Reading Time: 3 minutes Music playlist is quite common nowadays. For me personally I was a bit late to the party. I did use playlist on my iPhone Apple Music app, and on my YT: both desktop and iPhone. But recently since I started to participate the group exercise class at the J, I realized playlist and music in
Reading Time: 4 minutes For music streaming nowadays I mainly use YouTube Music, because I have YouTube Premium subscription. It’s not perfect, but YT Music has a decent collection, and functionality. YouTube and YouTube Music When I was listening to Ayen 何璟昕 music both via YT and YT Music, as I switch between them as I was trying to
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was in college in Wuhan (1989 to 1993), some of the most popular songs were in Cantonese, and were sung by Hong Kong based singers. This was because at the time, the mainland just opened up, and culture wise it was way behind both Hong Kong and Taiwan, thus the Mandarin pop were
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mainly two ways: Streaming We can use both apps and websites for below. For QQ Music and NetEase Cloud Music, we can also use WeChat Mini-program (less functionality, but smaller footprint and works). Outside China: Apple Music, Spotify, YT Music and SoundCloud. The first three (Apple, Spotify and YT) probably have the most Chinese songs.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Google search – use money to buy time instead of stuff Kids (esp. 15 year old) are at an age that want material things, and I can relate to because many years ago I have been through that age many years ago – I wanted to pick out my own apparel including shoes to impress
Reading Time: < 1 minute I started to learn Cantonese 粤语 recently from Duolingo. While I forgot many 宁波话 Ningbo dialect since I went to college in Wuhan: I started to speak much more mandarin since then. I was wondering about the similarities between two dialects (Cantonese and Ningbo Dialect) 粤语和宁波话是否有共同之处 (google search). 我现在想到至少有两个字或词是一样的：话（讲话），中意（满意）。I think there are many more: it’s
Reading Time: 2 minutes I don’t remember everything but let me try. Mainly I went to 2 places: my former workplace and my college (or more precisely an American college). At workplace for some reasons I need to go down many ladders in a sort of water park. I wasn’t not pay attention but I realized it after the
Reading Time: 5 minutes 她的音乐是治愈的 her music is curing – Yours Truly. This is one example: her original Cantonese song Moonlight – 何璟昕 Ayen《月光 Moonlight 》官方高畫質 Official HD MV, note the link is YouTube 油管. Lyrics can be seen here at jspinyin.net (this one has Pin’yin annotation) or 酷歌词 kugeci.com (this one has links to a singer’s other popular songs).
Reading Time: 2 minutes Or it was always that way? It’s just I (dumb me) vastly underestimated some people’s stupidity. Or let’s blame the smartphones and the tech bros who helped this journey of “making us dumber” 🙂 Smartphone and Social Media This is not a joke actually, because sometimes I joked too much and my kids usually think
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is a big thing in China and a few other Asian countries, such as Vietnam. My YT Video today, in Chinese. I talked about 新年快乐 at the end. Btw, Five Oaks on Warson, the new Olivette community center has two events for the Lunar New
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