MiniBlogs
- See group photos? Once the centre of the family, he now stands on the side – a man’s life is a process of marginalization. With centrifugal back into centripetal again his end is close at sight
- He’s really old in his effort to do better than young men in certain aspect of physical exercise, for senility is mostly revealed either in his engaging in sports not good at or walking downstairs
- Sunrise，surroundings warming; sunset，surroundings warmed，a difference you only feel. Sunrise photos can be best cheating. Once a collector of pictures of sunrise & sunset I rarely take these photos ...
- An entrance examinee encouraged himself in his T-shirt“Don’t try to be original just try to be good.”It reminds me of my tutor’s advice before the final exam: I don’t want u to prove u’re genius ...
- Asked about the impression on the English Exam, he: “Just a word, you know the word, you know the sentence and the whole paragraph. I don’t know the word.”
- Two seniors seeing elders bend & straighten up under a basketball stand commented: “ We’ll be like this in the future.”True, yet how long is future? And what do they learn from what they foresee? ...
- North Korea & Singapore my concern doesn’t mean I love them-on the contrary.I love N Korean concerts & cherish an invitation“Stepping Into a Career in Singapore”a Singapore fellow student handed me ...
- “Feb.25 1978 This morning I took Mei-sheng to visit Yu Hua-tai ,a monument of m s …”Diary shows that at 18 before entering university I’ve known the word“martyr” but find it hard to spell it ...
- Cough & cough till one day you cough the whole night. Wait & wait, the bus you wait for never comes. And stock market, struggling to keep afloat… To endure is to give up in vain the last minute ...
- Students in class, campus an enclave for outsiders. 3 elders sat talking when 1 stood up to hail a comer:“Long time no see!”“Dying.”3 in unison:“Shut up, shut up!”Then a new round of happy chat ...
- Festivals’re made for old & young.Daughter used to be happy when Days come,now mother’s turn, like today over the phone: “Mutual happy! Nice to eat for lunch... Father’s day next month, 3rd.Sunday ...
- Wisdoms in my eyes in the young are viewed simply as small wits today. A man’s progress: having been looking down on wisdom with age.
- Lost time can be back at least for elders. That’s my impression when I hear a man advice a granny away from tours: “Who look after your child? Tell you, baby’s time flies too fast to get it back.” ...
- Shoestrings loosen, tighten and loosen again, an experience I share with many sneakers-worn men & women. As the length of strings is more than needed, I now cut the redundant and everything is ok.
- Home again. My elders enjoyed May Day out of home on foot; I enjoy it out of city by bus; daughter is happy out of country by air. Her descendant shuttles away out of globe if you wait and see.
- A photographer takes a scene with which a painter paints the same scene with imagination. How can a photographer short of imagination reproduce the same scene the painter paints?
- A sentence from an ad: “Always talk to the locals. They know more than any guide book.” That’s why I like to talk to people other than locals to learn what they know and wish to know about my home ...
- Back home from lunch. It’s one of the rarest times I remember that the family of three cycled together. “Mom ride so fast that I cannot walk as fast as her,” I whispered to daughter.
- Mobike & mobike is different. On riding a defective bike I often try to ride fast in an effort. Riding on a one in good condition I either ride too fast in a hurry or ride slowly at leisure.
- Tea made by wife is my favorite. Coffee made by daughter is my favorite. Holidays and weekends are days when I can have both.
