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Learning Mandarin...Part II

During the mornings and evenings recently, the air gets a bit chill and it's basically bright, sunny with clear blue skies and breezy. It gives you a sense of spring although we are in a three-season country - hot, hotter, hottest. How nice it can be sipping rum and dangling on a hammock between two coconut trees on an island paradise without a care for time and other parts of mundane life. I hope you are done with all your spring cleaning. Some folks actually get hurt and injured during this time for they haven't use some of their body parts to screw or unscrew a cabinet hinge, paint their house especially the ceiling where in severe cases can leave you looking skywards with your nose in the air as your neck alignment could not be put back the default mode. I have decided not to subject myself to such abuse and slavery and having a good bath to clean myself is already spring cleaning. I have a prescription for very effective spring cleaning amd clearing cobwebs (please s...

Learning Mandarin

Do you know that God created the earth in six days and on the seventh day He rested? No, not that He needed to rest but being God He spoke words into being and when He rested it meant He stopped work representing a cycle from creation to completion. That is why we go on in seven day week cycles and you get your Sundays off dude! Aren't you grateful? Therefore, for those of you who have no alternative but to work seven days a week for whatever reasons, you need to try to take a day off especially on Sunday. Your body, mind and soul needs a rest and to rejuvenate. This is important. Do you know that ancient Chinese knew about creation? Tell me if you know that every Lunar New Year, what do the Chinese in particular the Cantonese celebrate on the seventh day? 人日 which is a celebration of Man's birthday right? (Or yan yat in Cantonese). What else do ancient Chinese know? Words - Chinese words were created as such 造 is to create and is made up of 土 which is earth,口 which is mo...