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The Melbourne Film Festival's Pride and Prejudice
After reading about the hacking of the Melbourne International Film Festival's website in The Age last week, I went looking on Baidu News for some news on the subject. The site had only been hacked a few hours earlier, so most of the articles I found only stated that the site had been hacked, probably by Chinese hackers, and replaced with a Chinese ( Read more... ) -
Translating Chinese News: "Chinese steel enterprise trade secrets discovered in Rio Tinto computers"
Having studied a whole year of Chinese Journalistic Reading （中文报刊阅读） and almost as much News Listening Comprehension （新闻听力）... I thought maybe I'd try putting it to use to see what the Chinese Press are saying about the Rio Tinto / Hu Stern "Corporate Espionage" case. The results: there's a LOT more information and opinion on the matter to be had ( Read more... ) -
写信 (Write a Letter)
Task: Write a letter. I decided to pretend I was writing to a previous teacher in Sydney. Comments always welcome ( Read more... ) -
“如果。。。” (If...)
Our most recent task in writing class was to write ~600 chars in class time, given the topic: “如果。。。” (If...). I was glad to be given a writing task in class time for once, instead of having to do it for homework ( Read more... ) -
我身边一个有趣的人
Another short essay, this one for my General Intermediate Chinese class. The task was to write about someone interesting in your life. I chose a classmate.
我身边一个有趣的人：维亚 我同班同学维亚肯定可以说是个有趣的人。1988年在澳大利亚悉尼市出生的，她看起来是个典型的澳大利亚姑娘，但是20岁的她已经住过深圳和香港，而现在住在北京了 ( Read more... ) -
More Chinese homework: Short Story
The brief this time was to write a short story told partially in narrative form, and partially in dialogue form. I procrastinated for days because I couldn't think of anything to write about, I eventually settled on writing about my last two days in Sydney a week ago ( Read more... ) -
Short Essay: MP3: Invention and Development
I wrote this recently for my elementary Chinese writing class. The task was to write approx. 400 characters about the invention of something.
Comments & assistance welcome.
MP3: 发明和发展 MP3是一种数字音频压缩格式，在1992年，由来自荷兰Ven Derkhof、德国Stoll、法国Dehery和德国Brandenburg的音频工程师集体发明的。MP3全称“动态影像专家压缩标准音频层面三”(英文：“Motion Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3”)， ( Read more... ) -
Being a Leftie
I came across another left-handed westerner in the library at my school the other day, so I just had to go up to him and ask him if he's as frustrated with learning to write Chinese left-handed as I have been ( Read more... ) -
Haxoring teh Interweb
I have bypassed the Chinese govt's internet filter (it's not particularly hard) and now I can access LiveJournal, and best of all, BBC News in Chinese. (Parts of the BBC's English version are sometimes accessible from China... but I would rather try reading the Chinese version, so I need to bypass the filter ( Read more... ) -
Beijing
Well ( Read more... )