“Same Old Lang Syne” –Dan Fogelberg (1951-2007)Every year at this time we hear so many Christmas songs like I wrote about in my last column. The radio waves and stores are filled with Christmas music. But then there is the period after Christmas, like now. There are few songs that really spring to mind about […]

 Santa in ho hai

well, it’s 5am, Dec 10th, and it is my usual time to get up. Love to wake up before the sun. And it’s a special day for me because it’s my Birthday!. It has been quite a year…I was visiting San Francisco a year ago. And making preparations to leave CRI end of Feb ‘07. […]

April 4-Musical Stereotyping
By Rick O’Shea Li Ke
 Dear Rick, I’m fond of R&B, especially songs sung by black singers. I’m addicted to Babyface’s “Loneliness” and Luther Vandross’s “Any love” and so on. There are so many excellent black singers and what’s more, I read in a magazine that black people are born with a sense of […]

1-Off the Record  March 7, 2007
By Rick O’Shea 李柯
 
  After 11 years and 4,100 consecutive programs, I passed the new time limit for foreigners at CRI. Saying goodbye to the audience we had built over the years was the most difficult part. We had an unusually strong connection for a radio program! And I had to […]

Hi…Ni Hao Are You? A bilingual greeting that sounds so familiar to those of Joy FM…It’s a proper way to start this blog. This is my start on the net…great to have a website! But I am still getting used to it.  Anyway, I am here in Beijing, doing all kinds of things…and now we have […]