New year texting madness

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-02/01/content_9404236.htm

We all know that asian new year is coming up and we all know the texting spam that comes with it. Aparently that is becoming a problem in China because there are a lot of people in thos cities and many of them are sending text messages to celebrate the occasion. there are so many texts being sent that it is too much for the network to handle and the government is responding with a policy that says that you can only send 500 text messages per hour. to me 500 texts is a lot but to other people and even some people will have a problem copeing with the temporary limitations.

Victor Kuc

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-02/01/content_9404236.htm


The article that I read was about a new policy to limit the number of New Year text messages send during Spring Festival at the end of the year. Three main Chinese mobile network operators limit allowable seding text messages 200 within hour or 1,000 within a day. For holidays and weekends, it will increase to 500 hourly and 2,000 every day. I think it is a good policy because, there are not many people normaly send more than 200 text messages in an hour and 1,000 within a day. Also, this policy would decrease receiving bunch of spam messages. However, because there are exception, bussinessmen who should send numerous text messages to their client, I believe mobile network operators should make exceptional allowance.



-Yoo-Jin Lee 李侑眞

The article that I read in china Daily is about the new Chinese pillars that are being built in the Olympic Forest Park. The purpose of building these pillars is to celebrate 60th National Day Holiday, but they are not done yet. I think building these Chiense Pillar is great idea because this is one of the why to express their love of thier country and this is type of respect also. I also think that when this is done with the great design, these pillars could be a great view of the tourists in the future.



-Saila Kim-

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/metro/2010-01/19/content_9342037.htm

The article I read was about international schools in China. Many Chinese students want to enroll. I think this is kind of counter-productive. If Chinese students want an international school experience, why don't they go to an international school in a different country? It just doesn't make sense to me. On the other hand, this article did pique my interest in maybe going to an international school. To go to the school spotlighted by the article, you have to interview in Chinese and English. Obviously I'm not at that level yet, but I think it would be pretty cool to go to a school in Beijing. Maybe senior year.

The story that we read was very intresting. First seems intresting that you have a clash between the two biggest peoples in the country. At that time it was unheard of to mix classes. It starts to unravel as the high and powerfull manderin family son would love a poor farmer. The conflict begins when the boy gets imediatly sick when he could not live with out his love, Ying seems to get sick as soon as she is in the present of what she does not want. It true seems that the love is not ment to be true. Yet as people know, for there to be true happiness there needs to be sacrafices that each people need to make. As the story ends you see that the ultimate sacrafice turns out to be amazing for both of them. It seems that farming was the way to go and was the simple answer to all the problems. It seems intresting on a seprete note that such a love story takes place with the countries biggest job
Jesse Nagel

This i believe was one of the more interesting reading assignments so far. One of the things that I found so interesting was that marriages were arranged between families instead of the people deciding themselves. Even if she could she would have a hard time because the father of the man she was supposed to marry was none other than the mandarin who was the most powerful person in the region.
I felt bad for her as she would be forced to whatever her parents wanted her to do as i too would also feel board living the royal lifestyle. Of course it would be easier but the day to day life in a palace would be very boring as you would do nothing and sit on your rear all day every day until something serius came up. However on a place like the farm you would be working hard every day but it would be worth it because you would have more fun living life.
It was good that she could convince the prince to convince his father who was the mandarin to allow them to create a farm on the property for the two of them to live together happily.
victor Kuc

I thought the story was Disney-cute. You know, good for little kids with short attention spans and no capacity for attention to detail. It would have made me feel all warm and fuzzy, if it had paid a little more attention to to detail. Clearly, Ying King didn't really care for Bing Sum all that much. I think this shows the chauvinistic views most early civilizations held, especially in regards to love and marriage.