tag archives: Chinese

Who’s Your True Friend, Fish or Banana?

14th Aug, 2017

Who’s Your True Friend, Fish or Banana?

Banana is just banana. Fish! She turned to the waiter with a strong urge to complain...

Which Direction Is Your Future?

25th Dec, 2016

Which Direction Is Your Future?

Everyone has past and future. But not everything has a direction...

From Yankee to Chinaman

19th Mar, 2016

From Yankee to Chinaman

We know, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg was trying to please the world's largest market, where unfortunately the government blocked his most valuable property for years...

Off the Boat, On the Dream

20th May, 2015

Off the Boat, On the Dream

We are so poor at cross-race facial recognition, because it's so easy for us to concentrate on obvious racial features rather than individual characteristics. Bias? This is human psychology. No wonder that...

On Chinese Fonts I Know

20th Jul, 2014

On Chinese Fonts I Know

In typography, Ming is the standard serif font in Chinese printing industry, equal to Times New Roman for English. In today's computers, Windows OS comes with...

What Is Your Mother Tongue, Chinese Singaporeans?

13th Jan, 2013

What Is Your Mother Tongue, Chinese Singaporeans?

“Boh liao! Of course Chinese lah.” Some may reply like this. “Not Hokkien meh?” I’ll challenge it. “That’s dialect. Different.” “I hear it everywhere. So what’s the difference?” “…” Yesterday I happened to see a fierce debate online about mother tongue for Chinese S’poreans. One said, his Mandarin skills was totally learned in school, as […]

No Chinese in China 華而不實

1st Feb, 2010

No Chinese in China 華而不實

Chink, Chinaman, whatever it calls, most people in gilt China deserve it, since they never know what a Chinese is. One day in the near future, there’s no Chinese in China any more. Technically, we’re all Chinese according to birth, blood or nationality. But if people learn less and less about inherited culture, so how […]

That Chinese Complex Undertaking

20th May, 2008

That Chinese Complex Undertaking

It's always kinda complex for a paranoid, as I learn'd too much western knowledge...

Nobody Makes the Sun, Алеша

7th Oct, 2007

Nobody Makes the Sun, Алеша

Lavishly produced and imaginatively shot, the film will delight audience who enjoy extravagantly gorgeous imagery without the violence that usually accompanies it...

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