This is not the kind of article I would've expected on a PRC government website, but still, it's there, and it discusses an exhibition of Mainland broadcasts intercepted in Taiwan. The exhibition is being held in the Taiwan Radio Museum, which apparently:...
I really should be marking assignments. This is taking too long. Trouble is, four classes of thirty-something, pushing fourty students each, and most of the students really are not up to university-level English writing.... Well, they are IT majors, so...
It's not often I get memed. In fact, it's almost never, meaning this is the second time in well over three years of blogging that I can remember being memed, but anyway, I got memed sometime over the weekend. I'm supposed to put up a screenshot of my...
This morning didn't so much dawn as wade through the thick fog that is still shrouding Beijing. I thought I'd woken up absurdly early, it was so dark, but checked the time and saw that it was actually quite a reasonable time to be awake. Not good. Very...
Women's rugby in Iran? You could not be blamed for never having thunk such a thing could be possible, but.... Now, I have to say that I have only ever met one Iranian woman in my life, and that kinda freaked me out. It freaked me out because even though...
As if yesterday's fog wasn't bad enough... When I got up at 6:30 this morning it looked like it was still midnight, or as if we'd suddenly been fast-forwarded to mid-winter. I stumbled into the lounge room and looked out the window... or tried to. Yesterday...
On the way into the market this afternoon I was accosted once again by the little, old but tough lady who tried to persuade me to stock up on haws lest my brain explode in a tangled mess of aneurysm soup. She saw me coming as I turned the corner and headed...
Well, it's not live, it's rebroadcast on CCTV 1's Network News: I'm watching now on CCTV 1 news (via Heilongjiang TV- remember, the CCTV 1 Network News broadcast is broadcast on a wide variety of provincial and local channels, many of which are available...
In the market half an hour ago, as I was walking away from my beer seller, an old lady grabbed a hold of me and started jabbering away. My reactions were a bit slow, concentrating, as I was, on getting my bike down onto the flat with out the weight of...
I spent a good part of this morning helping some of my colleagues fill in some [unnecessary adjectives removed] registration form for the local cop shop. Why? Because the boss and gk have decided that I'm the only one with good enough Chinese and reliable...
