Ugly Singaporean Uncle Asked Waitress To Compensate 300 RMB
Aug 6, 2008 Gossips, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
A Zaobao reader, 蓝俊显, has wrote in to Zaobao to tell an incident happened during his precious trip to Tibet.
It was during mid July. His group is the very 1st few groups which is allowed to enter Tibet after the 314 protest. Therefore, all the parties in Tibet is doing their very best to please the group.
After the group visited Potala Palace, they had their lunch in a restaurant in the Lhasa city. The tour guide had informed the restaurant to avoid beef because there were Buddhists in the group. However, there was still a plate of fried beef served. An uncle, who is in his sixties, couldn’t tell that it was beef, and started eating. He made a fuss after a friend told him that it was beef. The restaurant manager and waitress both came to apologize but he refused to accept it. Then he told the poor waitress that, he had eaten 3 pieces of beef, so she had to compensate him with 300 RMB. Helplessly, the waitress took out 300 RMB and gave to that uncle. The uncle then said that fortunately he “just ate 3 pieces but not 5″, if not she had to compensate 500 RMB.
Another member in the same table suggested that he donate the money to charity. The uncle replied that he deserved the money, why must he donate it?
The China tour guide was so irritated by this uncle that he wrote about the incident in his blog, and commented that he has had encounters with Singaporeans for close to 10 years, this one is the most irritating one.
I wonder if Buddha will 保佑 this kind of “devoted” Buddhist or not?
Fiat Apologizes to China over TV Ad
Jun 22, 2008 Around the Word
This is the TV ad that gets Fiat into trouble.
Fiat apologizes to China for TV ad for new car
Tags: China, Fiat, Richard Gere, Tibet
China Banned Sharon Stone’s Movies, So What?
May 29, 2008 Celebrities, Gossips
Did Sharon Stone have any new movie recently? Any blockbuster that she had taken part in? I feel that Sharon Stone has relied on her old old old fame from Basic Instinct for a long long long. Yeah, the one she showed her legs, sexy sexy. And after that, I could not recall any movie from her that made a impact.
It is very insensitive for her to say the “Karma” stuff on China Earthquake. As expected, the remarks angered almost the whole Chinese community. And China decides to ban her movies in China. Christian Dior was trying to clean the mess for her in China. Then she issued an official statement to apologize for her remarks.
But hey, could all this had been planned? You see, suddenly, Sharon Stone becomes to hot topic, almost all over the world. Suddenly, everybody recalled who Sharon Stone is again. Suddenly, Sharon is the hot stuff again. I can’t help wondering.
This is what Sharon Stone had said:
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said. “And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
Dior `Deeply Sorry’ for Sharon Stone’s Tibet Comments, FT Says
Stone-walling: China angry over quake karma remark
Stone apology issued for ‘karma’ comment
And, I love the title from TMZ:
China Shows Sharon What Karma Really Is
Tags: China, China earthquake, karma, Sharon Stone, Tibet
PRC netizens’ response to CNN’s report on Tibet - 做人别太CNN
Apr 15, 2008 Around the Word, Gossips
This girl, I suppose it is a girl, composed a song. The lyrics is about how CNN, and other western medias, biasedly and selectively reported on Tibet issue recently. The song and MTV has received great response and CCTV even has a copy and shares on their site.
Tibet Riots Lead To Block On YouTube
Mar 17, 2008 Around the Word, Blogosphere, Stupid Stuffs, Terrible Stuffs
The Great Firewall did it again……
Taken from PC Advisor:
Tibet riots lead to block on YouTube
China cuts off YouTube and Google NewsDan Nystedt
Beijing appears to have taken a page out of Myanmar’s playbook by blocking some internet access amid rioting in Tibet that has already seen as many as 80 people killed, according to the Tibetan government in exile.
China has blocked access to Google News and YouTube in an apparent attempt to stop the spread of video footage related the rioting going on in several cities in Tibet, including the capital Lhasa. Demonstrations in the city started on March 10, a day commemorating the anniversary of a 1959 uprising against Chinese rule after which the spiritual leader of the country, the Dalai Lama, fled to India.
China has said the Dalai Lama is to blame for rioting in the country, and puts the civilian death toll at 13, while adding that police and security forces have also suffered casualties.
The Dalai Lama has denied involvement in the rioting, and said he has “no such power to stop it”, in a video of a recent news conference posted on his website.
“Whether the Chinese government admits it or not, there is a problem,” he said “The Tibetan nation, an ancient nation with an ancient cultural heritage, is actually dying.”
China’s decision to block access to the sites follows similar government censorship of protests by Myanmar. Last September, Myanmar cut off internet access entirely to block people from viewing pictures and videos or sending them out of the country. Some analysts at the time said the protests likely spread through the help of the web, in addition to winning global condemnation of the violent crackdown on protesters there.
Two videos about the situations in Tibet posted on YouTube by the user Amdo2007 both appear to show peaceful demonstrations. The first shows a public gathering, including Tibetan monks in their distinctive saffron robes, while the second video shows what appears to be peaceful marching.
Some videos, including one from Amdo2007, have been “flagged by YouTube’s user community” so that users have to verify they are 18 or older by logging in or signing up. The video shows bodies on the streets, protesters throwing rocks at Chinese army vehicles and other images. It may have the most hits, over 80,000 so far, on the subject.
Chinese media and international media have shown footage of buildings burning and crowds damaging store-fronts. Some stations, such as the BBC, picked up photos and other contributions from tourists in Tibet.
Foreign media have been banned from Tibet, according to a CNN video, which says the station has not been able to send a team to report the news. China’s own press is run by the state.
Tags: China, riots, The Great Firewall, Tibet, youtube
