Back in 2021 when I was having sleep problems during Covid, I made a series of drawings, including the below Harry Potter characters: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger. Dumbledore and Hagrid. In the Harry Potter drawing you can see I wrote Chinese, and this is simply Harry Potter in Chinese 哈利波特. And speaking of Chinese, I…
In the blink of an eye 20+ people were shot at the studio where I worked for 10 years. The manager that hired me, Mr. Ma, who I knew very well, is diseased. A man I sang Chinese songs with, Valentino Alvero, has also passed away. A dance teacher I saw every week, Kai Wen,…
I always try to keep one fun project for myself that consumes around 10% of my time. Over the years I have dabbled in many different software development projects, and occasionally I hit on something that is really useful and worthwhile, while a good percent of the time I am just having fun. 🙂 But…
Mostly I write here simply to document my progress in Chinese. With each book I read, I look up fewer and fewer characters, but it still requires a lot of concentration. 骆驼祥子 (LouTuoXiangZi) is about a rickshaw puller in Beijing back in the 40s when the Japanese had invaded, and life was really hard. He…
Well the name doesn’t translate very well (Amazon books uses this translation as well), but I just finished reading this book. It the second full length novel I have read in Chinese. The Chinese name is 忧确杂货店, and actually it was written by Keigo Higashino, a Japanese mystery writer, and then it was translated into…
So with that exciting homepage where I told you I speak Chinese, you probably were curious to hear me speak Chinese, or else you wouldn’t have clicked the link and arrived here, right? 🙂 You are the curious sort! Ok, let me see what I can do…
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