This cat is soooo cute..

Next time when I'm back..

中国最美的十大名山
　　1 黄山
　　2 庐山
　　3 华山
　　4 梅里雪山
　　5 泰山
　　6 武夷山
　　7 玉龙雪山
　　8 四姑娘山
　　9 恒山
　　10 稻城三神山

　　中国最美的十大地质公园
　　1 云南石林
　　2 五大连池
　　3 雁荡山
　　4 丹霞山
　　5 云台山
　　6 兴文石海
　　7 张家界武陵源
　　8 翠华山
　　9 伏牛山
　　10 腾冲火山

　　中国最美的十大森林公园
　　1 张家界国家森林公园
　　2 西双版纳原始森林公园
　　3 海螺沟冰川森林公园
　　4 白云山国家森林公园
　　5 张家界天门山国家森林公园
　　6 四面山国家森林公园
　　7 尖峰岭热带雨林森林公园
　　8 太白山国家森林公园
　　9 神农架国家森林公园
　　10 宝天曼国家森林公园

　　中国最美的十大宗教名山
　　1 武当山
　　2 峨眉山
　　3 五台山
　　4 普陀山
　　5 天台山
　　6 龙虎山
　　7 九华山
　　8 崆峒山
　　9 三清山
　　10 绵山

　　中国最令人惊叹的十大遗迹遗址博物馆
　　1 兵马俑
　　2 故宫
　　3 拉萨布达拉宫
　　4 长城
　　5 曲阜三孔
　　6 华清池
　　7 三星堆
　　8 都江堰
　　9 西安碑林
　　10 西安城墙

　　中国最恢宏的十大帝王陵墓
　　1 黄帝陵
　　2 乾陵
　　3 秦始皇陵
　　4 明十三陵
　　5 成吉思汗陵
　　6 汉阳陵
　　7 清东陵
　　8 西夏王陵
　　9 茂陵
　　10 桥陵

　　中国最美的十大湖
　　1 青海湖
　　2 西湖
　　3 千岛湖
　　4 纳木错
　　5 泸沽湖
　　6 镜泊湖
　　7 喀纳斯湖
　　8 运城盐湖
　　9 武汉东湖
　　10 太平湖

　　中国最美的十大主题公园
　　1 西双版纳傣族园
　　2 香港迪斯尼乐园
　　3 深圳世界之窗
　　4 开封清明上河园
　　5 大唐芙蓉园
　　6 昆明世博园
　　7 彝人古镇
　　8 横店影视城
　　9 镇北堡西部影城
　　10 中华回乡文化园

　　中国最美的十大奇洞
　　1 织金洞
　　2 黄龙洞
　　3 腾龙洞
　　4 龙宫
　　5 本溪水洞
　　6 芙蓉洞
　　7 崆山白云洞
　　8 石花洞
　　9 玉华洞
　　10 梅山龙宫

　　中国最美的十大古城
　　1 丽江
　　2 平遥
　　3 阳朔
　　4 徽州古城
　　5 镇远
　　6 景德镇
　　7 山海关
　　8 西昌
　　9 阆中
　　10 丰都鬼城

　　中国最美的十大峡谷
　　1 长江三峡
　　2 雅鲁藏布江大峡谷
　　3 澜沧江梅里大峡谷
　　4 金沙江虎跳峡
　　5 天山库车大峡谷
　　6 大宁河小三峡
　　7 天坑地缝
　　8 太行山大峡谷
　　9 金丝大峡谷
　　10 大渡河金口大峡谷

　　中国最美的十大民居建筑
　　1 福建土楼
　　2 开平碉楼
　　3 王家大院
　　4 乔家大院
　　5 皇城相府
　　6 成都大邑刘氏庄园
　　7 宏村
　　8 西递
　　9 米脂姜氏庄园
　　10 康百万庄园

　　中国最佳的十大宗教寺院（道观）旅游胜地
　　1 法门寺
　　2 少林寺
　　3 大昭寺
　　4 楼观台
　　5 拉卜楞寺
　　6 塔尔寺
　　7 大慈恩寺
　　8 大兴善寺
　　9 芮城永乐宫
　　10 佳县白云观

　　中国最美的十大海滨城市
　　1 三亚
　　2 青岛
　　3 秦皇岛
　　4 珠海
　　5 日照
　　6 厦门
　　7 北海
　　8 大连
　　9 海口
　　10 宁波

　　中国最美的十大古镇
　　1 喀纳斯湖畔古村落
　　2 丹巴藏寨
　　3 黄姚
　　4 婺源
　　5 乌镇
　　6 周庄
　　7 同里
　　8 西塘
　　9 赤坎古镇
　　10 长汀

　　中国最美的十大园林
　　1 拙政园
　　2 承德避暑山庄
　　3 颐和园
　　4 狮子林
　　5 留园
　　6 古莲花池
　　7 清晖园
　　8 何园
　　9 静思园
　　10 个园

　　中国最美的十大瀑布
　　1 九寨沟诺日朗瀑布
　　2 黄果树瀑布
　　3 黄河壶口瀑布
　　4 海螺沟大冰瀑布
　　5 庐山瀑布
　　6 德天瀑布
　　7 镜泊湖瀑布
　　8 九龙瀑布
　　9 望乡台瀑布
　　10 云台山瀑布

　　中国最美的六大旅游名城
　　1 北京
　　2 西安
　　3 苏州
　　4 香港
　　5 成都
　　6 洛阳

　　中国最美的六大沙漠
　　1 沙坡头
　　2 鸣沙山-月牙泉
　　3 响沙湾
　　4 沙湖
　　5 库布齐
　　6 内蒙古腾格里沙漠月亮湖

　　中国最美的六大湿地公园
　　1 神农架大九湖国家湿地公园
　　2 云南红河哈尼梯田国家湿地公园
　　3 盘锦湿地
　　4 杭州西溪国家湿地公园
　　5 银川鸣翠湖国家湿地公园
　　6 广东星湖国家湿地公园

　　中国最美的六大石窟
　　1 敦煌莫高窟
　　2 云冈石窟
　　3 龙门石窟
　　4 克孜尔千佛洞
　　5 大足石刻
　　6 麦积山石窟

　　中国最美的六大草原
　　1 呼伦贝尔草原
　　2 锡林郭勒大草原
　　3 祁连山草原
　　4 甘南草原
　　5 伊犁草原
　　6 科尔沁草原

　　中国最美的六大名楼（阁）
　　1 武汉黄鹤楼
　　2 烟台蓬莱阁
　　3 西安钟鼓楼
　　4 南昌滕王阁
　　5 永济鹳雀楼
　　6 昆明大观楼

　　中国最惊险刺激的六大漂流胜地
　　1 永顺猛洞河漂流
　　2 万泉河峡谷漂流
　　3 沙坡头黄河漂流
　　4 东江漂流
　　5 杉木河漂流
　　6 汶水河峡谷漂流

　　中国最美的五大实景山水主题演出
　　1 阳朔《印象·刘三姐》
　　2 华清池《长恨歌》
　　3 《禅宗少林·音乐大典》
　　4 《印象·西湖》
　　5 《印象·丽江》

　　中国最美的五大海洋世界
　　1 大连老虎滩极地海洋馆
　　2 青岛极地海洋世界
　　3 大连圣亚海洋世界
　　4 上海海洋水族馆
　　5 西安曲江海洋世界

　　中国最美的五大温泉旅游胜地
　　1 华山御温泉度假村
　　2 腾冲火山热海温泉
　　3 海螺沟温泉度假区
　　4 珠海御温泉
　　5 锦江温泉

　　中国最美的三大滑雪场
　　1 亚布力滑雪场
　　2 阿尔山滑雪场
　　3 北大湖滑雪场

　　中国最美的三大野生动物园
　　1 广州香江野生动物世界
　　2 西安野生动物园
　　3 云南野生动物园

My crazy 2009 fall jump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymWSia0pkY0

Thanks to my dear friend recording&making this video ;)

Dilemma

From the perspective of company "MAX-PROFIT", it is certain that providing service to where most present&potential customers are is the golden rule.

And this is where the dilemma comes from.

Places with better network coverage, better transportation, better restaurants attract more people. More people seduce companies to provide better service in those places. And then these places attract more people.

Okay, now let's replace the string "better" to "worse", "more" to "less" of the paragraph above, it also works.

Places with worse network coverage, worse transportation, worse restaurants attract less people. Less people seduce companies to provide worse service in those places. And then these places attract less people.

If you get rid of every other aspects of Los Angeles except for TRANSPORTATION, what LA is going to look like is depicting in the above graph. The cycle of Los Angeles is "worse public transportation -> more car -> worse public transportation".

If you happen to jump into the better-more-better cycle, lucky you. However, if you fall into the worse-less-worse cycle, oops, sorry.

Someone told me LA was trying to jump out of the worse-less-worse cycle, however, GM pushed it back. That's something I found evil about totally-free market (or super small government). This kind of thing is going to be easily solved in super big government, like China in the past.

This is the trade off of relying on the decision made by the majority and a small group of elites.

靖国神社游记 - 黄章晋

http://www.bullogger.com/blogs/huangzhangjin/archives/233254.aspx

I cannot say this is unbiased or totally true, at least it's much better than the only one photo/scene I've seen for a long time from CCAV.

Niagara Falls trip

I finally get bored to write a post of my Niagara Falls trip.. -___-
So we started off on 7.3 morning from New Jersey. It was a 6 hours drive and we arrived at Buffalo around 4pm. The view along the trip to me was nicer than Southern California where I hate the desert-like mountains.
Buffalo is somewhat boring.. or we didn't find anything interesting. The only highlight was the Buffalo Wings. We went to the birthplace of Buffalo Wings, Anchor Bar. It was crowded, and we didn't have the patience waiting, so we ordered take-out. We ordered mild, medium, hot and super spicy. None of them is hot enough, and the super spicy one is the least tasty. It's sour, and none of us like the taste of sour. I don't know why they always put hot&sour flavors together, but this is a good lesson, I'm going to ask if it's sour next time before order anything super spicy.

We headed to Niagara Falls during night to see the night view of it. It was great. I was like, "wow, this is the biggest fall I've ever seen". Standing at the top of the falls and looking down it makes me feel really great. It's hard to describe the feeling, a little excited, a little surprised. It's a whole new feeling, some sort of like "I don't know there is such thing existing before." New stuff always make me feel pleasure, I feel the smallness of myself and I also feel the great pleasure of discovering this big world.
The next day we decided to take the Maid of the Mist (MM) trip. The ship will take you to the bottom of the falls. It was great again, even the same thing, you can feel totally different from another perspective. I guess the most suitable word to describe my feeling is : "爽"... lol
I also got a picture of my head and rainbow in it! haha, this is soooooo cool, rainbow was so close to me.

After the fantastic Niagara Falls trip, it was still early, so we went to Ithaca, NY where Cornell University is located at. The neighborhood around Ithaca was really beautiful, there are a lot of state parks with lakes and falls. I have to say, it's so perfect for me, lakes, falls, and trees. And as bragged in my previous post, this is where I jumped into a small fall, haha.

Then we ate dinner there in a Thai restaurant. We went to Cornell University, but it was already around 9:00pm, so everything is getting dark, and this is the only pic I took there (you even cannot tell it's Cornell!). It was a pity, but this give me an excuse to go there another time, and besides, I'm still missing the feeling of jumping into the fall. =P

And thanks to my friends going to this trip with me, it was really fantastic and I had a great time! This is definitely a wonderful memory~ =)

Chinese Philosophy Notes

- 老子 -

五色令人目盲，五音令人耳聋，五味令人口爽，驰骋田猎令人心发狂，难得之货令人行妨。
colors make people blind, sounds make people deaf, flavors make people ??, hunting makes people crazy, things people cannot get make them behave badly.

天下皆知美之为美，斯恶也。皆知善之为善，斯不善也。
If all the people know what is beautiful, actually it is evil.
If all the people know what is good, actually it is bad.

大道废，有仁义；智慧出，有大伪；六亲不和，有孝慈；国家昏乱，有忠臣。
get rid of the big principles, then you get benevolence and righteousness;
knowledge is accompanied by bogus.

绝圣弃智，绝仁弃义，绝巧弃利。
get rid of the holy things and the knowledge,
get rid of the benevolence and righteousness,
get rid of the ?? and benefit.

My translation is based on my understanding and limited by my English, wait people to point out the mistakes...