Category: 06. The chRoNIcles

*tick* *tock* *tick* tock* tick* tock* …
and this yummy cake makes me fee HUNGRY though :O *slurp*
(cake courtesy of image chef)

saw these 2 pics in my student’s post, so ‘stole’ it to fill this long negelected storeroom 🙂


“You always say you know you know you know you know, but in actual fact, YOU DON’T.”
and i thought this comment is very meaningful. aren’t we all guilty of being so from time to time. “knowing” is so very qualitative isnt it :O

yesterday yh2 and yh juniors and yh’s grandma went to visit the ‘national AAAA sight seeing’ venue, makes pple reflect (if pple bother to) if the grading means anything at all. reflects real badly on the country itself (i think it’s not just shanghai’s reputation that’s at stake here). MOST if not all the interactive displays were OUT OF ORDER. cant say how disappointed yh juniors are during the visit (and grandma’s impression as a visitor).
so if you are reading this post and making some plans to tour shanghai in the near future (cant say for sure how LONG they will take to fix it, if anyone bothers to fix anything since they let it deteriorate in the first place), go there if you are really bored with nowhere to go and too much cash to spare.

this is my first impression of the chinese local when i came upon this land some 8 months ago. this is so because back in singapore, we would address each other by (first) names only but here in china, friends would call out to each other names in full (last+first names). to a singaporean chinese, if someone were to call you that way, it’s probably something bad that you have done 😛
have not had the time to dig out the reason behind this observation and a chance arises when we were required to do a mini assignment for the cultural linguistics module. hence i used the chance to dig out some materials from the internet to get some preliminary observations. here’s the report (written in Chinese) that i handed up 2+ weeks ago.
if you are a 新加坡华人reading this post, it may interest you, though be minded that the findings are very preliminary, and further research using sociolinguistics methods with large samples is needed to uncover more about the phenomenon.

once again it’s 震耳欲聋 out there which is better than any Dolby Digital Surround effect. it’s the 15th day into the Chinese New Year and you can find a detailed overview of the Lantern Festival here that traced its history back to the Han dynasty.
and here’s a photo of yh3 with his 灯笼 (supposed to be a “兔子灯” but we din managed to get one that’s rabbit-shaped).

to mark the end of the cny celebration, here’s the one and only cny greeting card that i received via snail-mail this year:

something to cherish dearly 🙂