Last week, a friend of mine asked me to check out Sacha Chua’s Living an Awesome Life blog: http://sachachua.com/blog/. A warm and fuzzy feeling came over me clicking through the postings. Here I found someone else who is dedicated to living life intentionally. At an early age, I realized happiness…
Yesterday I joined seven technical writers in a Meetup group for lunch at the Ottawa Bagel Shop. Len Fardella, owner of Peter’s New Jobs told me about this group when he heard that I want to meet more technical writers (technical writing and translation are closely related). It is a…
In the last month, I have been meeting with many translators residing in the National Capital region. Almost all of them are my “competitors” who compete for government business. They usually translate from English into French (Quebec) and most of them are suppliers for the Translation Bureau. A number of…
Spanish is the official language in 20 countries. It is spoken by 417 million people around the world (Ethnologue) and it’s the third language used online after English and Chinese. Even if it’s not an official language, Spanish is the second most used language in the United States; 95% of…
I am almost running out translation jokes from my trip to China last November - seriously! This picture was taken at the five star resort Chimelong Park (I feel very bad now - I have blogged so many times about them - all in negative context but it was a…