Ai Bang Mai Ne … I bumped into the coffee table  Chin Tu Fat  …  You need a face lift  Dum Gai  … A stupid person  Gun Pao Der  …  An ancient Chinese invention  Hu Yu Hai Ding …  You are harboring a fugitive  Kum Hia …   Approach me  Lao Ze Sho …  Gilligan’s Island  Lin [...]

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There’s just something about blue skies that resonate in our being when we see them. I’m sure it’s not just me.  Against this green field of rice a couple of months before harvest season, the blue skies & thin clouds become especially spectacular. Only less than 30 minutes away from the dirty & somewhat depressing [...]

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Before the ubiquitous digital camera, a select group of people took incessant, methodical pictures.  Why did they do this?  Here is a famous writer’s take on why.  Food for thought. “The method especially appeals to people handicapped by a ruthless work ethic – Germans, Japanese and Americans. Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the [...]

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