“How open will the Chinese be towards the Free Hugs campaign” was the question I  wondered about when Free Hugs arrived in Israel. In Israel it’s somewhat of a small success, as I keep hearing about it from people I know in Tel-Aviv. Most opinions I read argued that this would be difficult to do in China, because of both people and government, but - somehow – I had a feeling that China might be the place where the Free Hugs campaign would really make it. Was I right?
CNN reports on the Free Hugs campaign in China with “Chinese slow to embrace ‘free hugs’ campaign” (underline not in original text) :

BEIJING, China (Reuters) — The Chinese appear not …

The Israeli East-Asia student association invites you to an Asian-style back-to-school party in Tel-Aviv, featuring an Anime opening-movie, Japanese alcohol and Japanese music : Japanese Chillout on the upper floor and Japanese Pop/HipHip/Gothic/Rock on the lower floor.

Party promo is here : http://www.geocities.com/lallorfey/JRparty_opening.html
Details about the party are available here : http://www.geocities.com/lallorfey/JRparty_details.html
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Here are a few promos to what it might sound like :

 
Other “what people do”s :

Part 1 : The Importers, The Internet Auctioneer, The English Teacher
Part 2 : The Hosteler, The Blogger.
Part 3 : The Online Gamer, The Travel Journalist
Part 4 : Write Chinese names, Chinese related blogging.
Part 5 : Build websites

 
Building websites
 
Tools – a computer, preferably a laptop.
Place – anywhere.
Experience and professional knowledge needed – none.
 
A website builder is somewhat complimentary to a blogger, sharing many traits. While a blogger’s success mainly relies on his personal abilities for writing, a website builder’s success mainly relies on the control of the tools in use …

Weddings are a complicated issue for me. I’ve never been really able to relate to the Israeli weddings I’ve been to and the ceremony that surrounded them. I guess what bothered me the most was that I didn’t find those weddings magical anymore, as every wedding seemed to be an exact duplicate of the other and we all know that the process to arrange a such a wedding is exhausting and overpriced.  It’s just mad.So, one might say that I’ve been looking for an alternate wedding model for the Israeli weddings that I’ve grown accustomed to and the Christian style that I’ve seen in all the movies. Although I’ve attended a gorgeous country-side Vietnamese wedding, I’m still …

 
While there’s now a good Israeli restaurant running in Taipei-Taiwan, I am still on the hunt for a decent Chinese restaurant in Israel.
 
There are quite a few restaurants who advertise with the title of “A Chinese restaurant”, but having been to some of them I find most of them lacking in most respects. It’s true that some of them are actually quite classy serving delicious food, but still – it’s not Chinese food but rather a watered down version of what appears to be a variation of Thai food.
 
The number one problem, I believe, is that most of the Chinese restaurants here in Jerusalem are Kosher – meaning that they have to comply with the Jewish law regulations …

The Jerusalem Globalist is both a magazine and a community of undergraduates interested in foreign affairs and international issues.

 
The Jerusalem Globalist is looking for writers and articles for their third issue. The first time I encountered the magazine was when I attended a seminar about the question of whether China is the next super-power. At that time it was only in print, and I was quite impressed with some of the articles there, especially when considering that it’s written by undergraduate students in a magazine which isn’t profit oriented.
 
The second Jerusalem Globalist, now online, had two interesting articles in subjects that relate to things I write about, and I’ll try …