Chinese History

had a good chance to catch up on books i usually prefer... well history books! hahaha

i guess not many people would love reading it, but somehow it intrigues me so much i feel i'm always living in the wrong era, much rather be the one writing history than reading them...

was reading alot on chinese history... of course the famed dynasties of the 3 Kingdoms to the earliest Shang, and the later Ming, Tang and Qing...Not forgetting the Qin too where all of Ancient China was presumably unified under one banner...at least during that time.

of course the ancient folklores and legends are very interesting, and sometimes you really wonder, wowz those people or beings are so damn cool... in fact i have a few favourites... fact or fiction, if they did walked the earth and did the things they do, its pretty amazing...

zhuge liang, a.k.a kong ming, or sleeping dragon, is probably all of ancient china's most well known intellect, the number one advisor that lived throughout his time...woo weee!

then you have people from the warring state era, in the likes of sun tzu and sun bin...where the sun tzu (zi) war manuals were thought of...

how about the time during the tang, ming and qing dynasties, where a few known emperors who have shown great leadership and management, quite amazing actually.

of course we must not forget the inventions that were founded by the chinese people over time...pretty amazing stuff

the compass, gunpowder, printing press and paper, the wheel-barrrow, abacus, silk, kites, iron-casting, origami of course the stern to rudders in ships...

not bad at all yah? well the inventions sure accelerated alot of areas in the future... of course not the chinese ones but european and middle-eastern technologies...

yah sadly it was the europeans and middle-eastern people who were more enterprising to move forward and improve, unlike our ancient chinese people...sadly the cause of their own backward demise for such a long time...

i could really imagine had the chinese people went forward with their inventions how many years would they have leap forward, at least 200 hundred years at least...oh wellz...too late now...

if they had done it, we might have been living in an age of space travel...thats what i presume...coz it din take long for the europeans to move from normal ornamented pistols for royalties to big boom cannons and gatling guns...and at least during the last hundred years, our move from air-flight to space flight(ok not deep far space kind lah)

our computers of today, from where we started off....wooo weee! alot of advancement i would say...well i sure wish we moved faster and leap frog into the 23rd and beyond century inventions instead...

come on chinese people! we can do it...lol (i not being biased here arrr) after all we do make up approximately 1.3 billion people at least world wide? i'm sure there is the talent and creativity amongst us and of course the rest of the world to think. =)

of course i would say the time spent on warfare did some improvemensts...but nonetheless it was for war only...not to improve lives at all...hahaha

well i must have been reading too much history books hahaha

Trials...lots of it...

ok had a blasting fun time editing some pics for the blog....of course skill level is so bloody amatuerish...so wat to do...but here is a sample of my works for today...hahaha

its sort of, for my link to the profile...oh wellz just trying hahaha...

did some radical changes to the blog by adding Feedburner...which will highlight the headlines for the past few entries...i think 3 at most...

redid the archives bit...put it into a drop down folder sort...did spent some time redoing the codes for it...other than these nothing much changed... for this blog that is...hahaha still got 2 others to do hmmmm

"hanging of australian dude"

some extracts i took from this website...
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17040262-421,00.html?
from=newsquote1


some lamers....who have no inkling clue to what they are saying at all...they should really think before saying

From: Steve
Comment: My best mate died of a heroin o/d caused by people like this. But still, taking more life doesn't solve the problem, even though he's not a real Australian we should still bomb Singapore and occupy their country for this act of aggression against an Australian citizen.

From: Neil B
Comment: The Singapore Government is an unelected dictatorship with no real legitimacy. How can the execution of a drug trafficker be justified by a government that is well known for allowing the laundering of the proceeds of drug trafficking throughout the region through its financial system? This is morally wrong and the Australian Government should end its relationship as far as possible with this morally reprehensible regime.

From: Andrew F-R
Comment: Ironically, Singapore uses the fact it is a civil and safe place with little crime to justify a barbaric and outdated practice.


some constructive comments..

From: Anthony M
Comment: PM Howard is introducing death penalty with shoot-to-kill in anti-terror laws. Why should we complain about other countries?

From: Andrew L
Comment: Anyone who breaks the law in another country should face the laws of that land. And for drugs like heroin they should get the death penalty for the crimes and misery it creates later if it gets to its destination.

From: Johnathan C
Comment: I would like to remind everyone it's 400g of PURE heroine that would be processed(if I didn't remember wrongly) to make more of the stuff that ruins families. Let's remember that heroine addiction not only affect the addicts, but the lives of people around them, family, children, friends, people they rob, people who get injured or died in the process of robbery. Is the destruction of so many families and healthy lives is not MASS murder? Do advise me on a better terminology. Also, drug traffickers often purposely choose Singapore as a point of transit because passengers from Singapore (because of the tight checks) are often assumed by custom officials from other countries to be relatively clear of items like drugs, guns, explosives, bio-hazardous materials (anthrax etc) resulting in a more relaxed and expedited customs processing. So in a way Singapore is the victim here.

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so the big hoo haa here is some people dun like the way our govt is doing away with drug traffickers, by hanging that is...

i guess stopping the root of the problem would be to get rid of the drug lords... but have you seen any country taking a step ahead against them? USA maybe? no? Britain? no?

what is the best way is to deter would be "carriers", education and social support... less people carrying drugs, less people take drugs...all these needs for capital punishment will eventually be stopped...

so i totally support capital punishment in the mean time despite is cruel subtleness..