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Second Week of Shelter-in-Place
It’s hard to believe that it is only the second week of the “shelter-in-place” order here. It feels like forever already.
S is doing her schooling online. She had online school for a year when we were in China and that did not work well for her. Her grades were good but she hated it because she felt isolated. She is intensely extroverted and craves human interactions. It’s bad timing that…
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Corona Virus - 1st Week of "Shelter-in-Place"
Corona Virus – 1st Week of "Shelter-in-Place"
It’s the end of the first week of “Shelter-in-Place” in San Mateo County, also my first week in the new house. Life has come a full circle. After six and a half years away from the Valley, we moved back here since mid February for a job with a biotech company.
It takes moving away for us to realize that Silicon Valley is more like home to us than anywhere else. It also takes leaving the…
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Lover of Life If you keep your eyes open, you can find a lot of amusement with advertising materials all over China.
The End of 2014
The End of 2014
It’s hard to believe that yet another year is about to end and a new one will start in just about an hour.
We are in the UK for the holidays and catching up on the British food that we’ve missed: sausage rolls, crispy duck (OK, this is Chinese, but I am only getting it from the local Chinese take-out here), crumpets, Scottish eggs, pork pies, bacon & egg sandwiches, smoke salmon, pate, fish &…
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Typhoon
I had experienced quite a few typhoons before, but this is the first time that we’ve experienced a typhoon together as a family in China. Last evening, we received communication from the school that school might be close due to the typhoon. Later that night, we received the notice that school would be closed today! It was pretty windy all night.
This morning, it was even more windy, and sheets of…
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Our First Moon Festival in Zhongshan
Another year, another Moon Festival (on this past Monday)! This was our second Moon Festival outside of the US, and the first for us in Zhongshan, as a family. I think the last Moon Festival I was in Zhongshan was before we’d immigrated to the U.S. many years ago.
In our housing development (Agile), red lanterns and lights were setup at least a couple weeks beforehand. It always looks pretty when…
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Beijing Visit
We just came back from a short trip to Beijing, a nice ending to the summer vacation. Even the weather was kind to us, sunny a lot of the time, and the pollution not too bad.
Restaurant in Beijing inside the Old Home of Some Ex-Royalty from the Qing Dynasty
Upon arrival, my cousin took us to a special restaurant that is set inside the former home of some Qing Dynasty royalty (the brother of the…
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Electronic Age
We are packing for our short trip to Beijing tomorrow. Sammy has been pretty excited. She creates this song herself, and has been singing it for at least over an hour, “I am going to Beijing tomorrow. It’s going to be fun. It’s an adventure. There is going to be so much joy…” It is so nice to be a kid!
When it comes to packing the electronics that we are going to take with us for just a 4-day…
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A Spinach Incident
We went to our usual little cafe for lunch as usual. Samantha ordered a French Omelet with Spinach and Ham. In some previous occasions, they did not have spinach, so they put lettuce in as a substitute (and failed to understand why Gary and Sam were upset over the substitution choice). In some other instance after that, Gary checked with them to see if they had spinach, and the answer was no, so…
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Chiang Mai & Zhongshan Profiles
Chiang Mai & Zhongshan Profiles
Exactly a year today we got on a flight and left America, with just three big suitcases and a small suitcase for the three of us! Since then, we have experienced so many new things, but the most precious of all is all the people that we have come across, whom we would have never met!
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Chiang Mai is such a beautiful city! I can still see the rolling hills, the green paddy…
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Beijing Trip
I made a trip to Beijing recently for business.
Flight to Beijing
I flew from the Guangzhou airport to Beijing. For travels within China, the Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou is a better choice from Zhongshan to avoid all the Immigration paperwork etc. I took an airport bus that was not too far from where I lived for ￥75 (~$12) one-way and it took a little less than 2 hours to get to the airport. Not…
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New Korean BBQ Restaurant This new Korean restaurant just opened a few days ago and I had wanted to try it.
The Price of Driving in China
The Price of Driving in China
We thought buying a car in China was difficult, with all the paperwork requirements etc., but driving a car in China has been much more challenging instead.
Up Close & Personal
We thought driving in Thailand was stressful, with all the mopeds around us. When we first moved to China, the roads seemed bigger, so we thought that it would be better here. I was even thinking that with some practice,…
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Tropical Cyclone
It had been raining the whole time last week, with thunders and lightnings. Yesterday, rain was basically pouring down from the sky nonstop for most of the day. All the river banks were raised. It looked like we could get flooded any time if it just rained a little more.
We were on cyclone red alert last night (so no school if it stays red) and it looked like that storm might just continue. We…
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Qingming Festival (清明节)
April is the month for the Qingming Festival, the time of the year where one goes to sweep the graves of ones’ ancestors. The actual day is typically early in April, but the tomb sweeping activities can go on for 2-3 weeks. It is also associated with the rainy season.
This year, Qingming Festival fell on April 5, a Saturday. It was raining that day, and we had heard that there were many people…
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How Not to Get Ripped Off in Chia
How Not to Get Ripped Off in Chia
Jackfruit
Last week when we were out with Mom, we saw these stalls outside the hospital selling fruits and various other foods. Gary and I caught sight of this big green spiky thing that looked like a jackfruit. Being huge jackfruit fans, we were excited. Mom saw our interest and went over to the man to ask him if it was a jackfruit. The man looked up quickly and confirmed that it was a…
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Father
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Dad went into the hospital for a surgery last Monday to take out some polyps. Everything went well and Dad was out of the hospital 3 days later. However, not before he had the chance to give me a little speech during my first visit to him in the hospital on his first day there.
I was visiting with Mom and Uncle. Mom went to another hospital room to talk to a friend of hers whose husband was also…
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