Personal Opinions

After coming back from Singapore to Guangzhou, everything looks gray. It's not that my eyes have problems or I am mentally depressed, but it's the fact that the air quality is so bad such that everything looks covered in gray.

The sky is grayish, the city is grayish. You can see the pollution with the eyes as you can't see through a few miles. The city is covered in complete grayness and dusts.

The price level vs living quality in China is just horrible. In every country, there is space for low to mid income workers, where there are cheap food, public transportation, etc.

In China, these things are just unreliable. When you go out for a soup noodle on the street, you have to worry if the oil they use is healthy, the pork is good, and if the soup is clear. Not only that, when you buy clothes, you have to worry if the dye used is healthy and green.

On May 30, the Chinese government suddenly announced that it will increase stock trade interest by several times at midnight. Formerly when the press is asking the government agents, they all said that they won't raise the rate.

Then tragedy happened as the notorious, untrustworthy, and low government decided to rob all the people of China at midnight ...

After the event took place... most stocks fell at least 40~50% in the consecutive days.

Is there a world government/authority where I can sue the Chinese government for its thievery?

【大紀元7月2日訊】改善當下中國的醫療保障制度的根本出路，就在於以人為本的憲政民主制度建設，來強力監督淩駕於市場規律甚至於法律制度之上的權力壟斷之手。

2004年4月，一本帶有寓言性質的歷史文化小說《狼圖騰》由長江文藝出版社出版，署名姜戎的作者使用充滿激情的神聖話語，把華夏民族的“龍圖騰崇拜”， 追溯到對於恣意殘殺掠奪的狼性崇拜。在我的童年記憶中，卻存在著另一種“狼圖騰”：“日頭落，狼下坡，老人小孩跑不脫。”據老輩人講，這首宗教讖語式的童 謠，是從共產黨打天下鬧土改時留傳下來的，意思是國民黨的青天白日旗落下來了，來自蘇俄的北方“紅狼”沖向人間，於是便有了數以千萬計的國人特別是農民被 活活餓死的所謂的“三年自然災害”。

This is one of my worst shopping experiences. In fact, all of my bad shopping experiences are all in China.

Today I bought Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne from the biggest bookstore in Guangzhou, and after I installed the game, I could not get on Battle.Net with the CDKEYS it provided. It says that the key was used by someone else!

Then on its user manual, it says that if you want to play online, you have to "exchange cdkey" on Aomei's website (http://www.aomeisoft.com/cdkey.asp). What the heck is that? I used to own Warcraft 3 before, and there is never something like this!!

It amazes me how many requirements Chinese companies seek in an IT person... for java you have to know struts, jsp, servlets, hibernate, jsf, oracle, sql server, db2, sybase, etc.

Besides, you have to know UML, database tuning, database design, etc.

It is no wonder why these Chinese software companies make bad softwares. Even if they hire a man who claims that he knows and can do all those, he's no expert in everything. Why? Just becoming a professional Oracle DBA or SQL Server DBA alone takes many years, let alone all those java frameworks they expect you to know and have experience in each of them. This is plain stupid.

Just like my Master Mahasi Sayadaw and the Buddha taught, the burden of life is very heavy.

Like the reality in China and Taiwan. The average salary in China is around 2k~3k / month, and 1 square meter of apartment price averagely around 4k~6k or more depending on which city.

A person has to work so long... more than 10 years in order to get a place to live, and what's worse is that prices of everything is rising in China.

The situation in Taiwan is even worse, a person has to work for 2 months or more just to get 1 square meter of an average apartment.

This is the result of capitalism?

If you ever looked for IT jobs in China, you'll notice that most companies are looking for Java developers and nothing else. Very few are for ASP .NET. I wonder why companies choose Java mostly in China. It's dumb.

Java in its essence:

1. Lengthens development time

2. Hard to debug

3. Increases costs

4. Can over-complicating simple things

 

And yet most companies still choose it in China and make horrible softwares. Isn't it blindness?

China is a bitch that blocks accesses to Internet sites and even emails! If you are in China, and your mail servers are in other countries. You will most likely encounter the Connection Resetted problem.

So why did your connection get resetted? It is because the Chinese government has a program or a team of nothing-to-do people that keep on monitoring suspicious stuff. Once you start getting connection resets.  You'll have to reconnect to internet to get a new ip in order to access your email or websites again.

This then becomes a pain in the ass for everyone... so what's the solution?

人在中国莫生病,

病来全部财产去,

努力二十为栋房,

谁知房价日日涨,

口袋纸钞如粪土,

眼看楼房变面包,

老来剩副臭骨头,

还住路边啃馒头