la marcha mundial de la paz y no-violencia

今天和fabio去san jose的Tin Jo吃饭，路过一个露天表演~~

修桥|流感疫苗

今天La Nation主版报道哥向世界银行申请贷款修桥遭拒，令辟谣从没有机构有意向哥捐赠甲流疫苗。其实也就是一二十个破木桥继续检修，居然要动用世界银行。。实在是想不通。。甲流疫苗本身没什么,可是他们不说自己不能生产，说的居然是没有人送他们~~哎~~

NGOvisits/Golda/SaintClare中学/Brenda/镇上的中国店

San Jose envrionmental Seminar
WWF-和华盛顿办公室标准几乎一致，环境优美，为我们准备了可乐雪碧咖啡小饼干，厕所里还有个手工的熊猫脸肥皂。有趣的是他们每飞一次航班都会买carbon offsets，并且引以为荣
State of the Nation--哥公立大学联盟资助的一个智库，所在地以前是USAID所建的基地，撤离后“捐献”给了哥政府。整个建筑像个大碉堡，几乎没有窗户，昏暗的地下秘库。。
TNC--Marteen说了些场面话，强调了一点，TNC在美大面积买地，在国外为了尊重国家主权尽量不做，事实如何呢？
OTS--建在UCR里，几十年前美国挑头组建的研究机构，合作院校几乎全部是美国大学，至今因为经济原因仍然很少当地学生可以从中受益，他们作为一个 ”北美“机构也成了不大好的名声~
COOPESOLIDAD--感觉很业余的小机构，帮当地渔民组织可持续捕鱼和生态旅游
FONAFIFO/FUNDECOR--用市场手段解决环保问题
FAO--臃肿的UN机构，这个老头倒不错，很实在的谈了很多组织的具体信息。其实他们的钱也不多，一年四亿，TNC明年的筹款目标就是10亿~，FAO还在70多个国家有分部。。。
Golda-周六和他们吃了一顿午饭，她做了糖醋里脊，我做了土豆丝西红柿炒蛋。
之后聊，她说了一些关于喀麦隆被殖民的现状，哎，也的确是哀其不幸怒其不争，可是他们被殖民前还没有争得意识呢，面对外人侵略没有团结统一的愿望，哎，算了。
另外一点，她也是虽说在中国呆了一两年，又是除了吃流行音乐啥都不懂得垃圾，说自己知道蒋介石居然不知道中国有过内战。。。简直是要晕了。。就这样还大肆评论中国内政说要台湾人全民公决。。。哎，这些垃圾老外就应该彻底无视！
Saint Clare Colegio--在tres rios,早上坐了合乘taxi colectivo,哈哈，8年级的课堂超级乱，之后和李霞刘鑫等交换了意见，结论：
1.中国地位底，当地人也普遍无知还自我感觉良好，必须提高军事经济实力，否则其他软实力都是吃力不讨好
2. 应试教育的必要性
3. 大部分人就是比较贱不打不服一打马上就服
Brenda--学国际关系的，说道毕业论文写的是民主刚果，口气和那帮自以为是的白人无异--i want to fix Congo! i want to make a difference,不免有些失望~~不知道去中国后会有什么感想
店里的阿姨--今天聊了很久，说道来这里的无奈，生活的苦闷，文化的差异，孩子的教育，夫妻的关系， 等等等等。中国人，求发展的心是这么的强烈。

这两天flori的妹妹从美国过来度假，给她带了衣服东西，一看质量都是很差的，有的居然是二手的，比如一个小电热毯，浴巾，衬衫是70%化纤的，裙子料子也很差，可是flori很高兴，爱不释手，晚上看他们带来的DVD，看到他们在美国的大房子，好东西，羡慕之情溢于言表。
哎，大部分人就是需要征服的。

env' ngos讨论|哥私人武装|Franklin|图书馆老师|Black Chinese

1.今天课上Yang和我们讨论了关于大型环保NGO的问题，扯了很远，关于他们如何筹款，如何花钱，如何确定项目，如何"international water"因为没人管而成为世界厕所， 那些不懂行的有钱人喜欢什么样的故事，等等等等，TNC明年的筹款目标居然是十亿美金？
2.中午latin lunch,实在不敢恭维，席间请来了镇上的表演队，怎么看他们的服装舞蹈都像是西班牙殖民者的文化。。。。
3.下午去franklin班上听了他关于private military cooperation的演讲，他还是一如既往的尖锐，班上的一些个“白”人一如既往的可笑，当franklin提到哥目前就有个private military时，一哥女生当即强烈反对，说这个是违反宪法的我们没有军队！哎。。。可是没有所谓军队不代表没有武装吧。。。
和franklin单聊时说到了学校的一个图书馆老师，帮franklin找书时扯了半个小时，说道哥的种种问题，说道哥如何的需要一个军队，而不仅仅是私人武装，等等等等，都几乎热泪盈眶，franklin被她的爱国所感动，对于我来说这样的恨铁不成钢似乎很常见，但是对从kenya来的franklin来说，这很罕见，很难得。
4. franklin发来一个短片，--Chinese blacks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFhS-49WGGY

圣诞灯|WWF|State of the Region|plaze Major|尾气|韩国

1.昨天回来发现邻居家门口已经亮上了各式圣诞灯，现在不过是十月底！哇~和当年新泽西的圣诞灯比赛无异啊呵呵
2.今天去了WWF/State of the Region, WWF central america居然是直接受wwfUS 控制的，负责人来自危地马拉，英语很流利，做派很美国~嗯~会议室没窗户，开着空调，桌上放着饼干葡萄可乐，宣传册和在DC的一样光鲜
3. 中午在plaza Major吃了炒面，又是广东恩平的一家人，呵呵
4.这两天吸了很多尾气，不知道哥斯达黎加人怎么想~
5.韩国人热情高昂的讨论着下周去尼加拉瓜圣诞节去秘鲁，而我去哪里都要签证。。。你说不发展军国主义怎么行？？

Multiplaza/连山易

早晨花了一两个小时关注了下淘宝原创店，不错不错很不错，很多西方学术界叫嚣着的对现代化机械化的反思以及对传统的重视都被淘宝搬上了台面.
这个手抄本算是个惊喜，麻质的封面用麻线绣上了荷花：
早晨花了一两个小时关注了下淘宝原创店，不错不错很不错，很多西方学术界叫嚣着的对现代化机械化的反思以及对传统的重视都被淘宝搬上了台面.
这个手抄本算是个惊喜，麻质的封面用麻线绣上了荷花：
http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail-db2-274bdf77c6fca9f0a77829de1cc74b46.jhtml

下午和家里人去买鞋子，情景和春天在费城郊外outlets惊人的相似：payless shoestore, , pricemart, Multiplaza里面得 mcdonalds’ icecream, Ipod store, Tom something clothstore，donuts， 没有一点点有哥斯达黎加特色，节省的galleta只给买了个冰欺凌和甜点，居然也是mcdonalds和donut. 联想到galleta整天念叨着的也是要valedia学好英语以后好找工作。。。哎。。。

看中央四套的走遍中国，这两天说的是贵州连山县被初步证明是五千年前炎帝开创连山易继而长江文明的地方，与黄帝建立的黄河文明遥相呼应。片中描述道连山县里几千年传承下的传统仪式，婚礼舞龙等，居然以八卦为主体，七八十岁的农民伯伯都能说出一大番道理，不仅感叹不已。

"摄影师是最后一个死去的人"--柴静

"他说他不轻易用谴责的方式，他只想“知道为什么”
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48b0d37b0100g8qw.html

350行动上街捡垃圾

上午给印尼大哥送去了两把菠菜，刚刚bondan送来一碗蔬菜汤，芹菜叶胡萝卜玉米，很不错~呵呵~亚洲人的文化啊。。有来有往~嘿嘿

今天是350全球变暖行动日，地球宪章办公室组织学生搞了这个捡垃圾行动。有意思的是准备活动搞了一两个小时做了很多宣传海报(制造了不少垃圾），煞有介事的带塑胶手套真正捡垃圾倒一个小时都不到~~
话说cuidad colon的环卫的确是不咋地。。。没有人管理大家就随地乱扔，足球场草地上啥子都有，塑料，口香糖，香烟头，哎，实在有负哥斯达黎加环境的美誉啊

索马里海盗

今天和一个索马里岛人聊了几句，问道他们对海盗的看法，他说他们那里大部分虽然谈不上喜欢海盗，但还是支持的，因为这些渔民至少在某种程度上保护着海岸线，防止别人来扔垃圾或是偷海产。
接着说道这两天中国船只被劫持的事情，他解释说，这些渔民原先是想阻止外国船只来干坏事，时间一长规模越来越来大，发现其中有利可图，变开始了绑架勒索的生意。这些渔民也迅速富裕起来~~~

印度尼西亚人bondan

今天一起回家，聊到他们做的一个关于印尼妇女情况的presentation，提到了人工流产。 在他看来，他们国家当今的人工流产盛行是和传统文化缺失直接相关的。在他来看，人工流产是完全不应该的，因为他们的传统文化value lives,当我问到如果你的小孩被查出有先天缺陷怎么办时，他说我会把孩子留下来，并且为此负责，当我继续问到那你死了孩子没有自理能力该怎么办，他先说，你不能假设你会比孩子死的早然后因此不让孩子活，最后在我的穷追猛打之后终于说出了他的真实意见：我信真神阿拉，即使我死了真神阿拉也会保佑我的孩子平安。
之后说道他们如何的一边value lives，一边吃肉，他说作为个人首先要保证自己的健康。。。。
对了另外，还缺认了他虽value lives,但是不反对使用安全措施。。这个说法就很多了，在美国的时候就遇到过老太太在街头宣传避孕措施本身就是杀人行为。。。”人“何时成为人，这个貌似很复杂~~hoho

晚上和 franklin在网上聊了下这个问题，他也是穆斯林，显然他也很反对人工流产，
“obviously why should one kill a child for what reason?”
“nah just that ur kid had to pay for the problems of the world”。

国宝档案

鉴于中央四套是在哥唯一能够收到的中文频道，我因此看到了一些以前不曾关注的节目。
比如”国宝档案”: 今天说的是战国时代的一个铜壶，成都百花潭中学扩建过程中挖出的.
最近关注了世界各地很多生活或工业垃圾处理的方式：比如说深埋。
看着国宝档案里一农民阿姨在屋后田里耕作着就冒出了两千年前炼铜的器皿碎片，我在想，几百年后的人们会发现什么前人留下的惊喜呢？

ross ryan发来的垃圾处理报道

http://www.pacifica.org/index.php?option=com_programguide&op=segment-page&segment_id=512&Itemid=1

里面采访了一本书的作者：Elizabeth Royte,"Garbage land:On the secret trail of Trash",

有趣的是一百多年前的纽约人会在地下室里养猪来处理剩菜剩饭，呵呵。

电影Baraka

-- 这周因为课程调到了下午，上午没事就去旁听IPS的课，这是全校人数最多”文化多样性“最丰富的一个班，他们上research methods,这两天在准备一个调查问卷。有趣的事，这近五十个人在确定问卷的一些无关紧要的小问题上争执不休，比如：在demographics上争论为何亚洲要被分成四份，而欧洲不行（几个欧洲同学义愤填膺：我们也很不同呢！还是Carlos说了几句实在话：i'm sorry you guys have been colonizing all over the world and you think you are huge, but in reality, you are tiny,哈哈哈）；一个挪威籍库尔德人及其反对把人划分到这个那个格子里，还说自己是“world citizen"；最搞笑的是在最后一个关于毕业后去向的问题上为用"immediately"还是"right away"争论不休，问卷都打出来了一德国人还抱怨：为什么第一项的众多选择没有按字母顺序排列；等等等等。。。。作为一个旁听生，我更像是在看戏，的确是很有意思：说话的大多是白人，欧洲的美洲的，包括移民；亚洲人非洲人多是摇头叹气并不积极参与争论。对于我们来说，这些都是些小事不值得计较，能过就行了，而那些在欧美长大的同学们，则在自己搞出来的问题上翻来覆去争执不休。。。
什么叫东西方文化差异？
以前看过一个在中国生活多年美国人的博客，说中国人大多比较pragmatic,大概可以在这个课堂讨论中看出个端倪~

--今天看了一部电影
http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/baraka
事前Dora发的简介”Baraka is an incredible nonverbal film containing images of 24 countriesfrom 6 continents. The film has no plot, contains no actors and has noscript. Instead, high quality 70mm images show some of the best, andworse, parts of nature and human life. Timelapse is used heavily to showeveryday life from a different perspective.“
-我看到是：
宗教祭祀仪式：非洲部落，东南亚藏传佛教，犹太教基督教；
世界不同角落人们的日常生活：印度河边洗澡洗衣的人们；东南亚香烟工厂的女工；日本地铁里来来往往的白领；东南亚霓虹灯下的性工作者；（可能是印度）某垃圾堆上工作的男女老少；温泉里全身纹满了各种形象的某人；天安门广场上的士兵，浮雕上的人民英雄，西安的兵马俑，金字塔，
现代工业化生产的情景：流水线上的小鸡仔（不知道为什么他们挨个被烧了尖嘴）；日本电子产品流水线；街道上被加速拍摄的车水马龙。
另外夹杂了一些从高空拍摄的战争的场面，最后以星空结束。
有趣的是，委内瑞拉的Christoph时候跑来找说他看了电影后想到我跟他说的对中国高考制度的积极评论，他觉得电影里面就展示了人类历史以来各种”系统“，而这些系统是好的么？
这时候Dora来了，说她一个中国朋友看这个电影的时候觉得整个概念很西方。正中我下怀。这样把"非现代"的所谓图像供奉起来瞻仰的做法实在是很西方。搞出这些东西来就说明他们尊重”不同的“文化了么？实在很讽刺。

--另外今天和一加拿大女生说道她的research proposal, 是关于加拿大某省即将要建第二座核电站的问题。这倒不是关键，有意思的是聊到了这个省的经济命脉加上媒体全部被一个家族所控制，这样无论是科学研究还是新闻报道全部被直接引导到对他们的有利的方向，实在是比GCD还狠啊，润物细无声啊~

--法国TV5新闻里刚才说到中国经济趋于上升，接着说中国成为钻石的最大市场，还采访了几个年轻人，纷纷表示钻石和其他石头比更特别啊，稀有啊，代表永恒啊。。。哎

--最近家里的人跟我说了几次中国投资一百万美金在圣何塞建一中国城，前后约550米，他们看上去比较高兴~~

缅甸同学~

--今天带了不错的午饭，一个红薯，一个chayote,一个玉米，中午把红薯和chayote捣碎加点油和胡椒拌拌和另外两三个同学坐下一起吃。一个缅甸的姐姐一直很友好，今天打开了话匣子，从中缅边境上的“新娘”买卖，到中国的宗教信仰，再到她对缅军队政府的看法，去年飓风灾害后她看到缅甸全国上下前所未有的团结合作，以及对欧美个人团体谈论缅甸问题时的傲慢自负的强烈反感。很多观点和我不谋而合。聊的起劲，上课都迟到了半个小时，呵呵。

--晚上煮玉米红薯，剥完玉米叶居然发现了一个活着的虫虫！虽然看着有点。。但是还是庆幸--说明这玉米没打太多药啊~~嘻嘻

10月19号的，昨晚断网今天补上

--刚才Galleta在给rigo洗脚的时候去他房间观察病情，顺便看了一下他们的新闻，正好在说圣何塞给他们建体育场的中国建筑工人。这些哥斯达黎加人把中国人形容成“不知疲倦的蚂蚁”。节目里用了个类似喜洋洋的曲子作背景音乐，强调了工人们的时间安排，比如一般一个半小时午饭，如果活多就只有一个小时。这些Ticos为中国人的勤劳惊叹，还评论说，“对自己的工作（似乎）是他们的文化。” 呵呵

--晚上停了一会电，就在烛光下吃饭，很有情调~结果还没吃完就来电了。。呜呜

--看中央四套，第一次注意到他们自己的广告：“传承中华文化，服务全球华人”。短片做的很有意境，百年前活字印刷和今天键盘输入的镜头穿插，配乐也恰到好处，真的很不错。--- 谁说CCTV是CCAV?

--新闻里提到一中国商船被索马里海盗劫持，消息来源于欧盟海军为打击海盗结成的某特别行动组—“欧盟海军亚特兰大行动”。欧洲这些垃圾自己往人家海滩扔剧毒垃圾，逼出了海盗，现在还义正词严的去声张正义，搞什么“联合行动”，哎。索马里被倒了垃圾不说，还要背上海盗猖獗的恶名。。没有话语权就是这个样子啊。。。

--今天学校的一拨亚洲学生开会讨论下个月亚洲文化周的时装秀。有意思的是这次东自日本西至伊朗都被亚洲囊括其中，Cypres这类确被集体一口否决，看看地图也都还是一块大陆，到底啥是“亚洲”腻~~

--会后与一韩国女生长谈，从中国传统服饰开始聊，接着说她以前在韩国一小乡村的电视台作制片人，谈到XZ, 谈到中国人对ZF的看法，谈到她出国后对自己文化的反思，等等等等，感觉不错。

家里的事

今天早上起来被房东叫去谈了好一会，明确了矛盾，哎，所以说金窝银窝不如自己的狗窝，别的就不提了，现在我决定再实用主义一把，明确来这里的目的--学西语。至于其他，我就suck it up吧。反正也不是第一次了，美法等帝国主义国家的殖民者后代的罪咱也受过，无所谓了，只要能学好西语，别的都没什么。

下午他们带我去一个朋友的马棚搞烧烤。这家人以前还种点水果粮食，现在只靠帮有钱人驯马为生。显然这里很多有钱人，喜欢养个马，但又没时间收拾，城里更没地方给马跑，于是就每个月花两三百美金找个职业的，自己也就周末过来看看~

今天为了去那里marvin特地借了他哥哥的大车（有点像越野车），我仔细看了原来是韩国现代，我提了一下，marvin接着说，“韩国的车好，中国的车不行”。 听着这话我总觉得有点不对。
1.这国家自己没什么工业，普通人用的车都是美国等用剩下的烂车，噪音超大尾气暴重，为啥不自怜？为啥自己不寻求发展？
2. 他们一边以自己优越的自然条件而自豪，一边肆意挥霍着本来就被经济发展不断侵蚀的资源，为啥一点都没有危机感？对汽车使用带来的一系列问题为啥不反思反思呢？

菜场圣何塞等

1.早晨起来去一周一次的露天菜场，终于有新鲜蔬菜水果啦！！买了不少红薯土豆玉米牛油果简单处理下可以做下周的中午饭。
另外有个惊喜，买了一个椰子喝，发现敲开的一小片壳里面有一层乳白色胶状物，类似某些奶茶里面加的蒟蒻~味道极其鲜美，于是找摊主把整个椰子敲开，用那一小片壳挖着吃，哇哇，很不错，难道这里的椰子喝中国的椰子不同？记得以前在国内吃椰子有几次敲开后都是厚厚的一层白色固体，吃起来渣渣的。。想来椰子也有很多品种呢~~嘿嘿

2. 下午和在镇上开店的一个广东弟弟一起去圣何塞看中国店，吃中国饭。还带上了他的表弟。一行很愉快，那个小孩子在国内读到四年级再出来，普通话很不错，我问他在外面时间长了会不会忘记，“我很喜欢说中文，一定不会忘记的”。
几个highlights:
一：在中国超市里找到了檀香，就是庙子里常年弥漫的那个味道。来哥后因为房间常年不见阳光，新书桌一股怪味，就想到了熏香的办法。房东姐姐喜欢印度香(回来后她还嫌我这个香味道跟香烟差不多，切），可惜我总觉得那个香味太浓，就像加了很多化学添加剂的“香皂”，感觉很不好，还是中国传统的东东好啊！你说为什么这么多寺庙宗祠烧的都是檀香呢？这个“常识”是怎么形成的呢?
二：今天吃的很爽！！有：素肠粉，韭菜鲜虾饺，皮蛋瘦肉粥，椰汁糕，芋头饼，还有马来糕奥！！不过没有小虫虫在NY买的好吃~~嘻嘻
三：走在路上的时候迎面走来了一群貌似印度（或那尼泊尔）地区的男女，手持贡品口中念念有词，我正揣测是某种宗教仪式，身边的国梁说，“真的很有意思哎，在街上可以感受到全世界的文化”，他弟弟不解，于是国梁接着说，“因为我想了解全世界的文化啊。”
---现代社会个人的活动半径已经大幅度扩大，各种现代交通工具满足甚至加剧了人的流动欲望，现在嘈杂的环保呼声中，似乎个人最环保的做法就是坚守着自己的家，自得其乐。
可是，又有多少人是甘于稳定，有足够的智慧去享受平淡的快乐的呢？

定了下个月去古巴

对了，今天一韩国同学找到了促销机票，从圣何塞到哈瓦那往返机票250美金，不错很不错，当即就买了，下周25-29，跟一拨韩国人日本人，细节敬请期待

学校的婚礼等

1. 最近一日本同学和女朋友在哥办了结婚手续，今天这里的亚洲同学们在学校给他们办了个比较隆重的婚礼，一部分是日本传统仪式，另一部分是所谓的“西式”交换戒指等。日本传统仪式据他们说来自于日本神道教，其实就是弄点清酒喝喝洒洒，勉强算个文化吧~
这对夫妇可以算是比较传统的日本人，来自一个小乡村，男朋友来哥读书，女朋友居然就辞了职跟来了，以后回国工不工作也不介意了。在今天的我们看来这种做法很令人惊讶, 不少人会问，“他们就不担心。。。”，但是想到以前的百年千年，这似乎是理所当然的。晚上聚会我半开玩笑的问他：“你们回去后你如果找不到工作怎么办呢”， 他很坚定的说，“我总会找到些什么的，实在不行我就种地。”
那个姐姐长的很甜，行为也很像传说中的“日本可爱型”，一直在笑。她英语不大好，不怎么开口，一直跟在老公身边，他也一直带着她，手拉着手。
2. 今天哥最大的报纸大篇幅报道了中国重判XJ暴乱歹徒，各种程式化的误解就不说了，最后介绍维吾尔人的几句话有点意思："Los uigures, etnia musulmana de origen turco"--维吾尔人，来自土耳其的穆斯林族人。
中国的维吾尔人来自于土耳其，土耳其人又从何而来腻？
3. 今天一华裔美国人来要求我以全哥唯一一中国学生的身份向中国大使馆要求亚洲文化周的活动经费，搞得我极其不爽，把这个垃圾冲了一番后直接丢下一句话：这事不值得我花精力去折腾，把他搞的脸红一阵白一阵的。
其实主要两个事搞的我不爽：
1.这个男人第三代移民，一句中文不会，完全的美国人，上次跟学校去国家公园学习晚上喝个大醉，还理直气壮的说“ WE enjoy drinking", 平时跟亚洲人基本没来往，现在想挑头组织亚洲文化周了来扯自己是学校里除了我之外第二个中国人，我当场就打断他，"我们就说实话吧，你就是美国人，我从来没把你当中国人。”
简直就是垃圾，中国人是你想是就是的么？
2. 在这里，无论是国际舆论当地媒体还是课堂讨论，对中国的看法尤其是ZF都是负面的，现在要找钱了想到中国“官方渠道”了，真是讽刺的很。我们中国的钱干嘛要给你们这些垃圾学生提供免费娱乐？难道吃了一顿他们就说自己懂了点中国文化了？还是说中国好了？
回过头想到美国，所谓的"先进教育”--“丰富的课外活动”，说白了就是钱铺出来的，哎，大部分垃圾就是需要去征服的。
所谓“说服”的确就是说说罢了。

The age of stupid

周三英驻哥大使来学校，和地球宪章一起展播环保新片： the age of stupid
主线是2050年仅存的一个地球人回顾前面这几十年人类在知情并且可以做出改变的情况下选择的自我灭亡
几个比较不错的东东
1. 一对英国夫妇，全球变暖的坚定支持者，从自身做起（包括自己种菜，不坐飞机，整天计算如何减小自己的碳排量），希望做出改变。作为风能工程师的男主人公，经历了一次又一次推广风能的失败。原因是那些高素质的精神自由的口若悬河的英国人们及其团结的民主的和平抗议着推翻了任何在他们的社区内竖风电涡轮： 那样会破坏我门口的景色！这样我的地的价值就不高啦！nainiania好能说啊他们~~~及其讽刺的是，这些人接受采访时还可以理直气壮的说：当然了我们了解全球变暖，而且我们每个人都在做出自己的贡献。。。。
这种殖民者的后代的无耻性昭然若揭！！！就是这些垃圾现在打着民主的大旗践踏别人，也把自己带向绝路~~
2. 片子揭示了西方如何用枪炮将世界其他国家和地区逼向了现代化--虽然都是不争事实，可惜主流"全球变暖”讨论是不从这个角度考虑问题滴~~
3.揭露了shell, chevron等白贱人如何利用非洲众国的内战大肆抢夺石油资源，毫不考虑对周边自然社会环境的影响
同时几个问题：
1.这个片子由英国几个个人自己筹资拍摄，制作过程很多困难，现在好了好不容易制作好了，被英国外交部拿来了在全世界由各大使馆大力推崇，这是为啥？
2. 这片子里表现出个趋势：中国印度等发展中国家即将变成白人一样的过度消费，所以我们要一起改变。。。
谁说我们要变成你们的？？？
3. 一个非洲同学在提问环节抛出疑问：当人饭都吃不上的时候给他看这个片子有啥意义？奇怪的是之后这个问题就被沉入了海底，无论是那个大使还是别的白学生都不提了~~一个德国无耻男还在反复说着二氧化碳排放抵消系统的优越性----“我们要给企业些动力嘛。。要个人改变是不大可能的”。。。。让你改变当然是不可能的！你不可能少酗酒少吸毒少用电脑少旅游！因为你的生活单调到无聊！！

中午的小讲座：一英国人在黎巴嫩巴勒斯坦难民营六周

班上的Tom，英国一个普通大学毕业生，毕业工作一段时间后生活无聊，想找点好事做做，于是找到The United Nations Relief & Works Agency for Palestinians in the NearEast (UNRWA)，来到了黎巴嫩的巴勒斯坦难民营，呆了六周，语言不通环境不熟的他干了啥呢？
：efficiencyimprovements to solid waste management and water supply systems
实际上就是管厕所的～
就这点破事讲了一个小时，居然很多人来听～～～
之后提问环节，一Lativian女人，表现得很有正义感：“我很想去，但是我唯一的担心是如果我一腔热血的去了，却什么关键的事情都做不了，我会得忧郁症的！！”
这种问题她还纠缠了好久。。。那个英国人今天终于说了点实在的：don't go to solve the problem. you won't. 基本上这个联合国的Blabla组织到现在为止做的也就是保证这些难民不被饿死.....
疑问：你说这人权是啥东西？在这样的环境下“活着”的人，长大的“孩子”，有啥人权可言腻？

好玩的新闻

1. US将在未来五年内每年给与巴基斯坦约1.5亿美元的非军事经济援助
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/world/asia/25islamabad.html?scp=6&sq=pakistan%20aid&st=cse
与此同时，又有新闻报道美国失业率达到9.8%，与07年底相比翻了一番，失业人数一千五百万，另外九百万人没有全职工作
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/5/headlines#3
问题：MG政府在国内如此水深火热的时候还对外如此大方，好像和古巴castrol现在和毛主席当年“重外国人轻自己人”的政策相似，可是为啥这两位老人家就要被那些白人们大肆批判和咒骂，奥巴马却能因为“国际和平作出的贡献”得那个啥诺贝尔屁屁奖？

2. 台湾男性受家庭暴力的比率上升到快10%。。。。那些整天拿家暴说事的所谓女权主义者应该了解一下这个~~“啊，原来亚洲女性也可以不是受害者啊！！哈啊啊”

3. 法国TV5在整点新闻中花大篇幅（5-10分钟）讲少林寺的“变化”：先渲染一下“梦幻般的过去”，再拍拍游人如织的现在，加上拒绝任何拍摄的僧人，最后采访主持释永信关于少林寺的“资本主义化”。大和尚说：“既然我们的东西反正都要被别人用，那不如我们自己来用”
问题：对少林寺或者是中国而言，“资本主义”是个你们西方传进来的东西么？
在这个新闻后面，不知道有没有个白人狰狞的面孔:哈哈哈你看我们资本主义多强大把你们中国功夫也同化啦哈哈哈哈你们要变成我们拉。。。。”呸呸呸

我们的塑料袋都去哪里了？

真是无处可逃：

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/trash-vortex

侵略者的后代：

这些整天讲着“自由”，“民主”的欧洲发达国家的人民，趁着人家内乱就偷运核废料，抢夺人家的海产，怎一个无耻了得！
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147.html
”Somalia is one of the many Least Developed Countries that reportedly received countless shipments of illegal nuclear and toxic waste dumped along the coastline. Starting from the early 1980s and continuing into the civil war, the hazardous waste dumped along Somalia’s coast comprised uranium radioactive waste, lead, cadmium, mercury, industrial, hospital, chemical, leather treatment and other toxic waste. Most of the waste was simply dumped on the beaches in containers and disposable leaking barrels which ranged from small to big tanks without regard to the health of the local population and any environmentally devastating impacts.“

昨天看到cctv4的一个纪录片讲述圆明园的历史，想象着当时就是这样一批禽兽般的侵略者将我们祖先上百年的心血和智慧洗劫一空，今天还在世界各地继续着无耻的行径，却仍被那么多人崇拜着敬仰着，真是气不打一处来！

南京新吃食

Compared to Chengdu, Nanjing does not have a very sophisticated food culture. Except the salt water duck[盐水鸭]，Nanjing barely has any local food that is well-known nationally. Thus in recent years Nanjing has welcomed foods from all over the country and the world with no prejudice.
It has been only a couple months since my last return to home, but to my great surprise many familiar names have entered to my hometown.

This is an authentic Xinjiang restaurant. Most workers here are from Xinjiang. Interestingly, the restaurant is set up in several Mongolian tents.
While my friend and I finish eating, the employees finally started their dinner. We've seen many times on TV that Xinjiang people are good at singing and dancing. Sure enough, here they started music and singing. As we were having fun watching, one of them came talk to us. They are mostly family and came all the way to Nanjing for business. Now they already have two chains in Nanjing and are doing very well.


This is the first donut place I've ever seen in Nanjing. It's in fact a local Nanjing company. It sells donuts with dozens of different flavors, such as chocolate, green tea, caramel, etc. It sells for around 5 yuan each. Besides, there are also tea, coffee, etc.






This is the first Indian food restaurant I've ever seen in Nanjing. It's opened by an Indian. In fact there are thousands of Indians in Nanjing, mostly students studying traditional medicine. I also found another Nepali an restaurant, opened by two local Nanjinger. They love traveling and have been to Indian and Nepal a couple times. Thus they decided to bring the Indian cuisine back home.






















Again, this is the first Italian hand-made icecream place I've ever seen in Nanjing. In its brochures, it distinguishes Gelato from icecream, and sorbet from Gelato.
Interestingly, it's not opened by an Italian investor but a Chinese company from Shanghai. Their mission is to enable Chinese people to taste the most authentic Italian icecream at home.






The first Papa John's Pizza in Nanjing. Before I've seen a couple of them in Shanghai. I haven't seen any of its chains in its home--the U.S. though...













This is the famous Sichuan snack. Now it's entered Nanjing's food market with a doubled price. Okay..















Similar to Chengdu's 文殊坊 and 宽窄巷子，熙南里is a newly-built commercial area that takes advantage of old-times Nanjing architecture. There are many Chinese food places.








On the left, 蜀牛香is a rather expensive restaurant that specializes in Sichuan food. On the right, it's in fact very much like Two brothers in Middlebury. On the little blackboard standing outside, it says: "Irish breakfast..."


夫子庙is another such a site. It's history is much longer. But this 民间艺术大观园is a new development. Inside there are many old-times entertainment.














糖画is one of such old-time snack. Basically it's just candy made of sugar. But it's hand-drawn with liquid caramel thus requires high skill. When I was little there used to be the 糖画师傅 carrying the 扁担 in little streets. Children always gather around them watching, which is really fun. It has disappeared for long but now back to the main stream. Now this candy dragon costs 20yuan, equivalent to 2 McDonald's' burgers, or a decent meal for one person in a little restaurant.

河流研究会春节茶话会

府南河 is the main river running through Chengdu. It used to be extremely polluted. The Chengdu government was determined to clean up the river and thus established 成都河流研究会[CURA--Chengdu Urban Rivers Association] in 2004. For years the Chengdu government devoted incredible resources to the river and this "clean-up" project even earned a UN prize.

In the clean-up project, CURA found out that a significant amount of pollutant come from upriver agricultural chemical fertilizers usage. In order to solve the problem from its root, CURA brought organic farming to an upriver village--安龙村。
Years later, today's 安龙村 organic project gets the most funds from an NGO, PCD-Partnership for Community Development.

In this Spring festival season, many employers organize 茶话会, where everybody sits together, eat snacks, drink tea, and the most importantly, chat. This time, CURA brought together representatives of producers, consumers, and organizers of the 安龙村project.

Urban-rural split is a major social issue in China. Especially in recent years, it seems that the gap is growing bigger and bigger. But what happened in these couple hours gave me a completely different perspective.


The meeting starts with a short film documenting
the major steps of the 安龙村project. Many among the audience find themselves on the screen and burst into laughters.









CURA staff first put up posters on the wall with some words and' photo frames'. At the beginning everybody in the room get some pictures and have to find the appropriate place for each photo. Thus everybody gets involved in learning about the stories in 安龙村project's development.
When all photos get put in their frames, someone has to introduce their stories making sure everyone is on the same page. The posters tell the stories of individual organic growers, consumers "organic trip" to the village, Chengdu organic market and the newly developed vegetable delivery.

Here the two 农民伯伯阿姨. They talked about their organic farming experience, what they sell, what has changed in the past year, and what they hope for the next year. Many times the audience[ofter consumers] pose questions and they "negotiate."























This is a farmer from another province 贵州。 He came to exchange their organic growing experiences. He lives in a minority village[侗族]and the whole village specializes in rice. Years ago, a company tried to make them grow organically and purchase their rice. However, the village refused the offer but established their own organic association. Years later, their organic rice has built up reputation. This 叔叔introduces his village with great pride. He says now many young people come back from cities and enjoy their healthy life. Later we sit together at lunch and he has strongly identifies with organic practices and sincerely loves their lifestyle. Urban life is no longer desirable. He warmly welcomes me to go visit. Well, I will~~






Here he dialogues with some customers. Last year they came to Chengdu and sold 2 tons of rice. These two customers loved it and here just jumped up and talked to him about the pricing right at the spot.









During the break, the 安龙农民叔叔阿姨们 analyzed the rice seeds from 贵州 and exchanged experiences. The 贵州rice叔叔 promised to bring more seeds the next time.









Here is a representative of the consumers. She has been on the "organic trips" organized by CURA many times. First she expressed deep thanks for the organic farmers. The funny part is she spent quite a while thanking the 贵州rice growers, --"woo!!your rice smelled sooo good!!"
Later, some other consumers talked about their worries about food safety and sincerely hope more farmers in the village can join organic farming. The growers and consumers then discussed the problems that 安龙村 project currently has. Some farmers that have not decided to grow organically also spoke about their concerns. The major difference between 安龙村 and the 贵州大米村 is that 安龙村doesn't have a strong leader from within. Thus the organic project is often in danger of collapsing.


Throughout the day, farmers were at the center spot. They each brought one dish from their garden. When someone praised their food, they came up saying "that's what I grew!那是我种的！"
I feel ashamed to say that, I've never seen such proud farmers. These few photos can't really show the atmosphere that day. Many times in the meeting I couldn't resist crying. In history 农民has never been a fashionable profession. But they should, and they can take pride in their work!
In today's China, rural development and food safety are two well-known social concerns. CURA's work in 安龙村 has shown a possible solution.

居民小巷

It's important to note that 农家乐，春熙路，文殊坊，宽窄巷子 are sort of the "tourist sites" of the city. Normally people wouldn't go there on a daily basis. Thus foods in these areas mean a lot more than pure"nutritional content to sustain human survival". Exotic foreign foods display fashion and satisfy people's curiosity for the outside. Highly expensive restaurants could be an indication of social status. However, the largest number of restaurants are the 苍蝇馆子[fly restaurant]. A key characteristic of 苍蝇馆子is 物美价廉[inexpensive good food]. To be a good 苍蝇馆子，it usually has to have some "banner dishes"[招牌菜] so that customers would come back.
These little food places spread all over the city, mainly in residential areas.[P.S. newly-built gentrified residential areas are different] They live on very low profit margin but provide the most significant service to the majority of the city residents on the regular basis. They often look shabby but often have the best food.
The photos above are from a typical lane in a residential area.There you can find little restaurants, fruit shops, vegetable shops, meat places, post office,photos developer,tofu places, fresh-made noodle shop, mini "supermarket", metal tools[五金] shop，even a walnut shop. Basically you can find everything you normally need here. For a lot of locals, this kind of streets are their daily life.





This “华兴街煎蛋面” has been selling its signature noodle with fried eggs' for decades. For all these years, it has never moved, changed its set-up[except the banner], or expanded the menu. Today, this is the most famous noodle place in Chengdu. Interestingly, it locates right behind 春熙路 and has not been developed[according to the boss, this street is already protected because of a couple very old restaurants]. For a couple days I kept going there eat noodles[which is very cheap]. The boss is rather talkative. He always stands at the door. I told him that I am from Nanjing and come to visit Chengdu. "I've heard of this noodle places many times and it is really good!!" I said in an admiring tone. His response was really funny," of course!! this is the only ONE authentic 华兴街煎蛋面！！all the others are fake!". He seemed very happy and proud of his work. When I asked why the noodle is so good, he laughed "of course we have our secrets". When I asked why they didn't open chains, he said,"it wouldn't taste as good if we get chains". then why not furnish the place a little bit? His response was a little surprise: our workers don't want to sacrifice their pay!" we have enough customers~~" Well, they do. they are always busy....
After all, they do have really cheap and REALLY delicious noodles~~~hahahaah
















This is also a decades-old noodle place. Their banner noodle is 怪味面-"weird flavor noodle". Different from the previous one, they do sell other flavored noodles. Here are four different flavors~~ Look, their tables and chairs look better~~This place has been furnished..
It's right across the street from a high school. There are a lot of students come for a quick lunch or dinner. With them the boss is especially nice. When the students finish the bowl, they can go have some extra noodles[with no seasoning] if they are still hungry.






This is 小谭豆花。It used to a little food stand that sells 豆花[very soft tofu]. Today they have adopted modern business techniques. It set up [only]a couple chains. It has a transparent kitchen. The hall was renovated in a traditional style. Look at the little ticket next to the bowl, this is a very old-fashioned method. Back to 1980s, when most restaurants were still national, customers had to pay first and get the food with the ticket. Here the ticket says" 馓子豆花“[soft tofu with the sticks looking stuff on top], from 1924.-woo~~





This is a lamb soup place. I put it here mainly because lamb soup is not a local Chengdu dish. The most famous 简阳羊肉汤is from a nearby city. In these little streets, "local dish" is not a common characteristic. As long as it tastes good and charges reasonably, it's a local 苍蝇馆子~
In fact, today in these streets we can find Yunnan rice noodle, authentic dumplings from the Northwest, not to say the specialties from other areas in the province.






Again, this is decades-old food place. It's specialty is 凉粉[a special transparent noodlish thing made of certain beans]. Like the soft tofu place, you also have to buy a ticket here. Another reason for it is this little food place is still National!! I have to be surprised. Before Deng changed the country's direction in 1980s, there were very few restaurants and almost all of them were national. Later more private restaurants with better service kicked out the national ones in the market. But this one still survives and prospers!! The cashier is an old lady--with a very interesting attitude. Different from the private ones that please the customers, here you don't get a smile, "what? --we are out of it!!". OK--all staff in this little place are elders. They keep talking to each while working, very chill. When I asked the old 叔叔 about the old-fashioned ticket, he took it seriously, "of course it's a good tradition!! we have to keep it! We can't change everything!'' I sense that in today's social atmosphere, "state-owned" companies could face a lot of pressure to "change".
But this place has not, they have not changed at all. They still have the good food, and the loyal customers.

香猪农场

When I first came to Sichuan as a volunteer, I learned about 罗宇-- this mysterious Taiji master and his organic farm. This time, I finally got the opportunity to visit his farm. A friend of mine sells organic products and knows 罗宇personally. Thus I called his cell by referring to this friend. He sounded very nice and welcomed me to come the next day. On the phone he was very considerate. He told me the specific location of the farm, how to get there by bus, asked me to call him if I get lost. At the end he said "we will wait here for you." At that point, I thought he was just being nice.

The next day, I left from the downtown. The farm is in a nearby village. To get there, I had to take three separate buses. Luckily it didn't take me too long. After one hour and a half, I arrived at the farm. Thankfully the nearby farmers all know this 香猪果园 and showed me the direction after I got off the last bus.

The entrance of the farm is very simple and straightforward. There is only a couplet: 香猪山上跑，四季果满园。[pigs run on the hill, fruits harvest all seasons]. I walked in and saw a poster: 果园香猪农家乐 Oh, it's a peasant home stay! this is their business model! I immediately connected this to 三圣乡。

In fact, this farm is way different from a normal 农家乐。

I kept walking and saw an old 阿姨[this is a simplified term for women older than my mom, I can't find the alternate in English]。I imagined a 农家乐will welcome any potential customer. But she asked " did you contact Manager Luo." Well, luckily I did.

She lead me to the main building of this farm. On the balcony, there were three people having tea. I quickly recognized 罗宇 as the 阿姨called 罗经理！His first words were "we've been waiting for you for long!!". He worn a red traditional-style jacket. Somehow I felt something different about this person. He speaks and walks in a very steady rhythm.

He was not being polite. They were litter ally waiting for me. 罗宇's farm is only open to members. This is not just a restaurant with a little farm.

We had a quick introduction. At the same time the other two people were talking about Chinese medicine, which drew my interest. We joined their discussion. Later I learned the 阿姨is a doctor in 西医[western medicine], the other 叔叔 is 罗宇‘s 太极师弟[younger brother of the same Taiji master]. He studied 中医[Chinese traditional medicine] on his own. In their discussion, they talked about the systematic corruption of 西药， basically the problems with pharmaceuticals.and the significance of traditional medicine. Didn't all this sound familiar?

As the staff prepared my lunch, 罗宇and his 师弟took me on a tour in the farm.


The farm is built on a hill. I later learned that 罗宇rented this land from local farmers 10 years ago. At that point, the farmers thought this land on the hill is difficult to cultivate and thus were happy to get rid of it. However, for 罗宇，this land higher up is great to develop an organic farm[less chemicals left-over].

[note: back to 10 years ago, farmers' land was not allowed for rent. But this specific village was the government "experimental site" and 罗宇 grasped the opportunity]

罗宇used to be a trader. 10 years ago he learned about organic farming and quit his job. At that time, it was a crazy idea. Luckily, his wife supported him.
Before starting his business, 罗宇and his partners took four years, went all over the country[only in China] consulted numerous people, including retired agricultural scientists, experienced farmers, other people in organic farming sector, the list goes on. Then they carefully designed this farm.



All staff are farmers from nearby. Here they are watering the vegetables with 农家肥[farmers' fertilizers] and pulling the weeds. Here they make methane out of pigs' excrement and use the left-over as fertilizers.




These couple 老爷爷 are very talkative. As I talked to them, they seemed very happy working here. They know this is a good way of farming. But why others don't follow? They gave me their answer: 1. organic farming is labor-intensive. Take that small piece of land for example, it takes one person half an hour to kill the weeds with herbicides. However, here it's been taking three 老爷爷two hours but they still haven't finished it. Today, few people would want to make that effort except very motivated.
2. here in the farm 罗宇does not allow any chemicals to kill the bug. The only system is the "honey bottle" which attracts bugs to fall themselves. Thus the yield is significantly less than normal plants, especially in the first few years.
3. if there is no certification[which costs a lot of money] or good marketing, who would trust you that it's organically grown?

In fact, after 罗宇started his farm, some farmers nearby did try to imitate, but they all failed after a while.




Here are 罗宇's pig. This specific breed is carefully chosen. One of their grandparents is a wild pig. Look, their nose stick out. Each "room" has a back door and staff would go open it regularly. As time goes by, pigs learn to kick it to get out, and of course to come back for food. The route is already designed so that pigs won't get lost or bump into vegetable gardens. Interestingly, pigs here are not afraid of people. They understand when 罗宇calls "丑猪 ugly pig" because they know that's a sign of food.
At the beginning, 罗宇raised lots of sheep because their excrement is very good fertilizers. But then pigs have much better commercial value in China. Thus pigs become the major "cash animal". Besides, they have some chickens and ducks, and a fishpond. In fact they would be bankrupt if they only do vegetables.






















Here is the dining hall. The set up is very simple. On one side, the poster tells 罗宇's story and the farm's ecosystem. On the other side, there are two smaller rooms: Taiji club[太极会所] and Organic club[有机会所]. On the wall, there is a poem-归园田居, which describes the rural life. For many years, the poet fought for his "ideal society" in politics . Finally quit and found his happiness in the countryside. This poem has great significance in history.
My lunch was a mini hotpot. The soup was made of pig bones. The vegetables were fresh pulled from the field. The pork sausage were from the farm, made in the farm. Rice was organic brown rice, again, from the rice.

Later, I toured the rest of the farm, talked with 叔叔阿姨 and finally got a free-ride back to the city.

Chengdu has a small organic market. Through this market and some friends, I've met several people involved in this "movement". Many of them[especially in NGOs] rely on foreign cases and theories.But 罗宇is very different. He is deeply rooted in Chinese traditional culture and the Chinese traditional culture is deeply rooted in 农耕文化[agriculture]. He's been practicing Taiji for almost 20 years[He is the National Taiji Champion] and Taiji itself is a practice of ancient wisdom. He reads Chinese traditional classics, such as 易经，道德经，资治通鉴，黄帝内经,etc。From his childhood罗宇understands the value of these "traditions". Thus he is clear about where to seek help. He says, China itself is already huge treasure.

罗宇's business has been loosing money for 7 years. But this year, they had a good profit. Everything is sold out. A good membership is established, and the demand is stable. Now he is working with others to establish an organic farming association。

正心、修身、齐家、治国、平天下 is what the Contortionists believe. Self-cultivation is at the first place. 罗宇understands this.






p.s.: This is what I found on the way to the farm in the village. 农业生活垃圾箱--I have never seen this before in the countryside I visited and this one looks pretty new. In my memory trash is just tossed in the field, but here, there is a huge trash can!

复古建筑[二]--宽窄巷子

宽窄巷子["broad-narrow lanes"] is another commercial zone featuring "tradition". Different from 文殊坊with completely 'fake' traditional old architecture, 宽窄巷子 was built on remains from old 成都residential area.[kind of like 胡同in Beijing] In recently years, real-estate developers have cleaned off most of these old places but here the small remains got renovated and, of course, gentrified.Today there are still some people living here, note: in houses. This area is no longer affordable for everyone. Different from 文殊坊，宽窄巷子has lots of western food places, Starbucks being one of them. Here Starbucks has dropped its standardized "T-shirt" but changed to its "Chengdu clothing".
I found this really funny. Chinese are extremely adventurous with food. Whatever it is, wherever it comes from, as long as it tastes good, we'll give a try. Starbucks is such an exotic place~~
"布朗尼brownie?危地马拉咖啡Quatemala coffee？let's try!"
But, after all,
Here is China.






This is a tea house











This is a small resturant, older than the new commercial zone, very original.










what is this??
-----it's a garage!!