Love's essence

Highly moved by the story of an old movie star today.

1. He was a literary soldier when he was about 14, he said, some battle companions went lively, back with a white calico on their body, the time background let you know that you should act good to face to those dead friends.
2. he and his wife married when they were 20s, his wife died last year at their 70s, their certificate of marriage never broken(Trauschein, certificat de mariage,婚姻证明书,结婚证书) His wife first lost her sight for 5 years, later became a Melancholic for more than 40 years. He said he never thought the divorce, even though that time he was a hot movie star.
3. He did the house work for his wife, including washing, cooking, raising two children, even he was a chairman of the movie factory, busy on business too.
4. He said his is not willing and it's very difficult to send his wife to the hospital, every time he cried out after that.
   
5. He is very polite, gentle.
   

p.s. the song moved me to tears when I heard it in west life:

Brothers in Arms

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arm

Through these fields of destruction
Baptism of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

Mozart's workload

The Holland writer Hendrik Willem van Loon say in his book The story the art that he thought Mozart's death is caused by his working hard.
His workload is so heavy, that is equivalent to

make dozens of people work hard to death in five or six years

Mozart is really a genius. He can create in such a hurry time, it's in such a hurry that he said some notes dropped down off the table but the products are still so great.

Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944)'s book list:

1. The Fall of the Dutch Republic, 1913,
2. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1915.
3. The Short History of Discovery, 1917,
4. Ancient Man, 1920
5. The Story of Mankind, 1921, ( Awarded by The annual Newbery Medal in 1922, which had been created by Unitarian bookseller and editor Frederic Melcher to honor outstanding American children's books.)

Go payperpost, get paid of things you loved

Anne have make more than $2,000 as the top blogger this month of payperpost, it's almost the salary of normal hard working employees of high tech companies here.

When I started blogging in English, I saw a lot of colorful, lovely, charming stuff on the side bar from other bloggers, I picked up many of them, including best stuff, mybloglog, blogcatalog, Payperpost.

Payperpost is a site to let you get paid by posting. First you'll need an English blog site, then you'll need have this site running 3 months. So after I submited it, payperpost replied, that I'm not authorized to write post for payperpost yet, less than 1 month, but can start from PPP DIRECT, which is a way for bloggers to monetize their blog outside of the PaPerPost Marketplace. By installing the PPP Direct Code and placing the PPP Direct Badge on the site, a blogger is able to negotiate directly with advertisers on price and scope.

Back to my blogging experience, after several week's blogging, I found my English blog was a bit run-down. I ever started a series about my favourite band to keep blogging, also went to the discussion forum to find topics to blog. (Regarding why I blog in English and want to keep blogging, please refer to my previous postings.)

So when I almost forgot payperpost, finally I went to it again, browsing the opportunity list, I find a good topic about garage and submit a posting for it.

Very quickly it was accepted. In the later postings I was rejected several times, the correct link not included, words count is not enough, etc. All is very simply and easy. here are my sponsored postings so far (I tagged all of them with 'sponsored').

Interesting, to write the sponsored posting for blog reviews, I started from a reviewer's viewpoint to look at the stuff I'll write, and pay attention to the data provided,and payperpost will review your posting, keep the quality of that. I felt like I'm writing paper according to teacher's topic. This is the difference and the advantage of the sponsored posting. I learnt new things every day online. It has a firefox plugin, after you install it, it will have an option in firefox tool menu "I want to blog about this", by clicking this, payperpost know more about your preferrence. Not like other AD system, you can always select what you want to publish on your blog. it can pay to paypal, when you browse the perfumes on ebay, maybe you can go to payperpost to find whether there's some topic about it, post it, get paid, then go to ebay, get it by paypal.

Payperpost only run less than 2 years, but it has phenomenal growth and continued success in running its user community and AD system. It's connecting Bloggers and Advertisers to deliver compelling online social marketing campaigns, provides social marketing tools and strategies that empower the bloggers to value and exchange content, creativity and influence.

It's the world's largest consumer generated advertising network. I got a message at the begining of this month from payperpost that "Going forward our company will be known as IZEA, with PayPerPost as its flagship product and other properties including Blogger's Choice Awards, RockStartup, Zookoda and BlogInSpace under the IZEA corporate umbrella. "

There is two ways to make money using this system:

1. Create an account with PayPerPost – now advertisers in their system can find you and send money your way. The more readers the more money you make.

2. Post a small Icon on your website. Now advertisers passing by your blog can join Payperpost and send money your way.

Click here to register and explore more from it.

All the mother are repectable

this week a piece of news caused hot discussion around, a man refused to agree the Caesarean birth surgery to his sick pregnant (身持ち,임신한, 怀孕的) wife though the doctors perfuit him for 3 hours. finally the woman died with the baby, he agreed when he saw the death, but too late. The possible reason why he did not approve it:
1. can't have more babies.
2. thought she only caught cold, can be cured by medicine,
3. don't have the money ( though the hospital offer free and some patients around even offer 10,000 if he agree, he can't believe)

later the jounlisty researched that they're not legally married. he knew the contact of her relatives -- which can be used for surgery approval -- but he did not provide it to the hospital. I personally doubt this law is unfair to the patients without conscious, maybe this is set to avoid rebuse of the surgery at the begining.

for whatever, it's a tragedy. All the mother are repectable, they take the risk of death when they accept pregnancy.

googlemap is awfully amazing

I devoted the whole day today to the html, javascript, xml, google map api, wordpress plugins, to figure out the way to embed the stuctured data in blog, though played chess in idle time.

since some plugin demo pages said "script busy " while they're open, finally I use the iframe.php independent from wordpress files. so other sites can also use.

and I saw the very clear picture of a place I'm looking for.

I'm wondering whether someday I can check whether we can visit people by googleearth, if it also provide time dimension, called google time. terrible.

there's a Chinese say called "头顶三尺有神明", now it would be nice that be reminded "far, far away, there's google satellites"

Recalled many years ago Motorla (or other companies) failed to run its Iridium satellites, google is admirable.

Chess Nx

Recently when my nephew met me, he always invite me to play chess with him. He takes part in the hobby team in school of that, I can hardly win him now, I want to play long with him, but don't want to study chess manual, so I excerised myself by playing with PC in recent weeks.

started from E2-E4, G8-F6, replayed many times, finally I win Chess Nx today, Chess Nx is a very good chess program, quick, neat and wise, User can only play with the computure in this program. I tried 3 kinds of chess programs, this one is the best.

as a congratulation to myself.

Wheels of the car

a smart saying: when you need a car, don't start from studying how to create the wheels.

There're a lot of genius and companies around, the wheels you need are already there. Just go to dig it out through the infomation sea, then your next step is to get it. The cost will be much lower than you create it by yourself.

Anti-google?

Just now I wanna search if there's some criticism by google, before clicking the "g" button, I thought google might not display this kind of content, unexpectedly there is 161,000,000 result of "anti google"

did you find that firefox or google sometimes will hide a service session of google which can identify you, you thought it's closed, browsing news or login your bank account, whatever, a little while later, it came out...

"then it will know when you ate your breakfast, and what breakfast is" --saw some points like this online...

terrible, isn't it? I did not know whether it's designed to do so, and don't want to waste time to research, I'll update this when I find an answer.

if true, do we have other choice?

from searching the phone number of a service provider, price or place of the thing you wan to buy or travel, to an interpretation of a term, the news of the star you favored, all need google now, sad, local search engine can only search local content..

early today, read a piece of news that While Singapore vote in the negative to the proposal of reprieving death sentence in U.N. conference, it said "Every Singapore Citizen has the rights of living in an safe and free of crime threaten envireonment"

Doomed or "Impossible is nothing?"

Unlike Pingpang, Chinese football team did not play well in the past years, there're many disappointed stories, several times they lost at the last minute.

So, last night, when the Asian Zone teams for World Cup 2010 were revealed, many football fans were sleepless with sadness: China came to the team with Qatar,Iraq,Australia.

These three seems so strong, champion of the Asian Cup, champion of the Asian Sports, champion of the Austrian Cup, that fans thought Chinese football team comes to the "death team", is doomed to failure now.

On the other hand, just like this team setting, 1/125 possibility came true, "Impossible is nothing", maybe Chinese football team will also give us a big surprise.

Chinese will play with Iraqi at the New Years Eve, our most important festival. will something impossible happen then?

2010 World cup Asian section:
Team A: Australia, China, Iraq, Qatar
Team B: Japan, Bahrain,Oman,Thailand
Team C: South Korea, North Korea, Jordan,Turkmenistan
Team D: Saudi Arabia,Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Singapore
Team E: Iran, Kuwait,United Arab Emirates, Syria

Schedule:
2008.2.6 (Chinese New Year's Eve) Iraq-China

　　2008.3.26 China-Australia

　　2008.6.7 Qatar-China

　　2008.6.14 China-Qatar

　　2008.9.6 China-Iraq

　　2008.9.10 Australia-China

p.s. this is my 100th posting here. Good luck, Chinese football.

Games played in Chinese childhood - fold and fly the paper plane

A paper plane, paper aeroplane, or paper airplane (Chinese:纸飞机/紙飛機;Deutsch:Papierflieger;Japanese:kamihikōki/紙飛行機) is popular worldwide, since it is one of the easiest types of origami for a novice to master.


How far or how long can you make it fly? I can only make it fly from one side of the room to another side.

The world record for a paper-plane flight is held by Ken Blackburn, a US aerospace engineer. Visit his site which share what he knows about paper airplanes, it looks very engineering, many formulas there, some curve figures also comes up to describe the Pressure distribution. Blackburn's first entry into the Guinness Book of Records was in 1983(16.89 seconds), resetting it in 1987 (17.2 sec), 1994 (18.8 sec) lost the record in 1996 and set the current record of 27.6 seconds on 10/8/98 in the Georgia Dome. Amazing. Blackburn combined his job and life, professionality and hobbie so well.

There're many sites guiding how to fold. See a list of Paper airplane video. Also There's a book available on Amazon, Norman Schmidt’s book, Best Ever Paper Airplanes. There's guide to folds in life and health guardian, with 12 different folding types. Some universites also set the paperplane folding and flying as a undergraduate program of engineering, see Building and flying the Stealth in Norwich university, with the steps very detail and easy to follow (from Norman Schmidt’s book).

Finally, I want to introduce a song "Paper plane" by my favorite star Sandy Lam. View a beautiful mv in youtube.

Paper Plane - Sandy Lam Composer: Sandy Lam, Eric Ng Lyricist: Xiaohan Arrangement: Eric Ng The prince rided on the white horse The moon hidden And the kitty often chased its tail so stupid Memories in childhood are so invaluable Children plays Two foots is full of sands The laughter recall me the summer holiday in Childhood The boy who teach me how to make the paper plane What's going on with him the way to make the paper plane laying in the memories along with our growth fly, fly, paper plane not dificult to be happy #Not matter how will it change in the future we keep the thinking of the fairtale which belongs to us# the way to make the paper plane happiness will never be forgotten fly, fly, paper plane, throw (捨てる) the trouble away, it will be released by itself. Repeat #

纸飞机 - 林忆莲 作词：小寒 作曲：林忆莲 黄韵仁 编曲：黄韵仁 王子骑白马 月亮不见了 还有猫咪总是追着尾巴 有多傻 小时候的记忆好无价 孩子们玩耍 双脚全是沙 笑声让我想起童年暑假 那个他 教我折飞机的他好吗 纸飞机的折法 藏在回忆陪我们长大 纸飞机快飞吧 快乐方法并不复杂 不管未来怎样多变化 #保留着牵挂 属于我们的童话# 纸飞机的折法 快乐是永不忘的呀 纸飞机快飞吧 抛开烦恼自有解答 重复#

I'm not good at translating Lyricist. just to help understanding it.

emm, quote a long paragraph of Who is Sandy Lam? I'm a fan of her all the time.

In the Chinese pop music scene in Asia, especially to those who used to listening to radio from mid-80s and on in Hong Kong, SANDY LAM is a name equivalent to transformation, perfection, hard working, feminine, and talent.

Her career began as a part-time DJ at Commercial Radio Hong Kong in 1982, in which she got an unique nick name 611 (6+1+1=8, in Cantonese ‘8′ means being talkative and always questioning about gossips and other topics). Sandy joined SONY in 1983 and her debut in her Chinese name Lam Yik Lin was released in 1984. She rapidly became the most popular up-and-raising star. Yik Lin, her third album released in 1987, reached double platinum and that when her music career truly kicked off.

With heavy influences from Western music, Sandy’s music style started from cheesy Japanese teen pop to Light Jazz; and from there to R&B, Soul, or even Fusion. In fact, she is considered the only Hong Kong female singer with the best ad-libs. She has 27 full studio albums in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Japanese, and adding other EPs, live recordings, compilations and co-operations, there is more than 80 or more on the list.

Unlike many other singers in Hong Kong, audience recognizes Sandy as a true musician/performer, rather then an entertainer. You don’t find shocking make-up or extreme outfits from her; it is her pure voice which captured everyone’s heart. She rather spends her time work producing an album instead of attending meaningless shows. Her fans admire her as who she is and the willingness to improve herself vocally, and such improvement is well-known in the industry like a miracle. In recent years, she is transforming herself, not only a singer, but singer songwriter. To put it in a simple way, Sandy is serious about music, it is her life.

2005 marks the 20th Anniversary of her music career. Being able to survive this long in Hong Kong entertainment scene is not an easy task, because of the high competition and people are being so forgetful. Looking back, it shouldn’t be a surprise after all, Sandy is the very first singer to blend in Jazz & R&B elements into Chinese music; she is one of the pioneers who marches into the Japanese music scene and the first singer to have two Chinese songs entering the Japan J-Wave Tokio Hot 100 music chart.

Moreover, she was the most successful Hong Kong singer to make it big in Taiwan by her first Mandarin release selling a record of 600,000 copies; she also participated in Asia’s first 47 days sold out Chinese musical Snow Wolf Lake; she was hand picked by Andrew Lloyd Webber to perform in The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber with Elaine Paige in Shanghai in 2001, and she was also picked to sing the Chinese version of Les Miserables’s theme song On My Own. A new kind of flower in Singapore is named after her name called Dendrobium Sandy.

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