Fourth Of July, 2009
It is about one year since I posted last. Some how this blog has been inaccessible to me. What I heard was that it was closed by the former server because of bad attacks. Fortunately my son has it restored for me by switching to new server as a Father’s Day gift to me.
Since the Forth of July last year, Taiwan under KMT’s Ma Government has witnessed a fast capitulation to it’s once arch enemy, China , without caring for the sentiment of the majority people of the Island Nation. I do not know whether it was unfortunate or fortunate because of the shut down of my blog by it’s former server and therefor made me unable to vent my feeling through months passed. Now, this blog has come alive again , there will be no excuse not to post in time ahead.
On this Forth of July, a happier note for me was going to Taipei Fine Arts Museum to enjoy viewing Arcadie – Dans les Collections du Centre Pompidou exhibition. The works included those of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Gorges Braque, Pierre Bonnard, marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Paul Klee and Luis Bunuel. Among the exhibition are many rarely lent important contemporary artworks of the Ponpidou collection. As the exhibition will be close by July 12th, viewers flocked in from all over Taiwan.
Unhappier news of the day was that Yankee’s Wang Chen-min suffered shoulder injury while pitting hard to get his second win after his return to the mound. He was confident, saying that his new born son, Justin, would be his guardian angel. What a disappointment to him and to so many fans in Taiwan. On a happier side, there is a new ball player from Taiwan on the US Major Leagues, a left-handed pitcher, Ni Fu-Te, who done his successful rescue pitching briefly on this Fourth of July. Ni, a new comer to the Major League, loos like to have a good future ahead there.
Unhappy news of the day, among many, was that President Ma suffered snubs on his State Visit to the Central Americas. This is his second visit with in a month. Otega, the Nicaraguan President, failed to meet him at Ma’s arrival and did not turn up at the State Dinner hosted by Ma at the Nicaraguan Capital. News reporters have counted that as the sixth snubs on this visit in Nicaragua alone. After threat of recalling the ambassadors and cancellation of US$ Two Million aids by Taiwan to Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan President showed up with some excuses. Analyzers say that all this is stemmed from Ma’s Policy of Gradual Unification with China and his call of halting diplomatic activity by his government in hope of gaining approval by China. He is selling Taiwan out fast, and the snubs are only very little price to pay for getting approval from the other side of the Strait. But, there is no glory on the faces of Taiwanese people!
I will stop here less to conpound more unhappiness for the day.