Holidays must be boring for the uber-rich. Not just the "I-own-a-city-block" folks but the kind of rich that warps minds. If Monday nights mean sipping back gold goblets full of 1787 Chateau Lafite, I'm talking to you. I respect your bulging coffers and sympathize with your apathy towards vacation time. What's so special about days off when working means taking stock of your stocks? Here's some suggestions for any future break from browsing for countries to buy.
Sending children to a private boarding school is not an option for most American families due to the $30,000-40,000 annual tuition fees. But hundreds of Chinese families showed up last Friday at the China World Hotel for the first-ever North American Boarding School Asia Fair held in the country.
Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, told his disciples - the arhats - to stay in the earthly world and enlighten the masses. Xuanzang, a Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) monk, brought many Buddhist classics home from his travels throughout India and helped further spread the stories of the 16 arhats.
On the last day of the World Public Forum staged on the Greek island of Rhodes in early October, a tall Chinese painter brought the roundtable discussion on Chinese issues to a crescendo.
It has been awhile since I drank so much milk. The last time I remember, it was in primary school back in Singapore when pupils were made to down a pack of the liquid every day during recess. I recall that noble effort of a nascent nation to boost the diet of its children in a diluted, bland and artificially flavored way.
The brief for my first English teaching gig could not have sounded sweeter. I was to give a 30-minute lesson to a group of 2-year-olds in a bilingual kindergarten in an upscale part of Beijing. Instead, I ended up with 30 mature-aged budding astronauts singing along to an obscure kids' nursery rhyme at a corporate language class their company had organized.
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