Recently, I was helping out a friend with baby sitting her lovely daughter. We had beautiful time together, but please allow me to speak Chinese now, 带孩子真的很累！Although the girl was very nice, friendly and easy going, still I was so exhausted that I collapsed once I’ve got home and slept for at least 10 hours. …
“Wonders will never cease!”“Es geschehen noch Zeichen und Wunder” is one of my favourite German saying. It means something unbelievable is happening like a miracle. In fact, if we look closely at the nature, miracles happen every day. Not necessarily the kind of miracle like the parting of the Red Sea, but still miracle. VineyardThe …
Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen (DE)By loving forces wonderfully sheltered (EN) This is one of the most demanded songs for funeral, wedding and new year worship service. And the song text is written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945), a German anti-Nazi theologian. He was arrested in April 1943 by the …
Paperwork is a real daunting task. I am still keep running different offices because of my visa application and changing insurance those kind of stuff. Yesterday I really wanted to finish filling two set of forms. I thought I reached the last page, but the last page requires me to submit documents, which I have …
“Slow, Slow Song” by Li Qing Zhao is one of my all-time favourite “Song Lyrics”. The “Song” that I mentioned in “Song Lyrics” is not the “Song” to sing, but the “Song” Dynasty (960 -1279) in China. And “lyrics” is a special kind of poetry composition that set words to available tune, not the other …
“Do you know how beautiful is it here?” says the title in a German dialect which spoken in the area I visit – Rothenburg ob der Taube. It is so beautiful that once I’ve got back, I looked into my calendar wanted to plan for another trip immediately. I am not so sure yet, because …
What is the story the sky is telling? Use your imagination!
“The days and months hurried on, never delaying;Springs and Autumns sped by in endless alternation:And I thought how the trees and flowers were fading and falling.And feared that my fairest beauty would fade too.” Excerpt from “Li Sao” by Qu Yuan. This afternoon I’m reading a poem written by Qu Yuan (b.c. 335? – 296?). …
It is one of the most beautiful words in the German language, one of the most beautiful traits of the German essence, a term that, for example, the French would envy us fervently…. Es gehört mit zu den schönsten Worten der deutschen Sprache, zu den schönsten Zügen des deutschen Wesens, ein Begriff, um den uns …
“See! The splendour roses in garden!”“Yeah, they are wonderful. Also they are selected to grow on your grave.”“Look! the two black little horses is leaping lively on the meadow!”“Their pace would become slow when they are transporting your corpse. It may be very soon this would happen.” What a rich wisdom is hidden in this …