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September 05, 2007
China Right Here... In My Bedroom!
Somebody out there thinks I'm interesting! What a great feeling.
And with that in mind, a crew from Tianjin TV's China Right Here program has been following me around for the last few days. (The show travels around China in search of foreigners doing something interesting, like the woman who invented Tibetan braille. Why I deserve this treatment is beyond me.) In fact, at this very moment I'm being filmed being a blogger.
So, this is a blog entry, and the photo above is me being filmed being an interesting blogger. That lovely gal in the center of the photo is Yin Chang, the host of the program. (Sorry fellas, she's married!) Anyway, we've hit up Urumqi, the sundried tomato factory in Hejing, and my apartment here in Korla. Tomorrow, it's on to the desert and perhaps the beautiful scenery of Kuqa. Of course, it'll probably be a year before any of this footage sees the light of day.
Well, that's all... they've finished shooting me blogging, and I didn't really have anything to say in the first place. Pardon the interruption.
posted September 05, 2007 at 04:23 PM unofficial Xinjiang time | HaoHao This!
Comments
Well, if you're gonna be filmed blogging, you may as well blog about being filmed blogging!
Posted by: Steven at September 5, 2007 10:45 PM
Wow! I'm really jealous in an odd sort of way. Being on TV like that could be pretty cool. Do you know if your blog is read by more people inside or outside of China? For some reason I had always assumed your audiance lay primarily outside of China, but now I think I must be wrong.
Posted by: Peter at September 6, 2007 03:41 PM
@Peter:
Over the past year the top five countries visiting this site have been:
37% China
20% USA
06% Canada
05% UK
03% Germany
Also, I found out today that Jeremy from Danwei (danwei.org) has also been followed around by the people from China Right Here. I'm so happy to be in the company of such an esteemed fellow chosen person.
Posted by: michael at September 6, 2007 07:20 PM
Be careful, the next step may they ask to participate in a singing competition for Foreigners or a game competing against Chinese!
May I have your signature, it may worth something in a few decades!
Posted by: China and I at September 6, 2007 09:48 PM
Sounds like fun - do you know how you came to their attention?
Posted by: Norm at September 7, 2007 11:04 AM
Congrats! Now you can call yourself a 'TV Cholpini" or "TV Yultuzi" :)
Posted by: chon_dada at September 7, 2007 01:11 PM
They found me, like most people, by searching for "Xinjiang" in Google and coming across this blog.
Posted by: michael at September 12, 2007 11:58 AM
>> 03% Germany
Yay - that must be me ;)
>>Of course, it'll probably be a year before any of this footage sees the light of day.
W00T?!? Seriously? I was expecting a link to a youtube link in a few weeks :(
Who is the girl holding the glass? Producer, reporter? Certainly somebody who works in front of a camera, I guess ^_^
Posted by: Patrick at September 13, 2007 10:15 PM
@Patrick:
That's Yin Chang, the hostess of China Right Here. You can catch her every Sunday night at 8:30pm on Tianjin TV doing some sort of sports gala spectacular (or so I've been told).
Posted by: michael at September 13, 2007 10:50 PM
Thanks for the info...
So how does it feel to be the number one expat in Xinjiang?
Just think about walking through the streets after the documentation about you aired..... ;)
Posted by: Patrick at September 14, 2007 01:26 AM
What happens when friendship develop during a blog? I've made friends with www.iraqthemodel.blogspot.com
For two years.
Now I'd like to keep listening and reading blogs from China and maybe visit there someday. My wife and I live in USA near the east coast.
Posted by: oscar at November 13, 2007 06:00 AM