Affection with Abomination

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1357069DKZqmaty
Those are real lives under the so-called harmonious society in Beijing before the coming Olympics, and now the fig leaf has been torn off by British journalists from Channel 4.

I could feel my tear drop in my heart which would never be wiped away when a peasant knelt down to the reporter. Losing all his hope, it was the only thing occured to him, the only effort the feeble could ever make when facing the regime throughout thousands of years in China though there is no more absolute monarchy in this country. It was the most pathetic act I had ever seen and what made me even mournful was that petitioners around the peasants helped him up saying "we could not disgrace ourselves and our country to westerners". Under the worst situation of their lives, they still cared about the country's face and were able to forbear all of their sorrows. If only the government could realize that and show them the least compassion!

I was really in a complicated mood after watching this video. The reporter, though objective and brave, has done an extremely awful thing to the petitioners by collecting their written complaints. To him they were no more than great materials for reporting but to the feeble he was acting like a saviour who offered them dreams which would never come true. What's more, I felt totally lost between the two emotions - affection and abomination. After all, I am a Chinese, I love my country. BUT I don't know how to love it, nor do I know what can I do to improve it. Most Chinese hold an optimistic view on the country's future declaring that things are changing. Less facts, less pains.

China Said No to Youtube

Wikipedia, Flickr, BBC, and now, famous web2.0 video website Youtube has followed the trail.

Numerous of internet users in China complained in their blogs today that they failed to visit Youtube. Investigation shows in some area of China, after typing in the adresses of Youtube, Live, and Google Blogsearch, users will be automatically linked to Baidu, the biggest search engine of the country.

Just three days ago when China's 17th Communist Party Congress inaugurated, Google presented a generous gift to the party, ensuring that the searching of "17th congress" will doubtlessly resault in a blank page.

China has been stepping up its paces in censorship and control of the internet from as early as 2005 when Wikipedia was banned by the Great Fire Wall. Henceforth the BBC official website and the online photo album Flickr were added to the blacklist. Reasons of the restriction still remain unknown.

Facing the government's big stick, the magnate Goole choose to genuflect while Youtube cannot help but vanish in the harmonious socialist country.

Quote on Relations Across Taiwan Straits

There was no way Taiwan would talk on peace, unificassion and other issues with a regime which has suppressed Tibet, shot its own people and stood by the Myanmar military government. The Communist have ruled the mainland for four decades, but that do not mean they represent Chinese people.

Shieh Jhy-Wey(謝志偉)

Hua Guofeng Presented at China's 17th Congress

During today's meeting, President Hu Jintao spent two hours twenty minutes reading his 64 pages report. Jiang zeming, Hu's predecessor showed his weariness bluntly by glimpsing at watch from time to time, while the octogenarian Mr Hua Guofeng, once upon a time Mao's successor simply fell asleep.

On the contrary, Li Keqiang and Xi Jinping, China's most possible president candidates selected by Hu, was preoccupied with the speech, studiously taking notes from start to finish.

Arms for Myanmar

Transfers of major conventional weapons, 1988-2006, in millions:
China $1,699
Russia $396
Serbia & Mont. $63
Poland $57
Ukraine $47
N.Korea $10
Italy $9
Bulgaria $8
UK $8
Switz. $4
Canada $2
India $2
SOURCE: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

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After all, China joins UN censure of Burmese regime. Hope that would be a good beginning.

Best Singer Worst Audience

His breath can even be touched when he is singing, Damien Rice.

However!
I can never understand such "beer culture" - People just kept strolling aroung, bought beer, drank them, and then, inevitably, peed for every few minutes!
A catastrophe!><

"As long as they have beer they will be carefree."
I should take it down as Rob's quotation No.1 instead of the quondam. =,=

Option Paralysis

It's just one single module! Come on! Make up your mind!
*YA*
Totally lost..

Don't You Cry Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt4L3kHmXKI
long time no see - belief, blaze, bravery
where have all they gone?