In order to show repect for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake, the State Council decides that May 19-21 will be three days of national mourning. Flags are to be kept at half-mast and all public amusements will be suspended. China’s diplomatic missions abroad are alse to observe the order, and condolence books are to be opened in the Foreign Ministry and Chinese embassies and consulates around the world. The public must stand in silence for three minutes from 2:28 PM on Monday, while automobiles, trains and ships should sound their air sirens.

WTK: mourn, mast, suspended, diplomatic mission, condolence, ministry, embassy, consulate, siren

Everyone meets questions all the time, but not everyone trys to find the answers hard enough. To a certain extent, we people live for answers, because what we have done all the time is to make a clear understanding to this world we live in, to find the best way we can forward to in our lifetime, to experience every scene, to feel every emotion, to catch on why we live, why we act like this and why others act like that.
No answer was forthcoming, and something must be done to find the answer. In this point, people can be seperated in two kinds: answer-seeker and answer-waiter. The former always practice positively to seek the real true answer, and affect others to believe what they believe. The latter always wait for answer to come, and believe what others told them to believe. Apparently, we can’t have the former or latter without another one.
To be an answer-seeker may looks tired, time-wasted, and hopeless, but I have to say this must be an answer-waiter’s thought, in whose eyes no answer is also an answer, and being busy for seeking answer is less valuable than waiting for it to come. But in my opinion, only seeker can live reasonable and colorful life without regret. If you want be to an answer-seeker, this post may be helpful——how to ask questions the smart way.

WTK: forthcoming, catch on

A snail is moving slowly behind his mother with heavy shell on their back. He is tired, then asks his mother: “why should we carry so hearvy shell, while the butterfly can fly in the sky?” His mother says:”because she has a pair of wings by the favor of god”. Then the little snail asks again: “why doesn’t the rainworm carry a so heavy shell?” His mother responses again: “because he has his house by the favor of mother earth.” The little snail bursts into tears. “Child,” his mother continues, “we don’t live by god, don’t live by earth, but we live by ourselves”.

This is a story told by Fu Dekun in a TV program “Win In China”. I had the same feeling as him at the first moment, but the following advices proposed by Yu Minhong changed my mind totally. Yu said: “in fact, the shell was added by yourself, so if you have more courage, you can get rid of it, even grow your own wings, and between heaven and earth you will soar freely.”

These words were my greatest apocalypse these years, shared with you here.

WTK: apocalypse