Oct 28, 2008

Vog and Chinese Food and Medicine: 清肺

Oh, dear vog, let's read some stuffs from Chinese doctors!
Good luck with fighting vog!

Plus:
http://hawaii.gov/gov/vog



This is some ingredients play some interesting roles in clean the lungs in Chinese Medicine:
(Yay,
Chinese eat anything and Chinese vegetarian will eat any plants and mushrooms for fun...)
LoL
  • white turnip: cough, phlegm, smoker
  • lily (put lily into porridge or soup):
  • mung:
  • water chestnut: clearing away heat (Chinese medicine)
  • silver mushroom
  • lotus seed
  • honey
  • refined white sugar
  • white gourd




DON'T eat too spicy, salty or greasy.



These are some recipes to make those
ingredients tasty (sorry, don't have time to translate, hopefully, Google translate can help ):

a. 雪耳、莲子、百合、排骨汤:
  原料:雪耳75克,百合100克,排骨500克。
  做法:将上述选料清洗之后加水一起放入煲内煮沸,煲3小时。
b. 桑百皮、百合、排骨汤:
  原料:桑百皮50克,百合75克,排骨500克。
  做法:将上述选料清洗干净后加水,然后一并放进煲内煮沸,煲一个半小时。
c. 润肺银耳羹:
  原料:银耳5克,冰糖50克。
  做法:将银耳放入盆内,以温水浸泡30分钟,待其发透后摘去蒂头、拣去杂质;将银耳撕成片状,放入洁净的锅内,加水适量,以武火煮沸后,再用文火煎熬1小时,然后加入冰糖,直至银耳炖烂为止。
d. 润肺豆浆粥:
  原料:豆浆1000克,糯米100克,白糖适量。
  做法:将糯米洗净放入锅中,加水适量,武火烧沸后改用文火慢慢熬煮,煮至米粒开花时倒入豆浆,继续熬10分钟,加白糖适量即可。
e. 鸭肉粥:
  原料:鸭肉150克,糯米250克,料酒、盐少许。
  做法:先将鸭肉切丁;糯米加水煮粥,然后加入鸭肉、少许料酒和盐,煮至粥熟。
f. 毛肚血汤:
  原料:鸭血300克,毛肚150克(注意不要加入羊肉,因为羊肉属热,不适宜在气温渐高、天气干燥的春夏之交食用)。
  配料:黄喉、鳝鱼、午餐肉、黄豆芽、粉丝各100克,重庆火锅底料、泡姜、大蒜、味精、白糖各少许。
  做法:先将鸭血切成片,放在炒锅中用清水汆一下待用;再放少许清油把姜片、蒜片炒一下,放入重庆火锅底料烧开;汤味熬好后,加入鸭血、毛肚、黄喉、鳝鱼、午餐肉、黄豆芽、粉丝等直至煮熟(注意毛肚不要煮得太老)。
  提示:俗话说“血能洗肺”。因此,对于这种绵软滑爽又非常便宜的血豆腐,此时不吃更待何时?
g. 火腿冬瓜汤:
  原料:火腿片,冬瓜片。
  配料:葱丝,姜丝,虾皮,盐,糖,麻油。
  做法:锅内放清水煮沸,将冬瓜片及配料下锅煮10分钟后加入火腿片,2分钟后即可出锅;出锅前加入葱花、麻油、盐、糖。
  提示:此汤清新可口,去燥润肺,适合春夏季节食用。



Reference:
http://www.xicn.net/life/health/item/2003-05-16/117642.html



Oct 27, 2008

new obsessions: Analects of Confucius

Wonderful philosophy book.
Amen after reading it and
Hallelujah after reciting it.

Oct 20, 2008

How to be a good naggee

For couple with nagging issue and believes in Bible:
Psalm 139
http://www.yawill.com/bib/viewbook.php?lang=zh&ver=ncv&book=20&chapter=31


For naggee side:
How to Deal With a Wife That Nags a Lot. (~Fun to read~)
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-1278.0.html#msg28774

Men talk more than women overall But Not In All Circumstances
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071108171518.htm

Study: Women Are in Charge at Home
http://www.livescience.com/health/070711_woman_boss.html


For nagger:
Why do men ignore nagging wives? It's all science
http://pressesc.com/01171393773_nagging_wife_ignore

Fourteen tips to avoid nagging.
http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2008/06/fourteen-tips-t.html

Oct 16, 2008

Say No Now, to prevent the oooh nooo!!!" moment

Say No Now, to prevent the oooh nooo!!!" moment


Originally uploaded by ucumari


Slowly learning to say no... in a series of girl-guy stuffs happening in these two weeks.
I "blamed" to the dancing practice, and was told that it is the tests from above.
slowly learning... lol...


Say "No" now, so there won't be a situation of "OOOOOOH NOOOOOOOO!" later.
lol

Here are the series happening in these two weeks. (don't read this block, for self reflection is always a waste of time)
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1.
Random Houseless Guy A: hei you look pretty.
The Gal: oh thanks. (naive, i was really willing to listen to someone appreciate my prettiness)
Random Houseless Guy A: can i have your number?
The Gal: okay. (naive, agai)
(ennnn...scared to answer the phone now)

2.
Random Guy B: Hei, just want you to know that you are lucky.
The Gal: Oh, why? ( very protective)
Random Guy B: You are pretty.
The Gal: Oh, thanks. It's the gift from God. (very happy)
Random Guy B: Can i give you my number?
The Gal: no, I am sure won't call you. but you are welcometomychurchonsundayatxxx. (protective)
Random Guy B: en, okay.
(thinking about how to report to her brahs & sistahs to "fix" the guy, while forgetting actually she was the one needs to be fixed: " just say no directly!)"

3
Random Guy C: Hei, you are very beautiful
The Gal: Thanks! (victorious smile)
Random Guy C: Do you wanna hang out sometime?
The Gal: No thanks. I don't do that. Nice meeting you and hope you have a good day. I am running for a meeting. May God bless you in the rest of your day.
(running away. Learned)

-----------------whew, time to be serious. the rest blocks will be useful----------------

As it mentioned above, those must be the tests from above. Should have known how to control the tongue! ~~^_^oOV
Slow learner needs some wisdom from above......


Thus, not only the guy-girl thing, but also the daily life, the friendship, the work and the research.
"No" is very necessary, to protect yourself from distracting, to keep a good pace, and to be focus with higher efficiency.

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So, how do we say this nasty "no", if it is really a rude thing to do?
I found the steps below has been very useful for myself:
=D

OH NO!!!!!!!!!
Originally uploaded by cooperis

1. gently appreciate whatever the situation comes in front of you. Appreciate it loudly and respectfully.
2. Find a common ground, to make a benefit for each other.
4. Decline, respectfully & politely, in a determined way.
5. Keep confident about the decision you made.
6. Don't feel bad or guilty. Pray for the "no" situation.
7. Focus on the "yes" you have been making.

Good luck with practicing this "no" game.
For we don't want to say that "OOOOOOH, NOOOOOOOOO!!!" at the end~~
lol
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Translation ... duplicate in this blog, simply beause the facebook import will push the update faster

Translation for
http://www.hawaii.edu/issmanoa/student_harassment.htm
It's the page in University of Hawaii at Manoa's International Student Services' website about Sexual Harassment.

It has been translated into Japanese and Korean and hope the version in Mandarin will be updated soon.
We need more people to work on it, specially traditional Chinese side. If you speak Mandarin, please do not hesitate to contribute.
You may reach us with email: cleah at cleah dot org

Mahalo!




什么是性骚扰
中文简体
夏威夷大学
Translated by: Lulu
2008-10

1. 性骚扰是…
在学校,性骚扰是一种在性与性别认同上的权力滥用, 而导致妨碍或伤害学生的学术表现或者工作环境的行为。
例如:
  • 有关”性”的评注, 暗讽, 恶作剧或者评论
  • 挑逗或者淫秽的动作或肢体语言
  • 在当事人明示拒绝后的重复的约会请求
  • 性的涂鸦或其他视觉宣传物,如海报,日程表等等
  • 不志愿的/ 不想要的 触,摸,抓, 拥抱或者拍打
  • 强迫要求/重复请求当事人参与社交活动或性行为
  • 胡乱散步有关当事人的性特征或性行为谣言
  • 挑逗或猥亵的邮件
  • 如果当事人不接受以上行为情况下,威胁或降低当事人的成绩
  • 如果当事人不顺从员工的社交要求或者性要求,威胁解雇当事人

2. 如何应对性骚扰
在性骚扰发生后:
  • 请不要忽视当前的情况
  • 不要自责
  • 告诉他人: 信任的导师, 顾问或者朋友
  • 和你所信赖的人倾诉所发生的事情和你的感受
  • 书信通知或者当面告知当事人停止性骚扰行为. 告知当事人你不喜欢这样的行为非常重要.
  • 保持书面记录你的经历, 包括日期, 时间, 地点和姓名
  • 寻求帮助;记住你不是孤独一人
  • 明白你的权利。性别平等咨询办公室乐意为您提供更多有关官方或非官方控诉手续的信息.

3. 性骚扰在美国是非法行为


有关性骚扰荒诞的说法

荒谬误解: 在美国, 人有自由说话的权利,只要说了没有做(性骚扰的事情)就是合法的。
实际上: 在美国, 自由言论包括自由讨论一个观点, 而不是要求性服务或威胁他人


荒谬误解:我在性骚扰面前不能做任何事情,因为这些仅是他/她和我言语上的意见不合。
实际上:性骚扰是非法的。如果你遇到性骚扰, 告诉朋友或性别平等咨询办公室, 了解你的权利和义务。


荒谬误解:担心性骚扰是对开玩笑的过分反应
实际上:性骚扰和开玩笑不同。性骚扰会让你感觉不舒服, 是单方的, 可耻的, 会让你感觉到无助。 而开玩笑则不会让你感觉不舒服,玩笑往往是互动的, 是建立在平等和尊敬的基础上。是相互自愿的友善行为。


荒谬误解:只有女人才会被性骚扰。
事实上: 任何人可能遭到性骚扰:女人, 男人, 儿童, 异性恋, 双性恋, 男同志, 女同志以及做过变性手术的个人们。


有人认为性骚扰不是很严重。 但请切记, 性骚扰在美国是严重的违法行为, 性骚扰和在教育上的性别歧视是被联邦法律第六条明文禁止的行为。


4. 性骚扰的类型 交换条件/不利环境
1) 交换条件
例如, 当你老师根据你对他/她性方面的要求的反应而奖励你更高的分数或者威胁你更低的分数。

2) 敌对的环境
例如, 在身体接触,行为言论或者视觉性骚扰严重妨碍到你工作学习。 这种性骚扰行为不一定会给你的成绩造成直接威胁, 但这样的性骚扰行为可能影响到你的教授, 学校工作人员或者学生。

5. 如何寻找帮助?
在夏威夷大学的学生, 老师以及各级工作人员可以通过联系一下单位/个人,获得更多相关信息建议和帮助:



Gender Equity Counselor : http://www.hawaii.edu/osa/Gender_Equity/
Dean of Students Office
Civil Rights Counselor : Queen Lili‘uokalani Center for Student Services 210

Oct 15, 2008

Thank God or Thank People?

From "Thanks be to God"... en...

1. Who need this appreciation the most if we have to pick up only one?
People of course. They are not perfect and they need some encouragement to do the good deeds.

2. How to give thanks to God?
Love people's souls, accordingly.
Saying it? like "God loves you more than you can imagine"? Yes, absolutely!
Doing good deeds? like "lunch and prayers for homeless"? yes, creative!
But I'm sure, it's all done not for God, but "with and through God".

3. according to the "praise God" action from my observation, two kinds of reaction:
80% God's believers will think this is fantastically right and perfect. We give all thanks to God.
100% "God makes no sense" people will directly give the judgment that "you guys are crazy, not thankful, and devoid of all gratitude."
Bridge this impression, dudes.
Thank People and God. ( un-christian)
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Result:
Be supernatural, not superficial. Praise God with good deeds and good words, according to the souls and needs.
Specially when group emailing or broadcasting or in any public settings, the best is to consider what God cares the most.

Just a thought before going to a class and it is good day with lots to be done.
=)

Oct 9, 2008

Ethnocultural perspectives on PTSD ... =D

En..read an interesting book unexpectedly, wrote more than required pages, but deleted most of personal stuffs perspectives, since I might be not in the category of the book region, though similar to C-A, still, situations varies from time to time.

Very impressive, specially for it's scientific research, categorization is an easy way to do the test and find the most exact result, but for real life cases, every single person has to be counted as a new cultural carrier. No pre-judgments or bias can be blocked before the empathy nor sensitivity.

As it says, it's a book of major minorities, to fill the blank brick in this special area, it will be very interesting to see how all stuffs come together, logically, sociologically, scientifically and spiritually true.
:D

still feel sorry about 9 pages nonsense words, lol... all are just an appreciation for the authors contribution in this area.

XOXO, with the scientific mindedness hypothesis, still, we will find that, God is good. lol

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Finally found out, there is something big is missing in the book! Da application is subtle...
=I

plus... really don't want to return the book !!! ~~~

=P

Oct 7, 2008

this is dos and donts email season

First etec course 5-step model, to this random blog entry jumping into my RSS subscription.
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/09/the-soul-of-wit.html

Always wish I could have knew something earlier.... sh~
=D

Oct 3, 2008

PLAN670 D. in mandarin apply

Part of interesting things found in the course.

Here are the characters of disaster in Chinese, and it is about destroy of the house, either by fire, or through flood, or from both.

《誠明(二)》, "Cheng Ming (2nd)"
Early Shang Dynasty


From the book 《乙(九五九)》"Yi (Nine Five Nine)"
In Late Shang Dynasty



《楚帛書》,"Chu Jin Shu"
In Xi Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period




《古鉨》 "Gu Xi"
Han Dynasty.


So, to answer the question from the professor, I Ching is the book about astrology in ancient China, and it's a very difficult to read and comprehend.

Now:
Traditional Chinese: 災 -- the shapes are about water and fire
Simplified Chinese: 灾 -- the shapes represent fire and house.

Most of the natural disaster in China as far as I understand, it's directly supported by the military directly, with a very high efficiency.



Oct 2, 2008

Chinese don't hug t-shirt


Chinese don't hug t-shirt
Originally uploaded by Lulu
Chinese don't hug, it's real!
=D

Before going to China, hug as much as you can!
It's a good exercise to love and be loved when practicing the arm opening movements.

For those who are from a non-hugging culture and get embarrassed by the hugs, feel free to print it on the t-shirt, wear this & have some fun to hug around.

lol


Lulu

ETEC 645: dRaFt for FuN~~Electronic mail communication

ETEC 645: dRaFt for fUn~
Electronic mail communication:
as person - person, person - group,
group - person, group - group

This is supposed to be academia,
but sorry, it's too fun to be academia...
so...lazily, i chooooose to have a fun...entry...

Lulu

Person - Person E-mail Communication

Real Life Metaphor - Personal conversation, dating, personal meeting,
E-mail Model: 5-steps model by Purpose of the email, Content of the email, What should be done and will be done.
Remember to consider the personal background.
Other online forms : instent message, text message, phone calls, facebook wall posting,


Person - Group E-mail Communication
Real Life Metaphor - public speaking in a group
E-mail Model: with the 5-steps model, remember to consider the group interest and avoid oersonal-group conflict, personal privacy, and copyright. For example, a research based group such as Center for Chinese Studies may not expect to get an religious event annoucnement in the local Chinese community.
Other online form: post entries on forum , google group posting, facebook group, ning network, ...


Group - Person E-mail Communication:
Real Life Metaphor - for the recieving person, it might be like a group interview, or Q&A after speaking, or even the jury on court.
E-mail Model: 5-steps model, with focusing on the purpose of the communication.
Other forms: Broadcasting, TV, News updating, Google Group,


Group - Group E-mail Communiation
Real Life Metaphor - rould table meeting, Olympics, summit conferences,
Reasonable purpose group-group communication: Information exchange, conflict resolution, events setting up, biz trading, groups negotiation....
Thus: Information exchange in electronic mail can be acceptable, but considering the conflict resolution between groups or setting up some cross-group event, other forms of communication have to be taken account of. If the communication is not under the standard, misuse of group to group mail might involve serious conflict.
Attention: avoid inter-groups conflict, use other forms of communication
Other online forms: open Forum, tele-conference,

I should not say that e-mail is out of date, since it's still used broadly in my life.
But for the professional, goverment, biz, organizations, ERP should be a better way to communicate and negotiate, so that the receiever and sender group will be speificed.


My model:
Think the 5-steps -> save the draft ->
wait for 10 minutes -> review it again -> send


Sometimes, we don't know we were drunk into some negative mood and lost the neutrality. Like when I am reading my past blog entries, I am seldom content with what I wrote before. It's a learning process and I have to say it's good to be honest to myself. That "10 minutes" waiting step is to calm down myself and to be relatively ojective.



References:

Grandgenett N., and Grandgenett, D., (2001), Problem Resolution Through Electronic Mail: A Five-Step Model, Innovations in Education and Teaching Internationa. , ISSN 1470-3297 print ISSN 1470-3300 online © 2001 Taylor & Francis Ltd.

Menchaca, M., (2008), ETEC 645 Website, http://etec.hawaii.edu/otec/classes/645/10.05.08.htm

Etec 645 - Review the paper: Problem Resolution Through Electronic Mail

Review : Problem Resolution Through Electronic Mail

Lulu
liuliu@hawaii.edu
Introduction
In this essay I will review the paper: Problem Resolution Through Electronic Mail: A Five-Step Model’ by Neal Grandgenett and Don Grandgenett. Collectively, the paper analyzes the electronic mail’s advantages and disadvantages, and with a scenario of using electronic mail to approach resolving the problem, it generalizes the five step models for education and training environments.

Summary
As the paper serves specifically for school and training environment, the article can be visualized as the picture below.

The paper first analyzes the three benefits of using the electronic mail for resolving conflict/problem, such as fast response, advantage of written communication and flexibility of linking to the other information. Then it examines the additional problems the electronic mails might bring, such as tone misunderstanding between sender and receiver, distrust between the sender and the receiver, the manipulative feeling the receivers might feel and the misreading of the content by the receiver. At last, the paper gives us a five-step model of writing a well-structured and effective electronic mail, which is considered as answering the five questions listed below:
  • What is the problem? – the problem title
  • What makes it a problem? – the problem summary
  • What can be done? – the resolution examination
  • What should be done? – the preferable resolution of the problem
  • What will be done? – the bottom line to the situation

Critical analysis
The mind map shows the critical analysis of the article with the red font, and it can be enlarged by clicking the picture.


As the paper presents that one of the benefits of using electronic emails in school is because people at school and training organizations turn to use the electronic mail a lot. Then the question how often for a professor to read emails from students may be asked? What if the staff is on vacation or in a conference? If the situation is urgent, the e-mail probably will be a drag for the whole problem resolution. Especially when the conflict is from below (such as from student, new faculties) to above, the answer of the electronic mail might be delayed comparing with versus.

Secondly, writing communication do requires more thinking process, which may help the clarity of the language, but the limitation of the text communication also weakens the electronic mail’s effectiveness. The reference to support the effectiveness of text communication is from an article used by Vogel back in 1988, which really not convincing enough for nowadays school and training organization environment. (Need a reference of growing use of the internet/multi-media at school and training organization). Comparing with the text, the voice and images can carry richer content, with multidimensional senses to address the content of the problem, the degree of the urgency, as well as the severity of the problem. Thus, when the hardware allows, if the sender well drafts the content of the text and voice/image message before sending/calling/posting to the receiver, there is no significant advantage of the text communication.

Thirdly, the use of voice and image can actually avoid the conflict aroused by misunderstanding and distrusting between sending and receiving agents. As it mentioned in the last point, voice and image can carry richer information to address the different aspects of the problem, so as to resolve the problem in a more efficient way.

Last, the author generalized all kinds of training environment into this one 5-steps model without considering the culture of the organization or the manner of the administration. It is very important to consider the ethnocultural perspectives when communicating with cross culture agents.

Resolution
The mind map picture below shows the resolution of the critical aspect of electronic mails with the blue fonts. Click the picture to enlarge the picture.

First of all, as the article mentioned, the misunderstanding of the tone actually can be resolved by using other means of communication, such as the voice mail, phone call, online message, text message, twitter or online forum so on so forth with the rich content supporting. As mentioned before, sound and graphics will carry more information and emotion, as well as to avoid the misunderstanding. So, using other means instead of relying on e-mail can avoid misunderstanding and mis-communication.

Then, the use of open discussion can avoid the negative feeling of mistrusting that the text of the message is being copied to others inappropriately. This mistrust may slow down the receiver’s working efficiency (Need some references), which brings whole another privacy issue. Except the forum, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is actually a good model to use for the whole school system to communicate, so that the flow of the message will be clear enough for everyone without confusing or delay. Of course, if the ERP is not viable, democratic open group email sending is also a good option, to avoid the receiver’s insecure feeling.

Additionally, the school or training organizations can try is through forum. It’s a very open voluntary way of communication. Combining the forum news publishing system with RSS feed subscription the receiver will be notified when the subscribed forum has some new messages.

Last but not the least, web 2.0 can also be an powerful communication tool. It integrates email, forums, RSS and instant message systems into a collaborative environment for users communicating and networking

Questions for further research
1. As Web 2.0 enters life, open social is a trendy way of communication. How the school use the web 2.0 to communicate and resolve the problem is a new area to research into.
2. and individuality are the focus of some culture, while sharing and opening are the focus of some other cultures, how will these two cultures communicate with emails?
3. Globalization brings a challenge of e-mail communication. Not everyone is good at Latin language text communication. What the model of e-mail should be like, when resolving the cross culture and cross languages problems.
4. Can a school organization address collaboration, coordination and cooperation, for creative leaderships?


References:
Grandgenett N., and Grandgenett, D., (2001), Problem Resolution Through Electronic Mail: A Five-Step Model, Innovations in Education and Teaching Internationa. , ISSN 1470-3297 print ISSN 1470-3300 online © 2001 Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Menchaca, M., (2008), ETEC 645 Website, http://etec.hawaii.edu/otec/classes/645/10.05.08.htm



Other entries about emails:
http://artemispeace.blogspot.com/2008/10/etec-645-draft-for-funelectronic-mail.html
http://artemispeace.blogspot.com/2008/10/this-is-dos-and-donts-email-season.html