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I want us to be rich

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I found two interesting books when I walked by a bookstore in today's lunch hour. One is titled "Why We Want You to be Rich: Two Men - One Message", by Donald Trump and Robert T. Kiyosaki. The former author is the host of The Apprentice and the latter is the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad. Despite I don't expect any breakthrough in the book but summary of their previous points, two different writing styles meeting each other will be quite funny. Supposing you had read the book and understood the importance of being entrepreneurs and investors, what would you do next? Start your business. Staring a business is no longer difficult nowadays because of advanced Information Technology in Information Age. You can start an online shop with thousands visitors in Yahoo! site. Yet it will be a different story from traditional businesses and we haven't any course YAH001 in University. Therefore this dummy book "Starting a Yahoo! Business for Dummies" can be a good sta...

Magician in Temple Street

My friends and I walked through Temple Street (Chinese: 廟街) tonight. We found a counter of a magician. We stopped and watched his performance. His performance was amazing and his saying was funny. His presentation was persuasive overall. Therefore, my friends bought a set of his magic tools. I was thinking about a question after the performance. Why could such skillful young man with great sales skill only sell such economic products in such dark lanes at night? In contrast, why does some relatively less qualified people still sit at office thousands meters over Victoria Harbour?

Tales from Earthsea

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Recommendation: please read the original novel series Earthsea before you watch the movie (Japanese: ゲド戦記, meaning the Story of Ged's Battles), otherwise you'd sleep very well in the cinema. I left some comment about this movie in other blogs , here is its English translation: I don't think that the problem of the movie is the fault of the plot, because the director Goro Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎吾朗) is not the author of the novel and the novel is an award-winning piece. The problem is that he selected a wrong media to express his own vision. First of all, the novel is not popular in Chinese society. Few people would spend hours to finish the books before watching the movie. The director selected to start the movie by the third book of the series, however. It would make audiences lose their way. This is because much background information has been described in previous book, say Tenar's experience in The Tombs of Atuan. Unlike his father Hayao Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎駿) as t...

A Force More Powerful

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Video games are funny. Either the youth or the adult can be possibly addicted to video games. So it obviously seems an effective channel of instilling some idea into players. How about the idea of paralyzing a government? No kidding, it is serious. A Force More Powerful (AFMP), an award winning documentary tracing the history of Nonviolent Conflicts around the world, leads a video game with the same name. AFMP is a simulation game that teaches the strategy of Nonviolent Conflict. There are a dozen of scenarios inspired by recent history, such as conflicts against dictators, occupiers, colonizers and corrupt regimes, as well as struggles to secure the political and human rights of ethnic and racial minorities and women. The producer claims that AFMP is the first game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. The game will also educate the media and the public on the potential of nonviolent action and serve as a simulation tool for academic studies of nonviolent resistanc...

Rob-B-Hood

古人言蒙一飯之恩尚殺身為報(薛仁貴征遼事略),今人一戲之恩當何以報? *** 有人曾說:「看完 寶貝計劃 之後,我覺得成龍做主角先扣分,BB做戲再扣,不知什麼料子的TRAILER又扣的情況下,竟然還覺得好好看,而且我是真心地覺得!」 這類溫情喜戲確實一如既往,too simple,sometimes naive,說的不外乎「為人子,止於孝;為人父,止於慈」的道理。然而,何其simple,何其naive的事情,問誰有能做到?

Seasons In The Sun

Call me back when you go back home, my friend. U: Who treats you best? I: I don't know. U: So no one is your best friend. I: My best friends are not necessarily those who treat me best... U: Who? I: But those whom I treat best. U: Your theory is always strange. I: Love is unconditional. Your friendship is dependent to yourself instead of others. Your life is managed by yourself instead of others. U: No one understands you. I: It isn't worst. The worst is that you do not understand yourself.

Value

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How much is a diamond as jewelry? Priceless. How much is a cup of water as life necessity? Free. How much am I as unique in the world? Who care. The solution of Diarrhea is simply a mixture of salt, sugar and water. Yet Diarrhea is the second top killer against children under five in the world. We pour our money and concern on some issues that are apparently close to us or idols whom we are crazy about. Meanwhile we ignore something worse hidden in a dark corner. When we sit in a room with air-conditioner to enjoy warm sunbath, it is time to think about what is the value of a life in the land far far away from us. It is also priceless, not free and whom we should care.