He repeated it slowly in Chinese. “Ai-ya... Fire, Fire.” He then peered up at me and said those deathly words. “Say, Little Miss, have you ever heard of the four tones?”
In the eight years, I‘ve had my pup Guozhi, I have never seen such fear in his eyes as when he stood at the front door of my building, looking at the daunting icy-cold natural lavatory in front of him
The teacher paused and stared at me with an intensity that I had not seen since my university days. She took a deep pause, I could feel my stomach twisting and turning like a tumble dryer, and she finally said, “That is a correct response, well done, Sam”
In recent years some bridesmaids have even been seen wearing QR codes around their necks for wedding guests to scan to transfer their wedding gift money
Once, when the city was plunged into a semi-lockdown on the eve of a long holiday weekend, I saw a group screening a movie. They had hauled chairs, a screen and a projector to the riverside, along with food and drink
One time, I posted on Facebook saying: “Snowing in China today! It’s so beautiful!” An acquaintance from back home commented, “We get it. You live in China.” What?