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Apr.04.2009
[JOURNAL ENTRY, OCTOBER 2004:]
Our Chinese neighbor (English name “Cecelia”) has been teaching my wife and me some Mandarin words. You cannot imagine the strange ways that you have to curl your tongue in your mouth and against your teeth to approximate the correct sounds. Also, the sounds often...
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Feb.14.2009
The Parking Spot An angry, grungy twenty five year old man covered in tattoos bursts through the front door of his small, unkempt, shack of a house and rushes to his late seventies Ford pickup truck. His dingy girlfriend stands at the screen door that is ready to fall off the hinges, a cigarette...
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Jan.27.2009
The Chinese traditionally consider the number eight to be lucky, while Western culture usually holds the number seven (the number of the days of creation)to bring with it the propensity for luck. If you're a mother expecting seven babies all at once -- septuplets -- and then you get a surprise baby...
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Dec.23.2008
I've been staying at my mom's house during the holidays. I got to her place on Sunday, December 21st, right before lunch. As I unloaded my things into my old room, my brother informed me that we need to bow to a bunch of food. That was our way of saying that it was once again time to observe one...
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Dec.05.2008
Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor of paranoiaisfact.com answers readers' questions.Dear Igor, On the advice of Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, I began taking eighteen grams of Vitamin C daily twenty years ago. Now my doctor tells me new research shows that far from being a miracle cure Vitamin C...
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Aug.22.2008
This is a review of the Chinese film, The Warlords, the 2007 film of Peter Chan which stars Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro. It gives certain details of the film as well as their meaning and message.
Please click on the link below to read my article:
Review of The Warlords Starring Jet Li...
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Aug.20.2008
Febrero 2008. Estoy viendo el mar Pacífico por mi ventana. Eso, por ejemplo, no lo podía hacer ayer. Ahora puedo ver puentes delgaditos a la distancia, justo debajo de nubes como popcorn chicken de KFC que delinean el horizonte. Cómo amo los puentes -- como por qué, no sé. Tienen algo con mi cámara...
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Aug.20.2008
August 8th, 2008 is a day this generation of Chinese people will never forget. Aside from being the most auspicious date thinkable in Chinese culture (the number 8 is considered good luck), for China, the commencement of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics are in fact the closure to a race against...
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Jul.10.2008
What I have often said to myself is, Gee, when I switch to my Chinese texts at night, I feel like I am moving from one part of the brain to another. It's a physical move that I can almost hear. Swooosh, kachunk. I experience similar shifts when I move from writing to drawing/painting.
I've not...
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Apr.18.2008
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