Monthly Archives: February 2013
I will Survive…after a Fashion – – Xin Nian Kuai Le
Happy Year of the snake! Xin Nian Kuai Le (pronounced Shin Neeyen Kwai La) The New Year is officially underway as the fifteenth (our 24th) passed on Sunday. For a description of the lunar calendar, see the previous post. Good … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Liquor
Tagged baijiu, beer, Chinese New Year, Karaoke, life, Year of the snake
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Knock Knock…Who is there?
An entire goat arrived today by post. It is a little strange, but stranger still is that it arrived from Western China over the New Year celebration. Everything stops dead here during this holiday season. Web sites say they will … Continue reading
Don’t Take that Tone with Me, and the Sight of One Hand Counting
I have chopped off a part of my left index finger with a hand scythe splitting kindling for the wood burning stove. Ouch! is all I can say. No guitar for a while or a lot of other things. I … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged Count to ten, Insider Guide to Beijing, Learn Chinese, Mandarin, Tones
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