Castrategy overdose...

A eunuch was a castrated man that served as guard or servant to the emperor/king. Because he was castrated he was considered very trustworthy. We find eunuchs in ancient Greece, Persia, Turkey, India and China. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, for example, there were about 70,000 eunuchs employed by the emperor. I'm thinking.

Why castrate 70,000 straight men and not employ 70,000 gay men to protect the harem? Were the women in the harem so gay-tempting gorgeous or were gay men such a rare species back then? Or was the ruler afraid his guards might be tempted to guard him from too close a distance one day? :)

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Jelly Fish Noodles

Every year we get giant jellies in Japan sea. Because they look like noodles, I thought of new presentation for noodles which is very popular dish in Japan. Make plastic bowls that look like shell of jelly fish and arrange noodles like jelly fish tentacles. Call it Nomura's Noodles.

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Invest in weight-loss businesses in Asia

Why I think it's a great investment. Asians incorporate more Western food into their daily diet. This makes millions of them gain fat and become more obese every year. I read in Japan 27 million people already suffer from obesity. There are more than a billion Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Thais and Malaysians and thus the growth potential for weight-loss businesses is huge. I think it's smart to invest in Asian fat!

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Why the China man won't spend

SunTzu said: If the enemy is weak because he overspent, don't overspend or you'll become weak too. Said it but didn't write it.

SunTzu then said and wrote: "All warfare is based on deception...If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles"

The world hopes the Chinese and the other Asians will spend the West out of recession. Ok, here is why if you read SunTzu you know this will never happen.

The Chinese know themselves. They like to save. They look at the West and they see that it overspent and is in trouble. What's the lesson they get?

Stick to saving. Don't do what your rival did and got him in trouble. Just give the appearance you might in the form of big government spending plans.

How deception works. The government announces big spending plans and the world thinks the Chinese man will suddenly start spending. But the Chinese man will not do that because he knows it will get him into same trouble as the Western man.

He remembers Sun Tzu and decides to save a big portion of the money in order to buy the enemy later and win the battle without a fight.

Sun Tzu said: He who hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer.

Time to read Sun Tzu from the Chinese man's point of view!

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Robots to fight poverty?

I read this article about this guy named Wu Yulu in China that figured out how to build robots that do the work for him. The amazing part is that the guy has not even finished highschool.

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"ethnic unrest in china leads to mass arrests"

that's the front page title on cnn and then we read that 1,434 people were detained. that's a lot if you live in the us, but if you live in china whose population is more than 1 billion, how mass-ive is that? more impressive is the speed with which the police immediately cracked down on that "mass protest" than its actual mass. wondering what a chinese person thinks when he hears the number, does he really think it's a big protest or a small one? most probably he never hears of the protest and we will never know.

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China, Japan, Korea...

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, etc...or as I like to call them: "Hey, can I get a fork?" countries. Hand2mouth feeding would be better in this case >>>

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Monks disrupt journalists' tour of Tibet

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 27 March 2008 by member pierre

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LHASA, Tibet (AP) -- A government-managed visit by foreign reporters to Tibet's capital backfired Thursday when Buddhist monks disrupted the tour, screaming that there was no religious freedom and that the Dalai Lama was not to blame for Lhasa's recent violence.

The government had arranged the trip for the reporters to show how calm Lhasa was after the deadly riots shattered the city.

The outburst by a group of 30 monks came as the journalists were being shown around the Jokhang Temple, one of Tibet's holiest shrines.

"Tibet is not free! Tibet is not free!" yelled one young Buddhist monk, who then started crying.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/26/tibet.china.ap/index.html


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Do you think it was a good idea? Yes / No?

Protest as Olympic torch is lit

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 24 March 2008 by member yikes

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"OLYMPIA, Greece (CNN) -- A lone protester managed to breach the tight security during the Olympic torch lighting ceremony in Greece Monday....""

What's your opinion on that based on what China does in Tibet?

Article:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/24/torch.relay/index.html

Spread your voice worldwide via car horns!

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 20 February 2008 by member smarty

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Talking about horny thoughts! What about a website service where people from all over the world upload a message that would be heard when a taxi driver in China or India or any country in the world presses his or her car horn to warn a pedestrian. Car drivers will be able to download it via their mobile phones or via wireless internet and use it as car horn. It can be a ring tone or a person's voice with a message in your own language or in a foreign language.

If you upload your own message, you will be notified by the website service daily as to how many times and in which countries your voice was heard. The people that used your voice to replace their usual car horn sound will be able to give you feedback online as to the reaction people had when they heard it. Wouldn't it be fun? What do you think?