希望是踏破铁鞋无觅处，蓦然回首竟在灯火阑珊处。 Pros: I really can’t hope for a better location than C@PH, which we visited today. It’s just one road away from my mom’s. It looks quite clean. THERE ARE SLOTS AVAILABLE!!! Cons: The reviews for this childcare center are not very good. No raves, even for those who spoke about it positively. Two very bad comments. [...]
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希望
Posted in Me, Uncategorized on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Linguine
Posted in Me, Translation on November 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A language is a dialect with an army and navy Comparative linguistics (originally comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness. Languages may be related by convergence through borrowing or by genetic descent. Contrastive linguistics compares languages usually with the aim of assisting language learning by identifying important differences between [...]
Congratulations!
Posted in Me on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The good news was announced yesterday. I feel very happy for Shyan. It must have been a tough process but she did it! 大肚能容， 容天下难容之事。 开口便笑， 笑世间可笑之人。 Translating Chinese couplets well is hard. Anyway, let me attempt it: Like the Maitreya Buddha, bear all things that are unbearable; and laugh at all who are [...]
Panadol Cold
Posted in Me on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To my chagrin, it worked instantaneously!
The Fairy Fellers’ Master-Stroke
Posted in Art, Me, tagged Art on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“It’s called The Fairy Fellers’ Master-Stroke, by Richard Dadd, and is in the Tate Gallery in London. It is only about 21 inches by 15 inches. It took the artist nine years to complete, in the middle of the nineteenth century. I cannot think of a more famous ‘fairy’ painting. It is, indeed, very strange. Summer [...]
