Congregation/Graduation Ceremony

Great Firewall 防火長城

Now people here in HK can surf and read any content from the Net without restriction. But is it true that what we are granted for sure is also granted for poeple living in mainland China?

What the hell is "Great Firewall"? (or officially known as "The Golden Shield Project")



Search for 六四事件 (Tiananmen Event) in Shanghai last month, you got a typical view of "Network Error" due to the Great Firewall. Click and click to zoom in.


Some contents in Wikipedia are also filtered by the Great Firewall. So if you study in China, you may not be able to dub "source" from wikipedia anymore.


Even some web sites we browse everyday are blocked, including xanga.com. Thats probably because reading your friends' dairy is "not an appropriate act for general citizens and may cause potential harzard to the national security".




HK is successful for being a free port. People enjoy a free market, freedom of speech and publish. Go onto street and protest if you dont like the government; buy a entertainment magazine/pornography if you want. Freedom is good for your health! Free-flowing information from mass media alert you to poisonous foods and fatal diseases.

If China was a more open-minded country, it could have run such a overwhelming Olympic n-year ago (where n is a positive integer).

Learn the issue in depth (it talks about HK too):
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=IWsXhNJFj78

Technical Training @ Shanghai

To attend the technical training @ Shanghai:

• Pack your luggage without nail cutter, shampoo, hair gel and camera-to-computer cable;


• Use the GPS on your phone to navigate for the taxi driver and almost get lost;


• Use your nearly-expired passport to check-in your room in hotel and almost get rejected for check-in;


• Accomodate in a ~1k sq feet apartment (alone);


• Washed your clothes with the washing machine in room and find no place for hanging the wet clothes;
• Buy and use a nail cutter for female;


• Forced to hang the clothes in kitchen;


• Enjoy the cool weather and realize you have not brought enough clothing;


• Make friends with other training attendants who are nice;


• Partner with a Korean colleague who are also nice;


• Speak in Putonghua, English and sometimes Cantonese;


• Have good breakfasts, satisfactory lunches and big dinner;


• Wait at the reception every morning for company bus;


• Attend lectures and get lost again;


• Attend lab sessions and gain back some confidence;


• Chat online with a good old friend from Shanghai;


• Type this blog;

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北極首次成為一座孤島 - Yahoo! 新聞

Long time no post. Here is a good news item for all of us:
Source: http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/080901/4/7zxm.html


北極首次成為一座孤島
(明報)9月1日 星期一 21:40

根據衛星拍攝的最新照片顯示，北極 有史以來首次變成了一座孤島，冰雪融化已經貫通了西北和東北通道。
英國 傳媒報道，攝於上月29日的衛星圖，證明北極冰層融化首次成了一座孤島。對研究氣候變化的科學家來說，這是全球變暖對全世界產生的嚴重破壞的一個重要跡象。美國 國家冰雪數據中心專瑟萊澤將此描述成「具有歷史意義的事件」。該中心上周已發出警告，今年北極的融冰範圍比2005年多出20萬平方英里，是歷來融化最嚴重的一年。
新貫通的通道讓各國輪船公司湧到北極，他們希望能在北極開辟出新的航路，縮減全球航運距離。
據報道，很多科學家認為，北極周圍形成的大量參差不齊的冰將在2030年夏季完全消失。
（中通社）

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Congratulations! We are one step closer to get ourselves wiped out.
Seeing ourselves being wiped out while we can do nothing to stop it from happening is probably one of the worst things on earth.

Hard-disk當Speaker, 你見過未？

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
A remix of Radiohead's Nude.

If you lack patience, start from 01:09.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX

A live version of Nude played by the band: