Comments for Star Ferry Musings http://www.starferrymusings.com Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:43:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on SFM #65: Toilet Tales by Robert Wu http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=4929&cpage=1#comment-100 Robert Wu Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:43:26 +0000 http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=4929#comment-100 Thanks. That's a relief (pun intended). Thanks. That’s a relief (pun intended).

]]> Comment on SFM #65: Toilet Tales by Robert Wu http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=4929&cpage=1#comment-99 Robert Wu Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:34:58 +0000 http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=4929#comment-99 Rod, In sanitizing my article to protect the delicate eyes of some of my friends, I did not go too deeply into the bodily functions. When we went into the woods to do our business in XinJiang, or when we did our business on the savanna in Kenya, the business was urination. No big stuff in those locations. Toilet humor seems to be sprouting everywhere. We will never see the end of them. Bob Rod,

In sanitizing my article to protect the delicate eyes of some of my friends, I did not go too deeply into the bodily functions.

When we went into the woods to do our business in XinJiang, or when we did our business on the savanna in Kenya, the business was urination. No big stuff in those locations.

Toilet humor seems to be sprouting everywhere. We will never see the end of them.

Bob

]]> Comment on SFM #40: The Hundred Tribes of Yue by Robert Wu http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=655&cpage=1#comment-98 Robert Wu Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:25:32 +0000 http://starferrymusings.com/?p=655#comment-98 Neville, The closest I can think of is the emperor of the Taiping rebellion in 1850 to 1864. Its leader, Hong XiuQuan (洪秀全) was a native of GuangXi province. Many people there speak Cantonese, the dialect of the adjacent province GuangDong. Before the Qin unification of China in 221BC, the NanYue (南越) tribe located in today's GuangDong Province likely spoke Cantonese. But that language underwent great changes after the unification and constant migration of people from northern China. So the Cantonese of today is a mixture of the aboriginal Yue language and the Chinese of China proper, and most likely different from the language of the NanYue people. Bob Neville,

The closest I can think of is the emperor of the Taiping rebellion in 1850 to 1864. Its leader, Hong XiuQuan (洪秀全) was a native of GuangXi province. Many people there speak Cantonese, the dialect of the adjacent province GuangDong.

Before the Qin unification of China in 221BC, the NanYue (南越) tribe located in today’s GuangDong Province likely spoke Cantonese. But that language underwent great changes after the unification and constant migration of people from northern China. So the Cantonese of today is a mixture of the aboriginal Yue language and the Chinese of China proper, and most likely different from the language of the NanYue people.

Bob

]]> Comment on SFM #10: Interesting Names of Real Hong Kong Persons by Robert Wu http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=413&cpage=1#comment-97 Robert Wu Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:16:32 +0000 http://starferrymusings.com/?p=413#comment-97 Carol, If you read the article more carefully, you would notice this name was sent to me by a James. I only relayed that letter. In my American and Chinese experience, I did not have the opportunity to come across this name Brunhilde. Please excuse my shortcoming. Bob Carol,

If you read the article more carefully, you would notice this name was sent to me by a James. I only relayed that letter. In my American and Chinese experience, I did not have the opportunity to come across this name Brunhilde. Please excuse my shortcoming.

Bob

]]> Comment on SFM #53: Taj Mahal the Beautiful by Robert Wu http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=1088&cpage=1#comment-96 Robert Wu Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:04:22 +0000 http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=1088#comment-96 Miriam, Glad you shared our extreme joy viewing the beautiful Taj Mahal. I hope you will personally make that trip and see it in real life. It has got to be on everybody's bucket list. Bob Miriam,

Glad you shared our extreme joy viewing the beautiful Taj Mahal. I hope you will personally make that trip and see it in real life. It has got to be on everybody’s bucket list.

Bob

]]> Comment on SFM #50: Hanfu 漢服 Revival by Robert Wu http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=974&cpage=1#comment-95 Robert Wu Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:02:25 +0000 http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=974#comment-95 Thank you for sharing my interest in hanfu. I believe the way to revive hanfu is to emulate the kimono in Japan. Japanese wear their kimonos on holidays, special occasions, formal affairs, and when they feel special. Perhaps one way to popularize hanfu is to make it as the formal gown worn at college graduations. Then revive traditional ceremonies such as adulthood ceremonies (成人). I plan to wear my hanfu tunic over my jeans in everyday life. Robert Thank you for sharing my interest in hanfu. I believe the way to revive hanfu is to emulate the kimono in Japan. Japanese wear their kimonos on holidays, special occasions, formal affairs, and when they feel special. Perhaps one way to popularize hanfu is to make it as the formal gown worn at college graduations. Then revive traditional ceremonies such as adulthood ceremonies (成人). I plan to wear my hanfu tunic over my jeans in everyday life.

Robert

]]> Comment on SFM #53: Taj Mahal the Beautiful by Miriam Martinez http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=1088&cpage=1#comment-68 Miriam Martinez Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:47:32 +0000 http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=1088#comment-68 What a beautiful collection of pictures! I can only dream of such a trip...looking at these pictures, I feel closer than I ever have before!! Congratulations on such a beautiful moment in time! What a beautiful collection of pictures! I can only dream of such a trip…looking at these pictures, I feel closer than I ever have before!! Congratulations on such a beautiful moment in time!

]]> Comment on SFM #50: Hanfu 漢服 Revival by Smith W http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=974&cpage=1#comment-59 Smith W Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:24:20 +0000 http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=974#comment-59 I like this blog for hanfu revival. But, hanfu revival is not just to wear the hanfu but we need give hanfu a new definition for people to wear. Maybe we need rethink about when, where, and how to wear the hanfu in our current society. Meanwhile, the more people know the hanfu, the more people wear the hanfu. I thought the first step is to link all hanfu person, websites, organizations, manufacture etc together to build up a network. Second, try to find Manufacture Company to create cheap hanfu clothes by large quantity in order to reduce the price. Then, setup a lot of activities to promote wearing the hanfu. After that, Hanfu will revive automatically. I like to share another website http://www.hanfuexe.org/ to all of you. I like this blog for hanfu revival. But, hanfu revival is not just to wear the hanfu but we need give hanfu a new definition for people to wear. Maybe we need rethink about when, where, and how to wear the hanfu in our current society. Meanwhile, the more people know the hanfu, the more people wear the hanfu. I thought the first step is to link all hanfu person, websites, organizations, manufacture etc together to build up a network. Second, try to find Manufacture Company to create cheap hanfu clothes by large quantity in order to reduce the price. Then, setup a lot of activities to promote wearing the hanfu. After that, Hanfu will revive automatically.

I like to share another website http://www.hanfuexe.org/ to all of you.

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