获释日本人质自述: 告诉你我看到的伊拉克

very "real" and ..... (donno wat to say)
http://china.nikkeibp.co.jp/china/news/biz/biz200406280114.html

haha..farrneee~~

do anyone here wanna learn how to side parking? :P

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from bethovennn

Happy Dumpling Festival~

hi guys! today is dumpling festival day. Lunar Calendar 5th of May.

during my highschool days, sure have grandma dumplings to eat....
now working in kl, not tat shiawase liao..
(shiawase - japanese : meaning hangfuk, lucky, fortunate)

but, i wish everyone here have a wonderful week ahead!

F1~ wow! fantastic machine!

01. An F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled
99.9% correctly, it would still start the race with 80 things wrong!

02. Formula 1 cars have over a kilometre of cable, linked to about
100 sensors and actuators which monitor and control many parts of
the car.

03. An F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds!!!!!!!

04. F1 car engines last only for about 2 hours of racing mostly
before blowing up on the other hand we expect our engines to last us
for a decent 20yrs on an average and they quite faithfully
DO....thats the extent to
which the engines r pushed to perform...

05. When an F1 driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences
retardation or deceleration comparable to a regular car driving
through a BRICK wall at
300kmph !!!

06. An average F1 driver looses about 4kgs of weight after just one
race due to the prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures
for little over
an hour (Yeah thats right!!!)

07. At 550kg a F1 car is less than half the weight of a Mini.

08. In an F1 car the engine typically revs upto 18000 rpm,(the
piston travelling up and down 300 times a second!!) wheres cars like
the palio rev only upto 6000 rpm at max. Thats 3 times slower.

09. The brake discs in an F1 car have an operating temperature of
approx 1000 degees Centigrade and they attain that temp while
braking before almost every turn...that is why they r not made of steel but of carbon fibre
which is much more harder and resistant to wear and tear and most of all has
a higher melting point.

10. If a water hose were to blow off, the complete cooling system
would empty in just over a second.

11. Gear cogs or ratios are used only for one race, and are replaced
regularly to prevent failure, as they are subjected to very high
degrees of stress.

12. The fit in the cockpit is so tight that the steering wheel must
be removed for the driver to get in or out of the car. A small latch
behind the wheel releases it from the column. Levers or paddles for
changing gear are located on the back of the wheel. So no gearstick! The clutch levers
are also on the steering wheel, located below the gear paddles.

13. To give you an idea of just how important aerodynamic design and
added downforce can be, small planes can take off at slower speeds
than F1 cars travel on the track.

14. Without aerodynamic downforce, high-performance racing cars have
sufficient power to produce wheel spin and loss of control at 160
kph. They usually race at over 300 kph.

15. The amount of aerodynamic downforce produced by the front and
rear wings and the car underbody is amazing. Once the car is
travelling over 160 kph, an F1 car can generate enough downforce to equal it's own weight. That
means it could actually hold itself to the CEILING of a tunnel and drive
UPSIDE down!

16. In a street course race like the monaco grand prix, the
downforce provides enough suction to lift manhole covers. Before the
race all of the manhole covers on the streets have to be welded down
to prevent this from happening!

17. The refuelers used in F1 can supply 12 litres of fuel per
second. This means it would take just 4 seconds to fill the tank of
an average 50 litre family car.They use the same refueling rigs used on US military
helicopters today.

18. TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and change tyres in around 3
seconds.

19. Race car tyres don't have air in them like normal car tyres.
Most racing tyres have nitrogen in the tyres because nitrogen has a
more consistent pressure compared to normal air. Air typically contains varying
amounts of water vapour in it, which affects its expansion and contraction as a
function of temperature, making the tyre pressure unpredictable.

20. During the race the tyres lose weight! Each tyre loses about 0.5
kg in weight due to wear.

21. Normal tyres last 60 000 - 100 000 km. Racing tyres are designed
to last 90 - 120 km

22. A dry-weather F1 tyre reaches peak operating performance (best
grip) when tread temperature is between 900C and 1200C.(Water boils boils
at 100C remember) At top speed, F1 tyres rotate 50 times a second.

wuuu~~~~ what should i do~~~~

During my stay in japan, i visited london, paris, korea, taiwan, boston, newyork...
However, china is the place i wish to go the most, i leave it out because i have a chance to attend the 5th China Synergy Program for free last year. unfortunately, the program was postpone to this year due to SARS last year. http://www.chinasynergy.org.hk

wuuu~~~~ i am working now, and my boss seems not willing to take such a long holiday for this program T_T

look at how attractive this program is...

6/7:
Registration
Briefing
Welcome Dinner
7/7:
To be a Hong Kong Citizen for half day;
Visit some organizations like ICAC and TDC;
8/7:
Seminars on "Strategic Integration of HK with the Pearl River Delta";
Kick-off Ceremony (We will meet with the Chief Executive of Hong Kong - Mr. Tung Chi Hua, and some other chief HK officials)
Dinner Party
9/7:
Leave Hong Kong to Guangzhou by ship
Site-seeing in Guangzhou
Free time in the evening
10/7:
Visit some organizations
Meeting and Dinner with Governor of GuangDong Province
11/7:
Leave Guangzhou to XiAn by plane
Site-seeing
Free time in the evening
12/7:
Seeing about Resident Places of Western Villages
Visiting a University
Dumpling Dinner
13/7:
Seminar: Seeking for the Lost Resplendence
Visit Historical Museum of XiAn
Leave SiAn to Shanghai by plan
14/7:
Visit the Pudong Development Area in Shanghai;
Free time in the afternoon and evening;
15/7:
Visit SuZhou
16/7:
Visit some universities;
Visit Museum of Shanghai, Office of City Planning
Leave Shanghai to Beijing by Train
17/7:
Arrive in Beijing
Visit the Forbidden City
Free time in the Evening
18/7:
Visit the Great Wall
Visit Some Universities
Seminar at Tsinghua University: The Evolvement of Chinese Architecture
19/7:
Visit Chinese Army
Meet with some outstanding youths of China
20/7:
Tree Planting together with former CSP members (there are more than 200 former CSP members will join us in Beijing this year);
Interactions with former CSP members;
21/7:
One of the Chinese governors will grant us an audience in the People's Great Hall; Taking photos;
The setup of a Sodality for CSP;
22/7:
Leave Beijing for Hong Kong;
Visit one of the organization sponsors: Hong Kong Jockey Club
23/7:
Departure


arrrhhhh!!!! i wan to go!!! help!!!

silk road...

arrrh... a place i wish to go ~



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frying eggs & driving

The wife is busy frying eggs, when her husband comes home.

He walks into the kitchen and immediately starts yelling: "CAREFUL!!! CAREFUL!!! MORE OIL!!! TURN THEM!!! TURN THEM NOW!!! WE NEED MORE OIL!!! THEY ARE GOING TO STICK!!! CAREFUL!!! CAREFUL!!! TURN THEM!!! TURN THEM!!! HURRY UP!!! ARE YOU CRAZY!!!! THE OIL IS GOING TO SPILL!!! USE MORE
SALT!!! THE SALT!!!!"

The wife is very upset: "What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you yelling like this? Do you think I don't know how to fry an egg?"

The husband calmly replies: "This is to show you what it feels like, when I am driving and you sit next to me..."