The period before the New Year is peak season for liquor sales, and every packaging supplier's production schedule is stretched to the limit. Yesterday, one supplier delayed a batc...

At the age of 26, the bewildering twists of life came in the form of a phone call. It was around 8:50 AM, and I was carefully backing into a parking spot downstairs at work, checki...

During July and August, I used my time commuting on buses, riding elevators, and even sitting on the toilet to finish all seven volumes of Those Things About the Ming Dynasty. One ...

I must have been about five years old then. My hazy memories start from that time. My father hadn't yet traveled far for work, but my mother had already gone to Guangdong. Those we...

I've watched Interstellar three times over and over again. The entire film's theoretical framework is built on relativity and wormhole theory. Fascinating as it is, I still feel th...

Geographically, the Qinling Mountains–Huai River line is considered China's north-south dividing line! A colleague came back from Inner Mongolia, bragging about eating lamb on the ...

One Monday evening, while I was washing dishes and my mind was wandering, I suddenly remembered a bizarre text message a client had sent the evening before: "Got the sesame, no wat...

Cold rain arrived, and Chengdu's temperature dropped significantly. Combined with my reckless mixing of baijiu and beer, I caught a cold. I was watching The Truman Show on TV and b...