First and foremost, we want to wish everyone the very best for the Year of the Horse!!! As a bilingual person with Chinese as the native language and getting a big part of education in English, it is not difficult to note that the two languages have so many fundamental differences in terms of word construction, phonetics, syntax and grammar. One other observation is the much more enriched vocabulary in English. The Oxford English Dictionary lists about 600,000 words while the

During every festival, big or small (and there are more than ten of them every year), or around your birthday, are you overwhelmed with well wishes coming in via WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook and other forms of social media? In most cases, these are emojis or pictures downloaded somewhere. Not wanting to be perceived as rude, you would click back “thank you” or in the case of festivals, search the web to find a picture of similar nature, perhaps even copy and paste one you just

At the current stage of life, each year seems to progress faster than the previous one. It was such a blessing when a serious car accident in January ended with the vehicle completely written off while yours truly as driver (and the only one inside) totally unhurt. The wine market is not exactly prospering. The correction in the last 18 months is not necessarily bad as things are now more affordable. The hope is that producers and merchants will be realistic in setting En Pri

We are excited for the recent visit of Donum CEO Angelica de Vere-Mabray and VP Vineyard & Winemaking Dan Fishman. Together with owner Allan and Mei Warburg, they participated in the annual sustainability symposium in Guilin (called Integral Conversation) with Dan making a presentation on Donum’s practice of regenerative farming where agriculture, ecology and cultural creativity would intersect and how humanity and the land can co-exist naturally and thrive together. Donum wi

People come people go. That is eternal truth but some are having much stronger presence than others. Faced with the reality of people passing away, there is also a sense of a generation transitioning to another now that yours truly is at a maturing age of life. Yang Chen-Ning’s achievement in the science of physics is undoubted. On a completely different front, show business, Gene Hackman, Robert Redford and more recently Diane Keaton all passed away in 2025. They are iconic

Our apology to non-Chinese friends and readers as yours truly for the first time publish something in Chinese. Perhaps Google-translate...

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