I should write something, just so my thoughts doesn't dissolve with time,
as with so many others,
which appeared and were long gone.
It's been a good two restful weeks, short work hours and long days of reading.
I'm done with 2 Jodi Picoult's titles, The storyteller and The perfect match.
It's refreshing, addressing moral dilemmas which challenges one to evaluate the essence of justice.
Forcing me to the bream of my own convictions to look at the thousands shades of grey between right and wrong.
Talk about the thousand shades of greys...
Just the other day I was reading Jodi Picoult's book on the way back from Xi'An.
And inevitably challenged by my boss.
Tagged with the label of The Chinese Teacher, it's only justifiable to be reading Chinese books.
But really, English opened me to another perspective,
A completely different worldview that wasn't penetrable by the Chinese world. (Guilty as charged for labeling. Looks like no one escapes the evils of catagorizing.)
There are simply too many Western nuances lost in translation, that most Chinese (Specifically Greater China ) authors cannot deal with or appreciate. And vice versa.
So, I appreciate my bilingual education, blatantly proud about it even.
It helped make sense of nuances, the subtlety which opens one's eyes
To the thousand shades of grey.
as with so many others,
which appeared and were long gone.
It's been a good two restful weeks, short work hours and long days of reading.
I'm done with 2 Jodi Picoult's titles, The storyteller and The perfect match.
It's refreshing, addressing moral dilemmas which challenges one to evaluate the essence of justice.
Forcing me to the bream of my own convictions to look at the thousands shades of grey between right and wrong.
Talk about the thousand shades of greys...
Just the other day I was reading Jodi Picoult's book on the way back from Xi'An.
And inevitably challenged by my boss.
Tagged with the label of The Chinese Teacher, it's only justifiable to be reading Chinese books.
But really, English opened me to another perspective,
A completely different worldview that wasn't penetrable by the Chinese world. (Guilty as charged for labeling. Looks like no one escapes the evils of catagorizing.)
There are simply too many Western nuances lost in translation, that most Chinese (Specifically Greater China ) authors cannot deal with or appreciate. And vice versa.
So, I appreciate my bilingual education, blatantly proud about it even.
It helped make sense of nuances, the subtlety which opens one's eyes
To the thousand shades of grey.
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