To outsiders dancing with the corpse of a dead loved one, years after their demise, might seem ghoulish. But as Jonny Hogg reports, to the people of Madagascar, it is a ritual of respect for their departed ancestors.
The band, a cacophonous near harmony of tattered trumpets and elderly clarinets, has been has been playing [...]
To all those interested in the talk on Media and Democracy which I announced in the last post:
The talk is on Tuesday 19th Wednesday 20th August, not Wednesday 29th as I wrote.
Sorry about that. Please feel free to disseminate and let me know who will attend so we may move to a bigger room if [...]
Dans un discours le 15 aout 2008, notre saint père le pape Benoit XVI a parlé d’un saint missionnaire dont la sépulture se trouve en Chine.
Chers frères et soeurs,
je suis profondément ému de l’accueil aussi chaleureux que j’ai trouvé ici, et je ne peux que vous remercier de tout mon coeur. Et je remercie [...]
Political Editor Chua Lee Hoong of the Strait times wrote on the 15th August :
SINGAPORE is small enough to be a suburb in Beijing, but it has something in common with the mammoth People’s Republic. The little red dot and Red China are both countries the West loves to hate.
There are those who wish [...]
It is with great pride, and I must admit with a little envy, that I note that University of Maurtius (UoM) is increasingly going open source.
Over the last few years there has been an impetus towards the adoption of free and open source software (FOSS) at the University. Previously there has been the Radio Telescope [...]
C’est avec grande pompe que nous fêtons celle qui a donne naissance à notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, notre sauveur et libérateur, notre Dieu fait homme. Déjà depuis hier soir, la très sainte Vierge Marie habitait ma pensée. Quelle est l’âme bienheureuse choisie pour être la mère de Jésus ? Quelle est cette être adorable qui a [...]
No, it’s not a coyote, nor a dog. Its a lively and kicking chupacabra, running away from police officers in South Texas. Filmed on camera last week, it was the first time that animal is caught on video.
Unknown to science, the chupacabra is a cryptid, (or alien animal) rumoured to dwell in the remote parts [...]
Here is a lesson from Apple in its foray in mobile phone industry.
Jonathan Kennedy wrote on the 11th Aug:
With its initial foray into the mobile phone industry, Apple chose to adopt a unique business model. The traditional model for handset vendors is to sell their devices to carriers at a wholesale price, and the [...]
3 famous actors died this year.
First was Heath Ledger, who died on January, 2008 in his appartment in New York. I personally think it is suspicious, since recently one of the Olsen twins sought immunity when the investigators tried to question her. But the case was suddenly dropped and she does not have to worry. [...]
Bored at work, actually don’t feel like working. Too much on my mind. Spent an hour looking at various cartoon pictures of Chinese guys in the dynasty eras. I want to do a comics strip and it’s called doing “reasearch” for it. haha.
Not much to say, so I am pasting a Chinese joke instead.
人=吃饭+睡觉+上班+玩 [...]