Experience a small sampling of images of Chinese New Year’s lucky decor around Hong Kong in the year of the monkey. It’s the year of the Fire Monkey! If you’re anything like me and you weren’t feeling the…
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It’s dogs barking both close and far. It’s cars reverberating across a bridge whose joints have been sloppily paved over to create heaves that make an empty dump truck bounce and bang. Ker-chunk.…
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arts & music business culture & community sisterhoodThe Path to Success (or: May Your Next Failure be Glorious)
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to…
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I want to share with you my favorite Filipino breakfast. Above is my grandmother’s Champorado recipe. Champorado (Chocolate Rice) is one of the famous breakfasts in the Philippines. Back home, there are stores that…
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It seemed like a great idea. A perfect plan. I would spend the Christmas holidays, alone, in a charming cottage in the Irish countryside, overlooking the glorious sea and being a stone’s throw away…
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Home [aka. Manilla, Philippines] is approximately 2800 kilometers away and I am missing it badly. There are lots of things I’m homesick for, my family…
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arts & music culture & community social media & technologyMission Accomplished: Empress Tea Gets a Makeover
And now, drum roll please… ratta tatta tatta tatta …may I introduce you to the all new Empress Tea Blog! We’ve upgraded the look of our entire site (and ironing out kinks for the next…
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The girls and I have started a new, uncharted adventure. Instead of being part of the rushed mornings, uniforms, packed lunches, drop-offs and pick-ups, we are learning at home. I really mean ‘we’ because…
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culture & community relationships & love social media & technology10 Reasons You Should Become an Empress [infographic]
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” -Alice in Wonderland This is the story about how this blog began… Once upon a time, about 5 years ago, I was exploring…
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Little footsteps walking around the room, sweet voices calling out your name, imaginative stories, laughter, giggling, whining, and from time to time—crying. These are the things a teacher hears every day. Hi! I am…