Posted on 16 September 2008 @ 09:05 in News, Stress Busters
One of the worries coming out of the May 12 earthquake was the possibility that panda births would be down this year. But to many people’s surprise, this has not been the case. In fact, since July 2008, there have been 14 cubbies born in Bifengxia!
Guo Guo - twins on 6 July
Ying Ying - single cub on 13 July
Long Xin - twins on 21 July
Bai Xue - twins on 26 July
Cao Cao - twins on 6 August
Fei Fei - single cub on 8 August
Zhang Ka - single cub on 26 August
Zhu Yun - twins on 3 September
Ye Ye - single cub on 14 September
Probably the most special birth is Fei Fei’s cub born on the first day of the 2008 Olympic Games.
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Posted on 21 May 2008 @ 10:53 in News, Stress Busters
Video: Panda Cubs Rescued After Quake
Shot on a handphone / cell / mobile camera!!
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Posted on 9 March 2008 @ 11:33 in Food, Memories, News
Last night, amidst the quiet celebration as I stayed up waiting for the results (thanks to the Malaysiakini site), I heard rumours of riots in Klang. My first reaction was curfew? And then … oh no, I have no food in the house! I was online with a friend, and told him we didn’t have a problem with food during the May 13 curfew because our shop (we lived upstairs) was between two sundry shops (as they were called in those days) and got supplies from them. That was one of the better memories from that time.
Speaking of Malaysiakini, I’d called my sister to tell her the good news each time I saw them on Malaysiakini, and her reaction was “are you sure or not?” She had a point. The results on Malaysiakini were mostly unofficial. But it took the longest time for the TV stations to post the official results. And it seemed to me they were only posting BN victories.
If it weren’t for Malaysiakini, we would’ve been kept waiting for the results much longer. Thank goodness for alternative news sources.
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Posted on 16 July 2007 @ 13:02 in News, Stress Busters
Hua Mei, the giant panda born at the San Diego Zoo in 1999 and returned to China in 2003, has given birth to her third set of twins in Wolong, China. This is really hot off the press as the announcement is dated Monday, 16 July 2007, 11:32 a.m.
News item here, with pictures.
From the news item, one of the cubs born earlier this morning:
She had her first pair in 2004, and her second pair in 2005, and was then given a year off last year. Her eldest son, Hua Ling, was chosen to be part of a gift pair from China to Taiwan, but the gift is currently in limbo as the Taiwanese Government has refused the gift, calling it propaganda, especially as the pair has been renamed Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, from the phrase “tuan yuan” meaning “reunion” , which is taken as a hint that China wants Taiwan to accept that it is a part of the mother country, and not separate and independent by itself.
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Posted on 10 September 2005 @ 20:39 in News
I was mentioned in the Los Angeles Times in an article about viewing animal web cams.
A while back, I received an email from Claudia Zequeira, an LA Times reporter, asking if I’d agree to be interviewed (via email) about watching giant pandas on web cams. Of course, I agree, lah!
The article was published on 6 September 2005. Here’s my part of the article:
| But because the lighting is often kept low to avoid disturbing the animals, some creatures look like furry blobs. On the panda cams, the round black ears are sometimes the only clues indicating the head.
None of the limitations matter to Chet Chin, an avid panda viewer who logs on in Malaysia. “I don’t really care what the image looks like,” Chin said in an e-mail. “I enjoy the experience of watching their lives. Especially when there’s a mother and her cub.”
The San Diego pandas so captivated Chin that she visited the zoo in 2001 just to see Hua Mei, the then-2-year-old female Chin had monitored since birth. |
Full article here.
Claudia is now with the Orlando Sentinel. Thanks, Claudia.
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