Recently, a friend who had moved into a new office e-mailed me some photos of her spanking new place. I immediately fell in love with the bookcase cum filing cabinet! Don’t you think it looks great? We have so many reference books, story books, children’s picture books, files, folders, photo albums and my father’s old [...]
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Since the kids monopolize the TV with their children’s songs and children’s shows, I have enforced a rule where Saturday and Sunday nights are “movie nights” a.k.a. “Mummy’s show” or “Papa’s show”. The kids watch less TV during the weekends, we get to watch some of our shows and they keep themselves occupied doing other [...]
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Once in a while, I need to get myself a hamburger fix and that’s when I head for Burger King or hàn bǎo wáng (汉堡 王), which literally means “hambuger king”. Remember to say this to the taxi driver instead of “Burger King! Burger King, don’t you know Bur-ger King?” Among the various fast food [...]
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I love a hot breakfast but it’s usually not convenient for me to buy zhōu (粥) or xī fàn (稀饭) also known as congee, gruel or porridge in the English-speaking world because I’m always in a rush nowadays. For a while, I packed sandwiches to work because I’m so hungry by the time I reach [...]
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Mid-Autumn festival is quite a big celebration in China – Monday is a public holiday My students couldn’t wait to get on the bus, the train or the airplane to head home for a family reunion on Mid-Autumn Day or zhōng qiū jié (中秋节). According to them, they would have a big dinner with their [...]
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