MiniBlogs
- Grandpa to his boy of 7:“You must learn to protect yourself.I’m so old still has to be with you outdoors.”Grandma seen also followed!“I am OK”“I’m also Ok”Both men then went closer for a chat ...
- Greek proverb:“A great place,a great solitude.” A friend who worked in Samoa： “Everybody knows everybody.” A small place has its own advantages.
- With distances, I don’t wear facemask all the time outside. What I do is to follow some others who either pull up their masks or put them properly on the face with fingers on seeing me close to them. ...
- Seeing a few people stride over the low roadblock at the park entrance，I asked a boy of 7-8 to hurdle it as well.He looked at his father who, uninterested, said briefly: “There is a path beside!” ...
- Liu Yuxi in his nostalgic poem: Long lengths of iron chains sunk on river bottom while a flag of surrender flying on top of the Wall.History,in other words,is something of salvage operations
- July 30,1998 saw me in high fever. When hospitalized on Dengue on the 4th day,Dr Cheong said I had to suffer 3 more days with much water & rest.Punctually on the 8th day the fever was left to hunger ...
- Lunch over，I sat down at the balcony when I heard 2 ladies talking at the courtyard below. “l look for you front & behind. Let’s walk by the River side,” one said, “Safe at this time of the day. ...
- Speed is not always crucial in soccer games.Crucial also is preanticipation, a compensation for defense players who loose upper hand for a step slow, an experience for all walks of life.
- “Schools need it,hospitals need it…need it”Seeing such a long queue for acid tests dawns on me how important these places are in daily life.The puzzle is these people are adults & most look healthy ...
- FIFA world cup is a proof that history may not repeat itself. The host team loss at the opening ceremony; the defending champion is still struggling forward … Behavior, once human, is unreliable.
- Before a zebra crossing,car drivers,if there’s no traffic light ahead,would either drive on not noticing green light on both sides or stop to give way as well when street-crossers stop at red light
- Not a ball,a globe，FIFA cup is also my geographical lessons.Costa Rica,San Jose,half of Jiangsu with only 4 mil people.Watching is not for watching’s sake.It gives me more than just kicking a ball. ...
- Morn rush hour.The door closing,a lady ran up right in time to get on.To her dismay,the bus jammed with other vehicles on the road for the next half hour,a break for the driver to get down for a smoke
- While watching last FIFA matches 4 years ago, I noticed an ad “Qatar Airways”,white letters against red backdrop,standing at the periphery of the fields. Now Qatar is moving to the centre.
- When I was young, I did not have much to see, but I remembered what I had seen.Now having too much to see,I am hardly impressed with what I’ve seen and,what’s more, often miss what I should see.
- Roadside stall owner sighed:flows of people rush downtown from the opposite in the morning.Though they are back home uptown late in the afternoon by my side,who would stop to buy jianbin for supper?
- I sat waiting at Huawei service centre when a mid-age woman came in.Impatient to wait for her turn she showed her phone to a young lady next to her for help.Minuets later she left,her problem solved
- In retrospect,the quotas of MFN at least enable LDCs to export certain amount of their products thus avoiding the Matthew Effect under which advanced countries dominate the textile & clothing trades. ...
- March 2002 I called Ms Draganidou, secretary of Prefect Papadopoulos of Thessaloniki, mistaking prefect for perfect.“He is our prefect, though he’s perfect!”She corrected from the other side.
- I’ve 2 books left（Jackie Collins:Thrill & Eco’s The Name of the Rose）given by foreigners who often bring books to read on bus or waiting on the road & then give them away as presents on finishing ...
