Crispy Noodle on Clubhouse

Bio

My dog’s 🐕 best friend. (Self proclaimed)

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant, but also makes pleasant things more pleasant, I have enjoyed peaches 🍑 and apricots more since I have known that they were cultivated in China in the early days of the Han dynasty; that Chinese hostages held by the great King Kaniska introduced them into India, whence they spread to Persia, reaching the Roman Empire in the first century of our era; that the word ‘apricot’ is derived from the same Latin source as the word ‘precocious’, because the apricot ripens early; and that the A at the beginning was added by mistake, owing to a false etymology. All this makes the fruit taste much sweeter. Bertrand Russell

Love reading, writing and art (including music)

细水长流

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Francis Bacon

To harbour spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for a narrow-minded or embittered man. - Chekhov’s “A boring story”

All that glisters is not gold—
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold - merchant of Venice

To err is human, to forgive divine.- Alexander Pope

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -Abraham Joshua Heschel

Adopt, don’t shop

Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents

“When young London children called me a Chinaman or a Chink, it did not trouble me. If they meant it as a term of abuse, my business was to make them think differently one day.” Lee Kuan Yew