“I believe that Chinese peacekeepers will win the glory for the motherland with their own strenuous efforts and successfully implement rescue and peacekeeping missions in Haiti.” Hu Yunwang, director of the 5th anti-riot police force in Haiti in 2007, to Sina.com. He is being deployed there again to help with peacekeeping efforts in the earthquake […]
Two things of interest today: There’s a Google-CCP battle brewing. Google will no longer censor itself to appease the Chinese government after discovering hackers from somewhere in China accessed the Gmail accounts of some human rights activists. It’s good to see a major company giving the finger to China. Working together is great and all, […]
Last week, I was wondering where the snow was. Shortly after I posted, the snow cometh. And it didn’t stop coming for almost an entire day. And then I learned how awful snow is. Consider: My birthday, last Monday, was probably one of the coldest day on record for Beijing — it was definitely the […]
It’s rather obvious, but should you see a sentence with vague implications like this one Environmental protection measures will surely have some impacts on the province’s GDP growth. it means it’s something bad. In this case, the “impact” that environmental protection will have is slowing the GDP growth, but no one in China will (or […]
It’s not snowing! It’s supposed to be. Weather.com says it’s snowing. And the Central Meteorological Station says we’re supposed to see heavy snow or a whole blizzard. It is NOT white outside my window AT ALL. But it snowed while I was out last night =D Less than a millimeter, but it was enough to […]
It was a Japan-filled day. I went to the Xidan Muji today to check out their housewares. It was a little pricey for things I wasn’t even looking for, but I thought I’d buy a notebook and fun pen. Still, it wasn’t a total loss of a day. Look what I found on the sixth […]
I read Gawker. It’s kind of my guilty pleasure. Today it reminded me of two Christmas phenomenons that are right up my alley: Christmas as the tie that binds the Jews and the Chinese. Because of this holiday, and only because of this holiday, people are able to identify all these similarities between Jews and […]
Pictures are powerful. Besides having high artistic value, a good photo will say a lot about a particular event, time or place. In other words, it will tell a story. But news photos are always accompanied by cutlines. Why? From the Poynter Institute: Photos tend to communicate in an impressionistic way; they are rarely as […]
This year, I get to celebrate Christmas a whole 13 hours earlier! But all that excitement was negated by the perils of the Beijing work commute. 1) It’s 12 degrees outside, with a very brutal wind blowing, which makes it feel like -7 degrees. 2) I ended up having to wait in this -7-degree wind […]
A Christmas Eve conversation over instant messaging: Daddy (9:44:51 PM) god idea Daddy (9:44:56 PM) good Daddy (9:45:24 PM) god is good also Me (9:45:38 PM) it’s his son’s birthday tomorrow Daddy (9:45:38 PM) either one good Daddy (9:45:55 PM no Daddy (9:46:52 PM) I don’t know when, but sure not is tomorrow Daddy (9:47:06 PM) 12-25 is man made Daddy (9:48:08 PM) Jew […]