Maybe I am a bit out of date about the internet culture of this generation. I have seen the word “Orz” used here and there, I sort of know it express the feeling of frustration and depression. Today, I finally know its true meaning when I come across the wiki page dedicate to this word. To be exact, “Orz” is a pictograph representing someone down on his knee, defeated, feeling life is totally miserable, and probably yelling “why, why, why me?” sadly. The O is the head, the r forms the upper torse and the arm and the z is the knee on ground. To give a better illustration, to “Orz” is making a pose like the guy in the picture belove. This word can be used as a noun, verb, adjective or even replace a whole sentence. Emoitioncon is really an efficient way to communicate. It only use 3 characters to express the complex feeling otherwise would require a few paragraph to describe.
Today is the Chinese New Year. I wish all the readers of my blog a prosperous year of pig. Here in Vancouver, we don’t really have the atomsphere for celebrating of Chinese New Year, except that the Chinese TV is showing special new year program all day long, the Chinese radio is playing those boring new year songs and we will say “Kung Hei Fat Choy” to friends. Without the 3 days long public holidays as in HK, the Chinese New Year is just seem like a normal weekend to me. This year is the year of pig, however the TV stations in China refrain from showing the lucky pig on TV. Out of political correctness, some stupid officials in communist government think showing the sign of pigs will offend the Muslim minority in China, thus may cause social unrest. First of all, although Muslim regards pig as unholy, the officials are simpily worrying too much. The enlightened Muslim would know to respect the Chinese culture and lives peacefully in the year of pig. There may be a few retarded Muslim consider the year of pig offending, but they are the one should change their mind. The majority should not bend to a few obscured mind minority. In the matter of fact, other than some random writing from an ancient book, the Muslims has no reason to dislike pig in the first place. Rather than forbidding showing pigs in TV, the Chinese governmetn should call to moderize Muslim in China, encourage the Muslims to embrace pig by correcting the obvious mistaken teaching regarding pigs in Koran. Just like we have a chinese style socialism, which is essentially capitalism, we should also have a chinese style muslim, in which the believers can enjoy pork and alcohol.
I have the regular maintance for my Volvo and the dealer gave me a 2007 S60 as the service car. It is nice able to test drive a S60. The S60 is smaller than my S70. Actually it is so small that it doesn’t feel like a Volvo. The handling and control is very Volvo like, a big car with lots of momentum. I don’t like the interior design. The middle section with the radio control panel and gear shift is too big. The interface for the AC and radio is not very user friendly. The buttons and knobs are too small and left too much empty space on the panel. S60 pretend to be stylish by making the top of the car narrower than the body, as a result the inside of the car is not very roomy. There is a very interesting feature of this car. There is button to fold down the head rest of the back seats, so it won’t block the rear window. When the head rest is release by unlocking the spring, so it can snap forward. If someone is sitting at the back, his head will be spanked. I tried it during lunch time when I was giving a ride to my friends. I guess it is quite a useful feature to spank the naugty kids at the back. In short, I found the S60 is not very comfortable. Although my S70 is a older model with the box-shape design, I think it is a much better car than the new S60.
