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Category Archives: daily grind
Dance, cloud, dance
24-Jun-10tubes on ice …
21-Jun-10… though perhaps not as colorful as Disney on Ice. These look randomly placed, but I swear there’s a pattern.
Repurposed
20-Jun-10Who knew that a wire mesh letter tray would double as a perfect earrings organizer?
Indian lemons
19-Jun-10Jocie & I walked to the Indian market in downtown Waltham for additional lemon drops ingredients. Lemons were 4 for $1. Why do Shaw’s and Whole Foods sell them for 89 cents a piece?
Kunming lights
11-Mar-10Kunming Hat Tournament in the city of “Eternal Spring.” March 6-7, 2010. Good times.
In a house in the sky
01-Mar-10My grandfather had a pair of black-rimmed reading glasses. It sat perched atop a five-drawer dresser that I could only reach if I stood on my tippy-toes on top of a stool. Precarious as that was, I was the designated fetcher, the sole person approved for the responsibility of getting and returning his glasses. “Shanshan!” [...]
Dear Mom and Dad,
09-Feb-10Sorry I didn’t call this weekend. I thought I broke my nose and wasn’t sure what to do/say forgot. Beijing is still great, the weekend was a tad crazy, but I am okay now doing just fine. Did I tell you that I try to play frisbee twice a week now? Wednesday evenings and Sunday [...]
Things are hard
31-Jan-10Beijing (China) is a great place to live, if all you ever want to do is sleep, eat, and maybe go to work. Once you start needing to get things done, and we all inevitably get to that point, life starts to get hard. Really hard. For example, who knew that buying a plane ticket [...]
这个那个
17-Jan-10这个 means “this,” and 那个 means “that.” Together, they have the same “this or that” meaning that we use in English. The textbook pronunciations are something along the lines of “juh guh” for this, and “na guh” for that. On the streets though, no Chinese actually use the textbook pronunciations. Colloquially, 这个 and 那个 sound [...]
heartless, sometimes
15-Dec-09In a city of 13 million people, what are the chances that you run into someone you know randomly? Deviating from my normal lunch-around-the-office-block routine, I met up with an old college friend at her apartment complex outside of the East Third Ring. We stopped in at her favorite bakery for a late lunch, conveniently [...]