Free WordPress.Com!

Don’t be fooled! WordPress.com is still blocked in China. Not completely but it is still block. You can load WordPress.com without a proxy and you can also log in but that’s until there. You can not access your dashboard, you cannot update your blogs and you cannot view your blog or any other wordpress.com blog.

When will they free WordPress.com completely?

The fact that GFWC is blocking WordPress.com has been giving me headaches for months now. How long will they keep it like this? Don’t they know that there are proxies that enable users to view blocked sites making it is useless to block sites? What do they think blocking is for? Shielding their citizens from useless or harmful info? What is there not to know? Why are they forbidding their citizens to know about the Beijing Massacre or Taiwan’s independence? It’s part of their history. Or maybe not a lot of them know that these are part of their history and this is their way of hiding it from their citizens. Their way of dummyfying their people.

Goodbye to my WordPress.com Blog

I am back from Beijing since yesterday morning but was so tired to blog so I waited until today.

I just want to say that I am leaving this blog. I will not delete it because some info here might still be helpful to some people. I’ll probably go back to it someday, who knows but for now I will concentrate on my other blogs.

Why? One reason is because it is blocked here. Everyday, I go all the trouble accessing WordPress.com just to update it and everyday it’s getting more and more difficult. I have paid for a service that allows me to access WordPress.com but it’s still not the same compared to using a WordPress.com that is not blocked. It’s still way more difficult.

Today’s Thoughts

Less and less proxy sites are able to work here in China. It sucks! It’s getting more and more difficult to update this blog and to blog-hop each time.

I just watched the movie “Gracie”. Nice movie.

The laundry is waiting in the ironing room for me. Waahhhhh! Hate it, hate it, hate it!

Friends are coming over tomorrow evening for dinner. I will make chicken pasta with white wine. It should be good.

We are pairing up a friend to one of R’s college. They will meet for the first time tomorrow here at home. (I am playing Cupid.)

We are going to Beijing this Saturday so all my blogs will not be updated until Monday next week. Or maybe by miracle I get the patience to use R’S EDGE internet connection. Hmm… we will see.

It’s so damn cold here. It hurts to go outside.

Myla Blocked Me

“myla blocked me”

This is one of the searches that lead to this blog days ago I didn’t write about it until now because I decided to ignore it but something happen today which gave me a really weird feeling.

Am I being cyber stalked?

Proxy Site Blocked?

For some reason S-hhhh.com which is a proxy site is not working so well these days. I still can load their page but if I try to load blocked pages thru their site, I get errors. Maybe this is my usual paranoid self again but is it possible to block a proxy site? China is able to block a lot of sites so it is probably not impossible for them to block a proxy site. I don’t know it’s just my guess but if it is right I hope they will not block another proxy site which I am using to update my blog because as we know well, WordPress.com is blocked here in China.

Blogs and Adverts

It is not a busy day today like usual so I thought of reading other people’s blogs. It’s really amazing how blog-advertising changed the face of the blogosphere and I honestly don’t know how to take it. Is it good or bad… I’m not sure but it’s a little bit disappointing in my point of view. I am not a hypocrite. I am also a member of some blog-advertising sites and I do sponsored posts in my various blogs. Sure, it’s a great way to earn extra money and I believe that it’s a great opportunity for bloggers to be able to get paid to blog.

But what is disappointing in the blogging world nowadays is that a lot of bloggers out there post about sponsored stuff as much as they can to the point that their blogs look like this whole Advert page of a newspaper. It’s not pretty. An example of this is a blog I stumbled upon just now. It’s claims to be a diary—the blogger’s life story. I thought, that’s interesting because the author is about my age so I looked further only to read something like :

Hey there are you looking for someone to help you out with your ****? Let me introduce you with ********. For your information, ******* is a ******* . (and so on).

Post after post, everything is a complete advertising campaign. I mean what the hell? Looks like blogs nowadays are written solely for blog advertising. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Things You Can’t Do When You are Using a Free Proxy Site

I made a list of things I can’t do with my WordPress blog now that I am using a free proxy site to access it.

1. Inputting my username and password once when logging in. The proxy site always ask me to enter my username and password more than once.
2. Write using the “Visual” mode. I don’t know why but there’s no option to use this. There’s just the “Code” mode.
3. Edit entries easily. When editing entries with links, the proxy site always change the links’ target to something like https : / / webfend dot com / 487261384603265032860328470832048732. Hahaha
4. View my Blog Stat Graph. I am still able to view my Blog Stat details but not the graph.

That’s pretty much all. It sucks but I am still glad that I am able to access and update my blog somehow. I wonder when will this country unblock WordPress.

Traveling in Style

I found this picture while browsing my files in boredom. It was taken last September in Beijing. I remember we took a super soft sleeper cabin in an overnight train to Beijing and in the morning when we got there, we chose to take this three wheeled thing instead of a taxi. It’s not because it is cheaper, actually we would have paid less if we took the taxi, but R would like to try. He likes to try a lot of stuff. I remember the first time we went to Beijing, he also tried eating barbecued scorpions. Was a little bit disgusting for both of us but it was also sort of cool.

I found some more interesting photos too but unfortunately, I am working with a proxy so things are a little bit slow and difficult. WordPress is still blocked. My guess, a lot of WordPress bloggers are writing stuff about C*** and the Com***nist Party. I can’t blame them. I would probably write about this country too but since I am in it, I will not.