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from my phone Quote Of The Day #60 “History never repeats itself; man always does” “People do some crazy things about money, but no one is crazy. People from different generation, raised by different parents, who held different values, in different parts of the world, experience different economy learn very … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Saving Or Spending →

Image by Prettysleepy Art from Pixabay Flash Fiction #134 “Oh, Lisha. Please stop.” Mali groans. “Well, I think you should be the last person to care about real or unreal, given your record of…” Lisha says. “What are you talking about?” Mali is surprised. “I don’t want to spell it … Continue reading Lisha’s Outburst (Flash Fiction Continued) →

Image by Prettysleepy Art from Pixabay Flash Fiction #134 Lisha has reached the awkward middle age when she still has the desire to meet new people and to socialize, but she no longer has the youthful good nature to just enjoy a gathering without telling herself how hopelessly boring it … Continue reading Lisha’s Outburst (Flash Fiction) →

Image by Capucine from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #59 I think I must have missed half of the jokes or parody or satires in this book since there are so many historical contexts and allusions to events that I have no knowledge of. However with my limited understanding, the … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Slang And Satire →

Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay I met such a girl and I want to write about her. Well, I really want to say that I don’t know how to write about her and I want to practice writing about her. She and her brother were born in a very … Continue reading I Met Such A Girl →

Photo by Nikolay Shulga from Pexels.com I am not going to talk about all my mishaps in life being caught in the middle, for example my humiliating experience as a mediator. Wait a second, actually the mediation was a success, and the two battling parties eventually made peace and even … Continue reading Caught In The Middle →

Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels.com Missing The Cue Have you ever had such an experience that one day you suddenly realize that you missed a verbal cue two years, three years or even ten years ago? I mean it could be a deliberate hint, a veiled interest, a tentative … Continue reading The Embarrassing Incidents →

Image by Trang Pham from Pixabay New Word #119 roast: cook (food, especially meat) by prolonged exposure to heat in an oven or over a fire. However this word has extended to mean to criticize or reprimand severely. And then the word has stretched its meaning again mainly in the … Continue reading New Word: Cooking But Not Really Cooking →

Quote Of The Day # 58 “…Recite a text and then the young monks have the job of memorizing them. Simply absorb the teaching while memorizing in the classic Indian sense associated with the oral tradition of teaching throughout the Indian world. And then they have to go out to … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Lively Debate →

Image by Coffee Bean from Pixabay Actually it is not really about cultural differences, but rather it is about small business owners, who have some difficulties navigating laws and regulations. The problem is when one opens a small business, one doesn’t have a handbook of laws and regulations in hand. … Continue reading Cultural Differences And Small Businesses →

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay New Word #118 Let me think what kind of student I was when I was in school. I was not a diligent student but I pretended to be just to keep up the appropriate appearance to fool others as well as myself. I was a … Continue reading New Word: Types Of Students →

Image by Quang Nguyen vinh from Pixabay Flash Fiction #134 “It’s an interesting phase everybody goes through.” Armei, Lulan look at their friend Pammy and reach a consensus. If somebody asks them what “an interesting phase” really means and why everybody has to go through it, neither of them can … Continue reading It’s An Interesting Phase Everybody Goes Through (Flash Fiction) →

Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay Flash Fiction #133 “Look, Ivy, nobody wants to tutor Susu. We are here to tell you that we don’t want Susu.” Lulan says. Ivy looks at Lulan, Tin, Cindy, and then the new employee San. They all look back at her while nodding their head … Continue reading What Can I Say To Her? (Flash Fiction) →

Image by Jeremy Kyejo from Pixabay The Labor Day weekend is coming up and New Jersey is having a ten day tax-free holiday for items like computers and school supplies. I have been thinking of replacing my laptop, but due to the lackluster economy and the lukewarm business, I have … Continue reading The Labor Day Weekend →

Image by Tiểu Bảo Trương from Pixabay Quote Of The Day #57 Irena moved to Paris after Prague Spring. She and her husband struggled to raise their two daughters. About 20 years later, her husband died, her daughters grew up, the Berlin Wall came down. Then Irena met Gustaf, and … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: The Feeling Of Belonging To Nowhere →

Image by Jeniffer Tan from Pixabay Flash Fiction #132 “The Free market is the most efficient, Loh.” Mot says while reading the Financial Times in the main cabin of his yacht. His butler, Loh, standing behind him, is a little out of spirit, considering the fact that he might be … Continue reading Rags To Riches With A Twist (Flash Fiction) →

Image by Pexels from Pixabay New Word #117 We are praying for rain here, but there’s no rain in sight for the foreseeable future. I remember that in the past, U.S. Open tennis was always disrupted by rain showers, sometimes for hours. Then three retractable roofs were installed in 2017 … Continue reading New Word: Rain →

Image by Susanne Jutzeler, Schweiz, from Pixabay I really couldn’t believe this, but I googled it and it was right before my eyes: If one wants to replace an electric water heater in New Jersey, one has to apply for a plumbing permit and an electric permit at the township. … Continue reading Learning Something New →

Image by Gosia K. from Pixabay Finally the rain came today after more than two months of absence, after TV weathermen or weatherwomen talking, predicting, praying, and begging for some relief from the high temperature and the dry spell that have scorched all the vegetation around here. It’s typical for … Continue reading Praying For Rain →

floating river market Image by rajukale119 from Pixabay Years ago, I was a saleswoman for company X for a short period of time. Since it is a big company in New York and the surrounding area, I don’t want to name the name–I guess it will not really look good … Continue reading I Think I Know But I Don’t →