Posted in Snippets on November 17, 2009 | Comments Off
Read about Americans agonizing and spitting at each other over a bow, or sort of. What’s the matter with these Yanks: Don’t they know how to bow?
That, below, is a bow. A Jap bow: hands straight, perpendicular to the shoulders (for women, crossed at mid-riff), waist bent (not the neck, for tian’s sake), then dip [...]
Posted in Snippets on November 17, 2009 | Comments Off
Fodder for the White cause: ‘Hi kids. Welcome to Australia, your new motherland. For your country, even if poor.’
Compare and contrast (with emphases added in italics) …
From an AP report in Yahoo!:
As many as 150,000 poor British children were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, often taken from struggling [...]
Posted in Snippets on November 13, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s been ten years – flitting in the history of the written word – but Malaysiakini editors are already patting each others’ chin and stroking themselves on the shoulders. Thus, they have declared: “Our Agenda is Press Freedom“.
How touching, their way of declaring victory. And so very Yankee, so ethically uplifting. They make it sound [...]
Posted in Snippets on October 1, 2009 | Comments Off
The background song you might have heard sung by a choir of 1,200 on Chang’an Av, Beijing, on the morning of Oct 1, 2009:
This is the conductor…
The singers…
The people of the farms…
The forces, men contingent…
The forces, women contingent.
My Motherland:
Posted in Snippets on September 24, 2009 | Comments Off
Since the world has gathered in New York to pay America homage, here is to continue the series on the Great Western civilization…
Girls…
American Apparel…
Stores … and
Stickers.
Now, do you see how America is well and properly screwed…
Don’t you simply love America?
Posted in Snippets on September 22, 2009 | Comments Off
(Pix: via Sisyphus)
The USA is host to the United Nations (due for general assembly this week), but it goes round the world, in the name of democracy, destabilizing other countries (at last count 78, including Malaysia via Bersih, but not counting Iraq). Now, if America does all this dirty work, why not extend the same [...]
Posted in Snippets on September 19, 2009 | Comments Off
In salute to the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the modern People’s China…
Calvary, Oct 1, 1950. (Pix: sina.com)
Rehearsing in Beijing for the anniversary.
They are our masters: the people who seeded, shaped, and ultimately influenced China, hence individual Chinese lives, Chinese society, Chinese thought, and East Asian affairs (including the value system so reviled by [...]
Posted in Snippets on September 16, 2009 | Comments Off
Continuing on the series, the Great Western civilization and its Great Values …
Malaysians, the world in fact, think much of America for a number of reasons. Among Malaysians, they consider it a place where there is “rule of law”, a fair place where you can get ahead on the sweat of your skin, not colour. [...]
Posted in Snippets on September 15, 2009 | Comments Off
If there is any more doubt into the merits (or demerits) of the Western liberal value system – democracy, equality, free Press, etc – consider the two cases below:
Free Press
Against all advice, the New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell went into Taliban territory in Afghanistan. Within hours he was captured. To rescue him from captivity, [...]
Posted in Snippets on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off
In pursuit of its “independent”, “unbias” journalism Malaysiakini looks to the liberal West in the like of the latter’s institutions, the Press, civil rights laws, and so on for inspiration. After ten years of learning and copying, this is what they have passed on:
Some 50 residents enraged with the proposed relocation of a Hindu temple [...]
Posted in Snippets on August 13, 2009 | Comments Off
After the “journalists” at Utusan allowed the words “ultra vires” to be read as, “to insult”, you want to go back to Martin Amis, White man novelist who teaches boys and girls how to write (in English, of course):
The most important book on their shelves is not the collected Shakespeare, it’s the concise Oxford Dictionary. [...]
Posted in Snippets on August 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Manjit Bhatia, doyen of Indians hankering after the Green card in Australia, have nothing to say when White people beat up Indians. He is too shy to say anything (thinking of his Card?)
But not the The Times of India. This is what it has to say yesterday of Indians in Australia:
Indian students here (Australia) represent [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics, Snippets on July 13, 2009 | Comments Off
The Urumqi mass murder of Han Chinese is today stirred and covered up in scattered Uyghur demands in Europe and America for “freedom” and “independence”, much like what Tibetans did. Readers of this modern narrative depend almost entirely on the Western media (quite an anti-China bunch) that take in the history of the last 60-odd [...]
Posted in Snippets on July 12, 2009 | Comments Off
Death doesn’t lie, but people do. Soon after news broke of race killings in Urumqi, Xinjiang, on Sunday, July 5, Nathaniel Tan said:
I hope the world pays more attention to this. I really hope the Chinese government stops this heavy handed violence against Muslim minorities (emphasis added).
Turks, kin to the Uyghur Chinese and 4,000km away, [...]
Posted in Snippets on July 11, 2009 | Comments Off
After Sichuan, Tibet, Xinjiang, it is now Yunnan where a 6.5 earthquake on Thursday struck near Kunming. More than a million are displaced as a result; more than 300 are hurt; dead count uncertain.
Yearly, without fail, calamities of all sorts visit common people in China. Some, like those in Tibet and Xinjiang, are man-made. China’s [...]
