Yeller Zine December Issue

A Frighteningly Wet Dream of Edinburgh

It was perhaps the lack of intonation in Al Gore’s voice, or perhaps the way Heroes and The Day After Tomorrow always tries to paint a different world for our future, or maybe it was the recent scarring of Princes Street recently for the anticipation of a greener and cleaner future.
A combination of the above meant that I would have a frightening dream for the future of Edinburgh.
And it was pretty wet.

And so I was making the familiar transition from Old Town to New Town via the North Bridge. The sudden opening after a cluster of tightly packed medieval streets to an immense opening with a wide panoramic view that stretched to the seas to my right left me awe stricken. I felt that this is one of the those rare moments that the camera is rendered useless because it is like walking out of a tightly packed metallic elevator and breathing in air that is not undergoing a battle of the smells of Armani perfume, wet paint and body odour from all shapes and sizes.

I however, like many others ignored what lies beneath, and regrettably I peered down from North Bridge and saw my reflection. The lost Nor Loch was looking back at me. Whether Waverley station has entirely disappeared or whether there is now a river on top of Prince’s Street Gardens was beyond me.
City Nightclub was no longer a clubbing venue, but a place where baits and fishing rods were sold so that people could fish on either side of the banks. Swans, seagulls, ducks and people flocked to the scene as the University of Edinburgh Rowing team received our cheers from top of the bridge. It was as I descended towards my new found hobby of sailing boats out to Portobello did I wake from this dream and realized that it was after all, another rainy day in Edinburgh.

Understanding TIanmen Square protests (documentary in mandarin)

If you want to understand historical facts holistically, this is a great documentary.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r7ou2-Kv4UA
(纪录片天安門 六四事件 Tiananmen Square protests)

The power struggles between students
The power struggles between politicians
The definition of democracy in China
The underlying factors that culmiated into the night of June 4th, 1989.

And more importantly, for our generation of people who care about our countries politics and wish, rather than to blindly shout out slogans like

DEMOCRACY!
or
JUSTICE!

Do look at what one is saying before clothing yourself with such problematic terms.