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Shopping 行街 The Scattered History of.... 

Maltose lollipop anyone?

March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 Catch Star Girl

According to the name of the image file, I took this photo back in 2019 but I saw it again

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A typical “heated discussion” with my mother re China

April 29, 2019April 26, 2019 Catch Star Girl

In me, my mother has the daughter who is eager to learn Chinese and – to a lesser extent –

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Geneology 

The Chow (周) family tree

January 31, 2019 Catch Star Girl

Flickr – oh Flickr of yore – closing down its unlimited photos features and deleting all photos over your 1,000th

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Learning Chinese 學中文 The Scattered History of.... 

Light research into my surname, 駱

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 Catch Star Girl

Recently, I started to think about my surname. We’ve all heard heard that some English surnames like Miller, Smith, Hunter,

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mememe Parenting 3G-CBC 

Poison for the kid: a rant

June 4, 2018 Catch Star Girl

(written for my journal on 14 May 2018) Me: Before the kid came along, was I saying I would speak

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The Scattered History of.... 

Pride or Racism

January 3, 2018 Catch Star Girl

So here is a story about what is probably racism. I want to claim that it’s just pride and deep-seated

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August 2016 update

August 10, 2016March 22, 2017 Catch Star Girl

Aside from the post I just published about Chinese calendar web tools, which was essentially me flushing my Drafts and

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Parenting 3G-CBC The Scattered History of.... 

The Chinese Zodiac as a guide to when to procreate

December 29, 2014January 30, 2019 Catch Star Girl

I am slightly outraged and I can’t say why. But, I will try. When I look around at people I know who

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The Scattered History of.... 

The most difficult conversation

January 3, 2014July 25, 2014 Catch Star Girl

My mum is so whacked and I can’t take all of the credit for giving her her issues from raising

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Asian Studies The Scattered History of.... 

Thoughts on “Outmarriage Is Cultural Failure”

June 20, 2011 Catch Star Girl 1 Comment

My Google Alert on “Asian American Literature” brought me Dali Zheng’s blog article, “Outmarriage Is Cultural Failure”. Even before I

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