The Happiness Passport (EN)Atlas of Happiness (DE) Author: Megan HayesIllustration: Yelena BryksenkovaBook bought from a local bookstore What is happiness? This book brings us to different places of the world and introduces us the definition of “happiness” from each culture. In total, 50 secrets of happiness could be found here. I speak Chinese and German …
Book : Jamila (EN) Dshamilja (DE) UnionsverlagAuthor: Tschingis AitmatowBook borrowed from a friend This book is simply beautiful. May be it’s because I love music, the chapter that describes Daniyar’s singing in one August night took my soul away. A story about friendship between Jamila, Daniyar and Seit in Kyrgzstan during World War II. They …
I always like the stories of Pettson and Findus. In this book “Our Most Beautiful Adventure” is a collection of their 5 stories (spoiler: a recipe of pancake cake is included)! Actually the adventures they had was only around Pettson’s farm, not further. Anyway, alone by reading the book title, it makes me feel like …
A lot of interesting things have happened since my last post, very mixed feeling, mostly too excited. I pick three to talk about: Schubert, Spinet, Reels. Schubert Children Sound Book I am that kind of person, that luck usually does not favour me. That means, I never won a lucky draw (as far as I …
I was watching ships go by in Hamburg on 3.5.2013, the time when Elbphilharmonie was under construction. As I was watching ships and clouds, a poem came to my mind. I’ve written a post about this: 在Hamburg二零一三年五月三日邂逅的云. The blog is written in Chinese, now I translated the poem in English. Ladies and gentlemen, let me …
My beloved is across the water, so close yet unreachable. Comparing Schilflied-Lenau, Jian Jia, The water is wide, Es waren zwei Königskinder.
“How much longer and how often do we need to talk about World War 2? Shall we stuck there and never move on?” On a sunny day, barbeque at a friend’s garden, this topic occurred. Of course we should move on for history can not be undone no matter how sorry we felt about it. …
Happy to look at those promising flower bud of my African Violet and flowers in my garden.
Woke up by birds chirping at dawn is beautiful, only it’s far too early in the morning. Usually, I will continue to sleep again until the alarm clock ring. One morning, I woke up by a bird singing. The singing was so wonderful that I have to pay attention to it. Melodious, low and high …
(1) This is a story about a musician called BoYa, he lived around 380 BC in ancient China. He played zither with extraordinary excellent skill and he was very well known at his time. He was even revered as “God of Zither”. The famous Chinese philosopher XunZi wrote: when BoYa plays zither, horses would stop …