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
Five days a week, traveling on the 41, 71 or 108, I find myself dreading what’s at the other end of my trip (work) and wishing that the bus ride would last just a little longer, but of course it never does. Extra stops don’t materialize. Road doesn’t magically elongate itself. Never any decent traffic … More For Monday Mornings: Why The Way There Is Better Than The There
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Amen. From among the perks of living in an English-friendly environment, I already knew that I missed opening letter mail, for example. You know, the routine bills, advertisements, tax returns, surveys and whatnot. I’m not even blessed with junk mail here. But it wasn’t until I had to call … More Hold Me Music
It’s been a week now. The pain in my calves has gone away, so I feel that I can write about this with some amount of perspective other than “IT HURTS! IT HURTS! IT HURTS!” or the more elaborate “SWEET LORD OF HEAVEN WHEN IS THIS GOING TO END?!!!” Wenzhou is surrounded by mountains. If … More Don’t Look Up (or, What Moses Felt)
Here, bring together the world short time Can span several country Choose to suit his way of life Because here, I have the world! Fashion is not something that exists in dresses in dresses onlg fashion isin the sky in the street fashion has to do with ideas the way welive You gave me a … More Chinglish Poetry Collection, Vol.2
Slow mover that I am, I’ve always been into yoga. Too, I’ve always been curious about an even slower-motion form of health-seeking: Tai Chi. During the few times I’ve been to one of Wenzhou’s dense parks… and climbed the network of their steep stairways (that’s not me)… I’ve often come across open spaces, where young … More A Tai Chi Kind of Morning
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!
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
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