MiniBlogs
- Visual hi-tech’s polishing effect is cheating effective. Photos, old and new, the difference rests in seeing. Old photos vague the actual scenes; new ones sharp them.
- The square saw 3 groups: school students waited for tour bus; mid-aged company staff & a dozen elders met for climbing. I walked past like passing through 3 points of human life now to the 3rd point ...
- Day & night temperatures over ten degrees apart. To narrow the gap,I wrap up neck with plastic bags on leaving home early morning. Then no need for me to take off coat walking in the sun in day time ...
- 8:30am runners came, we blocked on the other side. A couple complained to police in vain. An old man sat down quietly. At ten the couple crossed. On request we left were lead across. The old man is 95
- 3 years ago a stock swap saw me swapping 3 stocks for a blue chip. The result is heartening: in 3 years, one of the sold one dropped 37% plus while my blue chip down over 30% during the same period
- Gardeners are seen decorating walls with flower-baskets on the way marathoners pass by. One tells me they’ll stand by on that day to collect baskets back in time before flower-lovers take them away
- I like watching ball games, soccer, pingpong, volleyball … to such an extent that referees look familiar. The world is packed with people. Yet those worthy of being watched are nobody but a very few. ...
- Practicing Shufa, once I write down“He who knows himself is wise; he who conquers himself is strong”，I’d recall my elders’ repeated contradictive reminder : Safety first.
- Happy to see Ms Ji leaving at the gate, I: “I’ll pay management fee next time”“It doesn’t matter, someone’s there in the room” Sadly, I: “Of course, boss never collects money, she counts money ...
- Thirsty on hilltop. Shop lady: “A bottle of water, a cup of plum syrup, a piece of cucumber, 15Yuan ok?” I: “Ok, only don’t charge me less.” “Sure but I sometimes give more changes,” the seller ...
- Thoughtful ,Ms Chen of Ye Mei In-Home （for elders）kept guiding during our day-tour. She also sang， but didn’t sing “Qinhai-Tibet Plateau”，knowing all in the bus were age-olds fear of “highs” ...
- To a countryman, crossing road in cities is testing. A citizen quite used to crossroads, I’m still cautious like a mongoose in crossing a paved village road even it’s empty with cars
- I recommend Glasgow Univ.My reply to its survey: “To study is like climbing up ‘39 Steps’” You may say I value my own old broom if you look the department Adam Smith once lectured is an old broom ...
- Classic is what you read more than once. It should be suited for personal circumstances. A magazine is read. On throwing it away, a page is torn down, pasted into a notebook and thus made a “classic ...
- “Collect used mobiles, used computers. Exchange scissors, kitchen knives, washbasins. Sell rat cages, rat traps, roach poisons.” Tradition & modernity are hand in and hand out in peddler’s cries ...
- “Clothes washed?” “Not yet, don’t you see bad whether these days?” “The machine now changed is the roller one, isn’t it?” “ Oh? yes!”
- On closer look at sheets I said to a student: “Try taking filling blanks as word play，word power weights more than its allocation.”As an example:” What an absurd (inappropriate) remarks James made ...
- Bus packed like sardines. A girl to her mobile: “Overcrowding aside, the driver simply a Karting rider!” On getting off, a cry from a lady: a man had stepped on her long hair almost to the ground
- Picture shows can be at home & gallery,the difference is home looks like a pigsty: against walls，a cardboard box & cloth bags here; a mop there;a bench with clutters on top & a pair of slippers under ...
- “Business as usual?” “As usual, only close for the New Year,” replied the owner.Traditionally,if festivals are regarded as extravert, the Chinese new year, the special festival, is more introvert. ...
