MiniBlogs
- 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.
- Grandson cried loudly on seeing his mother leaving. Auntie quickly took out a paper bag in which he saw lollipops. He went for it saying goodbye to his mother.It’s adults who divert kid’s attention. ...
- Auntie repeatedly kept the boy fr throwing her shoes into dustbin for fun till today when she kept him away fr his mom out to work.Angrily he threw her shoes into the bed.She:Throw them into dustbin.
- 4 fried steamed-buns a portion:12 Yuan at XYSJrestaurant,10 at LSX rest,8 at TMX rest,7 at ZB Rd mart,5 on a stall at SQ Rd.Eating’s believing,this morn I bought at LCH stall,6Yuan,buy 2 get 1 free.
- I walked to & fro many times in the afternoon by the door of a 6-storey residential building of the community during which time I did not see any residents in & out except 3 delivery men in scooter. ...
- “Raining, raining!”It began to drizzle under the sun. “Cannot dry clothing outside at this time of the year,” a woman mumbled while collecting her clothes back into the room.
- Both on the rd,I used to get to know someone fr our face to face talk,now I learn someone fr a simple image of him if I have,& that's a difference between past & present in "Seeing is believing" ...
- “Quick，while it’s not raining,” he hurried grandson to sit behind him to school.A man walked down the door steps of the apt bld:“Seize the minutes with the gap.” Yellow alert for rains for days ...
- We learned experiences from a visit to the Ericsson Company in the morning, and drew lessons after a visit at the Vasa Museum in the afternoon.(A day in Stockholm, June 11，2002)
