Monthly Archives: June 2006
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
