Chinese Culture and Language

Long, long time ago, in a country far, far away, there was a very poor couple who had nothing very much. However, they felt they had a lot because they loved each other very much. What he loved most about her was her long blond hair. He would watch the wind play with it when…

As Christmas draws near, for some of us it is a sigh of relief and for others a gasp of horror. Where has the year gone? Isn’t it scary. For me, it is neither a sigh nor a gasp. Instead I laugh. Otherwise I will cry. Christmas is a season of sadness for many. The…

So much of our life is centred on food. Do you realise that out of the 18 hours that a person is awake in an average day, s/he spends 6 hours around food: planning, shopping, preparing, cooking, eating and cleaning up. One third of a person’s day goes into filling up the body. One third…

It is said that the Chinese guanxi is responsible for ninety percent of business success in China and globally. I often tell the managers who attend our Asian business culture workshops that if they want to succeed in business, they should find an overseas Chinese who is willing to die for them. In other words,…

By Dr Moni Lai Storz I am writing this in Ipoh, my original hometown in Malaysia. Having left it over thirty years ago, I have come back to move my mother to the south – to Johor Baru, across the causeway from Singapore. This is a sad time for us, saying a final farewell to…