December 31, 2020 welcome 2021

 Daily Advice December 31, 2020

新年的開始.  ***

新年是一個機會

反思過去的感激

創造未來的希望

歡迎新年的開始

The beginning of the new year.  ***

New year is an opportunity to reflect 

on past gratitude and create hope for the future.  Welcome the beginning of a new year. 

明年更好. ***

新年是一個機會

重新激發新目標

創造未來的美好

明年比去年更好

Next year will be Better   ***

New year is an opportunity to reinvigorate new goals, create a  beauty for the future, and make next 

year better than last year. 

December 30, 2020 Prepare for 2021

 Daily Advice December 30, 2020

新年的計劃.  ***

明年新年的計劃

重新去關注健康

投向心理的健康

習慣要早起早睡

New Year's plan.  ***

 Refocus New Year's plan for next year

 on health, invest in positive thinking, and get up and go to bed early. 

除夕.   ***

要獲得更多新年

新人新事的靈感

請不要錯過除夕

鼓舞新年的願望

New Year's Eve.  ***

To get more new year inspiration, getting to know more people, and getting more things done, don't miss New Year’s Eve to make your New Year's Wishes.

December 29, 2020 Blessings

 Daily Advice December 29, 2020

我的祝福. ***

祝福最好能做到

甜言蜜语來灌你

句句吉祥砸著你

試問怎會不開心

My blessings.  ***

Best wishes should be sweet and auspicious. Such words will make people happy. 

一年好兆頭.  ***

教你個幸福食譜

先用笑声为调味

來煑一碟吉祥虾

吃了一年好兆头

A good year. ***

A happy recipe should be seasoned 

with laughter.  Then cook a plate of lucky shrimp which symbols a 

good sign for a happy new year.

December 28, 2020 New Year is coming

 Daily Advice December 28, 2020

聖誕過後.  ***

聖誕過後新年來

帶著甜蜜蜜笑容

傳遞吉祥和溫暖

祝賀幸福和快樂

 After christmas. ***

After Christmas comes New Year. 

Wear a sweet smile and wish everyone lucky, healthy and happy. 

更好的人.  ***

明年應該要做到

不為虛榮而分心

激勵精進向上爬

做一個更好的人

Be a Better person.  ***

Next year we all should not be 

distracted by vanity but improve our knowledge, diligence and advance our career. Be a better person.

Short Story: Who Doesn’t Want to Win

 

Short story (500 words) 

Title: who Doesn’t want to Win

Author: Philip Chan

Standing in front of the mirror, I admired my new red suit for the best dressed competition of tonight's party. It was a two piece suit with small gay flags all over the top jacket. The pants each had one big flag. I put on a white long sleeve T-shirt underneath.

My boots were knee length with belt, and diamonds all over. The belt had six pieces of ruby. I tucked my pants inside my boots.

I have been praying that I would win the best dressed award because the prize was to dance with the best-looking-guy in the party plus one week vacation for two in Hawaii.

The more I looked at the mirror, the more confident I became that I would win. As I was admiring my dazzling suit, the door bell rang.

I opened the door and my ex-boyfriend was standing there.

I yelled at Joe, "We are no longer together. Please go away."

"My dear darling."

"Don't darling me. Just go."I pushed Joe away and he pushed me back.

He said. "Bob, I loved you and I still love you. I have fixed everything you hated, my nose and my eyes. Look."

"I don't want to look."

"I weigh 15 lbs less. No more a fat boy. I can take off my clothes and show you."

"I already said, I don't want to look."

"Why?"

"We are separated already."

"Why? Don't you love me?"

"I couldn't stand your snore. You didn't want separate rooms."

"We only had one bedroom." Joe started to cry.

"I can't stand your crying either. Go away." I closed the door.

I was disturbed by Joe's visit, arrived late at the party, and missed the dance competition of the outstanding looking guys, but was in time winning the best dressed competition.

The MC said. "Will the winner of our best-dressed man, Robert to come up here to help me announce the winner of the Best-Looking-Guy award?"

I walked proudly to the stage with one hand holding up and waving to everyone.

Claps and shouts were the loudest that I ever heard. When I walked up the stage, the MC handed me an envelope, whispering, "You announce the name of the winner."

He then said," Ladies and gentlemen, the winner is ..."

 I opened the envelope and was shocked that the winner was my ex-boyfriend.

The MC hurried me, "Robert, tell us who the winner is."

Without saying a word, I fell on the floor. The MC took the envelope and said, "The winner is Joseph Harding. Robert, get up and dance with Joseph. Ladies and gentlemen, please give them a big clap."

Joseph Harding walked to the stage, wearing a silver cape, a silver brief and a pair of silver boots. Cheers, shouts and claps filled the whole room.

I raised my hand inviting Joseph to dance and whispered, "Can we start over again?" Out of joy, he put his hand on mine, and started crying with a big smile.

December 25, 2020 merry Christmas

 Merry Christmas to all!

Daily Advice December 25, 2020

聖誕節.  ***

聖誕節又再來臨

祝大家聖誕快樂

綱上大家送禮物

祝大家幸福無量

Christmas.  ***

Christmas is here again.  Wish everyone Merry Christmas, everyone

exchanging  gifts to each other using online shopping. I wish you all health and happiness. 

永恆的友誼.  ***

给我想念的朋友

網上温馨地问候

送給千万个祝福

保持永恆的友誼

Eternal friendship.  ***

For your friends whom you miss, send warm greetings online. Such words of 

of thousands of blessings will keep 

eternal friendship. 

Daily Advice December 23, 2020 Xmas Gift

 Daily Advice December 23, 2020

聖誕礼物

自己的聖誕礼物

是每天活得充实

活出别样的精彩

這就是最好礼物

Christmas gifts

 One’s most valuable christmas gift 

 is to live a simple or practical life every day.  This is a different kind of wonderful life.  This is the best gift to you. 

身邊的人.  ***

讓自己身邊的人

為自己感覺驕傲

首先要活得充实

保持良心過日子

People around you ***

Let the people around you feel 

proud of yourself. How? First of all, live to a full life of simple life.  Keep a clear conscience in dealing with people and things. 

Get a copy of Enlighten or Good Advice Part 5 ( 一言驚醒梦中人) 

This book is rated 4/4 by Online Book Club 

It is a must read if you want to live a happier and more productive life. 

December 24, 2020 Avoid group gathering

Daily Advice December 24, 2020

脆弱的時刻.  ***

處於脆弱的時刻

一定要保持淸醒

否則被外魔干擾

會做愚蠢的事情

Fragile moment.   ***

 When faced with a vulnerable moment, people must be calm, otherwise they may be disturbed by the outside demons, and will end up doing stupid things. 

心懷感激

今年聖誕有不同

因為疫情的原故

大團聚未必是好

心懷感激已足夠

Being Grateful . ***

Christmas is different this year. Because of the epidemic, a big reunion may not be a good to thing  to do. Being grateful is enough.

Daily Advice December 22- winter solstice

 Daily Advice December 22, 2020

冬至習俗.  ***

冬至習俗吃餃子

一碗热腾腾餃子

開開心心齊齊食

增長各人的口福

Winter Solstice Customs. ***

It is a custom to eat dumplings during the winter solstice day. Eating a 

bowl of hot dumplings with your family not only increases your appetite, it symbols happiness in the family 

冬至好運.  ***

冬至冬至好运至

及時跑了疫苗來

憂愁疫情可放心

健康日子定會來

Good Luck Winter Solstice.  ***

Winter solstice brings good luck. 

The vaccine comes in time to relieve people’s worries about the epidemic. Rest be assured that healthy days will come. 

Daily Advice December 21, 2020 Winter Solstice

 Get a copy of Enlighten or Good Advice Part 5 ( 一言驚醒梦中人) 

This book is rated 4/4 by Online Book Club 

It is a must read if you want to live a happier and more productive life. 

Author: Philip Chan

Email: goodadvicechan@gmail.com

www.good-advice-book.blogspot.com

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Daily Advice December 21, 2020

冬至冬至.   ***

冬至冬至快樂至

祝各人装满好運

天天出入都平安

身體健康免疫情

Winter solstice.   ***

Happy winter solstice. Wish everyone good luck, safe in and out every day, and healthy and immune from the pandemic. 

Ps: Winter solstice is like Thanksgiving 

亲爱的冬至.   ***

亲爱的冬至冬至

是中華民族節日

谢谢你年年伴我

伴我成长多幸福

Dear winter solstice.  ***

The loving winter solstice is a Chinese national holiday telling us winter has come. Thank you for staying with me every year accompanying me growing up. 

Daily Advice December 18, 2020 joyful time

 Daily Advice December 18, 2020

每一天.  ***

人生中的每一天

都有美好的時刻

在乎你是否能夠

感思和好好享受

Every day in Life ***

There are bound to have good moments in each day in our life.  It is up to you whether you know how to feel it and enjoy it. 

飲食的要求. ***

一件衣服可暖身

一餐饭可以饱腹

未必定要穿名牌

或要吃山珍海味

Dietary requirements.  ***

 Any one piece of clothing can keep people warm.  Any one meal can keep

people full.  It is not necessarily to wear a famous brand clothing ; nor eat delicacies to keep stomach full. 

Short Story : A Happy Day

 Short Story Title : A Happy Day

Author: Philip Chan

Next day, I have a morning flight to catch.  This afternoon, I took my wife to the doctor's office to ensure she was not due to give birth soon.  Our doctor laughed at us saying that although my wife looked very big, it would take a few more weeks before it was due. My wife not only looked big, she needed help to get up from her seat.   However, we both felt comfortable that I could take the business trip.

For the past four years,  we went through a lot of medical practices to have a baby. Yet, there was no good news for a few years until now. I hated to follow a schedule to make a baby.  It made me nervous and destroyed all the fun of love making.  Finally at the time of giving up, my wife told me she was pregnant. Although we wanted to know whether we were going to have a baby girl or a baby boy, such medical facility was not available in Asia.  We just had to wait.  We both prayed to God to bring us a baby girl.

After we left the doctor's office, we went to the open seafood market.  This market had at least ten stalls. Each stall had choices of different kinds of seafood.  We stopped at the first stall. It had at least ten different kinds of live fish swimming in the tank.  In addition, life shrimps, crabs, lobsters, oysters, and many other shell fish were in different tanks.  

My wife loved fish but I did not like the fishy smell. In order to please my pregnant wife, I went along with it and pretended I have changed my taste and grew to love fish. The stall keeper tried to sell us the most expensive fish such as deep sea life grouper. My wife liked grouper. We ended buying a grouper about two pounds, and one pound life shrimps. I loved oyster but she did not like life oyster since she got pregnant. It took some convincing statements with the support of the stall keeper, before she allowed me to buy one dozen.  

We had a nice seafood dinner with a bottle of chardonnay. Both of us were overjoyed to be starting a family and believed marriage without children wasn't complete.  

We knew each other when we were about ten years old. We lived on the same street. I still remembered I used to climb up to the roof floor of my 4-story building to watch her come out of her building to go to school in the morning. As soon as I saw her, I rushed downstairs to join her walking to school. Sometimes I tried to hold her hands but she always without fail let go off my hand. After school, we played in the park in our neighborhood. It might sound silly but it was true we just ran around chasing each other. Occasionally we swung on the swings and tried to compete who was able go up higher.  

Because my family moved to another location, we were separated for a few years until one day we ran into each other in front of a theater.  The theater was showing the movie titled "The Best of Everything" with Suzy Parker,  Joan Crawford, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Louis Jordan and Robert Evans as actresses and actors. We ended watching that movie together. Since then, we started dating.  

We both admitted that was our first love and we got married early.  She was twenty one and me twenty two. Here we were after four years of marriage and were ready to be parents.  

After dinner, we put on the music and started dancing.  While we were dancing, she felt a little pain.  We stopped and I accompanied her to the bedroom.  She lay down on the bed and tried to sleep.  I went to take a shower. While I was taking the shower, I heard her scream.  I quickly dried myself and went to the bedroom to find out what happened. 

"I need to go the hospital and the baby is coming," she cried. 

I immediately drove her to the Hospital.  Life seemed to go against me.  I hit every red light.    Although she was screaming by my side, I dared not jump any red light. We lived in Kowloon side and the hospital was in Hong Kong Island.  There was no tunnel.  We took the ferry boat to cross the harbor. While we were in the ferry, she was screaming out of pain. Luckily, there was a doctor in the same ferry. She came over and told my wife not to worry.  Everything would be fine. If anything happened in the ferry, she would be willing to help.   

As soon as the ferry docked, I drove her to the hospital. One of the nurses in the hospital blamed me for taking her there late. She said, she has informed the doctor to come over. He should be in the hospital any minute. Meanwhile, another nurse already rolled my wife to the operating room. 

I did not care what the nurse said. I already did everything I could to bring her there as fast as I could.  Also, I remembered clearly what the doctor said in the afternoon. It wasn't due till a few more weeks. At this moment what I cared the most was what was happening in the operating room. 

Every minute of wait time was like days or months or even years. Suddenly, I remembered I needed to call my parents and my wife's parents that my wife was in the operating room.  

Within an hour after the phone call, both my parents and my parents-in-law arrived. We all waited outside the operating room. The two mothers appeared to be talking nicely about who was going to take care of the baby.  In reality I knew they were not talking but arguing who had the right to attend to the baby first. I had no interest to get involved in their conversation but walked slightly distant away from them. My father and my father-in-law were busy in their own conversations.

All of a sudden, we heard a loud crying voice of our new born.  We all looked at each other with joy.  I said, "It 's a girl."  No one wanted to argue with me.

We waited patiently for the nurse and the doctor to come out with a baby and tell us whether it was a baby boy or baby girl.  But no one came out for some time.  

My parents became worried but my parents-in-law calmed them. I told myself everything would be fine. It seemed a little unusual for the nurse and doctor to take so long to come out. My mother started to pray. My mother-in-law being the crying kind, her eyes started to get wet.  

Finally the nurse came out and said, " Mr. Chan, there is another baby coming."  She immediately went back to the operating room. I was shocked and speechless. Both parents looked at each other without a word of any expression.   

The ten minutes of waiting time felt like a life time.   Finally there was another loud crying voice of a baby. I was then relieved. This time, within a few minutes, two nurses came out with two babies and one of them said,"Beautiful twin girls." They handed one each to my mother and my mother-in-law. My mother counted the baby's fingers, and toes and she said, "Mine is fine."  My mother-in-law saw that and she counted them too and said the same thing, "Mine is fine."

The doctor said to me, "Mr. Chan, the second one was breech. Thank God, she is safe. I am going to charge your delivery fee for one and the second one is a bonus."  

I shook the doctor's hands and thanked him. 

After that, I dashed into the operating room and said to my wife," I love you. We have TWO girls." 

She replied, " You can go to the conference trip tomorrow.  There will not be any fight between our two mothers. They can each carry one home."

Daily Advice December 16, 2020. Being Healthy

 Daily Advice December 16, 2020

心情開朗.  ***

活著是一種心情

心情開朗是最好

不但辦事會顺利

家人會跟著快樂

Cheerful. ***

Being alive depends on one’s a mood. 

A cheerful mood is the best; not only will things go smoothly, family members will be happy too. 

健康身體.  ***

餓時就要去吃飽

渴時就要去飲水

累時就要去休息

才可有健康身體

Healthy body.  ***

Eat when you are hungry.  Drink water when you are thirsty.  Rest when you are  tired.  Such habit will keep one’s body healthy. 

Daily Advice December 15, 2020 being contented

 Daily Advice December 15, 2020

知足常樂.  ***

親人痛愛是幸福

朋友関心是幸福

子女孝順是幸福

知足常樂最幸福

Being contented is happy.  ***

Being loved by family and friends is a kind of happiness.  Child filial piety is happiness.  Being contented is the best kind of happiness. 

多一點.   ***

能天天保恃開朗

快樂自然多一點

健康跟著多一點

壽命也會多一點

A little bit more.  ***

Being cheerful every day brings a bit more happiness, better health and longer life. 

Daily Advice December 14, 2020. Happiness

 Get a copy of Enlighten or Good Advice Part 5 ( 一言驚醒梦中人) 

This book is rated 4/4 by Online Book Club 

It is a must read if you want to live a happier and more productive life. 

Author: Philip Chan

Email: goodadvicechan@gmail.com

www.good-advice-book.blogspot.com

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Daily Advice December 14, 2020

人生一场戏.  ***

人生就像一场戏

是要苦苦的追求

真正的人生幸福

這樣才算有意義

A life is like a Play***

Life is like a drama whereby the protagonist is in a hard pursuit for real 

life happiness.  This kind of life is 

meaningful. 

追求幸福.   ***

看你如何去珍惜

追求得來的幸福

如果不懂得珍惜

幸福遲早抛棄你

In pursue of happiness.   ***

People should cherish the happiness they achieved, otherwise sooner or later happiness will abandon them. 

Short Story She is chasing me

 75 word Short Story 

Title : 

Someone is chasing you 

  永遠追隨你

Author: Philip Chan 

www.good-advice-book.blogspot.com

Written in both Chinese and English 

“Honey, Wake up.” 

“Leave me alone.”

“Wake up. Look at me.”

I opened my eyes and saw a corpse lying next to me.  

I jumped up, ran to the bath room, and turned on the light. The corpse jumped out from the mirror chasing me into the living room. 

I fell on the floor, raised my head, and saw my deceased-girl-friend who committed suicide this afternoon.

She said. “Why did you break up with me?”

*****

短片小説

永遠追隨你

 “親愛的，醒來罷。”

 “請別打擾我。”

 “醒來。 看看我。”

 我睜開眼睛，看到一具屍體躺在我旁邊。

 我跳起來，跑到浴室，然後打開燈。 屍體從鏡子裡跳出來，追著我進入客廳。

 我跌倒在地上，抬起頭，看到今天下午自殺的死者女友。

 她說。  “你為什麼跟我分手？” 

******

Daily Advice December 12, 2020 meaningful life

 

December 11, 2020

感恩的心. ***

常带着感恩的心

珍惜自己的拥有

追求美好的理想

才算対得起自己

a thankful heart. ***  

Always be grateful and cherish what you have. Pursue your beautiful dreams otherwise you are not doing any favor for yourselves.

白活一生.  ***

一辈子渾渾噩噩

簡直是浪費時光

毫無价值和意义

可算是白活一生

Waste your life time    ***

If one’s whole life is in a muddle and achieving nothing, it is a waste of time.  Such life is worthless and meaningless and be considered a life in vain. 

Get a copy of Enlighten or Good Advice Part 5 ( 一言驚醒梦中人) 

This book is rated 4/4 by Online Book Club 

It is a must read if you want to live a happier and more productive life. 

Author: Philip Chan

Email: goodadvicechan@gmail.com

www.good-advice-book.blogspot.com

Order online: www.dorrancebookstore.com

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