违禁品

New room decorations!

These were most definitely not stolen from the TV lounge, where some group or another was celebrating the Chinese New Year a few nights ago.

福 is upside down, as is traditional in China. This practice is meant to bring good luck, playing off the homophony of the words 倒 "tip over" and 到 "arrive," the thought being that tipping over your luck will cause it to arrive.

SSsss...

梦影童年

(拼音: mèng yǐng tóng nián; 英文: Electric Shadows*)

DaBing is a water delivery man.

One day he accidentally knocks over a pile of bricks with his bike.

Out of nowhere, a young woman attacks him.

The police decide to send her to a clinic.

DaBing demands she tell him why she attacked him but she says nothing,

only holds up a sheet of paper on which she has written,

"Please feed my fish."

She gives him a key.

The key unlocks her room, which has been transformed into an old-fashioned movie theatre.

Amongst the film reels and posters, DaBing finds a sketchpad.

The sketchpad is a diary.

The film is her story.

这部电影让我流泪, 但是它非常好。

This movie made me cry, but it's really good.

*This is the English title of the film.

The English translation of the Chinese title is something like Shadows of Childhood Dreams.

Galub Jamun

گلاب جامن

A popular indian desert that tastes something like sweet fried dough dipped in honey.

Wonderful.

中文 －》 English

I like to double-check the sentences I write for my Chinese homework on a translator. By the time I finished (for today), my screen said the following:

My Hobby:

Stealing leftover pizza.

Home

Cats, and Scrabble, and the sound of trains.

Why I Love [lɪŋgwɪstɪksmeɪʤɚz]

If you need help: *

Koalagami

Maggie loves koalas, so I made this as part of her Christmas gift. Took a few tries, since the instructions were written in Japanese. Thank goodness for pictures.

Shh! She doesn't know yet!

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