Unpacking
If moving is hell, then unpacking all this tea and teaware must be the 9th level of hell.
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Once upon a time, everybody used Hotmail as their default free webmail address. Then, Gmail came along…. and the world has never been the same since. Long story short, today I just re-logged into my...
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Teas from different places
Haven’t really been able to post anything recently, but I took a few pictures of different places where I had some tea… No, I didn’t add sugar.
View ArticleGrowing culture
I didn’t realize that it’s possible to grow mold in heavily chlorinated water, which is what I get from the tap. I added some water to two glasses and put them in my storage closet for my puerh. I...
View ArticleWelcome
Welcome, all, to my blog’s new home. Please say hi, and I hope you find this a more pleasant experience to deal with than the old site. I think everything transferred here without too much of a...
View ArticleLearning old lessons
This is, according to my new blog dashboard, the 1000th post on this blog. I’m slowly going through the process of re-titling all my posts and retagging everything, because when I exported all the...
View ArticleA tea meeting in New England?
I know there are plenty of tea drinkers in New England, more specifically in the greater Boston/Massachusetts region. Is there any interest, anywhere, for a meeting of some sort? I have been thinking...
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Packing and shipping
One of the most painful things about moving is packing up everything. What you see here, alas, is only a fraction of what I have. Teaware, as we all know, are fragile, breakable things. Pots, cups,...
View ArticleEmails sent
Last posting about the curated samples #1 in a while – I just sent out emails to everyone. You should’ve gotten an email either for 1) getting a sample, 2) not getting a sample, or 3) being on the wait...
View ArticleI was tagged
So Michael J. Coffey tagged me to answer these “confessions of a tea blogger.” Here goes 1) First, let’s start with how you were introduced & fell in love with the wonderful beverage of tea....
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To the Hong Kong police
Bottom, between the tires “To the Hong Kong Police: You turn out because of your orders But we are all brothers One look at me, and you know I won’t fight you So why don’t you go back and have a sip...
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The death of a tea fair
I’ve been going to the Hong Kong International Tea Fair for maybe six years in running now, and every single year, it is getting smaller and sadder. The fair is part of the larger Hong Kong Food Expo,...
View ArticleGarage sale
As I mentioned earlier, I’m in the process of sorting my teaware, and am also looking to let go of some of the stuff I’ve collected over the years that I don’t want to keep anymore. It’s going to be...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing an archive
So, one reason the blog isn’t nearly as active as before is because I don’t have a lot of new things to say. I feel like a lot of stuff that I need to say, I have already said (sometimes multiple...
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