Reading Time: 2 minutes Mainly two ways: Streaming We can use both apps and websites for below. For QQ Music and NetEase Cloud Music, we can also use WeChat Mini-program (less functionality, but smaller footprint and works). Outside China: Apple Music, Spotify, YT Music and SoundCloud. The first three (Apple, Spotify and YT) probably have the most Chinese songs.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Google search – use money to buy time instead of stuff Kids (esp. 15 year old) are at an age that want material things, and I can relate to because many years ago I have been through that age many years ago – I wanted to pick out my own apparel including shoes to impress
Reading Time: < 1 minute I started to learn Cantonese 粤语 recently from Duolingo. While I forgot many 宁波话 Ningbo dialect since I went to college in Wuhan: I started to speak much more mandarin since then. I was wondering about the similarities between two dialects (Cantonese and Ningbo Dialect) 粤语和宁波话是否有共同之处 (google search). A related question I had earlier is
Reading Time: 2 minutes I don’t remember everything but let me try. Mainly I went to 2 places: my former workplace and my college (or more precisely an American college). At workplace for some reasons I need to go down many ladders in a sort of water park. I wasn’t not pay attention but I realized it after the
Reading Time: 4 minutes She actually sing in Cantonese, Mandarin and English. Her Chinese name is 何璟昕 or He Jing’xin in Pin’yin. In Cantonese, 阿昕 sounds a bit like 阿音 or Ayen in English. Both her parents are teachers when she grew up. In fact I saw her mom on this YT video (lovely mom/daughter pair, to say the
Reading Time: 2 minutes Or it was always that way? It’s just I (dumb me) vastly underestimated some people’s stupidity. Or let’s blame the smartphones and the tech bros who helped this journey of “making us dumber” 
Smartphone and Social Media This is not a joke actually, because sometimes I joked too much and my kids usually think
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is a big thing in China and a few other Asian countries, such as Vietnam. My YT Video today, in Chinese. I talked about 新年快乐 at the end. Btw, Five Oaks on Warson, the new Olivette community center has two events for the Lunar New
Reading Time: 3 minutes Travel Mishaps One of the most memorable moments in 2024, for me at least, we already checked out the hotel in HK and got on the taxi to the airport, then our 14-year-old said, “I left my hoodie in the closet”. We already checked out thus cannot go back to the room directly. Had to
Reading Time: 2 minutes First a few tips (not the tip as in the money) I learned since I drove Uber. One is you can setup a secured code like 2 factor authentication: I have one passenger used this feature. This may be faster than looking at license plate/exchange names etc. The driver can only “start the trip” after
Reading Time: < 1 minute And my goal is to have 40,000 shares eventually (before I fully retire). I realized I have 400 shares recently as I noticed my IRA account recently received $194 quarterly dividend （48.5 cents per share). 我有四百股 $KO: 因为我注意到前两天发了$194 的红利. 伯克希尔有四亿股：巴菲特代表股东拿了$194 m 的红利。 So, if I need to retire on the dividends from Coca-Cola stocks. I
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