My OperaI love this place
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:52:28 PM
After nearly one year, I came back to my opera community by using OperaTor again. You know, sometimes things they don't want you to get through are always better than what they provided.
But this is not the reason why I came back here to learn to write something in English, it's silly to complain the current Chinese government in a GFW-banned website.
1. The wanna-grasp-everything officials don't care the words which cannot be seen or understood by the common masses;
2. The English world is full of accusations on the "evil" Chinese government, who would not willing to take time to bear the broken English written by a second-rate blogger, they have enough information resources;
3. I'm not as such immature as that Duke freshman, who would willing to accuse her motherland where her whole beloved family members live in to realize any, maybe political end. Yes, the article she "wrote" published in the Washington Post was "aided" by a famous targetting-China human-rights activist. She will soon be forgotten by the mainstream media of the Western world, but will never be forgotten by the Chinese, including me. Things are not as simple as she thought, she was too young to take part in the "Adult's Game".
So, why I wrote in this blog with a language I'm not familiar, I asked myself.
Well, sometimes the answer is simple:
1. Opera is a simple but great browser, especially after I got so disappointed with Mozilla. The OperaTor pack is easy to use to visit the wikipedia or other nice website in the world from Mainland China.
My opera community is a comfortable place to go to enjoy some simple care, simple love between each other: people may praise somebody just because he/she think the blogger's words is interesting or something cute. Few people criticize everyday to express stress, complain everything or show off, which can be found in many other blog sites I visited. In fact I'm full of disappointment in my mind, and lack the courage to love before my trying to getting contact with the lovely my opera friends, so I'm glad to my opera community to find something good, to love simply with my opera friends.
2. Something happended these days about my dear motherland where I'm now living in. Maybe it is better to learn to hear or tell the stories between each other, after all, no one can say he/she is absolutely right. The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise, and he can find any faults he want in the words not written by the language of mathematics. I mean, the words need to be written to praise the love instead of hate, so I will try to show something not-so-evil or loveworthy in this country, after all, an "evil" country cannot develop so fast in the past 30 years, an "evil" nation cannot last long for 5000 years without any disturbance on this planet, there must exist something good to support this nation's progress in spite of the existence of the not-so-perfect Chinese government.
3. I'm sort of like the other common Chinese student, who can read English well, but lack the environment to speak, write or listen English frequently, whcih resulted to be the read-only English learner:(. I'm now working with a very smart French, he always talks with me in Chinese, I even cannot talk smoothly with him in English! Sometimes I'm so ashamed. So, I would try to learn English well, to think in different ways, to write exactly what I want to tell. Then, if my English is good enough, I'm dreaming that oneday I would be lucky enough to go to American to learn the great in the Ivy League, the United States is really worthy study in.
I love this place:).
But this is not the reason why I came back here to learn to write something in English, it's silly to complain the current Chinese government in a GFW-banned website.
1. The wanna-grasp-everything officials don't care the words which cannot be seen or understood by the common masses;
2. The English world is full of accusations on the "evil" Chinese government, who would not willing to take time to bear the broken English written by a second-rate blogger, they have enough information resources;
3. I'm not as such immature as that Duke freshman, who would willing to accuse her motherland where her whole beloved family members live in to realize any, maybe political end. Yes, the article she "wrote" published in the Washington Post was "aided" by a famous targetting-China human-rights activist. She will soon be forgotten by the mainstream media of the Western world, but will never be forgotten by the Chinese, including me. Things are not as simple as she thought, she was too young to take part in the "Adult's Game".
So, why I wrote in this blog with a language I'm not familiar, I asked myself.
Well, sometimes the answer is simple:
1. Opera is a simple but great browser, especially after I got so disappointed with Mozilla. The OperaTor pack is easy to use to visit the wikipedia or other nice website in the world from Mainland China.
My opera community is a comfortable place to go to enjoy some simple care, simple love between each other: people may praise somebody just because he/she think the blogger's words is interesting or something cute. Few people criticize everyday to express stress, complain everything or show off, which can be found in many other blog sites I visited. In fact I'm full of disappointment in my mind, and lack the courage to love before my trying to getting contact with the lovely my opera friends, so I'm glad to my opera community to find something good, to love simply with my opera friends.
2. Something happended these days about my dear motherland where I'm now living in. Maybe it is better to learn to hear or tell the stories between each other, after all, no one can say he/she is absolutely right. The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise, and he can find any faults he want in the words not written by the language of mathematics. I mean, the words need to be written to praise the love instead of hate, so I will try to show something not-so-evil or loveworthy in this country, after all, an "evil" country cannot develop so fast in the past 30 years, an "evil" nation cannot last long for 5000 years without any disturbance on this planet, there must exist something good to support this nation's progress in spite of the existence of the not-so-perfect Chinese government.
3. I'm sort of like the other common Chinese student, who can read English well, but lack the environment to speak, write or listen English frequently, whcih resulted to be the read-only English learner:(. I'm now working with a very smart French, he always talks with me in Chinese, I even cannot talk smoothly with him in English! Sometimes I'm so ashamed. So, I would try to learn English well, to think in different ways, to write exactly what I want to tell. Then, if my English is good enough, I'm dreaming that oneday I would be lucky enough to go to American to learn the great in the Ivy League, the United States is really worthy study in.
I love this place:).
fleinn # Monday, May 12, 2008 10:58:42 AM
(btw - you tend to write english sentences, it seems to me. Instead of translated phrases, that happen to use english words. Important evidence of a good writer hiding in there somewhere, that is. *nods* Mhm.)
Yveszhouye.ah # Monday, May 12, 2008 2:26:48 PM
Translate in the mind will not express exactly what I want to tell, there exist huge difference between Chinese and the latin-letter-world.
All I want to do is telling something in my mind, to tell to the other people who may have a total different viewpoint on some subjects. It's very normal, the Chinese need to learn to accept this, it's no big deal.
What's happening in China now, is not great, but very normal in her long-lasting-history; is not evil or filled with false, but very real and lovely in this land.
Maybe to tell simple stories is suitable for me, at least I'm trying to write something fair and square. But you can find out many problems, because sometimes I have to use dictionary to express what I'm now thinking, it's a pity to break the thoughts and I have to use another phase not exactly describing my thoughts, it's really bad. I have such a long way to write.
Yveszhouye.ah # Monday, May 12, 2008 2:33:52 PM
Still, I'm trying, though it is the first time to tell the story.
I will try to read more, to write some attracting story anyway
thanks for your concern.
fleinn # Monday, May 12, 2008 7:19:57 PM
But I guess that instead of pointing out how you're right, and that a lot of the noise we're hearing now is based on too long delayed, and false, self- serving backpedalling.. One part of this is that the Amnesty campaigns still don't have anything to do with a government agenda. Some might want to use the campaigns politically, but that's not what it's about. I'm an amnesty guy too - for purely political reasons. Because we do not encourage governments to take action on anyone's behalf. It's just about human rights (a phrase that, yes, has been thrown into considerable disrepute lately). But that's all - you don't prosecute journalists, you don't use violence to encourage political order or change. Or get a second pass for putting a nice face on oppressing minorities, no matter how good the reason. Because that's what stops any possibility for dialogue.
..Still - behind all of that, the typical political procedures are going ahead on schedule (even if we've all failed to set the agenda ahead of the games, and control and encourage our interests to be transparent and open, which in turn would've shaped how the Games would've been viewed both here and there). Because a lot of western interests keep investing in China (and that's certainly not only the US - the EU and the rest of us are eyeing the increased tourism, quickly improving living standards and exploding consumer- culture, among other things) - ..and no one complains about that.
And.. from that point of view, even voicing the idea that we should boycott the games now is just absurd. A so transparent way of alleviating ourselves from some form of instant guilt that it's all more shameful than I really would like to admit. Because it shows how little people really know about the situation in China, and about how things are run back home as well. Which is also why the entire boycott thing isn't going anywhere.
So be careful about reading too much into some of the statements lately. There's a lot more than the Bush- administration narrative about somehow "battling the Red Dragon back", by investing in the military sector that's going on here, after all. But as I said - we've failed here at home, they've failed in the EU, and in the "Quartet", to set the agenada on China. And in the absence of that, the people quickest to open their mouths aren't the ones who say: "well, it's.. kinda complicated, you know..".
I'd like to say I wouldn't have been as polite and open as you, though. If I were in your shoes. I don't have to eat my national pride to say any of this, for example.