I like telling stories. I can imagine telling them to my kids in the future (the wife would probably have heard most of them when I was courting her).
Here’s a retelling of a koan:
Once upon a time, there was a man, who sauntered up to a jacaranda tree. He sat underneath it, and contemplated life, […]

The Buddhist teaching is about the middle way - taking neither extremes. It means the taking of a middleground. But I must say, the middleground sucks. Here’s a picture to explain the whole thing, since a picture is a thousand words:

And then, comes the words. Of course there are words. When Buddhist monks go on […]

There is supposed to be a post called More Chinese than Chinese posted today on my blog to commemorate the last day of Chinese New Year. Unfortunately, despite my not procastinating, I still find that article extremely lacking. And also there was another article that I had in the pipeline about Ang Pau and the […]

After several iterations of this article, I strangely shall dedicate this to zcer.
To those who do not know me well enough, here’s a confession: I keep a dream diary, and am very anal about it. I record down what I dream as well as what several other people whom I love dreams of. And yes, […]

You guys have no clue what this means for me. This [$20000 gold star] right here, means I’m going to college. I have no money put away for college right now. You guys have no clue how much this will change my life
-Greg Pheasant, 15, Nevada

If you don’t know, I DO watch Kid Nation […]