The Olympic’s Opening ceremony, or 开幕式 (kai-mu-shi) was not bad. The opening bit with the drummers was cool. I admit that. But then it drifted in some obscure references of long gone eras that even the Chinese presenters and my Chinese companions were at times lost as to how to interprete. (For info, the [...]
Watch and listen to the song - “WE ARE READY!” (the 100 days to Beijing 2008 song - yeah, there is far less than 100 days left but the song is so beautiful to the ears and is worth listening in a loop.)
Sorry, the frames and the audio are out of sync a little. Bla, [...]
2 more weeks and it will be the Olympics in Beijing. But I don’t feel anything about it. I can’t care any less.
I’m getting more and more sluggish at work. Need to pull myself to complete the June accounts asap.
A distant auntie wants to introduce me to a girl in Shanghai because an uncle apparently [...]
Taken shamelessly from Good Morning China!
BEIJING TRAFFIC: as American Football
To help you understand Beijing traffic, and perhaps to one day navigate its hazards, I’ve come up with the following analogy. I hope you find it helpful.
BEIJING TRAFFIC: as American Football
Traffic lights: BAD QUARTERBACK
In Beijing, a traffic light is like a quarterback- an extremely bad one. [...]
Caught a cold on Saturday night, as I slept in the living room (tout nu) with the windows open. Still trying to get well, but my “dear” colleagues switch the aircon on in the afternoon since the SH weather is heavy, humid and very hot. It has been raining a lot over the last 10days [...]
Went to Taizhou, in Jiangsu province last week, for business purpose. Arrived there on Thursday evening, had the meeting on Friday afternoon (the time was moved because one of the people attending was still out of town), took the coach back to Shanghai on Saturday morning. I had no time to visit the place. But [...]
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As it’s been well documented, the Chinese people are unhappy about the way ‘Western’ media portraits the Tea bet issues, and the ‘aggressions’ on the torch bearers (especially the one on the handicapped lady). As a result, they’ve pinpointed the French as the recipient of their anger. (This plus the fact that the French president [...]
I thought for some time if I wanted to write this. Anyway, here’s my political view.
The world has no lesson to learn from the US which is not an example anyway. How can the US and other countries boycott or scold China for its behaviour? The sovereignty of the land is of utmost importance for [...]
As troubles flare in the Western area of China, and protests are organised in the region called Tea-bet (I guess you can figure out what the exact name is), the Chinese censorship strikes again.
Since yesterday, it has not been possible to access Youtube and for most of the yesterday you could not access Yahoo.com mail. [...]