Patterns

It’s just like a game, or the game was created out of it, adding up some imaginations though. It’s all about the patterns. When u play PES War of Craft Need for Speed, Counter Strike, even Diablo, whatever ur game is, the first thing u need to do is finding the patterns. If ur enemy spells fire balls, u need to buy or find a fire proof blade, if he’s using an AWP, u don’t rush with a knife, if the street corner is 90 degree, u don’t shift up ur speed, or u will drift. Once the patterns are found out, the games become boring, so that’s why upgrades keep coming, they r to change the patterns in one way or another. In real life, usually upgrades come before u figuring out the old patterns, so, get used to it, u may master ur PC game, but u can never master ur life, in fact, nobody can, u just get used to it. So base on this theory, u will never find ur life boring, but actually we all do sometimes, well, maybe we r just fed up with keeping passing the ball with the keeper, not scoring in the back of the net.

Imagine that, ur magic blade becomes Iphone, ur divine horse becomes Bugatti, ur golden inventory becomes a big house on the beverly hill, and ur wife, of course becomes ur wife, or u choose to take a trip to the city of Dong Guan. For all these, u just need to find out the patterns, follow them, use ur god-damned brian to do some micro control of urself, and the rest is depend on God, who knows, u may die, well, obviously u will be still alive by tomorrow, but u may get robbed, sick or exhausted, physically or mentally, then u become disordered, that’s the way it is, u can either go back on track or continue falling, then u’ll know what butter-fly effect is.

The game kicks off the moment we were born, we may choose either enjoy or suffer from it, there’s no such button as "Exit to Windows" or "Load/Save", but "Commit Suicide", ur call.

My Reply To Allen Shore's Closing Statement

Allen Shore’s Closing Statement during a lawsuit again tobacco industry.
 
Because the tobacco industry is like a nest of cockroaches, they will always find a way to survive. They still go after kids with one strategy after another. They put up brightly colored ads at kids’ eye level in convenience stores. They hire gorgeous twenty-somethings to frequent popular venues and seduce young adults into attending lavish corporate-sponsored parties. Cockroaches will always find a way. They can’t advertise on TV but they’ve hired PR agencies to hook them up with the film industry. And it’s working! Researchers estimate that smoking in movies delivers nearly four hundred thousand new adolescent smokers every year. Every time you try to kill the cockroach it finds another way. It has to! Because when you make a product that kills off your consumers you have to find a way to recruit new customers. They’ve now got a new feminized version of the macho Camel brand using slogans like Lite & Luscious with hot pink packaging. Virginia Slims advertise their thin cigarette. Velour magazine did a whole spread on the cigarette diet. They use social, psychological profiling targeting potential smokers by gender, ethnicity, sexual preferences, socio-economic groups. Cockroaches don’t discriminate! Their CEO comes into this courtroom gloating over their anti-smoking campaign which is designed to get kids to smoke! In 2005 they spent fifteen billion on advertising and promotion. That’s a 225% increase from 1998 and they have the audacity to declare they’re trying to discourage smoking. This is not how corporations with a conscience behave! How in God’s name are cigarettes even legal? Can anybody tell me that? They are a deadly concoction of carcinogens that damage every single organ in your body. Why do we not ban them? Because it’s a free country, because freedom of choice is an American ideal worth somebody dying every six seconds? How can any company, especially one with such a conscience, no less, knowingly manufacture a product that poisons its users! And make that product look cool and hip and sexy and fun so they can get children. How can any attorney defend a company that would do such a thing?
 
How can any society tolerate it? But we do! There is no conscience at Big Tobacco. There is no conscience in Washington which has been bought and paid for by this industry. Conscience has to come from you, the jury. If real regulation is to happen, it has to come from you! People are smoking day after day after day. And dying and dying and dying and the tobacco companies keep getting richer and richer. Last year alone they made twelve billion dollars in profits. How can that be? How can that be?
 
And the following is my reply:
 
It certainly CAN be.
 
Mr. Shore, like the rest ones of the anti-smoking campain, do think we, the addicted smokers, do not know how exactly do the nicotine and tar inside every single cigarette damage every single cell in every single organ in every single body of us. He’s wrong.
 
We DO know about the damages, very clearly, since we can feel it every second, but we also know what smoking means to us, what tobacco can help us relax, focus, and move on. Some extreme cases, like 3-4 packages a day, break the balance between smoking and leading a normal life, so we will NOT accross the line so that we can keep the balance.
 
Maybe the death toll increases every 6 seconds because of smoking, but I wonder the same number in car crashes, street fights, wars or some god-damned accidents happen every day in our lives, what do we do? Closing GE and Fort or even TOYOTA? Killing every human being on this planet so that they won’t be killed? You quick smoking because you want to live longer? Imagine the minute you quick smoking and the next you die of a car crash, wouldn’t that be so ironic to Mr. Shore’s campain?
 
Mr. Shore I’m afraid you are a communist, and you’ve betrayed your own religion, since you want to cover the truth to "help" your country in your fancy way. Smoking is a common behavior in our social lives, esp. in the last century, I don’t want to lose the spectacular TV serie like MAD MEN because of your mean communism.

Prison Break

We all are prisoners, caged in the prison of our jobs, prison of the money, families, or even ourselves. Some will persuade themselves to get used to those prisons, if successful, the prisons will not be prisons anymore, but their lives, the place where they’ll die pathetically, if not, they would probably think of committing suicide, or … a prison break.
 
The question that whether you should break youself out is NOT whether you’re innocent, cause no one has the right to judge you (no one understands you completely) except God himself, maybe one day he will show up and tell you to go to hell, but until then, we all are innocent, as a shameless robber, cold-blooded serial killer, twisted pedophile, or even a national traitor who killed the president’s bother.
 
We admire the ones who broke them out from the bottom of our hearts, cause we’re still caged. From Andy Dufresne to Michael Scofield, the story is the same, they all strongly believed that they were innocent, all strongly hoped to break themselves out, and most importantly, they were free in the ways we are not.
 
"You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
 
Tyler Durden had already showed us the way to free ourselves spiritually at first, then maybe we should get the rest done. If he was in prison, I would bet everything I have that he would break himself out or die trying.
 
Well, now it may lead to the Sisyphus dilemma again, that what if when we get out, it may turn out that we are just in another prison, bigger or smaller. But we just keep going, right?

A Wish For the Chinese New Year

 
 
 
Life hasn’t been easy for me,
zero choice have I got,
God is nowhere, the mercy keeps passing by.
 
I was caponed,
now tied, and
waiting to bleed and die.
 
I was born for this,
wasn’t I?
 
May you human find pleasure when eating my flesh,
which’s full of curse,
the only proof of my existence on this world.

Live for today

We must make the best of things as they come along.
 
The world itself means nothing, since you’re going to die anyway, but just like what Sam said before, that it’s every little thing you do gives all the meaning to it. You are what you do. So I guess we all have to stick to something for a life time regardless of what others say. This doesn’t mean you can stick to everything you want, you are not the Almighty, you are mortal, so you have to drop something to get the rest done, which’s painful but worthy.
 
The pressure, big or small, is always there, waiting to crush you into pieces, you’d better have a strong mind. Sometimes the pressure comes from inside, it’s youself, your wild and illogical fantasy that pushes you to extreme, makes you insane, which can be the easiest or the toughest case to deal with. It’s all up to you.
 
The best part of being alive is you can have a bunch of good friends, who expand the boundary of your life and give you extra strength when you are shaking and quivering like an innocent but helpless child crawling in the dark corner. I love my friends.
 
No one understands you is a normal thing, cause everyone’s unique, you don’t totally get any one of your friends do you? So what really matters to you is that there is always at least one person around who backs you up no matter what kind of man you change into, whose name is Janet.

Collapse

Only frustrations or other major set backs can make you think things seriously and clearly, maybe thoroughly, about your own life. But you don’t really want these moments, cause then you would be in serious troubles, and therefore, in pain.

They say "what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger", quite inspiring, but they can only say that after your surviving all those terrible hours, you never know whether you can find your way out when surrounded by the overwhelming darkness solely and helplessly.

Never has death been so close and friendly to you, you look at it, grin with tears, and see the eternal peace drenched in your own blood.

Nothing else matters.

Chastity is not a virtue

I wrote this first in Chinese(not including the title), so please pardon the poor translation.

Few native Chinese men has not even a slight bit of Virgin Complex, which means, in a way, not only the present, but the past or even the future of a woman a man wants to have. Thanks to this distorted society dominated by men, whom great tolernce has been spared to, but little to women. The Western society used to judge a woman by her virgin status, say, the chastity belt used by the Crusade to their wives. I remember that in the late 19 century there was a reform of people’s attitudes toward virgin, and the Hippies in the 60s of 20 century made an even greater step.

I think we all agree that a woman never have to reserve anything of her to a man who doesn’t even exist. So what does it really mean when a woman has slept with a(or many) man before she meets you? Does it make her a slut? Well, if so, you really don’t think it would make her a slut as well when she sleeps with you? Dirty? Once touched, she will never be clean ever again, no matter how hard she tries. Wow~~~ What a vicious idea imposed on us, whom then use it to judge everything. I think this idea may be something derived from some remote religion, and only grew stronger as the time ages. But if we would be more careful, we would find the idea, which’s actually saying that a bowl can never be washed clean just because one has laid a single finger on it, more ridiculous than anything else. A woman(or a girl) is truely pure and chaste as long as she’s loyal to her beloved one and has strong self-esteem, regardless of her incomplete or being once had, just like the life of a flower, intact in color despite of the strikes of storms and bites of worms, and still fragrant in the air when crushed into ashes.

Therefore, I shall refuse to be one among the countless lovers whose love was sabotaged by this venomous idea which had been used to help the emperors and priests to retain their sovereign in the guise of true virtue for thousands of years.

YES

She said: YES.

My pursuit of companion has come a long way. Yet there’s so much farther to go before this can make pretense to be anywhere near the true happiness. I will always be grateful to her, regardless of what might happen in the future.

Solitude had been an old friend of mine. Memories of retired walk and murmuring are still so vivid, which once were daily prayers, now seem a monument of my wild past. Sorrows, miseries, pains, what are they but heaps of sand, gone with the wind.

Let me not dismay her angel face, but harebell and primrose strew her day.

Raw Thoughts On Marital Rape

My Minor dissertation is link to Marital Rape. I’ve come to some views during these days, though raw and unlogical, I want to post them here to get some response from you all.

Please Note That The Following Contains Possible Disturbing Words Related To Sexual Content.

There has been a very trite reason that marital rape is not considered a criminal act, that they are couples, for Christ’s sake, they are husband and wife, the holy union under the God, the wife is supposed to devote all her virginity to her life partner, her soul mate, and accept his will above hers. In China, that means "Right To Cohabit".

Well yes "cohabit" means "To live together in a sexual relationship", but the statue in China only says "No one who has a spouse may cohabit with any other person." So I think at this level some people may have distorted the meaning of that article. They think that a husband can legally ground his wife, thus have some "legal sex", which’s totally ridiculous, for they only has to right to ask his wife not to sleep with another guy, but never coerce his wife to have sex against her will. There’s no such right as coercive cohabitation with a woman.

Some experts say that the marriage is like a contract, once a woman is married to a man, she makes an agreement that she volunteers to have sex with his husband as long as their marriage continues, and that is absurb too. What’s sex? Vaginal Penetration? Aside the ejaculation part, it means no more than a casual touch of skins, and no different from shaking hands or a hug. So at this level, those expert are actually saying, a husband can "touch" his wife legally anytime he wants even when violence involved, so, if she got battered by her husband, there’s nothing the law can do about it. Crap!

In my point of view, Marital Rape is no doubt a criminal act and should be pubished more severely than the Stranger Rape, because physically the later is often one-off, but the former one is very likely to be repeated, and mentally Marital Rape is a betrayal of the mutual trust, the victim is certainly to get very confused after the traumatic experience.

One of the main reasons why the Marital Rape is still not made a criminal act in China, is the judicial officials think it would be too difficult to collect the evidence. Well it’s their job and they should do something about it instead of sitting there and ignore the domestic screams.

On The Road

Religion fails if you do not devote to anything.

Seriously, loneliness is the most terrible experience in this modern world. Thanks to the revolution of technology and development of economy, the ways we believe in things have changed dramatically for that last hundred years. Atheism has sucessfully becomed a part of our nature, in a way or another, no matter how small or how big, it does exist, which distracts us from the full devotion to God, then terrible things happen when loneliness strikes from nowhere, the poor knowledge of either can hardly save us from the misery, we can find no satisfactory anwser to our dilema, nor ways of getting out of being pathetic, we all become wishy-washy, limp-wristed, turning to the mumbo-jumbo in the best-sellers, we may feel relieved for a while, but later fall deeper in the gaping hole.

Maybe that’s acceptable to some, but not to young men like me, we’re experiencing the most wonderful and most energetic period of our entire lives, we can not afford to waste it, we need to do something about it, we need to smart up, for once in life time.

Devotion is the crucial part of doing this. It maybe a tough decision, but that’s the decision we have to make, cause without it, we’re nothing but walking dead. Milton Friedman died this Thursday, I mourn him, to me he was a great man, for he had devoted his whole life in a displine just like hundreds of his eminent predecessors, no matter they were Christians like St. Aquinas or Atheists like Einstein.

With this enthusiastic and pious devotion we can face anything including the annoying loneliness, which would probably get dispelled. We maybe alone during the progress, but never lonely, cause deep down in our souls, we have company.