Category Archives: Tips of the Icebergs

Hiring a Household Maid, Making Us Get Along Better

We can all use a little extra help ’round the house, isn’t that right???   Translated… The only time of rest that regular workers get are on the weekends, my husband is one of those; I work case by case, as a … Continue reading

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Intertwined in Love

Next to the bridge downtown, the one that disappears into the clouds, your shadow moves across fresh snow until it rests its head on my shoulder. You were once my girl, but now you’re my ghost. I’m sure you would … Continue reading

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A Mother to You…

    A mother to you, I will never be, because (get a hold of THIS!!!) you did NOT get pulled out of my VAGINA, therefore, I have no need, no obligations, to give you the god DAMN love you’d … Continue reading

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The Air, My Friend

The column by Jimi Liao, translated, by me… “He’s late!” “Have you ever met?” “No, we’d met online, this is the first time we’re seeing each other face-to-face!” “I’d made myself here, at a very visible spot, he can catch … Continue reading

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Tuitions, a Short Prose

The inconsiderate thoughts of this student make her education go down to the toilet drains!!! Translated… Today is a day of cleaning and waxing, so the library was closed. From eight in the morning, I’d, busied until five in the … Continue reading

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A Six-Year-Old Child Became Addicted to Using the Cell Phone, His Sight Worsened Quickly

A case that showed the adverse effects of EARLY exposures to hi-tech devices!!!  From the Newspapers, translated… The elementary age children have serious eye problems, the ophthalmologist from Chi-Mei Hospital, Liu stated, that with the decline in ages of children … Continue reading

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Once a Very Well-Behaved Child…

Once a very well-behaved child, she’d done everything, as she was told by her adults, sat like those little girls who are trained to, with the legs closed together, very soft-spoken, never raised her voice, even when she feels angry! … Continue reading

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The Labeled Child, by K. M. Durica (1995)

From one of my textbooks, that I didn’t sell back to the school… I Pray for the Labeled Child That Child Who is Gifted and Talented No Longer Can She be Lazy and Idle Or a Daydreamer So Much More … Continue reading

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Confusion

A short prose, translated… You’d told me, that after your business meeting was over, it was past the last bus and the last MRT train.  You’d waited so long, until a cab came your way.  But after you got in … Continue reading

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This Hell We Shared…

This hell we shared, we’re, its, “makers”, I suppose……… This hell we shared, we’d, trapped each other, in this, LOVELESS, full of RESENTMENT and HATE marriage, with neither of us willing, to call it quits (b/c we’re playing CHICKEN, to … Continue reading

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