Category Archive:   Opinions & Thoughts


I guess from now on, my old brownie coloured passport can be put away for a rest forever. It served me in the past 7 years, had been carried to several places in this world and renewed once by the Chinese Embassy here, stamped with many custom marks when coming in or going out, and [...]

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My colleague’s kids went to Hong Kong and brought a mini Buddha back as a gift for their mom. This little cute statue is no bigger than several centimetres high, wearing a lilac gown and has such an extremely happy face that I wondered if anyone can resist not laughing out when they see it. [...]

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There has been too much news in regard to China lately. A big contract signed between China and Australia over Perth in APEC, Women’s World Cup being held in Chengdu now where the match between Canada and Australia had been just postponed, and the very recent and the most shocking one, a 3-years-old Chinese New [...]

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Well, when I am sitting here thinking of my family, they are actually on their way flying to Europe. Then very spontaneously I also came to a point where I started to fancy a holiday somewhere at some stage for myself. Europe is a big piece of land in my heart, and of course I [...]

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The Chinese class has gone half. I felt quite exhausted. As there were no text book or any hands-on teaching materials that we can use straight away, each time before the class I need to prepare the stuff myself. Sometimes there is quite a lot of work to do. And, I can’t ignore it like [...]

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This evening when I was standing in the classroom and listening to all those non-sense “b p m f d t n l a o e i u er…..” noise, I couldn’t believe I was actually doing this. For a moment, I was so grateful that I had gotten over this stage long time ago [...]

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