The Ji Village News

Category: EastWest

  • You are fatter than before

    My parents visited us on September 11th, 2001. They were supposed to fly to New York City to meet my brother first, who lived there then. However, their Japan Airlines Boeing 747 was re-routed to Chicago that day, because of what happened in NYC. It was their first time on a plane, first time to…

  • Christmas tree is out on 01/18/2006

    Tonight I tossed away the Christmas tree. To me, that concluded the Christmas / New Year holiday season. Chinese New Year comes next. On Jan. 29, 2006, it will be the year of the dog. Some pictures to share with you, my dear reader. I posted more here in an earlier post: 1. Christmas tree.…

  • Santa only comes when you are asleep now

    I have been Santa Clause ever since Benjamin was born. We spent his first 3 Christmas in Sweden, so I was Tomten, the Swedish version of Santa. During Benjamin’s 3rd and 4th Christmas, he commented that Tomten / Santa wears the same shoes as Daddy’s and he sounded like Daddy. We were alarmed:-) So on…

  • Say cheese, say bless you

    Today I provide the information below for your enlightenment, my dear reader;) I will resume posting useless information tomorrow. To get a fake smile when taken a picture, you can say cheese. When somebody sneezes, you can say bless you. In China, at least in the region where I am from, you say 茄子 (eggplant)…

  • What’s in a name

    “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” So says Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Actually, in many parts of the world, people’s names are used and written in a way that probably could surprise Shakespeare. Allow me to explain from my own Chinese…