I’m not sure what amuses me more, that Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jia Bao has a Facebook profile, or that he has more supporters on his profile than US President George W. Bush. That’ll teach George not to respond to natural disasters in a timely manner. Still, the PM is just below Arnold Schwarzenegger – [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Laowai Quake Relief Part IV: The Youth Lead by Example
What follows is the fourth part of a series of posts we’re running by fellow Laowai – Turner Sparks. Turner and his friend Jake decided just sitting around Suzhou and watching quake relief efforts on TV was not good enough, and so hopped into Turner’s car and pointed it towards Chengdu. Read Part I, Part [...]
Laowai Quake Relief Part III: Media Coverage vs. Reality
What follows is the third part of a series of posts we’re running by fellow Laowai – Turner Sparks. Turner and his friend Jake decided just sitting around Suzhou and watching quake relief efforts on TV was not good enough, and so hopped into Turner’s car and pointed it towards Chengdu. Read Part I and [...]
Laowai Quake Relief Part II: Days 3-4
What follows is the second part of a series of posts we’re running by fellow Laowai – Turner Sparks. Turner and his friend Jake decided just sitting around Suzhou and watching quake relief efforts on TV was not good enough, and so hopped into Turner’s car and pointed it towards Chengdu. Read Part I and [...]
Laowai Quake Relief Part I: Days 1-3
What follows is the first part of a series of posts we’re running by fellow Laowai – Turner Sparks. Turner and his friend Jake decided just sitting around Suzhou and watching quake relief efforts on TV was not good enough, and so hopped into Turner’s car and pointed it towards Chengdu. Read Part II We’re [...]
Moment of Silence, Period of Mourning
Today marks the one week anniversary of the Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake, and will officially begin a State-decreed three-day mourning period (May 19 – May 21). In line with this, today at 2:28pm (China Central Time, the time the quake struck seven days ago), China will observe a 3 minute moment of silence. Whether you are [...]
Photo of the Week: Life’s a Beach
It’s the close of a week that will go into China’s history as one of the toughest and most harrowing. And though the rescue operations are still underway and the rebuilding is just beginning, with all the horrific images I’ve been exposed to this week, I wanted to post a photo of the week that [...]
How Much Does Natural Ability Have To Do With Language Acquisiton?
I recently learned a neat new word in Chinese: 语感, literally “language feeling”. In English, a more common translation might be “language intuition”, a mysterious ability that some seem to possess and others do not. When I tell people that I speak three languages, I often hear in response, “oh, you must have an innate [...]
Bombing on the Shanghai Subway?
The following has in no way been confirmed to be legitimate, however I wanted to post it here to see if anyone had heard anything about this. From the Hangzhou Expat forum: This information has not and most likely will not appear in the press or the media. But a co-worker’s wife who works in [...]
Add a Quake Relief Donation badge to your blog/site
Hey folks, at the request of K. M. Morris at Barking at the Sun, I’ve whipped a little badge that can be placed on your blog or Web site to direct people to the Red Cross Society of China’s quake relief donation information. Instructions You can just copy and paste that code directly into your [...]
