Wengan Mass Incident and Riots

First, a few links:
EastSouthWestNorth Summary
China Digital Times Summary
Reuters Report
Xinhua Report
A bunch of comments over at the Peking Duck
If you’re too lazy to click on the above links, here’s my own summary. A middle school girl is found dead. Her relatives went to the police to get answers, but didn’t get any. People protest and burn [...]

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How to save China’s mens soccer team

On Coach’s Turf, Lagat Aims for Olympic Gold <- (completely unrelated link)
Back when I was a kid, I had many dreams of becoming an athlete. I was entranced when I watched my first American football game: the Washington Redskins against the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl. Every recess I went out and rumbled around [...]

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10,000 Visits

Well, I didn’t think I would have been able to keep this blog going for this long… and I really didn’t expect to get more than five hits a day, but lo and behold after a few months I check the counter and I have ten thousand visits.
Thank you readers for taking the time out [...]

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Hot Weekend…

Damn, it was hot this weekend in Beijing. I’m extremely envious of all the more ‘plump’ Chinese men who can roll up their shirts and rest the bundle on top of their bellies. Whenever I try to do that, it fails miserably because my girlfriend hits me multiple times.
Other methods of keeping cool in the [...]

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Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

A sense of community elusive in East Asia
The article above is pretty interesting in it’s criticism of Asian countries for failing to put aside the past and move forward as a community like what Europe did/is doing. Here’s an excerpt:
To be blunt, there is no community. Each of the major countries – China, Japan and [...]

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Chinese People Are Black

S African Chinese ‘become black’
The High Court in South Africa has ruled that Chinese South Africans are to be reclassified as black people.
I just find this article humorous after reading about how much Chinese people dislike blacks. In the end, all that matters is money. Economics triumphs over cultural biases once more! Long live economics! [...]

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Black and Yellow

Here’s an interesting article about Africans in China: Chocolate City
While picking through clothes, Cote claimed that he had many Chinese friends here. To prove his point, he walked up, and pats the store-owner on his head. Or, he playfully kicks at the store-owner’s leg. He’ll loudly greet them, “Friend, how are you recently?” His “friends” [...]

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Asking Questions

When is the right time to ask tough questions?
But how many questions do we still need to ask? Why did those schools collapse? Where did all of these dams come from? (The complicated cause and effect relationship between reservoirs and earthquakes has been hotly debated by experts). What kinds of hiccups were there in the [...]

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Kung Fu Panda

First of all, let me say that Kung Fu Panda is a pretty fun movie. I enjoyed it, though not quite as much as I liked Shrek, which is my favorite Dreamworks film. And I like pandas. They’re fat and useless, which is what I aspire to become once I get older.
And Dreamworks was also [...]

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Beijing Flooding

So I get off at work at 6pm every day and I just take a ten minute walk to get back to my apartment. However, there was a barrier in the way today. I huge lake where the underpass used to be. No cars were moving and the whole place was sealed off. It rained [...]

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