Is China willing to socialize in the international society? Is China or will China be a team player the rest of the world hopes it to be, cooperating on solving the global problems? Will China be an aggressive or cooperative force? Is the sense multilateralism present in Chinese foreign policy?
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Mission Gain Weight: This weekend
Guess what, I just found out that I ran out of rice! so I had pasta madness this weekend. I cooked loads of these two pasta dishes and keep them in the fridge for the whole weekend :D
This one is Spaghetti alla Puttanesca (which literally means whore’s spaghetti), my favorite pasta dish of all time.
and this one, Spaghetti aglio olio e peperoncino (spaghetti with garlic, olive oil and chili).
and I also make these cute little aliens. deep-fried sausages!!
(looks like a badass huh)
This is a lecture given by Dr. Zhang Yihe (章诒和) at the Oslo University, 12.october, 2010, on the subject of censorship in China. The lecture is in Chinese with Norwegian translation by professor Halvor Eifring. The lecture is recorded with the help of my iphone.
On Zhang Yihe: She is a…
I arrived at Osaka on the 1st of October, took a train to downtown, checked in and went out to eat. After having hotdog for breakfast, crappy food on the plane for lunch, now it’s time for something real.
Osaka is famous for okonomiyaki, so yeah, okonomiyaki for dinner it is.
I went to this…
Most batteries require some amount of bulk, making them impractical for use in flexible and lightweight objects. But a team of materials scientists at Stanford have succeeded in creating a paper-thin battery that could be the answer to all of those nagging problems and finally usher in the era of e-paper, powered packaging and electronic newspapers. (via Paper-Thin Batteries « Emily Chang – Designer)
As a part of my curicculum, I’m reading the works of seminal chinese anthropologist Fei Xiatong. In 鄉土重建 (Reconstructing rural China), the series of essays published in 1948, he offers solutions to political and economic problems that China was facing in 1948, based on his own research…
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Question: What got two faces and one giant pair of balls?
Answer: The average MP.
”—Charlie Brooker, Newswipe
