Posted in china, culture, olympics, tagged china, culture, education, health, olympics, physical fitness, sports on June 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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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Posted in china, olympics, tagged cheers, china, olympics on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The Official Olympic Cheer
The Beijing Olympic Organising Committee’s four-part official cheer is an insult to the Chinese people.
Li Ning, president of the Beijing Etiquette Institute, told the Beijing News that the cheer was in line with general international principles for cheering, while at the same time possessing characteristics of Chinese culture.
What the hell? Are there [...]
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Posted in china, culture, economics, olympics, politics, random, tagged china, olympics, politics, economics, yao ming, earthquake, hackers, democracy, sports, liu xiang, black taxi on May 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Alright, I kinda wanna talk about something other than the earthquake, so here are some random things I’ve been thinking about.
First of all, there’s sports. A lot of people in the United States like to call Yao Ming and Liu Xiang tools of the CCP. I mean they really don’t have much personality when compared to [...]
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Posted in china, culture, olympics, politics, tagged china, chinese, culture, hypocritical, olympics, politics, protest, supporters on April 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Revolution is fun.
There was this time when I helped to organize a rebellion of student workers against our organization’s leadership for their imposition of the boring ‘packet making’ task upon us with no compensation. With rousing speeches filled with Marxist rhetoric and denunciation of the students who tried to be rational or worked with the [...]
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First, a little definition for all those who are uninitiated in the ways of China:
Jin Jing is that girl in the wheelchair who protected the torch when them Free Tibet people tried to grab it from her in France.
Carrefour is a French supermarket chain that was/is highly popular in China. There are currently a lot [...]
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Posted in china, economics, olympics, politics, tagged china, olympics, politics, economics, boycott, nationalism, carrefour, refrom and opening on April 18, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Ah… the Beijing Olympics…
There was so much hope in the beginning. The Chinese officials were saying they will host the best Olympic games the world has ever seen. They poured tons of money into the project, taking advantage of their abundance of labor to reconstruct the entire city. New airports, stadiums, cherry blossoms being planted [...]
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Posted in china, olympics, politics, tibet, tagged china, free tibet, olympics, politics, support beijing olympics, survey, tibet on April 10, 2008 | 19 Comments »
So I usually don’t do surveys because my blog is too small to get an adequate response, but I guess I might as well give it a shot. Here are two questionnaires that I made, one for Free Tibet supporters and the other for Beijing Olympics supporters. Those of you who have read my blog [...]
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Posted in china, olympics, politics, tibet, tagged china, free tibet, london, olympics, politics, protest, torch relay on April 7, 2008 | 15 Comments »
London Torch Relay Disrupted
So I’m a big fan of ‘free speech’. There’s this game I play called ‘Nation States’ where you make a bunch of decisions for your country ranging from economic policy to how to deal with religious nutcases. Whenever I get the choice of whether to ’shut up these idiots’ or ‘let them [...]
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Posted in china, olympics, politics, tibet, tagged china, dalai lama, funny looking bald men without chins, hotel rwanda, media, olympics, politics, tibet on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
So as some of you know, WordPress allows you to see what search engine terms people use to find your blog. Usually people search ‘China’ or ‘Tibet’ or ‘Bjork’ and end up here, but occasionally there are some strange ones. However, there is none stranger than this:
“funny looking bald men without chins”
… … …
Anyways. Tibetan [...]
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Posted in china, olympics, politics, tibet, tagged boycott, china, media, olympics, politics, protest, riot, tibet on March 18, 2008 | 8 Comments »
There is a lot of talk now about boycotting the Olympics.
I am… I don’t have any feelings about this anymore.
I mean, no one knows and probably will never know what happened in Tibet. The government is now playing good cop bad cop with the international community. They are showing the violent footage of the Tibetan [...]
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