To survive a heavy rainy Monday, is to read a book. My last book When Breath Becomes Air, (2016) was read in a prefect sitting, among…
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To survive a heavy rainy Monday, is to read a book. My last book When Breath Becomes Air, (2016) was read in a prefect sitting, among…
When Breath Becomes Air (2016), by Paul Kalanithi (1977-2015), Foreword by Abraham Verghese. After Being Mortal, I planed to read this book. The day could not…
Cement tiles from Chee Hsin Pottery: the center is #117 or #167. The border tile is 121b and the corner tile is 122c with #117, and the border…
Just finished the six episodes, came the news that Argentine’s soccer legend Diego Maradona died at age of 60. Don’t cry for me Argentina! The…
Season 4, episode 2. Queen Elizabeth invited Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher, the Prime Minister to her Balmoral Castle for a weekend, and with some mishaps: cocktail…
November 22, 2020: On Fareed Zakaria‘s GPS, the former Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power says, that twenty percent of African leaders have some education experience in an…
Papa & Mama Official 父母官 is a honorific name for the county and department official, by the people in China. Below, is the chart of territorial…
NPR 2020.11.20: All Your Genes Are Belong To Us NPR photo Myriad Genetics is a publicly traded company. On nasdaq, its ticker symbol is MYGN, currently…
By Hillary Clinton, on her four years journey as the 67th Secretary of State, from 2009 to 2013. She structured her book by continents and…
Recently I read a few books by the recent past politician. Although they were all wonderfully written and engaging but not all of them receive…