Simply Miracles

It is said that the 78 hour windows is the golden time for the rescue actions after an earthquake. It has been nine days since the quake in Sichuan, China, which has claimed over 40,000 lives. But the rescue teams are not giving up and the miracles are everywhere:

A 120-hour survivor who was still conscious by the time

A 140-hour survivor, who sadly lost her legs.

A 61-year-old survivor after 164 hours

He is rescued after 164.5 hours under the ruins

China in Black and White

FOR THE SALVATION OF THE DEAD AND

BLESSING OF THE LIVING

0628 GMT, 19th May 2008, China started its three minutes national silence and half-mast flags as a special tribute for the victims in the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake. This quake is now declared to be 8.0 Richter by Chinese officials. This devastating earthquake, unfortunately, happened in my home town, the Sichuan province. But I am one of the lucky ones that all my families are safe and sound. Over 30,000 did make it, according to the state media statistics and the number is expected to roll up to 50,000. Today is the start of the three day national mourning of this tragedy events. Many entertainment industries have decided to shut their business during this period including many cinemas, night clubs and pubs in Beijing. Most TV channels will suspend their entertainment programmes and most websites colour-coded their home pages with black and white. China is crying with the deepest sad and sorrow but it is fighting with the strongest will and courage!

MSN China

EACHNET(EBAY China )

MySpace China

Yahoo China
Google China

A Shelter for Refugees from Earthquake

This Jiuzhou Stadium is about a few minutes from my home. Today, it is one of the most important shelter in the city, accommodating tens of thousands of refugees from all over the places heavily affected from the quake. Just had a brief talk with my parents over the phone earlier today. They told me that there were still quite a few after shocks.

copyright: Yang, Lei (Xinhua News Agency)

Fill The World with Love: The Picture from The Earthquake

My home town was totally devastated by the tragic earthquake in China. Finally I got hold of my family. Thankfully, they are all safe. But I know ten of thousands didn't make it. There is so much I want to see but I totally lost my mind of where to start. The only thing I can do now is to listen the only operating local radio station online, hoping I could get a track of everything.

I got this picture from a website. It is a class room that has been destroyed by the earthquake. The broken blackboard says 'Fill The World with Love'. Let's pray for all those affected in the region, with love.

Copyright, Wang, Xiaoxi (Beijing Youth)

Also, I would like to thank all my friends who has been querying about me. I am doing fine, thank you all for your concerns very much.

Earthquake In My Hometown

There has been reported a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that took place in China (Wenchuan county, Sichuan province). It was from the province where my homo city lies. I have tried to contact my family back there but couldn’t get through any of them. I couldn’t get through any of their mobile phones. None of them were picking up their landline. I have tried their numbers over and over again but with no response at all. Eventually, I managed to talk to my granduncle done there. He sounded laid-back, saying that there was only mild disturbance in my city. But he had no idea of why I couldn’t get through others. He said the telecommunication was down for a while. Although, after my conversation with my granduncle, I still couldn’t reach any other family members.

Being told that the disturbances were mild, I felt slightly relived. It is possible that my family has decided to stay outside the buildings for the night (it is 1 am over there at the moment) as there might still be some small disturbances coming saying on the news.

Being me, I couldn’t possible stop worrying and shall try to call them again after work. Hope they are alright.

This earthquake has turned out to be a tragedy over its central area causing over 8500 death so far, many unaccounted for. Far away from my country, I could only wish the best for those affected by this devastating incident.

Our BBQ

It has been a good day really. The weather starts to convince us that the summer is really coming this time. I was invigilating all day but finished quite early. So we decided to go for a BBQ at our backyard. And who would think this is what you will get by put ASDA beef burgers on a BBQ. It added a heck lot of fun into it.

Summer Is Comming

So summer comes back, after two years. I am washing my t-shirts now and hopefully the sun won’t go away before I dry them.

It has been another two month since my last post here. I have my excuses, as usual. To be honest, it has been an eventful. There is good news and there are bad ones. I really shouldn’t be gossiping about myself because it is against the gospel of gossiping. Besides, it has been such an eventful in the world. We’ve got more interesting stuff going on that me.

Talking about interesting stuff in these two months, how could anyone leave the fantastic Olympic torch rally behind? The term fantastic here is both real and sarcastic. It is real because the Olympic torch rally should be a fantastic event. It goes over all continents in the world. It connects all races together. The flame goes around the global represents a union of the human kind regardless to their background, their belief or whatever uniqueness each individual may have. The essence of modern Olympic is the celebration of this great gathering of all human sprits. And who could ever miss such a chance to have some fun. Apparently, lots of us didn’t and some did manage to make this sarcastic.

Apparently, Olympic is no longer Olympic because China is hosting it. Therefore we should stand against it. Of course, because China is the host this time, we should dig out the ancient dusty history and point out that the Olympic torch rally was actually coined by Nazis making all the people who had ever been excited about any Olympic torch rally big fools. And surely we have to go on BBC 1 and say that it is only ‘slightly unfair to compare China with Nazis’. We have to attack China hard on this so we must not let anyone know that Tibet was operating a slavery system before someone really funny was exiled. We have to be pro-Tibet so we have to call it a conflict between Tibetan and Chinese, knowing that Chinese actually refers to a population includes 56 ethics groups such as: Tibetans, East and West Asian Muslims, Koreans, Mongolians and Hans, which would’ve made the phrase conflict between Tibetan and Chinese no sense. But it is obviously very unreasonable of us asking our news editors to research into such deep background. It might involve using Google, you know!!! Did you know there was a worldwide protest supporting Chinese Olympics? There were 2,000 people in London, and thousands in Paris, LA, and Australia. Ridiculous, isn’t it? Thankfully, our media mostly blocked it. What is the point of showing the positive side of China? It is not going to make any news.

Maybe it is strange to many people in UK but Chinese take Olympics every personally. The whole nation is so proud of it. Everyone would like to donate money, if the government would take it. Some western countries’ attitude had seriously hurt the feeling of 1,300,000,000 Chinese. But of course we shouldn’t care about people’s feeling from a communist state.

China is getting rich now. It is starting to share some of the world power. It is doing the 2008 Olympics, which will be better than ever. Get over it!

And enjoy a nice summer.