独一无二, 无尽的爱

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My uncle’s finally gone back home after staying over here for more than a week. Don’t get me wrong. I like having my uncle here, and him staying over at my place is not problem. I gladly gave him my bed and slept on the sofa bed (which is too soft and not very good [...]

I haven’t been online due to my neighbour’s network being very bad these days, plus I am busy with my visa extension hassles. I might end up doing another HK trip. It’s going to be touch and go. :(
Anyway, tomorrow is Lantern Festival, just wanted to write a few words on that. Will try [...]

I am using my neighbour’s wifi network without his knowledge to post this. Hope he doesn’t disconnect halfway through the post. I will only have my internet connection working some time next week. :(
Well, it looks like my friends like to let me know about festivities. Today is apparently 立春 (li chun), or [...]

Last Friday, one of my friends asked me if I had 腊八粥 (Laba porridge). I had no idea what she was talking about, and she then explained to me that it was a Buddhist festival. So here’s the lowdown about the festival:
Laba is celebrated on the eighth day of the last lunar month, referring [...]

As previously mentioned, I went to Houhai Zoo again last Saturday for a friend’s birthday. It was a bit of a let down as many people didn’t show up in the end. Had the usual drinks and met some more people. I later learnt (yesterday actually) that one of them [...]

Last Friday met a friend C and her boyfriend A, and went together to a pub in Houhai - Zoo Houhai - where my friend’s former language professor was holding his birthday. It’s just a gathering of friends and friends’ friends, having a chat and some drinks. C and A are both English teachers, but [...]

Today I bought yet again the 1-kuai ‘fish’ snack that’s on sales between the West gate of BLCU and Xijiao Hotel. The seller was (according to local legend) the first in China/Beijing to figure out how to cook the pastry into fish shape . It is of waffle texture, and inside you have milk, chocolate, [...]

I am back at Wudaokou in Beijing. Wudaokou is well known in Beijing as being a students’ district. That’s because Wudaokou is in the Haidian district, which contains Beijing Language Culture University, BLCU (aka Beiyu, the most well known Chinese learning uni), Beijing University (aka Beida, arguably the No1 University in China), Tsinghua University (arguably [...]

Tomorrow the Golden Week starts. It’s the National Day 国庆节 tomorrow and on this occasion it’s one week off for most people. During this period, huge quantity of people travel from city to city, to see relatives or to relax and visit some other areas of China. No need to say that it’s really hard [...]