A terrible catastrophe

An earthquake happened in Sichuan. Plenty of people were killed or injured. The government, especially the Prime Minister of China Wen Jiabao, has been in Wenchuan, with the People’s Liberation Army soldiers to rescue the people still stung in the debris.

Most of my colleagues, including me, show great sympathy for the people who are suffering there, and great respect for the soldiers who have come to the rescue to the people there. Surfing the internet, we will find a lot of information or report about the earthquake instantly. From some of the pictures we know what has happening catastrophically there. A lot of the buildings, especially the schools and hospitals have been leveled to the ground.

Look at the pictures above and we will see what is really happening there. The pictures are what the rescue work was happening in the earthquake. Watching pictures and we all feel depressed.

Here I want to ask, as is asked by a lot of people on line, why buildings at school and hospital have been torn down. why haven’t the government buildings? Schools and hospitals are normally neglected by the government. Many of the buildings are only evidences of scandal and corruption. However, unscrupulous builder and the government officials forget that schools and hospitals are the most populated places, although the people who are living in these places are only neglected or looked down upon by them. Watching what is happening to the primary children here, will they feel a twinge of conscience? Most of the government buildings are safely intact. Needless to say that nothing like harm has been done to the officials who live in the offices.

What is wrong with human relations?

I got back home very late last night. It might be 12 o’clock after the party. What was the worst, I didn’t sleep well. I tossed and turned restlessly in bed until the dawn of the morning. So now I am feeling very tired and sleepy.

What is the reason for us to drink a lot of wine, to impair our health both mentally and physically? People are the most generous and benevolent at a party. They will try to persuade others to drink instead of themselves, though the more we drink, the more they will pay. What an absurd and ridiculous phenomenon it is!

Nowadays human relations largely rest on money. My classmate, the closest and most intimate friend of mine, asked me to have dinner in compensation for his help I asked for. The dinner cost me eight hundred Yuan. What matters is not money itself actually. I am in doubt that friendship should be built on money. I have helped him. But I didn’t ask him to pay for my dinner. I only thought that we were friends, so I had the duty to try my best to help him. It would profane the term of friendship if I asked him to pay for my dinner. Whenever I think of this, I can’t help feeling sad.

Is it true that we are living in a market economy and therefore everything should be evaluated by money? I don’t know. I only feel that something is missing when we have to pay money for a help asked or offered. Perhaps I will be seen as naïve and innocent by others. But this is my opinion on friendship. I have to console myself that there are still others who won’t help you at all even you entreat him.

I have a classmate. He is a red apple in fortune’ eye. He is quite a government official now. We have been very good friends. However, it is only because I was not as obedient and respectful after drinking some wine that he said bad words behind my back, sometimes even to my leaders, which impaired my relation with my leaders. What have become of human relations? I just don’t know and understand.

    As a teacher of fifteen years of experience, I feel that there are so many things to say. However all work no play has made me nobody but a dumb, slow, passive fellow. All the energy, vitality, strength seems to have left me. The same monotonous, dull, unchanged and busy weekly cycle repeats itself. Only occasionally there are surging feelings about my work, or more exactly, education within me, set my hand to the pen. As a result, after a certain period of time I browse my webblog that I find there are certain articles all centering on education. I would like to bring them here as a collection for others’ comments.

        We met a swindler

One of my friend, who has just been demobilized from the army and wished to get a decent job from the regional government, asked me to make some necessary credentials to ensure the success in obtaining the job. I agreed. Another friend advised us to ask favor from those who do counterfeiting after a long time consideration. We knew it was wrong. However in order to get the job, we decided to have a try.

Yesterday we both took to the streets and got some phone numbers from the wall on both sides of the street. We tried several of them. Most of them are not numbers of our region. Finally I got one of our region. We called several times and finally we got through. The boss asked us to wait at a certain place for some time and he would send someone over to fetch the copy which was necessary for the counterfeiting. We waited for a long time and failed to see anyone turned up. So we dropped the plan to meet him.

We tried another one. The boss asked us to send what was necessary via a preservation counter in Yinzuo Supermarked, the earnest money was also included in it. We did accordingly and sent the code to the boss through our cell phone.

This morning the boss called us to say that all what was wanted by us was ready. He asked us to get them in the Post Office. We arrived there duly and mailed the rest of the money to him through the post office. After all that had been finished, we called the boss for the credentials. After confirming that they had got all the money, the boss required for another 1000 Yuan with the excuse that the deliverer might be at danger. The money was the insurance money for his safety. This was sheer and arrant pretext. We knew at that time that we had been swindled.

Without any intention to continue the game, we rebuffed his requirement for money. We told him that we relinquished the 100Yuan which had already been sent to him and we wanted the original draft of the credentials. We were refused. Till then we had realized that we had met an arrant swindler.

Fortunately the loss was not great, only 100 Yuan. My friend was let down a little. On our way back I appeased him. That is the first time in my life that we have been swindled.

      An outrageous beast

http://news.163.com/08/0501/05/4AR958SD0001121M.html

If you would like, you may read the news on Wangyi. I think it is the most outrageous beast in human history. He is really a villain, the most unscrupulous, inhuman, incestuous, beast. What he did harm is his daughter. She was held captive in the basement by him for 24 years and sexually abused by him during the years. He even fathered the seven children of hers.

I am greatly indignant about the news. I don’t know how you may feel. The indignation is beyond any words.

Like so many others, I have so many doubts. How could he hide the truth from all his closest relations for so long? How could he provide for them during the 24 years? How could he explain the three children that had been brought to the earth? Why didn’t they disclose the truth and have their mother rescued? …… Words just fail me. I am suffocated because of the indignation.

Anyone with senses can surmise what a life Elizabeth, the daughter had lived during the period of time, and what sufferings she had undergone and borne with her. The vicious, barbarous beast must be a lunatic. He shouldn’t belong to the human race. He is not even an animal. He should only be a beast, an incurable and irremissible beast. He should be hanged instantly and let his smelly bones and flesh be the food to wolves. If I may meet him face to face, I will send him to where he should be, even at the cost of my own life.

The two sons, when brought to the earth, were only too much amazed at the sight of a rising moon. What a pathetic story it is! I am only too curious about the patience and tolerance of Elizabeth, the daughter. Why should she have been so meekly accepting the inhuman and atrocious treatment? Why didn’t she steal any chance to get recued, even for the sake of her children?

As is disclosed, the father is exercised tyrannical dictatorship in the family. No one is expected to show the least sign of discontent, let alone rebellion. So that is in a way, the bitter fruit of tyranny.

I have no idea of what a trial or punishment the father will undergo. What I know is only that the father should reap what he has so bitterly sowed. He should be sentenced to death.