http://waterink.net Pin Lu's Blog Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:03:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today is the beginning of the Year of Tiger. Hold on, I hear you say, isn't the 14 Feb this year's the Chinese New Year Day? Well, you are right. Chinese calendar is a lunar calendar, which means the date of new year's day in relation to western calendar always changes. ... http://waterink.net/2010/02/04/year-of-tiger-begins/ If you want more Mary-Jess Leaverland vidoes, now you can watch her interview with BBC Chinese. It started in Mandarin but most part of interview were conducted in English. And she sang, in Mandarin. http://waterink.net/2010/02/02/mary-jess-leaverland-interview-on-bbc-chinese/ OK, for those of you wondering what's the fuss about, here are the vidoes of Mary-Jess Leaverland, who is on the front page of today's Guardian. Her victory in a "Chinese X Factor" competition is reported by several papers (Telegraph, Daily Mail, and Sun). The TV singing competition is called Min ... http://waterink.net/2010/01/19/mary-jess-leaverland-videos/ On Twitter many people dismissed Global Times's survey that 70% of its visitors support Chinese government against Google, who had just abandoned the self-imposed censorship on Google.cn and threated to close its business in China altogether. The sad truth is that those who have made the effort of climbing over the ... http://waterink.net/2010/01/13/will-google-cn-die/ Yes it is cold out there. It hasn't been so cold for so long for many years in the UK. Minus 20C is cold. But why the British media insist that here is "almost as cold as the South Pole"? Times put it in the headline, Guardian and Telegraph ("only ... http://waterink.net/2010/01/08/uk-almost-as-cold-as-the-south-pole/ The Firelight, a street performance and installation by French artists group Carabosse, at this year's Edinburgh Hogmanay was a wonderful experience. I found it's much more fun, not mention warmer, than the Prince Street New Year party. The Royal Mile at the centre of Edinburgh Old Town is an ideal place ... http://waterink.net/2010/01/06/firelight-at-edinburgh-hogmanay/ One of the unexpected consequences of the sorry story of Akmal Shaikh's execution is 'Opium War' suddenly being mentioned again in the British media. Judging from the posted comments, some seem very surprised to hear that the Chinese still remember the Opium War, which after all happened 170 years ago. Well ... http://waterink.net/2009/12/30/dont-mention-the-war/ After the chaos of Copenhagen climate change summit, UK's climate change minister Ed Miliband, proud of his 'last minute rescue' of the summit, launched an attack on China, suggesting it's China's refusal of giving way that caused the summit's near collapse. It may seems out of frustration, but blaming China ... http://waterink.net/2009/12/21/dont-blame-it-on-china/ A series of short videos were posted on a Chinese video sharing website. You don't have to know any Chinese to understand it, because you will have probably seen the scenes before somewhere else... The title of the series, by the way, is Office HipHop Quartet. Besides 'recreate' the scenes, the ... http://waterink.net/2009/12/13/remake-those-on-the-cheap/ Today 56 newspapers from 44 countries have published the same editorial (in 20 different languages) to encourage the delegations at Copenhagen summit to seal a deal to reduce global warming and act on climate change. I'm proud of the fact that the paper I worked for is the initiator and the ... http://waterink.net/2009/12/07/climate-change-summit-calling-for-leadership/