Pragmatic Revelations » China

祝贺“神七”

Adrian Hoe — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:03:22 +0000

昨日在报章上看到“神七”成功升天，心里很高兴。原本要写这篇文章的，不过由于很忙也太累了，所以没写。刚才回到家，原本也很累的，但是在电视上看到中国宇航员首度出舱外进行太空漫步，高兴得连疲累也忘了，心里真的感到一种莫名的兴奋。我孩子也看到了中国宇航员太空漫步的画面。向他们解释了一些太空科学。不知道他们是否了解，不过他们也非常的高兴。

在此，我们一起祝贺中国，“神七”为中国人带来了骄傲！

最新：神七返回舱于28日17时37分在内蒙古四子花旗着陆。

The power of China

Adrian Hoe — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:10:54 +0000

After watching the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic 2008, I wrote a Chinese post about it and the magnificent Olympic torch ceremony. Tonight, the world witnessed again China’s ability to stage such a huge magnificent show to the world.

One thing that caught my eyes was the double deck bus which then transformed into a stage. When I was young, I used to imagine to have a vehicle which could transform into anything as I wished. China has done it! It has become possible.

Both the opening and closing ceremony have attracted the world’s attention. The shows take a person’s knowledge and understanding of Chinese cultures and history. Without such knowledge and understanding, the shows were just merely gigantic stage performances, and nothing more than entertainment. The story went down the time tunnel from Qin dynasty to modern China. They told the spectacular transformation of China and its rising.

最棒的奥运圣火

Adrian Hoe — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:42:52 +0000

最撮目以待的奥运圣火点燃仪式在经过四小时的开幕仪式之后，终于在北京的夜空点燃。中国体操王子，李宁，手握奥运火炬，系上钢索，飞上鸟巢顶上，有嫦娥奔月的意义。然后用像武侠小说里的轻功，在鸟巢顶上奔跑。他双脚踏过之处，有动人画面以投影机投影出来。到了终点站，巨型奥运会圣火炬终于出现。李宁以手中圣火将之点燃。

李宁在鸟巢上踏步飞行的情景非常动人。自从1992巴塞罗那奥林匹克，西班牙神箭手以弓箭把奥运会圣火射向奥林匹克火炬将之点燃之后，再也没有比那更精彩的奥运会圣火点燃仪式了。今晚，北京再创神奇，以罕为观止的呈现方式，把圣火点燃。

要吊在半空，离地大约一百公尺，有点倾斜的顶上奔驰，非要有相当的体力和耐力不可。李宁这一幕，有很大、很远的意义。李宁就代表了中国，他那嫦娥奔月的姿态就代表了中国的能力、耐力和决心，走向世界，冲出太空。

科技奥运，名符其实。中国再一次让全世界的华人引以为豪。再一次，祝福中国北京。

多难兴邦

Adrian Hoe — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:16:39 +0000

温爷爷在北川中学黑板上写的四个大字：“多难兴邦”。这四个字已经铭刻在忆万中国人心中。这四个字也给了我很大的回响。

一个国家灾难重重，必能训练出超强的毅力和团结力以应付重重灾难。一个人如果困难重重，也必能训练出超强的毅力和顺应能力。所以，当一个人遇上重重困难时，千万要记得温爷爷的四个字：“多难兴邦”！绝对要理性起来，绝不能灰心和放弃。

好一个“多难兴邦（人）”！

Let’s mourn for China

Adrian Hoe — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:28:49 +0000

Let us observe 3 minutes of silence too…

Mourning

Adrian Hoe — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:23:47 +0000

At 14:28 CST today, one week after the Sichuan/Wenchuan Earthquake, China will mourn for three days. The Chinese National Flag and Regional Flags of Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR will be raised at half mast. The Chinese public observe a period of silence to express mourning; vehicles, vessels, trains and air-defense alarms will sound followed by 3 minutes of silence.

Let us mourn and pray for those who lost their lives in the earthquake.

The aftermath

Adrian Hoe — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:57:27 +0000

It has been a week after Sichuan, center China, was hit by the worst earthquake in 30 years with a magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter scale. Over ten of thousands lost their lives in this quake. The golden 72-hour has passed.

There are many articles and blogs about the suffering of the Chinese people and that’s enough and I am not going to write another one. I was going to write but my heart was so heavy and sorrow after reading articles and blogs on the Internet. I am deeply touched by the heroes who went for rescue. I am deeply touched by pictures and reports of the dead and survivors. I am deeply touched by the Premier of China, Mr. Wen Jiabao. His orders and words echoed so powerfully in my heart that China has risen to be a powerful giant nation.

China’s proven world class competency

Adrian Hoe — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:20:55 +0000

During the snow hazard in China this February, the Chinese government had successfully managed the natural disaster and crisis with much professionalism in such a short period of time. According to an unconfirmed source, the Chinese government managed to develop a Disaster Management System in just 5 days. 75 software engineers from the Chinese military worked around the clock for 5 days to bring up a web based Disaster Management System to collect, manage, disseminate, coordinate, and to provide command and control to the military disaster relieve team during the recent snow hazard.

The system was developed using Ada, AWS (Ada Web Server) with a little of PHP and Perl. The system deploys a MySQL database running on Linux. The system is hooked up to air-borne SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) for real-time acquisition of landscaping information in snow hazard affected area to help assessing the damage of rail ways, roads, housing and forest. The Chinese army engineering company was dispatched by the system to areas in need of assistance.

I have yet to receive further details of how the system works and probably will not. Anyway, that shows the Chinese ability and responsiveness in dealing with natural disaster. Hail China!