Yes, yes, this is quick and dirty work, with no elaborate proof reading and quality check. Instead, straightforward release of a chapter that might have been awaited by many. Unfortunately,  no ecchi scenes in this chapter :P

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(I can’t be bothered to upload this to anywhere else or put it on IRC, feel free to submit to manga sites though.)

Comments are welcome!

Click on the pictures to open.

The Twelve Apostles by the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia

Torquay Cost, Victoria, Australia.

Manly Beach, Sidney, Australia

Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany

Hochkönig, Alps, Austria

Hochkönig, Alps, Austria

Dune du Pilat, largest dune in Europe, France

North and South Manhattan, New York, USA

San Francisco Bay from the Golden Gate Bridge, California, USA

Stanford University from the Hoover Tower, California, USA

Los Angeles from the Griffith Observatory, California, USA

And one more bonus… Flyff :P

I’ll give a short summary.

Background

Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a part of China, north of Tibet and home to Uyghurs, a muslim ethnic minority in China, but majority in Xinjiang. Reminder: the majority of Chinese are from the ethnicity of Han. Xinjiang has been part of China for a few hundreds of years now, but share similarities to Tibet in the aspect that more and more Han-Chinese are encouraged to move and settle there, leading to a growing part of the Han-population in Xinjiang. That, of course, triggers ethnic tensions.

What happened prior to the riots

From what I gathered, there was an incident not too long ago when massive fighting broke out in local factory between staff of the Han ethnicity and the staff belonging to Uyghurs. The trigger was apparently that some Uyghurs sexually harrassed a Han girl. There were a few hundreds of people involved.

What happened now

Western sources say that Uyghurs demonstrated because of the incident, but were told to stop, at which point the riot started. Chinese sources, at least from what I saw in the chinese television, don’t say anything about why the riot broke out. From what I’ve seen, the riot was way more bloody than the one in Tibet 2008, and more people were involved. More than 100 people died.

My interpretation

Ethnic tensions has been there for a long time. Incidents in Xinjiang are rather frequent, unlike in Tibet. However, I also think that the riot yesterday was not just a demonstration that went out of control, but a planned riot. I couldn’t explain how brutally they murdered (yes, murdered) and pillaged through the streets.

What will happen

I don’t think this will be as hot a topic as the Tibet issue, even though the problems are essentially the same. Yes, Tibet was annected way later, but both are history already. Both regions face the same ethnic tensions that are built up by migrating Han Chinese people. While Uyghurs are more outspoken about violence, Tibetans rarely riot. Both are ugly and from a logical point of view, pointless riots.

Why will Xinjiang be ignored

• Being muslim and violent doesn’t gather a lot of sympathy. Yet another Palestine. Not even.
• Olympic Games are already over, China is doing business as usual. It’s not “in” at the moment to bash China.
• Uyghurs don’t have a Dalai Lama. Nothing is more touching than the tragic fate of a charismatic person (however despotic his self-claimed position may be)
• We still got Michael Jackson to mourn about and the economy crisis to worry about.

What should be done

Nothing in my opinion. Nationalism and claims based on ethnicity belong to the last century. Not to mention that Uyghurs are part of China for a few centuries already. Just like the case with Tibet, the mere population would not gain anything by separatism. Economically, it would be crazy. Politically… nobody there is educated for democracy (if educated at all). What you would expect in both Tibet and Xinjiang in the unlikely case of gaining independence… would be dictatorship or theocracy. No thanks.

Feel free to share your opinions.

~guor

The good news… thanks to me having the script prepared beforehand and Faktek providing me with cleaned pages, typesetting was a breeze and I got it done rather quickly.

So here, chapter 107. This marks the 16th Pastel chapter I’ve worked on.

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Now the bad news… I will be rather busy in the next few weeks due to exams and since I want to bring closure to a few other projects that I do as part of FoOlRulez, there is no more time for Pastel. After I’m done with the exams, I will probably just have a window of one week to prepare for going abroad for an exchange program for half a year. Editing on a 13 inch macbook during that time would be a pain in the ass. And I can’t start translating volume 22 in the first place as long as the chinese version isn’t out yet. Oh and the raws for volume 22 I have right now are rather low quality…

I’m telling this because obviously I’m not going to do anything for Pastel in the near future and I don’t want to hog this manga to myself. If anybody wants take over, he/she/they get(s) my moral support. Or you can wait for Dynasty scans to catch up :)

If you want to, contact me and I’ll redirect you to somebody who has the cleaned pages for chapter 108.

Thanks go to Malkalvi, as usual, for proof reading.

read here | mediafire

You could also get the chapter at #foolrulez @ irc.irchighway.net if you type /msg fool xdcc send 142.

It looks like this:

What did I have earlier? A 17 inch 1280×1024. Now? 24 inch 1920×1200. Awesome.

It’s been 20 years and I wasn’t old enough to remember anything when it happened. Though I doubt I would even have heard anything about it even if I was old enough, given that I was living in China at that time.

Find out more about this.
Wikipedia English
Wikipedia Chinese

Here comes…

no bra chapter 21

As usual, no mirrors in the first 48 hours please.

That left pretty little time for this pet project of mine.

I want to thank Malkalvi for his fast job on proof reading (took less than 12 hours for him to give me his suggestions).

And I want to thank tulron for his donation :)

Anyways, lot’s of fanservice.

read here | mediafire

update: people have been complaining that mediafire isn’t working for them… as a temporary solution, you could get it from the IRC of the scanlation group I belong to:
connect to #foolrulez @ irc.irchighway.net and type “/msg fool xdcc send 123” and it should send you the file.

Pastel is coming along nicely, even though I don’t have much time to spare.