Throw a Higher-Level Business Exception.
Limit Subclassing. Using HAS-A rather than IS-A relationships.
A solid, maintainable design is always look for an existing solution first!

情侣装

2007-11-19T09:11:00.000+11:00

一对男女对情侣装的最佳阐释。

男 T-Shirt 上写 Microsoft,女上写 plug-and-play。

古文体改编笑话一则

2007-11-10T22:46:00.000+11:00

一女内急。入厕，毕，甚爽。然无纸用，郁闷际，一手执纸壁洞出。女谢，问其曰：“恩人尊称”？一夫声若洪钟道：“雷峰”。

人生的意义就在于互相 PK

2007-11-10T19:55:00.000+11:00

毛主席教导我们：“与天斗,其乐无穷;与地斗,其乐无穷;与人斗,其乐无穷。”

人生的意义就在于互相 PK...

My way - Frank Sinatra

2007-10-09T21:19:00.000+10:00

And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.

I've lived a life that's full.
I've traveled each and every highway;
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Regrets, I've had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.

I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.

I've loved, I've laughed and cried.
I've had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
"No, oh no not me,
I did it my way".

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way.

Yes it was my way...

一花一世界, 一沙一天堂

2007-10-09T20:43:00.000+10:00

一花一世界，一沙一天堂
一叶一菩提，一土一如来
一笑一尘缘，一念一净土

“食，色”的辩证关系－观李安电影《色，戒》和《饮食男女》有感

2007-09-24T00:50:00.000+10:00

孔夫子曰：“食，色，性也”。
有成语说：“秀色可餐”。
主席语录：“美食误事，美色亡国－千万不要忘记阶级斗争”。
王朔调侃：“男人活着是为了两个‘巴’－嘴巴和鸡巴”。

How Xtreme GREEN I am

2007-09-23T20:07:00.000+10:00

I don't have a car, even a driver's license, in a country living on four wheels
I have two bikes (one is backup). So most time I use pedal power, rather than petrol power get to the place distance from 5km to 20 km.
If the distance is less than 5km, I walk or jog to there.
I take public transportation. I support more tax on petrol and that tax money should be put into the fund supporting environment conservation.
I eat more veggie, seldom eat meat. I don't drink milk. So there is no point I can see why need to transfer bush into farms.
I refuse to drink coffee, only love GREEN tea...

Cheek to Cheek - By Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

2007-09-16T00:30:00.000+10:00

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

Oh I love to climb a mountain
And reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek

Oh I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek

Now Mamma Dance with me
I want my arm(s) about you
That (Those) charm(s) about you
Will carry me through...

(Right up) To heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

Get MP3 (5.5 MB | 5:54 min)

为什么现在写文章一定要中，英文混合，不伦不类

2007-09-11T17:21:00.000+10:00

为什么现在写文章一定要中，英文混合，不伦不类，坚决给自已扣上一个假洋鬼子的帽子呢？看看:

《围城》中的李梅亭，firstname 翻译成英文的 mating，Mr. Lee 人渣的形象立刻就 live 起来。
APEC 上, "呆胞"代表施正荣与 Bush and 其它国家领导人 interaction 硬牵强成中文的"频频互动"，就显得太 gay 了...

A Coffee Song

2007-09-10T20:48:00.000+10:00

美女加咖啡，一人来一杯。
喝完第一杯，再来第二杯。

今宵离别后，何日君再来？
难得几回颜，不欢更何待。

The bright side of the life

2007-09-10T17:10:00.000+10:00

When an unknown beautiful MM kindly asks you to "get lost" after you ask her number on the street, what you should do?

You should always know that "get lost" is still much better than "sod off" or "f__k off". And you should always be positive and see the bright side of the life. That's an encouragement for a "pest" person just like me. So move on, there are plenty of other PLMMs on the street. If you don't have a lot things to do, be a "troublemaker"...

So the good point is that - don't take you too seriously, and don't take other people too seriously too. Otherwise, you will really get yourself lost.

死猪不怕开水烫

2007-09-03T19:52:00.000+10:00

俗话说，死猪不怕开水烫。当然，跟 MM 约会，看电影，下馆子不能去装死猪的。这年头，追 MM 要拿出活猪也不怕开水烫的精神来－刀山敢上（进屠宰场），火海敢闯（红烧乳猪）。

Yum yum!

好色而不淫乃大丈夫也

2007-09-03T19:48:00.000+10:00

我希望历史会给我一个公正的评价。 For example, the one I quite like - "This guy has nothing but the money".

我希望死后墓碑刻者三个大字，不是"老色鬼"，

...

而是"大情圣"...

癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉之“无间道”版

2007-09-03T04:49:00.000+10:00

俗话说，癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉，但社会的现实是许许多多的天鹅都是被癞蛤蟆吃到了。So the one million dollars question is: 你是想继续做一只高傲的大公鸡呢，还是做一只有天鹅肉吃的癞蛤蟆呢？

The meaning of his story is NOT 让所有的男人都变成癞蛤蟆，等待美丽公主的亲吻而变成王子。而是要学习癞蛤蟆能吃苦受罪，甘于低下，有着十足 patience and persistence 的精神。

追 MM 不能用胡萝卜加大棒的方法，一是要尊重妇女，严禁暴力，二来这是美国人用来对付驴子的。

追 MM 要送鲜花和炸弹。当然炸弹不是用来点燃 MM 的激情的。炸弹是 show 给 MM，不成功就点爆自已的。

hehe :-P

Why 中国好男人一定要娶中国 MM

2007-08-26T15:25:00.000+10:00

中国男人娶鬼妹，固然有杂交 (crossbreed) 的优势，但如何 communicate 是个问题。

Sex 不是代表婚姻的全部，也不能把 the foundation of the relationship 都归于动物的本能。试想一下把 two person 的缠绵配以赵忠祥在动物世界中用富有磁性的男中音，缓慢而又亲切地讲述的情景:

在广阔的非洲高原上，光秃秃的山顶一片狼籍，初升的太阳，混浊的河水，丛林里的公猩猩按耐不住春情的涌动, 忘了老练和稳重，与母猩猩... （自删 5000 字）

两人的世界不仅仅是简单的机械活塞运动，彼此之间需要有着心与心的交流。

语言具有不可侵入性。有些非常 subtle 的 feeling, innuendo 的感觉，需要有历史，人文背景知识，而且一定要用 original language 进行表达。如果用 second language，就会感到力不从心了。For example, 杜甫的"春夜喜雨":

好雨知时节，当春乃发生。
随风潜入夜，润物细无声。
野径云俱黑，江船火独明。
晓看红湿处，花重锦官城。

If you translate it into English without its next level meaning, 会像温吞水一样平淡无奇。但你如果把它做为一首“淫诗”，翻译出来的作品要是"限制级" R and 18+，还可以再加上一个限定语"好淫荡"的话，纵使是国学加翻译大师也难已胜任。

In conclusion, if a 中国男人 is looking for soul mate, 能让 your girl understand “春夜喜雨”的深妙含义，就一定要娶中国 MM。

hehe :-P

Land in Dimension Data - the first day

2007-06-14T16:54:00.000+10:00

Bonjour,

Sorry for greeting in French due to just finish watching tennis in Roland Garros.

Yes, this is the first day in Dimension Data, 3 month contract as Java Developer working on Telstra Shared Services Layer project.

I receive my "dog tag" - secure access card, without "mug shot" - my photo on it.

Dimension Data ask me to bring my laptop for the work (I guess they want to get rid of Toilet if it's legal). They "confiscate" it before lunch time for virus scanning, setting up email and printer, blah, blah. People for ITS promise it will be back in an hour. However, I have been waiting till to 6 o'clock and still not see it. So have to read all the documents, specifications, prepared and written by Telstra architects, almost whole day. I have to admit, they are bloody good tech specs, from any point of view. The University of Melbourne, and some other small businesses I worked before, lack of this kind of professional "rubbish".

As a new guy, I am assigned the cubicle "designed" for me. I'm not whinging about how it is closed to the entrance door (almost half of the people in the floor pass me and watch me all day), toilet and an old guy on the phone, pooh-poohing everything all day. I feel very frustrated about the kitchen opposites my cubicle. From the morning after I sit down, there is no more than 20 minutes silent time in there. People keep coming in the kitchen, making coffee, making instant noodles, making big lunch and on and on. But I'm on a diet right now.

I only eat three apples a day during the lunch trying to reduce my weight to Lleyton Hewitt's weight (he is on 60k, but he is taller than me), for my tennis sake. But the great smell from the kitchen just kill me!

As old sayings - "The shortest way to a man's heart is through his stomach". Will bring a gas mask to work tomorrow :-)

OK, that's my journey on the first day in Dimension Data. Hope you don't feel too boring about it. Will ride bike to the office tomorrow!

Cheers!

Best pizza in town tonight

2007-06-09T22:24:00.000+10:00

You missed the best pizza in town tonight. Farah, Huili, my friend's whole family (his wife and 4 years old son) and I spent this fantastic night in Mario's Pizza in Collingwood. We ordered four giant pizza and small size one for the kid. We finished all of them at the end. All of them except me were first time came to Mario's. All of them were gourmets, with discriminating taste in food. They reckoned the pizza were delicious and great!

Mario also made a special fest for twenty five people on the other side of the shop tonight, including a baked whole lamb, beautiful Caesar salad, of course, pizza as well. This was the first time I saw Mario cooked something not pizza and pasta. My friend was also very impressed. He wanted Mario to make the same fest for the party in his home next time!

In the end, all the pizza, drinks and cappuccino were only $50 dollars. Can you believe it? However, friends gathering, spending a few happy hours after long time missing each other and a beautiful night, those were priceless.

"How lucky we are," I thought, "Maggie doesn't show up to paid the bill tonight. So she still owes us and we are going to dinner in the most expensive restaurant next time" :-D

Bon appetit! (Or let's say great food forever!)

Google Phone Interview Questions

2007-05-14T12:39:00.000+10:00

1. What the best and worst situation of Quick Sort?

2. Context Switch, CPU to Registrator, Memory Access, Disk Access, sort them from fastest to slowest.

3. What's 2^12?

4. 1016 Bytes in an array, any rounds how to something, something...

将腐败事业进行到底！

2007-01-06T01:49:00.000+11:00

The first week back to Melbourne from China. On Friday night, Hui Li, Farah and me, dinner at Ying Thai 2, No. 108 Lygon St.

Traditional Thai food - spicy, sweet, sour, and very very hot, with a lot chilli!

2006 年澳洲农民回国腐败纪实 (9)

2006-12-26T07:45:00.000+11:00

汉代士大夫仲长统在《乐志论》曰：“使居有良田广宅，背山临流，沟池环市，竹木周布，场圃筑前，果园树后，舟车足以代步涉之难，使令足以息四体之役。良朋萃止，则陈酒肴以娱之；嘉时吉日，则亯羔豚以奉之，踌躇畦苑，游戏平林...”

上回书说到看到几位同学的“豪宅”后，引用上面一段古文加以印证。 Amazing! 古人与今人都做的是同样的好梦。

回到北京。休整一日。第二天傍晚沿着天坛北围墙走到天坛北门，依旧是十多年前的围墙与园门。

天坛，祈年殿，围墙，风筝，夕阳西下，一幅老北京的浮世绘。照片拍自红桥珍珠商场顶楼。

再从祈年大街到大都市街，花市，东交民巷，王府井步行街，东堂（天主教堂），匾额曰：“惠我东方”。不错，今天资本主义在儒教统冶的中国又焕发了新的勃勃生机。

九点钟后，王府井的商场纷纷打烊，华灯下的东华门小吃一条街变得热闹起来。在 sub zero temperature 的北京夜晚，立于寒风之中，一碗卤煮火烧下肚后，身上立时热血沸腾，豪气冲天。北京人的优越感和骄傲 come back again. 在北京头两天的郁闷心情象满满的一碗卤煮火烧被一扫而光。

经正义路，北京市政府，回家。

参观国家游泳中心蓝色神奇建筑“水立方”和遥相呼应的“鸟巢”。

暮霭中的"鸟巢"用一个字来形容的话 - awesome! 下决心 2008 奥运会要出现在北京。

David 和我毕业后一同都被分配到五局延庆“官帽山”。现在他已是一家电子政务杂志社的主编。命运对人的造化真是神奇，深深感到只有爱拼的人才会赢。

MBA 毕业的 David 像我队很多同学已成功转型，走上了管理与决策的角色。现在，陈武，李国通，黄天寿都已是技术领导了。和他们交谈之后，领会到管理一个企业的重要性，复杂性，比 providing IT Solutions 是有过之而无不及。

Programmer -> System Architect -> Project Manager -> CIO

这是我设计的职业道路。我现在已经意识到在每一个不同的职业阶段，看如何运营企业的视角和高度就不同了。 David 告诉我如果能够更上一层楼，从全盘出发，分析，细化企业的核心流程，才能把工商管理简单，最优化，才有可能发挥 ERP or CRM 系统的效能。核心流程错，再好的技术解决方案都会打折扣。

Success in business 需要更多复合型人才。技术，管理，经济，金融，市场,营销的知识,最好还要有国外的经验。地球现在是平的 (The world is flat)。今天的竞争已是国际化的竞争。

听了 David 高屋建瓴的 presentation，我大呼醍醐灌顶，今日开窍。

为学以至用, David and I 来到黄记煌。其招牌菜三汁焖锅源于清末御膳名肴“香辣汁鱼”，用特制三汁“酱汁”，“海鲜汁”，“番茄汁”焖制各种美味食品。

又是新的一天，参观了微软亚洲研究院。 Ting, my former colleague in Sybase, told me no other institutes can beat Microsoft in Research and Development, even Google and IBM don't have such determined financial support for the independent research.

然后我检查了 Microsoft Research & Development China, 看中国公司是否也与美国总部接轨，布置了“腐败”的免费食品，饮料，健身器材，最新的 Xbox 360 游戏机。欣慰地见到 Bill Gates 这次没有忽悠 Chinese 后，即发表讲话指出，要真正做到权为民所用，情为民所系，利为民所谋。 Ting 不断地点头称是。

Ting and I 来到湖南菜闻名的“湘临天下”。

虽然 Ting and I 长期在国外生活，已习惯在用餐前祷告"Jesus, thank you for loving us and providing food". 但为体现与时同进的精神和建设有中国特色的社会主义，我们以背诵新三字经 - “八荣八耻”为替代。

以热爱祖国为荣以危害祖国为耻
以服务人民为荣以背离人民为耻
以崇尚科学为荣以愚昧无知为耻
以辛勤劳动为荣以好逸恶劳为耻
以团结互助为荣以损人利己为耻
以诚实守信为荣以见利忘义为耻
以遵纪守法为荣以违法乱纪为耻
以艰苦奋斗为荣以骄奢淫逸为耻

压轴菜是“剁椒鱼头”。

临上飞机前，我又到磁器口的老北京炸酱面大王。燕京啤酒尚好，醋泡蒜也很地道，但是独缺诱人的羊脸肉。略带一些遗憾也罢。

这次回国，我没有吃过一道重复的菜。这就是中国，一个爱吃，好吃，会吃，一个以吃为本，有着五千年悠久的吃文化的优秀民族。

回墨尔本时经上海转机。徜徉在巨大的浦东机场，凝视着窗外的悬磁浮列车，这个城市的新 icon 和飞速发展的东方明珠, 我突然意识到北京上海不一样的气质和美，也找到了无数人问我你愿意是生活工作在北京还是上海的答案。

北京她端庄矜静，雍容典雅，是 dreaming 的老婆；上海她明眸灵秀，风情万种，更适合于做情人。

但现实对男人永远是如此“残酷”。已有一朵红玫瑰绽放在生活中，却又让一支白玫瑰悄悄出现在你身边。

附《乐志论》：

使居有良田美宅，背山臨流，溝池還市（匝），竹木布，場圃築前，果園樹後，舟車足以代步涉之難，使令足以息四體之役。養親有兼珍之膳，妻帑（奴）無苦身之勞。良朋萃止，則陳酒肴以娛之；嘉時吉日，則亯羔豚以奉之。歭躇畦苑，游戲平林。濯清水，追風，釣游鯉，弋高鴻。風于舞雩之下，詠歸高堂之上。安神閨房，思老氏之元虛；呼歙精龢，求至人之仿佛。與達者數子，論道講書，錯綜人物，彈南風之雅操，發清商之眇（妙）曲，消搖一世之上，俾倪（睥睨）天地之間。不受當時之責，永保性命之期。如是則可以夌（凌）霄漢，出宇宙之外矣，豈羨乎入帝王之門哉。

2006 年澳洲农民回国腐败纪实 (8)

2006-12-23T05:58:00.000+11:00

作为北京人，自然要把回到的故里与刚刚离开的上海做一番比较，从首都机场到市中心的一段旅程是一个最好的佐证。Honestly to say, I'm a bit disppointed.

空气质量感觉没有任何的改进，好像北京依然是申奥成功后的那个大工地。天空灰蒙蒙，雾蒙蒙的，犹如一层厚厚的用了多年的旧地毯，给人一种不愉快的压抑感 - depression 哪! 离奥运不到两年，绿色奥运的口号仍旋绕于耳，我真希望这只是杞人忧天。“相信组织，相信群众”，I keep encouraging myself...

机场停车场里没看到比上海更多的好车，I guess 老百姓和政府是否正在开展廉洁整风运动。出租车是一水儿的韩国 Hyundai, 或更老的富康，上海的出租是德国的 Volkswagen Passat，作为中央政府的所在地，怎么也应该是“别摸我”（BMW）呀！北京的的哥儿还是那么能侃 - talking rubbish, 见了我的大包裹，便问我是不是装着一箱子金子。

沿路两旁的树不象上海，是光秃秃的。虽然冬天的北京越来越暖和，但夜晚的路上还是冷冷清清，路灯也如雾中看花，让人如何欣赏街上的美女呢？

歇了一天后首站便选择了中关村，我有意从新国家图书馆走到北大。一路上 Footpath 的地砖已经破破烂烂，坑坑洼洼的，这地砖才铺了几年啊？！而且没有看到有人维护的迹象。真希望检讨一下是否有腐败和贪污在其中。

过了海淀黄庄，就看到了有“中国特色”，或“北京特色”的景象。地砖贴满了“办证，刻章”了小广告。在国外，graffiti are everywhere。青年人用以展示他们的天才或者说发泄对社会的不满。当代的中国人不愧是“商”朝人的后代，而且满脑子的现代经营理念。小广告还贴到了过街天桥的铁栏上，几位清洁工人在费力刮着。在北大的门口，一群“农民企业家”形象的人 approach me, 热情地询问我要不要办证，刻章，发票，盗版碟和“毛片”。我对自己的形象彻底绝望了，what I have done? 为什么总是被人当成是“坏蛋”呢？！更令人愤愤不平的是，首善之都，中国的最高学府，二十多年的改革开放，猴子都可以进化成教授了，可他们还在这儿重复着昨天的故事。

从北大做 U-Turn 去了海龙和 e 世界两个电子市场。没想到一进门十几个导购便欢快跳跃着奔我直扑而来。拽揶着我的衣服往他们的 shop 里拉。Holy cow! 我不明白，是这世界变化快，还是这些人被生活所迫都变疯了？我可是一点儿没有“I believe I am God”的感觉，倒觉得自己好像是一个经常光顾“怡春园”的 customer. 想白白 Window Shopping 是没戏了，我只能狼狈不堪地逃了出来。真要回家自己照照镜子了。

不择路撞到了中关村购物中心，宽阔的街道，现代的建筑，高尚的时装店，让回到北京后的我第一次产生了美好的感觉。I lost myself - 哪里来的世外桃源啊！

饶亮所在的公司正对民族大学。我以前也在离此不远的公司工作过。此风水福地因左怀拥有众多漂亮 MM 的北京舞蹈学院，右抱汇集全部精英的解放军艺术学院，令许多哥哥们到此“驻足”不前 - 挪不动自己腿了。

饶亮已是幸福的有妻儿的人了，是个正宗 family guy，早已没了闲情雅志陪我一起在马路边欣赏“天使”们了。他问我除了 MM 还有什么怀念的，我说新疆村的手抓羊肉。饶亮说新疆村已经没了，但能带我到另一个腐败的好地方。东四六条深巷中的一家新疆饭馆 - “弯弯月亮”。

饭馆的装饰是典型的维吾尔族特色，如清真寺的半球吊顶，拱状门洞，写有阿拉伯文的墙饰，还有为食客准备的一米高的土耳其水烟袋。饶亮介绍说烟丝是从国外进口的，抽起来非常的细腻，柔和。联想到鬼子用同样的水烟袋吸大麻，就没敢试。这里的新疆菜还是非常正点的。

吃完饭后参观了正在装修的饶亮的新家。这次回国印象最深的莫过于许多同学不仅有房有车，而且是有房s有车s。在钱华家时感到中国人民已经进入小康了；到周丹平家后，感受了党让一部分富人更富起来的政策的英明；从楚蓓蓓和陈武处又回到上海后，刘晋和钱华关怀地问我是不是受了什么刺激，hehe，刺激大了。

2006 年澳洲农民回国腐败纪实 (7)

2006-12-20T14:03:00.000+11:00

回到上海，在上屋咖啡与李国通，周晓吃饭。做为中国院士的候选，做为王选，倪光南的接班人，李国通向我布道了三个小时。学校时略显木讷的他，此刻气宇轩昂，神采飞扬。中西汇融，旁证博引，最后彻底把我侃晕。

第二天中午，在淮海中路重庆路口屋企汤馆与周向阳一起吃中饭。

后到亚洲第一高塔－东方明珠塔，领略新兴的国际化大都会。

晚上在一家日本料理，红旗飘飘请客。生牛肉（刺身），中国式的肥牛火锅－大和民族改良版，及此次回来喝道的最好的啤酒－朝日，麒麟和日本生啤。

上次与红旗飘飘见面是在 Melbourne。她一个人到澳洲自助逍遥游。胆子可真大。

饭后乘车游览上海美丽的夜景。从高架桥冲下来，真想撞向汤臣一品的楼盘。

然后到百度娱乐品 Johnny Walker Black Label。不理解为什么有人混着绿茶而非加冰。这也真叫有中国特色的了。喝到最后吐血。再带着醉意飙车回到住所，完成了在上海最后的疯狂。

Head to Beijing tomorrow!

2006 年澳洲农民回国腐败纪实 (6)

2006-12-16T12:17:00.000+11:00

“水光潋滟晴方好，山色空蒙雨亦奇。欲把西湖比西子，淡妆浓抹总相宜”。

自 1992 年５６所实习期间游览过杭州新旧十景后，十四年后重游故地。

1992年前第一次游览西湖旧十景，新十景时雷峰塔还淹没于一堆荒黄垒土之中。而且那时，重建雷峰塔的喧嚣之声还不绝於耳。２００１年，雷峰塔地宫的开启，千年历史之迷团揭开，轰动海内外华人世界。白娘子与许仙的浪漫传说，演绎着中国版 Titanic 的传奇。这一切无不吸引慕名雷峰塔而来，登高一望，饱览全面改革开放后的新杭州。

“古塔风姿，夙为各方所爱赏；湖山胜景，例当盛世而重开”。雷峰塔重建记中这段话概括了亿万炎黄子孙对如今盛世中国的无比自豪与骄傲。只有今天的中国，才有物力，人力，财力与实力，才有信心去实现百年的民族梦想。

第二天，又去看了六和塔和钱塘江。钱塘江两岸，已不是一望无际的农田，取而代之的是高耸现代化的居民楼，宽阔的滨江路，完美设计的绿区，和浩浩殇殇的江水，令人心随荡漾的海风，那一刻，我真有了置身“天堂”的 feeling。And this is a absolutely beautiful feeling...

第三天下午离开杭州，临走前在苏堤茶馆小坐。望着环湖的美境，幻想着哪一天我队同学能相聚杭州，在西湖论剑呢？

2006 年澳洲农民回国腐败纪实 (5)

2006-12-16T03:24:00.000+11:00

崇安寺是无锡老城区的核心。经数年的修拓，内部的步行街已与周围的 shopping mall 合融为一。早已不是原来十四年前，孤影老衲，靠卖门票来维系的“国家重点文物保护单位”了。

在上海没有见到周向阳，却在无锡逮儿个正着。又是一番少不了的吃喝，吹牛。

晚上送周向阳回上海后，又和周丹平继续腐败－百度娱乐。震耳的 Disco 中，年青的异类们品着加冰的 Johnny Walker Black Label （不知真懂还是假懂）和掺了雪碧的长城干红（stooges!）; 两位正品则玩掷骰子，罚喝 B-52 鸡尾酒，一种可以被点燃的“混合炸药”.

第二天上午离开周丹平的家，在阅读咖啡馆，一边吃早点，一边上网继续写腐败经历。下午乘车到杭州，见到了楚蓓蓓，陈武和大名鼎鼎却初次见面的陈楚琪。非常荣幸，作为我队第一位同学，住到了楚蓓蓓和陈武艺术与高科技完美结合的新家。Great great great great location!!!

晚上，楚蓓蓓和陈武做东－杭州家乡菜。一直折腾到１２点钟，已经支持不住想睡觉了，陈武又热情洋溢地抱来一罗儿“汽车之友”杂志（中文版呢，已经读不懂其中的术语了），要求我抓紧时间，恶补功课，to kill 几年来对中国腾飞的汽车业的无知与偏见。早上起来后还有考试？！

Thank you very much! Hehe...

2006 年澳洲农民回国腐败纪实 (4)

2006-12-14T15:49:00.000+11:00

又回到曾经生活战斗过的地方－江南计算所，青山秀水依旧，但人已非昔。农家 family restaurant 的“阿黄”似乎还认得我，我一入门便吠个不停。还好，这次它在笼里，我在笼外。

见到了黄宇光，现在已是博士加领导。中国正是奇缺象这样懂技术，会管理的人才。

下午游览鼋头渚。晚上打 badminton. 自然少不了吃饭，喝酒和腐败...

不识腐败真面木，只缘不由己，身在此中。想想中国那么多下岗，那么多毕业找不到理想工作的，还有那么多有着美好理想，但面临着残酷现实的人，有如刚毕业时的你我。当今的腐败就是创造工作，就是造福社会，就是为和谐社会做贡献。所以，花党的钱时不要脸红，不要手紧，政府的 money 就是人民的币。就此打住...

2006 年澳洲农民回国腐败纪实 (3)

2006-12-12T13:14:00.000+11:00

雨中同里

钱华 tells me 同里被中国国家地理评为十大中国小镇之首，远远高于闻名海外的周庄。同里正好在去吴江的路上。可惜天公不做美，如毛的细雨持续下个不停。

同里－古朴秀雅的典型江南水乡，以“小桥，流水，人家”的水乡特色，人文景观的悠久历史而蚩声海内外。

退思园建于清光绪十一年至十三年（公元 1885 一 1887 年），园主任兰生，因人弹劾被革职，取名“退思”以期补过。退思园的花园以水为中心，建筑、假山沿水边布置，建筑多贴水而筑，突出了水面的汪洋之势，故有“贴水园”的美称。退思园水面处理独到之处就是水与建筑的紧密、贴进，整个园子象浮在水上，与其他园林相比，平添一分动感。

Tongli is a typical waterside down in south of Yangtze River, primitive simple and beautiful. It becomes famous at home and aboard for both its characters of waterside land, like foot bridge, crossing waterway and dwelling house, and long history of human landscape. Tongli enjoys the title of Oriental Venice, Exhibition Hall of Building of Ming and Qing Dynasties and Natural Photostudio. The scenic spots that have been opened to public amount to nearly 20 places, such as Garden of Seclusion and Meditations, Chongben Hall, Jiayin Hall, Genegle Hall, Historic Cultural Display Hall, Luoxingzhou Island, Chen Qubing's Former Residence, Pearl Pagoda, Songshiwu Garden, Chinese Sexual Culture Museum, Gufeng Garden, Xiaodian Lake Forest Park, etc. Both Tong Li and Garden of Seculision and Meditations bear several laurels: One of National Top Thirteen Scenic Spots in Taihu Scenic Area, National AAAA Grade Scenic Area, State Public Healthy Town, Famous Historic and Cultural Town in China, National Key Cultural Relic Protection Unit and World Culture Heritage.

Garden of Seclution and Mediations, built in the 11th to 13th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty, was a private garden belong to Ren Lansheng, an official in charge of defense over the regions of Feng, Ying, Liu, Liu and Si. Occupying a land of 9 mu and 8 fen, the building broke through the convention in its structure, i.e. changing the lengthwise arrangement into transverse one. From west to east, there are residence, courtyard and garden, where the pavilions, terraces and open halls are distributed.

参观同里后钱华 drives his car lifting me 直奔无锡。从来没见到如此之好的 infrastructure - 公路。中国的 hardware 真是突飞猛进，现在只差软件 - software。For example, 吴江到无锡 70 km 四十分钟的 driving, 却花了两个多小时。虽有车载 GPS, 钱华一路上也是不断超速 (speeding), 闯红灯, 不看路标行使, 但马路上像 Ricky Qian 这样的艺高胆大的司机实在是太多了，hehe...

晚上，江苏省党政军主要负责人周丹平同志接待并宴请了Ricky and I. 晚上的娱乐活动在无锡著名的 XXXX.真让人 eyes wide open, 这不是无锡版的“天上人间”吗？刚说完这话便被暴扁，被骂“土得掉渣”！(以下含有腐败内容, 自删四千字...)

12 点过后又一并去吃烧烤，icy beer, 孜然飘香的鱼肉，仿佛又回到了军校毕业实习的那学期，old time, good time... 昔日小媳妇已熬成今天黄脸婆，life is getting better and better every day.

2006 年澳洲农民回国腐败纪实 (2)

2006-12-11T01:28:00.000+11:00

终于在上海等到了一个天晴的日子，钱华，刘晋，钱多多和我中午乘车到淮海中路的黔香阁。

王瑛玫，欧阳燕，周晓 show up.

自四年前同学聚会之后，感觉女同桌们越发苗条，越发妩媚。男同桌们则越来越胖。钱华，周晓除外，毕竟都是“苦大仇深”的。

中午吃的只能用 fantastic! 来形容。

谈完生意，吃完饭，来个 pose。

周晓和我饭后参观了上海博物院，外滩，人民英雄纪念塔。重温上下五千年的中国历史，反思近代民族的屈辱，缅怀革命先烈的奋斗精神。周晓对我的爱国主义再教育，及时而且深刻。

爱国主义再教育后，周晓和我开始了另一项非常有意义的工作。我们来到了城隍庙－吃！

城隍庙的小吃一个字形容－ “绝”！她融会了全国各地小吃于一处。

周晓和我又到了徐家汇，美罗电脑城。3D Media TV 能播放立体动画，大吃一惊。分析了半天，没有明白其工作原理。

更令我惊讶的是徐家汇竟有这么多的漂亮 MM。打扮时尚已超上日系，赶上韩流。与欧美近在 hitting range。服装，提包和用的香水尽显 Armani, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Prada, Gucci, Chanel 风范。

乘上海地铁一号线到莘庄，回到钱华家。一边想着今天见到的所有漂亮 MM，一边回味着几顿美食，然后写下了今天的腐败经历。

明天要到吴江和无锡，more 腐败纪实 coming up。Please stay tuned...

2006 年澳洲农民回国腐败纪实 (I)

2006-12-09T13:53:00.000+11:00

Night before the departing, my life is just miserable. Have to get everything settled down, cleaning up at home, head to bed around 2 o'clock, and have to get up at 4 am to catch up 8:40 am's plane.

Fortunately I don't oversleep, actually it's hard fall into sleep all night.
Get up right on time after I set up alarm clock both on my mobile and clock radio in case. It's summer time in Melbourne, still very dark outside. Lucky the temperature in the early morning is about 13 degree. My destination Shanghai in China is about minus 1 degree right now so I put on all the Winter's clothing on.

Catch first shift tram No.1 to Melbourne city, waiting in the transfer station for 20 minutes and switch to another tram No.96 to the Southern Cross station. Skybus shuttle bus services 30 minutes per shift. It only takes 20 minutes to Melbourne Airport, arrived around 6 am, 天边已泛鱼肚白.

Aimless roaming in the not full airport hall, browsing perfume and wine list on the shelves under the high security guarded shopping assistants. Finally, check in. When the plane takes off to the sky, it's already near 9:30, almost one hour behind the schedule. China Eastern Airline's reputation damned again, poor services and always not on time.

After two hours flying, plane lands in the Sydney Airport. And I find out this plane shared route code with other four Qantas and other China Eastern Airlines eventually. So this plane carry people from Shanghai to Sydney, who transmit in Melbourne, people from Melbourne to Sydney to other routes, and people like me from Melbourne to Sydney to Shanghai.

Although without checking out luggage in Sydney Airport, situation are getting worse and into chaos. Boarding gate changed temporarily, so a lot people don't realise until the last minute. When I pass check point, and find my seat has already been taken by another passenger, I can't believe my ears when I am told my ticket is NOT valid. So have to wait for another 15 minutes to allocate seat.

Oh my god, I don't know when my poor planned trip will end, I already start beginning curse myself. However, after I find my seat at the back half the plane, I just can't wipe the smile from my face. I remember I booked economy class. My seat is one step away the Emergency Exit door, although I have no plan to be first one jump off the plane, the legs room for this row seats are just blessed. I can stench my body like I'm sleeping on the sky bed. I don't think you can be better off even if you are in business class lounge.

Hallelujah!!!

I have to again mention China Eastern Airline service, food are not delicious, I suspect the airline hired some "cheap" chefs who have no idea how to cook Chinese food. It is "insulting" to "decent" people who appreciate great food in life. And there are something worse, 3 infants, around one year old with their parents, crying on the other side of aisle. Their parents try best to quite them. But I reckon I'll be the person hardly to put into sleeping than the kids. Also teenagers on their school holidays to China, the first time trip to China I reckon, sit in the next row. They are playing their Nitendo's consoles, noising with dirty words. Three of them are ABC (Australia Born Chinese), or bananas you call them. I say to myself, "Oh my God, what I have done deserve this?"

But I have to say only thing I'm pleased this trip is that impressed with a patient young stewardess. A typical 上海 looking girl, with beautiful, fetching smile. She is very gentle and kind to the kids, chatting nicely with kids' parents. When the plane takes off and lands down. She is sitting on her seat opposite to me... What a lucky bastard I'm. Unforgetably, I just too shy to ask taking a photo with her :-) It seems I have no choice but to marry a Chinese girl.

When I walk out the custom from Pu Dong International Airport, I know what's the meaning to an International Airport. Although it's already 8 pm, very dark outside, I still can fell how huge and awesome Pu Dong Airport is. Comparing to Pu Dong, Sydney Airport is like a small kid.

Ricky (Qian) Hua is waiting for me, he leads me to the parking lot. I'm shocked seeing so many Volkswagen Passat, Golf, Polo and Audi A4, A6 parking there. Am I in Germany I ask. Average Chinese salary are about one sixth to Aussie, but they drive the "luxury" cars most Aussies can't afford. And these German desigend, made in China cars are too common here. I know during the last five years, Car Industry in China are flying. But it's only four years since my last time here, I remember at that time people still drive VW Santana 2000, which are kind of cars have extinct several years ago in Germany, 奥拓, maybe a few Buicks. However, looks like International Auto Exhibition on air on Shanghai streets now.

So 澳洲农民指出，“不要生在福中不知福”。要知道，挣的多，交税交的更多的澳洲人民至今还生活在水深火热之中。

More 令人郁闷的是, because so many International Car giant set up manufacturers here, they can reduce the cost of building cars drastically. After I know that Volkswagen and Audi cars are about two third or half price to the same model cars in Australia, I'm thinking to buy a car and row back to Australian coast.

迎宾大道 from Pu Dong Airport to the City just awesome. It's high standard, green covered Boulevard. Ricky turns on his home-made GPS system, a integrated mini-PC running Windows XP, with GPS navigator system, telling where you are, where you should go, with error margin only 5 meters. Meanwhile, Chinese Pop Songs played from this mini-PC. I can also play DVD if I don't mind causing traffic stockpile.

Mind you, you can't find braver drivers wherelse but in China. Chinese drivers are naturally born against all kind rules, if they won't be caught by the polices. Maybe they live enough with the communist party, or maybe there are too many people. I bet that Schumi (Michael Schumacher) will be stunned if he see the way Chinese Drivers drive, crossing the traffic line, drive in the opposite way, speeding through road cross...

入住 Ricky Qian's 137 square meters 的豪宅

又是新的一年，我越看越不明白

2006-03-01T01:37:00.000+11:00

又是新的一年，我越看越不明白，
本想多多回贴，5460 让人无奈，
不是烦人贼慢，就是出错歇菜，
终于成功登录，又骗你付 a little bit high，
标榜服务社会，实际上还不如个乞丐，
免费舒适的有人不用，花钱去挤 5460“特快”(对不起楚蓓蓓，说你呢 ;-) )
姆指替代了键盘，短信开始人见人爱，
书信可以写得让人不明不白，
GGJJDDMM 能成为“同龄”关系的替代，
郭磊讲话越看越像台上说教的领导，(对不起郭磊)
颜岳军灌水却越看越像风雅的诗人，(对不起颜岳军)
地球越转越快，一年又有许多新的期待，
钞票要多来，身体又要不能赖，
不是我不明白，只是怨 Old Time，Good Time 不再。

遥祝大家新春快乐

Farewell Brad Dean

2006-02-12T15:36:00.000+11:00

As one of very few people watching Brad comes in CWIS group as a part-timer when he still studies in the Melbourne University, and leaves with the mission unaccomplished, may I say something about Brad maybe you don't know?

Brad joined in our group to fill another CWIS legend - Marty Gleeson's shoes. He soon showed people he has a big pair of feet too. Then people in our group opened debates about whether Brad is a boy or girl, whether he is sane or insane for a long long time. Mostly because of Brad is not a typical Aussie boy. He loves meat pie and drinks a lot of VB, but he can't get footy and cricket. In spite of he spents a lot of time in capital city of South Australia, he still believes Adelaide Crows are some kind of endangered birds in the region. Tai Chi, if you still call it is a sport, is the only physical exercise Brad practices.

Brad leaves University during a turbulent period. There is no formal farewell party organised for him, even without a card signed by colleagues saying goodbye after his six years loyal services. However, these are trivial things can hardly fuss over him. In contrast with, a lot of people on FLITE have already expressed respect and appreciation to his great contribution to Melbourne University soon after the announcement. I'm wondering whether there is something you want achieve more than your work can be acknowledged by the people you serve for, something you can do better than to let Melbourne University be proud of having you study and work here.

A lot of people remember Brad as an intelligent, creative, independent and responsible person. A person never compromises on his principles. But there is something more.

One thing I noticed unusual on Thursday last week. Just after Brad finished packing his stuff and pots of big plants grew years, he bunkered himself into the chair, looked around the office had been working in for last six years, then stared on the blank wall and his empty desk, without saying a word, for quite a few minutes...

From that moment on, I found another Brad, a strong character with passion and love, a man had a lot of good memories remained in Melbourne University and tried to take away with him.

However, these beautiful memories should never be all gone with him, even for good. They are the treasures, for people who are still working in University today, should share with and look after forever and ever.

I wish Brad all the best to his future. And be happy and have a lot of fun in his new life.

Cheerio!

NOT ENOUGH LAMB - transcript of Australia Day Lamb Commercial

2006-01-25T21:15:00.000+11:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3w2xHOkhmY

My fellow Australians, incidents of un-Australian behaviour over the past year is enough to make me choke on my lamb chops, and it was all down to one thing: Not enough lamb.

For example, Australian models hold on in Asia will get along less in trouble if they carried a couple of lamb chops in their handbags. Lamb could've prevented the Boof'ed perpetrating violence on our beaches, it's bloody hard to bash someone with a cutlet. And we might not have lost the Ashes if our cricketers picked up lamb chops, instead of mobile phones. Why on Earth did they dispatch lyric text messages to English trollops, when plenty of Australian sheilas would badly target at their middle stump?

Yet mist have spread across the land, like bird flew through a Chinese chicken coop, what were we doing about it? Bugger all. It's time to remind ourselves of what lies at the core of our national identity: A lamb chop on a barbie.

Being Australian doesn't mean you have to call the opposition captain a wanker, even if he is! Or smother everything in tomato sauce, 'til it resembles in our casualty ward. Or pull on a pair of budgie smugglers, I'd prefer you didn't.

And you don't have to spend every Friday night on the piss 'til your best friend looks like Elle McPherson, throw up in a cap, then trip over the garden gnome before passing out on your front lawn. In fact, to be as Australian as I am, done your apron - mine says "Chop gun" -, whack some nice juicy lamb chops on the barbie, invite everyone over, if you can't pronounce their name, just call them "Mate", and celebrate living in the best bloody country on Earth.

So don't be un-Australian, serve lamb on Australia Day. You know it makes sense. I'm Sam Kekovich.

If all morons like pigs that can fly...

2006-01-22T12:20:00.000+11:00

If all morons like pigs that can fly, so our workplace, these days, you can call it Melbourne Airport...

KNOW IT ALL

It was the first day of school and a new student, the son of a Japanese businessman, Toshiba, entered the fourth grade.

The teacher greeted the class and said, "Let's begin by reviewing some American history." Who said "Give me Liberty,or give me death?"

She saw only a sea of blank faces, except for that of Toshiba, who had his hand up. "Patrick Henry, 1775," said the boy.

"Now," said the teacher, "who said 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth?"

Again, no response except from Toshiba: "Abraham Lincoln, 1863."

The teacher snapped at the class, "You should be ashamed. Toshiba, who is new to our country, knows more about it than you do."

As she turned to write something on the blackboard, she heard a loud whisper: "Damned Japanese."

"Who said that?" she demanded.

Toshiba put his hand up. "Lee Iacocca, 1982," he said.

At that point, feeling completely disgusted by Toshiba's classroom superiority, a student in the back sighed, "I'm gonna throw up."

Teacher says "Who said that?".

Again, Toshiba raises his hand and says "George Bush to Japanese Prime Minister, 1991."

Now furious, another student yells, "Oh yeah? Well, suck my...."

Once again, it's Toshiba with the answer, "Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky, 1997."

摆脱贫困，早日成功的１２条黄金法则

2005-12-24T02:50:00.000+11:00

一个目标：杰出人士与平庸之辈的根本差别并不是天赋、机遇，而在于有无目标。起跑领先一步，人生领先一大步：成功从选定目标开始。为什么大多数人没有成功？真正能完成自己计划的人只有５％，大多数人不是将自己的目标舍弃，就是沦为缺乏行动的空想。每日、每月、每年都要问自己：我是否达到了自己定下的目标。

两个成功基点：成功者找方法，失败者找借口。不满现状的人才能成为富翁。成功者不过是爬起来比倒下去多一次。

三大技巧：管理时间：你的时间在哪里，你的成就就在哪里。你不理财，财不理你。

四项安身立命的理念：做人优于做事，做事失败可以重来，做人失败却不能重来。豁达的男人有财运，豁达的女人有帮夫运。３５岁以前你还没有建立起忠诚美誉，这一缺点将要困扰你的一生。把小事做细，但不要耍小聪明。

五分运气：人生是不公平的，习惯去接受它吧。智者早一步，愚者晚一步。

六项要求：智慧－别人可你以拿走你的一切，但拿不走你的智慧。勇气。培养自己的“领导才能、领袖气质。创造性－不要做循规蹈矩的人。明智。持之以恒的行动力－在你选定行业坚持十年，你一定会成为大赢家。

七分学习：知识改变命运。思考、实践、再思考、再实践。

八分交际：智商很重要，情商更重要－３５岁以前建立起人际关系网。人脉即财脉。善于沟通－３５岁以前要锻炼出自己的演讲才能。

九分习惯：积极思维的好习惯，养成高效工作的好习惯。养成锻炼身体的好习惯。广泛爱好的好习惯。快速行动的好习惯。

十分自信：自信是成功的精神支柱。自信方能赢得别人的信任。为自己确立目标，发挥自己的长处，做事要有计划，做事不拖拉，轻易不要放弃，学会自我激励，不要让自己成为别人。

十一个需要避开的成功陷阱：不要为钱而工作，而让钱为你工作。盲目跟风，人云亦云，人做我也做。

十二分努力：没有人能随随便便成功。小不是成功，大不是成功，由小变大才是成功。巧干＋敢干＋实干＝成功。努力尝试就有成功的可能。做任何事情，尽最大努力。把事情当成事业来做。

Mario's Pizza and modern civilisation

2005-12-24T02:12:00.000+11:00

This is the best pizza I had in my life.

Mario's Pizza is small Italian Pizza Shop at the corner of Elgin and Johnson St. The owner - Mario, an old gentleman with moustache running his family business.

Rich, tasty, and well balanced flavour. These home-made like pizza are only cooked for us. You can't order them on the menu. One of them has a strange name - "monkey pizza". It's better to eat them, especially, after two hours tennis. With the home brewed red wine, very sweet, brought by friends. It's called "pizza wine". This is a beautiful night before Xmas.

Sometimes I think about which countries made the biggest contribution to the modern civilisation. British invented almost all the modern sports - soccer, rugby, cricket, tennis, badminton, golf, snooker... Except American invented basketball. French made big contribution to the world with wine and their haute cuisine, German with cars, beer and classical music. Italian with pizza, opera and the greatest artists - Leonardo da Vinci. Japanese with food and electric devices. Chinese with food, five thousands history and communism.

Thought after the interview

2005-12-23T12:15:00.000+11:00

Directory Systems Technical Lead - a position created by the Information Infrastructure, Information Services, The University of Melbourne. This position is reporting to Manager Dr. D. Aldridge.

"We give everyone a fair go. Let's bring the game on. Do you want to pop in and be a great team player?". There is no other choice except "yes". "Great! That's the spirit. And you play loser."

That is the rule of the game, and the candidate selection process this interview panel made. I, and some of my colleagues followed this complicated and subtle re-alignment.

We played losers... Just like a horde of mules, carrying the drugs through the borders.

If you have a look the position description carefully, you can see the blank space between each lines have been printed cleanly - "Terrence, you are not qualified for this job!".

I found this secret before the interview. But, I still went forward... Work like a professional! Be a team player! Show trust, respect to your boss!

People on the panel, not all of them, hadn't fully read my application. Some asked questions I already answered in my Cover Letter for criteria. Whiteboard and pen are not provided to let you draw the architecture of what you think. The interview felt a little bit dull. Someone stayed for filling the management duties. Interview was finished in 25 minutes rather than standard half an hour. Maybe someone needed to take an urgent coffee break I reckon.

If I would switch the seat with members on the panel, I'd like ask them two questions:

1. list the cutting edge technologies since the IT revolution

2. Java is a crappy-designed programing language and bad implemented project. After 15 years, it still alive and miraculously survived. Who saved Java?

Postera Crescam Laude is a Latin phrase borrowed from the poet Horace.

It was adopted as the official motto of the University of Melbourne at a Council Meeting on 28 August 1854. 'I shall grow in the esteem of future generations,' was how Geoffrey Blainey (who I am delighted to say is here tonight) paraphrased the Latin a century later.

However, does this motto has been translated into "no respect, no appreciation" these days if you see what have happened in the University year 2005?

再别康桥 - 徐志摩

2005-08-16T12:31:00.000+10:00

轻轻的我走了，
正如我轻轻的来；　　
我轻轻的招手，
作别西天的云彩。　　

那河畔的金柳，
是夕阳中的新娘；
波光里的艳影，
在我的心头荡漾。

软泥上的青荇，
油油的在水底招摇；　　
在康河的柔波里，
我甘心做一条水草。

那树荫下的一潭，
不是清泉，是天上虹；
揉碎在浮藻间，
沉淀着彩虹似的梦。　　

寻梦？
撑一支长篙，
向青草更青处漫溯，　　
满载一船星辉，
在星辉斑斓里放歌。

但我不能放歌，
悄悄是别离的笙箫；　　
夏虫也为我沉默，
沉默是今晚的康桥！　　

悄悄的我走了，
正如我悄悄的来；　　
我挥一挥衣袖，
不带走一片云彩。

podcast - new revolution in media

2005-07-08T18:46:00.000+10:00

Frank Sinatra - L.O.V.E. is for the way you look at me


L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can

Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please dont break it
Love was made for me and you

(Trumpet instrumental)

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can

Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please dont break it
Love was made for me and you
Love was made for me and you
Love was made for me and you

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Chinese Characters Test - 有冒险精神的

2005-07-08T12:36:00.000+10:00

有冒险精神的

Terrence Miao's Blog Opened

2005-07-08T12:04:00.000+10:00

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