This postcard is so Suzie Wong, yet I bought and sent it to my Grandma Blumberg in August, 1994, a month shy of my 24th birthday.I wrote to my grandma about my shared summer apartment and how I lived with a couple of people I didn't know.Even though people did that in … [Read more...]
Postcard from Taipei, 1991
I wrote this postcard to my dad's mother in 1991 when I went to Taipei for spring break.The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, to me, was the symbol of Taipei back then. I love the description of the building on the back of the postcard:From a corner within the park, the … [Read more...]
An Ode to Mister Softee
The great thing about living in a sub-tropical climate is that ice cream is popular year round.Mister Softee is a Hong Kong institution and while it only serves four items (see menu), I preferred the traditional "Soft Ice Cream Crispy Sugar Cone", which comes in one flavor: … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Song of the Azalea
When my friend Raymond told me about Song of the Azalea: Memoir of a Chinese Son by Kenneth Ore and Joann Yu (Penguin Canada, 2005), I went online and bought it without thinking twice.He wasn't joking when he said it was a powerful story. I found it to be one of the best … [Read more...]
Postcard from Macau, 1990
I sent this postcard to my paternal grandma one month after I moved to Hong Kong for my junior year abroad.This was my first of two trips to Macau, both just for the day and both on my own (the second trip was in 1994, after I had moved back to Hong Kong).Macau is now the … [Read more...]
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