http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/ OED    adj. confused (someone) so that that they have lost their bearings.
                n. Escapades of an English journo trapped in the Far East. Tired of London but not tired of life.]]> en-us 2005-02-21T13:05:02+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000176.html So from 1 March you can't be a journalist in China without a press card. Sounds fair enough. So says Wang Yong at Shanghai Daily. A couple of excerpts from his opinion piece today: Only those who abide by the law, have a certain level of education, and are employed... Ranting Sendover 2005-02-21T13:05:02+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000175.html I'm in Thailand right now. It means that even from a crappy little Internet cafe I have access to information I can't always get in China. So, at the risk of being accused of taking a short cut I post for your benefit an article lifted from the BBC site...... Politics Sendover 2005-01-27T16:27:11+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000174.html To get it straight, I am certainly not asking you to consider this very seldom updated site, but there's guys on the blogroll who are worth a mention - I'd nominate Peking Duck for example. Go to it! Internet users asked to propose nominations to elect the best Reporters Without... Sendover 2005-01-25T22:13:42+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000173.html Due to both heavy spamming and the vacation period, this site is closed until further notice, though hopefully I will be back with you in March 2005. Phil Sen... Writing Sendover 2005-01-01T15:40:19+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000172.html Forgive the pretension and the neo-plagiarism, but this excerpt from a recent article in Time magazine says it all for me: 'The foreign observer is likely to be happy only if he sees his foreignness as an adventure, and recognizes that he has given up a sense of belonging for... Weirdness Sendover 2004-12-20T20:26:42+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000171.html The Science Museum in London has just launched a new website called Ingenious. The official line is: "Drawing on the resources of the Science Museum, the site contains over 30,000 images which are used to illustrate over 30 different subjects, topics and debates. You are invited on a voyage of... Weirdness Sendover 2004-12-06T09:20:29+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000169.html Now I need to check up on this more thoroughly, but this comment threw me quite a bit. I was conducting 'job interview' style talks with individual students and one of the standard questions was 'why did you choose this university' etc. etc. cue standard reply of 'oh, it's one... Weirdness Sendover 2004-11-18T18:37:16+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000170.html Photographs from the SHUFE performance of Much Ado About Nothing. Very hastily scanned... write up later. See below, and click on the thumbnails to enlarge.... Sendover 2004-11-10T22:47:43+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000168.html So from now on I'm glued to the TV. I'm going to offer some rare praise to CCTV9 which despite making its lead story the relatively irrelevant meeting between Wen Jiabao and the president of Ethiopa spent a good ten minutes on US election coverage. Of course the angle was... Politics Sendover 2004-11-02T21:17:53+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000167.html In a couple of hours the US will gear up for its election. I would like to remind any Americans who happen to chance upon this of a couple of things: In countries such as China, where I live, there is no such thing as an election. Therefore the leaders... Politics Sendover 2004-11-02T18:28:32+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000166.html These were the words of Joan Hinton (Han Chun), an American nuclear physicist who defected to China in the 1940s and has just been granted a green card. Rarely do I turn on CCTV 9 these days, but with my DVD player inoperative I thought I'd take a look. On... Weirdness Sendover 2004-10-31T20:09:44+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000165.html So this is a China blog. But events in the world affect China like everywhere else. So in the next couple of days I'm going to take a look at the election in the US, something which will affect us all. There's many nationalities working in Iraq, including Chinese in... Politics Sendover 2004-10-31T14:43:46+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000164.html ...once I've deleted all the spam. My God, It took over an hour this weekend and that's with MT-blacklist. Now to preapre a lesson on Western manners, that'll be interesting...... Ranting Sendover 2004-10-31T14:10:32+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000163.html And that's a non-offensive paraphrase. So it's not China, but an absolute propaganda classic. Most amusing if you're British - 'cos we can take it and indeed laugh at it to an extent. I doubt that it would be the same the other way around. The story is (and I'm... Politics Sendover 2004-10-18T20:21:48+08:00 http://www.philip-sen.com/disorientated/archives/000162.html Perhaps the thing I'm most afraid of in everyday life is one of the most common. Not terrorism, not violent crime, not air crashes. No, cars. I hold that no matter where you are in the world, it's cars that are the biggest danger. A recent World Health Organisation report... Travel Sendover 2004-10-09T11:48:47+08:00