Merry Christmas!

Feliz navi­dad, and may all your dreams come true!

The Shop Is Open!

A while ago, inspired by my Eng­lish buddy Gra­ham, I decided to build a shop for this web­site, to sell some pho­tog­ra­phy. After a lot of tweak­ing and edit­ing, the shop is finally ready!

Pay It Forward

Do you believe in ran­dom acts of kind­ness?
Accord­ing to the rules, “the exchange focuses on doing an act of kind­ness with­out expect­ing any­thing in return other than that the recip­i­ent will, in their turn, pass the kind­ness along and pay it for­ward in their own way.” I was one of the com­menter who agreed to receive a small gift (you bet I was!) and to pass it on to other bloggers.

Things That Freak Me Out

There isn’t a good way present your prod­ucts, no mat­ter how many metaphors you use: “ED” (erec­tile dys­func­tion), “Love Life Again” (get it hard, finally), “mir­a­cle diet pill” (take a placebo pill and eat less) or “it’s time for an hon­est voice” (get out and exer­cise, lazy ass!). Not to men­tion the freaky side effects, usu­ally mut­tered very fast at the end of the commercial.

"Your Best Blogging Advice" Contest!

It’s con­test time!

I feel like cel­e­brat­ing the begin­ning of the sum­mer, the fact this blog has almost reached 200 posts, that traf­fic is get­ting big­ger and big­ger and… basi­cally, I’m happy and feel like giv­ing stuffs away. Enjoy!

The Kindness Of Strangers

A while ago, I blogged about Four Lit­tle Things and I men­tioned my old Tiger Balm (万金油） that I bought long time ago. Shionge com­mented and offered to send me some from Sin­ga­pore, where she lives — Tiger Balm, although widely used every­where in the world and found through­out Asia, is man­u­fac­tured in Sin­ga­pore, so I guess she’s very famil­iar with it! I thanked her and we exchanged addresses.

Dona Nobis Pacem

Why do we fight today ? Because they attacked us first. Civil war. Bio­log­i­cal war. Because we want to pro­tect our val­ues. Holy war and war gods. Because they have the bomb and they’re not sup­posed to. Pre­ven­tive war, atomic war. Because they tor­ture. War crimes. Because we have weapons to sell. Eco­nomic war. War of attri­tion. Phony war. War games.

The Ad-Spot Contest Winners... Announced!

It’s time to give out free ad spots!

And the win­ners of The “Win An Ad Sport” Con­test are…

Okay, let me first take a red pen (teacher train­ing blah­blah­blah). Oh, first of all, let me thank my con­testers: Ghosty, Jé Mav­er­ick, Seraphine, JoAnn, Lin­guist In Wait­ing, Johnada, Beaver­boosh, Theresa, Colleen, Aiglee, Art, Kyh and Scarlett.