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Last Friday my wechat screen was all in a sudden occupied by friends’ photos with a common subject of ‘ 我们 ’ (we). I had a Baidu search and found the reason. (Google doesn’t work in this case. In terms of search results in China Google is far less accurate and helpful.) Fan Bingbing and Li Chen, the two film stars, leaked their status of relationship to the public early this year. Unlike most of the other celebrities, the couple has been making their relationship open to the public. They mentioned each other on Sina Weibo and interact with each other. On Friday morning Li Chen posted a photo of the couple with the headline of ‘ 我们 ’ (we) on Sina Weibo. One minute later Fan Bingbing shared the post on her Sina Weibo page with the same subject of ‘ 我们 ’ (we).  This is a high key statement of relationship between themselves and the message was immediately spread over online across different platforms. What's amazing was soon afterwards, people online started t...

Mrs Puggy Wuggy has a square cut punt

I guess you might have heard about this tong twister: Mrs Puggy Wuggy has a square cut punt. Not a punt cut square, Just a square cut punt. It's round in the stern and blunt in the front. Mrs Puggy Wuggy has a square cut punt. Yes, that's where my blog name came from. I heard of this tong twister when I was in a drama school evening class. Before we stepped onto the stage we would do a bit of tong twister to warm up our mouths. What Mrs Puggy Wuggy did totally did not make sense to me. However I remembered this funny name. I'd like to record this funny vocal in my blog URL and on the top of my blog so as to remind me that there is always something I don't know and something fun outside to be explored!