Stories and Fables : 故事和寓言 - You Write

Still Married 还是夫妻

May 11, 2020 FLAI40 Leave a comment

‘Still Married’ is translated as 还是夫妻 (pinyin: Háishì fūqī) which literary is ‘Remaining Husband and Wife’. It is a Chinese drama that illustrates the stress and strains of marital relationships in urban city living. The story recounts the experiences of three couples with different backgrounds. It deals with their work problems, their middle-aged crisis, their conflicts with in-laws, and their different methods of raising children. Adding to the mix is the story of s single mother struggling to raise up her young primary school daughter. The willingness of one of the three friends wanting to help a pregnant mother causes […]

Creative Writing 有创意的写作

May 7, 2020 FLAI40 Leave a comment

This article is dedicated to school children currently studying online at homes around the world. If you are their parents, please read on with them and kindly encourage them to write creative stories for postings here or for postings to www.storystar.com. http://www.u-write-read.com/. https://www.storystar.com. To write a piece of creative essay, we need to plan out our topic and the sequence of our paragraphs, leading to our conclusion. Let us start with a topic. Just the other day, one of my tutees talked about a topic that we, as parents, seldom heard of. I got him to spell the topic out […]

Joke of the Day 每天一个笑话

April 21, 2020 FLAI40 Leave a comment

The current COVID-19 lockdown at home offers me one of the rare opportunities to take a look at the archived files from a stored hard disk. Way back in the year 2002, there was a website called amazing.com. This website still exists but in those days, it was not the same, not about building a new business. It was a free information website on new computer applications and with a section called “Joke of the Day”. At www.u-write-read.com here, we are using these jokes to form background reading materials for those of us who want to study Chinese (Pinyin). It […]

Tell Your Story Now 现在,告诉我你的故事吧

April 16, 2020 FLAI40 Leave a comment

If you are a child of any age, tell us your story by answering this question “What are you doing today?” You can draw out your answer if you like. If you are a parent, why not write on a story about one of your young children and share your experience with your readers. If you are a grandparent, invent a story basing on your life experience and share this with your family members. And, if you like, share your story with others living elsewhere using social media. You may want to read the stories of other people’s before you […]

Wenzhou’s Family of Four 温州一家四口

February 27, 2020 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I have just written the first (of many-to-come) trilingual (English, Chinese, Maori) children’s e-book basing on the recent Chinese TV drama entitled “Family on the Go 温州一家人.” The story is about the fates of the four members of a family in a Chinese provincial town of Wen Zhou - Father, Mother, Son, and Daughter. The following is just an excerpt from the book to show you a sample of the result. This e-book is available free of charge to all of my friends from Facebook and from Linkedin. Simply contact me with your email address and I shall post this […]

Writing A Book for Toddlers 写给幼儿的书

February 8, 2020 FLAI40 Leave a comment

My youngest grandson, two years and a half young was with me in a restaurant the other day. As usual, he was full of energy. He was restless in his baby chair. So I took him off his chair for a walk around the restaurant. This was always my usual manner to divert his attention. And, as usual, I talked with him as we walk along the aisles. “Ye, Ye, …” I said. “Ye, Ye,” he responded as his way of acknowledgment of his paternal grandfather in the Cantonese language. “There are no swimming fishes in tanks here,” I said […]

Pennywise - Who is He? 到底，谁是 Pennywise 呢？

September 27, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

You may not have heard of him but by the end of this month, September 2019, you will be talking about him. The reason? Just because he will be on the big screen in a cinema house near you wherever you are, throughout New Zealand. The movie is entitled “IT (pronounced as ‘it’ as in “It is a creature,” and not ‘Eye Tee’ as in the computer world) - Chapter 2. Take a look at how Pennywise looks like in the images of him below. 您可能还没有听说过他的名，但到本月底（2019年9月），您将谈论他。原因是怎么呢？仅仅因为他会出现在您附近的电影院的大银幕上，无论您身在何处，整个新西兰的电影远都会放出它的标题 “ IT（在“它是一个生物中”被冠以“ it”的称呼”，而不是在计算机世界中被冠以“ Eye Tee”的称呼）-第2章。P The movie film is adapted from Stephen King’s classic […]

Dry - The Chinese version 小说 “干”

September 15, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Neal 和 Jarrod Shusterman 透露新小说“干”的封面和摘录 Dry: Excerpt in the Chinese Language https://cn.modjournal.com/61875-dry-neal-jarrod-shusterman-dystopia-excerpt-55 尼尔舒斯特曼回来了！ Neal Shusterman has returned! 他的新小说发行几个月后积雨云在他的 Scythe的弧e系列，国家图书奖获奖作家舒斯特曼有一部新小说，干，探讨如果美国失去水将会发生什么。 After the success of Scythe, Neal teamed up with his son Jarrod to have another interesting novel “Dry” - a stunner. 与他的儿子Jarrod Shusterman共同编写的反乌托邦气候故事讲述了Alyssa，一个生活在加利福尼亚州的极端干旱的十几岁女孩，每个人都称之为“流动危机”，然后是“挖掘”。 The dystopian climate story co-authored with his son Jarrod Shusterman tells about Alyssa, an extremely dry teenage girl living in California, everyone called her a “living danger ” and then also called her a “miner”. “这就是媒体所说的干旱，因为人们厌倦了听到’干旱’这个词，”Alyssa在小说中解释道。 “有点像’全球变暖’成为’气候变化’，”战争’成为’冲突’。但现在他们已经有了一个新的口号。我们的水困境中的一个新阶段。他们称之为’挖掘’。“ “This is what the media said about drought, because people are tired of hearing the word ‘drought’,” Alyssa explained in the novel. […]

Dry, by N. & J. Shusterman

September 10, 2019 FLAI40 2 comments

How difficult are we to live WITHOUT fresh WATER? This story is recommended for young adults. It was introduced to me by my teenage grandchildren. As is usual for me, the first thing I do after receiving an invitation to look at a book, I read all the book reviews from google. The two authors of this climate-fictional book are the father and son team of Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. The story is about a very likely situation in our modern society when water, fresh drinkable water, dries out in the State of California. Check out what Neal Shusterman […]

The Numbers Game

August 15, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

The date is 2094 AD. The place is NORA - New Order Republic of America. [“Numbers Game” a fiction story by Rebecca Rode] Everyone has a number. What does the number stand for? Taking 1,000 as the 100% mark, a number of 500 or less signifies a red colour, of little or no use to society. There are simply followers, obeying orders from the greens and the yellows. The yellow colour, numbers between 501 and 700 are mainly technocrats, the working middle class. The Greens represent members from the elite class, the rulers and leaders, with numbers above 700. The […]

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