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Film documents Nanking's 'holocaust'

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:07:52 -0000

My Comment: I look forward to watching this film. Like Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", it hurts to find out the truth but it is necessary before it is too late.

http://www.parkrecord.com/ci_5047357?source=rss

by Josh Chin, Record contributing writer
The Park Record from Utah
Exhaustive research, diary exerpts, archival footage seek to begin healing processWhen Iris Chang parked her car on a lonely road in rural California two years ago, placed the end of an antique revolver in her mouth and ended her own life in a bout of depression, the celebrated young journalist died having failed to answer a question that had haunted her most of her adult life.

Chang is most famous for "The Rape of Nanking," her 1997 New York Times bestseller and the first popular account, in English, of the murder of more than 200,000 Chinese civilians at the hands of Japanese soldiers in the run-up to World War II. In the opening pages of that book, the author contemplated a riddle friends say she ne...

蒸馬拉糕 Chinese Sponge Cake

Sat, 9 Dec 2006 00:19:47 -0000

Ingredient:
All purpose flour 1 3/4 cup
Brown sugar 1 3/4 cup
Five eggs at room temperature
Baking powder 4 tsp
Custard powder (吉士粉) 5 tsp
Oil 1/3 cup
Water 1/2 cup
(optional) Madagascar almond or Indian Almond (欖仁) 2 oz.

1) Sieve the flour into a big bowl, add sugar and custard powder
2) Gradually add beaten eggs into the mix until sugar melts
3) Cover the mixture and let stand for half an hour
4) Add water to baking powder (should see lots of bubbles)
5) Pour baking powder with water into the mixture
6) Mix gently
7) Add oil
8) Mix gently
9) Put a layer of parchment paper insider the steamer
10) Pour the mixture into the steamer
11) Add the almond on top
12) Steam in full heat (大火蒸) for 30 minutes

Will you buy a poem from your friend for $800 000 renminbi?

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:51:10 -0000

明報 2006年11月11日 (六)
重慶一首詩作被80萬買下

重慶一名詩人在所作的「大律師：止戈」詩作中詮釋了律師業，這首詩被上海一間律師樓用80萬元人民幣買下。

四川「華西都市報」報道，重慶市作家協會負責人透露，該詩作者是「中國當代詩歌」雜誌創始人之一、重慶本土詩人王琪博。

這名不願透露姓名的律師事務所負責人說，會將這首詩掛在事務所顯眼的地方。

他說，這是做律師的準則，也是對前來求助的人一種負責的態度，畢竟信仰是無價的，所以花80萬元買下這首詩，也沒感覺虧大了。

重慶作家協會主席負責人則表示，先前單首詩成交價格約10萬元，80萬的價格真的可以說是天價。

對此消息，有讀者質疑是炒作。重慶市民張先生說，「一首詩能賣80萬元？你信嗎？什麼樣的詩值80萬？有誰會掏80萬元買首詩呢？」

這首「大律師：止戈」詩作如下：

「兩隻鴿子從你名字中間，飛上了藍天，那些驚慌失措的面孔，在法律空白處與你相見恨晚，請原諒我們學習、成長的過錯，請勾兌的針牽動關係的線，在光頭和長髮間無孔不入，你仍是站在法官和罪犯之間的中間人，風水的手天意的手，拆開證據隨意組合的手，移動條款的嘴淡化關鍵字的嘴，讓對手保持緘默的嘴，帶著繩索、尺度、帳號，把那些冤魂從鬼門關拉回來，魚兒在法律的網眼中，自由的進進出出，想起您他們會心一笑，風和浪不過是不同的藝術表現形式，餘下來最好停止干戈，因為即使魚死了，但網沒必要非破不可。」

據表示，詩人與律師事務負責人是舊識，這名負責人主動提起要以80萬元買下這首詩。

Lights Out in HK

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:05:26 -0000

Grace W. just passed this to me and I think I should do my part and spread it around too. Hopefully eventually the whole world can do something like this. It's so meaningful.

Cheers, Donna
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June 29th 2006
2006年6月29日
For Immediate Release
即時發佈

Lights Out Hong Kong

香港熄燈

How Three Minutes in August Can HELP Clean UP OUR ACT

八月三分鐘引領我們回正道

The haze surrounding Hong Kong is damaging our health and threatening our economy. Today, our city enjoys 37% less sunlight than in 1950 — the highest drop recorded in the world, according to The New York Times. Air pollution has led to a dramatic increase in respiratory illness and is responsible for an estimated 1600 deaths annually — at a public cost of $19 billion a year — and reduces our average life expectancy by seven months, according to research from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Our declining environment is driving t...

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Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:38:42 -0000

Wanna read but not being forced to register? Try this http://www.bugmenot.com/ It's legal and convenient as far as I am concerned.

Excellent movies

Fri, 12 May 2006 05:02:11 -0000

Recently, I rented the "JFK A Presidency Revealed" and the "Angela's Ashes" from Blockbuster and they are both very enjoyable movies.

JFK is a documentary film programmed by the History Channel. I guess the double DVD may be available for free at public library as well. It features John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. It's amazing to see how a weak person (physically disabled since his childhood) came with a strong mind, and how his 1000 days in the office (before he was assassinated) made him one of the greatest US Presidents so far. I truly admire him. Here are a few points of lesson learnt:
1) It is very important to READ, to absorb knowledge and to gain wisdom. JFK is an avid reader. He apparently was the smartest guy among all the advisers in his office.
2) Accept responsibility, apologize when you do something wrong. (well, reminded me of Abraham Lincoln's cutting the cherry tree.)
3) You need to have a great family. JFK's fath...

Westport Oct 2005

Mon, 3 Apr 2006 03:38:00 -0000

Westport is about 45 minutes north of Kingston Ontario. It was a breezy cold day in late October. Had the sun come out, the scenary would have been even more picturesque. http://www.explorewestport.com/Home%20Page.htm

Words, Thoughts and Deeds

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:39:07 -0000

A fabulous article about how easily we can be brain-washed by language:
http://www.rbc.com/community/letter/jan_feb1991.html

"The moral of the story is that I don't see the same things, I don't observe the same events when I change my English for my French thinking tool. Changing my language changes me as an observer. It changes my world at the same time."
... I can't agree more when I apply my English-Chinese switch.