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[kamomil]

merry christmas all!

Mine was good...


It really started on Friday for me, I went over to my boyfriend's place and we exchanged pressies. It was nice.

Christmas eve I went to my parents; the car was gone so I went to 2 churches before i found them. Unfortunately they were in the church that I don't like the music, ie made-up harmonies instead of 4 part SATB singing, same hymns for past 20 years, annoying flute music with unnecessary chromatic scale runs. We went home and played a lot of Uno and Cheat. yay card games. haha. Christmas morning we opened presents... surprise surprise. I got a gift card for Chapters, a scarf, and not one, but FOUR seasons of King of the Hill DVDs from my mom. I will have to go start watching them now to actually see them all this decade. I didn't ask for four (for a total of 13 DVDs altogether... whew!) but we shall see how long it takes me to plow through them. ha ha. I have The Office, Season One and I have only seen 4 of the six episodes. :P Then we played some more Uno. We had so many people over that the card games and so forth were fun... and I taught my brother's girlfriend to use my mom's sewing machine and some crochet lessons will be in order soon as well. :D Ha. I had picked up a free Chinese newspaper in the mall where I got my camera fixed; when I gave it to my brother's GF (whose first lang is Mandarin) she said "It's about Falun Gong" whoops! Guess that's why it was free. So I'll try to find her a Sing Tao or something in Chinatown next time I visit my boyfriend. :D :P

Comments

[lulahbelle.livejournal.com]

glad someone enjoyed it...what is Fauln Gong?? I don't uite understand why it was such a faux pas...lol...

[noodlefan.livejournal.com]

Falun Gong is a controversial movement, who claim to do just physical exercises and meditation, but are accused by the government of having religious and political motives, and are therefore oppressed.

According to the Wikipedia: "Critics of the government's stance point out the non-violent nature of the teachings, and that practitioners are free to enter or leave the group as they please, and that this distinguishes Falun Gong from many tightly controlled religious cults. However, Li Hongzhi uses overtly religious language to describe himself and his mission."

The latter wouldn't scare me, but Communist governments are of course allergic to anything even remotely related to religion.

[kamomil.livejournal.com]

from time to time there are peaceful Falun Gong events happening in Toronto saying how peaceful and benign it is, but I have heard some Chinese gov't propaganda against it on the satellite feeds at work (eg. some girl who was involved in Falun Gong, and for some reason burned herself beyond recognition; didn't catch the entire logic, but it was propaganda after all) so I don't know who to believe and I don't have an opinion either way.

as far as I can tell it's a peaceful religious movement that for some reason I associate tai chi stretching exercises with LOL definitely I don't know a lot about it except that it's controversial

there are regular daily toronto chinese newspapers, I will just buy one of those