The English word “tea” comes from the Hokkien (southern Fújiàn 福建) pronunciation, tê, which is also the source of the botanical Latin “thea” and of the pronunciations used in southeast Asia (such as Indonesian teh) and in much of western Europe (Dutch thee, German Tee, French thé, Italian tè, etc.).
— From: A Note on Tea

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Just when I thought I won’t be able to write for a while (dire need to recover from a ‘dead’ mind), I decided to write this. Actually, I need to sleep early because I have to do some work early tomorrow morning before heading off to teach my tutorial class, but I just couldn’t sleep […]

I haven’t written anything for close to a month now. It’s not that I don’t want to write, really. I would write everyday if I could, but that doesn’t pay me a job, neither does it help in enhancing my core competencies, which are, by default, my programming skills. Actually, at any one time […]

I’ve been so freaking busy lately with tonnes of work piling up that I haven’t had time to even look at my own website for the past few days. I guess it’ll be quite a while before I start updating and writing articles worth reading, because I’m more likely to start ranting given the […]

I haven’t written anything for a long, long time. Actually I do have a lot of things to write, but for now, I do not have the time to do so.
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