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A conversation:對話“How’s life treating you in Macau? Do you miss Oxford?”澳門生活如何？ 想念Oxford 嗎？“It’s Okay.”還好吧...

"The sun was coming down like a gigantic egg yolk." My editor and I had to wrestle with this sentence in Invisible Orphans. She was adamant that I needed to use other words to describe the sun, "not egg yolk, it sounds soupy..." 

A reader sent me this photo describing " the golden elixir stirred by the rabbit." I imagined that this Rabbit is living on the moon with Cháng'é (嫦娥)...

Chinese have practiced Chinese New Year for over 4000 thousand years to pay respect to the god of agriculture, and this day also means everything (the universe) starts new again, full of hope and anticipation...

I had a walk with a friend who was talking about Vivi, the main character of my debut novel, Invisible Orphans. She wanted to know what would happen to her."You want a sequel. Is that what you mean?"...

One minute hailing, thundering, and another minute sun shining...

Driving across the bridge is always stressful without the rain during rush hours. Now, with the rain, it's even more nail-biting, not to mention the 18-wheelers gave off the spray that enveloped the whole windshield...

Embracing for the anticipated weekend storm, flood watch, hydrologic outlook, and strong wind are bombarding our old infrastructure that urgently needs to rebuild.

The city was temporarily lightening from the bomb cyclone, the pearly gray beauty of the waterfront displayed with the shy, trying bursts of sunshine.

The phenomenon of today's weather used to appear in movies, but now real lives are at stake. Flooding, mudslides, power outages, and falling trees may happen simultaneously...