Guide to Hoklo-Hokkien Blogs

[amhoanna]

Here are some blogs I've found over the yrs, probably the same way I found this forum. Some lie dormant, yet others are just Hoklo-dormant. In no particular order:

1. KANIAHOKKIEN.NET

A Penang Hokkien blog. Posts trickle online at a rate of about one a year, but the blogger has stayed oh-so-true to the founding premise of his blog.

I'd like to get in touch with the Chun who commented on 5 Nov 2010 to see if s/he'd be amenable to working together on future projects. I like the way s/he works that script -- readable w/o an "answer key"! Hibang u kihoe thang kah i hapchok.

http://kaniahokkien.blogspot.com/

2. 雙倒水别莊

Lảu Sẻnghiản ẻ bỏlọk. One of the pillars of the Hoklo blogosphere.

http://blog.roodo.com/senghian

3. molemole.sg

Not a Hokkien blog, but it does have a post or two in Hokkien, and they are the real thing! This hits the soft spot in my heart. And who says young people in Lion City don't speak Hokkien? It's easy to see they just ain't mingling with the right crowd.

http://www.molemole.sg/2008/04/wa-eh-kang-khor.html

4. 鹭水芗南

This is Lỉm Kiànhui's blog. The man is flat-out prolific. And he may well still be the only Hoklo blogger from his nation of 1.4 bil.

http://www.hokkienese.com/

5. Speak Hokkien Well

Not really a blog in Hokkien, but a blog about Hokkien. Andrew of Penang was the first to catch wind of this act in these parts. The creator remains anonymous and at large. Another fella I'd like to get in touch with. I wonder if he's got ties to Johnny Young or other barely sung heroes of Luzon Hokkien fame. (http://www.chinalanguage.com/forums/vie ... b5e#p36284)

http://speak-hokkien-well.blogspot.com/

Alright, this site is finna time me out. More after the jump.

[amhoanna]

6. 食春閣

A food blog. The writer uses Ministry of Education kanji to a tee, but waters his (I seem to recall it was a dude) Hoklo down with Mandarin to make it more edible to Manducated audiences. A rock and a hard place, if U ask me. In any case, a can't miss if U're into food.

http://tsiahtshun.info/

7. A-hō-koaⁿ gâu tōa-hàn

This guy is a talented storyteller.

http://blog.roodo.com/luigoatho

8. 老刀烏白講

A top-shelf, front-page tech blog as far as my eyes can see. Now soliciting guest writers.

http://knife-tw.blogspot.com/

9. Adventures of Carboman

English blog with a poem in Penang Hokkien.

http://carboman.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_archive.html

10. 荒蕪別坵穡

Bichhin's blog. Looks like she decided to go full-on Mando some time ago, no doubt b/c all her friends were saying things like, "I tried to read your blog in Taiwanese, but I had to give up after two sentences." Let's face it, it takes a certain kind of stupidity to say, "Well, fuck it, I don't care if anybody will read it, I'm just gonna write in [fill in name of declining language that nobody reads in]," and if U ain't literally got balls, then U probably ain't that dumb either.

http://blog.roodo.com/bichhin

11. Somewhere in time

Iap Sianchin's blog, a real Hoklo blog with an English name. I bat khì Taipéng ·koè, cin kà'ì!

http://blog.yam.com/user/joshua_yap.html

More after the jump.

[amhoanna]

12. 南方的温度

Mixed Hoklo and Mandarin, but, if I'm not mistaken, this blogger writes novels in real Hoklo.

http://blog.yam.com/user/tiongsiong.html

13. 花埕照日

A chick blogging in real Hoklo. Will have to take back the compliment I paid to the fairer sex moments ago. Chicks can be just as hardheaded as dudes, and, when they get in on the act, that's when revolutions happen.

http://blog.roodo.com/cit_lui_hoe

14. (no-name blog)

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!xTxAa8SaF ... ?l=f&id=13

15. (no-name blog)

Not really a blog, but this guy has put up a few speeches in a style that should be familiar to anybody that grew up Hoklo or around Hoklos.

16. Phennoo e Chhiuthinn

Cit tà' bỏlọk sịtcãi chùbị...

http://phennoo.blogspot.com/

[amhoanna]

17. Maxsenior hoc tieng Viet

A blog in a mix of Vietnamese, Hoklo and Mandarin. Very messy. It is what it is. This guy doesn't belong to the usual Hoklorati demographic. It makes me rethink: I may've been wrong, the Hoklorati is more widespread than I thought.

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/Vietnamese-language/

18. 台灣阿明筆記

Hoklo and Mando lit blog. Some high-octane, unadulterated Hoklo dialog.

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/winwinwin883/

19. 潘科元台語文理想國

Very active blog. 科元 is deep into both colloquial Hoklo and old literary Chinese.

http://blog.xuite.net/khoguan/blog

Here's the blog for another project of his, where he translates old Chinese passages into colloquial Hoklo: 古今經典台語文翻譯習作網

http://khoguan.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-post_08.html

[amhoanna]

Back with more. Jasmine's in the air, and top secrets are Wikileaking like a week-old ten-yuan raincoat. This end of the blog pool is starting to get hot...

20. 檬仔樹下：痟婆仔的人生舞台

Just the kind of blog I thought didn’t exist, written by (1) a chick, (2) from China. Coanciu, no less. Who knew? Stories and poems, some recorded. Brand new.

http://siaupo.blogcn.com/

21. Ocean Deep

Iap Sianchin’s other blog. Looks like we’ve got a live one!

http://hokkian-lang.blogspot.com/

22. 光明城

Stories. A Hokkian-based Hoklo blog on Blogbus. Everything comes with audio and video.

http://sigisins.blogbus.com/

23. 可为閩語國度

Linguistics blog out of China.

http://koui.blogcn.com/

[amhoanna]

24. 信心銘

A first-rate political blog out of Taiwan. Deeper and much more soulful than other blogs of its kind, inc. thems that gets mad traffic. After many moons of coming to the conclusion that setting up Hoklo as a tongue of first resort will be the key for "Taiwan" to outlive the "New China Project" (my term, but y'all know what I mean), the man has begun to practice his preachery and post in Hoklo as well as Mandarin.

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/buchengkimko ... ngkimkong/