What do you think about Taiwanese nigh market?

A character of Taiwanese culture I am very interested in is night market. I have had some opportunities to come to some night markets in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung. In my opinion, night market is not only a Taiwanese cultural feature, but also a Taiwanese business symbol.

We say night market is a Taiwanese cultural feature because whenever we mention about this, we often think of Taiwan and vice versa. Some famous night markets are Shilin, Shida in Taipei, Fengjia in Taichung and Liuhe in Kaohsiung. In a night market, vendors sell many kinds of merchandises. Some games are also introduced. Specially, you can enjoy many delicious foods there and study further interesting Taiwanese cooking styles as well. Night market is also a place for families, friends and maybe lonely people to go there to relax at weekend.

There are many kinds of commodities shown in a Taiwanese night market such as clothes, toys for childen, aromatic spices, cosmetics and others. Most of Taiwanese bussinessmen know how to make customers pay special attention to their commodities. For the first idea, besides being made better, the commodities are decorated to be more beautiful. The second one is that vendors are known (famous) for good manners. They are very good at winning customer’s heart. It is a Taiwanese art of business.

If you have any opportunity to come to Taiwan, do not forget to drop in a night market. You will get better ideas about this beautiful island.

Performance Measures

The performance of a coded communication system is in general measured by its probability of decoding error (called the error probability) and its coding gain over an uncoded system that transmits informatin at the same rate. There are two types of error probability, probability of word (or block) error and probability of bit error. The probability of word error is defined as the probability that a decoded word (or block) at the output of the decoder is in error. This error probability is commonly called the word-error rate (WER) or block-error rate (BLER). The probability of bit error, also called the bit-error rate (BER), is defined as the probability that a decoded information bit at the output of the decoder is in error. A coded communication system should be designed to keep these two error probability as low as possible under certain system constraints, such as power, bandwidth, and decoding complexity.

(p. 15-16, Error Control Coding - 2nd Edition - Shu Lin, Daniel J. Costello - Pearson Education International)

Communication Systems

The goal of a communication system designer is to configure a system that transports a message signal from a source of interest across a noisy channel to a user at the other end of the channel with the following objective:

"The message signal is delivered to the user both efficiently and reliably, subject to certain design constraints: allowable transmit power, available channel bandwidth, and affordable cost of building the system."

(Commuication Systems - 4th Edition - Simon - Haykin)

Happy New Year 2011

Today is the first day of the year 2011!

I would like to say Happy New Year to everyone! Specially I would like to say thanks to my family, my love and all my friends who have been encouraging me in my study and my life!

Wish all you a Happy New Year!

Welcome 2011, welcome new journey!

Love all you,

LHH

A thank you letter

My dear friend,

First of all, I would like to say thank you very much for your help for my Taiwan trip last September. It is such an interesting journey.

In the beginning of the journey, I wondered how I should stay in Taiwan and also worried about the transportation and accommodation. Then, it was very lucky for me when I met you on the http://www.couchsurfing.org/. You have helped me with much important information. What’s more exciting, you did agree to join with me as my tour guide.

I think we had a wonderful time together. We have explored around Taiwan, and I have discovered many beautiful places (spots) in your country as well. You know, those experiences touched my heart.

Merry Christmas and best wishes to you and your family. Hope to meet you in my country, Vietnam, in the near future.

Your friend,

Hoang-Hiep Le

Ha Noi, the capital of Vietnam (3/3)

The President Ho-Chi-Minh's Mausoleum

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17. President Ho-Chi-Minh's Mausoleum:

- Inaugurated in 1975. It faces Ba-Dinh Square. President Ho's body lies inside a square stone - walled room - on a three tiered platform.

18. No 43, Hang-Ngang Street:

- Here in the 1945, President Ho wrote the famous Declaration of Independence.

19. The Museum of the Revolution:

- Relicas from various phases of the Vietnamese people's patriotic and revolutionary struggle.

20. The Museum of History:

- Developments of the Vietnamese nation. Rich collections of archaeological findings, including some relating to the era of the Hung Kings about 3,000 years ago.

21. The Museum of the Army:

- Great periods of the armed struggle of the Vietnamese people's. War trophies.

22. The Museum of Fine Arts:

- Artistic works ranging from bronze drums (1st millenium B.C) to sculptures, paintings, engravings, and lacquer works by contemporary artists not to mention folk art.

23. Tay-Phuong (West) Pagoda or Sung-Phuc Pagoda:

- 40km from Hanoi, Built in the 8th C., rebuilt in 1680, 1792. Three parallel one - storeyed structures. Its 76 statues carved out of jack-tree wood are valuable art objects. The collection of arhat statues (18th C.) is wonderful.

(A Handbook for the English Language Translator - Hữu Ngọc et al.)