The finest china
Every Chinese New Year, my mother takes out the best chinaware and cutlery in the house for us to use. The food’s not bad either. Surf stop: MinJungKim.com Braindump v 5.0 iTunes’ party shuffle is playing a copy of: Oh, Kay!, musical: Overture – George Gershwin – Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, of which I have […]
The Xinglong Overseas Chinese Farm: Hainan, Part Three
This is the third of the Hainan posts (Read Parts One & Two) There is a village on the south east of the island which has been, like most other villages on Hainan, converted into a tourist attraction. It was about the only place my cousins and I thought interesting (whereas my uncle was stoked […]
For dreary Chinese New Year’s afternoons
For mine, the CNY holidays are usually a series of long waits between visitors and visiting. I’d finish a whole novel (read or write) if I could. In one afternoon. For two days. So, if you’re sitting pretty at home in your New Year’s new clothes, swatting mosquitos (Pah Bung) and preventing flies from settling […]
Stuck, in a moment
I cannot blog about anything, because a day out from Chinese New Year and I’ve already eaten one tub of Kueh Bankit, half of Kueh Whatsit and several pieces of Kueh Simi. I am so gonna get a sore throat. I already have had several tummy aches. This is not good. I cannot blog. I […]
Together the people: Hainan, Part Two
This is a continuation of my blog post about Hainan Island. ‘Short the distance, together the people’ is Hainan Airlines’ tagline (while you’re there, check out their subsidiary Deer Jet and their flashy website), and Hainanese Chicken Rice doesn’t come from Hainan. Over the next two days of the tour, we were taken to one […]