Our young dynamic Good feeling Dance gently in the cup I believe music Can change a person Good coffee Can change a person I say there’s nothing special in love. Somebody loves somebody for no reason, just curious Just want to see again and missed so much I say there is no … More Chinglish Poetry Collection, Vol. 1
Chickens have got it bad. Really. No matter where in the world you go, chicken meat is bound to be a staple, on the menu of any restaurant or home meal. For many years now, my chicken has come to me in pieces, never whole and certainly not while still alive. A pair of deboned … More Chickens Beware!
If, in the late hours of evening… …when not a creature stirs and you are curled up in your bed under the spell of the tantalizing last quarter of a deliciously fat book… (Middlesex, if you care to know) …you happen to hear an almost stereotypically feminine squeal (“Eeeek!”) …come from your shared living room, … More Too Ugly to Love, Too Big to Kill
The poor child is probably going to associate ginseng with brown skin for the rest of his life now, and not in a favourable way either, if the horrible way he scrunched up his face after his mother popped it into his mouth is a hint to go by. He was a good sport about … More Bad Candy and Brown Skin
The trick is to act like you belong. If you sustain the charade long enough, then people stop watching you. They realize that your mannerisms are just like anybody else’s, grow bored with you, and go back to the business they dropped the minute you stepped into sight and took your seat (if, for example, … More Curtain Call
A Botswana, a Chinese, an Ethiopian, two Indians, a South African and a Zimbabwean walk into a bar. Technically, a nightclub, POP – Wenzhou hotspot. Its’ lights spill out onto Oujiang Road and lend much needed sparkle to the muddy, dirty Ou River, which would be better renamed the “Ew” river. As with the … More One Night in Wenzhou
I should know better. I’ve lived in Africa. Not in a very long time, yes. But I’ve always re-configured my mind every time I’ve boarded a plane destined for Addis. Even before boarding. As I arrive at the gate, I adjust my expectations, by which I mean I lower them. Yet, there is always the … More Expect Disappointment
Industry moves Wenzhou, to be sure, but ask me what higher form of spirit moves the city, and I couldn’t tell you. I miss the sound of the muezzin that can be heard from our home, or anybody’s home no matter their location, in the city of Addis, in the early hours of the morning … More Spirit
There are more lions guarding buildings of all kinds in Wenzhou China, than in all of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, capital city of the former seat of the Conquering Lion of Judah. They are usually carved of stone (although a “gold” pair have been seen), of varying levels of detail and grandeur, but always of two … More Lions and Other Commonalities
The taxis in Wenzhou will rarely go out of their way for you if your desired destination is outside their preferred radii of operation. They do, however, reserve their right to pick up additional passengers along the way to where you’re going. Hitting two birds with one stone. Hitting a foreign bird, even better, because … More Taxi!
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