Day 17 - Party & Politics
Apr. 24th, 2008 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanithryudoMy grandfather's birthday is on the 27th, which is after we leave, so we decided to celebrate today. As one of my cousins couldn't make it, and thus also no need to invite his girlfriend and my other cousin's boyfriend, we decided to just hold the reunion at my grandparents' place instead of eating out.
I won't go into the food except to say we all got stuffed silly. Afterwards there was cake of which pictures were taken.
After that, we all sat down and talked about miscellaneous stuff while waiting for the dinner to digest. After exhausting topics like work and economics, the discussion eventually turned to (recent) politics.
Apparently to them, it's more about the problems with Tibet than about the protests of the Olympics, though I suppose the latter is related to/caused by the former. I learned a new term: "藏毒". Long discussion short (we have parts of it recorded on video anyway), they were very vocal that the whole issue with the Dali Lama, Tibet, etc. was caused by western countries secretly backing them, and primarily motivated more by maintaining power over China than the ideology they claim.
...In a slight tangent, I really need to find out how to convert/edit the videos downloaded from the camera from the camera-specific MOV format to (reasonably sized) commonly readable video formats... Hrm.
I won't go into the food except to say we all got stuffed silly. Afterwards there was cake of which pictures were taken.
After that, we all sat down and talked about miscellaneous stuff while waiting for the dinner to digest. After exhausting topics like work and economics, the discussion eventually turned to (recent) politics.
Apparently to them, it's more about the problems with Tibet than about the protests of the Olympics, though I suppose the latter is related to/caused by the former. I learned a new term: "藏毒". Long discussion short (we have parts of it recorded on video anyway), they were very vocal that the whole issue with the Dali Lama, Tibet, etc. was caused by western countries secretly backing them, and primarily motivated more by maintaining power over China than the ideology they claim.
...In a slight tangent, I really need to find out how to convert/edit the videos downloaded from the camera from the camera-specific MOV format to (reasonably sized) commonly readable video formats... Hrm.
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Date: 2008-04-25 06:40 am (UTC)Huh.
Anyway, I'll shut up on what I think of this whole situation. I shall await your movies.
As for MOV files, I'm pretty sure you can play them on WMP or VLC.