There is an interview of a HK famous blogger in Mingpao today.? I am his reader sometimes.? From his site, there are some links to more quality bloggers. I read some recent entries of those bloggers, quite a variety of different thoughts.? It is like going to a buffet all you can eat of ideas.? The most interesting entry I come across is someone talk about Paul Yip, who was my chemistry teacher in LSC.? Howcome I never see him as such a good teacher, at least not as good as the blogger claim, especially the comment about he is handsome.? The only difference I can think of is that writer is a girl, so she see things differently.? Those famous bloggers get over 2000 visit every day.? They are form a closely linked circle where everyone seems to know each one through blogs.? My blog is in a much sorry state, I think I have only around 10-20 visitors daily.? The famous bloggers all have one thing in common, their blog all focus around a differentialing selling point.? Some of them write about finance, some on technology, some on leftish social movements.? A few rare exception write general things from their professional point of view, such as doctor or teacher.? It would be too boring for me to just write about one area.? Things interest general audience doesn’t always interest me, vice versa.? I find it more interesting to gather my thoughts of the day on tiny things than comment some supposingly important world affairs.? Most people don’t know me would find my blog quite boring due to a lack of a theme.? Actually the only theme of my blog is all about myself.? The articles I write weekly are targeted more to general audience, that’s why I also cross post them on TTF forums and HK indepdent media.

One of the biggest news in Canada is the financial minster change the law on income trust.? This costs a collapse in the Toronto stock exchange and the market lost 3% in one day.? The advantage for a company change to income trust is mostly tax benefit.? As an income trust, the dividen distributed to the stock holder become expenses, so they can be deducted from taxable profit.? Many big business with steady flow of revenue are switching to income trust to evade tax.? Obviously the government is not happy about the lossing the tax reveune and decided to close this loop hole.? Most commentry on the news agree with the government’s decision, as it favours the people but not the big business.? The only complains is the Conservative government break their election promise that the income trust tax code will not change.? I think breaking promise is a minor offence in modern democracy, we already learnt not to trust the politician.? However, I think changing the tax code is not a good idea.? It is unfair to the non income trust company that their dividen are taxed twice.? What the government should really do is scrap the double taxation of the dividen instead of re-taxing the income trust.? The Canadian government is too big.? Rather than asking for more money, it should control its cost.

Different people has different body reaction when they are nervous.? Someone will sweat alot, someone will being shaking.? I recently found out when I am nervous, I will feel funny at my stomach.? It is not stomachache or any kind of pain.? It is the muscle around the stomach tense up and make it quite uncomfortable.? This funny feelling doesn’t affect me too much, if I can unfocus from the source of my nervous, it will go away.? Nevous is a psychological state, how come the body have involuntary reaction to the brain?? I remember when I first giving a toastmaster speech, my legs were shaking standing facing the audience.? Later when I am more use to it, my legs stop shaking but it is very stif, like glued to the the floor.? It took me some more time to feel comfortable enough to walk around.? I wonder how long will it take for me to get use to the funny feeling in my stomach.? There are other involuntary reaction too.? When I feel clueless, I would stratch my hairs or touch the back of my head.? I think this reaciton is more like an influence from external world than a true psychological reaction.? It is just an action to express my clueless that I have learnt from TV or books.

Every year, there are the same halloween traditions. Trick or treats, wearing costume, pumpkin carving, and firewall. My company have a pumpkin carving contest for halloween. I didn’t play but there are some very creative art work. I like the iPumpkin most, probably because I am an engineer. Tonight I played firework with Pat and Charlie is dressing up as an angel. So here it comes the real Charlie’s angel. Too bad that I have to spend time prepare class on thursday, or I could have more fun tonight. Instead of being long winded, I would just share some pictures with you all

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Here is an abrigded version of my speech for tomorrow’s toastmaster on folktale story telling. This is a story from Plato’s Symposium about the nature of love. Once upon a time, human has very different nature from what we are today. People’s body are in sphere shape. Each person has 4 legs, 4 arms, two faces on a round neck facing the opposite direction on one head, 4 eyes, 4 ears and so on. People were strong in physical strength and will. They are full of ambitious, dare to attack the gods, trying to force their ascend into heaven. Zeus, gather all the gods in Mt. Olyumpus to dicuss the appriopiate action. They don’t want to eliminate humans like the gaints, as it would also eliminate the honours and scarfice human offer to the gods. At the end of a lengthy dicussion, they come up with a cunning plan. The will split human into two halves. Each half would be much weaker and this plan also profitable to the gods, since it will double the number of people. Zeus slice the mortals into two like cutting an apple or boiled egg. He ordered Apollo to rotate the face of the new persson facing the wound, so they will remember not to rebel against gods in the future. He ordered Venus to heal the open wound. She tied the edge of the wounds together and that becomes our belly button. Now, each person is only half of a whole man. We will constantly seeking out for our missing half. Once we find the other half, we will melt together like one and never seperate again. The desire and pursuit to beomce a complete person is the true nature of love.