2008-05-21

Tibet (9)

Many of you Chinese think Americans are innocent and simple minded. I must say that those of you who think so are in fact ignorant or misinformed. Reading this article titled «China represses rights of Tibetans while exploiting Olympics», you have to admire how easily an American simplifies a matter like Tibet that has confounded all you Chinese for that many hundreds of years. Especially the current Chinese government. How naive! They think they could change lives in Tibet by pouring money in there.

All you Chinese should step down from your high horse of pride, unload the burden of your thousands years of history, and embrace the wisdom of Americans. Learn from the way the natives who used to roam this continent have been dealt with: Kill them off! Or at least keep them in their own corners so that no one hears a peep from them. Keep them impoverished. Trying to improve their living? You dumb Chinese are only creating trouble for yourselves!

Learn to build a democratic society! Learn the sophistication of manipulation. Look at the Chinese government and compare them with the sophisticated American politicians. You Chinese are so primitive that you are the ones should be treated as barbarians. Why use guns when you could manage with some paper printed black on one side and green on the other? Why keep the world out? Trying to hide something? Why? Fear that you can not manage a few journalists? Then shell them to death! Why jail someone when you could simply make a scene and then put him to sleep permanently? Afraid that the world would be outraged? Rest assured! The world does not have the attention span to stay outraged. Besides, how hard could it be to say "sorry, mistake"?

See, all you Chinese? See how simple everything could have been?

2008-05-20

Tibet (8)

I read both Nicholas Kristof's Thursday column and Sunday column on Tibet. He is probably as close as one can get for an American journalist that actually goes out to Tibet and try to understand the situation. However, his reporting leaves a lot to be desired, even not to tell the complete truth but for the sake of his readers' sanity.

Anyway, I find this comment highly offensive:

#2. May 15th, 2008 12:46 am

I could not help but think, maybe the recent earthquake in China is nothing else but karma for the brutal way China has and continues to treat Tibet.

Maybe, for once godless China ought to at least stop and listen to the laws of karma. The days of Mao and the gang of four is way are long over, China should open its eyes and free Tibet. It’s also doubtful if it’s going to be a superpower, what with all the substandard Walmart products it produces; besides, maybe what happened is nature’s way of saying 1 billion plus Chinese in this world are more than enough.

— Posted by M del Rosario


That is some cold-blooded karma!

My response to that piece of crap probably is not going to show up any time soon. So I repeat myself here:

I am a Chinese and I am an atheist. I have always respected and always will respect other people and their religions. But that commenter and his/her cold-blooded karma can go to hell as much as I care.

2008-05-13

笔记

在医院这样的环境里工作有一点特别,就是经常看到受病痛磨难的人。到不是我有幸灾乐祸的心理,而是这样的情形时常能够让人意识到自己的处境的优越,鼓励人尽心尽力。

有时候为人做一点小事所得到的回报远大于所付出的努力。今天就有一位在医院八楼住院的病人求助,希望能够在他自己病房里面无线上网。估计又是一位癌症患者,身体免疫系统遭受化疗严重破坏,护士说他不能出自己的病房,否则可能意外感染。我把医院客人专用的无线局域网接到病人的病房门外。护士回电子邮件说病人高兴的不可言喻。

有时候却也会一点小事没有做好而招来同事的不满。有一天一位发了一单“紧急问题”,但是单子上没有任何地点、设备的细节,只是说问题紧急。给用户的电话也没有人接,留言也没有回应。几天之后我才又想起这个单子,回送给直接与用户打交道的那组,得到的回答是我把这个单子耽搁了太长时间,她无法去找所需要的细节了。医院里面网络上的事情有缓急轻重之分,然而不提供任何细节的问题让人解决起来增加困难的程度,甚至于让人无从下手,这应该是每个人都明白的道理,轮不到我来解释。

昨天从 NPR 广播里听到四川地震的消息,好生担心。不光是有朋友在那边,就只死伤人数过万这一条就使人震惊。而且死伤的数字随这通讯于交通的逐渐恢复只会继续增加。

这段时间广播里面一直听到缅甸的军方政府拒绝接受西方的援助。我能明白这些人担心什么,却替那受灾的几十万百姓不平,真正受这种政策所害的只有他们。所幸中国已经不再是那种闭关锁国的状态了,至少中国政府公开表示欢迎援助,这与 76 年唐山地震之后的情形大不相同。