How Professors Spend Their Time

The semester will start in few days from now. Are you wondering how professors are spending their working time? Thanks to phdcomics.com, here dear readers is the answer:                                                                                                                         The last one is for maybe after I’m tenured…   Technorati Tags: University, Humor, fvarga

What’s About Taiwan Economy?

If you remember the presidential campaign in Taiwan, you must have in your mind how the “Taiwanese economy was bad“. I posted earlier today HERE (my Forex blog) a quick commentary about Taiwanese economy without any partisan or political point of view (especially as a guest in this beautiful country, I don’t consider myself as [...]

A New Computer For The Army

  Taiwan has succeeded in building a computer able to solve any strategic or tactical problem. Military leaders are assembled in front of the new machine and instructed to feed a difficult tactical problem into it. They describe a hypothetical situation to the computer and then ask the pivotal question: Attack or Retreat? The computer [...]

Taiwan: Do Not Expect Too Much

The American position concerning the Taiwanese participation in some international bodies is quite clear and steady, especially when we are talking about the WHA. But what we are seeing now since 100 days in Taiwan is quite confusing. The Taiwanese president Ma made many moves toward China and obviously he and his team still call [...]

Work Out: For the Best or the Worst?

After a serious accident (multiple fractures, surgery and blah blah blah), I spent one year for recovering and re-education. Since one month, I am back to work out (jogging, biking, hiking…). The beginning was like hell, each muscle of my body asking for a longer vacation Anyway, it’s getting better. From 10 minutes the first [...]

Olympic Games and Age of Chinese Gymnasts: Shame on IOC

Just few hours ago, this morning, I posted HERE about the investigation into the age of Chinese female gymnast. A lot of facts seems to prove she is under-aged. Anyway, I concluded that I didn’t not believe that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will really investigate it even though, deep in my mind, I was [...]

Taiwan Beer…

  PHOTO: LEE LI-FA, TAIPEI TIMES (in Pingtung city) What is more dangerous? Beer? Rat snake? What’s about a drunken snake?   Technorati Tags: Humor, Snake, Beer, fvarga

IOC orders investigation into He Kexin’s age

The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into the age of Chinese gymnast He Kexin, The Times of London reports. Faced with almost insurmountable evidence which suggests that He is two years younger than the birth date listed on her Chinese passport, the IOC has launched an inquiry that could result in the stripping [...]

IOC President Rips The Wrong Guy

Jacques Rogge is so bought, so compromised, the president of the IOC doesn’t have the courage to criticize China for telling a decade of lies to land itself these Olympic Games. All the promises made to get these Games — on Tibet, Darfur, pollution, worker safety, freedom of expression, dissident rights — turned out to [...]

Olympic Games: "Other" China Is Still Alive Behind The Scenes

IOC (International Olympic Committee) claims Games are “apolitical”, but they’re a costly project for citizens. The athletes are like pretty kites flying overhead, so mesmerizing that they distract from the grimmer realities of the Beijing Games, just as the Chinese government hoped they would. But don’t forget the “other” China. As a reminder, consider the [...]