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The first reaction of mine on this piece of news is "impossible", the second is also "impossible", and the third is again "impossible". Such jokes are spreading over the Internet very often. However when I see it on China Daily, when I was in Jinjiang Tower attending the announcement of Delphi 2005, it turns out to be the truth. Almost in a sudden many members in my MSN friend list started to change their nick to the related topic. So great this world! Impossible is nothing.
Lenovo never leaves me any good impression from the very beginning. It prones scorn on the technical workers and only wants to make short-term money. I have to admit it has been very rich now. But the tax it contributes to the government is very limited. Being the so-called largest computer manufacturer, it is very strange that the only thing that Lenovo benefit the society is represented in term of money. How about the technology? Here is what I saw: The software it provides is obviously not passing any kind of testing process. I can assure that such kind of software will be rejected by the first cycle of testing engineers, if in India. Concerning the hardware, one of my best friends, who is very experienced in this field mentioned to me, "Lenovo is purchasing the hardware from those manufacturers which we never heard of and binding them into a shape of computer, then labeling each of the computers with its own brand, that is all the story". And here is what I experienced: 2004 Jul. 8th, I took two Lenovo laptop to the school and neither of them was willing to work, one of them simply refused to boot up, and the other gave up with a blue-screen when the PowerPoint was being launched. If it was not a classmate of mine was bringing an IBM laptop with him, my presentation on my graduation thesis will be a complete failure. What a dramatic scenario! Or can we say it is a total tragedy. Sir Thomas Gresham argues that good notes are driven out of circulation by bad notes, here is another evidence.
After all we have to rethink on the issue again. Of course many Chinese will blindly celebrate this and consider it a victory of "the great Chinese people", but I never think in that foolish nationalism way. IBM is never making decisions without analysis. It sells its hard disk department to HITACHI. It now sells its whole PC department. In my point of view, it probably means that PC will no longer be a very profitable area. Even IBM thinks that it will be non-profitable when concerning the cost of factory, sales, support services between the all the profits, can Lenovo be cleverer than IBM? I do not think so. Although the leaders of both side claimed that it is a win-win deal, I think it is most possible that it is only another win of IBM.
Lenovo must devote more not on sales and marketing, but on research and development; not on the sponsor project of Olympic game, but on testing and qualification project to ensure the quality of its products; not on the bribing of the officials who is responsible for the purchasing, but on improving the salary of the technical workers. Only by carrying all that out, can it achieve the objects it sets for themselves, which is not a bit possible, at least at present.

This air disaster occurs in a sudden. Only after about one minute from its taking off, the aircraft began to behave "in a very abnormal manner", and the witness substantiated that "It seemed that the driver had once tried to roll back to the airport but resulted in a complete failure, only several seconds after that the aircraft has been driven to the direction of Nanhai Park, explosions follow just meanwhile". 55 victims are proved and announced, including 6 members of aircrew, 47 members of passengers, and 2 on the ground. The witness and the members from the breakdown gang also pointed it out that "It is the most dreadful image that I have ever run into throughout my life, the concussion and blare from the explosions will never die away from my heart", "Can you imagine that? None of the victims is having a complete body. Heads, arms, fingers, lungs, legs, any kind of organs can be found at the accident site", "God forgive all that, I went to have a look of the wreckage of the aircraft, but all that cauterized in my heart is death, death, death".

Who is to blame? Let it be. The insurance company began to pay for the victim's beneficiaries , mostly their poor parents, children, their loved and beloved, who are crying in despair. But what can money count for? To be or not to be, the answer is very different. Once such accidents happen, we the livings always feel a kind of meaninglessness of pursuing the material desires. What is the meaning of the life itself? Among the victims, there is a student, there are businessmen, there are officials, there are policemen, there are workers, there are common citizens, almost a tiny society. But only all in a minute, all these men and women were turned to very equality, "to which you will return". He is passionate; she is ambitious. He has a plan to gain an order; she has a plan to give a birth. However, the abruptly elbowed fate stopped all the running hopes, plans, futures.

Similar disasters happened around me, not only this. One of my colleagues, Mike Lin, passed away because of abdomen cancer, on 2004 October 15th. One of my parents' colleagues and the mother of one of high school classmates, left us because of leukemia last week. And one of my school fellows, died less than 23 because of sudden heart attack. Terror of death starts to threat the people of my age. On thinking of that, nobody will feel comfortable. Who knows when will the very thing happen to himself or herself? Human beings tend to think they are knowledgeable enough to predicate everything but how ridiculous it is they turn a blind eye to so great a support for the agnostics that nobody knows when one can die.

From the time I was just a very small child I began to feel such kind of ultimate concern, so I prevent myself from running the risk of taking any kind of dangerous entertainment, Ferris wheel for instance. I know it very clearly I have never been a lucky guy and I am always turning up to be with very bad situations once I am not behaving in extremely great care. Each time I left my home, my heart is always very nervous and once I get back home I am always feeling a true relax. Thank God, He postpones my death second by second and helps me to avoid traffic accidents, earthquakes or other disasters. The dead is always reminding the livings, being alive itself is so splendid, and we should always cherish what we have and try our best to be happy and make others happy, so as to be smiling, till the moment that the real death is facing ourselves.