David's blog

I heard the recent murders happened on Virginia Tech campus, worst in history.
I feel sorry for those who lost their loved ones.
But I'd like to focus on the reactions rather than the action itself.
After the disaster, the whole Asian society felt uneasy, they feared that the public would hold opinions against them--some began analysing their "faults" immediately. When it sounded like a Chinese did that, they feel ashamed, for what other people of their race did.
When it turned out to be a Korean student, the Chinese society relaxed, and the Koreans got nervous--the Korean government made apologies officially saying they are sorry, the sister of the murderer made apologies on behalf of their family too.
Why do a whole race have to feel sorry, even shame, for just one person's crime?
First, the Asians feel lack of confidence in the international community, even one of a million of their kind did bad things, they jump out to express sorrows immediately.
Second, it was the cultural difference between east and west. The easterners tend to form their lives as a group--one member of the family made mistakes, the head of the family (normally the "father") have to toe the scratch for his actions. So the whole group feels guilty for just one.
As for me, there is no way I am feeling shamed for that guy's action. I am sorry for those brillant students who were just about to enter their refulgent life stage suddently lost their lives. Also it makes me feel how important American life is: 32 died, with the whole Koreans apologizing, and the whole world shocked, compared to thousands died in Iraq, not so many care about.

I have been playing Wow for nearly 2 years, and have 2 60levs:a nightelf chaser and a human warrior, both are female characters.
I was absorbed into Wow the first day it came to this country. There once was a fever with it among the youth, everyone want to try to play a real 3D online game, and also it was free that time.
With no particular reason, I choose the name "hdhao", and built the character, a chaser. That's the character I played for almost a year, I never thought I would do so when it began to take up all the time I have: even in dreams.
Then, on the request of some of my classmates, I changed a sever, and got another character, a warrior and played with them. With this new one, the real meaning, the true Wow idea turned up: the Dungeons, the raid, the guild. Every minute in Wow we are raiding, or preparing for raid and the Blizzard was adding new and more powerful Dungeons patch after patch!
Since the burning crusade has not yet come to China mainland, the most powerful Dungeon now is NAXX, people really get freaked out in there! They pour more time, or even money in it just wanting to get the most powerful equipment.
That's what they do: they spent hours after hours in raiding, got the best equipment that anyone else have never seen, stand in the crowd and show themselves. And that's what they want!
I admit the most exciting things about Wow is that it requires largely of cooperation, and the joy of defeating monsters after monsters with your friends, often with hardworking. But why are the dungeons become so powerful that many player just can not have their fun in them any more?
Everyday farming, everyday raiding.
So, the players leave one by one. Some of them wait for the burning crusade, some just quit. Anyway, the "burning crusade" will never be available before May, cause the 9th City( the company that operates Wow for Blizzard in China mainland) have just got in handy a new game coming to China, the guild war, so the "burning crusade" have to make way for it. That's something to wait for! That's one reason why the Wow player call the "9th city", "dog city". A name with "dog" in it will never be a good name in China, you know.
A month ago, I finally quit. Since then, I've got to wonder why I lost myself in such a game for so long. Sometimes, people's getting lost in something is just fine, at least we should have sometime to relax, but why we are absorbed in such a game so deep, and the result hurts us so badly?
World of warcraft have some magic hidden in it, I guess…
YO, I've got another question to ask, do you have a "month card" for Wow so that you can play as long as you wanna in a whole month?
We do not, the "dog city" wouldn't do such a thing...so every hour, 0.4yuan.

Liaocheng University of Shandong Province now have troubles. It is accused by people on the Internet to have built a tremendous gate which may cost a total of 80 million Yuan! And of cause, the university denied such condemnation of being so extravagant. There also rise condemnations of schools alike.
Now many facilities in China have built great gates or buildings just to show the so called "face" of that unit, Chinese are afraid of loosing face, so are the units.

This phenomenon makes me more appreciative of my university's state: we don't have any gates to show our face, we even do not have walls to keep people out. And also, we have the confidence to show the world our figure just by our inner spiritual, cultural and academic values.
How ironic-- a university with more than a thousand years history just sits here opening her arms to the whole world, while others still building their "faces".
Thank you for reading.

Yesterday I noticed a guy with the following words printed on his colorful T-shirt:
" If you don't like my attitude just quit talking to me."
That made me wonder, what on earth the attitude is?

百度音乐掌门人里面有这样的评论：
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看完后觉得好玩，女孩们狂爱，男生们泼冷水，酸溜溜的...
当然还有理性的。
原来我说喜欢rain的一首歌，旁边朋友不屑地说：小女生听的你也听啊？顿无语。