Posted on 9 March 2010 @ 07:00 in News
I am currently in China, and have discovered the “Great Firewall of China”.
Yup, no access to Facebook and Twitter in China. I feel “offline”, altho I have Internet access in my hotel room, and brought along “H”, my Asus eeePC 1000H, so I am online, just not on Facebook or Twitter.
I’m at the Bifengxia Panda Base for my annual volunteer trip. This trip coincides with American-born giant panda Tai Shan coming out of his 30-day quarantine and moving into his new digs today. It’s a big event with 20 volunteers helping him to move. I’m one of the 20.
This should be a fun day.
I just remembered my blog entries are sent to my Facebook account, so this should go up there, too. If any of my FB friends read this, please post a comment on my blog to let me know. Then, I’ll update my blog more often while I’m in China.
Thanks.
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Posted on 1 March 2010 @ 23:12 in Being Silly, Writing
Even when it’s a leap year. And that’s why it’s now already March. Simply because February is the shortest month.
Don’t mind my silliness.
Earlier today, I saw a note from a friend on FB about getting together a reading group for A S Byatt’s Possession. I thought I was so smart when I replied “Persuasion was what persuaded me about A S Byatt’s wonderful-ness.” A while later, it occurred to me Persuasion is not the title of the book, but Possession. I went back and deleted the note, and later tweeted dunno what possessed me to write Persuasion instead of Possession by A S Byatt. Was trying to be funny and use the word “persuaded”. *blur*
I have various writing projects, including Panda Stories, a series of 20 stories based on 20 pictures, and A – Z, short notes on Facebook. So far, I’ve only written three of the 20 panda stories, and four of the alphabet notes. Panda Stories was “launched” on 20 December 2009 and the third story posted about a month later on 19 January 2010. The first of the alphabet notes, “Age”, was posted on 19 January 2010, and “Disorganised”, the fourth, on 23 February 2010.
Pretty pathetic output. Nevertheless, I’m feeling somewhat accomplished today, having written and posted a new story on The British Council’s A City of Shared Stories Kuala Lumpur site. I’ve posted various stories on that site, and should really include them in my recent writing output.
I’ll do better than that. I’ll post links to all my stories posted to date on that site.
Taken for a ride
17 December 2009
Kindness Remembered
18 December 2009
Urban Miracle
3 January 2010
Spiked
8 January 2010
He also started this way
10 January 2010
“You won’t believe what happened, man … “
1 March 2010
Hmm, no stories posted in February? Well, it was a short month – the shortest month! – and just whooshed by.
Hopefully, I’ll maintain, if not increase, my writing output from now on.
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