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2026-08-09 National Book Lovers Day 
【The Indigo Glass in the Grass (1919)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Which is real— This bottle of indigo glass in the grass, Or the bench with the pot of geraniums, the stained mattress and the washed overalls drying in the sun? Which of these truly contains the world?
Neither one, nor the two together. —— • |
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2026-04-04 Joyous Saturday
【Letters of a Soldier-XII (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) 17 Mars J'ai oublié de te dire que,l'autre fois, pendant la tempête, j'ai vu dans le soir les grues revenir. Une accalmie permettait d'entendre leur cri. I forgot to tell you that the other day, during the storm, I saw the cranes returning in |
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2026-02-21 Card Reading Day
【Letters of a Soldier-V Comme Dieu dispense de grâces (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) 7 novembre Si tu voyais la sécurité des petits animaux des bois, des souis, des mulots! L'autre jour, dans notre abri de feillage, je suivais les évolutions de ces petites bêtes. Elles étaient jolies comme |
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2025-10-18 Bridge Day
【Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty-VI (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) And, finally, set guardians in the grounds, Gray, gruesome grumblers. For no one proud, nor stiff, &nb |
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2025-09-20 National Punch Day 
【Meditation (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) How long have I meditated, O Pince, On sky and earth? |
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2025-06-11 National Making Life Beautiful Day
【Primordia in the Carolinas 7 (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The lilacs wither in the Carolinas. Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins. Alread |
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2025-05-16 National Bike to Work Day 
【6 of 9 Primordia in the South (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Unctuous furrows, The ploughman portrays in you The spring about him: & |
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2025-05-15 National Aperitif Day 
【3 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The blunt ice flows down the Mississippi, At night. In the morning, the clear river Is full of reflections, Beautiful allitera |
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2025-05-10 National Windmill Day
【Inscription for a Monument (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) To the imagined lives Evoked by music, Creatures of horns, flutes, drums, &nbs |
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2025-04-19 Holy Saturday
【The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) My flowers are reflected In your mind As yo |
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2025-03-15 National Brutus Day
【L'Essor Saccadé (1913-1915?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Swallows in the elderberry, Fly to the steeple. &n |
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2025-02-22 National Margarita Day
【Phases·VI (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) [First Part Missing] The crisp, sonorous epics Mong |
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2025-02-19 International Tug of War Day
【From a Junk (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A great fish plunges in the dark, Its fins of rutted silver; sides, Belabored with a foamy light; |
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2024-12-14 More Good Today Day
【Carnet de Voyage I·An Odor from a Star (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Comes to my fancy, slight, Tenderly spiced and gay, &nb |
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2024-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day
【Palace of the Babies (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The disbeliever walked the moonlit place, Outside of gates of hammered serafin, Observing the moon-blotches on t |
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2024-09-14 National Coloring Day
【A High-Toned Old Christian Woman (1922)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave bui |
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2024-05-04 World Give Day 
【Stars at Tallapoosa (1922)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The lines are straight and swift between the stars. The night is not the cradle that they cry, The criers, undulating the |
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2024-05-04 National Bird Day 
【Invective Against Swans (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind. |
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2024-04-27 National Prime Rib Day 
【The Plot Against the Giant - Second Girl (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I shall run before him, Arching cloths besprinkled with colors As small as fish-eggs. & |
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2024-03-10 National Landline Telephone Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XI (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words. But note the unconscionable treachery of fate, & |
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2024-03-03 National I Want You to Be Happy Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-X (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The fops of fancy in their poems leave Memorabilia of the mystic spouts, Spontaneously waterin |
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2024-02-18 National Drink Wine Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-II (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A red bird flies across the golden floor. It is a red bird that seeks out his choir Among the choirs of wind and wet and wing. |
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2024-02-18 Lunar Heaven Health Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-I (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) "Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds, O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon, There is not nothin |
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2024-02-16 Lunar Human Day 
【Gray Room (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Although you sit in a room that is gray, Except for the silver Of the straw-paper, And pick At your pale white gown; Or lift one |
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2023-12-31 New Year's Eve
【Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu (1936)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) That would be waving and that would be crying, Crying and shouting and meaning farewell, Farewell in the eyes and farewell at the centre, Just to stand still withou |
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2023-12-08 National Brownie Day 
【Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The rock is the gray particular of man's life, The stone from which he rises, up - and - ho, The step to the bleaker depths of his descents |
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2023-11-04 National Bison Day 
【July Mountain (1955)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) We live in a constellation Of patches and of pitches, &nb |
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2023-09-16 National Dance Day 
【Two Letters—A Letter From (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Even if there had been a crescent moon On every cloud-tip over the heavens, Drenching the evening with crystals' light, One would have wanted more—more—mo |
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2023-06-17 World Juggling Day
【The Planet on the Table (1953)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Ariel was glad he had written his poems. They were of a remembered time Or of something seen that he liked. |
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2023-05-28 Pentecost
【Farewell to Florida·III (1935)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I hated the weathery yawl from which the pools Disclosed the sea floor and the wilderness Of waving weeds. I hated the vivid blooms Curled over the shadowless |
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2023-05-20 World Whisky Day
【Farewell to Florida·II (1935)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Her mind had bound me round. The palms were hot As if I lived in ashen ground, as if The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound From my North of cold |
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2023-05-06 Intl No Diet Day
【Sunday Morning·VIII (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice that cries, “The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits linger |
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2023-04-29 National Peace Rose Day
【Sunday Morning·VI (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that pe |
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2023-04-19 National Hanging Out Day
【Sunday Morning·V (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) She says, “But in contentment I still feel The need of some imperishable bliss.” Death is the mother of beauty; he |
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2023-03-18 National Awkward Moments Day 【Sunday Morning·I (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockat |
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2023-03-12 National Girl Scout Day 【Tatoo (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The light is like a spider. It crawls over the water. It crawls over the edges of the snow. |
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2023-02-19 National Chocolate Mint Day
【Bantams in Pine-Woods (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt! |
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2023-02-12 Super Bowl LVII: AFC Kansas City Chiefs vs. NFC Philadelphia Eagles
【Youth (1918)】
Samuel Ullman (1840—1924) Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips, and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it i |
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2023-01-21 National Hugging Day
【Esthétique du Mal·XIV (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Victor Serge said, "I followed his argument With the blank uneasiness which one must feel In the presence of a logical lunatic." He said it |
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2023-01-15 Festival of Kitchen God
【Esthétique du Mal·XIII (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It may be that one life is a punishment For another, as the son's life for the father's. But that concerns the secondary characters. It is |
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2023-01-08 National English Toffee Day
【Esthétique du Mal·XII (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) He disposes the world in categories, thus: The peopled and the unpeopled. In both, he is Alone. But in the peopled world, there is, Besides the |
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2023-01-01 New Year's Day
【Esthétique du Mal·XI (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Life is a bitter aspic. We are not At the centre of a diamond. At dawn, The paratroopers fall and as they fall |
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2022-12-30 National Bacon Day
【Esthétique du Mal·X (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) He had studied the nostalgias. In these He sought the most grossly maternal, the creature Who most fecundly assuaged |
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2022-12-25 Christmas Day
【Esthétique du Mal·IX (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Panic in the face of the moon — round effendi Or the phosphored sleep in which he walks abroad Or the majolica dish heaped up with phosphored fruit That he sends a |
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2022-12-19 National Emo Day
【Esthétique du Mal·VII (1945)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) How red the rose that is the soldier's wound, The wounds of many soldiers, the wounds of all The soldiers that have fallen, red in blood, The soldier |
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2022-12-17 Wright Brothers Day
【Esthétique du Mal·VI (1945)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The sun, in clownish yellow, but not a clown, Brings the day to perfection and then fails. He dwells In a consummate prime, yet still desires A further |
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2022-12-02 World Futures Day
【Esthétique du Mal·V (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Softly let all true sympathizers come, Without the inventions of sorrow or the sob Beyond invention. Within what we pe |
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2022-11-24 Thanksgiving Day
【Esthétique du Mal·III (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) His firm stanzas hang like hives in hell Or what hell was, since now both heaven and hell Are one, and here, O terra infid |
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2022-10-22 National Nut Day 
【The Auroras of Autumn·VIII (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place. Or if there is no time, If it is not a thing of time, nor of place, & |
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2019-09-19
【Erat Hora (It was for an hour…)】 Ezra Pound (1885—1972) 〖Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948〗 Thank you, whatever comes.' And then she turned And, as the ray of sun on hanging flowers &nbs |
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2018-03-07
【Aiden in English】
It's great when you can celebrate a birthday without having to go to school. I'm not skipping school, and it's just because there is a projected foot of snow. Furthermore, it's not my birthday, but my grandmother's. She's turning 81 today, which is |
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2017-03-05
【Aiden in English】
My grandmother's birthday is coming up. I know, why would you care? So, what? But this event is unique. The day after tomorrow will be her eightieth birthday, a monumental milestone for anyone. However, I must say that these milestones in life are much less hyped now |
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2017-02-19
【Aiden in English】
It's that time of year again—my birthday. I don't want to write about this since it feels personal. But sometimes, I think it's good to jot down some ideas about being 14. When people turn 13, they are stepping over an enormous miles |
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2017-01-27
【Aiden in English】
The Lunar New Year is the biggest festival in China. While American school kids often complain about their short week of Christmas and New Year's breaks, Chinese students are at home, taking a month of rest. Yet in Americ |
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2017-01-01
【Aiden in English】
You know, Longwood Gardens feels like a tradition now. It has been, what, three straight years of seeing the park in the holiday seasons? Correct me if I'm wrong, but this place is beginning to grow on me a bit. Most of you may wonder why Lo |
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2016-12-25 Christmas Day
【Liu Ch'e】 Ezra Pound (1885—1972) 〖Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948〗 The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the court-yard, There is no sound of foot-fall, and the leaves &n |
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2016-12-25 Christmas Day
【Garden】 Ezra Pound (1885—1972) 〖Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948〗 Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of e |
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2016-11-05
【A Pact】 Ezra Pound (1885—1972) 〖Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948〗 I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman — I have detested you long enough. &nb |
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2016-05-29 Memorial Weekend
【Aiden in English】
Pittsburgh is an excellent city in Pennsylvania that is often overshadowed by its larger neighbor, Philadelphia. Come to think of it, the City of Champions is just as good, if not better than, the City of Brotherly Love. Pittsburgh has fabulous architecture, a spectacul |
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2016-04-23
【Aiden in English】
And we're back in the Lai-Lai Garden tonight. It wasn't initially planned, as the first dinner plan was at the newly opened Madang Korean & BBQ nearby, but we like our food the Chinese way. You may be wondering, however, what the occasion is. Mom is hosting he |
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2016-03-24
【Aiden in English】
In general, the word "indigenous" is used to describe a subject that is native to a specific location. Going back in time, the root is derived from the Latin "indigent," meaning "a native." Add the English part of –ous to its end, and there |
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2016-02-21
【Aiden in English】
The Chinese Lunar New Year is fantastic because it's a holiday that lasts around 23 days. You know what it means: more food, fun, and video games—this night combined Grandma's, Mom's, my birthday, and the Lantern Festival. Although the night is unique, I wish all these occasions |
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2016-02-07
【Aiden in English】
Super Bowl 50 is finally here! I'm a Denver Broncos fan, and you may say I'm a bandwagon fan. I'm not for two reasons. First, the Broncos' kicker, Brandon McManus, attended the North Penn School District, which I also attended. Secondly, when I was first i |
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2015-12-31
【Aiden in English】
A new year has arrived, and to be honest, 2015 was getting old. It feels like it turned 2016 ages ago, and we have to leave the glamorous life behind. But not yet. There are still seven more hours and two excellent college football semifinal bowl games to go. A family din |
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2015-12-27
【Aiden in English】
I'm not the biggest fan of flowers. Every spring, they take me through pollen torture that kills, and hopefully, that's a good enough reason. Well, after today, it might not be, seeing the Brookside Garden in Silver Spring, MD. & |
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2015-06-07
【Aiden in English】
A 4-star restaurant in NYC typically has ridiculously high prices and food that can be found anywhere. Pair it with some wine, and bam! The food has just received a 4-star quality rating. The Russian Tea Room sounded like a different breed, and I was about to find out jus |
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2015-03-21
【Aiden in English】
Hunger seems like an animal raging inside. A beast is waiting to eat itself if it must. At the time, my hand looked appetizing when I was hungry. Like a monster's hunger, a meal can fill me up at the Chinese restaurant Margaret Kuo's Dragon's Lair in Wayne, PA |
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2015-03-07
【Aiden in English】
"The sunset is magnificent as dusk is approaching." The older you get, the more valuable life is. Life at this point isn't just about living with happiness, but also about maintaining quality with a strong, courageous heart as the end creeps closer daily. In contrast, we are im |
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2015-03-01
【Aiden in English】
Today, I just went to a piano audition for the Golden Key Music Festival of the USA in Princeton, NJ, where I played Sonata in G Major, Op 49 No. 2, 1st Movement by Beethoven. I didn't write about it because there wasn't much to mention. I was nervous, and my judge took a long t |
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2015-02-25
【Aiden in English】
The Year of the Sheep has arrived, bringing happiness, celebration, and a sense of performance. Last weekend, I performed with my Chinese Yo-Yo at China Grace Christian Church (CGCC). Today, we were to do so again at the Spring Festival Gala of Guang Hua Chinese School (GHCS). & |
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2015-02-21
【Aiden in English】
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) wasn't just a learning opportunity and a daily exercise. Walking and standing for three hours gets you tired, you know. So, before our grand finale concert at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, we decided to have a delicio |
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2015-02-21
【Aiden in English】
New York City (NYC) is one of the most incredible cities in the world. People jostle around the streets. Every ten to twenty feet, there is a restaurant, and cars honk and beep as they rush to go somewhere. The Chinese Spring Festival also just passed, so going to NYC see |
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2015-02-20
【Aiden in English】
On the 2nd day of the lunar month, Mom continued to take advantage of the festivity and had a holiday lunch with her colleagues at Bamboo Modern Szechuan Cuisine. Right after coming back, she took me back to Lai Lai Garden for a dinner party again. |
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2015-02-19 Spring Festival
【Aiden in English】
Lai Lai Garden was undoubtedly a sensational experience on Chinese New Year's Eve. It has been quite a while since my mouth was lit on fire like that, and I appreciate it. Mom took a break from work today, spec |
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2015-02-18 Chinese New Year's Eve
【Aiden in English】
Chinese New Year is the largest celebration of the year for all Chinese people worldwide. It's when happiness spreads to every inch in China and abroad. Therefore, one of the best ways to celebrate the most fantastic Chinese h |
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2014-12-28
【Aiden in English】
Vienna is Austria's capital city, famous for its lavish music concerts. "Salute to Vienna" brings joyful waltzes to the New Year and has become so popular that it has affected people all around the globe. This performance is being done everywhere during the |
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2014-12-17 
【Aiden in English】
Life in a city is so different from life in the countryside. The town bustles with people, cars, shops, and vendors. Even the lively atmosphere flourishes so distinctly in my peaceful neighborhood. And best of all, it's always this way, day and night, especially in a metropolitan city li |
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2014-10-26
【Aiden in English】
Dinner at a fancy restaurant with pals is always great unless the friends are your mom's friends. But it was fun since I had my trusty iPad by my side. It saved me from the long wait at Bacco Italian Restaurant. All fancy, and in tonight's case, Italian restaurants seem to have an ex |
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2014-09-28
【Aiden in English】
I love spicy Chinese food. It fills me with warmth and melts away any of my worries. I could feel the spice burn in my mouth, adding to the flavor. But there's a catch. Oh, yes, a huge catch. Sometimes, I overestimate my limits and end up burning my mouth. So, I must eat at my own risk. |
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2014-08-24
【Aiden in English】
Ten years ago, at my first-ever birthday party in my house, Auntie Hongli and Uncle Henry came over to see me, along with their two little daughters, Lynna, 7, and Jennifer, 4. A decade has passed, and we can finally have a reunion back in NJ from PA. This is more about M |
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2014-06-26
【Aiden in English】
Mexican food is known worldwide. Many places have Mexican restaurants; one of the best is Chili's Grill & Bar. Chili's is a formal dining with a variety of Mexican selections. Tonight, Mom, my little sister, and I must say, it has been a long time since we've eaten real Mexic |
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2014-06-22 
【Aiden in English】
Pizza is the most famous and popular food in the USA. It is so delicious and cheap that a slice of bread with tomato sauce and cheese makes a gentleman like me go nuts, and I could eat pizza all day. I experienced it at California Pizza Kitchen in Plymouth Meeting Mall today. Their simple pi |
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2014-06-01
【Aiden in English】
It is time to celebrate a well-deserved party for surviving another Chinese School Year, especially on International Children's Day 2014. I love Szechuan cuisine, and its food is very appetizing, like Fresh All-the-Way Soup, Sliced Fish in Hot Chili Oil, B |
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