Archive for the 'World Issues' Category

Mid-Autumn Festival / 中秋节

Monday, September 24th, 2007

朋友们,祝大家中秋节快乐!
我最近搬家到了加拿大哈利法克斯,在圣玛丽大学学习商业。在加拿大换大学换得不难,但是不太容易。比如我以前在温哥华是电脑老师。圣大商业学生都学习程电脑课,内容是Access, Word, Excel,等等。我觉得太容易的课。老师说:我必须参加程电脑课,所以没办法。
我星期一,星期二晚上有上课,不可以吃中秋节的特别的菜。我真想在天津我和朋友们2004年一起包饺子,吃饭,喝白酒。这次晚上有数学课。我以后安排教哥哥的小孩儿怎么包。觉得他们太小,但是可以好玩儿。在加拿大可不可以买中国的白酒?我不知道。我从中国只拿一瓶山西的白酒。如果在哈利法克斯要真的中国食品,可以买。我已经买了饺子皮儿,花椒,等等。两次我自己做葱油饼,但是做得不好啊!我不熟练。做炒面比葱油饼更容易,所以常常做。
你中秋节在你家乡吃什么菜?
Happy Mid Autumn Festival everyone!

Saint Mary’s University (圣玛丽大学)

VE Day, Neo-Nazis, and Mother’s Day

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

As many around the world celebrate VE Day, there is are constant reminders that the evils of yesteryear are still very much present today: Berlin Police Foil Plans For March by Neo-Nazis.
Like Derek Miller, I find my thoughts of these events a strange contrast with the celebration of Mother’s Day.

Curious humanitarian effort

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

Vibrators for Iraq

UBC Model UN Conference

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

Only 3 days into classes and I’m leaving for Vancouver. UBC Model UN Club is hosting a conference from Jan 13-16th in Vancouver. I joined the MUN Club to learn more about how the UN works, and although I’m enjoying things, I’m feeling a bit down about the UN in general. I’ve been reading The [...]

Kevin Sites’s open letter response on Falluja shooting video

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

Kevin Sites received a little attention at the start of the Iraq war, because he was one of the few professional reporters running their own blog to report from the front lines. He has gained renoun as the reporter who witnessed the Fallujah Mosque Shooting.
Today he published an open letter to the Devil Dogs of [...]

Darfur Sudan: UN Protest

Saturday, November 13th, 2004

Today, Arjun brought up this piece from Passion of the Present about the ongoing ’situation’ in Darfur Sudan:
“The Sudanese government signed an agreement for peace on Tuesday, with great fanfair that stimulated hopeful reports in the world press. As has been the pattern, within days the government made clear that it did not intend to [...]