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watch hk 6 4 candle light vigil live.

noreply@rsfblog.org (Yan) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:02:47 +0800

Candlelight Vigil for the 20th Anniversary of June 4 will be broadcasted live on CommunityTV.HK on June 4, 2009 at 8pm(HKG)

www.communitytv.hk

Documentary of Tianamen 20 years ago (in cantonese)

noreply@rsfblog.org (Yan) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:34:13 +0800

I can't watch it all.. (the videos are in asecending order, so watch the oldest one first)

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=4june1989&view=videos

Not Forgotten

noreply@rsfblog.org (Yan) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:29:52 +0800

The great Tiananmen taboo - Ma Jian, The Guardian, 2 June 2009

Today at 12:57am

It is 20 years since students and lecturers filled Tiananmen Square, demanding democracy, only to be crushed by tanks and fired on by the Chinese army. Banned novelist Ma Jian, who was there at the protests, returned to Beijing to find a country desperate to erase all memories of the thousands of innocent lives lost

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Bodies of dead civilians lie among mangled bicycles near Beijing's Tiananmen Square, 4 June 1989. Photograph: AP

Two thousand years ago, contemplating the relentless flow of time, Confucius gazed down at a river and sighed, "What passes is just like this, never ceasing day or night ..." In China, time can feel both frozen and unstoppable at the same time. The Tiananmen massacre that 20 years ago ravaged Beijing, killed thousands of unarmed citizens, and altered the lives of millions, seems now to be locked in the 20th century, forgotten or ignored, as China continues to hurtle blindly towards its future.

The amnesia to which China has succumbed is not the result of natural memory-loss but of state-enforced erasure. China's Communist regime tolerates no mention of the massacre. But Tiananmen Square, and other sites connected with the events of 1989, still remain charged with memory. When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

During the Beijing Olympics last August, I took my now five-year-old son to the square. On our journey there, our movements were observed by the CCTV cameras in the lift of our apartment block and outside the front gate of our compound, by the listening devices in our taxi, by the armed police who lined the streets and by the security guards who frisked us before finally allowing us on to Tiananmen. We emerged from the underpass and stepped on to the square. Apart from the crowds of policemen, the plain-clothes officers (instantly identifiable by their dark sunglasses and striped Airtex shirts) and the gaudy flower displays, the concrete-paved square, the size of nine football fields, was almost deserted.

In spring 1989, the square had been taken over by Beijing students and civilians who were mounting the largest peaceful protest in history. They were pressing for dialogue with their Communist leaders, and ultimately for freedom and democracy. The packed square became the city's pulsing heart; the police had vanished. This was a benevolent form of anarchy - noble, joyous, and surprisingly orderly.

My son ran to the spot where 20 years ago the students had erected a huge polystyrene replica of the Statue…

Nine Whole Months!!!

noreply@rsfblog.org (Yan) — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:11:00 +0800

Not too long after I bloged the last post, I started feeling hot, went into the room and my water broke! Off to hospital I went and a few days later I brought home little Kiowa. Wow. Life has changed. There were many times I wanted to blog but somewhere between having the baby -RSFblogs changed their interface and I was unable to get in from the original website. It took a good eight months for me work out what went wrong! Well here we are and Kiowa is nine months old and finally I can get into the website. Hopefully I have time to blog, as I "tried" to start blogging again through my typepad account. Never got into the habit of it.

So here is a photo of me and Kiowa on Mother's Day. We went to an aquarium -of course!!

How Wide is 44 Inches Really?

noreply@rsfblog.org (Yan) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:33:34 +0800

I am now 44 inches wide. That is the same width as a high end LCD TV.

But how WIDE is 44 inches really??

My aunt and I do a comparison...

It's all in the perspective really.....

No Olympics for me...

noreply@rsfblog.org (Yan) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:30:00 +0800

No Olympics for me.... and not because of any political reasons. I actually REALLY want to cheer the home team on.....

http://www.macworld.com/article/134935/2008/08/olympics.html

I hate AT&T and Microsoft. I hope they get sued for being a monopoly again.

Scheduled C Sections for 080808

noreply@rsfblog.org (Yan) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:03:16 +0800

China

I am amazed what people fuss over when they are expecting a baby. As if there wasn't enough to do....

Chinese couples hoping for lucky birth on 08/08/08 - News and Features, Olympics - The Independent

Source: www.independent.co.uk

In Beijing's main maternity hospital, there is an even more expectant air than usual. All of the 200 beds in the wards are full, and of the scores of soon-to-be mothers, most have scheduled a Caesarean section to ensure that most auspicious and treasured of babies – an Olympic baby.

11 People For Baby..plus some green points.

noreply@rsfblog.org (Yan) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:10:00 +0800

Mummyhood.

Today must be one of the busiest days we have had in a long time in regards to home. At 7:30 am four painters arrived, at 7:45 am the floor person, with his daughter in tow, followed by the contractor who took away the old wood frames from our salvage doors and wood. Followed by our cleaning lady who brought a her friend because she wanted to get out early, then the electrician. People are coming going and the house looks increasingly different by the minute.

First the dowdy ex-bedroom suddenly looks bright and clean with all the cracks and holes patched up, then the floor is placed in, looking as if the room is close to finish. The bathroom is now transforming from a strange form of brown and yellow into a mint green. And of course the kitchen looks sparkling. Within a few days the air con will be running and we will have lights in the new room as well as some outside. The closet is reorganized to take account of baby things. The stroller/pram is put together, and once the house is painted and we have moved the old bedroom into the new bedroom then the baby furniture can go into the study.

I finally settled on cotton balls for all three rooms. It was quite distressing to realize that I didn't like devonshire cream for the living room AFTER the painters arrived, and we were still trying to figure what's best after five colors tries.

And with all the construction, one of the nicest things is we have tried and made the house a bit more green. (To be cont)

Freedom in China: Two Views

noreply@rsfblog.org (Yan) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:08:26 +0800

China

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/2008/08/freedom_in_china.html

Angry Youths, Hidden China, The resentful Dragon.

noreply@rsfblog.org (Yan) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:41:50 +0800

China

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/28/080728fa_fact_osnos

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/03/china.olympicgames2008

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1040791/The-resentful-dragon-Beneath-smiles-China-remembers-humiliations-suffered-Western-hands.html