http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/after-sunset/ I'm a dad, designer, China expat and blogger Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:41:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/after-sunset/#comment-1509 Chris Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:27:24 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog2/?p=100#comment-1509 The characters for the hacky-sack thingie are "毽子", not "键子" The characters for the hacky-sack thingie are “毽子”, not “键子”

]]> http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/after-sunset/#comment-1504 Adventures of the Humanaught: Life In China Blog » Blog Archive » My Baby’s Bendy Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:00:20 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog2/?p=100#comment-1504 [...] Today is the 7th day of the 7th month in the lunar calendar, and as such is the Chinese Valentine’s Day (乞巧节, qi3 qiao3 jie2). There’s a couple different myths that surround the origins of the day, and I can’t be bothered to repeat them here. For me, the significance of today is that it’s the one (lunar) year anniversary of the beginning of possibly the largest change in my life yet. It’s the anniversary of when things all started to take off with Maggie. [...] [...] Today is the 7th day of the 7th month in the lunar calendar, and as such is the Chinese Valentine’s Day (乞巧节, qi3 qiao3 jie2). There’s a couple different myths that surround the origins of the day, and I can’t be bothered to repeat them here. For me, the significance of today is that it’s the one (lunar) year anniversary of the beginning of possibly the largest change in my life yet. It’s the anniversary of when things all started to take off with Maggie. [...]

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