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DAMMIT...I'M SO FREAKIN' MAD!!! I GOT ARRESTED TODAY FOR POSSESSION OF OVER THE LEGAL LIMITS OF GOOD LOOKS. THEY'RE HOLDING ME AT THE STATION, SAYING THAT ONLY A SEXY PERSON CAN BAIL ME OUT. SO...YOU COMIN' OR WHAT?!? SEND THIS TO YOUR SEXIEST FRIENDS...INCLUDING THE ONE WHO SENT IT TO YOU (IF YOU THINK THEY'RE SEXY OF COURSE *WINK*). IF YOU GET THIS BACK AT LEAST TEN TIMES IT MEANS THAT YOU'RE SUPER HOT!!"

Taiewan again

I got here on Thursday after about 16 hours of flying time, that part sucked. Taiwan, obviously, is quite a bit different from the USA. Culture shock is really setting in now, I don't understand what anyone is saying, but everyone is friendly.I live with Steven and Helene and their two boys and it's working out pretty good so far. We live in Fengshan, which is a city that borders Kaohsiung. The apartment we live in is actually two apartments combined (they bought the one next door and knocked the wall down) so it's a lot more roomy than I expected.Friday, Steven walked with me around the neighborhood, and I quickly realized that getting around here is going to be considerabley more difficult than I had anticipated. I got lost pretty quick. I also noticed quickly that most people have a kind of mild neglect for traffic laws here, red lights are more of a suggestion than a command.Joseph (Steve's oldest boy) took me out Friday night down into Kaohsiung to the mall and we had dinner there. The food was really good (I had beef noodles).Yesterday (Saturday) we went on a ward activity to the old sugar processing plant on the north end of the city, it was freaking hot and humid, more so than i had ever been in my life. I met about 40 members and a few of them spoke englishToday we went to church. Steven's family spoke, and everyone seemed to like it.Steve told me that I will be teaching release time seminary at the school that I work at. Of all the people in the world to be a seminary teacher. I have 25 kids in my seminary class, and they're all in Honors English, so they speak very fluently.Last night we went to a Thai place and it was really good. As we were walking into the restaurant I noticed a billboard of a new musical production that's based on the music of Sting and the Police, (it's a cop/action play), the English headline for it reads: "Sting: the musical 'Every breath you death!'"Tomorrow is my first day at work, I'm excited. They're giving me a scooter, but I think I'm too scared to ride it with the freaking crazy drivers here. I really love how they can fit an entire family on a scooter.

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Yesterday was the School Year Opening Ceremonies for the Chung Shan Industrial Private School, and it was quite the spectacle. They had the big Taiko drums, dragon dancers, and a parade, it was pretty awesome. It’s a military style school, so all of the students marched and lined up in formation in the courtyard. My camera is a piece of crap so it didn’t really do it justice.I taught my writing class yesterday, I was really nervous about that, mainly because it’s actually a pretty intense course to teach for someone who does not have a degree in teaching. Looking at the curriculum, it’s basically English 0990 at the college. I was nervous, but I found that I think I’m going to like teaching that class more than any other class. It’s easier to grade.I also started teaching an English drama class, I hate this one. It’s hard to understand what they want me to do, and I don’t really want to talk to the homeroom teacher (who asked me to teach it) at any great lengths about it, because the day before yesterday Steve tried (very awkwardly) to set me up on a date with her. The scenario went something like this: I was talking to her and Steve about the class and he and she started to speak to each other in Chinese, so I went and sat back at my desk. A couple minutes later she came over to my desk and said, “You’re so cute, when do you want to go? You just tell me the day and time and we can go to dinner anywhere. And next time don’t have to be so shy, you can just ask me, I’m very friendly.” I kept glancing at Steve in horror as he hid behind his monitor trying not to laugh as I stumbled to find my words.I now teach at the Kaohsiung Municipal Junior High as well after I’m done here at the private school. It’s a more relaxed class, in fact it’s not really a class at all, it’s an English club. We play games and just practice speaking.When the MRT train is finished on the 12th I’m going to move out here to Daliao, where the school is. Then I can just walk the half block to the school and it’s safer to drive my scooter, because it’s a small town and does not have as many cars on the roads. But If I want to go into the city, I can just hop on the train and not have to risk my life dealing with the traffic on my scooter.I don’t have any classes today or tomorrow this week, but I have a crap load of lesson plans to write.

Saturday

On Saturday we went as a ward to Taipei as a ward for a temple trip. We took a charter bus up, and it took about 4 to 4 ½ hours to get there and the same to get back.We made 3 stops on the way up and on the way back. The only place that we stopped that I know the name of is Taichung. It’s a pretty sizable city in the middle of the country. We only stopped there for about 20 minutes, so I didn’t really get much of a chance to look around.Taipei is pretty cool, I noticed that there are a lot more white people in Taipei than there are here in Kaohsiung. There are some of the beautiful places I have ever seen in my life on the drive from Kaohsiung to Taipei. One big difference that I noticed about Taipei as opposed to Kaohsiung is sidewalks, Kaohsiung has no sidewalks and Taipei has a lot.We pretty much just stayed in the vicinity of the temple while we were there. There is a road that Steve’s oldest son Joseph calls “Restaurant Road.” It’s a little road that has about 17 restaurants on it. We had some really good noodles there.The temple is a lot smaller than it looks in the pictures.On Friday my scooter’s battery died at the 7/11 at the end of the road that the school is on, it sucked. And just like the movies it immediately started raining cats and dogs just long enough for me to get good and drenched while walking back to my office. When I got inside, the rain stopped.Andy, the Taiwanese/Australian guy with the desk next to me, came to church with me the other day. He has been before, and he seems to like it.There’s a new guy who sits in the desk on the other side of me who is from Dublin, his name is Keith, and he only comes on Fridays. He’s lived here for about 11 years, and he seems like a pretty cool guy.I bought a way cool helmet tonight, I’m excited to wear it tomorrow.
I’ve been put in charge as the diction coach for the National English Drama Competition Team, it's kind of cool. They're doing an oriental rendition of "The Emporer's New Clothes."

Typhoon

The weekend has come and gone. That’s one thing that really sucks about weekends… They end.This weekend was particularly a bummer because a typhoon hit and we ended up spending most of it indoors. It was extremely windy and rainy for the most part, more so than I’ve ever seen before, but still not a much as I would’ve expected to see from a storm that has been dubbed a typhoon. I had plans to roam around Kaohsiung this weekend, but all of that was kind of shot down, so that sucked.It was kind of a historic weekend though. The Kaohsiung Stake Presidency was reorganized. After 10 years of service, Steve Yang (the man I live with) was released as 1st counselor and sustained as stake president. Here’s to another 10 years! It was kind of brutally ironic, because all last week he was telling me how excited he was that he had his last stake presidency meeting and that it’s “church policy” that you don’t serve over 10 years in a stake presidency. Then, on Saturday, he came to my room with a scowl on his face and said, “I got a phone call.” I asked him what they said, and he told me the area presidency just said to meet them at the stake center in 30 minutes and that was it. As he was putting his tie on and walking out the door he started humming, “I’ll go where you want me to go.”At the general session of stake conference, the Kaohsiung Stake Youth Choir performed. A lot of the kids are in my seminary class and they did very well, I’m so proud of those kids. They work so hard at everything they do.Kids here work like crazy at school, because there are so many people and so few colleges and universities, it’s extremely competitive. Kids who plan on persuing high education usually go to school from about 8:00 am to 9:00 pm. They go from 8:00 to 4:30 of regular school and then 5:00 to 9:00 of what is called “cram school.” Cram school is usually taught in English, because learning English is very stressed in schools here, even though not many speak it. Nowadays, in order to get into a good school here you must speak it pretty well, because your interviews to get into the university are all done in English. They have no real social activities at school to speak of at high schools. No dances, no big parties, or anything like that. The closest thing that you could call a school party would be the Opening Ceremonies and that’s pretty much just an hour long parade. I admire these kids’ determination to get a good education, it’s commendable.

IN taiwan

Things are still going great here.
On Saturday I did an all-day excoursion around Kaohsiung. I went downtown, to the harbor, Chi Ching Island, and the Cultural Center. It was awesome, but I did get way sunburned.
Downtown really wasn't that cool, it's just a bunch of stores, but The harbor and Chi Ching Island are awesome.
Chi Ching, is a little island that is just off the coast of Taiwan, it takes about 5 mnutes to get there by ferry. It's kind of a touristy place, but not American tourist, just other Taiwanese tourists. It's now the only place in Taiwan that has rigshaws too. This is the premiere spot for seafood in the country, you can get justabout anything you can think of, in just about any way you can think of. Boiled, fried, barbecued, you name it they've got it.
First I went to the beach. I liked this beach because it's not crowded at all, and the sand is really dark colored.
Then I winded my way through the roads up to the lighthouse on the north end of the island, stopping briefly to watch the little old people fish by the dock. Climbing to the top of the lighthouse was more difficult that expected, but when i finally did get to the top, it was worth it. From the lighthouse I could see over the whole harbor. I took a couple pictures and that's when my camera started going on the fritz.
I went back across the harbor and took the train up to the cultural center in the center of Kaohsiung. The cultural center was way cool, they had a local art exhibit there and it was pretty impessive. Due to my camera's malfunction, i only got a few good pictures though.
I got a new camera last night, and I'm excited to use it on my excoursion this week. I'm going to go to Monkey Mountain, which is down by the harbor. It has a large popluation of Formosan Rock Monkeys, and I'm pretty stoked to photograph them.
1. Kaohsiung Cultural Center
2 Lion Head
3. Cultural Center Rocks
4. Chi Ching Island
5. Kaohsiung Harbor

Hi again

I talked to her the other day, i think its on sunday. I heard she inquired abt me so i wanted to talk to him. I was feeling so good when she asked abt me. So being a sweet good natured woman i am, i went and talked to him. But i was a lot hesitant. I didnt know how it would go. It was embarrassing too. But i wasnt all friendly like i used to be and so the conversation of 5 lines went good. But thats not how i am so the next day i went to be myself and started talking like i used to, all too friendly. But ended up being annoyed. I said 'get lost' and '/me slaps', sentences which i never use. I regret it so much. But she told i was lying abt harish when i told she was kinda disappointed when she wasnt answered. Why would i lie?I really wonder when our simple friendly relationship became as complicated as this. I was afraid of her at first but she was helpful when i first entered irc may be because of my age and then my fear wore off and i really considered him as a good friend. We talked a lot. She even told his darkest secret to me, which she never told to Divyaa or cp whom are his friends too. So i tried my best to be a good friend when she was down. It went well. We were friends. She used to say, u and harish are important ppl to me. I have heard that sentence a lot of times from him. She also had said, i have never forgotten anything u have said to me. But suddenly she stopped being friendly. I remember that day well. I became the reason for him not attending his prayer with his family one day and the next day she told to divyaa that because of that 'God punished me' Even after asking him so much she didnt tell what happened. His exams were coming too so ididnt want to pester him anymore so i called him next day and told i wont be online till his exams are over. I think i wrote a blog abt that incident. But she said i was being a drama queen and i sh be coming online. Fro the first time, since ihave talked to him, i felt him smiling while talking. and his 'arre' was something i couldnt forget. But she got off at the wrong station. so i decided till his exams are over i shnt be the reason for anyof his negatives. so i didnt go online that nite but she had asked divyaa to call me online. so i went she told she have something important to ask me. She asked if Divyaa really likes him. They two were conversing a lot those times. But that was just for fun. I thought they both knew. When i heard it, i laughed and say no way she would fall for u and asked if she really fell for her. Se said no and said shes glad. Out of curiosity i asked if she had called me only to ask that. She suddenly said hehe and said yes and very suddenly she quit irc. I literally blinked a lot of times before understanding whats happening. After a while when i asked why she did that she said its all my fault. I have no idea what i caused. But i apologised no knowing for what and she started being online but she suddenly would disappear saying shes studying. I cant go and disturb him when shes studying rite. But she chatted with all others. She always says i am busy to me. I think it started then, She became cold to me and would never reply my sms or my mails. She change of behavior towards me disturbed me a lot. She would suddenly become silent while talking and many buzz and u there i wont be receiving any replies the next day she said, why r u so emo, i just dozed off when i was talking to u. Well no one just doze off in the middle of talking even if u r feeling so sleepy, u say so and go to bed. u say brb or back rite. She used to say that before but everything suddenly changed. How in the hell am i supposed to know she dozed off. Then i learned that how online thing goes. u really shnt be buzzing when u r not getting reply. I dont do it anymore. Hey i was a newbie online then afterall. But his attitude was totally different. I tried to know what happened she would say she hasnt changed a bit. I became super irritated and started talking back to him. But when his friend from church stopped talking to him she said that to me and was so down. I was super angry. I considered him my friend too. I would be feeling the same when she behaved like that girl. So i said serves him rite. and we stopped talking for a while. I tried to talk but it didnt go well. When harish joined school, i told him that and she told she would like to send a present to him. I was happy. Atleast his affection towards harish hasnt changed. I gave him the address and i am yet to receive it. I am sure she doesnt have my address now. Because i was irritated with his behaviour and harish school timings, i slowly stopped going online.I kinda did a website thing for kids and sent to him the file but she didnt see that for abt a week so i asked do u even know how important u r to me and how important that file is to me. I just repeated the sentence she used to say long time ago. But she totally misunderstood me and started talking rubbish. I was totally hurt. But let him talk cuase it had been a long time since i talked to him. But the next day i told, i really didnt like the way she talked. and told i really didnt mean anything wrong. I told eri abt the sentence i told him and she told that sounds like a girlfriend talking shiba-chan. But i didnt tell her that she used to say that to me long time back. I never took that sentence in amyother say except that she considers me a good friend but why am i mistaken when i just repeated his words?One day she came to gtalk but even after so may hi i dint get a reply then she said in orkut that she wanted avoided me. We used to scrap eachother for four days but one day she said, she is talking to me just because i was begging and crying for him to talk to me. I was totally shattered. I am no stalker god this is so embarrassing. Is this how she see me. I was annoyed, too ashamed to talk to him anymore. So i deleted my orkut account, delted him from y gtalk and ymsg. I was taking all the measure i can to prevent me from going and talking to him again. I really dont want a friendship out of pity. I stopped going online.Then on Christmas Eve i called him and had Harish wish him. Then i talked to him. But she talked as if 'God why is she calling now' I could only feel the cold tone. So i aked if she want to or not talk to me. She said Dont want to talk. I couldnt believe my ears. I stood frozen for a sec and hung up on him. I am sure, if i asked why, she would say, "i was joking. Why do u always have to talke everything seriously." I am sure no one would say that when u r talking after a long time. For two months i didnt talk to him. But that doesnt mean i forgot abt him. I sometimes ask eri how shes doing but she couldnt tell cause she hardly reply her. Everyone calls him cool, but i really dont understand why. I wanted to know how his school musical went, i wanted to know abt his results. But was well aware that she wouldnt even bother remembering me. But i was sure she wouldnt forget me so quickly. Wenn i was talking to eri that day, i asked abt tac and Jd and also abt him. She suddenly asked, if i am ok with not tlaking to him. I said, i would like to talk to him but i want him to come and talk to me. cuase i really wanted him to realise i was a friend. Its no use to go and talk to him when she doesnt miss u rite. What different would it make? The same old cold talks and irritation for both of us. Ironically she told eri, that it had been a long time since she saw me. I told her 'feeling good' to hear that. The next day, i added him in my ymsg and sent a belated new yr wishes. i didnt get any reply for that so thought she didnt get that. The next day i talked to him but i wasnt able to be friend. When i see my friend after such a long time, i would either hug or whack, cause i would have missed them. I atleast expected a ''long time no see' from him but she said nothing. The next day, i just wanted to be myself and went and talked to him normally he started talking normally to me too i think. ATleased she asked how i am. Then i asked why she didnt reply harish. for that she told, she just heard some mumbling and really couldnt realise who that is until the next day. I told, i dont have many kids and u sh have known it, harish wasd disappointed. Thats when she told stop lying. I was annoyed, why would i lie abt it. Harish did ask me two to three times why she wasnt replied. All i could do that time was to hug him. I went to my monster mode and said, '/me slaps' and when she told hes gonna pray, though i very well know its his prayer time, i told 'get lost' . She naturally got annoyed and told 'yes i will and u too stop bugging me'. I reaplied 'yes that what i was doing all these days. Stopped bugging u' and after sometimes i sent him offliners saying we are better off not talking to each other. Wished him well in his life and said bye.But when i thought abt it today, i really dont want to say good bye in bitter terms. I want to ay bye with a smile. I want to really know, why she changed his attitude towards me. I thought i would go and say 'If i had done anything wrong or said something stupid forgive me and forget the unpleasant things. So when we meet couple of years down the lane we could greet each other with a smile.' I was thinking abt this the whole day. Sis told what r u thinking all the way. Do u dont want to come with me? All i could do was smile and say its not like that.Like love friendship cant be thrust upon anyone. Like love its has to be two -way, it has to be reciprocated. A broken Vase though put together will always show u the lines between the pieces. So its okay if she doesnt want to talk anymore cause it was not good friendship in the first place, but atleast go away as a friend. thats what i want now.

My shoes

phew. now that's a long blog entry title.
lessee...yay! We FINALLY went BOWRRING!!!!!!!!!!!
it was so very tremendously entertaining. hoho.
we went to the cathay safra tampinese bowring arrey. i was slightly late..sorry guys. but then, steph managed to come late as well. see...not only me ok...so yeah we made our way there. pretty nice place.
as usual, i and surin trash talked and trash talked. hahaha. always like that. hehe. btw i won the first round, then surin won the second. HUMPH. i think we should do what aruna suggested. best 2 out of 3. or else it would just be a tie. anyways...of course we were a very embarrasing bunch, but hey, were having lots of fun. i could give you every knitty gritty detail, but im sure we're going to be reading at least 2 or 3 blogs thats gonna be talking about our outing as well, so i shall not make other ppl's blog less interesting. lol.
hehehehe. although, there were a few highlights, i must tell. hahahhahaha.
steph said she was destined to be unable to excel in ANY kind of sports, whether pizikaly strenuous or not.
apparently, it is so.
lol. sorry steph. and apparently, bowrring is not zah's forte either...sorry zah. najib, is...on crack when bowling. perhaps he got into the groove from the techno songs banging from the speakers.
i dont think i will ever settle the score with surin. ben plays all fancy and SAI-RAI-US. yes, serious. in the end also kena longkang.
marr is...amazon woman i tells you. the way she just CHUCKS the ball...i mean, thats a few good pounds youre lifting you know! aruna...is relaly good. and also really good at getting splits. heehee..so funny when she gets all fired up.
me? hmm.............i did not want to say this but...
I AM THE BEST BOWRRERRRRR. evar. ok. enough.
then after much debate we decided to play abc to determine where to go next. hahah. so we ended up going to raimahs. heheehehe. and yeah. zah, i relaly, REALLLYYYY wanted to burst out laughing when you angered the old bloke, but seeing as to how mad he looked, i just tahan lah. sooorrryyyy, but it was pretty funny. heheh. imagine if i did laugh though...he'd probably whoop my ass too. so yeah.
jib went off first, then when we arrived aruna went home too. shucks. it would have been fun if everyone was there. oh yeah, then zah too took flight. so we just head down to raimahs and as usual we talked cock, ate prata, freshly made by the prata boy no less. hahahaha. had ais limau. had plain prata. yes, ppl, i drink pretty fast. so? hoho.
yeah..now that i am reminded of it, we never ever, sneeze with our eye lids open. or else it would be our rockets outta their sockets! thats freaky. marr says she has a cousin(?) who can sneeze without closing his eyes? freaky...it all came up since ben sneezed and tried to stop it. listen, you can pop a vein cos of the impact you know. if it can shoot out your eyeballs, then i dont see how it cannot pop a vein of you try block it. hach!*blocks nose*......*is dead*.
took a video too. main cast: benjamin yeo. who does not wnt to see the video. ever. hahah. aiya boy...you dont look funny at all, but it is a funny vid! and marr appears in the end, and so does surins middle finger appears.
haha, so we went off at about 7 ish. yeah, so that sums up what happened for me today.
hahhaa. surin just sent me some vids. freak ass funny.

Toto chan

I hate Toto Chan!!!!!! Small bean!!!!lol
ok
im gonna hae a test on it
And then, not all at once, but still surprisingly rapidly, it was there. Not so much there but everywhere. It became elemental, galvanised to objects, to people. You could be watching your television or using your computer, not seeing it but being powerfully aware that it was there. People were hearing it on the radio, seeing it in shopfronts, posters on walls. Background sounds in music, the gaps between words and pictures. It was lining the street. And although people had to have had thousands of tiny silent questions in their heads the two obvious ones hung potent above them all: What could this be? Who is responsible?

Who can? I Can, You Can, I Can Do, You Can Do, I Can Be, You Can Be, and You Can To.

The words and phrases above are so commonly used that I can remember now saying them quite often. Let me explain, when I was in the second grade I came down with a disease that crippled me to where I could not walk for 6 months. But you know what, there was miracle that happened I walked again one day. But it was the power of repeating similar words that we all pretty much use in everyday conversation in a variety words and phrases. Also the huge impact that visualization produced when harnessed. Especially now in the social networks, videos and blogs and articles that are so prevalent across the internet. I can remember lying in bed gazing out a small window at my friends as they ran, laughed, were playing just like I used to. Nobody taught me these things but I would say to myself, "I can do that" I can laugh, I can play all those games, I can run faster than anyone...That one became my favorite, I must of said "I can run" consciously and subconsciously a 1000 times a day.... I would naturally make a fun game out of it . Repeating the phrases like "I can be anything I want" I can Be fast, I can play, I can be your friend, I can help, I can dig that hole, I can play baseball, or any sport. It was a motivational happening but at that time, I didn't know that type of language. I had to keep it simple, heck I was only a second grader. Other times I would use the words you, us, them, we, they, she, he, you can to, yes you can do it, you can be anything, whatever you want you can be it. Funny things began to happen, I didn't really notice any one in my family when they would say a few negative things like, "why do you keep telling yourself those lies? You'll never walk again" I won't get into that but will say, I had enough of it from being confided to small spaces and often being by myself ....You all know that when we watch young kids play and how they actually are in the minds and bodies and really believe they are the person there acting out....Its obvious when the little girl is making breakfast or changing the babies diapers, or even throwing a football that she is in her own imaginative world. It feels just like being those figures they portray. Little boys often, pretend they are race car drivers, rurrrunnnn...they got their hands on an imaginary wheel, either weaving around the house or outside, sometimes crashing and sometimes they cross the finish line and carry the flag for another lap. Yes boys are noted more for just making noises where as little girls are more prone to have more traits of communication in there childhood years.
Back to my story; Well try to visualize yourself walking, walking fast, slowly running and running fast. But do it paralyzed laying flat on your back...Then imagine your in a running competition and its a race where you dash to the finish line to see who is the fastest runner. If you can fathom laying around for 6 months with nothing better to do than repeat words and phrases like, "I can run faster than anyone" I Can Be the fastest, I can, I know I Can.... At the same time
I would picture in my brain all the details of the school playground and everywhere I could get out and stretch my legs and imagine I could fly.... It felt like flying, remember I am only 7 years old. Its to bad most people lose thier sense of imagination the older they get... To close, I did eventually walk and I did run....True Story, I could run faster and longer than any kid in the second grade classes at my school, about 120 kids. If I could change or give a gift to the World it would be the power of belief and that you and I Can Be ...... _______. Other words fill in the blank with what you want to be. And do it as a class, teach it, bring it out in groups and individual settings, and provide the evidence...which speaks for itself in 1000's of miracles like mine... You know its the Secret that needs to be known.

Hey!!Hope you like my blog!!!Let me give you a chalenge!!!! Welll, if you can finish listening to all the song in my playlist, u are a pro.

Fireworks

Last Friday's Olympics Opening Ceremony in Beijing Olympics Stadium was without a doubt the greatest event of its kind in the history of the Olympic Games. It was China's "coming out" party, and the organizers $300 million was well-spent.
The results showed in China Olympian Li Ning's levitating speed-skater style "walk" around Olympic Stadium and his lighting of a giant torch, which in turn caused what had to be the largest fireworks display in the history of the Olympic Games, if not the World.
A spectacle that looked tremendous, and even animated, and that's because it was.
The organizers of the event admitted that computer graphics were used to "replace" the actual fireworks images because the fear was that the "haze" -- read: smog -- was so bad that a great camera shot of the pyrotechnics would have not been possible.
Still, it was controversial because it took away from the overall historic effort and also took the wind out of the sails of the China Olympics, and sadly.
I write that because regardless of that country's problems, we're all fans of the Olympics and want to see it go well. Period.
But what was done reminded me of the movie "Wag The Dog". That flick, which starred Robert De Nero and Dustin Hoffman, was about a war that was staged on a television set and never happened at all.
With China's actions, we're a massive step closer to that possible occurence. China not only faked the fireworks, but the singer employed in the Opening Ceremony.
Seven-year-old Yang Peiyi, "who was deemed not attractive enough to go on stage" according to the article, was replaced by nine-year-old Lin Miaoke. One thing's for sure, that will scar Yang Peiyi for life, the fact that her own China told her she was not attractive enough to be seen singing on the biggest stage in the World, even though they love her voice!
Toward Laws Preventing This In The Future
I think we need to craft a series of International Laws to prevent or at least discourage (which is the best we can do) the occurence of the use of digital technology in this way. It's far too dangerous a possibility to ignore, especially in the wake of the fake fireworks scandal.

About me?

I started keeping a diary when I was 11. I was afriad that if I were to die, there won't be anyone around who can say "I know her". I thought that by writing a diary, I could prevent myself from passing into oblivion. Such thoughts from a kid!So perhaps this page is another attempt to prevent myself from fading into oblivion.I came into this world in the middle of December, not long after midnight. My childhood was filled with much play in the days, and many strange dreams in the nights. I have vivid memories of those times, even of my dreams. How I could soar into the sky, how I could control my dreams too. Those were rather peculiar times, I suppose.I sit here now, staring at this screen attempting to write something about myself. Yet I am at lost on what there is to write. Am I a person defined by just a name, the schools I have been to, the subjects I studied, the exam scores I have, the sports I play? All of a sudden, the idea of writing a section on "myself" seems like such a difficult task. Simply because there is nothing I can think of that defines me. My name is not unique. So what is there about myself that makes me different from others? That makes "myself" as a subject worth writing about? Or worth your time reading about?Who am I? Really. Am I just a name? "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet."Alas, I am clueless still. It seems stupid to be saying that I have no idea who I am. But I guess, thats the truth. Perhaps so, with many of us.