I’ve recently been quite wary of buffet style food offerings (it’s about food again!). With the “eat only what you need” mantra in my mind, buffet style seems to go against the very grain of that mantra. It encourages eating a lot, and you don’t care what you eat, just so you eat a lot, [...]
My teacher gave me a very useful mnemonic yesterday. It’s when using 玉女穿梭 or more commonly translated as Fair Lady Playing/Working/Weaving shuttles.
The mnemonic only works well in Mandarin, so my English speaking readers will just have to remember that after guiding the opponent’s attacking hand upwards, your own attacking hand should immediately enter into the [...]
Nintendo revolution. The new Nintendo console. It’s going to change the way games are played. Just as how Brain Age is getting popular because of its unique gaming experience, to test the age of your brain! The trick is to have games that everyone can play, not just the regular gamers, but your aunt, your [...]
Different people different hands, sounds obvious but often forgotten. We have to treat each hand differently, that is we have to treat each opponent differently. Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. Everyone has their own preferences and dislikes. Everyone pushes in a different rhythm.
However the best ones have no preferences (or dislikes). The best ones [...]
Why the obsession over food these days? Choosing the “food” tag, i’ve got 3 food related articles in the past 10 days alone! Must be the sudden drop in food intake that’s making me crave for more! Since I can’t get enough of it through the mouth, I might as well let it out of [...]
Finding good teachers is difficult everywhere. I’ve posted this question to Jarek Szymanski who started the website China From Inside and he too relates to the difficulty of finding a teacher who can teach the basics, even in China! So where are all the good teachers then? Should we wait for the teacher to appear [...]
After writing how to find good teachers in my Tai Ji article, I thought i can extend the same logic in looking for good food. So here goes… signs of good food:
A. lots of people eating it
Power of numbers. Lots of people eating it must be good right? Or the chef’s marketing technique must be [...]
Do you hate waiting? Waiting for your turn in the queue, waiting for the bus to arrive, waiting for the rain to stop, waiting for the clothes to dry, waiting for the lift to open its doors while you frantically press the “up” button, waiting for the perfect Tai Ji teacher to appear? Waiting for [...]
Do you think you have a choice in life? Do you think you can make a difference to the world?
You may have noticed that my blog page has changed a little bit. I’ve added another column to show off some of the books I read and also an advertisement column to see if there’s actually money to be made here!
I found out that it was quite difficult to do a 3 column page, without [...]