The collective and "must shared" joys surrounded seclude one from the real world on Christmas day, not much news on TV and radio, except some yesterdays news. Radio stations broadcast Christmas songs and carols all day long, TV music channel the same. It is a bit mad in the eyes of an outsider like me, probably that is how a foreigner felt when he/she went to the red China during the Great Cultural Revolution years.
I have to work again, from early afternoon to midnight. I don't mind really, esp. it is double pay today. Yesterday I told colleagues christmas' in chinese could be translated into english as "the holy testicles", it is logical since some testicles must be involved in the big affair of making the great baby. Virgin marry is a myth. A female colleague said to us: happy testicles as her x'mas greetings.
the only cold news today is Liu Xiaobo, Chinese dissident writer, was sentenced to 11 years for his leading role in the Charter 08, a imitation of the Charter 77 initiated by Havel. Obviously Liu is determined to make an ideological stand against the Chinese state power. Chinese ruling clique has taken it as intended and make Liu a show case punishment. It looks to me a confrontation with a cold war origin.
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