All I need is a chance!

2001年，冠生园月饼事件；

2004年，阜阳“大头娃娃”事件，震惊全中国；

2005年，河南毒大米大“闹”广州；

2005年，“苏丹红”事件，全国30家生产企业的88种食品及添加剂检查出含有苏丹红；

2006年，“红心鸭蛋”事件；

2006年，“上海瘦肉精”事件；

2008年，“三鹿奶粉”事件，查出多家奶制品企业部分产品含有三聚氰胺。

我们曾愤慨的呼吁“抵制日货”，因为他伤害了我们民族情感，而我们所支持的民族产品却一次又一次的折磨我们的身体。“三鹿奶粉”事件后，采用“问责制度”，罢免了大批政府官员，希望可以平民愤，平民怨，并展现治党理政的决心。但这是解决问题的根本吗？

从“三鹿奶粉”事件可以看出，由于经济利益的诱惑，几个环节的个人行为导致了多名婴儿夭折，上万人的身体健康受到损害。这是一种道德准则和人生价值的缺失，或许我们在问责政府官员的同时，也应该反省自己的行为，扪心自问，我们是否自己的岗位上尽到了自己的职责，维持了整个社会的道德底线。

突然想到了前几天重新看过的“93年国际大专辩论会决赛”中对人性的探讨，人性的善恶美丑我们无发准确判断，但是道德和法律的约束确是每个社会必备的条件。其中，法律的标准我们相对容易执行，而道德的要求则是我们需要铭记的。在几乎没有宗教约束和儒学思想淡薄的当代中国，追求经济利益的情绪让我们早已忘却了自己对良心的承诺。

卖水煮鱼的反复使用口水油；

卖香肠的把腐肉重新加工；

卖西瓜的注射药物使其西瓜大而甜；

卖海带的用色素使海带颜色鲜艳；

卖熟食的用防腐剂为食品保鲜；

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在整个社会环境下，如果每个人都不能挌守良好的道德标准，这个社会将成为空中楼阁，再强大的监管也是无用的。道德伦理的沦丧将毒害整个民族，彼此之间充满着敌意和不信任，而最后的受害者也将是我们每个人。

控制物价水平是全世界大部分央行的主要经济调控目标，中国也不例外。但是，在08年这个特殊的年度和时刻，中国政府面临着前所未有的挑战，是继续实行从紧的货币政策来控制居高不下的物价，还是促进经济的高速发展？摆在中国政府前面的是一道不可回避的选择题。

本轮的全球性的通货膨胀主要是成本推动型通胀，油价的高速增长使几乎所有的经济体都承担着或多或少的通胀压力，这也成为美国，欧盟，英国以及澳洲等国家或地区在选择是否通过加息来维持本地货币坚挺，或是通过减息来刺激由次债危机导致的萎靡经济时所考虑的重要因素之一。那么在这种全球性通胀的大背景下，中国政府的单方面的通过采取价格管制或是政府补贴来抑制通货膨胀的政策是不明智的，也是不可行的。以牺牲企业利益来换取物价的稳定也违背了经济的发展规律。政府的适当的微调可以，但是长期的物价稳定主要还是要靠总体经济的自身调节作用来完成。

中国经济现在正处在一个关键的时期，美国次债危机在不同程度的影响到众多发达国家的同时也把全世界目光转移到了中国身上。中国一时间成为了世界经济的避风港，高速发展中的中国也被称为世界经济助推器，被寄予很高的期望。但是不成熟的中国市场经济市场能否经受住考验还是一个疑问。目前，中国本身的经济也存在多种问题，“人民币对外升值对内贬值；流动性过剩和流动性不足共存；劳动力成本上升出口成本加大；中小企业破产影响就业目标；热钱管制挡不住外汇储备激增；灾后重建和货币从紧相冲突；对冲流动性造成资本市场巨幅波动”（水皮，2008，华夏时报第一版）。如此多的问题如何解决？“发展才是硬道理”。 一切经济政策都要以发展为最基本的前提，自身的发展才是解决一切外部和内部问题的最好方法。

在08年这个奥运年，在全世界的瞩目之下，中国只要保持一个非凡的自信，一个大国的心态，一种勤奋的态度，中华民族一定会战胜种种困难，最终实现国家的富强。

Before the trip to Europe, I got a chance to go to the deep highland alone, exploring its natural beauty, and warming my body up by the way.  

Highlights of this trip:

The unknown white castle I Passed by:

Every time when people talk about Scottish Castle, some famous ones like Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle are always mentioned because of their important defence function and their well-know stories in history. These castles may be worth viewing, but I think they cannot be considered as “beautiful”. In this trip, I met the most beautiful castle I had seen in Scotland. When the bus was passing Perth, a beautiful white castle appeared among trees and mountain and woke me up from sleepy. Different from the castle we usually see, this castle was white colored. Without the interruption by tourists, she sleep in there quietly and calmly. After enquiring the lady sitting behind me, I got the name: Blair Castle.

Inverness—nice city

Inverness is capital of the highland, tourism is the main industry of this city due to its beautiful environment and famous places around it, which remind me one similar city in China--“Bei Dai He”. But compared to “BDH”, the tourism system in Inverness is much more developed. The information office in the city centre is very helpful, in which you can find all the information about tours in Inverness and they also give you the best recommendation for your trip.

Inverness is a quite and small city, with River Ness lying through. After having dinner in a restaurant on the river bank, I walked along this river, climbing to a high point and getting a overview of Inverness: what a attractive city!

Night in student accommodation:

Spent a night in a student hotel at the foot of Inverness castle, and quite enjoy the time staying with backpackers. I like their lifestyles, they are so cool! This hotel is very small, usually 6-12 person sharing one room, but making you feel like home. In the kitchen, they provide all the cookers for you, which save you budget without breaking the bank. The living room is a amazing place, which give people a wonderful place for short-term relax after a tired traveling day. Besides several comfortable sofas, you can find novels, magazines, newspapers, internet and many small games (like chess, cards and other games I have never seen). They also provide some music instruments: guitar, electric-piano and small drum, and so on. Every backpackers is “professional” guitar players, who impressed me a lot. The wall of living and dinning room are stuck with hundreds of “papers”: including all the information about tours in Inverness and other places in Highland, the timetable of the bus and train, the introduction of Inverness and loch Ness’s history, maps and information about hiring bike and car, pictures and notes, and even currencies from different countries left by previous people from all over world.

After a tired traveling day, sitting in the comfortable sofa with a cup of free hot chocolate, listening the exotic music played by backpackers, talking with the people from all over the world and enjoying their stories, or you can just read the novels and newspapers quietly, or play games with your friends. It’s amazing, you will love it!

Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle

Look at what I found in Loch Ness! (see picture” loch ness") The weather that day was cloudy and raining a little bit, but perfect for monster viewing. I enjoyed a cruise ferrying along the River Ness to Loch Ness. On the boat, you can view the beautiful views on both sides of the river, listening the introduction of Scottish history and their traditional music from the loud speaker. The captain got a sense of humor, who eased the depressed atmosphere for monster exploring.

Everything in Scotland could be connected with castle, loch Ness is not a exception as well. Urquhart Castle on the bank of Loch Ness is another most important defense castle following with the Edinburgh and Stirling Castle. It also a very good place for viewing the Loch Ness. Most part of this castle was ruined and you could not imagine how strong it was, but it did help you recall the story of Jacobite.

Culloden Battlefield and Fort Gorge—a vivid history lesson:

Culloden records the last war on mainland Britain, which’s a civil war between the Jacobites lead by the “Bonnie Prince Charles” who trying to restore the Stuart Family and the “butcher Duck of Cumberland” representing British government. But you cannot say that it is a war between Scots and English, because both of this two parts were supported by Clans from Scotland and England, or some people even from the same clan but fought for different parts and different reasons. Walking on the battlefield, you can feel how bloody this war was.

After the Culloden battle, Hanoverian King George II decided to build Fort George to against Jacobites’ unrest. The out-looking of Fort George is splendid, but it has never been in military used, due to the safety in the following year on mainland Britain. So it has ever been changed to be Army Training Camp or National prison. People who like military should go there, where you can find the interesting Seafield collection and the army museum.  

Above all, in my opinion, the truly meaning of traveling is not just enjoy the views or the photos to prove you have been there, instead, more importantly, to experience the culture, to meet new friends, to explore and learn the local history. From this process you build up your knowledge and widen your view and horizon. That is why people say:“读万卷书，行万里路”.

Haven’t filled up this Blog for a long time, cumulated several novel feelings these days and would like to share them with my friends:

1.         I didn’t expect to get much from my job in the Chinese Supermarket, but it does benefit me a lot. Besides the wages for my living and probably the stronger muscle, the job teaches me many thing which I could not get from the textbooks. Maybe that is so called “experience”. After working at the lowest level of the society, I feel stable and calm, and this will help me face the difficulties in the future. Some rules I learn from the job are also quite valuable: In the work, you need to respect your all your colleagues, respect their work and opinion; every simple-looking jobs has it special rule behind, and sometimes it is far more difficult than you thought.

2.         Never, never, never judge a person without knowing him.

3.         It’s easy to find others’ weakness, but hard to see ourselves clearly. Actually, we have many weakness, which we just don’t realize. For example, we always try to find excuses for our mistakes and indolence, which spoil us all the time. So, most of time, we are defeated by myself, rather than environment or someone else. To solve it, we need to always compare us with others, trying to give us a objective view and adequate position.

4.         We have to face different “choice questions” in our daily lives. Some of them are quite easy or unimportant, such as choosing noodles or rice in your dinner, white or yellow for your shirt, by bike or on foot to the Uni. While some are crucial, like the Major you select can effect your career in future or even rest of your life. We don’t need to waste of our time and energy on the small questions, instead of making efforts to those “big choices”.

5.         Whatever you do, do not be hurried. Take your time and step by step. Try to make everything done, and don’t expect to avoid any difficulties by using your “smart”, which will always wait you at some point in the future.

6.         I am sooooooooo lucky to have such supportive parents. They are my guides, who guide me to the right direction when I’m lost; They are my advisers, who give me most helpful advices when I’m confused; They are my parents, who build such a warm family for me; They are also my friends, who talk and listen to me when I feel alone. Overall, they are the best parents in the world. I don’t know how to say thanks to them, the only thing I can do now is to exploit my energy to maximum and try to be the person they are proud of. Yes, I will!

Those feelings above are uncorrelated with each other, which I got from different periods and experiences. Some of them may sounds a little bit nonsense, but they are all my feeling from the bottom of heart, so I put them on my space as my motto.

At last, just want to say some “thanks”: thanks for my parents; thanks for the experience; and thanks for all the suffering which make me who I am!