Life Is Beautiful

全民最大党2009..01.20海协会记者会

"Please 抓好扶手。"

应该没这么夸张啦，但也是有很大问题的。

[成都]公交噪音？

另外，失眠的时候，

不推荐看《全民最大党》。

容易上瘾。

返乡归来，

不慎抑郁。

徜徉梦乡，

不欲苏醒。

不理红妆，

亦不梳洗。

慢待友人，

缓迎亲戚。

不善交际，

实在失礼。

新年已至，

不怀欣喜。

旧年愿望，

不无想起。

希望健康，

锻炼身体。

其他不行，

唯有此一。

不欲富贵，

平安第一。

家人朋友，

俱各元気。

牛年心愿，

此为第一。

本命太岁，

“慢慢叫”来。#

若能不来，

更是欢喜。

鼠年不顺，

牛年莫急。

事之成败，

自有天定。

努力即可，

不怪自己。

# 吴语，系“take your time“ 之意。

"The World = a Class"

1、美国 班长，学习好，家里有钱，人高马大，好打架。班里没几个人敢惹他。 和副班长关系不好。
2、俄罗斯 副班长，成绩优异，全班最高大，上学期光和班长顶着干。后来家里出事：分家！现在做事很消极，但在班级里有一定的影响力。
3、中国 团支书。幼儿园学习成绩很好。小学时由于体质差常被欺负，没事爱吹牛，由副班长罩着。　　
4、英国 学习委员，学习成绩好。家里也很富。班长的跟屁虫，做事没主见，啥都听班长的。前些天和班长把伊拉克打了一顿。
5、瑞士 美术课代表，班花。学习成绩好，清高。
6、奥地利 音乐课代表。
7、阿富汗 职务无。不爱学习。身材矮小。上学期被副班长打，班长帮忙付医药费。前几天把班长家的最高的两个家具砸了，被班长揍个半死，现在失忆中。
8、伊拉克 无职务。学习差。但人高马大，上学期排全班第四。嘴硬，上学期欺负同桌被群殴。前些天被班长和学习委员冲进他家揍个稀巴烂。
9、印度 好玩电脑，成了电脑课代表。经常和同桌巴基斯坦为一块课桌吵架。
10、巴基斯坦 职务无。成绩一般。和团支书关系不错，经常和印度吵架。
11、德国 班级活跃分子，人高马大，擅长数理化。有野心，由于上学打了2架所以现在暂无职务。但认错态度较好。
12、日本 无职位，成绩不错。思想品德很{巨}差。上学期刚被班长和团支书等人揍。现在还惦记着班长家的鱼缸。
13、越南 无职位。人品有问题,瘦弱。上学期被班长揍，幸好有副班长和团支书撑腰。后又挑衅团支书，被狂揍。
14、朝鲜 无职位。有个性。和团支书关系好。近期和班长闹矛盾，班长扬言要揍他。
15、韩国，无职务，品行比日本还差，喜欢偷团支书东西，偷完了还不知廉耻拿出来炫耀。由班长罩着。

Or used to be >_< (I miss those days)

I’ve promised long ago to show the dancing videos I love.

So finally here you go:

Bachata:

The song (Ven Tu by Domenic Marte) is brilliant!!!!

And why it is my favourite:

how romantic it is aside,

the dancers make it seem dancing is such an easy affair, as though anyone could do it so well=)

And this is quite a cute video of Bachata too, judging from the headwear of the guy~

The song (No es una novela) is also very nice!!

Enjoy!

Very skilful solo dancer of bachata!!!

I am sure her puppy learns a lot by sitting on the couch behind =)

As for salsa, I have not discovered videos that I really like (tell me if you have one).

Chose the following to show just for its recording clarity.

(and possibly because I just like this couple~)

The music is plain though.

1, German people (at least Bayern people) love Jason Mraz’s "I’m Yours". I think it’s been played with higher frequency than any other songs on Bayern 3.

2, (A) Loving to perform and (B) lack of stage fright are two totally different things. Although it is possible that event (A) leads to something that leads to event (B), arguably. They are still two separate things.

3, It is foreseeable how unforgiving certain people can be, whenever they are able to find a tiniest fault to pick on, magnify and attack as they like. People have different mindsets and beliefs; not that there is no chance that we would ever reconcile, but certain people cannot bring themselves down from a superiority that they entitle themselves to. If people don’t learn to respect each other, there will just be nothing ever coming out of the endless disputes.

1, Nyonya cuisine can be VERY BERY nice, and not so spicy!!!!! LOVE it MAN!!!! But cannot go too oft (sounds expensive, and can cause extremely bloated stomach -_<).

2, No marriage and/or no children, and be like the leung & lau couple? I didn’t modern people are so -modern- alr But, hmm, that doesn’t sound too bad an idea either, does it? You get to travel regularly and live in nice appartment! And leung and lau do wanna get married and have babies eventually.

3, Sometimes it feels like millions of years has gone past, yet your calendar shows otherwise; whereas there are times when years flits away but we do not feel time has gone at all. It’s simply mystifying…

4, It’s easy to sleep off your jet-lag within 3 days: 1st day, sleep till 9am; 2nd day sleep till 12 noon; 3rd day sleep till 6am, and have an aftn nap. You will be perfectly sound again. Try it, no guaranteed results

and the lion?

how many faces do you see? (there are 9…)

You must not find this picture unfamiliar.

But this guy has really made a model!

Freemish crate

And i am profoundly puzzled by this one!!!!!!!

Geometrical paradox

In fact, if you study logic, you will get to be trapped in more discussion on paradoxical twisting of words.

Try the following four arguments:

Some paradoxes – an anthology

1, God is not all-powerful as he cannot build a wall he cannot jump

2, Happiness or a ham sandwich?

Which is better, eternal happiness or a ham sandwich? It would appear that eternal happiness is better, but this is really not so! After all, nothing is better than eternal happiness, and a ham sandwich is certainly better than nothing. Therefore a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness.

Smullyan (1), p. 219

Proof that there exists a unicorn

I wish to prove to you that there exists a unicorn. To do this it obviously suffices to prove the (possibly) stronger statement that there exists an existing unicorn. (By an existing unicorn I of course mean one that exists.) Surely if there exists an existing unicorn, then there must exist a unicorn. So all I have to do is prove that an existing unicorn exists. Well, there are exactly two possibilities:

(1) An existing unicorn exists.

(2) An existing unicorn does not exist.

Possibility (2) is clearly contradictory: How could an existing unicorn not exist? Just as it is true that a blue unicorn is necessarily blue, an existing unicorn must necessarily be existing.

Prediction paradox (Newcomb’s problem)

Two closed boxes, Bl and B2, are on a table. Bl contains $1,000. B2 contains either nothing or $1 million. You do not know which. You have an irrevocable choice between two actions:

1. Take what is in both boxes.
2. Take only what is in B2.

At some time before the test a superior Being has made a prediction about what you will decide. It is not necessary to assume determinism. You only need be persuaded that the Being’s predictions are "almost certainly" correct. If you like, you can think of the Being as God, but the paradox is just as strong if you regard the Being as a superior intelligence from another planet or a supercomputer capable of probing your brain and making highly accurate predictions about your decisions. If the Being expects you to choose both boxes, he has left B2 empty. If he expects you to take only B2, he has put $1 million in it. (If he expects you to randomize your choice by, say, flipping a coin, he has left B2 empty.) In all cases Bl contains $1,000. You understand the situation fully, the Being knows you understand, you know that he knows, and so on.

What should you do? Clearly it is not to your advantage to flip a coin, so that you must decide on your own. The paradox lies in the disturbing fact that a strong argument can be made for either decision. Both arguments cannot be right. The problem is to explain why one is wrong.

Let us look first at the argument for taking only B2. You believe the Being is an excellent predictor. If you take both boxes, the Being almost certainly will have anticipated your action and have left B2 empty. You will get only the $1,000 in Bl. On the other hand, if you take only B2, the Being, expecting that, almost certainly will have placed $1 million in it. Clearly it is to your advantage to take only B2.

Convincing? Yes, but the Being made his prediction, say a week ago and then left. Either he put the $1 million in B2, or he did not. "If the money is already there, it will stay there whatever you choose. It is not going to disappear. If it is not already there, it is not going to suddenly appear if you choose only what is in the second box." It is assumed that no "backward causality" is operating; that is, your present actions cannot influence what the Being did last week. So why not take both boxes and get everything that is there? If B2 is filled, you get $1,001,000. If it is empty, you get at least $1,000. If you are so foolish as to take only B2, you know you cannot get more than $1 million, and there is even a slight possibility of getting nothing. Clearly it is to your advantage to take both boxes!

"I have put this problem to a large number of people, both friends and students in class," writes Nozick. "To almost everyone it is perfectly clear and obvious what should be done. The difficulty is that people seem to divide almost evenly on the problem, with large numbers thinking that the opposing half is just being silly."

For more challenging problems,

visit http://www.paradoxes.co.uk/

or try rebuting one or more of the problems above.

Would like to hear your views regarding the unicorn problem specifically:)

(because that’s one of my tutorial problems)