The last couple of posts have been of bookmarks that my friends brought me back from China. This is the third and final one, and is of blue-and-white pottery on a blade-style bookmark.
But it also comes with a special engraving: 郝好. This is pronounced “Hao Hao” (or something like that), and a few years back we came up with it as my “Chinese name.” The first character is a surname. The second basically means “good,” as in the greeting 你好 (ni hao: hello). I don’t think there are many people with the name Hao Hao, but it’s kind of fun. And a great bookmark!
Book: China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikötter
Alex Good 
That is very good! In all sorts of ways. Are your friends also Chinese?
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They’re originally from China, but Canadian now. Good friends!
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That’s nice.
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So, what’s the chinese for bad? I can call you that with a straight face anyway 😉
I have really enjoyed these bookmark posts. While they are strictly themed, they open up wide avenues for the comments and I never feel like I’m constrained (not that I feel that way very often anyway, but you know what I mean).
I hope you continue them in ’25…
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Like in English, there seem to be a lot of different words for bad. According to the Internetz it’s 坏 or maybe 糟糕 for really bad or the worst.
The bookmark posts will keep coming, but I have a feeling at some point I’m going to start posting less. Especially when my house becomes a construction site.
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You doing MORE work on the house? What is next?
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The basement is almost done. But now the whole rest of the house has to be torn apart. Going to be a rough start to the year.
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Oh my. Well, I can totally see why you will be blogging less.
If you ever feel the need to blab, you can always join Fraggle and me on Whatsapp. Instant messaging isn’t quite the same as commenting on blogs, but it scratches that itch!
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