What is Buddha jump Wall(佛跳墙)?
I was talking cock with Edgar via Msn asking what can one do on a rainy week when he shoot back say Singapore where got rain for oen whole week one..sigh.. But here in Shanghai, last week everyday rain at 1800HRS sharp, this week rain before 1200Hrs sharp. At this kind of time when you are trying to unpack and remove away the mold and fungus in the wooden cabinet, this kind of weather can be quite turn off.
So in the end he tell me either he sleep, or go out take photo. Or I can try make soup and drink at home. Should be very song(feel good). I told him today actually want go buy dehumdifying box for camera. Then he say buy no rush, one day later or what won’t matter. I asked him he so bored until need oral sex?(MSN)
Anyway, that’s bullocks. The main point is this. I asked him whether mash potato can become curry a not. Then he said something like can, can even become Buddha Jump Wall(佛跳墙). I think he was trying to suan(be sarcarstic) me or some thing. But sadly, at the age of 27, I seriously dunno what Buddha jump wall(佛跳墙) taste like and how it looks like. 
Coming from Singapore where there is a large Hokkien Dialect group commnuity, never eat before this dish is really embarassing. But then again, I never was the type to spend too much in Singapore.
I did a Wiki and this was what I found:
The name of the soup implies that it is so appealing, even a vegetarian monk (Buddha) himself could not restrain himself and would sneak out of the monastery (”jump over the wall(佛跳墙)”) to taste it.
A typical recipe requires many ingredients including quail eggs, bamboo shoots, scallop, sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin, chicken, Jinhua ham, pork tendon, ginseng, mushrooms, and taro[citation needed]. When served in restaurants, the more expensive ingredients are emphasized to justify the lofty price normally charged for this soup.
Buddha jumps over the wall(佛跳墙) is a traditional Fujian cuisine that has approximately two hundred years of history. It came from a chef from one of the government official in Fujian. At first, he used about twenty ingredients, primarily chicken, duck, other meats, and Shaoxing wine. Later, he also added seafood.
So confirmed, Edgar was suaning me. How to make mash potato into this Buddha Jump wall(佛跳墙)? o.O And the soup really look delicious. I see what I can do about it finding a chance to drink this soup one day!
Marriage without Ang Baos?
As I was cruising through blogs again, I came upon this good and convenient way of Modern Ang Baos. One need no longer worry in Malaysia you will be robbed again. In Singapore, you can show off your new Credit Cards. In China, you no need worry about under table methods(or perhaps you worry more):
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Guests at an Israeli wedding hall can now insert a credit card into a machine at its entrance, tap in a sum and leave a gift for the bride and groom.
“It’s new in Israel and the world,” Aya Alon Kaufman of the Gan Oranim hall in Tel Aviv said on Israel’s Channel 10 television. “It’s very convenient … guests can give a gift even if they forget their chequebooks.”
She said couples pay 500 shekels ($155) to rent the device, which resembles an automated teller machine, and the recorded funds are transferred into their bank account the next day.
The machine, shown being used in the television report, prints out a “deposit” slip with the guest’s name, which can be put into an envelope along with a congratulatory note and inserted into a slot in the device for the couple to retrieve.
Rather than bring boxed gifts, guests at Israeli weddings usually leave cash or cheques in envelopes they slip into a safe placed at the reception hall’s door.
(Writing by Jeffrey Heller)
Whatever this is, I seriously like the idea. But how many of these will you need in a 100 table dinner? Sure crowded if only got one!
Rui got married - Singapore
Someone who has been nice while I was in Fudan University recently got married. He’s a teacher. His wife’s a Korean. Not easy. For two different people from two different nations to get together. I wish them blissful marriage and ever lasting happiness and joy!
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Teenage Boy Shows How to Get a Snake Tongue - Direct from ChinaSmack
I take the time to introduce to you all an English blog I found recently online called ChinaSmack. This blog have many posts translated from Chinese forums that can be quite bizzare and actually tells us about the young generations of Chinese who grew up after the 80s. Below is the picture of of a kid who actually gone through quite a series of pain to achieve a snake tongue. You can read up more about it here.
Lawsuits that can be avoided
I have been surfing online recently, and read up on some interesting law suits that’s going on in my little hometown Singapore as well as the place I currently reside in, China.
In Singapore, there seems to be a legal issue between two hot bloggers who are currently tearing up each other’s throats. Both of them, to me are just Zengz and had successfully grabbed enough local attention. You can google search Dawn Yang, xxvsDY, winnie cheng for information in regard to their news.
Another interesting social issue that caught my mind is the new term called human flesh search engine. People here in China love to read news online, esepcially those posted in various Chinese forums. Sometimes, certain news outraged the public, causing a whole of people to share vital private information with the netizens about the accused, giving them directions to actually harass people. Someone actually stood up for a defense and intend to sue for justice. Below is an article by Xinhua.net titled “Human flesh search engine”: an Internet lynching?”:
By Xinhua Writers Bai Xu and Ji ShaotingBEIJING, July 4 (Xinhua) — Behave yourself in China, or you may find yourself up before a kangaroo court of angry netizens and receive a virtual lynching.
Those whose behavior is deemed wanting by enraged netizens have found their name, birthday, mobile phone number and home address researched and exposed, available for 160 million netizens who might drop you a surprising call.
When farmer Zhou Zhenglong finished faking his South China tiger photo, he never expected that netizens would find the old Lunar New Year commemorative poster he lifted the original picture from just 35 days later and expose him. After a long drawn out saga, the authorities finally came clean and admitted that the picture was a fake. Zhou was arrested.
“In finding out truth of the ‘paper tiger’ event, our Renrou search engine played an important role,” said an Internet staffer nicknamed Yule on the Mop entertainment website.
Renrou literally means human flesh, and ‘Renrou search engine’, the ‘human flesh search engine’ is not the search engine familiar from Baidu and Google, but the idea of a search engine employing thousands of individuals all mobilized with one aim, to dig out facts and expose them to the baleful glare of publicity. To do this they use the Internet and conventional search engines.
The model has some similarities with Wikipedia and Baidu Knowledge, which both attract 10 million clicks every day, and which pool answers from netizens to a question.
By its narrow meaning, Renrou search started in 2001, when a netizen posted the photo on Mop of a girl, saying she was his girlfriend. Some others soon found out that the beauty turned out to be Microsoft’s model Chen Ziyao and publicized her personal information as proof that he was lying.
The term became a catchword in 2006, when in February, video ofa woman stabbing a kitten in the eyes with her high heels and crushing its head stirred rage of netizens.
People analyzed the background of the video, and someone soon located the place as in a county of northeastern Heilongjiang Province. Less than a week later, information about the woman, including her real name — Wang Jue, a 41-year-old nurse, and the fact that she divorced was dug out. Wang was later suspended from her job.
The year 2008 has seen a peak of Renrou searching, when a husband whose wife committed suicide because of his betrayal, a man who disrupted torch relay in Paris and a girl from northeastern China who dared to criticize those affected by the massive earthquake became targets.
“Those who mistreated the vulnerable are likely to incur the hatred of netizens,” said an online freelancer nicknamed Ayawawa who herself was involved in a search for a disloyal husband.
“I just want them to be punished,” she said, adding that according to Chinese law, such behavior, although immoral, invite no legal punishment.
After the May 12 earthquake, a girl from a college in Chongqing municipality nicknamed Diebao said on the Internet that the earthquake was “interesting”. “I wonder why wasn’t it more vehement?” she said.
Her mother and teacher received cursing and threatening phone calls from angry netizens, forcing the girl to suspend her schooling.
In comparison, the punishment of Wang Fei seemed more severe. His wife Jiang Yan jumped from 24th floor on December 27 last year after learning of Wang’s adultery, leaving a blog diary to recall her despair over the previous two months.
People not only wrote characters with paint on the door of Wang’s parents accusing them of killing Jiang, but contacted Saatchi & Saatchi, the company where Wang and his mistress worked. Later the company suspended them, and the pair later resigned.
Wang sued the Tianya and Daqi websites in April for infringing his privacy and reputation, which was recognized as the first lawsuit against a Renrou search.
“It has seriously hampered my normal life,” Wang said, noting that he had received many mails and his parents were frequently harassed.
“This is online violence,” said a friend of Wang who only identified his surnamed as Jia, “netizens could blame him, but exposing his personal information is not right. After all he is not really a bad person, and most, if not all, of the netizens didn’t really know what happened between the couple.”
A survey by the China Youth Daily last week showed that 79.9 percent of the 2,491 netizens polled believed that Renrou search should be regulated, 65.5 percent thought it might become a new way of venting anger and revenge, 64.6 percent said it infringing privacy, and 20.1 percent feared that they would become a target.
Ayawawa also agreed that some targets were just scapegoats for netizens to vent their anger in daily life.
“For instance, we see many disloyal husbands and adultery happens every day. Wang Fei’s case gave us an occasion to attack those immoral,” she said.
Internet gave people a disguise, and power without the responsibility that should come with power. Nobody knows who you are and people don’t have responsibility for their conducts, said an Internet professional, who declined to be name for fear that hemight suffer a roasting at the hands of the ‘human flesh search engine’..
“I am sure that many of the attackers of Wang Fei are his colleagues or even friends, who have access to Wang’s personal information,” he said, admitting that to achieving high clicking rates, some websites deliberately fanned people’s fury and fueled their desire to search.
“Netizens should be cautious online, especially when registering, don’t give out your personal information,” he added.
According to the survey by China Youth Daily, 24.8 percent of those polled supported legislation to restrict Renrou searches.
However, Chai Rong, a law professor with the Beijing Normal University (BNU), said that even if the law was drafted, it would be hard to enact.
“Take Wang Fei’s case, you can’t decide who played a more important role in ferreting out his information. In fact, every netizen contributed to the result. As for the girl condemning the earthquake victims, her behavior deviated from social ethics and she would be accused anyway.”
Xia Yang, associate professor with the law school of BNU, suggested that real names be required when surfing on the Internet.
“Currently we have no legislation protecting people’s privacy in China,” he said. “On the other hand, Chinese netizens are not mature enough to control their own online behavior.”
He pointed out that Renrou search nonetheless played an important role nowadays. For instance, after the earthquake, many anxious people contacted their relatives in Sichuan, where the epicenter was, in this way.
“In Chinese we say ‘more helpers make the job easier’. More people could help resolve the conundrum that no single person could handle,” said Xia. “Actually Renrou search reflects development of society and the popularization of the Internet,” said Xia.
In a way, Renrou search could be a way of monitoring which brings to light some blind spots that governments and media might miss, like in the case of the “paper tiger”, he said.
Meanwhile, it could remind people to behave themselves all the time, if they don’t want their personal information revealed in broad daylight, said Ayawawa.
Mop is founding its union for Renrou search.
“We started recruiting talents and rewarding them with virtual currency in May,” said Yule with Mop. To date, more than 100 people have been selected for the activity. Standards for selection are capability and morality.
Yule also revealed that they are drafting a Renrou search pact, which would be amended by legal experts.
“It is our honor to help others seek happiness and our shame to leak out their privacy,” he said.
All these seem to be so haywired to me. And victims or accused will definitely have to look for lawyers to help flatten things up a little for them. For those who reside in LA CA can actually approach Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyers | Southern California Criminal Attorneys for help. They are currently one of the better lawyer firms around that will kick some ass for you.
At the end of the day, why can’t you all just behave yourselves? 
