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My Great Grandmother’s Three-Inch Feet

August 20, 2008 By Ann Liu Leave a Comment
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My great-grandmother (on my father side) passed away when I was only 12 years old. By then she was 91 years old. Her feet with bound since she was a young girl so even at 91 her feet were only three-inch long, which also known as “three-inch golden lotuses”. She was very tra­di­tional, strict and seri­ous Chi­nese lady but always kind.

I remem­bered when I was a lit­tle kid; she always brought me to the mar­ket near our house and bought food for the entire fam­ily. Because of her age and her three-inch feet, when she walked, she needed a walker to steady her­self and keep her body bal­anced. And she couldn’t walk that far, espe­cially long dis­tances for extended times. [Read more…]

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Mother’s Day in Thailand

August 11, 2008 By Ann Liu Leave a Comment
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Today, 12th August is her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand’s birth­day. The Queen, who rules not only the brains but also the hearts of the peo­ple, has earned deep respect for her­self with her hard work for the wel­fare of Thai soci­ety and crafts. The cit­i­zens of Thai­land have deep rev­er­ence for her.

First, I would like to wish Her Majesty the Queen a happy birth­day! As she is regarded as a mother to all Thai peo­ple, we also cel­e­brate 12th August as National Mother’s Day. Thus, I would like to wish­ing all the moth­ers a day as bright and won­der­ful as you are — Happy Mother’s Day to You! [Read more…]

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Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

August 7, 2008 By Ann Liu Leave a Comment
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Did you still remem­ber your childhood’s dreams? Have you achieve any of them?

When I was a child, I had lot of dreams. Such as to per­form on the stage (yea, I did that already when I was in the school), dream about one day I can travel to dif­fer­ent coun­tries to see the world (I went to few coun­tries already) and go to see the Pyra­mid in the Egypt (this dream has not achieve yet) etc. I went to attain almost all of those dreams, but they didn’t all come easy. How­ever, my pas­sion takes me to wher­ever I go :-)

I was born in a big and warm fam­ily. But I was grow­ing up with my grand­par­ents and great-grandmother (I will tell you more about her later). They are very nice and kind peo­ple, but they are also very strict in lots of things espe­cially my grand­fa­ther. Well, one of the things my grand­fa­ther behind for me is his teach­ing and wis­dom. He called it a mes­sage in a bot­tle. [Read more…]

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My Amazing Bangkok Rambling

August 2, 2008 By Ann Liu Leave a Comment
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I was stuck in the traf­fic for two and half hours last Fri­day after I left the office. Pre­vi­ously, the worst case was took me an hour to get home! >

The traf­fic in the Sukhumvit area, where I am liv­ing is get­ting worse and worse espe­cially dur­ing rush hours. While sit­ting in the car, I thought I should write some­thing about Bangkok since I have been liv­ing in the city for a long time. After I finally got back home, I put my thoughts together and fin­ished this Amaz­ing Bangkok Thai­land ram­bling. :-)

Bangkok is a city of over 10 mil­lion peo­ple. It is the cap­i­tal of Thai­land, a coun­try of over 60 mil­lion peo­ple. Thai­land is know as The Land of Smiles for its happy peo­ple, partly because of this, it attracts many peo­ple from around world to come here to visit, work, invest, vaca­tion and have fun. [Read more…]

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