Dream to success

邓亚萍１９９７年结束运动员生涯后开始了１１年的求学之路，分别在清华大学、英国诺丁汉大学和剑桥大学学习，先后获得英语专业学士学位、中国当代研究专业硕士学位和经济学博士学位。 　　从只会说中文，到如今英文达到母语水准，并用英文完成博士论文，邓亚萍付出了艰苦的努力。“当时是这样一个梦想，但觉得自己没有这个机 会。后来真的在剑桥读博士，也确实付出了非常多的代价。回过头来想，是非常值得的。对１１年的求学生涯作个总结，我觉得只要敢想，并且脚踏实地去作，你还 是可以成功的。

Toy car ? no real sport car

Gordon Brown’s budget may not have hit the motorist as hard as some had predicted, but it won’t slow the momentum for green motoring in Norwich, Britain’s greenest city and host of The Green Wheels Motorshow – an event which is showcasing current green technologies.

Green Wheels has announced an important exclusive UK first for the show. Tesla Motors Ltd is to exhibit its all-electric sports car, designed and developed in conjunction with its parent company in California.

The revolutionary Tesla Roadster was born out of the wish of the company’s founder to have a road going electric sports car that would not cost the earth. The parent company, founded in California three years ago, then designed and developed the innovative electric drive system. The majority of the development and testing work is taking place in the UK, using some of the world’s best automotive expertise and facilities. The car will be manufactured in Hethel, Norfolk by Lotus, then shipped to the US for sale.

Now if you think electric power equals the pedestrian performance of a milk float, think again. The wonderful thing about battery power is it delivers maximum torque from the off. The Tesla reaches 60mph in around 4 seconds and has a top speed of over 130mph. You won’t spend your days worrying about being stranded like the ‘non Duracell bunnies’ either, with a range of 200 miles and a charge time under four hours you can really enjoy the open road.

for a greener tomorrow.

Prevent injury and harm

Reading Sydney morning Herald and viewing the video of Mumbai terrorists attack is a very sad occasion. We want our family, friends to be safe. We want to avoid all kind of disaster including natural hazard such as storm, earth quakes, and also avoid harm from terror.
The video, photos really created a very very strong impact in addition to written news.
Just wish to spend more time with family and friends.
Wishing you good health in physical, mental, spiritual and all aspects.

Yours sincerely, James Chong

Green Technology for our earth

Project Better Place, Agassi's organization, will try to build 500,000 electric charging stations in the country, according to the organization. At some these stations, attendants will swap out depleted batteries and put in fully charged ones. This saves the several hours typically required to charge a lithium-ion battery pack made for cars. (You can also charge the batteries at home.) Renault-Nissan, meanwhile, will ship electric cars to the country in three years or so. Ultimately, the company hopes to ship 10,000 to 20,000 a year.

Good range with electric car

MidAmerican, a collection of electric utilities in the Midwest and West, sees plug-in electric cars as the best approach because the United States already has the infrastructure to supply electricity for recharging almost anywhere, Mr. Sokol said. By contrast, plans for hydrogen-fueled vehicles would require the installation of many hydrogen-fueling centers.

MidAmerican also sees promise in BYD’s battery technologies for storing wind energy and solar energy, Mr. Sokol said. Difficulties in storing energy for when the wind is not blowing or the sun is not shining have limited the deployment of these renewable energy technologies.

More broadly, Berkshire Hathaway wants to tap into China’s engineering talent and is doing so through BYD, which has 11,000 engineers and technicians among its 130,000 employees.

Mr. Buffett did not attend the news conference, but said in a statement that he was impressed with Mr. Wang’s record as a manager.

BYD cars on display at auto shows in China have tended to buttress the notion that the company’s expertise lies more in batteries than automotive design.

Gasoline-powered BYD models already sold in China are unmemorable economy cars with little of the styling flair on which Western automakers pride themselves. The uneven purple paint on one BYD car displayed at a recent Chinese car show drew a gaggle of amused American auto executives who made derisive remarks.

But expertise in automotive design and manufacturing is easy to acquire. Other Chinese automakers have hired Italian designers, while layoffs at Western automakers mean that many talented engineers are available.

Battery expertise is much harder to find. Mastering battery technology is regarded in the auto industry as the linchpin to the production of electric cars with the range, horsepower and torque needed to compete with gasoline-powered cars.

Mr. Sokol said that MidAmerican was impressed by BYD’s ability to produce electric cars that have a range of almost 190 miles on a single charge, and can be 80 percent recharged in 15 minutes. BYD plans to start selling electric cars in China at the end of this year.

BYD is working on all-electric cars, in which all of the power to move the vehicle comes from a series of batteries attached to an electric motor. That distinguishes them from hybrids like the Toyota Prius, which use an electric motor and battery to supplement the power from a gasoline engine.

Environmental Friendly Electric car ?

BYD is one of the world’s largest makers of rechargeable batteries for cellphones and other uses. The company also has a fast-growing auto-making unit that accounts for nearly a third of its revenue and makes fuel-efficient compact and subcompact cars for the Chinese market.

The president of BYD, Wang Chuanfu, said that the alliance with Mr. Buffett was not just about raising capital for the manufacturer, which relies heavily on short-term debt.

“If BYD were to enter the North American market, Mr. Buffett’s investment would enhance the BYD brand name,” Mr. Wang said at a news conference in Hong Kong late Monday.

He added that BYD would sell cars in the United States and might even move up its plans for entering the market in 2010, by using Berkshire’s money to accelerate research.

David Sokol, the chairman of MidAmerican, said at the news conference with Mr. Wang that Berkshire Hathaway wanted to address climate change and considered electric cars as a way to do so. “This is a technology that can really be a game changer if we’re serious about reducing” emissions of carbon dioxide, the main gas associated with manmade global warming

peace, contentment, health ???

Quoted the India incidence........

What happened in Mumbai will not shake India to its foundations. India is tough and has weathered bigger storms. But the highly symbolic attacks dramatise a much wider set of struggles: the product of growing wealth for some and a revolution in communications.

The spectre haunting the nation is the old ghost in new clothes - class conflict, propelled by the same communications revolution that enables it to launch moon probes and claim recognition as a global power. In the new media age, awareness of injustice and disparity is growing among the poor, along with a sense that "we're not going to take this any more."

It will be some time before anyone knows for sure who was responsible for yesterday's calculated lunacy. But we can be almost sure among them will be young men left out of the prosperity a growing minority of Indians have experienced. Religion sometimes propels violence, but deprivation and injustice are felt around the country. Last month 12 police were killed by suspected Naxalites in Bijapur, eastern India. It was the latest encounter between police and Naxalites or Maoists, who are leading a resistance by tribal people and landless labourers in a belt snaking from Nepal down the highlands of eastern India. Near Kolkata, the attempt by Tata, a giant conglomerate, to build a factory for the new cheap mini-car the Nano was chased away by landholders mobilised against inadequate compensation for their land. Tata announced earlier this month it would build the factory elsewhere.

Scholars, policy-makers and politicians debate whether disaffection among India's 140 million Muslims results from poverty and disadvantage rather than religious alienation. A poll by Outlook magazine showed close to 80 per cent thought economic divisions were responsible for religious conflict.

In the most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit (former Untouchable) woman, Mayawati, led her party to an election victory last year, becoming Chief Minister for the fourth time; that would have been unthinkable three generations ago. A government report last year estimated that more than 75 per cent of Indians spent less than 20 rupees (62 cents) a day to live. But Mukesh Ambani, one of the world's richest men, is completing a new $1.5 billion house in Mumbai. Until the current generation, two things mitigated India's disparities of wealth: the ideology of caste and the isolation imposed by poor communications. You accepted the role of the caste into which you were born and believed that your next life would be better; you aspired eventually to escape the cycle of rebirth.

Sarawak got its name from Antimony ?

Sarawak is situated at the northern part of Borneo island. The capital city is Kuching.

Alloy of antimony, steel, and other metal made in China and other part of the world depend on the quality and quantity supply of Antimony.

The mineral deposit at Janbusan county 20 kilometres from Bau town is a place with legendary place possible trading of Antimony between China and Kuching/Sarawak for more than a thousand years. Proper recorded history could be traced after Brooke kingdom of Sarawak.

Local Malay language named Antimony as Serewa, this is the most likely name Sarawak got its name. Friends may ask whether Kuching got its name from cat, local Malay called Kuching. There is a most likely link of Kuching river next to the Bukit Mata Kuching where the place was filled with fruit tree Mata Kuching. For the name of Sarawak...See some interesting quote( from history books)
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The growing economic importance of the coastal settlement of Sarawak/Kuching in the 1820's - a result of the antimony trade with Singapore

Besides trade, immigrants came to Sarawak to take advantage of its abundant natural resources, which included gold, antimony, timber, and the famous Sarawak

Kuching in those days was called Sarawak, stemming from the Malay word serewa, meaning antimony which was widely mined in the area. Since the 15th century, .

from the 14th century, the territory around Sarawak River (today's Kuching) was a province of Brunei. Its administration was headed by Datu Pattingi Sarawak who reported to a Cheteria, both appointed by the Sultan of Brunei. In 1824, the Cheteria was Pengiran Indera Mahkota Pengiran Mohamed Salleh.

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from the 14th century, the territory around Sarawak River (today's Kuching) was a province of Brunei. Its administration was headed by Datu Pattingi Sarawak who reported to a Cheteria, both appointed by the Sultan of Brunei. In 1824, the Cheteria was Pengiran Indera Mahkota Pengiran Mohamed Salleh.

Pengiran Indera Mahkota was educated in Batavia (Jakarta) and furthered his studies in Netherlands. In 1827, he was appointed as Governor of Sarawak. Sarawak flourished under him. He also developed its trade and increased its revenue by exporting antimony.

Antimony was used in the making of alloys. To get the antimony, local residents were forced to work in his mines.

In 1839, the residents there rebelled against him because of his oppressive rule. Brunei sent Pengiran Muda Hashim, the son of Sultan Muhammad Kanzul Alam to deal with the rebellion.

James Brooke attracted by the richness of the area also came there. Pengiran Muda Hashim asked for Brooke's assistance because Pengiran Muda Hashim had a long standing resentment against Pengiran Indera Mahkota. Five years earlier, Pengiran Muda Hashim visited Kuching but when he arrived, he was not personally welcomed by Pengiran Indera Mahkota.

Pengiran Indera Mahkota as the Governor of Sarawak opted to wait at the Hall of Audience instead.

At first James Brooke refused to help Pengiran Muda Hashim, but Brooke came back the next year and helped Pengiran Muda Hashim because he was offered the governorship of Sarawak in replacement of Pengiran Indera Mahkota if he could end the rebellion. Brooke managed to end the rebellion but he was not offered the governorship until he forced the issue in 1841. In 1842, Brooke sailed to Brunei to be confirmed Governor in exchange for paying an annual tribute.

In 1845 Pengiran Muda Hashim returned from Sarawak to Brunei, accompanied by a British naval captain, Sir Edward Blecher.

While in Sarawak, Pengiran Muda Hashim had lost his high status at home due to a palace coup in Brunei. His opponent Pengiran Usop has become Bendahara in his absence.

Brooke and the British Naval Forces forcibly re-installed Pengiran Muda Hashim as the Bendahara. Pengiran Muda Hashim also secured official recognition to become the next Sultan of Brunei.

This upset the chances of Pengiran Temenggong Pengiran Anak Hashim, the son of Sultan Omar Ali Saifudin II, who plotted to kill Pengiran Muda Hashim.

As might be expected, the foreign intervention in Brunei caused a great deal of unhappiness in the Brunei Court, Pengiran Muda Hashim was hated as he was regarded to be Brooke's protégé and his family's arrogant manner alienated the other Brunei nobles. In 1846, Pengiran Muda Hashim was murdered. Ranjit Singh in his book, Brunei 1839-1983 argued that the murder was not necessarily because it was an anti-British movement. Another view was that this was the culmination of a long drawn out feud between two branches of the royal family.

However Brooke considered the murder to be an insult to Britain. He asked Rear Admiral Thomas Cochrane that Brunei be punished.

The British hearing of these events, and pressured by British commercial interests, decided that this is a good opportunity for them to occupy Labuan. The other western powers had expanded in the region that Britain too realised the need to have a permanent harbour in northwestern Borneo.

Labuan was considered as a safe shelter and strategically sited to protect British interest in the region especially the China trade route. With the assistance of Brooke, Britain now sought to take over Labuan.

The Rear Admiral sent British warships from Singapore. In Brunei, there were minor exchanges of fire but the British gunships were able to destroy much of Brunei's defences.

The Sultan had to flee to Damuan. But Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II was eventually persuaded to return to accept the terms imposed by Brooke. The Sultan was also forced to sign a treaty on 2nd August 1846 allowing Brooke to become Sarawak's independent ruler and given territories from Tanjung Datu to Samarahan River. James Brooke now became the Rajah of Sarawak.

Sarawak got its name from Antimony

Sarawak got its name from Antimony ?

Humour

李肇星说，当时他非常钦佩著名学者钱钟书的学识，一直和他有书信来往。一次，他在信里表达了想到 钱钟书家里去拜访的愿望，却被喜欢清静的钱钟书一口回绝，让他有些生气。后来，钱钟书给他寄来一本自己的文集，其中一段用红笔勾出来的话，让李肇星开怀大 笑:"如果一个人觉得鸡蛋好吃，又何必非要见下这个蛋的老母鸡呢？

keep smiling

SHORT STORY WITH BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE

Little girl and her father were crossing a bridge. .The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter, 'Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river.' The little girl said, 'No, Dad. You hold my hand.' 'What's the difference?' Asked the puzzled father. 'There's a big difference,' replied the little girl. 'If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go. But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens, you will never let my hand go.'

In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond.
So hold the hand of the person who loves you rather than expecting them to hold yours...

The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are. But on how happy others can be because of you!!

Luck is not in your hand but work is in your hand..
Luck cant change your work, but work can change your luck

So trust yourself..

This message is short......but carries a lot of Feelings.

We want safe food

「大家有沒有注意到老闆煮麵時，所煮的麵是浮在水上或是沈在水裡？」

這有何不同？？麵好吃就好！

答案是「會浮在水面的麵是有加明礬的，但是因為老闆要撈麵時，浮在水面的麵比沈在水中的麵好撈！

所以就算是明知有加明礬的麵不好，反正是客人吃，不是自己吃，只要自己方便就好！」

也正因此他不吃外面的麵！

天啊！好可怕！我們無形中吃了多少明礬，下次再遇到這樣沒功德的老闆，一定要提醒他，別再用加明礬的麵。

朋友們：請為愛你的人珍重！

很多人因為口慾而不能克制自己，曾經有位同事每天吃兩包泡麵當早餐，在31歲那年得了【腹膜後血管周圍癌】，長滿像葡萄一樣的血管瘤，割了還會不斷地長，當年大醫院還列為國內第一病例，那位同事33歲就死了。

sick building ...sickness

Sick building syndrome

Today I look at a piece of plastic against the gentle morning sunlight. Woh...lots of fungus growth on the plastic .
Humid and hot climate of Borneo is suitable for fungus growth. I have heard my child complaining of headache. Actually many friends gradually get use to the 'abnormal' dizziness. Some feel good whenever they travel to seaside and stay at the seaside hotel for a couples of day. Feel good and sense the special comfort in breathing.
Watch out for fungus cause.
Quoted an article...

Have you found yourself suffering shortness of breath, headaches or are you just not feeling quite right, but you can't attribute it to any specific cause? Perhaps you've found it hard to concentrate and you feel fatigued easily, but haven't been able to figure out why. If you live or work in a house or building that has been flooded, or has sustained water damage, these symptoms may be a sign that you are affected by "sick building syndrome." Your environment may be toxic to your health, yet you probably have never even heard of one of the culprits, the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum.

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We can buy an air filter, put on cool air condition( also reduce humidity). Frequent exposure to sunlight( with heat from sunlight too). Get rid of old news paper and all the moldy staffs. Just clean up the house, the room and our environment. Wishing you good health

Global warming....work to do

governor-general, Michael Jeffery, used an 80,000-year-old core to illustrate the importance of sustainability for this and future generations.

Ice cores, such as this one retrieved by Australian scientists, are time capsules of global climate history. Now the Chinese are set to be the first to retrieve an ice core a million or more years old.

Antarctica consist of the largest icecap that hold the secret of past world climate and events including major volcanic activities. The coldest spot on earth recorded extreme cold of -83 degrees C. Salute to the scientists who work to understand the world climate change and work to prevent aggravation of global warming.