Everything you do, do it with love.

The first winter I lived in Nanjing was in 1997-1998 in a huge old guest house on the campus of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. The school had no heated classrooms and the heater in the bedroom of the house basically did little more than blow some tepid air. Usually I ate oatmea… Continue

Do you collect more and more things? Or do you like to get rid of things? Are you an accumulator or do you like a minimal amount of things around you? I was dating someone who has so many things, always getting more and more and more things. That kind of drove me nuts. Too many things start gathering dust but he didn't see it that way. He sees it as storage for what he might use later. Maybe we were meant to balance each other.

There is an art exhibit in Shanghai now called something like 'Thin… Continue

Do you recognize love more as a feeling, an action or something else?

To me, love could be being a friend to someone you even hate in order to do good, to show them a better way of something, even though that may not make any visible difference. It could possibly pain you to some degree also.

Lately I have the experience of the end of a very long term relationship, or the end of a human love. I feel so blinded and dumb for staying in for so long. But it is better that the truth comes out than… Continue

Anyone else a fan of ICHIDO? If some other stuff-members like these AWESOME pastries we could get together at Ichido. I am psyched that one opened at Brilliance West Mall! We could make an 'I Love Ichido' group ... best variety and quality I have seen in Shanghai!

Why is it so taboo in Chinese culture for parents to get help for their kids when the kid has a learning problem? I can't understand why some stupid idea of pride could be more important than finding out how to help the child to learn and function better in society. Is it really better to let a kid fail repeatedly and suffer needlessly just because a parent is too proud/stubborn/ignorant to get their child diagnosed? I am running into this problem with a parent and I think the parent does care a… Continue