Category Archives: Chinese

Little Donkey

Little Donkey is a Chinese children’s song, arranged here for ukulele in C major with pinyin lyrics. Continue reading

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Feng Yang Hua Gu (flower drum song) for ukulele

Feng Yang Hua Gu, also known as the Flower Drum Song, is a Chinese folk song that can be played on the ukulele. Continue reading

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Three Chord Thursday Year of the Ox

To celebrate the lunar new year, we will wear RED to welcome happiness, good luck and fortune, as well as share three chord songs about ox, oxen, cows, and other bovine creatures on Thursday February 18th, 2021.

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Chinese Mandarin with Song

More people speak Chinese Mandarin as a first language than any other language. On the other hand, more people speak English as a second language than any other. However, Chinese songs are little known by non-native speakers, whereas you don’t … Continue reading

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Where I have lived

On the first day of the new year, 1/1/2020, let me explain what all those locations at the top right corner of my website mean. Those are the places where I have lived for a significant amount of time. As … Continue reading

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The gift of a music education for yourself or Mother’s Day present

I am forever grateful to my parents for the gift of a music education. I remember my mother tirelessly driving a great distance to my piano teacher’s home off-base on Okinawa. In the hot and humid afternoon, she took a … Continue reading

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Business models: my grandfather the entrepreneur

Over the years, I subconsciously collected stories of successful business models with a view to writing and publishing an e-book to share with like-minded individuals. Here’s the story of my late grandfather who built a successful English school in Taiwan.

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Remembering dad on Father’s Day

Today may be the first time I’m joining everyone else in cyberspace, to remember my dad on Father’s Day. In Mandarin Chinese, the word for father is “ba ba” which sounds like “eight eight” — thus the eighth day of … Continue reading

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My last grandma (1917 – 2017)

6 October 1917 – 3 July 2017 We called her “Ah Po” – an endearment in the Hakka dialect.

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Teaching from the gut

Long ago I posted a blog on Bon Journal called “Teaching from the Gut.” By the title, I meant teaching a subject you know so intimately that it feels as though it’s coming out of your gut. You’re so confident … Continue reading

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