Yearly Archives: 2006

I’ll Bee Damned

I would say a good indicator on whether or not you are a friend of mine or a GOOD friend of mine is whether or not you know about my rather irrational fear of bees. I think it began when I was about 14 and sleeping on the couch one summer night in my living …

June 5, 2006
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Enviro-China: The Green Guard

I know I’m often a bit cynical of many aspects to this country I call home. So, I’m going to curb that for this post and relay the highlights of “Environmental Protection in China (1996-2005)“, a white paper the government recently released outlining their environmental protection/pollution control efforts over the past decade. (much of this …

June 5, 2006
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Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary

And so, once again it’s June 4th. For the last 17 years this day has been marred with a rather crimson taint. It is, of course, the day the People’s Liberation Army was given the go-ahead by then CCP leader Deng Xiao Ping to use whatever means needed to quell the protests in Tiananmen Square. …

June 4, 2006
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Obligatory Dragon Boat Festival Post

Gawd, it’s not enough that my post isn’t going to be original, as everyone in the Chinese blogsphere is writing about the damn Dragon Boat Festival, but now I can’t even do the “Dragon Boat Festival Late Post” and be original, as Meg at Violet Eclipse has that. Anyway, Dragon Boat Festival – as I …

June 2, 2006
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The Day The Earth Stood Still

My god did I get a wake up call. This may not seem like much of a surprise to many people in my life, most of all Maggie, but I’ve become entirely too dependent on the Internet. Wednesday afternoon I got home after a short day of makeup classes to find that the two little …

June 2, 2006
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vlog.04: Morning Exercises

The kids are back! Those adorable little munchkins from vBlog.03: Field Trip! are back, this time showing us all how to stay fit, be healthy, and shake our cans! This vBlog contains remarkably little drivel from yours truely, but instead lets the kids, and the music do the talking. Watch the students of my primary …

June 2, 2006
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Post 9/11 Blues

Watch this video – it’s hip. Yes it’s perfectly acceptable for me to use the term hip. Yes, I know it’s 2006. Yes, “hip” is not “hip”. But let me tell you, as hip goes, hip is a pretty hip word. So there. And it works backwards too…. if you don’t like it… pih, what …

May 29, 2006
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South Of The Border, West Of The Sun

I finished reading South of the Border, West of the Sun this morning. What a fantastic book. It was loaned to me with high expectations, as Rick touted it as an amazing book from one of his favourite authors. I had heard of Murakami’s Norwegian Wood before, but had not had opportunity to read anything …

May 28, 2006
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Bye Bye Blogger

In my ongoing quest to find additional reasons to sit at my computer, as well as my rather successful attempts at procrastinating what I REALLY should be doing on here – I’ve decided to switch how I publish my blog – and in the process do a complete redesign. The redesign is actually a product …

May 27, 2006
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Chairman Mee-ow!

I guess a bunch of Chinese foreign students are upset over the parody their New Zealand uni newpaper did on Chairman Mao (cover left) and communist China. As such, there’ve been numerous protests from the Chinese students exclaiming they’ve been insulted to their core by such blatant defialment of their once great leader. In near …

May 25, 2006
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Shifting Commitments

It seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t stay on task with any one thing for long. It’s troubling, and completely the product of these wonderful things: No Attention Span Too many hobbies Horrible procrastination I’ll get deeply into something for a few days (or weeks) and then it shifts to a new …

May 23, 2006
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vLog.03: Field Trip!

So here it is, a bit of a wait for it, but vBlog numero three! For this entry I decided to turn my camera on those that know the most about life – kids, roughly five hundred of them to be non-exact. My primary school recently invited me to accompany them on a field trip …

May 22, 2006
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