9/6 2336
Today afternoon we went to “Magic Slope”怪坡. It claims u don’t need to do work to travel up the slope coz “some kind of force” will push u up, and you feel friction if u go down slope.
And we arrive there. It was a pitch road which seems not horizontal. Our mini-bus moves itself when it goes up the slope and fall back when it goes down the slope. Seems cool huh?
I felt confused when I really experienced it. But I still believe this can be explained. The force can only be mechanical coz for such a strong magnetic or electric force we wouldn’t have working mobile phones there, but we had. I think the road is not inclining in the way as it looks like.
And I found this.
http://www.losn.com.cn/hojin/jsc/14.htm
And the more interesting thing is that the article was written in 1993 but there are still people like us to go and see the so-called Magic Slope. The owner of the Slope is still making money from the trick and the government has done nothing to stop it even though CCTV has revealed the truth.
Unfortunately from the Google search result we can see the Shenyang 怪坡 is not the only怪坡 in the world, and people are still paying money meaninglessly.
Monday, June 19, 2006
The First Lecture: Shenyang CLIC part 1.5
5/6 1552
This morning 0830 we went to a meeting room to listen to a talk by a business school professor. I walked downstairs like dead people coz I felt so sleepy…
There was originally a title for the talk but he soon changed the topic by asking what we want to know. At some pt of the talk one of us ask the professor’s opinion toward 4thJune1989 democracy movement. There was a moment of embarrassment, but he soon said people in China have found that their government is becoming more and more open-minded. And he then talked about Beijing’s response about 胡耀邦’s death anniversary and used it as an example. He said people are feeling the pressure being removed slowly.
Well in fact I found that the professor didn’t answer the question directly. So I guess what he said is right, but people are still afraid of talking 4th June publicly. This is the answer I expected so I don’t have a strong feeling to this. The question is whether Beijing ‘d continue to give more freedom of speech to its people.
PS I original want to post this when I was in the host family but I ‘m afraid the word “4th June” will affect my host’s living, I don’t know. So I decided to post this when I come back to HK. Enjoy the freedom~~
This morning 0830 we went to a meeting room to listen to a talk by a business school professor. I walked downstairs like dead people coz I felt so sleepy…
There was originally a title for the talk but he soon changed the topic by asking what we want to know. At some pt of the talk one of us ask the professor’s opinion toward 4thJune1989 democracy movement. There was a moment of embarrassment, but he soon said people in China have found that their government is becoming more and more open-minded. And he then talked about Beijing’s response about 胡耀邦’s death anniversary and used it as an example. He said people are feeling the pressure being removed slowly.
Well in fact I found that the professor didn’t answer the question directly. So I guess what he said is right, but people are still afraid of talking 4th June publicly. This is the answer I expected so I don’t have a strong feeling to this. The question is whether Beijing ‘d continue to give more freedom of speech to its people.
PS I original want to post this when I was in the host family but I ‘m afraid the word “4th June” will affect my host’s living, I don’t know. So I decided to post this when I come back to HK. Enjoy the freedom~~
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Hold on to People They're Slipping Away
Dedicated to everyone who has been together with me in these two weeks in Shenyang.
Slipping Away
Moby
All that we needed, was right
The threshold is breaking, tonight
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
Focus on everything better today
All that I needed I never could say
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away
All that we needed, tonight
Are people who love us, and life
I know how it feels to need
Oh when we leave here, you'll see
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
Focus on everything better today
All that I needed I never could say
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away
So long
So long
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
Focus on everything better today
All that I needed I never could say
Hold on to people they're slipping away
[14x]
Slipping Away
Moby
All that we needed, was right
The threshold is breaking, tonight
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
Focus on everything better today
All that I needed I never could say
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away
All that we needed, tonight
Are people who love us, and life
I know how it feels to need
Oh when we leave here, you'll see
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
Focus on everything better today
All that I needed I never could say
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away
So long
So long
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
Focus on everything better today
All that I needed I never could say
Hold on to people they're slipping away
[14x]
Monday, June 12, 2006
北陵and Dream House: Shenyang CLIC part 5
8/6 2157
Today afternoon we went to 北陵, which is the tomb of 皇太極. The view there was beautiful, with lots of green plants and blue sky above. We took many photos there. I promise you guys I shall post some of them.
And we headed back to U and met out host family. The hosts are all professor of the U. 阿磯 and I went to home of Professor 王彬, who is a professor from the Law Department.
And we arrived at our “home”, which looks more alike a paradise. The house is about 1k sq feet on the 1st floor. Yes, 1st floor. It has a penthouse of about 600sq feet. Not to mention the decoration! It’s just my perfect dream house!!
I ‘m going to stay there until 15th June. :D
Today afternoon we went to 北陵, which is the tomb of 皇太極. The view there was beautiful, with lots of green plants and blue sky above. We took many photos there. I promise you guys I shall post some of them.
And we headed back to U and met out host family. The hosts are all professor of the U. 阿磯 and I went to home of Professor 王彬, who is a professor from the Law Department.
And we arrived at our “home”, which looks more alike a paradise. The house is about 1k sq feet on the 1st floor. Yes, 1st floor. It has a penthouse of about 600sq feet. Not to mention the decoration! It’s just my perfect dream house!!
I ‘m going to stay there until 15th June. :D
18/9 Museum: Shenyang CLIC part 4
7/6 1859
Today afternoon we went to 18/9 museum. It contains materials about Japanese invasion of China during WW2. In the museum it shows a land of bones of Chinese who were buried alive by the Japanese. The staff there told me the bones are real things. I saw some skulls have bullet holes on it (one of the skulls have 3 bullet holes). Another mud plain showed the bones of one man and woman holding each other, also buried alive by the Japanese. It was a very sad scene.
At the end it shows how Chinese treat the Japanese war criminals nicely and how thankful the Japanese were, and expresses anger to change of materials into a pseudo-history in some Japanese history textbook. To be honest I won’t say the former part is subjectively enough for putting itself into a museum, but I strongly believe that most of the Japanese are good people. It is the latter part that annoyed most Chinese people.
Today afternoon we went to 18/9 museum. It contains materials about Japanese invasion of China during WW2. In the museum it shows a land of bones of Chinese who were buried alive by the Japanese. The staff there told me the bones are real things. I saw some skulls have bullet holes on it (one of the skulls have 3 bullet holes). Another mud plain showed the bones of one man and woman holding each other, also buried alive by the Japanese. It was a very sad scene.
At the end it shows how Chinese treat the Japanese war criminals nicely and how thankful the Japanese were, and expresses anger to change of materials into a pseudo-history in some Japanese history textbook. To be honest I won’t say the former part is subjectively enough for putting itself into a museum, but I strongly believe that most of the Japanese are good people. It is the latter part that annoyed most Chinese people.
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