Monthly Archive for June, 2008Page 2 of 2

CCTV has selective memory

About 70,000 have been con­firmed dead as a re­sult of the May 12 Sichuan/​Wenchuan earth­quake, and ac­cord­ing to CCTV (trans­lated at zonaeuropa.com), a can­dlelit vigil was held on June 4 in Hong Kong to com­mem­o­rate the victims.

They for­got to men­tion that Hong Kong has been hav­ing that can­dle­light vigil every year, at the same lo­ca­tion, on the same date, for the past 18 years. While the May 12 earth­quake was a part of the event, it’s dis­re­spect­ful of CCTV to dis­tort re­al­ity and not even men­tion what vic­tims the vigil is an­nu­ally held for. But I sup­pose that’s to be ex­pected from CCTV.

(Photo: Andrew Ross/​Agence France-​​Presse)

Day 50: Photos of my place

I should have taken some pho­tos of my place when I first got here, but not much has changed any­way, ex­cept I now have a real desk. It looks just like my desk at work. I feel like I live at this desk.

P.S. – Remember 19 years ago this day.