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Comment on WenChuan’s original looks by admin

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:56:40 +0000

Brian, casualties are pretty bad. In a small county, nearly half population diminished. I saw many dead bodies, though larger numbers were still uncovered underneath the ground. Pretty sad. Many children were caught in this disaster, because all school started afternoon sessions when earthquake happened.

China need material aids than rescue team. Reasons are:
1. The most serious disaster-hit region were shut off traffic due to landslide, collapsed buildings, collapsed traffic tunnels. International rescue team could not access.

2. If international rescue aids arrived, we will have new responsibilites of finding translators, providing higene and safe accomodations, which are not possible in those small ruined counties.

3. We need money, quilts, clothes, tents etc. to help our brothers and sisters rebuild homes.

Comment on WenChuan’s original looks by Brian

Brian — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:33:52 +0000

It seems pretty horrible. I’m always leery of death counts so quickly after the accident. I was in the SF earthquake and papers were reporting thousands dead but less than 100 were actually killed. Still this one seems to particularly bad. I just hope the high numbers are just poor reporting.

I’m pretty impressed at how quickly the government responded. A lot of international aid has already been dedicated to Burma but it doesn’t look like China needs outside help at this point. It doesn’t seem that it’s possible to get aid to Sichuan faster than it’s already getting there. California rescue teams are on standby. I just hope it isn’t as bad as suspected.

Comment on Earthquake struck Wenchuan County of Sichuan Province by admin

admin — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:01:43 +0000

@ Rick, did you feel the earthquake?

Comment on Keep Politics out of Sport by Brian

Brian — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:09:59 +0000

Thanks for stroking my ego, admin. Have good weekend!

Brian

Comment on Keep Politics out of Sport by admin

admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:33:01 +0000

Brian, you are a genius to suggest China government talk with DL, and your suggestion apparantly taken

Comment on Keep Politics out of Sport by Brian

Brian — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:39:20 +0000

No one has any comment on the Chinese governmental meeting with the Dalai Lama? They must have been reading my posts on Chinese Lives! Any problem you need sorting out, just ask old Brian. Loosing socks in the laundry, trouble with your girlfriend, rebellious territories, all in a day’s work for me.

Sorry, I don’t get much chance to gloat.

Comment on Keep Politics out of Sport by Rick in China

Rick in China — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:39:08 +0000

@Brian
RE: Protests
Interesting story, I like the San Fran insight. A friend of mine was in Sydney during the protests there, said that the Chinese supporters “over-ran” the Tibetan protesters in a fashion akin to what he imagine happened in N.Korea during the Korean War. His words not mine, “They just swarmed them”

Comment on Keep Politics out of Sport by Brian

Brian — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:31:47 +0000

Thanks for your input Mongol. Its great to read your perspective. So do you think that Inner Mongolians and Mongolians are still the same people or do you see major differences between the two groups? Do you think that all Mongolians should be united?

Just a little news before this thread dies. I just spoke to a friend last night who was protesting the Olympic torch on behalf of the Burmese! He said that he was proud that San Francisco was non-violent, at least where he was. He also said that the CNN was trying to stir up arguments between the groups and made it sound like it was more tense than it was.

Another friend was protesting the torch for Tibet! I don’t know if you know but the mayor of San Francisco changed the route of the torch at the last minute. She said that before they learned route had been changed they heard cheering and they thought the torch was coming down the street. Instead it was three naked men carrying a fake torch. Everybody, protesters and supporters alike, cheered them on. It is San Francisco after all. I love this city sometimes.

Comment on Keep Politics out of Sport by Rick in China

Rick in China — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:13:07 +0000

@Admin:
RE: “You argument wrongly use China to represent Han Chinese. Before 1911 the revolution, Mongolia is under the rule of Qing Dynasty, which is China.”
Right.

@Mongol:
RE: All your points
Uh…eh? Eh. Hahahaha.

Comment on My Wife Refused to Work by Rick in China

Rick in China — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:09:18 +0000

@Admin
It’s not a failure or waste of talent, it’s a raw disgusting factor of dependence and inability to take charge of one’s own life. Some men prefer the dominance it gives them from ‘bringing in the bacon’, others greatly respect a woman who is capable of standing on her own two feet even though the circumstance may not require her to. Personally I make enough money to support myself and a family in a comfortable lifestyle, but, I wouldn’t have any interest in the type of girl who *desires* to stay home and lay around the house, cook, clean..in fact, my last real girlfriend thought it’s what I wanted - so I hired a full-time maid thinking it would force my gf into boredom at home and into doing what she seemed to once enjoy (career) rather than what I consider “low-level labor “….my queen doesn’t wash the floor….it didn’t change the situation - and my queen quickly became my backpack. Successful men don’t require backpacks, we require equals.

I’d like to add career in my eyes does not have any relationship to amount of money earned - it has to do with the satisfaction of providing value in some way, in any way. Volunteering can be a career. If you don’t require money in life, surely hobbies or volunteer work which you truly enjoy can substitute, but when all you want to do is cook and clean, that spells out the personality-type which doesn’t earn much respect in my eyes. I am NOT saying I don’t respect it period, I don’t respect it when it’s not necessary. My mother did all of that type of work (but also worked, mind you) and had 3 boys - I greatly respect her. I just don’t think a woman should seek a rich man so she can lounge..and in China you know how cheap maid services are - there’s no excuse for a lazy slack scraggly backpack just because she’s smart and attractive and may produce quality offspring.