Lovecraft: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents" …but maybe writing can help us make sense of this mess!
Trying to ignore the fact that it’s already February, I’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! On the Chinese lunar calendar, 2014 falls in the year of the Horse, which is apparently one for buckling down and working hard. Hence not much fanfare on my end of things; I was too busy “buckling …
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Can’t believe that it’s Thursday already! This week has gone by so fast. Well, sort of. Hours in the office do tend to drag on… On Monday one of my British colleagues arrived, back from his business trip to Xiamen to teach for one of our Masters prep programmes. He’s only been working for the …
Or, 新年快乐，恭喜发财，万事如意! (xin nian kuaile, gong xi fa cai, wan shi ru yi) As they say in China during the Spring Festival. It's endlessly amusing to me how things sound perfectly reasonable in Chinese, but strangely pretentious or awkwardly majestic when translated directly into English. But I'm not here to drone on about the nuances …
Diary of a Madwoman 