Jan 04 2008
Chinese New Year (Feb 7th) is more than a month away, but dinner invitations are pouring in. Even got a Columbia Uni Chinese student org’s. They’re claiming this year’s is the grandest and the most impressive of all: inspire by the Beijing Olympic. Gee, I often ‘complain’ that we Chinese’s holiday season runs from Thanksgiving [...]
Jan 04 2008
Do anyone know what’s this thing/grass? I went to a store for miller seed and saw this: the clear package contains no info at all, no name nor origin, nothing. I made tea with it, tastes little bitter but refreshing (new taste). Hey I’ll become Frankenstein in a few days!
Jan 04 2008
One day a while back, Lee came for lesson and bought a newspaper for me. “I think you maybe interested.” It’s a Newsday (I think), an article on a Chinese dissident who’s cancer and longing to go back to Beijing, to live out the remaining of his life.
The story outlined his journey, from a dissident (don’t [...]