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I am a potter, photographer and linguist. I speak Japanese, Mandarin, French, English as well as other dialects in each. I am interested in the language of minority speakers including Inuit, the Zhuang, the Okinawan dial...
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Since Christmas is knocking on doors, perhaps some of you are waiting for an early Christmas gift. Am I right? Just recently, I heard this news and couldn’t resist to share this with you guys. For those of you wh...
Lunar Year Price Hikes in China
It’s December 29 according to the lunar calendar, tomorrow is new year’s eve. In China this time of the year is a one of the major holidays, which lasts for about a week where most people brave the peak rush ...
Local Chicken or Free Range Chicken?
One word in particular bothers me quite a bit in Chinese and Chinese people often get it wrong. Often Chinese will say local chicken when they mean to say free-range chicken. So the two words are: 本地 [ben di] meaning...
US carrier visit a dilemma for China
It’s been all over the news – two South Korean marines and two civilians killed by North Korea military drills. Now the US has sent a carrier to the Yellow Sea, which poses a dilemma for China. Since I curren...
Quality of Living in Chinese Cities – Breeding Consumer Super Power
In the article Average Monthly Wage Required for Quality Living in Chinese Cities on eChinacities.com. They have presented a table with 43 Chinese cities and the average monthly income for quality living. I read this and...
Server hacked (again) – and fed up with Blue Host
Website hacked again. The fifth time this year and just too much. If you are considering getting a domain name and hosting service DO NOT use BLUE HOST. Not only because of vulnerabilities but they are expensive too. It ...
Server hacked (again)
This is probably the third or four time this year that my hosting provider has been hacked or attacked. It is not all websites hosted by Blue Host that are affected just a select few and unfortunately I have to be one of...
Air Conditioning
Sitting on an air conditioned train for 3 hours with windows that cannot be opened is enough to kill a person. I often wonder how often do they change the air conditioning filters in large companies/trains/buses? I am su...
Chinese tap water is SAFE
What you are about to read may or may not surprise you but I decided to write about this because the question of whether or not tap water is safe in China or any other country may well be tainted with lies from the corpo...
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![Meaning of [The friend is pulled to the unlucky affair]. The good luck and daytime are large good lucks in the misfortune and the evening in the morning. However, the funeral is abhorred.](http://www.irohaproject.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/koyomi/image/roku1.gif "Meaning of [The friend is pulled to the unlucky affair]. The good luck and daytime are large good lucks in the misfortune and the evening in the morning. However, the funeral is abhorred.")
