These days the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the trees are blooming and last night a mosquito came at me for the first time in ages. (Forgot about those things. Word is that the comeback of the pinkie-sized cockroaches is next.) I walk down the street and want to knock off my knee-high … More All Springy
On a day like today, when the gas has run out but I still manage to make coffee in a rice cooker, I think, hey I’m a pretty adaptable gal. But appearances can be deceiving. The reason I resorted to a rice cooker is because I can’t be bothered to follow up with the person … More Rice Cooker Coffee
Continuing on the series about the happy facts of my day-to-day here… While my Wednesday night sweethearts are probing the mysteries of “What’s this?” (for single nearby object) “What’s that?” (for single faraway object) “What are these?” (for plural… have you caught on yet?) and “What are those?” my Thursday night budding terrorists will be mangling the following: Play … More Thursday in the life of…
Like an echo pedal youre repeating yourself You know it all by heart, why are you standing in one place? Born to blosom, bloom to perish Everybody’s talking how I, can’t can’t be your love But I want, want, want to be Want to be your love, for rea?? I Used Think I had the … More Chinglish Poetry Collection Vol.3
Most of the time, I belong to the category of people who, when they are visiting a place as a tourist, do everything in their power to not appear to be a tourist. That includes not walking around with a camera dangling from my neck or wrist, not taking snapshots of every damn thing with … More Tourist Me
As with all good things, so also did my supply of Western deodorant come to an end seven months after I arrived here with a small drugstore’s worth of Secret Invisible Baby Powder zip locked in the toiletries compartment of my suitcase. So, brimming with the usual joy of going in search for one more … More Monkey’s Secret
As I enter the final third of my life here after the ushering in of the Year of the Dragon, I thought it would be a good idea to sprinkle this here blog with a little bit about what on earth I’m doing here in the first place. Wednesdays are my Mondays, the beginning of … More Wednesday in the life of…
Roundtrip airfare to from Wenzhou to Bali costs just under one grand. (Especially if you didn’t miss your initial flight out because you thought 01:00am Tuesday meant super late Tuesday night, as opposed to super early Tuesday morning. So let’s pretend, for the sake of saving face, that I do know how to read a ticket … More Good Price?
A friend of mine ordered some fresh juice off a tempting full-color menu trapped under the plastic covering of our restaurant table. It arrived as all juice should: tall glass, twirly straw…steaming hot and tasting like dust would if you blended it in water with purple food coloring and set it to simmer. Ordering food is … More Mystery Food
“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering … More Hence the blog?
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