Chiang Kai-shek's representatives to the United Nations expelled 24 years ago today

On October 25, 1971, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 2758, which recognized the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the ligitimate government of China in the UN. The representatives of Chiang Kai-shek, as a result, were expelled from the seat they unlawfully occupied.

I remembered when I first read about the original text, which was a part of an essay in a GRE textbook published in China, I was a little doubted about its realness. Because of the KMT-manipulated education system I have been through, I was used to believe that the Republic of China (ROC) disaffiliated decently. However, I started finding out the true story, and it turned out that what KMT taught about the UN-Taiwan histroy was just totally bullshit. ROC was not expelled from the UN, but just gave in the seat to PRC. Then I began to check other historical records and books about the past years, and found out the shameless plots that tried to brainwash Taiwanese with piles of bullshit.

I have been fooled for some 25 years by the damned KMT gansters, who unlawfully occupied Taiwan for over 60 years. That was really a bitter memory, when I did not believe my motherland Taiwan but those gansters, I would keep for my life. I will not give any other vote to the KMT/Pan-red anymore unless all these crimes they have done have been well punished.

Transparency International announced Corruption Perceptions Index 2005

國際透明組織公佈2005年各國清廉指數

Taiwan was ranked 32nd, up from 35th in 2004, with its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) raising from 5.6 to 5.9. Since it is the value of CPI rather than the rank can reflect the degree of corruption in public sector of a country, I reviewed the indices ever released to see if the situation is really improving in Taiwan. Let's check the following,

Year CPI Rank
2005 5.9 32
2004 5.6 35
2003 5.7 30
2002 5.6 29
2001 5.9 27
2000 5.5 28
1999 5.6 28
1998 5.3 29
1997 5.02 31
1996 4.98 29
1995 5.08 -

It seems the degree of corruption is decreasing sluggishly after the millennium, but it is evident that the peaceful transition of political power in 2000 did have significant influences. As one can average the CPI values perioded between 1995-1999 (gives 5.2) and those between 2001-2005 (gives 5.74) to find that, under the DPP administration, the situation is improving though in a slow progress.

Link: http://ww1.transparency.org/cpi/2005/cpi2005_infocus.html

Income-generating tools

生財工具(income-generating kits)：
IBM Thinkcentre S50 8086, equipped with:
Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU/DDR400 SDRAM 1024Mb
/Seagate 80Gb HDD/DVD Combo drive, NT$15900
IBM Thinkvision L190 19" LCD Monitor, $8120
Post on 104case.com.tw, $3800
Still nothing comes in after 1 month, priceless.

Fighting against maternal authority

Civil disobedience against authorities, pan-red gangsters, and mostly journalists, who have brought dismal disorders to Taiwan.

There is a delibrate scheme aimming at DPP cabinet members secretly penetrating into all kinds of Pan-red media. Pan-red media players are trying to frame the DPP administration as corruptors and incompetents. Lots of so-called scandals keep boardcasted all day long on those news networks, but it seems none was convicted. Meanwhile incompetent doings such as Taipei City Mayor Ma and Taichung City Mayor Hu did have been selectively neglected. For example, the vast deficit, over 170 NT billions, flooding in Taipei sustained only a short one-night duration on TV channels, while legal claim of 44 NT millions bonus by Chairman Lin, Wen-yuan of China Steel has been contiuously smashed for more than a week.

It turned out that Lin, who led his company to sharp profit growth, resigned to show his responsibilities, which I can see no faults about, then what should Mayor Ma do in response to the drowning deficit?

Maggie's searching for treasure 

Cute boy?

I always wondering why adults keep mistakenly recognized Maggie as a boy. But it is somewhat weird that every kid Maggie ran into can instantly recognized her as a girl. It seems that adults tend to judge things superficially. We tend to take face, hair, and dress into determining a kid's gender, which sometimes goes wrong. In the other way, kids just sense, probably, scent, motion, and interaction and determine whether he or she is.

Sleeping beauty....

From this view, she looks like the Japanese comic character Crayon Shin Chyan.