Author Archives: Yan Sham-Shackleton

Funky Cool Stylish Hong Kong Designed Jewelry!!!!

There is nothing a girl likes more than anything shiny, placed into interesting shapes, which you can wear. My friend Helen just started an Online store to sell jewerly designed here in Hong Kong to the rest of the world. (Free Shipping!) The hand-made pieces are made with fresh water pearls, crystals and semi-precious stones.Continue reading “Funky Cool Stylish Hong Kong Designed Jewelry!!!!”

Cyberdissident Du Daobin Tried without Lawyer

Reporters Without Borders described as “shocking” the opening on 18 May of the trial of Du Daobin for “incitement to subversion” before the intermediate peoples’ court in the city of Xiaogan, Hubei province, central China. Du’s lawyer Mo Shaoping who was only notified on 14 May found it impossible to reach the city in timeContinue reading “Cyberdissident Du Daobin Tried without Lawyer”

Changing Things: A girl can climb a fence!

Changing Things: A girl can climb a fence! I have been doing odd little gender experiments the last two times we’ve gone out. It probably makes me a bad documentary maker and definitely a bad anthropologist. What I should be doing is observing at all times, and not do anything overtly challenging. But I amContinue reading “Changing Things: A girl can climb a fence!”

India and China: Violence against the Body vs Violence against the Mind

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong, Back Packing Addict One thing I know for sure, is that I respect the communist government for what they did for the Chinese people from 1949 to the early sixties. They fed the whole of China as best as they could for the first time, they put in infrastructure thatContinue reading “India and China: Violence against the Body vs Violence against the Mind”

Street Racing: Superstitious Wimps!

Lately, Fai and Candy has slowed down on the racing and instead been on these rather interesting “Exploring” trips into the New Territories, they will look up different “Haunted” areas around the villages or the edge of the city, near the reservoirs in the middle of nowhere. I enjoy the ride there and seeing theContinue reading “Street Racing: Superstitious Wimps!”

I changed my mind and support the invasion of Iraq…

Socio-political rants. Lately I have been having a change of mind about the American occupation in Iraq. With the assassination of the Izzedin Salim . It reminded me how those who used to be in power would always use force, assassination and fear to keep themselves in power. And as I watch China approach andContinue reading “I changed my mind and support the invasion of Iraq…”

News: China vows to crush Taiwan independence, offers rewards for reunification

Argh! Don’t do it Taiwan, if you reunify the “crushing” will be your rights as an autonomous territory, even if you gain economic incentives. Just think “Basic Law” “Hong Kong” “One Country Two Systems” “No direct elections in Hong Kong for 2007 and 2008!!!!” Hold on, I don’t need to get nervous. They’ve been ignoringContinue reading “News: China vows to crush Taiwan independence, offers rewards for reunification”

Err. I am “The Sinner of the Chinese Nation”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong China raps Hong Kong over criticism According to the Cheng Siwei, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, “These people, who bad-mouth China and Hong Kong, are sinners of the Chinese nation. They are just like bananas, yellow outside but white inside.” Well, it seems IContinue reading “Err. I am “The Sinner of the Chinese Nation””