It is an auspicious day today, 8 August 2008, a day we shall witness the majestic opening of the 2008 Beijing Games. And thus it is hereby my humble intention also to start my new weblog on this promising day, attached with a sincere wish of love and peace here and beyond.
One world, One dream. What a beautiful slogan.
But that’s should be just it. Wake up from your dreams, China!
Look at what hell of a mess you have done.
No, it is not my intention to politicize the Olympics on this blog. Certainly, the Olympics is not a UN general assembly, and I am not calling anyone to boycott anything.
Yet, stop being ignorant China !
Olympic is not merely a sporting event, nor that the five rings merely as a decorative motive on Coca Cola cans. Nor is it about mascots for you to counterfeit. Nor is it a rally torch for your violent guards to protect.
No China, the Olympics is far more than that.
Its about equality, competing fairly and losing proudly…
It aims to bring out the best of men and women, both physically and mentally.
It bonds friendship, it transcends religion, skin colours and nations…
China, you were given the mandate to uphold the spirit
And as cliché as it might sound, ‘with great powers come great responsibilities.’
However, you simply ignored your responsibilities.
You were given chances after chances, to help save, or at least alleviate the sufferings, of the people of Sudan and Burma, you could have become a savior, but no, you choose to be a weapon supplier. You could have used the Olympics as a platform to build conversations with the Tibetans, but no, you decide to demonize Dalai Lama. When the Olympics brought in opportunities to upgrade Beijing into a world class metropolitan, you took it up as an excuse to throw thousands of families out of their homes to make way for hotels and stadiums. When asked to clean up your air, you simply tell your factories to take a summer vacation and come back after the Olympics.
Of course, it’s your country, you do whatever you like, and you answer to no one.
But wait, you cannot ask the world to shut up! You cannot expect everyone who buys your product to listen to your crap and kiss your Olympic ass. And you cannot stop people from extinguishing the Olympic flame, because in its true sense, you don’t even deserve to bear the torch.
China, there is no conspiracy against you. Believe me, no one is jealous of your economic success, especially when it comes at such a huge cost on the lives of millions of your poor peasants who work 120 hours a week in McDonald’s toy factories for $5.
things are way too cheap it China, f**k !
Rest assured this is nothing personal. If British is the organizer this year, I would have condemn her as harshly as ever. But one thing, at least she won’t ask people to shut up. She listens (and dumbly ignores)
Of course, with your economic power, you simply hear nothing. You couldn’t care less for labor laws, human rights and environment conservation, and your poor countrymen are either deaf or blind thanks to five decades of Mao worshipping.
I am not asking you China to undo your mistakes of your ugly past, let bygones be bygones. But at least, recognise the mistakes, rectify it, and show that you learned, you became civilized, and you are mature enough to put down all that big fat ego and get things done, in the right way!
Dear China, don’t get me wrong, you have certainly worked hard over the years…bravo to that!
you have filled your cities with skyscrapers, you have filled your wallet with cash, you have filled your villages with fragile school buildings, and you have filled your mines with dead bodies…
now it’s your time to fill your empty brain with some wisdom....
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Nevertheless, I shall dedicate my first ‘bloggersRjokers.blogspot.com’ post, to the millions of Chinese who act as human shields during the Korean War, purged during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, to the hundreds slaughtered on TianAnMen Square, to the countless protestors, Falungong practitioners, journalists, bloggers, jokers, Tibetans, Muslims, Christians, ordinary folks who were arrested, jailed or simply gone missing over the years.
Dalai Lama himself urged everyone NOT to boycott the Olympics, so do I.
But as Malaysia-born-Chinese, as a so-called 'descendent of the Dragon', tonight, I shall witness the fireworks flashing out gloriously from the smoggy Bird Nest ...
with disgust and shame..
‘Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.’
Khalil Gibran, The Garden of the Prophet (1934)
Wake up China!
p/s: Oops..I am afraid i kicked off this blog with a rather grim, offensive and seriously unfunny post. Your forgiveness please..
1 comment:
China is becoming the next US. Believe it or not.
As they prosper, they become more phony, more hypocrite as some of us might put.
While China busily reprimanded the US of being double-standard in the issues of war on terrorism and China's 'necessary' action against the Tibetans, they themselves become a big denier.
Zimbabwean is in deep shit. Burmese is in deep shit. Do they even care? Instead, they vetoed sanction on Mugabe's government and they supplied arms to Junta.
How on earth can that happen?
Like it or not, China is slowly becoming one of those so-called First World countries who couldn't care less abour the people's suffering as long as their profit is guaranteed.
All hail the new China. To Hell with u all.
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