For some reason this blog has been suspended for quite a while, yet it does not indicate I have relinquished this territory. The female that gave birth to me, if you know who I am talking about, has discovered this place recently and starts to pay frequent visits here. As a consequence, I have switched to other online places to continue my "career". I apologize to those visitors who come here from time to time but find nothing updated. You can visit my other places if you know any. And this blog may be full of life sometime in future. Best Regards.

Let the Olympic Spirit Inspire All of Us

 

Near the end of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, the host country Greece fell into deep anxiety: despite of its largest delegate body, it had not won any gold medals yet. The whole country put all the hope on the final Marathon race. The first half of the contest was rather depressing: no Greek athlete could take the lead. But before the Greek people gave up their patience, they found an ordinary-looking Greek racer was catching up. When he made it first to run over the finishing line, the Greek audience broke into huge cheers. Excited, even the King offered his greatest gratitude to the country’s hero.

 

You may wonder what kind of people could make such a miracle. In fact, the winner of the Marathon race was just an ordinary postman living in a remote mountainous village. After the Olympic Games, he returned to where he lived and continued his life as a postman, peacefully, until he died.

 

Beijing's Summer is hot and unbearable, but there is always a reason that attracts tens of thousands of "eager young minds" throughout the nation to come to this holy land for their dreams. It was a steaming 3 o'clock in the afternoon, inside one of the classrooms of New Oriental School's Beijing Guozhan branch, roughly 350 students were listening attentively to a vivid lecturer, trying their best to absorb as much content as possible. The reputation of New Oriental School has been booming for years, and shows no signs of stagnation. For many, New Oriental is not just an English training institution, it is a magical place where the fashion of English locates. If you are dreaming of going abroad for further study, this is the place you can't miss.  

 

Thanks to the worldwide globalization and

Deteriorating, my college life was totally a mess. I was working on my computer late into the night and felt extremely sleepy. When I woke up I found myself standing on the stairs of the girls' dorm building, with some snacks in hand. Wow! I thought I was in the "Forbidden City" on campus, and I didn't have any clue how I managed to sneak into the building. Probably dream travelling brought me here. Scary enough isn't it?

 

I realized things could be worse when I saw girls passing by. Given it was mid-night, they must have felt mad to see an opposite sex in the building. But they looked rather calm, as if I was totally transparent. As I started to walk down the stairs to leave the nightmare place, I noticed a suspicious little man in front of me, carrying a few items, swiftly jumping down the stairs, as if fearing he might be caught by someone.

 

 

看胡锦涛访港，会生出诸多感慨。

 

不同的个人和组织收获了不同的礼物：对于曾荫权，是中央政府大力支持的一次宣示；对于商界，是《关于建立香港与内地更紧密经贸关系的安排》的四项补充协议；对于家住沙田的两户居民，是国家元首亲自赠送的电脑和电视；对于驻港部队，是对十年严明治军的巨大认可和嘉奖。对整个香港，这是中央政府对维护香港繁荣稳定的再一次承诺。

 

如果说十年前的交接仪式上，中央政府还对今后如何管理香港感到棘手的话，那么今天，在经历十年风雨洗礼后，中央政府已经懂得如何将这座城市摆上发展的快车道。

 

世界上再也找不到这样一个城市享受如此待遇：1997金融危机，中央政府不惜一切代价的力挺使香港经济免遭灭顶之灾；2003年SARS风波，低迷中徘徊的香港意外地收到了中央政府的“大礼包”——《关于建立香港与内地更紧密经

《时代》5月18日登载了香港回归十周年特别报道，在此一一转载；首先注明出处，声明不是侵权。

 

Thursday, Jun. 07, 2007

The Home Away From Home

By Zoher Abdoolcarim

 

Of all the photographs that my family has of ourselves and our loved ones, the most precious is probably a black-and-white snapshot taken on July 15, 1956. It shows my parents, brother and sister standing on Mumbai's Alexandra Dock, together with relatives seeing them off, before they boarded the steamer S.S. Victoria for a two-week sea journey, via Colombo and Singapore, to their new home: Hong Kong. My father is wearing a light-colored Western suit and dark brogues; my mother, in traditional garb, is comely and calm, despite departing for a strange new life in a strange new world; and my siblings, toddlers then (he in white shirt and shorts, she in pretty dress), look wonderfully sweet if slightly apprehensive (they're frowning). You can't see me, but I am i

《时代》5月18日登载了香港回归十周年特别报道，在此一一转载；首先注明出处，声明不是侵权。

 

Thursday, Jun. 07, 2007

Putting the People First

By Steve Tsang

 

In the last days of British rule of Hong Kong, many Chinese in the territory took pictures of their young children in front of colonial coats of arms adorning the exterior of government buildings. No doubt most did so to capture a snapshot of history that would shortly disappear. But some, I dare say, were paying their final respects to a departing, father-like symbol they would remember with fondness and admiration.

 

Why so? As Hong Kong marks the 10th anniversary of its return to China, and ponders the nature of its future relationship with the mainland, it's worth recalling one of Britain's most important legacies to the city: good governance, possibly the best experienced by any colony ruled by any power at any time. Despite the absence of d