Camp Gottagrin

Due to the constant hard work for my postgranduate entry, which is still claiming an undecided future, this website hasn't been updated for a while. Several projects for new article had been abandoned or postponed. An unidentified tale about scientist E. Rutherford has his remarkable comment about his hard-working student said that he doen't spare enough time to think. I'm sure not every professor would agree with him since some of them just need an high-end workhorse and some students don't know how think.

Anyways, this is not what I want to be. The website will be revived any time, I will keep you informed.

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Han Cun Village, an average Chinese rural area located in Wuqing County, Tianjin, has a more than 400-year catholic history, never been lacking of believers even in the worst times. Here village life is heavily influenced by catholic tradition, which also offered them more tolerance and helping established a more equal society comparing to other rural areas inherit the Confucian ideology.

The first cathedral in Han Cun built approximately 100 yrs ago, occupying 850 square meters, was destroyed in...not war, but the Great Cultrue Revolution(figures). Later in 1988, pastor Zhang Yonshan(张永善) initiated a project considering a smaller church house, of about 715 squre meters, to be built, all by volunteer. The project was completed as planned but soon people discovered some critical flaws on the design due to the lack of fund. In the year of 2004, the building were finally declared unsafe, and was torn down in March the exact year.

Soon a completely new project were launched in the hope of building a new cathedral covering an area in which more than 3,000 believers live and work, making it the regional largest. Since farmers in Tianjin have a relatively lot better condition comparing to other areas in China(No. 3 in 2005), the church find it not so difficult to get a constant finnancial injection, and the actual construction was begun no later than November of the year. However, since the donations, with an estimate of CNY 8,000,000, cannot come in once. The completion date is still unknown in mid-2005 (where the pictures were taken).

Still, the church body is loosely under the jurisdiction of Tianjin diocese of Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, commonly refered as the 'official church', but consider its self-sustain nature and popularity, we can assume the pastors have gained some significant autonomies on at least church affairs.

The church is also running a musical school teachs violin for free, teachers from city musical academy(officially Tianjin Conservatory of Music) comes in weekends to offer some professional instructions.

The Cathedral Under Construction

Temporary Place for Religion Activities Located in Pastor's Courtyard

Daily Life of Han Cun Villager

The Musical Classroom

Plus, the MSN picture management is the worst I've ever seen.

A recent report from official Chinese Xinhua News Agency shows that Chinese blog user has reached a skyrocketing 34 million and still on the rise, with the majority using it to record their mood, and minority for making a voice, include the two of mine.

Also, and article with the headline of "Chinese Network Users are the Most Unrestricted in the World", has quoted a claim from a news official of PRC central government declares "Blogs has not been opened(sic) in British" and "people use Internet in Korea(not DPRK) must present their real name(sic)", sidenotes in same article added that British ban are due to legal process and privacy protection, though no fact were presented to support any of these claims.

I've always considered such reports are preparations of consensus which is leading to a full scale use of Real-Name Registration and online surveillance, since such things does in operation. And according to some materials I've read the major project might include biotech recognization and A.I. trace and analyze, which means, neither such surveiliance would cause any harm to you, nor you would aware its existance, untill, of course, someone decides to do something.

Negative comments often criticise that it is impossible to surveillance since there is unlimited possibilitie within the process of the flow of information via network, but I can prove them wrong. Just see my links on the left of this page, the closedown and blockup of such sites would become more often with the number of registed blog still on the rise, what kind of blog would make this happen? I can presume those are the "record your mood" type that fill the blanks. Some theory says that you must create positive and redundant informations as well as mow down unwanted informations to gain a full control of medium, they've got the point.

You know, I've always thinking that the prediction of Telescreen is the only thing to make 1984 a Sci-Fi, not a historical prophecy.

Very few ever heard from pacifists among muslim, this article presents an example in the hope of balancing your view. 

Saudi Columnist: 'We Have Bred Monsters ... We Are the Problem and Not America'

On November 30, 2003, Dr. Muhammad Talal Al-Rasheed, columnist for the English language daily The Saudi Gazette, wrote an article titled "Senseless Violence, Senseless Death." The article is in reaction to the murder of Saudi Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Rasheed of Hail by 'Islamists' in Algeria. The following are excerpts from the article:(1)

"...A few days back Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Rasheed of Hail was murdered in Algeria while on a camping trip. He was 40 years old and his son, Nawaf, 13 years old, was with him. At the time of this writing, we only know that the father was killed, while the son s condition is to be verified.

"It is easy to get on one s soap box and pontificate; to tell humanity that we suffer from terrorism too. That is too easy though; and perhaps too intellectually cowardly. Talal was a well-known poet in Saudi Arabia. He comes from a family that ruled Arabia long enough to be recorded in history. He was and will always be a beacon of Art, whatever that word means.

"Those who killed him are those who want the word silenced. The young man left it open whether he was with this or that, but he was adamant to tell all and sundry that to be is to talk and exchange. I grieve, I must admit, and am beyond reason because of the trauma of it all, but I do maintain a semblance of reason to see where all of this is leading.

"We have bred monsters. We alone are responsible for it. I have written as much before my personal tragedy and will continue to do so for as long as it takes. We are the problem and not America or the penguins of the North Pole or those who live in caves in Afghanistan. We are it, and those who cannot see this are the ones to blame.

"Castrated as we are, we look to America. Why? Because they went into Iraq and made a difference. Better or worse is another point. Once America has demonstrated its willingness to do something, the moral imperative is that it should not stop at the first station along the road. The majority of us are sick and tired of this carnage and President Bush, wrong on just about everything else, is right on this one. Does he have the (courage) to finish the job? I wonder.

"I don t think this will be published in the Arab News, as it should be. If not, I understand their point of view and their perpetual selectiveness. But one thing is sure, we are here to stay even if it takes giving our best to the madness of religion and the wrong of fanaticism. Nothing, but nothing, is worth the life of an innocent... may the Americans add Talal to their list of loved ones lost to the same indiscriminate madness that took 3,000 on a certain day in September."

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(1) The Saudi Gazette, November 30, 2003.

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