a dangerous world(click for full image)

I was searching stuffs for my essay this morning, and suddenly this happened. In fact, every single result was flagged by Google as a site with "malwares". The glitches lasted for about half an hour.

Google fixed and explained what was hapened quite fast. According their blog, when they were updating the blacklist, the value " / " was accidentally checked as an identifier for sites with malwares, and of course, every URL got that slash.

Courtesy of David Letterman's the Late Show.

The collection isn't inclusive at all. There were about like 380 individual moments broadcasted on the show, but many were taken out of context for comedy effects.I also collected some of best Bush moment  in my Chinese blog, I'm pretty sure my picks there were within the context.

He brought us so many joys and laughs in the last 8 years, and I always say when you feel kind of low or in blue, Bush is where you should turn to. You'll realise that in this world, every thing is possible, even Bush can be the most powerful man in the world, you have no excuse to give up on anything.

I think I'm going to miss President Bush terribly. If he wasn't responsible for starting several wars, I secerely hope that American people can give Bush another 8 years.

There are some political messages at end of the clip, ignore them if you want.

I do not held a point of view on this kind of events. We are living in a free country so everyone has the right to get on the street and make his/her voice heard.

However, I do have an opinion on people who put themselves into this Tibet debate and protest thing. Whether they are pro-china or pro-Tibet; it is in my opinion that people from both sides are fundamentally the same - extremist, ignorant, and both sides believe they are representing the holy truth - the only difference is that they have different religious belief.

If you thought Chinese are non-religious people, you sure need to know a lot more about this country.

Anyway, I still just enjoy to use my camera to record everything down.

Photos below are thumbnails... If you click on them in this webpage, you will see a larger size photo in lightbox; if you are reading this from a rss reader, you will see a new window with larger size photo.

It is unclear that who is the author of this cartoon therefore I'm unable to provide the original source.

I have a very grave concern about author's personal safety if he is living in China.

I don't know Al Gore much apart from his film "An Inconvenience Truth". I was shocked to see that movie although most of the data he used in the film are very familiar to me already.

Critics said that his movie exaggerated the effects of Global Warming. Yep, maybe a little bit, but in my opinion, that's one of his important contribution to the Global Warming. If Gore didn't exaggerate a bit of the facts in the "acceptable range", many ignorant Americans would still think that Global Warming is a lie and they are god's children so they can to do whatever they want. Is it really a lie? Just to see how many American cities were suffered from unusual heat this year.

And if the god really exists, I believe Hurricane Katrina is God's punishment.

Anyway, he truely deserves the prize and should be congratulated.

I don't want say which suburb is, that's for you to guess ... it's in Auckland though. Abundance of greens, nice terraced houses, but very unfriendly people. I was stopped by at least three peoplein one hour, they questioned and treated me like a thief or a foreign spy who got their personal secretes in the camera.

I think I'd better own a UoA shirt so next time when people start to think that they have captured a foreign spy, instead of endless explanations, I may just point them the university insignia on the shirt .

Apart from that spy thing, I quite like the style of houses there. Some terraced houses look really even you know that they are at least 30 years old.

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There seems to be a lot of photos from this suburb on Wikipedia, so I didn't upload below ones there. Regular cc-by-nc-nd copyright still applies.

Police now sealed the property and treated it as a crime scene because of the concerns on Pumpkin's mather, Ms Liu Anan's safety since she hasn't been seen for nearly  a week now.

Although the police refused to comment, I strongly believe that the white car belongs to Mr Naiyin (Nai Zin) Xue.

There are still some papers published by Mr Xue, left in his car.

His WOF expired nearly a month ago, this may indicate that he possibly planned to abandon his daughter way before the inccident actually happened.

There were number of errors from All Blacks side, and one of them directly led to a try from portguese, despite the score, the error rate from ABs is still a point of serious concern.

===Score===

New Zealand (52) 108
Tries: Rokocoko 2, Toeava, Williams, Mauger 2, Collins, Masoe, Hore, Leonard, Evans, Ellis, MacDonald, Hayman, Smith 2
Cons: Evans 14

Portugal (3) 13
Tries: Cordeiro
Cons: D Pinto Drop-goals: Malheiro

[match 1 vs. Italy ]The All Blacks had a brillant start in 2007 rugby world cup. Richie McCaw scored the first try only 64secs after start of the match.

It's a match everyone expected All Blacks to win, but not a huge margin like this one.

===Score===

New Zealand (43) 76
Tries: McCaw 2, Howlett 3, Muliaina, Sivivatu 2, Jack, Collins 2
Cons: Carter 7, McAlister 2
Pens: Carter

Italy (7) 14
Tries: Stanoevic, Mirco Bergamasco
Cons: Bortolussi, de Marigny

Sadly I did't have a tripod with me today. Below are just some of the "better" ones.

Team New Zealand's tragic event in America's cup, costed 3 spinnakers and a match. (Photo: AP)

One comment after the original blog states:
“I’m now bit worried about the safety of that iron fence because the theft will just take them all.”

Another comment:

“I don’t think there is a theft dare to steal this one … the theft will definitely be convicted guilty of ‘threaten the integrity of International Olympics Community’ by Chinese court.”

So this break to Avondale today is very precious to me - possibly the last before the exams at 19 June. It sounds a long way away but don't forget I now again have 3 assaignments need to be done simultaneously.

Photos below are just for one of my assaignments, which is an insight investigation on Avondale. As other contents in this blog, they are available under Creative common license by-nc-nd.

Heron Park - Avondale/Waterview

Avondale College - luckiest school with that luckiest fire....

Oakley Walkway

Oakley Walkway

Northwestern Motorway - Rosebank Road onramp

关于成都的更多资料，请参考中文维基百科：成都。（在某些地区也许被封锁）

For you people that have no idea about China, Chengdu is a major city and capital of Sichuan Province in south-west China, and my hometown. For more information, see Chengdu in English Wikipedia.

为纪念三国时期蜀汉丞相诸葛亮而兴建的武候祠。现存武候祠为惠陵、汉昭烈庙、武侯祠合并而来，上图中所示则为纪念刘关张结义的三义庙。

The Wuhou Shrine is the place to sacrifices Zhuge Liang, the Premier of Han of three kingdoms period, and one of the greatest Chinese strategists, statesman, engineer, scholar, and inventor.

武候祠里的出师表。

Chinese Calligraphy in Wuhou Shrine. For more information on the history behind this calligraphy, see Wikipedia article: Chu Shi Biao.

锦里，在武候祠旁新发展的一片仿古建筑，至少我没搞清楚，这些东西除了骗骗游客的钱，还能干什么。

Jingli, an newly developed tourists attraction consists of buildings in old chinese style. Inside are mostly shops.

青羊宫，中国最著名的道教宫观之一，也是成都市内现存建筑年代最久远、规模最大的一座道教宫观。

The Qingyang Taoist Temple, one of the most famours taoist temples in China and possibly the oldest in Chengdu.

杜甫草堂，这个不用多介绍了吧？

Dufu Thatched Cottage， the residence of a well-known Chinese poemist Du Fu(712-770).

成都电视塔正在庆祝成为“全国最佳旅游城市”：虽然我实在没感觉到这个城市对游客有什么特殊的地方。

Chengdu Television Tower is celebrating that City just been awarded the title "Best cities for tourism in China".

who said that Kiwi can't fly?

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 The full post is in Bear's Blog China in both Chinese and English, for more details,visit:

http://arctosia.blog.sohu.com/34299124.html

 You all should seen picture like this some time before, Shanghai's CBD. The tower is called Oriental Pearl, and if you look the picture closely you could there are two ''globals', that's conference centre.

Opposite to CBD, this riverside street is called something like 'international buildings museum. As the result of foreign occupation past, you could see buildings with different style in one street.

The Tomb of Xu Guangqi, Chinese agricultural scientist and mathematician born in Shanghai, and possibly the first mainland Chinese Catholic, influenced by Matteo Ricci.

The tomb of Lu Xun, considered as the most influential Chinese write in 20th century. Chinese people are still studying his writing style; some of his writings are now in Chinese textbook from elementary school right up to university.

A corner of Shanghai's metro system. It consists of four lines right across the whole city, and there are still 4-5 more lines in building process. I was amazed by its convenience as it was my only type of transport, through it may get very overcrowded in peak time.

The birthplace of Chinese Communist Party.  It is now a museum and has things that you would expect to see in any Chinese history textbook(Like the official always claim that Chinese people chosen the communism themselves) 

It's a holy place for some people however I was the only tourist inside that building either because its non tourists peak time or just no one would like to spend their money to places like this one?

Photo is not allowed inside the building and I got at least two guards constantly follow me as they don't have other people to follow.

The exhibition was quite boring but I remember one thing very clearly.  That's when I was in the restroom and I noticed, from basin to hand drier, the communists love only one brand: American Standard.
 

Sure I won't say it here because I believe there are a lot of people know its whereabout and a lot of them don't know.

I've just made it to the size of most of your computers' solution, which is 1024x768 pixels so the photo will fit into your screen. It looks pretty good in my computer because of my unusual habit which is put all the icons on the desktopat the right hand side.

So why not have a try? Click here to download the picture

And it looks like this:

中华人民共和国十一大开国元帅：朱德、彭德怀、林彪、刘伯承、贺龙、陈毅、罗荣桓、徐向前、聂荣臻，叶剑英，超女。

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The public memorial service for Steve Irwin, was held on 9am Australian eastern time(11am in New Zealand)

Steve's wife, Terri did not make a speech despite early speculations.

A worldwide of about 300 million audiences watched this event

Steve's Crocoseum in Australia Zoo

Steve's Father, Bob Irwin wants people not to 'grieve for steve, but grieve for animals because they have lost a best friend'.

Steve's daughter, Bindi says she will follow her father's steps to save wild animals.

Australian country singer, John Williamson, singing Steve's favourate song 'True Blue' in the memorial.

Australian PM, John Howard, was among the people who paid tribute to Steve Irwin.

The memorial ends by drive Steve's truck with gears leave the crocoseum

(all pictures were taken from Sky News New Zealand and are subjects to their copyright)