That's the name of our school auditorium where we got our 15 minutes of fame two years ago when I bravely sang with a Japanese foreign teacher the song popularized by Deng Lijun (Teresa Tang in HK), Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xin (the moon mirrors my heart). For a non-speaker, we did not do too badly. A culturally polite student said so.....full story
I spend a lot of my dotage thumbing through my photo album. Most of the photos are from my flying side of life, but I also like the snapshots of my old cars. The sight of those photos conjures up distinct memories of car smells, and I'm sure all gear-heads can relate to this. So here's my list of memorable automotive smells: ....full story
When you intone White Christmas in May, it's a tale that your focus is completely off center. Too, your dreams of frigid weather in the tropics are reflections of how acutely your views have turned into a nightmare.....full story
The Scholastic Assessment Test (taken by high school students entering Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, et al) was put on hold in Korea the first week of May. It appears that test questions circulated around $5,000 per copy so Kim and Jin of Koreas upper echelons make a head start toward Boston and other Ivy League environs.....full story
I lehislatura obligasioña areglon lai gi linahyan. Poresu na mampos diskuidau yangin ha choneg maseha haf' na priniponen lai sin kabales na inekuñgog publiku yan inestudia antes de u pega papa' haf' disisioña.....full story
At the tail end of the '80s, shortly before the Tiananmen incident, a controversial TV series in China titled River Elegy was seen as asserting that the Ming Dynasty's ban on maritime activities led to the rebuilding of a defensive “Great Wall” by Emperor Ying Zheng. Prior to this, the eunuch Admiral Zheng He took a flotilla of China's explorers and sailed the seas, reaching as far as East Africa.....full story
All eyes are on fund juggling amidst a listless economy paralyzed by major revenue contraction in recent past. This as needs skyrocket while the means to pay for them heads steadily the other way.....full story
It is part of the spring ritual, the two-day sports' fest at Shenyang Aerospace University, definitely more than the roar at the end of the 100-meter dash, a happy contrast to our days at SVES.....full story
Entalu' pagu yan otru mes, i famaguonta u fan matcha seremoñas graduasion gi high school siha guine yan kolehu. Congratulations! Huñgan selebra i okasion sa' in' fachuchu'e.....full story
I've already written of my dia de mama mia last Thursday. We do not intend to repeat our parenting tribute. It is the “mother as a woman” that interests us now, having touted in my own “political” journey the role of the women's revolution among the seven that accompanies my lifetime. ....full story
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