Yesterday I learnt the news that Liu Xiaobo got 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. It reminds me that Liu was still in jail. Later on, I met a friend in China online. She posted a comment about this news on my website and the post showed empty. I thought that there was some problem on my website. I told her to try in another way. She told me that it showed script error. I was confused. I tried in another computer. I worked well.

Today, I asked another friend to post a post on my website. The website worked perfectly. It reminds me that it must China’s Great Firewall working yesterday. I guess that the firewall interrupted my friend’s computer yesterday since she posted “sensitive” words. And the Great Firewall even disturbed some code of her computer for some time. It seems I was making up a story. But I have seen a website manager complaining that he couldn’t delete a post with “sensitive words” since that Great Firewall blocked him to get access to his website.

Every time Nobel Prize is a hot topic when its winners are announced in China. There are two kinds of opinions: one is that our education system and even political system have problems and our talents have no freedom to be creative. The other opinion is that we will get one or more soon. Now we should stop complaining and study hard and work hard. Maybe we should try to get it with a “national system” like we have been doing on competing for Olympic medals.

I don’t think I have a potential to win a Nobel Prize, but when I looked back my life, I wasted so much of my valuable time and energy to go through the barriers that China’s ruling party built to get the education I wanted. Someone said that the first thing for China’s education system is to keep this party’s ruling. I recall that for the last year in high school, when my brain was at a good condition, I used to try to remember the questions and answers of the course of politics, because it was too tough for me to remember such political propaganda, but I couldn’t give up since it’s one of key courses for university entrance examination. Later on, for the entrance examination for a Master Degree’s education, we even were asked to remember where and when our president visited and his slogans in the name of “current political events”, in case we couldn’t catch up with updates of this ruling party’s
propaganda.

And my parents, like most of other parents in China, they even think that it’s sort of their career to help me or force me to obey this system and go upgrade in this society. They think they’re succeed now, I guess.

Thanks Nobel Prize since it reminds us of something important or we can complain in the name of Nobel Prize.