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Post-Sichuan 四川

Feel very weird and unnormal. Just back from Sichuan 四川 and just kind of dazed after the 5 days trip. I thought we were there to help and assist the people there but I think I learned so much from the people there an…
Cardinal Joseph Zen Retire

Vatican appoints new bishop to Hong Kong Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop John Tong Hon to replace Cardinal Joseph Zen in the often-controversial diocese of Hong Kong. By…
weddings

i have been in choir for almost 3 months now, well, 2 months as an official choir member after a month of 'probation.' one of the duties of the choir is to sing at weddings, so i have been to many weddings for the past f…
I don't get it but I seem to be a tendency to delay things that i have to do. Haven't seen any movie since the summer with all the comic hero movies. The excuse is probably my Hong Kong lifestyle here. The last mov…
Hong Kong in the 50s and 60s

FELIX YEUNG, INSURANCE CLERK The Hong Kong I remember is the Hong Kong from the 1960s. …
4 more days to Beijing Olympic

With only 4 days to go until the Olympics, I can't help it but feel really excited. I think Friday should be a holiday for China. I can't wait to see the USA basketball team go against China, Spain and Argentina. It's go…
air pollution in hong kong

Toll rises as city melts Hong Kong gasped its way through the worst air pollution ever recorded yesterday as smog and soaring temperatures mixed in a lethal cocktail that left one woman dead and dozens of elderly pe…
2008

2008 is suppose to be this super year for China, well, the People's Republic of China at that with the Beijing Olympics and the superstitious 8. But what are we seeing so far? Severe blizzard, riot and unrest in Tibet,…
3 minutes of mourning for earthquake victims

at 2:27pm Sandy told us to get ready to stand up and mourn for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. i was a little slow getting up and it felt kind of weird. when was the last time i stood behind my desk? it reminded m…
Ray Bradbury will be speaking at UCR! what the heck? After I graduated?! It seems like UCR is putting on more high profile stuff/events. And yah, UCR will have a medical school, i bet its ranking would go up in the …