So for a long time, I was taking lessons on Italki. During Covid I took a Chinese lesson every day and I remember at that time I was paying around six dollars or seven dollars per hour so it was very affordable every day. But recently, I have found the prices on Italki to be …
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So after I got the news that my mom had been in the hospital, I soon came back to my hometown of Atlanta. This is not something I was expecting, but I am very honored to serve my family. In the middle of September, my mother fell and hit her head and then had a …
As I think about the influence AI has made on the digital landscape in a short period of time, and factoring in the speed at which things are changing, I feel it is important to give some careful thought about what I will do as an individual. At first, I was very resistant to the …
As an entrepreneur, balancing work and life can feel like walking a tightrope. It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day of running businesses, like building Dance Studio Manager or making sure Dance Forums keeps going strong. But I’ve found that taking a step back, especially when things slow down, can be the most …
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I just made an interesting discovery about how Google’s Core Web Vitals can impact AdSense earnings—and it’s not what I expected! Here’s what I’ve noticed: After I fix page experience issues (like improving load speed or visual stability), my earnings don’t increase immediately. But when I ask Google to recheck my Core Web Vitals through …
Of course Los Angeles can get pretty hot in August, so I was looking for a shady hike not too far from where I live in Azusa, and I was pleasantly surprised to find a beautiful trail that follows a creek, and has plenty of shade. There are multiple trails, but we chose the one …
I actually didn’t know about about Luna Cats (ルナ, Runa), but when I had covid in 2021, I drew a lot of drawing including these of Luna Cats. Apparently they are her companions are the Sailor Guardians, but I don’t know much about that. As I understand Luna can talk and serves as a sort …
This was one of the slides at an event I attended last night. Everyone spoke Chinese, and the speaker gave a lecture for more than an hour about motivating yourself, and then he went on to talk about making money selling Life Insurance which I was not interested in, but great speaker! Here is the …
I had the honor (finally) of coming to see many of the survivors of the Monterey Park shooting that occured on January 11, 2023 in which 11 people were killed and at least 9 wounded. There was a many who had attended Star Dance Studio years previously, and he had developed some kind of mental …
It’s been about 3 years since I became the organizer of the Irvine Chinese and English Meetup group. Not only do we have a Meetup.com group with about 1400 members but we also have a WeChat group with 250 members. You can see our picture from this week. It looks like we had about 22 …
