MiniBlogs
- West train station at 6:00 am was quiet.E-taxi pulled over one by one taking travelers to catch the first train of the day.Metro & bus stop were close at feet:metro just opening & no bus seen yet ...
- Among so many homes under renovation,one caught my eyes. A worker hanged his company logo at a window when his work was over for the day.It said:GZQ,leading brand for one-stop package decoration.
- 10/7/2000 saw an amount of 3600 yuan paid as half-year bonus to the staff of a subordinate company:1000 yuan for 1 person,800 yuan for another,700 yuan for 2 staffs each & 200 yuan each for 2 others. ...
- Shelves full of grandson’s pict books-push,pull & slide ones like PeppaPig,Little Bean & Usborne series,velcro Pinweel series,cloth ones like My 1st book & Jollybaby,even musical ones…A book,a toy. ...
- “A free side dish for a good comment”Once at the newly-opened LZ noodle shop.This time at CYC rest,I was told the crispy shaobing on the counter were used for thumbs up by customers,not for sale.
- The early morning was quiet.The unit gate opened.Out came a small dog to piddle by the roadside across the entrance.At this,the lady carried it in her arms back into the gate saying:“Let’s go home” ...
- A metro guard sat beside me on the square for bkf:2 baozi with red-bean porridge.“Red Plum Blossom?”He heard a familiar opera song.After checking his phone with a ciggy,he stood up to underground.
- The street sweeper seems only responsible for sweeping the dust on his street & its sidewalks.Sweeping the scraps of paper in a car studio front by the sidewalk seems to be the store owner’s business ...
- We’re quite used to getting things for free.“No free.Buy 5 (for 2Yuan)get 1 free.Now we sell at 1.5Yuan,no free.”The man said busy with packing up sesame seed cakes of various tastes to men around. ...
- What a day!”Men & women,old & young walk in shades，parasol in hand.Yet there’re men & women walk or stand in the sun on purpose-they keep the quotes on summer healthcare of Huangdi Neijing in mind ...
- In my city sidewalk is more an accurate word than pavement,footway or walkway of the same meaning.By roadside,it’s passed by by both pedestrians & bikers walking or cycling,feet or tires,paved or not ...
- Early morn 28/6/2023,I walked past DRC Mall where I saw a man playing flute on the corridor of 2nd fl. Same hour 2 years later I was there again when I was greeted with flute melodies, very skillful.
- “Master, please lend me your broom for a minute.”(A security man took over the broom of a dustman on the street for a brief sweep in front of his gate on hearing his colleague’s words.)
- The 3-room flat I’m living is thanks to a call 29/6/1998 by colleague Ms Bai telling me in time of a house-swap underway at home.“Who’d think of you if you aren’t in the country?”I heard many say ...
- All roads lead to Rome, yet I prefer to take straighter ones. Among the choices by the GSP navigation, I tend to take the longest route, for cycling straight on is easier and often faster.
- Tajmahal ticket for foreigners is on the rise again. We also used to charge differently. A bill 26/6/1987 for a visit to Yangtze River Bridge:50 Jiao a cup of tea for my Jun 17 American guests, me 20.
- Learn a dialect from local people in old neighborhoods where many old residents sit and play outside. Many people from other areas do rent there, but you seldom see them on weekdays.
- Teaching is not for teaching’s sake. Ask pupils to retell the story of hare-tortures race, any hints are redundant. Or I’d say what you would do if you are the hare or tortures.
- Not waiting for the kid’s 2nd shot, I snatched his pistol only to ask him how to reload a bullet. Worse still, he even tried to teach his grandma how to open the cover of his Mailipox rice cooker.
- I cycled fast,by passing 2 slow cyclists talking side by side.I stopped at a cross road,they passed me.I then surpassed them again.At next crossing,they cycled past me again-they never lagged behind.
