work, life & chinese

这个星期天是农历八月十五浩也是中国的中秋节。明天早上刘晓爽去买很多月饼。她会给很多客人月饼。但是她也会给我一个月饼。

星期天我第一会吃月饼。刘晓爽会上班。但是我不上班。我会闲在我们的家和洗碗和烹调饭。

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Things Touch is a task manager for the iPhone and iPod touch from the team over at Culture Code. It is the mobile sibling of Things, the desktop task manager for OS X. I’ve been using Things Touch for a couple of weeks now and on the whole the application is well thought out and easy to use. There are a couple of areas where more work is needed, and it is good to see that most of these are promised in future updates.

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Last week we were introduced to Chinese Caligraphy (毛笔字). You can the results of my efforts above. Whilst my characters may be a long way off artistic excelence, we had great fun. There are so many sides to learning Chinese that I had never appreciated.

I think the artistic gene, at least the one that involves using a paintbrush, passed me by. My brother and sisters seem to be able to pick up a paintbrush and just produce magnificent work. Clearly more practice is required on my part.

• Just registered our intent to marry. Camden registry office isn’t the most friendly of places. #