How advanced are your observation skills? Can you tell when someone important walks into the room? If someone talks a certain way or carries themselves a certain way does that give you some indication of who they may be? What if who you observed is putting on an act and I don’t just mean in Read More …
Month: February 2025
All Cats Go to Heaven
Daisy the ever regal feline companion and friend to humanity passed away today. She was 18 years old (88 in human years if you’re into those conversions) and passed on very peacefully after taking some last sips of water, laying in my lap for petting then being helped to her favourite bed one last time Read More …
The Art of the Company Chop
Nobody likes red tape when it comes to getting things done in a timely efficient manner and if you’ve ever done business with or within China or Hong Kong you’ll know all too well about the use of Company Chops, those seal/stamps used in place of signatures in business. It’s a very fascinating experience to Read More …
Those I Walk(ed) With
Many of you I have walked with, some briefly and others continuously. It seems the best way at times to get you to talk with me and I listen with great interest. Walking and Talking, the talking of course need not be by mouth as hands, thought or manipulating the environment works just as well. Read More …
Analayse This
Translation work has in my experience been the most rewarding experience. Dealing with a language that is beyond the typically observed syntactic structure as well as needing an unbiased mind (there is such a thing) needed to interpret the very meanings of the most basic conversations is mentally exhausting yet despite this having access to Read More …