http://www.houseofbabel.info An Exploration of Chinese, Japanese and English Thu, 28 May 2009 15:58:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are foreigner to Chinese and mess up “Yan” and “Yang”, I probably will spend one hour to tell you the difference. When I delivered the baby, I was messed up almost by everybody. There was a roommate named “Yu”. The first thing was that the nurse almost gave Yu’s ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2009/05/yan-and-yu/ Home is a place for you to live. Home is a place for you to come back. Home is a place for you to rest and have dream. Home is also a place to enjoy the wonderful time with your family or friends. Comfortable and elegant home would make you ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2009/05/home-decoration/ In USA, no matter where you go, you need a car. If you are a good driver and you have a car, you will have good life in USA. The nature in USA is so beautiful and attractive to your heart. In the weekend, you probably want to the park ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2009/05/car-our-life-partner/ In our life, we always do not know what will happen in the next second. You planned everything. You planned to pay off the mortgage every month. You planned buying cheap stuff, or not buying expensive stuff for a little while. You planned not to go travel for the holidays. ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2009/05/for-something-you-can-not-predict/ I was born in some poor village of some poor province of poor China. And I lived there until I went to some university in Beijing. All of the furniture in our house were made by hands and were firm. Most of them were made from woods and some of ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2009/05/rustic-furniture/ Some years ago when I was in Nara, I heard some infant crying near the dormitory in some night. I was thinking who had a baby there. But the crying continued for some nights. In the daytime, when I looked at outside, I found nothing there. It scared me a ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2009/05/infant-and-kitty-cat/ I delivered my baby in February. I was so curios to see what kind of action my baby would have in the first moment when she came to the world. I delivered my baby very quickly, so quickly that even I got shocked by myself. The nurse put the baby ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2009/05/maa/ When you start working, many people have to deal with business trips. In a lot of the cases, most of your time was spent on the traffic, such as driving, taking the train or getting on the plain. After you arrive at the place, you are already exhausted. If you ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/video-conference/ When people got pregnant, many people let their fetus listen to some music, or they talk to the fetus. Pregnancy is totally new for me. I have many questions or a lot of curiosity about it. First I was thinking how the fetus can breathe in the uterus. The ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/curiosity/ Halloween is coming. For every American kid, I think, this is the most exciting time for them. They grew up in such environment. Normally when you are at a foreign country, the best thing to do is that when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Otherwise you will feel ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/halloween-costumes/