Tibet

Hi Ratna,

Certainly human rights has been violated with people being shot "like a dog". about 99 people are dead as reported per se.

Well, Only about a few months ago when myanmar government cracked down on the Buddhist monk's backed protest that claims hundreds of lives, world pressure china as Myanmar's largest trading partner to conduct restrain.
But it seems that for now, before Olympic torched being passed down by the runner, the protest will spread into other provinces and other countries even faster.

for the information, that Myanmar is still alive altho the whole world under UN embargo the nation is because Myanmar is the largest producer or world RUBY stone. ruby is the red diamond crystal. it produces 90% of world's ruby.
and china has mainly supply the nation with goods and military equipments.

anyhow, one to learn... whose gonna remember those who "WERE SHOT LIKE A DOG" TOMORROW....i dont give a fuck what future has they changed, i dont even know a single name of the dead people in tian an men square...
they all pretend to care.. but who knows any of those tian an men square victim?
the point is,
DO NOT DIE LIKE A DOG FOR A SILLY REFORMATION THAT UR NAME IS NOT GOING TO BE REMEMBERED, i better die like hitler remembered than die like a dog being squashed by tank not remembered...

on a link above from reuters article,
it was titled. , "China accuses Dalai Lama of taking Olympics "hostage"

the world has become so interesting that we sometimes question if china's accusation on holy person like Dalai Lama is valid.
Some might condemn what china did, but china is communist, a no god land.
world has become so interesting that even an olympic games can be held hostage... Good play dalai (if he does orchestrated the whole "incident")


below is an interesting opinion from an expert regarding tibet

Comment by Jamie Metzl , Executive Vice President, Asia Society
Comment by Jamie Metzl, Executive VP, Asia Society - Mar 17, 2008

The most important thing to keep in mind is that tension between China and Tibet has been building for decades. On one side you have the Chinese increasing their efforts to fully integrate Tibet into China, while on the other side Tibetans are pushing for meaningful cultural and religious autonomy under Chinese rule. The upcoming Beijing Olympics are creating a platform where the Tibetans may feel more emboldened in making their claims, while the Chinese feel that they need to limit dissent and promote peace and stability.

We don’t know how these protest are going to end. Certainly the Dalai Lama has made a strong commitment to non violence and I have every expectation that commitment will be maintained. The Dalai Lama has also expressed his desire for Tibet to remain part of China, but with greater autonomy. To date the Chinese have been hesitant to yield to the demands of the Tibet exile movement for things such as the Dalai Lama’s return to Lhasa.

Huo Guo/ Hot Pot -part1-

Well, this post is sort of away from the normal posts. Ah well, As a food lover... yes FOOD lover, the only object tat i would dare to use the word "love" on, Huo Guo/ Hot pot/ Shabu shabu is one of my world favourite.
Well, before I went to china, My thought was that there is only one or two types of hot pot/ Huo guo. and normally the pot will be divided into two sides, like yin yang, the first one is plain with normal and the other one will be the spicy soup.

Ah, as you can guess already, it is truly a ground shocking and amazingly awesome experience to taste some of the weirdest and BEST-est (pardon the use of wrong grammar) ever.
Well, I do not attached my super favourite huo guo on this post.

It is Hong men yang rou, basically it is a goat meat Huo guo with a red sauce. It is the specialty of a small town where i used to live. Tried so much but that's the one I truly loved.

Not saying below's list is aint good , they are really close in terms of taste. But the variety of it will lure your salive to drolls!!!!
Enjoy........................ and Btw, pardon my han yu Ping yin, it sucks... yes i do realize.


A. Xiang Lak Xia Huo Guo., xiang = smells good ; Lak = spicy/hot; Xia = prawn/shrimps, so Its a Spicy smells good prawn Hot pot.

Second input is the same huo guo with better angle take. Well, its basically a stir fried prawn, potato/sweet potato (fried first before stir fried together with the prawn), dried chili, garlic, some ginger, herbs, chili pepper ( Ma lak, sechuan chili pepper), some spring onion and UNKNOWN ingredients.
Basically they will put the cooking first on the top of the hot pot stove, wait until you finish all the prawns and filling (warn you this is spicy and Oily).
After you're finished, they are going to pour the hot water in it until the wok is half full , where u then can light the fire and start your "huo guo" inside.
It cost about 60 Yuan /2 people to order as you like until you are very very exteremely full.
VERY GOOD, rating 8 out of 10. ; Cheap, spicy, amazingly surprising taste.
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The next one will be U mi zhou Huo guo.
This one is quite unique. Zhou is basically a congee or porridge.
It starts with a "milky" white water of soup based. The host describe to me that the milky feature is because they use the water from "washing the rice" to make it.
to better describe it, maybe some singaporean or malaysian would know the word "barley" drink. Its tasteless but it is really thick and good to absorb the taste of anything stewed on it.
Anyhow, normally we'd eat it with "seafood" side sauce specially made and whole chopped chicken is poured into the boiling hot pot.
Later, normally some vegetable and normal huo guo meats can be poured and enjoy at usual.
Well, what is special about it then?
It is at the end of it,... A thick congee/porridge (Zhou) is poured into the soup and while all the essence of the boiled hotpot we enjoyed before mixed to create a very very tasty and delicious porridge.
This Hot pot is actually one of the most expensive i had, for 5 people it cost about 150-200 Yuan/RMB.
I tried it 3x , Its awesomely delicious, and especially the congee.... its wordless... Heavenly!
Rating 9 out of 10
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The next one is less radical. Everyone who has ever enjoyed chinese huoguo should be familiar with this. the design of it is yin yang elements. But it is not called yin yang. To my surprised, it is called "yuen yang" huo guo.
It borrows the meaning from a kind of duck that always goes in a pair. I knew this when i went to the local zoo and this couple of animal which looks like a tiny duck swims here and there in pair. one is white and the other one is black.
Guys.. you're very lucky. I found the picture of them,when i took it at local zoo... and you can see them as below.
A symbol of yin yang , and this couple will stay together from kids until they die.

Cheap, and traditional.
Rating 7 out of 10.

Well
This next one is Sechuan style Huo guo. frankly, i had this one in malaysia at KL city. This will be a typical southern hotpot/huoguo.
The pot may seems to be a little unique. Instead of dividing the pot , half and half, it has a tiny spicy pot in the middle.
The soup based is very tasty itself which you can also easily find oyster mushroom being boiled together.
Rating. 7.5 out of 10
I tried "pork brain" filling in this huo guo.... its INTERESTING
Second last is Cu tier Huo guo/ Pork feet hot pot.
Yes,... If you're a fan of FAT FAT FAT,.. and a jelly like skin of pork feet... this is heavenly food.
There is nothing except an abundance of pork feet that is well stewed. The texture is tender and very juicy and Lots of skin... which is best...
It cost about 75 yuan / 3 people and we could not finish it either.
rating. 8 out of 10.



The last one is called "Beijing Huoguo". I have no idea nor i know the story behind it, but this huo guo is quite unique in terms of the design of the pot.
Unlike normal huoguo which you will have a metal pot and fire at the bottom of it, this huo guo is very tall.
Well, it basically looks like a "volcano" when the top long cover is taken off.
In the middle of the pot, a hot charcoal is placed and if the long cover is taken off, you can see the fire/ small flames coming out of its mouth.
Soup is basically tasteless, and filling is normal.
Intersting to try but in terms of taste, there is not much of a surprise.
One thing to note is that this huoguo normally accompanied with an abundance of sliced meat.
Rating. 7 out of 10

Can Investor Trade in Option?

I had a question from my good friend on his -Option trading- strategy approach incase he has made any mistake in it.
I did not yet responded on his strategy, but instead posing a fundamental question on his style and if he has actually chosen the right path for himself.
A reply of an email archieve is copied as below and edited to avoid any privacy breach that may affect the respondent.

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Seriously bro, I had a brief discussion of you with my uncle in singapore. The reason is because you started and showed me that you're an avid PURE INVESTOR. However, option is mostly used as a speculator/Short term trader to make money.
Pure Investor like Warren buffet, does not know and understand TECHNICAL INDICATOR. things such as charts, volume, MACD, ROC or candle stick charting. while Traders do not really care about the company's profitability of financial reports.
THIS are two different world.

What is my question to my uncle is , "if someone has never/ almost never buy a stock in his life, and he is always been reading "Investor" books and he is a pure INVESTOR, can he do well in OPTION trading? "
Well, it can be a easy question and a tough one. Easy is that the logic says the tool you're using is WRONG, but it can be hard to answer if you DO make money although you have Investor brain and the wrong tools to trade.

Anyhow, Try to answer it yourself.
All the best,

KenZ

Steve Jobs, CEO apple

Below's link to an article about one of the most notorious business man in the world
CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs.
The article is fairly long, but found it to be profuoundly interesting.
u will need at least half an hour of free time to enjoy it.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm

Cheers

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Well, if you want to be successful and technology literate, statistis shows "search with google!"

Soulmate,Are you looking for the right one?

Well, this posting is going to be a little different than usual, and it has nothing to do with travel or financial issue like what i would usually written and the discussion will not be in a poetic sound either.

So, straight forward," are you/ we are actually looking for a right soulmate?"
Have you ever asked such a question to yourself? .......
Reason is because, when we're looking for the right person,.. we often search for "similarity" which is the magic word.
"I wish he/she cooks"
"I wish he/she love sport or badminton or swim"
"I wish he/she enjoys classic music instead of the stupid rock brain draining music.
Well, why are we looking for similarities? its obvious isn't it that the more similarities we have, .. the more reason/excuses we can have to be "TOGETHER" with each other.. ohhh.. , how sweet... haha.

Imagine if you love writing, and the "dream girl" enjoys typing sms better, it will be like you're writing alone and she will not reply. Or you love fast food and she loves street food that you are so extremely anti for being not hygienic.

Or when you're out, you do enjoys gardens and a lovely cafe with a cozy music and a small chit chat while she loves food and shopping to the blood... ha3x.

Well, dating or PDKT in indonesian means to find and understand each quality and to see if the surface differences between both of the people can be matched through a bonding relationship or not. then the "COMPROMISE"-stage comes later.

well, there is nothing totally wrong with that, but clearly, we are out there looking for The Oher Half. Of course if its an organ, we certainly looking for something symetrical whether in physical or chemical properties.

however, the word to simply Complete and being Rich in content is alot of different when you're starting to look for differences in others rather than similarities between you and the one.
First of all, I do not believe in key and lock assumption of relationship in which there is only one key to every woman's heart.

I am more or less into Blade and the cover relationship. a long blade cannot fit in a short cover, and obviously everyone can see a flaw in it if you keep fitting in one, howver it is up to you if both is okay, things can go on. Some holy great royal sword may not mind to be wrapped around a pretty but made of poor material.

Simply ask yourself,.... Why would you not looking for a compatible differences between you and your soul mate?

what i mean is like, well, both of you love food, but one enjoys spicy food the other one enjoys a sweat desert like ice cream. What both people need is the love for food which later on will help you to try the spicy food and the icecream. every once in a while you will have spicy food, and then the desert is icecream when you have spicy food. It may not be perfect for both, but its a good enough combination.

the other is if you like sport, one enjoys let say karate and the other enjoys swimming. pull a thing together, jogging and strecthing excercise is extremely important for both sport why not go out there and have a try of it together?? jogging is to build stamina and stretching is to gain flexibility and reduce injury, but both of the exercise is ALOT more fun when you do it WITH someone. Jogging is boring when its alone, and streching is better with someone's assistance. so you both have reason to do things together without have to merge and force between things that you love. let the other to enjoy what each of you love, but yet when you grow , you get better together because you're always with each other when you're training.

this is what i meant by "Compatible differences", not only complete both of the party, it makes it richer in quality and quantity.

instead of compromising to argue who should be accompanying whom this week, ... both can indeed be more creative and open mindedly enjoy what they love. while you can finish third quarter of the spicy food and she can finish the third quarter of the icecream for example. but enjoys it altho the other loves it alot more.

So, what is wrong with finding a "key and lock" or "a perfect simetrical" the other half?
In my humble opinion (IMHO), first is that it is extremely hard and it may be amongst 6.5 billion (consider you're a person with a sexually confused orientation,... mean if you're a man, you are not sure if you're gay or straight.. ha3x).

not everyone can find a good one and a simple answer is that how many times do you go to a park and see there is a 65 years old man still holding his wife hand or they're sleeping on the arm of each other? not a usual thing rite? and why would that be? are we not sure that we will still love each other until the end of the time?

the answer is that when its so similar, it gets so boring easily.

Again,... are you looking for the right one then??