AUGD: Totally OT but Just In Time: Christmas in the People's Republic of Macs
AUGD: Totally OT but Just In Time: Christmas in the People's Republic of Macs
- Subject: AUGD: Totally OT but Just In Time: Christmas in the People's Republic of Macs
- From: David Feng <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:40:05 +0800
Merry Christmas to one and all!
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Christmas is not on any mainland Chinese calendar. Yet swim to the
other side of the Straits, and -- get this -- you do indeed get a
holiday on December 25 -- Constitution Day. That's right -- back in
the late 1940s, the ROC constitution (intended for all of China, but
now valid only on Taiwan) was promulgated on December 25th, of all
dates.
Christmas is not on any mainland Chinese calendar. Yet the police has
warned four-wheeled polluting citizens of the capital of 1.3 billion
to expect jams on Wangfujing Avenue (your equivalent of 5th Avenue,
Bahnhofstrasse (I think we have a Swiss group here), or (__fill in
the blank here__).
Christmas is not on any mainland Chinese calendar. Yet you get people
firing off cute SMS text messages at speeds exceeding 248 km/h. The
mobile airwaves are rife with cute and cuter SMS messages flashing to
and fro. Most of these are kind of generic, and to make our BeiMac
union executives and core members feel special, I have to come up
with customized messages.
Christmas is not on any mainland Chinese calendar. Yet just before
the night when Santa's taking to the skies, we've a stream of Mac and
iPod shops opening not just Beijing, but around the People's
Republic. Santa may want to snap a shot of the newly-opened Guangzhou
store. Whoops, I guess he forgot to bring his digital camera...
Christmas is not on any mainland Chinese calendar. Yet we still get
people wishing each other a merry Christmas, and my best wishes and
season's greetings go for everyone on this list.
David Feng
Beijing
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