Tag Archives: Observations Made from Life

My Father Who Managed to Hide His Sorrows

and no, still NOT my photograph… From the perspectives of the children here, translated… The door bell rang, I just, stepped out of the kitchen, about to, answer, I’d heard my dad, saying hi to the visitors, it was, the … Continue reading

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Asking for Information Instead of Looking it Up Yourselves

nope, not my picture… This, is WHAT most people (see, I did NOT “generalize” this time…) get in the habit of doing, thinking that, when they’re hungry, they just needed to, CRY, and, surely enough, someone else will have a … Continue reading

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Refusing to Become the Living Dead

and no, still not my photograph… On aging well, translated… “Everybody MUST live until ninety-nine, NO exceptions!”, last summer, my best friend, Liangn gave me a book on “How to Age Healthily & Gracefully”, and on the insider covers, he’d … Continue reading

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Not Knowing What’s Served at Lunch

Experiences in life, translated… There was a arts and culture restaurant close by to a memorial hall, because the place was elegant, close to where we live, my wife and I would often go there, to spend half of a … Continue reading

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Stand Up on Your Own

not my picture still On instilling the RIGHT values in one’s own young, translated… At the dojo where my son took up kendo, every season, they’d hosted seasonal competitions, so the kids would have a chance, to test what they’d … Continue reading

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Left Behind in the World, He’d Stared at the Clock on the Wall, Lost

Do you want to live to a hundred, if living to a hundred means you’d lost your basic living abilities?  This, is the question to consider here!  From the Newspapers, translated… When I saw the topics of the articles needed, … Continue reading

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Thank You, Mr. Cab Driver!

A show of appreciation here, from the Front Page Sections, translated… During the three contiguous holidays of the Mid-Autumn Festivals, my daughter’s older school mate invited her to go along on a series of sports casting shoot, causing her to … Continue reading

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Enjoying a Little DIY

Translated… Awhile ago, as I thumbed across, “A Handyman for a Husband”, I couldn’t help, but smile, because, we are, a family of Do-It-Yourself-ers too. From me, thirty years ago, my second aunt handed me her barber tool set, since … Continue reading

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By a Sickbed, a Poem

When your loved one gets sick, translated… I would truthfully swear Of my willingness to juice up my own life then, send it into the drip that Connects to my father’s veins But, the Buddha was so silent, wouldn’t do … Continue reading

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Getting the Young and Old Lives Back from the Hands of Death, Observations from the Workforce

The views of a surgeon, translated… A couple of friends once asked me, is having a child scary?  I’d always replied, “I think so, because women are gambling with their own lives, to have babies.  After hearing, my friend hollered, … Continue reading

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