I used to be an athesist, and I firmly believed that God does not exist. I never quite realized that I was not an athesist of choice: I was told to be an athesist, for the sake of someone else's benefit. There was a reason for them to do it. They wanted us to believe a man named Mao as God himself.
Like fruits of a tree, I was a product of an educational system. This is not just another school that teaches you math and arts. This system serves a government that sacrificed millions of peasants' life for one man's "glory", a government that lied about history, statistics, and anything else to make sure they are in power, a government that is now corrupted to its bone and is polluting the very home of its citizens...
If I am not dubious about what I have to believe, I am just a fool. Then I have no one to blame but myself.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
君子坦荡荡，小人长戚戚
“戚”： 忧愁，悲哀 （戚戚，憂貌。又惱也）
小人忧者，或其内外不合，或其所是与所欲不符。凡表里如一者，有自知之明者，莫不为人坦荡，盖因其无所以为惧。世人烦恼者，多有婚姻之事。恋爱之男女多不可信，常强为己所不是；而婚姻日久天长，待察觉二者之不配，晚矣！
小人忧者，或其内外不合，或其所是与所欲不符。凡表里如一者，有自知之明者，莫不为人坦荡，盖因其无所以为惧。世人烦恼者，多有婚姻之事。恋爱之男女多不可信，常强为己所不是；而婚姻日久天长，待察觉二者之不配，晚矣！
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
新闻一则
今天读到一篇新闻，一位才华横溢的高中橄榄球员被斯坦福大学录取后，在回家的路上被黑帮无故枪杀。
1. 乱邦不居，危邦不入。有时候洁身自好也不能离开危险。
2. 他的父亲说：我告诉他远离毒品和暴力，我答应他如果你能为考大学牺牲几年时间的话，我会和你一同牺牲这几年的时间来奋斗。虽然这位父亲没能保护他的儿子，我却非常赞同他的教育方法。 中国人有句古话：“有其父必有其子”，“养不教，父之过”，很少有人问为什么。其实榜样的力量是无穷的。“You lead by example!"
侄儿成绩不好（嫂子常打麻将），表弟一事无成（姑父每天跳舞，出门前总是一句话：“好好看书！”）。 我至今记得高考前父亲建议我们不看电影三个月，他自己也同样做到。没有什么比“说一套，做一套”更让人看不起，孩子虽小，并不傻：你这个样子，有什么资格教训我？
1. 乱邦不居，危邦不入。有时候洁身自好也不能离开危险。
2. 他的父亲说：我告诉他远离毒品和暴力，我答应他如果你能为考大学牺牲几年时间的话，我会和你一同牺牲这几年的时间来奋斗。虽然这位父亲没能保护他的儿子，我却非常赞同他的教育方法。 中国人有句古话：“有其父必有其子”，“养不教，父之过”，很少有人问为什么。其实榜样的力量是无穷的。“You lead by example!"
侄儿成绩不好（嫂子常打麻将），表弟一事无成（姑父每天跳舞，出门前总是一句话：“好好看书！”）。 我至今记得高考前父亲建议我们不看电影三个月，他自己也同样做到。没有什么比“说一套，做一套”更让人看不起，孩子虽小，并不傻：你这个样子，有什么资格教训我？
Ben Franklin's Quotes
1. A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. 祸从口出
2. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. 沉默是金
3. Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
4. Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
5. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. （Tuo's version: Those who would give up self respect to purchase a little temporary job safety deserve neither respect nor safety)
6. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
7. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
8. At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment. 三十而立，四十而不惑，五十而知天命
9. If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
10. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
11. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead
13. Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities. (幸福的家庭都是相似的，不幸的家庭各有各的不幸）
14. Fish and visitors smell in three days.
15. To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
16. God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
17. Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
2. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. 沉默是金
3. Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
4. Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
5. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. （Tuo's version: Those who would give up self respect to purchase a little temporary job safety deserve neither respect nor safety)
6. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
7. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
8. At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment. 三十而立，四十而不惑，五十而知天命
9. If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
10. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
11. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead
13. Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities. (幸福的家庭都是相似的，不幸的家庭各有各的不幸）
14. Fish and visitors smell in three days.
15. To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
16. God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
17. Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Today's Reading: The Essential Buffett 1
The Essential Buffett: Timeless Principles For the New Economy
by Robert G. Hagstrom
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man" - Bernard Shaw
Buffett's four-part investment strategy:
1. Analyze a stock as a business
2. Demand a margin of saftey for each purchase
3. Manage a focus portifolio
4. Protect yourself from the speculative and emotional forces of the market
Tenets of the Warren Buffett Way
Business Tenets
1. Is the business simple and understandable?
2. Does the business have a consistent operating history?
3. Does the busines have favorable long-term propects?
Management Tenets
1. Is management rational?
2. Is management candid with its shareholders?
3. Does management resist the institutional imperative?
Financial Tenets
1. Focus on return on equity, not earning per share.
2. Calculate "owner earnings"
3. Look for companies with high profit margins
4. For every dollar retained, make sure the company has created at least one dollar of market value.
Makret Tenets
1. What is the value of the business?
2. Can the business be purchased at a significant discount to its value?
by Robert G. Hagstrom
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man" - Bernard Shaw
Buffett's four-part investment strategy:
1. Analyze a stock as a business
2. Demand a margin of saftey for each purchase
3. Manage a focus portifolio
4. Protect yourself from the speculative and emotional forces of the market
Tenets of the Warren Buffett Way
Business Tenets
1. Is the business simple and understandable?
2. Does the business have a consistent operating history?
3. Does the busines have favorable long-term propects?
Management Tenets
1. Is management rational?
2. Is management candid with its shareholders?
3. Does management resist the institutional imperative?
Financial Tenets
1. Focus on return on equity, not earning per share.
2. Calculate "owner earnings"
3. Look for companies with high profit margins
4. For every dollar retained, make sure the company has created at least one dollar of market value.
Makret Tenets
1. What is the value of the business?
2. Can the business be purchased at a significant discount to its value?
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
McCain and Bush Tax Cut
"He(McCain)'s embraced the Bush tax cuts that he voted against. He was against them being temporary; now he wants them being permanent. That's like marrying a girl you didn't want to date. "
----- Democratic strategist and CNN contributor Paul Begala
----- Democratic strategist and CNN contributor Paul Begala
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