Tag Archives: Chinese

Rabbit Hole for high G ukulele

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Anne Ku

Rabbit Hole is a solo piece for high G ukulele from the forthcoming 12 Chinese Zodiac Tunes by Anne Ku. Continue reading →

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3 Chord Thursday Multi-Lingual Songs

Posted on April 26, 2024 by Anne Ku

3 Chord Thursday Multi-Lingual Songs theme in Zoom with French, Spanish, Chinese Mandarin, and other languages. Continue reading →

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Chinese tea dyed eggs or marbled tea eggs

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Anne Ku

At first sight, it looks a bit scary. The lines on the hard-boiled egg are formed by the cracks in the egg shells, thus absorbing the tea liquid. What does a tea dyed egg taste like? Is it healthy? When … Continue reading →

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3 Chord Thursday Chinese Zodiac Signs

Posted on January 3, 2023 by Anne Ku

Learn Happy Birthday song in Chinese and the 12 Zodiac Signs. Which one are you? Continue reading →

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The Moon Represents My Heart 月亮代表我的心

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Anne Ku

The moon will turn full tomorrow, so-named “Beaver Moon”, becoming a blood moon and a lunar eclipse. Called “beaver blood moon lunar eclipse”, it will be visible between 4:10 am and 7:49 am EST. An early night is in order … Continue reading →

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Learn Chinese through song

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Anne Ku

There are many ways to learn a language. Short of completely immersing yourself in the culture, among the people, in the country, you can take a language course. There is a short cut. Learn a language through song. Register for … Continue reading →

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Three Chord Thursday Year of the Ox

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Anne Ku

To celebrate the lunar new year, we will wear RED to welcome happiness, good luck and fortune, as well as share three chord songs about ox, oxen, cows, and other bovine creatures on Thursday February 18th, 2021.

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The gift of a music education for yourself or Mother’s Day present

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Anne Ku

I am forever grateful to my parents for the gift of a music education. I remember my mother tirelessly driving a great distance to my piano teacher’s home off-base on Okinawa. In the hot and humid afternoon, she took a … Continue reading →

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Business models: my grandfather the entrepreneur

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Anne Ku

Over the years, I subconsciously collected stories of successful business models with a view to writing and publishing an e-book to share with like-minded individuals. Here’s the story of my late grandfather who built a successful English school in Taiwan.

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Remembering dad on Father’s Day

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Anne Ku

Today may be the first time I’m joining everyone else in cyberspace, to remember my dad on Father’s Day. In Mandarin Chinese, the word for father is “ba ba” which sounds like “eight eight” — thus the eighth day of … Continue reading →

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