This I gotta tell you, this is experience I never had before ...
Have you ever had police stand right beside you ready to arrest or bring someone to the station while you're ordering your food ?
The other night, Maggie and I was at the local hawker , selling skewered BBQ lamb meat.
The police car pulled up right behind us.. couple of senior cops came out and stood beside us, eyeing at the hawker fanning away the fire on our order. The police then said rudely to the guy, "hey you, close the store, come back with us to the station! " I'm thinking like what the heck  happened ? The police said to the guy, "did you see 2 guys fighting?" Apparently one of the fighters got slashed at the back of the head while fighting right in front of the hawker store. The police even accuse the seller has loaned his knife one to the guys that cause the injury. The most senior policeman appeared impatient, and asked the seller to put out the fire, come with them to the station. We eyed at our meat on the fire, the policeman then turn to me and said politely, "are those meat your order?" I nodded. The senior policeman then said to the seller "hey , finish up their order, then shut the store, come in with us for statement". I was like "oo--kay.. so we are waiting for our order from someone that's been waited on to be taken to the police station..should we continue waiting? Is this right to have someone work before being put into the police-car to go for question?" 
It was bizzarre, let me tell you. We did let the guy finish up his job and had the skewered BBQ meat. Tasted tasty though..

The very next day we see him in business again, we are happy to see he's alright.. he was back in business and he saw us and smiled. All is alright again :)

About little more than half way through the Olympics 2008 now. China is leading over US in gold medals 27 to 17. What a game !

Shown here are opening ceremony pictures at Katherine and Vince place. We had a great time there !

Cheers.

I was listening to audio book of Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill. It said on there there's 6 basic fear which every human suffer at one time or other. Other fears are made up of this 6 basic fears. We need to guard ourselves against in order to be successful and reach our financial goals, business, social , etc . Here it is :

 

The book mentioned: "All creation starts from thought. All thought has tendency to clothed  itself into the physical equivalent" -
therefore, the book said, man needs to guard against these 6 fears and here's the way to do it :

Fear of
     Poverty    - make decision to get along with whatever wealth you can accumulate without worry
    criticism         - make decision not to worry of what other people think, do or say
    old  age         - make decision to accept it not as a handicap but as a great blessing that carries with it wisdom, self control and understanding unknown to you
    ill health          - make decision to forget symptoms
  lost of love       - to get along be without love if necessary
  worry of death  - accept this as an in-escapable event
 
The book advised listeners "to kill the worry of all forms by making a blanket decision that nothing that life has to offer is worth price of worry.  Without all this worries, a man will have peace of mind and calmness of thought which will bring happiness."

I recommend that one buys the book to read as it is highly useful.
The book also mentioned in order to protect yourself against negative influence - recognize you have willpower so you can build wall that immunize your mind against all negative thoughts.

You know, I'm so grateful to see blue skies with fluffy white clouds up in Beijing skies today. Olympics has really helped the city to be great in terms of environment. How many cars are off the road by law and by volunteer effort and how many factories were shut to gain this effect I wouldn't know. But it's really great to see this can be accomplished and is accomplished. I think the air is probably at its best comparable to decades ago.. maybe at times when bicycles were main modes of transport and people live within hydrocarbon means not to pollute as much.

Well done Beijing ! It's not a small feat and I admire the effort.