Saturday, December 30, 2006

What A Marvel!

Chic Mod Water Cube and Rustic Bird's Nest. Here they are

Main Stadium and the Acquatic Center for Bejing Olympics. It surely has gone through a full cycle in so short time. I was never able to imagine that Chinese could dream this big when I was kid. I was anxiously looking forward to the American dream when I stepped of my homeland and into a totally new one. I just can not be happier that Chinese finally can have dream big and for the better. I hope that the upcoming Bejing games will stage not only the modern marvels that Chinese is capable of but also humanity accumulated throught her 5000 year civilization that is yet to rediscover.











Monday, December 25, 2006

Happy Holidays For Now

I had been always greeting my friends and relatives Merry Christmas and Happy New Year during the holiday season. Just simply natural thing to say.

A quite while ago, I had this co-worker from South Carolina. One day we chatted about my upcoming trip to CA during Christmas time and might visit my mother's friend there. Suddenly he said to me why your Chinese celebrates Christmas anyway. That is Jesus' birthday. It surely seemed to me that it was odd for him to have Christian Chinese or Chinese just was not qualified to celebrate period. I thought that he was just crazy as he looked(He might not agree). But I never quite figured out why then.

A while ago, WalMart tried to embrace Gay and Lesbian communty for whatever purpose is. That certainly did not look right to those religion fanatics. They launched a boycott against WalMart. Finally WalMart retreated a bit and agreed on saying "Christmas Sale" instead of "Holiday Sale", "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays". Obviously those fanatics think that they own the domain of Jesus' birthday. I am not sure that Jesus would agree.

It is just odd it can go. They claim that they own it and have to force others to use it. Well I do not have any problem to let those freaks have it. I am much than happy to greet my relative and friends happy Holidays for now. The spirit is still the same for me. We feel grateful to be able to love and be loved.

Happy Holidays to everyone that makes my life meaningful!