Reading Time: 3 minutes By Chinese I meant Mandarin Chinese. First, please note in this list I am not going to comment on those 键政 (literally translation: keyboard politicking, or discuss politics via keyboard, link here is from Wikipedia). Not a complete list. Will be updated from time to time. There are a few special topics such as finance

Reading Time: 5 minutes (Update 02-21-2025) I did two trips today. The second one is from Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric Hospital to STL Downtown. First time I stopped by this facility. This reminds me of another facility KVC Missouri which I drove by more often when I took S8 to the Community Music School of Webster University for her percussion

Reading Time: 3 minutes (Fri, February 28, 2025) Reuter via Yahoo: Trump Marine One helicopter trip disrupts flights at Washington airport. My advice for ordinary people is: avoid Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) if possible. Quote below: Reagan National is home to the single busiest runway in the United States, and served 26.3 million passengers in 2024, a new

Reading Time: 2 minutes My 1st impression on America In summer 1997 when I 1st came to the USA, I noticed the street at Rolla (middle of Missouri) was quite clean. It’s just I was in a honeymoon period with America and I didn’t notice. In recent years I saw more panhandlers at intersections (also seeing panhandlers playing fake

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: 2 minutes Last week, my 10-year-old accidentally broke her old iPad (iPad gen 7th 32gb space gray). My 14-year-old said partial reason was the case was broken and didn’t provide enough projection. I was not upset about it, as this sort of thing is a part of life nowadays. The iPhone and iPad glasses are fragile, and

Reading Time: 3 minutes I am trying to order them in the severity, from the most serious to the least serious. Sept 11, 2001: terrorist flew airplanes to the twin towers in the NYC. Sept-11 had profound impact on the America society in my opinion. Before 9-11 I could go to STL Lambert International Airport and meet my friends

Reading Time: 8 minutes (03-01-2025) I just realized today is Madi Gras. This morning I drove 3 trips. First trip: from Rock Hill (near old Warson road) to Kirkwood. 2nd trip: from Kirkwood to South County. Last trip: I drove back to CC, drove a gentleman across the Olive road, from the Courtyard Hotel to the office building across

Reading Time: < 1 minute Around November 5 of last year (year 2024), my 10-year-old’s #Robox #AdoptMe account got hacked, and most of all her virtual belongings were gone. My thoughts in Mandarin Chinese via YT. (Nov 12, 2024) Some random thoughts on the security online including the kid’s Roblox games and adults FB activities. A few weeks ago, I

Reading Time: 2 minutes About 14 or 15 years ago when my old daughter was new born, I saved some money and put it into her 529 plan. About a year later, I wrote this blog post Some questions about 529 plan. I haven’t put in much new money into her 529 plan since the early days, and for