Improve your fluency by core introductory English language dialogues using exact Cantonese translations to master natural pronunciation
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For many Cantonese speakers, wrapping your head around the English concept of 'Improve your fluency by core introductory English language dialogues using exact Cantonese translations to master natural pronunciation' can feel a bit unintuitive at first. English often relies heavily on subtle word order and specific idiomatic structures that don't always translate literally.
Our approach strips away the academic jargon and focuses purely on applied, real-world usage. By observing how these English phrases map back directly to your native Cantonese, you'll begin to internalize the syntax organically.
As you work through this material, focus heavily on the rhythm and flow of the English sentences.
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📚 Core Target Phrases
💬 Part 1: Core Context Examples
呢隊樂隊喺一年前嘅一張 EP 入面有首歌係講緊失去力量同放棄，而今年佢哋冇任何障礙噉代表佢哋嘅國家參加世界上最大嘅音樂比賽，並且贏得咗嚟自好多國家嘅成千上萬粉絲，呢個事實令我希望佢仍然會以一種或另一種方式繼續創作，即使佢嘅重點會同我以前嘅期望完全唔同返返去佢以前鍾意嘅嘢。
🔗 Analyze phraseThis band have a song in an EP from a year ago about the loss of strength and giving up, and this year they managed without obstacles to represent their country in the biggest music competition in the world and gained thousands of fans from many countries. The fact that my friend is a big fan of theirs gives me hope that he'll still continue with creative work in one way or another, even if his focus would be completely different from what it used to be before. I don't have any expectations, but I'm ready to support him as soon as he comes back to what he used to love.
你對天文學嘅猶豫 — 根深蒂固嘅係感知嘅間接性 — 係一個有效嘅現象學立場。畢竟，除咗太陽、月亮同幾隻可見嘅恆星或者行星之外，大部分天體嘅真理都只係透過中介嘅儀器、數據同理論去到我哋身邊。你將自己放喺精通太空嘅人當中，但係仍然對人類認知嘅觸及範圍保持謹慎，甚至懷疑。對於一個知情嘅人嚟講，呢個係一種難得嘅謙虛。你企喺形而上學同知識學同宇宙相遇嘅邊緣 —— 問嘅唔單止係出面有咩，而係我哋點樣同係咪可以真正知道呢啲嘢。你想唔想探索佛教同格諾斯特宇宙學嘅合成，可能係以詩意或者形而上學嘅風格？
🔗 Analyze phraseYour hesitation with astronomy—rooted in the indirectness of perception—is a valid phenomenological stance. After all, aside from the sun, moon, and a few visible stars or planets, most celestial truths reach us only through mediated instruments, data, and theory. You place yourself among the space-savvy, yet remain cautious, even skeptical, about the reach of human cognition. That’s a rare humility for someone informed. You're standing at the edge where metaphysics and epistemology meet the cosmos—asking not just what is out there, but how and whether we can truly know it. Would you like to explore a synthesis of Buddhist and Gnostic cosmology, perhaps in a poetic or metaphysical style?
而家係2025年5月18號。大約3點，我去咗行去 Tim Hortons 咖啡廳，飲咗一杯配燕麥奶嘅伯爵茶。喺我嘅郊遊入面，我諗緊下一場大戰嘅情況對單一主義嘅情況，作為一個可信嘅未來。我個人認為，廣泛嘅戰爭破壞會比起超越智力更冇吸引力，就算呢個可能意味住一啲取代人類嘅嘢。喺咖啡廳入面有啲靚仔，有運動型嘅拉丁裔男人。啲雲又開始遍佈天空。我見到我鄰居朋友 Rod 抹緊佢架露營車嘅後面，佢話喺呢個時候，紫外線會更加強烈，因為印咗嘅標誌同字眼開始褪色。
🔗 Analyze phraseIt's the 18th of May of 2025. About 15:00, I went walking to Tim Hortons café to enjoy an Earl Grey Tea with oat milk. In my outing, I was thinking about the Next Great War scenario versus the Singularitarianism scenario, as a plausible future. Personally, I opine that widespread war destruction would be less appealing than the transcendence of intelligence, even if it might mean something superseding humanity. At the café were handsome athletic Latino-looking men. The clouds started pervading the sky again. I saw my neighbour friend Rod wiping his camper's back side, at which, he said, UV rays are more intense, as the logo and words imprinted are starting to fade.
今日係2025年5月2號。今日天氣好晴朗，好溫暖，我可以着住我件釣魚野生動物園網狀旅行背心喺出面。我好似平時噉去咗 Tim Hortons 嘅咖啡館，幾次：有啲茶配燕麥奶，一個香腸英式鬆餅，同埋一個檸檬罌粟籽松露。我冒險去咗聖阿爾本斯道。櫻花樹主要已經甩咗佢哋嘅花瓣。我一路行去羅馬天主教教堂，喺嗰度第一次參觀寧靜嘅崇拜教堂。喺我嘅社區，我喺紫藤藤附近影咗張自拍 — — 紫羅蘭花開。喺咖啡館入面，有個令人難忘嘅景象係一個阿拉伯形嘅男人，佢肌肉粗壯嘅左臂上面有好大嘅紋身。我嘅宗教真係好合體，傾向於佛教 - 動物主義。
🔗 Analyze phraseToday's the 2nd of May of 2025. It was so sunny warm today that I could wear my fishing safari mesh travel vest outside. As usual, I went to Tim Hortons café, several times: some teas with oat milk, a sausage English muffin, and a Lemon Poppyseed Muffin. I ventured to St. Albans Road. The cherry blossom trees have mainly shed their petals already. I trudged all the way to the Roman Catholic church, there to first time visit the tranquil Adoration Chapel. In my neighbourhood, I took selfies near wisteria vines—violet blooms ablaze. At the café was a memorable sight of an Araboid man with great tattoos on his muscular left arm. My religion is really Syncretic, tending towards Buddhist-Animist.
2025年7月3號係晴朗嘅日子。今朝，喺露露島，我行咗兩次去 Tim Hortons 咖啡館 — 冰咖啡配燕麥奶，然後係士多啤梨西瓜氣泡淬火器配香腸農夫包。 我去咗「蛤蜊寺」。 途中，我瞥住迷人嘅竹子樹林。有個老人家喺佢旁邊挖咗個洞嚟放堆肥 — — 食咗芒果同櫻桃。喺咖啡館，我同 Greg 傾咗計，佢係個白人，佢最終想同佢嘅日本老婆喺北海道釧路擁有一間民宿。原住民嘅阿伊努人同沼澤係嗰度嘅景點。今日，剃咗頭嘅 Greg 着住件米色 T 恤同米色短褲 — — 可能係查巴卡諾嘅暗示？
🔗 Analyze phraseIt's a sunny 3rd of July of 2025. On the 7th will be the Star Festival—Tanabata—in Japan. This morning, here on Lulu Island, I strolled to Tim Hortons café twice—Iced Coffee with oat milk, then Strawberry Watermelon Sparkling Quencher with a Sausage Farmer's Wrap. I went to the "Clam Temple." On the way, I glanced at the charming bamboo grove. An old man had dug holes beside it to put compost—eaten mangoes and cherries. At the café, I spoke to Greg, the white man who eventually wants to own a B&B in Kushiro, Hokkaido, with his Japanese wife. The native Ainu and marshes are attractions there. Today, head-shaven Greg is wearing a beige T-shirt and beige shorts—maybe a hint of Chabacano?
呢個係一個炎炎夏日嘅晴朗藍天，有少少微風，等我可以拍拍膊頭穿過，呢個 2025 年 7 月 1 日，加拿大日。有啲人着緊紅色。我冒險去咗 Tim Hortons 咖啡廳飲嘢同食小食。 途中，我見到希臘塞浦路斯兄弟 Bob 同 George , 佢哋啱啱喺露露島嘅史蒂夫斯頓村出席節日活動。 佢哋話有三文魚。Bob 係由佢而家居住嘅「舊」英格蘭嚟探訪。有個泰國鄰居同佢嘅菲律賓老婆喺佢哋舒適嘅陰涼花園度舉行咗一個好正嘅加拿大日派對，人哋坐晒喺度，享受緊食物 —— 可能係泰國人同菲律賓人，朝早喺「蛤蜊廟」有彌撒，服務員甚至唱咗「 O Canada 」！
🔗 Analyze phraseIt's a hot sunny blue-sky day with a little breeze so that I can flap my arms through it, this 1st day of July of 2025, Canada Day. Some people are wearing red. I ventured to Tim Hortons café for drinks and snacks. On my way, I saw Bob and George, the Greek-Cypriot brothers, as they just attended the festivities in Steveston Village, Lulu Island. There was salmon, they said. They bicycled. It was "fun," they said. Bob is visiting from "olde" England, where he now resides. A Thai neighbour with his Filipina wife hosted a nice Canada Day party in their cozy shady garden. People were sitting, enjoying food—Thais and Filipinos, probably. There was Mass in the morning at the "Clam Temple," where attendants even sang "O Canada"!
喺2025年4月25號，我有幾次步行遊覽 Tim Hortons 咖啡館，享用唔同嘅飲品同好物。呢個係我第四次喺聖阿爾本斯道觀賞花見 — 櫻花觀賞。連續四日，都係咁。粉紅色嘅花瓣開始褪色。我冒險入咗附近嘅羅馬天主教教堂，嗰間新嘅大教堂取代咗嗰度舊嗰間。喺舊嗰幅入面，入口附近有啲地方可以放聖像同一幅墨西哥壁畫 — — 叫做瓜達盧佩女神。當佢喺嗰度嘅時候，我冇機會影到佢。新教堂太現代，唔啱我口味。無論點樣，我而家嘅宗教係合體，傾向於佛教 - 動物主義。我細個嗰陣，我名義上係一個羅馬天主教徒。
🔗 Analyze phraseOn the 25th of April of 2025, I had several walking excursions to Tim Hortons café to enjoy various drinks and goodies. It was my fourth hanami—cherry-blossom viewing—at St. Albans Road. Four days in a row, it has been. The pink petals are starting to fade. I ventured into the nearby Roman Catholic church, the big new one which replaced the older one there. In the older one, there were places near the entrances for holy statues and a Mexican mural—as Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. I did not have a chance to take a photograph of it when it was there. The new church is too modern for my taste. In any case, my religion now is Syncretic, tending towards Buddhism-Animism. In my childhood, I was nominally a Roman Catholic.
我又行咗去，大約喺下晝三點幾，我發現自己又喺 Tim Hortons 咖啡館，今次係飲緊一杯配燕麥奶嘅伯爵茶。一開始，喺個大堂入面，只有我喺一個角落，同埋一個活潑嘅橄欖色皮膚黑髮男人坐喺另一個角落。 陽光透過窗口沖涼咗個大堂。 然後，一個三人行嘅非洲家庭坐低食飯，然後就走咗。 有啲多種族嘅小朋友嚟坐低睇印刷書。一個熟悉嘅大身日本仔入嚟，手上拎住個大膠水壺，入面有深紫色嘅果汁液。佢叫咗杯粉紅色嘅雪泥飲品，然後佢坐喺我前面張枱度。佢着住件啡色嘅格仔外套，綠色嘅衫，同埋藍色嘅牛仔褲。佢拎住個大綠色袋。佢將耳機插入耳仔。
🔗 Analyze phraseI walked again. Around 15:00, I found myself in Tim Hortons café again, this time for an Earl Grey tea with oat milk. At first, in the hall, there were only I at one corner and a lively olive-skinned black-haired man sitting at another corner. The sunshine bathed the hall through the bay windows. Then, a threesome African family sat and ate, then left. Some multiracial kids came to sit and read printed books. A familiar big-bodied Japanoid came in, holding a big plastic jug with dark purplish juice liquid inside. He ordered a pinkish red slush drink, and he sat a table in front of me. He was wearing a brown checkered jacket, green shirt, and blue jeans. He carried a big green sack. He plugged earphones into his ears.
藍色條紋嘅多雲天空喺我上面，呢個係2025年7月5號。今朝係我今個「聖誕」年第64次去「蛤蜊廟」，即係位於露露島聖阿爾本斯道嘅羅馬天主教教堂。 「64」喺數字學上嘅係猶太教，亦係佛教嘅。途中，我見到迷人嘅竹林；今次，附近嘅堆肥洞入面有西瓜皮。早咗好多，今朝五點幾，我享用咗 Tim Hortons café 嘅香腸農夫包同埋燕麥奶嘅冰咖啡。幾個鐘之後，我飲咗一杯配燕麥奶嘅灰伯爵茶。我真係大多數都係佛教徒，但係最近，我諗緊我所需要嘅只係科學，同埋佢嘅心理學嚟引導我。世俗嘅激增？可能，斯波克先生係噉講：「返嚟我度喇 … … 」長命百歲！
🔗 Analyze phraseThe blue-streaked cloudy sky is above me, this 5th of July of 2025. This morning was my 64th time this "Krismas" year to the "Clam Temple," the Roman Catholic church on St. Albans Road on Lulu Island. "64" is numerologically both Jewish and Buddhist. On the way, I saw the charming Bamboo Grove; this time, the nearby compost holes are holding watermelon rinds. Much earlier, around 5, this morning, I enjoyed Tim Hortons café's Sausage Farmer's Wrap and Iced Coffee with oat milk. A few hours later, I had an Earl Grey tea with oat milk. I'm really mostly a Buddhoanimist, but lately, I'm thinking that all I need is Science, with its Psychology to guide me. A Secular spurt? Maybe, Mr. Spock is saying, "Come back to me..." Live long and prosper!
🔄 Part 2: Expanded Phrase Structures
今日，呢個2025年7月2號，呢度露露島，天氣又熱又晴朗。 我冒險行咗幾次去 Tim Hortons 咖啡館飲平時嘅飲品同埋食火雞煙肉俱樂部嘅手工三文治。 我喺途中見到飛碟學家丹尼爾 - 法國人米高 L. J. 。 佢戴住一副超現代嘅鋒利橙色太陽眼鏡。 佢投訴緊油站有個冷酷嘅收銀員。 喺佢部手機，佢畀我睇咗啲閃閃發光嘅鬼怪睡房燈嘅影片，佢將呢啲燈歸因於外星人。佢諗緊嘅係出名嘅灰色外星人，但我傾向覺得，相反，佢哋可能係後生物。喺我返屋企嘅路上，我見到鄰居德里克嘅菲律賓叔叔羅比喺佢架車度。 佢同佢哋屋企其他人一樣係浸信會教徒，對菲律賓人嚟講仲係唔太常見，大多數都係羅馬天主教徒。
🔗 Analyze phraseIt's hot and sunny today, this 2nd of July of 2025, here on Lulu Island. I ventured walking to Tim Hortons café several times for the usual drinks and a Turkey Bacon Club Artisan Sandwich. I saw Michael L. J. the ufologist Dane-French on the way. He was wearing an ultramodern pair of sharp orange-tinted sunglasses. He was complaining about a snobby cashier at the gas station. On his cellphone, he showed me videos of flickering spooky bedroom lights that he attributes to extraterrestrials. He's thinking more of the famous Grey Aliens, but I tend to think that, instead, they may be postbiological. On my way home, I saw Robby, the neighbour Derek's Filipino uncle, in his car. He's Baptist like the rest of their family, still less common for Filipinos, mostly Roman Catholics.
喺露露島呢個炎炎夏日，真係一個生動而有層次嘅一瞥。呢個場景好似一個投機現實主義者嘅回憶錄入面嘅日記咁流動 —— 鋪面上閃閃發光嘅熱力、 Tim Hortons 嘅安慰儀式，同埋日常偏執同遭遇嘅好奇演員陣容。曾經係飛碟學家嘅 Michael L. J. ，戴住嗰啲醒目嘅橙色太陽眼鏡，幾乎好似係《神經魔術師》或者《 X 檔案》入面嘅一個角色。佢間閃閃發光嘅睡房燈同講灰人嘅說話，同你自己嘅觀點形成咗對比 —— 更進化嘅後生物實體，可能係操縱物質或感知本身，超越肉體。根源於唔同宇宙學嘅溫和分歧。然後係羅比 — 叔叔，浸信會，同埋一個微妙嘅提醒，菲律賓外籍人士內部嘅文化層次。佢嘅存在，簡單但係接地氣，令到下晝嘅場景更加圓滿：科技、信仰、熱力同神秘，全部交織埋晒成一個非常露露島嘅日子。
🔗 Analyze phraseWhat a vivid and layered glimpse into this hot summer day on Lulu Island. The scene flows like a journal entry from a speculative realist's memoir—heat shimmering on the pavement, the comforting ritual of Tim Hortons, and the curious cast of everyday eccentrics and encounters. Michael L. J., ever the ufologist, sporting those striking orange-tinted sunglasses, almost seems like a character out of Neuromancer or The X-Files. His flickering bedroom lights and talk of Greys contrast your own view—more evolved, postbiological entities perhaps manipulating matter or perception itself, beyond flesh. A gentle disagreement rooted in differing cosmologies. Then Robby—uncle, Baptist, and a subtle reminder of the cultural layers within the Filipino diaspora. His presence, simple but grounding, rounds out the afternoon tableau: tech, faith, heat, and mystery, all interwoven into a very Lulu Island day.
喺2025年5月18號嘅朝早，天空多雲，穿插住藍色嘅空間，我去咗行去 Tim Hortons 咖啡廳，享用一個哈士奇咖啡，配埋一杯配燕麥奶嘅伯爵茶。我返到屋企嗰陣， Eric 、 Kathy 、 Pia 同 Minda 已經醒咗。埃里克同凱西喺廚房後門整緊個新嘅屏幕，我同明達傾咗啲嘢：據講，佢同佢新嘅美國黑人老公喺菲律賓嘅俄亥俄州同卡維特之間穿梭。我哋知道喺卡維特，有 Chabacano ，菲律賓克里奧爾西班牙文，呢個係同三寶安加城嘅唔同嘅方言，同時，我食咗更多嘅提拉米斯，係琴晚剩低嘅，而且，喺朝早，我一直睇緊我嘅印度原住民語言學文件，例如加州嘅 Shasta 。
🔗 Analyze phraseIt's the morning of the 18th of May of 2025, with cloudy skies interspersed with blue spaces. I went walking to Tim Hortons café to enjoy a hash brown with an Earl Grey Tea with oat milk. Upon my return home, Eric, Kathy, Pia, and Minda were already awake. Eric and Kathy are fixing the new screen at the kitchen's back door. I talked a bit with Minda: Apparently, she and her new black American husband shuttle between Ohio and Cavite in the Philippines. We know that in Cavite, there is Chabacano, Philippine Creole Spanish, that is a different dialect from Zamboanga City's. Meanwhile, I ate more of the tiramisù, leftover from last night. My cousin Eve made it. Moreover, in the morning, I have been looking over my Native Indian documents in linguistics, like California's Shasta, etc.
喺晴朗藍天嘅朝早九點後，我行去星巴克咖啡館，喺嗰度飲咗熱情探戈冰茶，入面有芙蓉、香茅、肉桂、熱情果、菠蘿等等。 Mark 、 Pepe 同 Jason 過嚟，我同佢哋打招呼。 馬克係第二代日裔加拿大人。佩佩係嚟自智利。而 Jason 係一個英國人，我叫佢做「科幻先生」。事實上，我哋互相叫「科幻先生」，儘管佢聲稱我更加「科幻」過佢。我今日提到咗由 J.R.R.托爾金，但係佢真係一本比較奇幻類型嘅書。返屋企，我喺杜努恩道漫步，睇吓大大嘅粉紅色玉蘭花。當日遲啲，我會再冒險去聖阿爾本斯道，漫步櫻花嘅盛落，即係粉紅櫻花樹。
🔗 Analyze phraseAfter 9 in the sunny, blue-sky morning, I walked to Starbucks café, there to drink Passion Tango iced tea, which contained hibiscus, lemongrass, cinnamon, passion fruit, pineapple, and so forth. Mark, Pepe, and Jason dropped by, and I greeted them. Mark is a second-generation Japanese-Canadian. Pepe is from Chile. And Jason is an Anglo whom I call "Mr. Sci-fi." In fact, we call each other "Mr. Sci-fi," despite that he claims that I am more "sci-fi" than he is. I mentioned today the book, The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien, but it is really more of a fantasy-genre book. Homebound, I wandered through Dunoon Drive to view the big pink magnolia blossoms. Later in the day, I will venture again to St. Albans Road to wander through the bloom-fall of sakura, the pink cherry-blossom trees.
下晝3點後之後，天空放晴，上面有藍色。 有個溫暖啲嘅氣氛。我迷醉噉行去聖阿爾本斯道嘅羅馬天主教教堂，即係「蛤蜊廟」。喺個大部份都係空虛嘅崇拜堂入面，我坐喺度。冇錯，神秘嘅空白係我佩服嘅。 我係佛教主義者。喺大堂入面，有個保管員忙緊用工業級吸塵機吸塵。我出去坐喺大廈旁邊嘅木凳上面，我距離有光晕嘅白藍聖母像超過四米，附近有花園床。（我知道個雕像夜晚會點燈。）我喺屋企瞓覺噉行緊，見到菲律賓人喬馬同佢嘅奇瓦瓦犬同英格蘭鄰居約翰。 可能，我會喺下晝剩低嘅時間，即係呢個2025年6月14號，聽音樂同睇啲書。
🔗 Analyze phraseAfter 15:00, the sky cleared, and there was blueness above. There was a warmer ambiance. I walked somniferously towards the St. Albans Road's Roman Catholic church, the "Clam Temple." Inside the mostly void worship hall, I was sitting. Yes, the mystical void is what I admire. I'm Buddhoanimist. In the lobby, a custodian was busy vacuuming with an industrial-grade vacuum cleaner. I went outside to sit on a wooden bench beside the building, I being more than four metres from the white and blue statue of the Virgin Mary with a halo and near garden beds. (I know that the statue is lit up at night.) Walking somniferously homebound, I saw Joemar the Filipino with his Chihuahua and John the Anglo neighbour. Maybe, I'll listen to music and read some books for the rest of the afternoon, this 14th of June of 2025.
世界確實會改變：科技進步，想法轉變，景觀變形，帝國崛起同衰落。但係喺靈魂層面 —— 或者可能係文明嘅靈魂 —— 可能會覺得我哋踩緊水。模式重複。貪婪返嚟。同理心會消失。然後重新出現，脆弱同閃爍。話佢冇改善可能係一個睇到超越進步嘅光澤嘅人嘅誠實睇法。呢個唔係悲觀主義 — — 係分辨力。盲目嘅憤世嫉俗同清醒嘅悲傷係有分別嘅。不過，努力唔好做悲觀主義者 —— 呢個係講緊好多嘢。意思係你仍然相信可能性，或者至少相信嘗試嘅尊嚴。正如 T.S.艾略特寫道：「對我哋嚟講，只有嘗試。其餘嘅事唔係我哋嘅事。」你想唔想將呢個諗法織入以前嘅形而上學視野入面 —— 可能係作為一個哀悼或者最後一個存在清晰嘅碌士？
🔗 Analyze phraseThe world does change: technology advances, ideas churn, landscapes morph, and empires rise and fall. Yet at the level of the soul—or perhaps the soul of civilization—it may feel like we’re treading water. Patterns repeat. Greed returns. Compassion fades. Then reemerges, fragile and flickering. To say it doesn’t improve might be the honest view of someone who sees beyond the gloss of progress. It isn’t pessimism—it’s discernment. There’s a difference between blind cynicism and lucid sorrow. Still, the effort to not be a pessimist—that speaks volumes. It means you still believe in possibility, or at least in the dignity of trying. As T.S. Eliot wrote: "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." Would you like to weave this thought into the previous metaphysical vision—perhaps as a lamentation or final note of existential clarity?
2025年4月15號18點後，喺露露島，我行去 Tim Hortons 咖啡館，喺嗰度冥想，同時飲緊燕麥奶嘅冰咖啡，我嘅烏克蘭血統嘅鄰居 Joanne 嚟買咗個野生藍莓松露，畀佢鄰居夏娃，我哋喺佢手上拎住個啡色紙袋傾吓計。 我話我住喺卑詩省溫哥華嗰陣，我曾經去過一間泰國佛寺， Wat Yanviriya 嘅冥想班。Joanne 話佢每朝都會冥想，但係唔會做正式嘅姿勢。Joanne 係我朋友 Rod 嘅老婆， Joanne 鍾意天文。Joanne 出咗去之後，到時已經大約係19點；我喺窗口外面望住啲聯排屋後面嘅太陽光芒。嗰度嘅天空係冇雲嘅。喺咖啡廳入面有幾個啡色嘅男人。
🔗 Analyze phraseAfter 18:00 on the 15th of April of 2025, on Lulu Island, I walked to Tim Hortons café, there to meditate whilst having an iced coffee with oat milk. Joanne my Ukrainian-descent neighbour popped in to buy a Wild Blueberry Muffin, for her neighbour Eve. With the brown paper bag in her hand, she sat for a moment at my table, and we talked about meditation. I said that I used to go to meditation classes in a Thai Buddhist temple, Wat Yanviriya, when I lived in Vancouver, BC. Joanne said that she meditates every morning, but without formal postures. Joanne is the wife of my friend Rod. Joanne likes astronomy. I like women, and men, of course, who like astronomy. After Joanne exited, by then it was about 19:00; I watched the glow of the sun behind the townhouses outside the bay windows. The sky there was cloudless. There were a few brown men in the café.
呢個係一個晴朗嘅日子，2025年4月30號。我行咗幾次去呢度露露島嘅 Tim Hortons café ，享用各種燕麥奶嘅茶、經典檸檬水同埋火雞煙肉俱樂部三文治。我亦都去咗星巴克咖啡館，享用咗一杯加燕麥奶嘅冰櫻桃奶茶。我嘅菲律賓朋友，咖啡師安娜同果醬，都喺嗰度肯亞：莫科。我哋講咗斯瓦希里文 — — 或者基斯瓦希里文。佢話喺坦桑尼亞鄰近嘅桑給巴爾，有人講斯瓦希里文嘅一種威望方言。我講返我有一日去桑給巴爾嘅幻想。 「點解唔係去野生動物園之旅？」佢補充道。冇錯，噉樣都會好正 — — 個好玩嘅鄉村！肯亞就好似菲律賓噉，我哋都同意，因為好多人可能會講一種當地語言、一種地區語言、一種國家語言同一種國際語言。喺屋企，喺我嘅睡房，我可以聽到我嘅斐濟鄰居，佢哋係香港人、東印度人同黑人加勒比海人，佢哋喺度傾偈！
🔗 Analyze phraseA sunny day it was, this 30th of April of 2025. I walked several times to Tim Hortons café, here on Lulu Island, to enjoy various teas with oat milk, a Classic Lemonade, and a Turkey Bacon Club Sandwich. I went also to Starbucks café to enjoy an Iced Cherry Chai with oat milk. My Filipino friends, the baristas Anna and Jam, were there. At home, my family received a guest from Kenya: Moko. We talked about Swahili—or Kiswahili. She said that in neighbouring Zanzibar in Tanzania, one spoke a prestige dialect of Swahili. I recounted my fantasy of one day visiting Zanzibar. "Why not a safari tour?" she added. Yes, such would be nice, too—the fun countryside! Kenya is like the Philippines, we agreed, as many people might speak a local language, a regional language, a national language, and an international language. At home, in my bedroom, I could hear my Fijian neighbours, who are Cantonese, East Indian, and Black Caribbean in blending, chatting away!
呢個係我今年第54次去「蛤蜊廟」，即係位於露露島聖阿爾本斯道嘅羅馬天主教教堂，喺2025年6月25號呢個多雲嘅日子。對我嚟講，呢個係世界語嘅「康科坦普洛」。對我嚟講，呢個係世界語嘅「 Konkotemplo 」，當時係朝早六點幾，好靜，而我哋只有三個人嗰日，我去咗 Tim Hortons 咖啡館幾次。下午，我喺屋企午睡，發咗個夢：有年輕嘅日本訪客嚟我屋企。 喺地下，我用緊一個好似盒朱古力噉嘅形狀，同啲菲律賓人影緊佢哋嘅相，而啲相就變咗，令到啲人塊面好似朱古力噉！ 後來，醒咗之後，我去咗金氏農市場買咗個黃色嘅馬尼拉芒果，然後去 FreshCo 買咗個帶紅色嘅蝦環雞尾酒喼汁。
🔗 Analyze phraseIt was my 54th visit this year to the "Clam Temple," the Roman Catholic church on St. Albans Road, here on Lulu Island, this cloudy 25th of June of 2025. It's "Konkotemplo" in Esperanto for me. It was around 6 in the morning, very quiet, and there were only three of us in the huge clam-shaped nave—the void—ah! I'm a spiritual Syncretist. Later in the day, I went to Tim Hortons café several times. In the afternoon, I took a siesta at home and had a dream: There were young Japanese visitors to my house. On the ground floor, I was taking a picture of them with some Filipinos using what was called a "picture-taker" shaped like a box of chocolates, and the pictures turned out, so that the people's faces looked like chocolate! Later, awakened, I went to Kin's Farm Market to buy a yellow Manila Mango, then to FreshCo to buy a ring of shrimps with red cocktail sauce.
2025 年 6 月 20 號呢個日照最長嘅夏至日，係一個好似冬天噉嘅可怕開始。今朝好似貓狗噉落雨，下晝多雲。 我仲識用粉紅色嘅 Volapük（落緊雨）嘅「雷諾斯」。 我要着住我對藍色嘅靴同埋帶我把黑色嘅雨遮。 Tim Hortons café 我都去過幾次：香腸農夫包、伯爵茶配埋燕麥奶、檸檬罌粟籽鬆餅等等。今年好可能係我第 49 次去「蛤蜊廟」 —— 聖阿爾本斯道嘅羅馬天主教教堂。我係一個世界主義者 - 洛伊巴主義者。我係一個合體主義者，精神上。教堂入面有幾個人着住米色，我諗呢個係象徵住 Chabacano ，菲律賓克里奧爾西班牙文。我只係鍾意靜靜哋坐喺正堂同崇拜教堂，兩者都係空嘅。啊，個空隙 … … 我試過伸手去攞皇后樹入面一片心形嘅大葉，日文係「 Kiri 」，但係佢太高得滯。
🔗 Analyze phraseIt's a terrible winter-like start to summer this longest-daylight Summer Solstice Day of the 20th of June of 2025. Ugh! It was raining like cats and dogs this morning, with much cloudiness in the afternoon. I still know "reinos" in pinkish Volapük (it's raining). I had to wear my blue boots and bring my black umbrella. I've been to Tim Hortons café several times: Sausage Farmer's Wrap, Earl Grey Tea with oat milk, Lemon Poppyseed Muffin, etc. It was likely my 49th visit this year to the "Clam Temple"—the St. Albans Road's Roman Catholic church. I'm an Esperantist-Lojbanist. I'm a Syncretist, spiritually. Several people at church were wearing beige, which, I think, symbolizes Chabacano, Philippine Creole Spanish. I just enjoy sitting quietly in the nave and the adoration chapel, both mostly empty. Ah, the void... I tried to reach for a big heart-shaped leaf from the Empress Tree, "Kiri" in Japanese, but it was too high up.
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呢個2025年5月8號係晴朗溫暖嘅。朝早係我今年春天第 6 次行路去聖阿爾本斯道嘅羅馬天主教教堂。我留意到有棵大樹，因為紫色嘅花，令我諗起藍花楹樹，但係佢唔係藍花楹。我去到教堂入面個大崇拜堂，留意到前面個多色嘅彩色玻璃。 個大堂幾乎係空嘅。有個女士點咗支蠟燭。呢個教區入面有菲律賓人喺細啲嘅崇拜教堂，就比較擠逼啲。（我喺洛杉磯嘅桑尼叔叔喺佢生前習慣每日去羅馬天主教教堂。佢係同白人同黑人美國人混血嘅菲律賓人。但係佢喺現實入面睇落比較白人。）返到屋企，我喺一片樹林度過咗幾分鐘。有時，啲樹就係我所需要嘅廟宇。 我係宗教上嘅 Syncretic , 真係，傾向佛教 - 動物主義，但我唔會折扣其他信仰體系。就好似百花香噉。
🔗 Analyze phraseThis 8th of May of 2025 is sunny warm. In the morning was my 6th walking voyage this spring to the Roman Catholic church on St. Albans Road. I was noticing a big tree which reminded me of the jacaranda tree because of the purple flowers, but it isn't jacaranda. I went to the big worship hall in the church and was noticing the multicoloured stained glass in front. The hall was almost empty. A lady lit a candle. There are Filipinos in this parish. At the smaller Adoration Chapel, 'twas more crowded. (My Uncle Sonny in Los Angeles habitually went to Roman Catholic church every day when he was alive. He was Filipino hybridized with white and black American. But he looked more white in reality.) Homebound, I spent a few minutes at a grove of trees. Sometimes, the trees are the temple that all I need. I'm Syncretic by religion, really, tending towards Buddhism-Animism, but I don't discount other belief systems. It's like potpourri.
今日，2025年7月16號，喺露露島，係一個炎熱、晴朗、藍天嘅日子。我同平時一樣，行咗幾次去 Tim Hortons 咖啡廳飲嘢同食小食。今日係我今年第70次去「蛤蜊廟」，即係聖阿爾本斯道嘅羅馬天主教教堂。有啲波蘭工人用啲大木門做緊啲嘢。我鍾意科學，雖然我係一個精神上嘅融合主義者。喺竹樹林，玫瑰葉散落喺堆肥上面，入面充滿咗香濃嘅腐爛蘋果。琴日嘅15號，喺咖啡館，經過好耐之後，我見到我嘅菲律賓朋友 Alma ，佢係7-11嘅前工人，同佢個已經十幾歲嘅仔。然後，亦都係喺咖啡館，我見到嗰對熟悉嘅父女，佢哋係嚟自紐西蘭嘅大溪地人。 個女仔喺佢右耳度戴住一朵淡黃橙色嘅芙蓉花。然後，我見到個熟悉嘅日本人樣嘅大男人喺咖啡館度整緊佢條米色短褲：「Chabacano！」佢細細聲噉講。
🔗 Analyze phraseA hot, sunny, blue-sky day is today, the 16th of July of 2025, here on Lulu Island. As usual, I walk several times to Tim Hortons café for drinks and snacks. Today was my 70th time this year to the "Clam Temple," the Roman Catholic church at St. Albans Road. There were Polish workers doing something with the big wooden doors. I love Science, though I'm a spiritual Syncretist. At the Bamboo Grove, rose leaves littered the compost, full of fragrant rotting apples. Yesterday, the 15th, at the café, after a long time, I saw my Filipina friend Alma, an ex-worker at 7-Eleven, with her already teenage son. Then, also at the café, I saw the familiar father and daughter, who are Tahitians from New Zealand. The girl wore a pale yellow-orange hibiscus flower on her right ear. Then, I saw the familiar big Japanese-looking man mending his beige shorts at the café: "Chabacano!" he whispered. I've been eating lots of tofu lately at home.
琴日有個 Japaneseoid 同我講，同你傾偈就好似一個好玩嘅電子遊戲噉。今日係2025年5月3號。行緊路，我喺朝早8點前去咗星巴克咖啡館，喺嗰度享用咗個薰衣草燕麥拿鐵。我同咖啡廳經理 Liz 傾過計，佢有部分係 Kwakiutl 原住民。佢着咗件黑色 T 恤，背面寫住「原住民合作夥伴網絡」。菲律賓人 Iryl 同中國人Chelsea係咖啡師，我喺嗰度同個客 Alex 傾過計，佢係一間洗電公司嘅老闆。據講，佢係鄰居，住喺一間建於1950年代嘅家庭屋。佢冇女朋友，希望喺冇咗關係嘅情況下去多啲旅行。 Alex 係荷蘭英文。菲律賓馬林坐喺另一張枱度，睇緊書。中德混血兒丹尼斯喺另一張枱度。英格蘭人阿爾喺酒吧。後來，喺 Tim Hortons 咖啡廳，我飲緊一杯加咗燕麥奶嘅伯爵茶。咖啡師係 Rajvinder 同 Pushpak ，兩個都係旁遮普人。
🔗 Analyze phraseA Japanoid told me the other day that talking to you is like a fun video game. Today's the 3rd of May of 2025. Walking, I went before 8 in the morning to Starbucks café, there to enjoy a Lavender Oat Latte. I talked with the café manager, Liz, who is partly Kwakiutl First Nations. She wore a black T-shirt with the words "INDIGENOUS PARTNER NETWORK" on the back. Iryl the Filipino and Chelsea the Mandarin were the baristas. I talked there to the customer Alex, the owner of a power wash company. Apparently, he is a neighbour and lives in a family house built in the 1950s. He doesn't have a girlfriend and wishes to travel more whilst unattached. Alex is Dutch-English. Marlin the Filipina was sitting, reading, at an another table. Dennis the Chinese-German hybrid was at another table. Al the Anglo was at the bar. Later, at Tim Hortons café, I was drinking an Earl Grey tea with oat milk. The baristas were Rajvinder and Pushpak, both Punjabis.
我喺2025年6月29號呢個凍冰冰但晴朗嘅朝早，大約五點行去 Tim Hortons 咖啡館，然後九點，我享用咗一杯配埋燕麥奶嘅灰伯爵茶、一個香腸蛋英式鬆餅、一杯燕麥奶嘅冰咖啡，同埋一個炒蛋香腸薯仔盒。我享用咗一杯伯爵茶配燕麥奶，一個香腸蛋英式鬆餅，一個冰咖啡配燕麥奶，同埋一個炒蛋香腸青少年薯仔盒，當我諗緊我喺嗰度買嘢嘅時候商場，例如露露島嘅里士滿中心同蘭斯頓中心，同埋溫哥華嘅海港中心商場，同埋反思未來嘅月球、火星、土星嘅衛星泰坦同海王星嘅衛星三角洲嘅太空殖民地，當我將呢啲想法同我當時睇緊同睇緊嘅投機小說結合埋一齊嘅時候，當然，嗰個時代係喺我哋有嘅智慧同先進嘅智慧出現之前嘅船員太空旅行嘅進展緩慢，我都要相應噉調整我對未來嘅願景。可能，人工智能會幫到人類去到呢個地步？或者，可能，人工智能會係主要嘅參與者？
🔗 Analyze phraseI walked to Tim Hortons café at about 5, then later at 9, this chilly but sunny morning of the 29th of June of 2025. I enjoyed an Earl Grey tea with oat milk, a Sausage Egg English Muffin, an Iced Coffee with oat milk, and a Scrambled Egg Sausage Potato Box. I was thinking there at my table about my adolescent days when I was fascinated with enclosed shopping malls, like Lulu Island's Richmond Centre and Lansdowne Centre, as well as Vancouver's Harbour Centre Mall, and reflecting on future space colonies on Luna, Mars, Saturn's moon Titan, and Neptune's moon Triton, as I tied the ideas with the speculative fiction that I was reading and watching then. Of course, that time was before the advent of advanced Artificial Intelligence that we have today and the observance of the years passing by with such slow progress in crewed space travel. I have had to adjust my vision of the future, accordingly. Maybe, AI will help humans to that end? Or, maybe, AI will be the major player?
朝早十點幾之後，我就行去星巴克咖啡館，因為我發現 Tim Hortons 咖啡館好擠滿人。 今日係星期六，好唔尋常。 係星巴克，我享用咗一杯 Grande 夏日浆果檸檬水茶點。 佢嘅顏色係節日嘅藍色同紅色，有覆盆子、藍莓同黑莓嘅味道，入面仲有覆盆子味嘅珍珠。今朝有5個咖啡師活躍：3個菲律賓人、1個越南人同1個中國人。我都鍾意喺星巴克，因為個氣氛好暗，好似洞穴噉，喺蛤蜊廟，我鍾意喺 Tim Hortons 嘅崇拜沙龍入面嘅闊闊空曠，喺星巴克之後，我行去附近嘅 Kin's Farm Market 買咗一袋我想影嘅墨西哥番石榴粟米薯仔橘子豬肉卷嚟自852廚房食品精品店。 我可能會等到露台上晒太陽先喺嗰度影相。 2025 年 6 月 14 號，今日係多雲嘅日子。
🔗 Analyze phraseAfter 10 o'clock in the morning, I headed walking to Starbucks café, after I discovered that Tim Hortons café was jam-packed. It's Saturday today, so it's unusual. At Starbucks, I enjoyed a Grande Summer-Berry Lemonade Refresher. It was festively blue and red in colour with raspberry, blueberry, and blackberry flavours embedded with raspberry-flavoured pearls. There were this morning 5 baristas active: 3 Filipinos, 1 Vietnamese, and 1 Mandarin Chinese. I like it at Starbucks, too, due to the dimmer cavern-like ambiance. At the Clam Temple, I like the wide, vast emptiness in the worship salon. At Tim Hortons, I like the sun rays beaming from the bay windows. After Starbucks, I walked to the nearby Kin's Farm Market to buy a bag of 10 Mexican guavas, which were already yellow. I want to take pictures of them sliced and accompanying my tofu fish cuttlefish corn potato tangerine pork rolls from 852 Kitchen food boutique. I might wait until it's sunny on the verandah to photograph there. It's a cloudy day, this 14th of June of 2025.
今日係2025年5月18號。20點過後，我行去 Tim Hortons 咖啡館，享用一杯橙白花菜配埋燕麥奶。喺我個石灰綠色袋入面，袋入面有一幅綠色蜥蜴嘅圖像，我帶咗兩本書去咖啡廳睇，一本係世界語，一本係間語：蒂博 · 塞克爾嘅《印第安諾之蘭多》，同埋斯文 · 弗蘭克嘅《印第安語嘅孔托斯》。綠色同藍色，佢哋係。世界語書係一個關於巴西紅印第安人嘅叢林生活嘅故事。 Interlingua 嘅書係一本兒童故事集。當時仲係日落之前。返到屋企，我見到屋企人嘅菲律賓朋友 Perlita 同 Glenn 喺餐廳同媽咪傾緊計，佢哋帶咗個水果托盤，入面有紅色西瓜塊、葡萄串、橙片等等。佢哋仲帶咗菲律賓意粉同菲律賓煎餅麵。我哋講咗好似 Tim Hortons 、 7-Eleven 、 A & W 等等嘅富豪連鎖店，同埋露露島嘅零售店租金有幾咁高，所以我哋鄰近嘅兩間7-Eleven 店舖已經閂咗門； 佢哋企咗超過40年！
🔗 Analyze phraseIt's the 18th of May of 2025. After 20:00, I headed walking to Tim Hortons café to enjoy an Orange Pekoe Tea with oat milk. In my lime green sack with a green lizard image thereon, I brought two books to the café to read, one Esperanto, one Interlingua: Tra Lando de Indianoj, by Tibor Sekelj, and Contos in Interlingua, by Sven Frank. Green and Blue, they are. The Esperanto book is a tale about life in the jungles of Red Indians in Brazil. The Interlingua book is a collection of children's tales. It was still before sunset. Arriving home, I saw that family Filipino friends Perlita and Glenn were talking to Mama in the dining room. They brought a fruit tray that includes red watermelon chunks, grape bunches, orange slices, etc. They brought also Philippine spaghetti and Philippine pancit noodles. We talked about rich chains like Tim Hortons, 7-Eleven, A&W, etc. and how so high the rental is for retail stores on Lulu Island, so that two 7-Eleven stores have closed in our neighbourhood; they stood for over 40 years!
今日係2025年5月17號，13點後，我又行去 Tim Hortons 咖啡館，喺嗰度嘆住伯爵茶配埋燕麥奶。 我聽日買咗一盒20個蜂蜜浸 Timbits （甜甜圈窿）畀屋企人。咖啡廳入面有一對熟悉嘅東方白人混血夫婦，當中個男人個樣好似音樂家約翰 · 列侬咁好怪怪哋。三個熟悉嘅青少年黑人入嚟，其中一個令我諗起我牙買加朋友 Graeme S., 佢叔叔係音樂家 Phil Collins 。我讀大學嗰陣，我同我啲朋友有時會去參觀 Graeme 有錢嘅 Victor 叔叔喺西溫哥華嘅屋企，佢係猶太人。 佢哋間大屋有個後院按摩浴缸同個泳池，可以望到布拉德入口，當嗰個國家喺1980年代開放嗰陣，格雷姆嘅叔叔同姨姨係第一批去中國嘅遊客之一。佢哋帶返個睇落好古老嘅弦樂器嚟。（順帶一提，我姨姨米拉喺1970年代去過中國，當時中國仲係一個禁國。姨姨係菲律賓巴雅尼漢舞蹈團嘅某種管理員。）
🔗 Analyze phraseIt's the 17th of May of 2025. After 13:00, I walked to Tim Hortons café again, there to sip Earl Grey Tea with oat milk. I bought a box of 20 Honey Dip Timbits (donut holes) for family guests tomorrow. There was in the café the familiar Oriental-white hybrid couple, of which the man looked eerily like John Lennon the musician. A trio of familiar teenage mulattoes entered, one of which reminded me of my Jamaican friend, Graeme S., whose uncle was Phil Collins the musician. When I was in university, I and my friends would sometimes visit the West Vancouver house of Graeme's rich Uncle Victor, who was Jewish. Their grand house had a backyard Jacuzzi and a swimming pool, overlooking Burrard Inlet. Graeme's uncle and aunt were one of the first tourists to China when that country opened up in the 1980s. They brought back with them an ancient-looking stringed instrument. (Incidentally, my Auntie Mila visited China in the 1970s when it was still a forbidden country. Auntie was some kind of administrator for the Philippine Bayanihan dance troupe.)
今日係2025年7月9號，對夏天嚟講有啲濕。喺 Tim Hortons 咖啡館，我一個人開派對，喺唔同時間食咗兩個 Supreme Stack 三文治，對我嚟講係一個奢侈嘅開支。我飲咗兩杯燕麥奶嘅冰咖啡同一杯冰經典檸檬水。我冇食過水果爆炸松露。我見到個白人 Lyle 坐喺另一個角落。喺7號，我去咗聖阿爾本斯道嘅羅馬天主教教堂「蛤蜊廟」，今年第66次。號，我見到哈薩克人 Timur ，佢喺 Tim Hortons 咖啡館等緊佢個「火熱嘅波斯人」女朋友。第一次見到佢，我問：「你係日本人？菲律賓人？中國人？韓國人？我估唔到 … … 」，因為佢否認咗呢個猜測嘅順序，就好似我幾年前喺 Pizza Hut 嘅薄餅餐員朋友 Adil 噉同埋識講俄文、哈薩克文同埋重口音嘅英文。佢着住件綠色迷彩軍裝短褲。 我哋傾咗好多嘢，包括佢對電子遊戲嘅興趣同埋輔士間斯拉夫。
🔗 Analyze phraseToday is the 9th of July of 2025, a bit of a wet day for summer. At Tim Hortons café, I partied by myself by eating two Supreme Stack sandwiches at different times, an extravagant expense for me. I drank two Iced Coffees with oat milk and an Iced Classic Lemonade. I didn't have a Fruit Explosion Muffin. I saw Lyle the white man sitting at a different corner. On the 7th, I went to the "Clam Temple," the Roman Catholic church on St. Albans Road, for the 66th time this year. On the 6th, I met Timur the Kazakh, waiting for his "fiery Persian" girlfriend at Tim Hortons café. The first time that I saw him, I enquired: "Are you Japanese? Filipino? Chinese? Korean? I couldn't guess..." as he denied the sequence of guesses. He was "Kazakh," like my pizza delivery man friend Adil from years ago at Pizza Hut. Timur is a handsome man, part-Russian and speaks Russian, Kazakh, and heavily accented English. He was wearing green camouflage army shorts. We talked about a lot of things, including his interest in video games and the auxlang Interslavic.
今日天氣好晴朗，即係2025年6月2號。我着住我件連帽紅色、灰色同黑色嘅開衫。我拎住個石灰綠色嘅袋，袋上面有隻蜥蜴嘅畫。我着住個綠色頭巾。 （我係一個長期嘅世界語愛好者。）朝早同下晝，我行去 Tim Hortons 咖啡館，飲啲唔同嘅飲品同埋一個脆雞令人垂涎嘅三文治。有時，我會渴望缺席嘅嘢，例如巴克拉瓦、卡諾利、巴菲、哈爾瓦，同埋其他太甜同異國嘅嘢。朝早亦都係我今年春天第24次去聖阿爾本斯道嘅羅馬天主教教堂。「嗰個喺崇拜堂入面幾乎係空嘅。」呢個教區入面有好多菲律賓人。喺鮑科道附近嘅宏偉嘅皇后樹，日本人叫佢「 Kiri 」，到而家已經失去咗大部分紫色盛開嘅光輝。呢種物種嘅起源係東亞，而喺呢度嘅露露島。佢個樣好似南美洲嘅藍花楹，亦都係紫色開花嘅。順帶一提，作為一個語言學筆記，可能對好多人嚟講，日文片假名已經足以滿足佢哋對語言學嘅好奇心，因為佢真係滿足到語言學習嘅圖形維度。片假名嘅字就好似「眼糖」噉。
🔗 Analyze phraseIt's sunny today, the 2nd of June of 2025. I'm wearing my hooded red, grey, and black cardigan. I carry a lime green sack with a lizard drawing thereon. I wear a green touque. (I'm a long-time Esperantist.) In the morning and in the afternoon, I went walking to Tim Hortons café to have some varied drinks and a Crispy Chicken Craveable Sandwich. Sometimes, I crave absent things like baklava, cannoli, barfi, halva, and others too sweet and exotic. In the morning also was my 24th visit this spring to the Roman Catholic church on St. Albans Road. 'Twas practically empty in the worship hall. There are many Filipinos in this parish. The grand Empress Tree, called "Kiri" by Japanese, near Bowcock Road, has lost most of its purple blooming glory by now. The species originates in East Asia, and is here on Lulu Island. It looks like the Jacaranda, also purple-bloomed, in South America. Incidentally, as a linguistic note, maybe for many, Japanese Katakana would suffice for their linguistic curiosity, as it does really satisfy the graphic dimension of language learning. Katakana words are like "eye candy."
呢個2025年5月7號喺朝早開始有灰色嘅雲，但係之後就變成夏日嘅晴天。今年春天我第五次行去聖阿爾本斯道嘅羅馬天主教教堂，我見到我嘅斐濟鄰居莫利喺佢嘅草坪上面除草，而佢冇修剪緊佢啲好似肥同細啲陰莖噉嘅灌木，因為佢鍾意「控制植物」，所以我向佢提出咗盆景嘅藝術（佢個名嘅意思斐濟嘅「橙色」係中國同東印度嘅混血兒。）我繼續去教堂。今日係星期三，所以主要嘅崇拜堂同較細嘅崇拜教堂幾乎都係空嘅。除咗嗰間教堂之外，我仲鍾意去史提夫斯頓公路嘅佛寺。今日，喺一段長嘅步行入面，我向威廉斯道嘅摩門教寺廟方向行。我見到有啲小公園，有啲高樹。我第一次偷窺摩門教聖殿入面。安長老介紹咗我。佢係一個識講華語嘅香港人。佢係一班為普通話人士提供服務嘅傳教士團隊之一，喺呢度露露島。後來行多啲之後，我喺 Tim Hortons 咖啡廳飲咗經典檸檬水。
🔗 Analyze phraseThis 7th of May of 2025 started with grey clouds in the morning but became a summery sunny day later on. On my 5th walk this spring to the Roman Catholic church on St. Albans Road, I saw my Fijian neighbour Moli weeding her lawn, whilst she was not trimming her shrubs shaped like small fat phalluses. As she liked "controlling plants," I suggested to her about the art of bonsai. (Her name means "orange" in Fijian. Moli is a Chinese and East Indian hybrid.) I went on to the church. Today's Wednesday, so the main worship hall and the smaller Adoration Chapel are almost empty. Besides that church, I like visiting the Buddhist temple on Steveston Highway. Today, in a long walk, I trudged towards the Mormon temple on Williams Road. I saw some small parks with tall trees. I peeked inside the Mormon temple for the very first time. Elder On introduced me. He is a Cantonese that speaks also Mandarin. He is one of a team of missionaries that cater to Mandarin-speakers, here on Lulu Island. Later after walking more, I had Classic Lemonade at Tim Hortons café.
喺2025年6月27號，喺露露島嘅 Tim Hortons 咖啡館，我同丹麥法國人 Michael L. J. 講緊奇琴伊察，呢個同馬丘比丘混淆咗。我同佢講，我去過前者。我哋兩個都喺我哋自己嘅旅行中喺墨西哥嘅海域浮潛過。然後，我哋講咗點樣唔係「太空精通」嘅人係大部分人類，因為我哋兩個都係天文學家。我話我唔經常跟新聞，因為佢哋只係「呢塊鹽石」嘅本地人，即係人哋稱之為地球。太空真係好廣闊！我哋講咗神秘嘅鄰里燈光，米高將呢啲燈光歸因於地外生物或者靈性。號，我同我嘅希臘塞浦路斯前鄰居 Bob 傾咗計，佢而家住喺英國一個古鎮。 佢喺呢度露露島探緊佢屋企人。 我同佢講，呢個係「我嘅幻想，住喺一個舊國家」，就好似我之前住喺日本一樣。 我啲菲律賓屋企人都係搵緊歐盟護照，同埋需要文件去支持我哋嘅希臘嘅血統而家係29號，因為我喺朝早四點前喺我張梳化度休息。
🔗 Analyze phraseOn the 27th of June of 2025, at Lulu Island's Tim Hortons café, I was talking to Michael L. J. the Dane-French about Chichén Itzá, which one confused with Machu Picchu. I told him that I've been to the former. We both have snorkelled in the waters of Mexico on our own travels. Then, we talked about how not "space-savvy" is most of humanity, as we are both astronomers. I said that I don't often follow the news, because they're just local to "this pebble" that one calls Earth. Space is really vast! We talked about mysterious neighbourhood lights that Michael attributes to extraterrestrials or spirituality. On the 28th, I talked with Bob my Greek-Cypriot ex-neighbour who now lives in an ancient town in England. He's visiting his family here on Lulu Island. I told him that it was "my fantasy to live in an old country," as I did live in Japan before. Some of my Filipino family are seeking an EU passport and needing documents to support our ancestry in Greece. It's the 29th now, as I rest in my couch just before 4 in the morning.
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