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4. Halal beef wonton soup.
Wonton soup is a traditional Chinese snack in east China. The typical meat in the wonton is pork. In the ancient time, Arabian and Persian business men traveled along the silk road and brought Muslim food tradition into China. They call it Halal. Similar to kosher, people adopt Halal do not eat pork. When they arrived China, they replaced pork with beef to make wonton soup. In addition, they put tomato into the wonton to fit their tastes better. You may be able to find wonton soup in many Chinese restaurant in USA, but rarely you can find Halal beef wonton soup. Fortunately, it isn’t that hard to find the materials in the US supermarket. Ground beef can be purchased at any grocery store. Sliced tomato are sold in the Hispanic food section. Dumping wrap are sold in  Asian food section. Combing them altogether, we can make Halal beef wonton soup at home.

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Although Chinese food has eight pedigrees, each has different philosophy backing it up, most of the Chinese food we can obtain in US restaurant are rich in fat with ubiquitous taste tailored for Americans. Specifically, due to religious reasons, buddists are not allowed to eat meat in China, over the time, they have evolved their own vegetarian cooking philosophy and style with great tastes and look. Ordinary Chinese can benefit from their cooking by go to the restaurant opened by monks. Typically, in buddists’ vegetarian food, meat are replaced with dried and/or fried tofu. With careful prepared seasonings, tofu could taste almost the same as any meat. Unfortunately, I have never seen any vegetarian restaurant in Seattle that is capable of reaching that level of art of cooking until yesterday. I bumped into bamboo garden around Key Arena. Bamboo garden has an impressively long menu of vegetarian food, loaded with mushroom  and  tofu as meat replacements. They have tofu mimicked chicken, duck, smoked Salmon, sausage, mushroom mimicked eel, and even vegetarian wonton soup. There are 120 items on their menu including drinks. The prices are reasonable considering the fact that they also provide free parking at such a great location. I tried one item on the menu, the taste is decent and served fast. I strongly recommend bamboo garden as a great choice for vegetarian Chinese food in Seattle.

天气很好，我有想要冲出去玩的冲动，但是，还有论文没有完成……
继续畅想，以后如果有足够的假期，每年12月-1月应该到南方日照充足的地方去过冬，不见天日的冬天真不是人过的。好日子就要开始了，幸福的夏天就要来临了，hoho

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周五，二月十五，农历正月初九，易嫁娶。我们参加了飞边同学的婚礼。主婚人，法官马克，还是和六年前一摸一样的风趣，幽默。不时让在场的人哈哈大笑。

随后，大家去中国城的小城厨艺吃了一顿饭，小店价格公道，花样多，味道好，强力推荐。

最后，我们带上卡拉Ok机器去飞边同学家帕提。大家在飞边和stella同学在他们幸福的小屋里送上祝福，飞边和stella也即兴给大家表演了丰富多彩的娱乐节目。大家玩得很high.

连续两天晴天了，等忙完这段，该是游山玩水的时候了。

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perpetrator, n,  the one who perpetrate,
culprit, n, perpetrator

在网上的部落格里读到，一个人最多能够同时注意七件事情。当你注意的这七件事情都是快乐的时候，你就会是一个快乐的人。如果，在你脑子里萦绕的这七件事情都是负面的时候，你就开心不起来。 类似的，如果对于你认识的一个人，你一想到他，头七件和他相关的事情都是正面的时候，你对他的看法也会是正面的，反之，如果你对他相关的七件事情都是负面的时候，你就会不喜欢他。抛开电影戏剧，真实的世界上大部分的人都是差不多的光着身子来的普通人，有着很相似的本能和习性，大家对某人的看法，就是由这头七件事情决定的。

The modern economy depends largely on cheap fossil energy. Many large business in US rely on mass merchandise transfer using large trucks. The rise of the energy price causes the price of almost every product to increase, I guess this maybe one of the major cause of the US economy recession. If the oil price is high enough, even online shopping could be curbed due to the higher shipping cost. On a Friday night, while changing channels before my TV, I start to think about what technologies could completely change the picture?

1. Cheap, light weight, re-chargeable  battery.
In some sense, we are not short of energy, there are wind energy, water energy, nuclear energy whose price doesn’t change upon international politics. But those  energy cannot be easily used  for vehicles. The major obstacle before this is the battery. If every night, we can take a 10 ounce batter out of the car and charge it in the kitchen, nobody would bother to go to the gas station. How to maximize the amount of energy that stored in the battery. I would bet to use nano-fabrication technology to improve the efficiency of the lithium polymer technology may eventually lead toward that.

2. High efficiency catalyst to transform bio mass into fuel.
We are not short of organic chemicals in polysaccharide form, but polysaccharides can not be used as fuel. As a result, if we can transform the polysaccharide into mono saccharides, and subsequently be transformed into ethanol. We will find good replacements for fossil fuel. This technology will require large amount efforts to be put into catalyst research.

3. Automatic merchandise transporting system
Unlike the previous two high tech options, the third technique doesn’t require any fancy chemistry. Merchandise do not have be transported within the car, they can simply be put into  standard  sized box  similar to microwave, and be transported from  seller to  buyer using a light mono-rail network. This network can be used to transport fresh food from supermarket, pizza, dinner from restaurant,and even gifts from friends from far away.  Let’s calculate how much stuff each family buy and how much money they would like to pay for the convenience, it is interesting. For example, a 4 people family which consume 60$ food /day, one year, each family would consume 20000$ and they are willing to pay 2% as the convenience fee. That would be 400$/year. How much does it cost to build the system? If you assume it will take 4 worker’s half day to build the network for each family, it would be totally 16 working hour. If hourly rate is 90$, the cost would be 90$x16=1440$, if the material cost about 2000$/family including the rail, cart and router, the cost for each family would be 3400$. How much does it cost to run the system? I think the running cost mostly comes from the maintaince  cost which would be around 1 hour/year on average. It would be 100$/year. It appears this project will take about 10 years to be profitable largely due to the huge initial investment.
If  20 million family of US can be reached by this network, the revenue would be about 8 billion/year, profit would be around 6 billion/year.  The initial investment  for 10,000 family would be 40 million, can you fund me?