Saw this:
(rough translation) My cat also got two red envelopes, my mom said: your sister (referring to the cat owner) is too cheap, we will buy some tasty food for you, because you seem to have lost some weight. The New Year eve dinner of my cat: shrimps, chicken breast, salmon.
In the north, making dumplings together is a Spring festival tradition because you can squeeze your enemy’s mouth so that s/he won’t bad mouth you in the coming year. In the south, I learned, there is something similar, called villain hitting. The idea is to curse one’s enemies using magic.
In 2009, it has been preliminary included in the list of “intangible cultural heritage” by the Hong Kong Home Affairs Bureau, and was selected as “Best Way to Get It Off Your Chest” in TIME magazine’s 2009 “Best of Asia” feature.
Look this year who is the most popular villain that the HK people like to hit:
(The answer, it is the Chief executive of HK, Carrie Lam.)
It seems that Chinese men will not get over this tragedy on the New Year day for the rest of the year.
Only five steps needed for the Chinese team to go to the world cup:
bribe the FIFA to give the Antarctica continent one quota.
get the Chinese team to be reassigned to Antarctica.
let the Chinese team compete with the penguins for the world cup
In the game hosted in Antarctica, try not to lose.
For the game hosted in China, choose Sanya (a city in Hainan famous for being warm). The penguins will all die because of the warmth.
According to reality, of the five steps, the only difficulty is step 4.
Foreign reporters for the Olympic games have arrived and uploaded videos on twitter. You can read this thread starting here. The venue is totally separated from outside, everyone working in it wears total PPE. It is just weird.
“The Tokyo Olympics had a bubble too, but it wasn’t enforced to this degree. Considering China’s zero COVID policy none of this is surprising. One of the workers said wearing the protective clothing put him at ease, which is understandable.”
One reporter uploaded the menu they are served in the bubble. The price is outrageous. The price in a normal restaurant would be just a fraction. Look carefully and see if you can spot two misspellings.
(The answers are: “Special fired rice” (right above “Sake”) and “Bear” in “Bear/Beverage” and “Asahi Bear”, “Tsingtao Bear”)
According to the media, Kim Meylemans, was tested positive when she arrived in Beijing. She was then isolated for a few days. She tried to train herself so she can perform well in the Olympics competition. On Wednesday Feb 2nd, she was taken to another facility for more quarantine, after a few negative results. This shocked her and put her in despair: “I am supposed to stay here for another seven days with two PCRs a day and no contact with anyone else.”
She was very stressed and posted a video on Instagram with tears flowing. Eventually, Belgian Olympic Committee and the IOC stepped in. Now she is back in the Olympic village.
Someone put Chinese caption on the video and posted it on Twitter. Most of the comments in Chinese are saying: this is China, what did you expect?
Selected translation:
You are too fragile. My three year old son was quarantined alone, and his room was not as nice as yours.
If we give every quarantined athlete 10,000 dollars a day, they will all rush to be quarantined.
When you don’t mind politics, politics will mind you. The deepest place in hell is reserved for those who choose to stay neutral when there is a moral crisis.
It is a complex story and the Economist wrote it here. Eileen Gu is a very talented ski athlete of only 18 year old, she is expected to take three gold medals in this Olympic game. Before she switched team, China had very little show of power in the winter games, maximum one gold medal. She is head and shoulder above other Chinese winter athletes.
She was born American and her mother is from China. From very early age she loved ski and was very talented. When she was 9, she was determined to go to compete in the 2022 Olympics. She spent her summers in China, while growing up and being trained in the USA. She felt that she was American when she was in the USA and Chinese when she went to China. Back in 2019, she went to China with her mother to attend an event in which she was just a few feet away from the dear supreme leader. And our dear supreme leader’s magic worked on her. A few weeks later she declared that she will compete for Team China.
Eileen Gu said that she wanted to encourage girls in China to take up the sport she loves so much. But of course, there is also lots of money to be made, in fact, her mother already registered business in her name.
To the world, things are just complicated. In 2019, the world had already discovered that CCP was committing genocide in Xinjiang. And the rivalry between China and USA is spreading over sports as well. It is a very hard time trying to live up to the hefty goal of being above politics.
As New York Times puts it: “She flits into the Olympics with hopes of winning 3 gold medals.But her most difficult trick might be flying above the geopolitical fray of these Olympics … and coming down safely, straddling the growing rift of two superpowers.” NYT could not interview Eileen Gu because the mother, shrewdly, requested no political questions as a condition to the interview.
It is not rare for athletes in the USA to choose to compete for a country they were not born in. In fact, about 6% of US Olympians in the last winter Olympics did just that. But of course, Fox News made it as if Eileen Gu is especially ungrateful and has betrayed America. Many people calling it a dog whistle for hate crimes.
A year of Tiger, I am telling you, will not be calm.