The year of 2008, a much anticipated, shiny year, is just less than one month away though I still cannot count the remaining days on my fingers and toes. Soon, it will be the routine New Year resolution poking its head out of its hole.
Posted in life
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Tagged beijing, olympics
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I’ve been very lazy in writing English posts. Partly because what I write in English here attracts a very small new audience who just reach this blog side of mine by accident and don’t stay for long. And my friends I met with blogging at Opera’s community didn’t seem to bother to be shunted over here after I was forced to move my English blog hosted with the community to my own name place (ChangGuohua.com). The community was and remains blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Other friends of mine reading my Chinese blog posts didn’t seem to give a damn about what I write in English, either. Too bad.
This is a preview of
I almost forgot when I posted here the last time
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Read the full post (271 words, estimated 1:05 mins reading time)
Posted in photos, travel
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Tagged guiyang
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Narrow-mindedness might be a problem for people who don’t read history. Or, if they do, they might still have a provincial historical world view if their only history-reading experience has been in one single version of history, like history textbooks in Chinese schools. In both cases, they tend to be intolerant of other people who they think are “different”. And, by looking only inwardly, they run the risk of losing the historical threads where their own world fits.
Posted in books
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Tagged history
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I just returned home from a hot two-hour bus trip to Beijing Capital Library, where I handed back an English language history book 36 days overdue and paid 7.2 yuan in overdue fine. This amount equals 72% of the library’s card annual fee.
Posted in Featured, books
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Tagged libraries
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Reading order of his novels: Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons, Deception Point, and The Da Vinci Code
Posted in books
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Tagged dan brown, thriller
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Welcome to Huolong Blog! I’m Chang Guohua (screen name: Huolong, 活龙). I live in Beijing, China.
Another video I shot from yesterday’s day-trip to Xiang Shan (Fragrance Hills).
By the way, does it sound all right to call the singing thing a rock? What about calling it about a stone? I checked a dictionary, but got no hints.
Posted in travel, videos
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Tagged singing rock
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