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
A free way to communicate with foreigners is “chat” online in a chat room or forum, and Yahoo Messenger is not a bad choice to do this. Open this page http://chat.yahoo.com, download the software, install it and you’ll be able to click the link “join chat rooms” to start chatting. But before you do this, there are a lot of “chat lingoes” (chat slang or acrothym) you have to know. Some are listed below:
JK——————Just Kidding
JMO—————Just My Opinion
k, K, or kk——O. K.
IC——————I See
IDN—————–I Don’t kNow
IDK—————–I Don’t Know
WC——————WelCome
THX—————–Thanks!
TIA——————Thanks In Advance
YW——————You’re Welcome
you can find more at Chat Lingoes or here
A few more quick notes on how this “slang and lingo” is created, which are very funny:
They can be put together in many different ways. Also, you will find some kids mixing numbers in with letters, so if you see:
“h3 l3Ft” substitute the 3 with an E, forget about the caps, and you have “he left”.
You will also notice 2 odd items,
1. people tend to extend letters in chat rooms to convey emotion, so HEYYYYYYYY BILLLLLLLL, simply means someone is expressing a lot of emotion in saying hello to Bill.
2. Vowels get left out a lot in chat, and that’s wrd. (in this case, weird, although I’ve seen it mean word)
And lastly, you will see the letter z everywhere. Usually it replaces s or es (the plural of something)
i.e.: 2 many billz = I have too many bills. Although that z gets tossed around a lot, as in hugzzzz, thankz, huggelzzzz, kkz, for OK, etc. Stick with it a while, and you’ll be able to catch most of it.
143 means I love you (1=I, 4=Love, and 3=You, so the meaning comes from the number of letters in each word)
% is usually to replace the double o ‘oo’ , as in T%K means took,
& replaces ‘and’ so b& would be band,
A few days ago, I had a short conversation with my classmate and she showed me a interesting word “TRIZ”, based on which she started to compose her paper. I know a word called “trig”, which means handsome, however, “TRIZ” doesn’t seem to be handsome, but mysterious. I think any words with a “Z” sounds mysterious, like “Zerg” in the Starcraft.
In fact, “TIPS” is the acronym for “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving,” and “TRIZ” is the acronym for the same phrase in Russian. TRIZ was developed by Genrich Altshuller and his colleagues in the former USSR starting in 1946, and is now being developed and practiced throughout the world. Literally, TRIZ tells people how to invent, that’s my first thought.
Following Google, I got a clear understanding about TRIZ at www.triz-journal.com:
TRIZ research began with the hypothesis that there are universal principles of invention that are the basis for creative innovations that advance technology, and that if these principles could be identified and codified, they could be taught to people to make the process of invention more predictable. The research has proceeded in several stages over the last 50 years. Over 2 million patents have been examined, classified by level of inventiveness, and analyzed to look for principles of innovation. The three primary findings of this research are as follows:
- Problems and solutions were repeated across industries and sciences
- Patterns of technical evolution were repeated across industries and sciences
- Innovations used scientific effects outside the field where they were developed
In the application of TRIZ all three of these findings are applied to create and to improve products, services, and systems.
TRIZ works! Large and small companies are using TRIZ on many levels to solve real, practical everyday problems and to develop strategies for the future of technology. TRIZ is in use at Ford, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Eli Lilly, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, 3M, Siemens, Phillips, LG, and hundreds more.
Sounds great? 
WTK: hypothesis, codify, predictable, patent, inventiveness, propulsion
