Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Oh no, flat in one of an SUVs tires means that all four have to be replaced because it is four wheel drive. What a rip off! So what to get. Well, it is snowing in Seattle if you can believe it and ski season is coming, so here are…

Well, I’ve had hidden shares forever for personal photos, but so many people have asked about pictures, I thought that I would post them for all to see, so the link above to Art will get you to public photos. That is no personal information, but beautiful. They are sorted…

I’ve used nciku.com, xuezhongwen.net and lots of plugins but non have been exactly right. Calvin told me about “Wordchamp”:http://wordchamp.com. This is an IE toolbar that when you highlight a chinese character shows both the pinyin and the english translations. I love it! You can select groups of things.

There are lots that cost money, but mydigitllife.com pointed me to Vixy.net which is a free Flash FLV converter that converts things into to MPEG4. There is also a desktop version now.

OK have some new clues to my dad’s home. First some old pictures when he last visited. Am doing forensic analysis. I feel like a CSI. Zooming in the picture shows a cross street 自忠路 between 67 and 77. Now looking at the picture, the number in the house is…

I came to China with very different expectations. It was vacation (OK, so I did two boards meetings, two business proposal, four business meetings and one financing proposal and a time to find some of my past. Instead, what I found was deep mourning, then anger then perplexity.) Woke up…

I’ve been searching for this word for every, luster of pearls, 皪 (li4), for some reason, the Mac input system doesn’t find have it, but it can be displayed http://hk.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?dss=1&wdqchi=%E7%9A%AA&wdqchim=3&wdrst=0 Thank goodness for the old fashion, non-pinyin way of finding words, http://chineselanguage.org/dictionaries/ccdict/view.php?query=76AA&encoding=text&mode=bushou〈=en&beijing=pinyin&canton=jyutping&meixian=pinjim&sound=0& fields=bushou,mandarin,english Part of the problem might be the…

Trying to find an address in China is kind of tricky because everyone’s handwriting is sloppy and the different regional accents make trying to figure out the tones and the words hard. For instance, my mom pronounced wu2 as “hu2” so mixes these two sounds. 苏州市 su3 zhou1 shi4 Suzhou…

Talked to a buddy who lives in Ho Chi Minh City. Fascinating place with a good T+L guide There are some amazing hotels: http://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels/list/vietnam-asia/awards * Evason Ana Mandara & Spa www.sixsenses.com a T&L 500 winner on Ninh Van Bay* Park Hyatt Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City* Caravelle Hotel, across the…

A common day trip from Shanghai is to see Suzhou. I have never actually been there but http://wikitravel.org/en/Suzhou is actually quite a good guide. It takes about two hours with no traffice to get there. It is 86 km from Hongqiao and 120 km from Pudong Airport. It’s famous for…