#Jasmine is blooming again. We keep them indoors for 3/4 of year & move outside for late Spring-Summer. Good indoor natural air purifying #plant. Flowers are #edible & used to make tea & fruits used in #Chinese#TraditionalMedicine.
@Vanalope We use 3 & 5 gallon pots. We propagate them so baby ones are in much smaller pots until roots get strong & several branches have developed. We transplant to 3 & then 5, as they grow & bush out.
@Vanalope We grow all of ours & our ginseng plants in pots & move indoors after Summer/hot season is over. It gets too cold here to leave outside all year.
You know what #Cdramas do so well?
Emotional intensity. #Chinese people are stoic, reserved and not physically demonstrative. So, one has to read the emotional queues in a glance, a gesture and most importantly through words. For eg, in #JoyOfLife2 polite words are exchanged in seemingly genteel banquets, but there's no mistaking the hatred. ❤️ Is expressed through a longing look & a tear. When characters finally get physical, the tension is explosive! 🙀 #Cdrama
@thepoliticalcat haha writing is hard!! I never understood the stroke order, always got it wrong. In the end, it's just much easier to learn characters via typing. I don't think you'd have much difficulty remembering what you learned - try Tofu Learn and download the frequent chinese words deck. And revise, you should be able to spur that memory!
@br00t4c That movement is global & seems to be happening before our very eyes with little to no pushback.
Theyre like bull-dozers…. Racist, fascist bulldozers.
Apparently 黑线 (black thread) is a colloquial expression that means "a feeling of speechlessness or frustration" and when I looked up Pleco, it says that it has something to do with the Cultural Revolution. Man, I went to deep places with that sentence lol.
Asking Chinese Mastodon - does black thread really mean this in the Chinese context?
But anyway, my sentence started out very basic, but has lots of cultural elements.
Red thread = signifies bonded by fate, black thread = frustration.
So, in a way, I basically said that "I wanted a red thread (someone who is fated to love me) but got black thread (ostrasization) instead. So deep lol
I've been a little suspicious that almost everything I wrote in Chinese, ChatGPT said was 👍 .
However, today my faith was reaffirmed when ChatGPT corrected me when I wrote 我出家。
ChatGPT: "出家" usually means to become a monk or nun, which might not be the intended meaning.
Bwahaha. Would've made an interesting diary entry though.
But what's encouraging though is that I seemed to have internalised Chinese grammar ... mostly.
#Oldest#Chinese restaurant in #UnitedStates is in #Butte#Montana. The one-time mining boom town is atop the Continental Divide about 200 miles south of the Canadian border. ..about as far from a traditional #Chinatown as you can get. Established in 1911 by Tam Kwong Yee and his business partner, Hum Yow -- both 1st-generation #ChineseAmericans -- #PekinNoodleParlor occupies a nondescript brick building on the only remaining block of what was once a bustling Chinatown.
Much like candidates and elected officials adopting #Chinese names, the prominence of #monolingual Chinese seniors at #political rallies has become a perennial election-year phenomenon in #SanFrancisco. This demographic may not swing elections, but their presence sends a signal to other pockets of this heavily #Asian city about diversity and organizing power.
The Chinese Family Services of Greater #Montreal & Centre #SinoQuébec de la Rive Sud in the South Shore suburb of #Brossard & the 2 centres' executive director, Xixi Li, are seeking more than $4.9 million in damages, according to #lawsuit filed Weds in Superior Court.
@msquebanh Did you ever read "Chop Suey Nation" by Ann Hui? She started with a two part article in the Globe and Mail, then wrote a book with the same name. She talks about the migration of Chinese from west coast to east.
It's really fascinating and gave me a new respect for Canadian Chinese cuisine.
Urgent #translation job: potentially looking for someone who can translate ~200 words of Steam page copy from English into #Chinese, before 15:00 CEST on Thursday 9th May. Paid at a good rate, obviously.
(We will know by tomorrow if we need this for certain!)
@villainousfriend I self-publish tabletop games in English and have translated one of my games into Chinese. I am happy to have a look and translate it for you.
The idea of any democratic government essentially #censoring an app or platform for political reasons is deeply worrying $ hypocritical
Yet, I strongly freel something has to be done about TikTok, and its potential as a tool in #Chinese state-led #disinformation campaigns. But there's a more fundamental problem. Why should TikTok have access to the US, Japanese & European markets when platforms like #LINE, #Spotify, #Facebook#Whatsapp & #Signal can't be used in China?
Today was a wonderful day with helping out two Aunties & hanging out with my Mom. We are becoming best friends, slowly.
Mom took this photo of me, in our backyard, when we got home. We're sending lots of newer family photos overseas this month & this will be one of them.
@CStamp I didn't know about that tag - edited & added. Except for new clothes gifted to me - everything in my closets are used from thrift/flea markets & free local clothing swaps or free giveaways of clothes. The last new thing I bought myself was a winter jacket, almost a decade ago - from off season clearance racks.
@SurrealSeal Thank you ❤️ My Auntie has a good eye & she's the one who usually gifts me new clothes, a few times a year. I don't buy myself new clothes much. Almost all the clothes I have are used - from thrift stores, garage sales & local clothing swaps.
