Chinese

Just saw a very entertaining movie about a young man who travelled through China for a week on his own. The film was called "Chinese for beginners" and he quoted some amusing prejudices. I have no idea if he meant it in a funny way or if there is some truth in it. Any chinese reader here?? Anyone??

What Chinese are said to do:

• they love taking a nap everywhere

• they like playing games in public

• they take over every kind of work

• they eat strange things (insects, scorpions, donkeys meat)

• they love all kinds of sweets and candy

Welcome to China

The Firefox browser is a nice toy. Right now I found a funny add-on called "China-Channel". Once you activate it, it will connect you to the internet via a chinese proxy-server. Means that you are surfing the web like someone from China, with all its blocked and censored sites.

Interesting for me because I have read so much about the censorship in China but could hardly believe that something like that nowadays can still exist. My chinese friends though told me that it is true and now I made the experience myself:

My blogsite - not displaying any embedded Gadgets and YouTube videos!
Google Maps - not working at all
Flickr/Picasa - sites are loading but not displaying any images (haha...very smart for image hosting sites!!)
spiegel online (german newschannel) - not loading
and... and... and... and...

Funny for me cause I can leave this mess with a click at a button.
Sad for those who have to get along with this censorship every day!