To be or not to be - Medal of Honor or Life

Navy Lt. Michael P. Murphy's story. He(his wife) will be getting the Medal of Honor on 22 Oct 2007.

A story worth a read if you are interested in Navy SEALS.

Further readings:
Navy SEAL Lieutenant Michael Murphy to receive the MOH

Halo 3 - Believe

101% Handcrafted

I don't know what to say...is this how they fight against Globalization? Or its just me...

http://eternallycool.net/?p=621

Question of the day: How to face Mecca from Space. No shit.

http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2007/09/mecca_in_orbit

I actually read the whole thing. Damn.

How to be a good translator - ESWN Roland Soong 東南西北 宋以朗

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/press.htm
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/press001.htm
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/press009.htm
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050516_1.htm
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20061120_2.htm
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20060722_1.htm
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20071002_1.htm
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/200710a.brief.htm#006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastsouthwestnorth
http://daimones.blogspot.com/2007/06/eswn.html
http://bluewhale.blogbus.com/logs/2006/08/3115865.html
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2006/07/roland_soong_br.html
http://www.andresgentry.com/thoughts/2005/12/profile_roland_.html
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2006/12/blogs_and_china.html
http://www.phoenixtv.com/phoenixtv/88385350300336128/20060522/801171.shtml
http://blog.chinesenewsnet.com/?p=18086
http://jxhill.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3BE8552D107C99A6!262.entry
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2006/07/roland_soong_br.html

Approved by China Daily : http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2006-05/31/content_604442.htm

I want to be like him...he IS doing what he love...at home.

Just look at the amount of information he read and translate...how did he do it?

His family background made him different from the rest of us too...

I never would have thought a person can do all these (phD, translate for US courts, CTO, media blogger...)!

Germany vs China (cont.)

"Thats so damn fucking true..."

"...this is just sad...Beijing 2008....we are ready...to fuck your lungs!"

"This is the weakest ones in my opinion...but still, I guess that express their interest in each other's culture?"

"One child policy for the WIN!"

"I LOL on this hahaha!"

More more more!

Enjoy!

Germany vs China

"Obviously Chinese don't think straight...they always think you are up with something?"

We have 1.3 Billion .... so I guess a little crowded is inevitable...

"Being late is one of the virtue of Chinese people. It shows that you're...important!"

That's what Facebook is for!

I don't think its fair 'cause I see ... even some gaijin do that!

A picture worth a thousand words...this guy do know about the differences between Germany and China!

Anyways, from now on I will post on this site with EXTREMELY interesting news and blog posts only, for ESWN did a much better job in assimilating and processing news for me than myself...

1.News of the day

London bridge is falling down...

Heads gonna roll for this. Condolences for victim's family.

How would the most powerful and richest nation in the world allow their citizen to die under under-maintained and unreliable public infrastructure?

That's a good question to ask. I wish this won't happen in Canada...oh wait, it already happened in Quebec! ^$%&^#%^&

2.Quote of the day
"Screaming kids are good. That means they're alive and full of a lot of energy. As a paramedic, that's the best thing, I'll tell you. If it's quiet, that means I've got a busload of children who can't help themselves."

- Jay Reeves, American Red Cross at the scene

3.Article of the day
The missionaries vs Martyrs
In some way, the Taliban and the Koreans are the same -- they both believe in something so much that they are willing to put themselves at risk.

The difference is, one is willing to take others lives, the other one is willing to give their own lives for others.

We can see the differences of the religion here I guess...

4.Video of the day
I am a PC...BAM!~
Best one is the second last one...enjoy!

This Vista one is good too haha

Who took my Arctic cheese!

1.News of the day

Battle for the North Pole!

Canada will lose this time, unless we develop nuclear powered Canadian Moose who can ram those Russians out of those outpost...

Seriously though, the cold ocean is home to one of the last few large oil and mineral reserves on earth and also tons of of fish that was unaccessible to us before global warming kicks in...and the importantly, the strategic shipping lanes that means $$$...

Comon Canada...go get em!

2.Quote of the day
"The South Pole is an expensive place to exploit and it was realised that if everyone agreed not to touch it, they could all rest easy about pouring millions into the area. This is not the issue with the Arctic. It is becoming easier and easier to exploit. Nations aren't going to give up on these rich pickings."

- Some dude

3.Article of the day
The rise of a polluting country
Yes China! 11.2% of global economy and and more pollution anyone? Biggest driver of global economic activity...may as well add the "Biggest polluter of global economic activity", which as we all know, is still hold by the United States of America.

But China is catching up REAL fast and this year or next, the CO2 crown should be in China's hand.

I guess the Asian brown cloud is not exotic enough...

Bring em on! One world, one polluted mess!

4.Video of the day
Fastest Mom's minivan in the world
Fast and Furious my ass...look at this! Renault Engine 3.5l V10 800 hp 14000RPM...

no 747 ma!

1.News of the day

Fly baby fly...

I am sick of 747 already...please...give us something more exciting...

This looks good.

2.Quote of the day
"I am a little bit surprised about how focused everybody is on the ‘exit’."

- Mark Zuckerberg, Mr. Facebook on VC trying to cash it out ASAP

3.Article of the day
Facebook...oh my...Economist just updated his facebook profile
Myspace? What space? Friendster? Oh god you still using that pos?

The internet is ruthless. For the past few years we've already been through myspace, friendster, etc...all these social networking web apps.

If anyone can develop an application who can automatically move your friends between these freaking web apps, that will be super...

Or, as the article say, if Facebook became THE GOOGLE of social networking apps, then we can stop searching and moving again every 6 months. Which is a good thing.

Oh wait...why don't I put this on my W A L L!

4.Video of the day
Ravenstoke Alaska - A detailed report on Sociology
One of the definitive studies on scent. Inspiring for all men and women. It doesn't work on my cat though...

Are you looking at me?

1.News of the day

Fatty going to Hollywood...W T Fat?

I've seen this guy ALL over the internet...and I finally know his true identity.

Qian Zhijun, the cute fat Shanghai boy...is going nuclear! I mean, he is going to hollywood for pron?!!? I truly have no idea but the idea of his face appearing in those blockbuster movie makes me wanna scream "YES! CHINA RISE! FATTY PWNS YOU!"

2.Quote of the day
"These findings reinforce the idea that obesity is not just an individual problem, but a collective problem."

- Nicholas Christakis, Professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School

3.Article of the day
Friends make you FAT
A very interesting article...all these research done for the common sense "Your mom is a woman"?

Of course Fat folks won't hang out with Slim folks 'cause they will laugh at them!!! Why would a hot slim girl/fit guy hang out with a bunch of fat folks? Or vis viersa?

Maybe I am too dumb to realize that I need 32 years of research to figure that out...

4.Video of the day
Will it blend? An...i Pod? OH WAIT ITS iPhone !!!!!
Almost criminal...highly comical...

I present to you...Will it blend by Tom Dickson!

Godspeed

1.News of the day

Reason why you will never get Asia to support your radical ideas

I like having multiple wives. Hell, its a man's dream/nightmare. But killing these people just for that?

They were not on a missionary mission. They were coming to volunteering for providing only medical and other volunteer aid to distressed people in your war-ravaged country.

I can tell you that, if you kill these people, S.Korea will sent their best marines to come hunt you down and cut your heads and limbs off.

They are not Japanese, nor they are Chinese. The are hot-blooded Koreans. If they can commit Hara-Kiri, cover themselves with bees, cut their own fingers off to protest against their government policies towards Japan, imagine what they will DO TO YOU if you kill their young sons and daughters who came to help you with good intentions.

They will make you say "Allāhu Akbar" with your tongue cut off ... and your OWN head on your laps!

2.Quote of the day
"They have got until tomorrow at noon to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, or otherwise we will kill the 18 Korean."

- Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, Taliban spokesman

3.Article of the day
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea...eh I mean 5,000 feet under the sea
Interesting article in terms of how the mining industry will be revolutionized after most of the
Earth's surface gold, copper, and most importantly tantalum(cell phone material) mines depleted and polluted the environment around it to hell...and yes, maybe we will fuck the sea up as well!

But who cares about some remote place in the pacific under 1,600m? GREENPEACE don't have the sub to go protest there...

Out of sight, out of mind...I think we are gonna screw it up again with this...

4.Video of the day
Josh Rushing interview

Happy Birthday Josh!

1.News of the day

100 day of captive with a bomb vest on you...Alan Johnston

The only international report int the Gaza Strip, Alan has been a captive for 100days...and at one time shown in a video with a suicide bomb vest on...

I always think chopping defenseless people's head off is a chicken move, albeit dropping 2000lb paveway bomb to a bomb shelter for civilians are as bad...

Good luck Alan...

2.Quote of the day
"To my family, my family..."

- Alan Johnston, BCC reporter in his bomb vest video

3.Article of the day
Beverage of Champions
Send it to your white ghost friends if they got a cold...this medicine is well know in the Chinese world...

Most Chinese even admit that it works better than Chinese Medicine!

Try it. You will be amazed how effective it is.

4.Video of the day
CAR is NOT a TOY!
One of the scariest and funniest car driving training...EVER!

Frankly, this is really scary 'cause this LA driving scene is so real. And listen to a good "polite" pop star saying ass and fxxk...priceless!

You gotta give it to her though. Count the number of illegal/road rage incident...and you will be amazed how calm a 16 year old pop star is...

1.News of the day

Zune zune zune zooom.....WTF?

Get TWO tattoos of Microsoft ZUNE and one day they will fly you to Edmond.

All I can say it...WTFBBQ!

So imagine if you tattoo two playboy bunnies...hm....I wonder...

2.Quote of the day
"On July 5th I am being flown to Redmond, Washington to do an interview for Microsoft's website, Channel 10. They are flying me out on the 5th putting me in a hotel for the night, then interviewing me at 11am on the 6th. Then I actually get to meet the Zune team! Wow who know my tattoo would amount to this much attention?"

- mszunefan, the man with 2 tattos

3.Article of the day
Capitalism with Special Chinese Characteristics
Dutch Disease with Special Chinese Characteristics - A massive labor-intensive exports plus large-scale capital imports, which affect not the exchange rate but the decision-making process. With enough resources around to buy off any and all stakeholders, incentives to push for reforms or pressure for care in lending and rational decision-making are reduced.

4.Video of the day
Super Shadow Nippon...???!!!???
Speechless...how did that shadow ball jump up and down? I still have no idea...

Mr. Apple 1981

1.News of the day
Newton says, "2046...oh wait 2060. Earth = Oh Shit...

For a man who invented modern calculus, he actually spent even more time trying to figure out what Bible REALLY says...

Imagine if he got a computer at his hand....woot!

2.Quote of the day
“They have absolutely no taste, and I don’t mean that in a small way. I mean it in a big way—in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”

-Steve Jobs on Microsoft

“I’d give a lot to have Steve’s taste.”

-Bill Gates on Apple

3.Article of the day
Steve Jobs - What's next? iPresident?
Once you reached the top of the mountain, the only way is ... to go down.

Or is it? What's next for this wonder boy? iPresident???

4.Video of the day
Wear your seatbelt...seriously...
Looks unreal, yet IT IS very scary indeed.

This is not a kiss...or is it?

1.News of the day

Hamas vs Fatah ... oh God/Allah/etc...!

It takes awhile to realize what's going on...I just hope that they don't blow each other up...cause we won't know how to handle a suicide bomber vs suicide bomber war...

Its just way too bloody...

2.Quote of the day
"We went backward 100 years."

- Ahmad Sawafiri, 47, a taxi driver in Palestine

3.Article of the day
Abject Oriented Programming
I don't program anymore....but this still brings tears to my eyes...god I think I was an expert in AOP!

4.Video of the day
This is fcking awesome!
I will gladly pay for that in the office...Gladly 'cause its just fcking awesome!!

1.News of the day

I dare you gooooooooooglll!

eBay pwned Google. Thats the 3 word summary of this whole saga. Read the news and...hm...

2.Quote of the day
"This is part of an ongoing experiment to look at how we market across all media channels."

- eBay spokesman Hani Durzy

3.Article of the day
NASA analysis on the Three Gorges Dam
The stats are staggering...

Construction cost : At least $625 billion
Length : ~ 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometers) long and 607 feet tall, five times larger than Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border.
Water storage capacity : > 5 trillion gallons
Power output : 18,000 megawatts
Population displacement : >1 million

I really hope it works or those people in China will be in deep shit...

4.Video of the day
Chinese language lesson: How to complain as an angry customer
Apparently he is one of those stock investor in Shanghai who lost 5000RMB due to a glitch in the service of his highspeed broadband internet...boy is he pissed off!

1.News of the day

Where would you go when you can't get to Iraq?

Go after some hot chick in Alberta, Canada.

Nothing wrong with that. Its just sad that seeing your comrades going to the battlefield while seeing you enjoying beer and having a great time with hot bartenders...

Well, what can you do? At least you are shooting something in Alberta now eh?

2.Quote of the day
"It would be legitimate to attack banks because they charge interest, and this is in violation of Islamic law.”

- Atilla Ahmet, 42-year-old Briton of Cypriot descent, awaiting trial on terrorism charges

3.Article of the day
Deathnote...Muslim edition
There are six rules you need to consider before you blow yourself up.

Rule No. 1: You can kill bystanders without feeling a lot of guilt.
Rule No. 2: You can kill children, too, without needing to feel distress.
Rule No. 3: Sometimes, you can single out civilians for killing; bankers are an example.
Rule No. 4: You cannot kill in the country where you reside unless you were born there.
Rule No. 5: You can lie or hide your religion if you do this for jihad.
Rule No. 6. You may need to ask your parents for their consent.

If you abide by these rules(or find exceptions from some old scripts ), you will be in heaven.

4.Video of the day
The 3 tenors from the south
I think I can do that...if I got that mullet right.

Bravo!

1.News of the day

Come here pussy, pussy, pussy...Viens ici minou, minou, minou??

I feel bad for the tiger...somehow, he don't understand english.

Thats why I called my pussy Meow Meow. This is her natural voice...and its multilingual!

2.Quote of the day
"I'm not sure if he understands what's being said or is just responding to the language, but he likes to be talked to in French...I think he misses it."

- Ginette Heppelle, the only French-speaking zookeeper at Edmonton's zoo.

3.Article of the day
More detail of the death by nuclear explosion within one's body
Read it and be very afraid...actually...nah.

As long as you are not Russian...you should be fine.

Mother China will not waste so much effort to kill you in this way...

You are not worthy.

4.Video of the day
Video of the day rockstar of tomorrow
I have nothing to say but my jaws dropped.

P.S: The girls got more skillz...yet the boyz pwn by showing their tits...hm..wtf am I talking about?

1.News of the day
The Spy Who Shagged Me
After using nuclear substance (polonium210) to kill a guy who criticizes you, what do you get? Bad press?

No! In mother Russia, where cars drive you, you don't get murdered by polonium210.

In mother Russia, Polonium eats you. Whether you die or not, its up to god...but there is no god.

Anyway, after all these years, the cold war is over and the West is no longer an enemy but, as far as you can tell, it is no friend.

I like this paragraph,

"Many years ago, when I first came to work in Moscow, a political pundit close to the Kremlin told me that the problem between Russia and the West is that Russians are white.

“We look like you. We look like Europeans and so the West expects us to think and act like you. As a result, when we don’t you get all upset. Why can’t they be like us, you fret. But you don’t say that about the Chinese, for instance. You don’t expect them to think and act like you. Well, we are white but we are different.”

Something wrong with being WHITE? WTF?

2.Quote of the day
"Riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."

- Winston Churchill on Russia

3.Article of the day
King Kwong/Wu/Wong...
The Economist is a great magazine. No one knows who wrote the article, yet all the articles somehow gives a coherent thinking mode on world issues that is not conflicting at all. (At least thats from MY reading experience)

It is interesting that Japan is the subject of comparison when trying to look back in history for similar instance where American supremacy is being challenged by another foreign country.

A democratic capitalism vs a one party state "capitalism" - 19th century style one where workers be damed, environment be damned, morals be damned and get rich is glorious.

I hope the history don't repeat itself 'cause 100million of angry stock holders may cause a very big harmonic noise of "TMD", and that won't be a harmonic society anymore.

btw, I love the art work...Panda vs US of A...so cute...O.o

4.Video of the day
DWH > DUI Driving while high owns Driving under influence
I want to show the police next time I get caught in my car / bike getting high and dry...