Avatar: The Last Airbender (also known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in several countries) is an award-winning American animated television series that currently airs on the Nickelodeon television network.[1]

In the movie of The Bourne Identity, Matt Damon stars as Jason Bourne, a amnesiac attempting to discover the truth of his identity amidst a CIA-involved conspiracy of which he is the center[1]. He keeps asking the question to everyone: "Who am I?"

This problem is not only for Jason but everyone, every single human being in the world. From illiterate tribesman to the greatest thinker, we all keep asking this question as long as we live. Serious people use psychology and philosophy to find out the answer. For example, the EPQ(Eysenck Personality Questionnaire) tells one's personality. But all these methods are widely criticized for some imprecise reasons. While in the same time, others just try to use superstitious ways to decrypt their fates, like astrology. Franckly speaking, I never know why people want to believe those total nonsenses, especially for those of you who are well-educated.

Anyway, nobody gets the perfect answer until the advent of the genetics. By decrypting your genome, you can know yourself scientifically. For superstition, people try to find out the answer of themselves no matter how trivial the correctness is. The question is: if we have the real answer for you, do you dare to check it out?

So here comes the commercial genetics. Nowadays, companys like 23andMe provide services that with 1000$ and a saliva sample, your can have your own gene decrypted. Namely, you can know exactly who you are. You can know where your ancestry from, and you can know how intelligent or athletic you can be, genetically.

Sounds exciting? But it could cause serious problems too. 

1. Prejudice. Former research suggests that certain race do lack the gene with regard to high IQ. Now this turns to be personal.

2. Misuse. Saliva is not a hard-to-get thing. That means, today the top secret of people only worth 1000$.

Besides, I am not sure I really need the answer. What if you find out you don't have the gene of your career? So before you do it, think twice.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Identity_%282002_film%29

I have no idea what it's talking about.

But, I like the Exam Policy.

Besides Yao, another Chinese basketball player, Yi Jianlian, came into NBA this summer. When I was in China, I use to watch Yao's game a lot, even if they all began at morning in Beijing time. I also want to see their games here, but I am too busy to do so. Moreover, I have to pay to watch NBA in Canada. Not every county has generous free TV channel like CCTV5. So now, I only read news and statistic while having a meal.

Yi performs very well. Actually, he even performs better than Yao's rookie's year. Yi is excellent basket player with great potential, but I don't think he is as good as Yao. Yao is a unprecedented basketball genius. When he was playing in Chinese Basketball Association, he could win games single-handedly. But for Yi, he still lost the final game for champion in China before he came to USA.

The reason of Yi's good performance is the team he plays trusts him very much. They let him play as a starter from the first game even though he is just a rookie, and let him to play an important role in tactics. Need to know that Yao, the superstar nowadays, only played as a starter after like 10+ games in his first year. The question is: Why American trust Yi over Yao? Yes of course Yi is better looking and you can get more chance in a weak team like Bucks. However, these are not the real reasons. The reason is: Yao.

Before Yao, American don't believe that Chinese or should I say, Asian, can play basketball. And to some sense, it's true. There isn't any famous Asian basketball star before Yao at all. This is not like computer science. In computer science, if you are a Chinese, people will think: Well, this guy must be good. But when it comes to basketball, people will expect some African American as good players. So when Yao first came to USA, people used to consider him as a big mascot more than a serious player. Yao works really hard to win the respect. Although he is not as good as those American genetically, he still keeps improving himself. He makes progress every day, every month and every year. Sometimes the improvement is trivial, but he never stops. I like this spirit, because time to time when you are the underdog in your life, you will need this spirit to hold your own. In fact, the more you prone to take an adventure to challenge yourself, the more you will feel frustrated. Those who never try will never fail. But if you never try, you will never know. You will never know how good you can be.

Anyway, Yao came through all the trials and finally became a superstar. He wins prestige not only for himself, but also for all Asian basketball players, especially Chinese. He shows that a Chinese player is also strong enough to win a game as well as bring lots of extra advantages to the team, from commercial contracts to Medias' attention. So when Yi came to Bucks, everybody was so excited. From the example of Yao, they know that if they treat Yi appropriately, they will definitely benefit from it. So that's why Bucks people are flattering Yi so hard.

Yao's story is not finished yet. He is still on his way to the next big thing. Now rockets are the strongest team since 2000, and Yao is very likely to make some breakthrough of his career in this year. For Yi, his journey just began. He has a whole career ahead. May good things happen to them, for good things should always happen to diligent people. I'll always be supportive to all the Chinese oversea, since I am one of them that we all belong to a bigger entity. A success of them is a also succes to me, and in the mean time, I will work hard too to make them look better as well. Maybe somebody can be one of those successful Chinese computer scientists, who knows?