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What If Your Body Is Different From Mine?
Managing Differences Makes a Difference Way back in the early seventies, there was much talk about diversity – gender, race, ethnicity, vertically challenged and horizontally challenged people for that matter. Today the list grows longer – smokers and non smokers, well mannered mobile phone users and yahoos who leave their mobile phones on in cinemas…
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Chinese Numbers
Numbers have been traditionally regarded as significant to the Chinese for a variety of reasons. Numbers are related to the Chinese cosmological system. Numbers represent the nine stars (xing) that symbolise the essence of the universe. Numbers also represent the five elements or five forces of the universe: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. All…
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Speaking In Tongues
“What language do you think in – English or Chinese?” Curious Australian friends would sometimes ask me when they know that I can speak Chinese but write in English. “It depends…” I hesitated. It is a question that does require me to stop and think. “On what?” they would prompt, their curiosity insatiable. “Well it…