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一年前Yuaner去天家了。哥哥从医院回来，忙起后事。他说她一直非常勇敢，非常努力，到last minute，她的聪明是众所周知的。他陪在医院一个月，掉了几十磅，努力坚强。不过疫情中能见机入院陪护已是幸运的了。哥哥一直爱读书。马上看了很多书籍材料。挑了几本最适合孩子的，给似懂非懂的孩子们读了。千头万绪要理，孩子是最要爱护的，老人是最可怜的。其他很多重要的，我就不回忆了。 两年前，我有机会过去，碰巧在美国发现疫情之前。Yuaner正在开始癌症治疗，长发剪了短发，短发换了假发。孩子的教育还经常关心，坚持陪孩子们练琴，磨练耐心和脾气。陪过半大孩子练琴的父母都懂的。治疗副作用不大的话，可以和哥哥散散步。我们去LA，她还推荐了餐馆。因为治疗，很多可口的医生不让吃，美食家只好望梅止渴了。 三年多前，两家去Baltic Sea。还加上杨杨家。跟着旅行家，天天一起阳光，宫殿，海景，美食，好酒，游戏。一晃成云烟了。照片哥哥还挂在墙上。美国人说要Celebrate life。说的总比做的容易。周四还要管孩子工作。和大家继续努力吧。

When blogged about my journey from China to America, I stole the title from a famous Chinese novel: Journey to the West. The main character, Tang Monk (唐僧), spent his whole life building the foundation of Buddhism in China. One reason for his wild success was luck, I think, because he lived during the reign […]

Just a quick post today explaining the why. After the staycation in the holidays, work and school are back to “normal”. I won’t have as much time to write new posts. But I’ll. My biggest inspiration to blog was from Yuan Sophie Liu. One of her many achievements is she was an avid blogger, for […]

When Microsofties celebrating N years of work anniversary, it’s a custom to bring in N pounds of M&M candies and share with colleagues. M&M is one of the most popular candies in America, and in the world. The history of M&M is a fascinating example of cross pollination. Historically, the chocolate inside M&M was supplied […]

Happy New Year! Time like this makes us hope for the future, but also make us reminiscent of the past. On the first day of 2022, I’d like to look back on my first journey from the East to the West. 西游记 (xī yóu jì) is ranked among the top four Chinese novels. It’s translated […]

Sing 2 is an uplifting movie we watched during this holiday season. Not to spoil the new movie, I’ll share what the song Hallelujah in Sing (1) means to me. The popular song has different versions of lyrics. The lyrics of the version in the Sing movie can be found here. Please watch those if […]

New year brings new hope. New hope brings new ideas. Ideas and actions bring changes. There is a Chinese proverb describing fundamental change over time: 三十年河东 (sān shí nián hé dōng) 三十年河西 (sān shí nián hé xī). The Yellow River is a famous river in China. It changed courses frequently in history. The same village […]

2022 is around the corner. Eating healthy is a great new year resolution. If you are feeling adventurous, ditch the forks and knives, use chopsticks at dinner table instead. If you already do, then challenge your friends who haven’t to try. They will thank you. Chopsticks 筷子 (kuàn zi) were invented before the wheels. Chopsticks […]

The Covid-19 virus was discovered in 2019. After 2+ years in the pandemic, the word unprecedented has lost its punch. Instead of using numbers like 21, now we use Greek alphabets for new variants. The variants are dead serious, so their names should be. However, every dark cloud has a silver lining. Thanks to decades […]

The first post discussed the translation of the song title from Silent Night to 平安夜 (píng ān yè) in Chinese. For the rest of the song translation, what still puzzles me is the translation of “quake” in “Shepherds quake at the sight”. Maybe you can chime in as well. Here is the sentence-by-sentence translation of […]