The Spring Festival is over and by now I’m almost certain that it’s some kind of mass psychosis. During all the 15 days of celebration there have been fireworks and yesterday the car alarms rang one last time to welcome the new year. I’ve heard that one person was killed and many others injured by [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Spring-festival’
Back to school
Posted in Nonsense, tagged Beijing, BLCU, China, Korea, School, Spring-festival on March 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Shellshock Festival
Posted in Nonsense, tagged Beijing, China, Spring-festival on February 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight is the Spring Festival (the Chinese new year) and it’s like a war zone. Starting at nine o’clock people began building up to an ear-deafening frenzy of fireworks and firecrackers which was simply unbelievable. The firecrackers were bigger, louder and more dangerous than any I’ve seen before:
Gunpowder smoke and metal oxides created a mist [...]
