Tag: china
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Shanghai winter wonderland
This afternoon, Shanghai threw us a welcome blanket of the heaviest snowfall I’ve seen in years. Much as we’d like to step back outside and play in the mush, Kai’s fast asleep on my chest, and Naomi’s ‘resting her eyes’ in the bedroom. And probably for the first time since Naomi’s brother’s passing, this town…
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Now we’re really left behind
There will be murmurs about how Singapore should repeal S377A of the Penal Code now that China has apparently ‘showcased‘ a gay marriage in one of their official news outlets. But they’ll just be murmurs, cos you know how things are. Doesn’t matter if India has repealed their s377A, and China has (sort of) embraced…
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When policemen still wore shorts
“Wah, you must have bought this when policemen still wore shorts”, said the lady at the lighting shop as she asked for my permission to dismantle some more of the tiffany lamp I brought in for her to fix. As took the base off, the debris from inside the lamp fell out and dirtied her…
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What’s going on?
It’s like we’ve been in hiding with all this moving shit. We’ve hardly read the news, and although we know about the major calamities that have struck, it still feels a bit strange that when we’ve started venturing outside of our apartment (both old and new), the country seems to have changed a fair bit.…
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My forefathers ate bowls of chicken droppings
Photo by Lee Xian Jie “My family is descended from Confucius”, said the chubby Year 12 Boy to me when I didn’t ask about his pedigree. I must have doubted him or given him some dismissive look prior to that statement that prompted him to reveal that fact. This was some years ago in Sydney,…