The selfish, base, covetous, father-in-law was not at all desirous to have a highborn beggar and the posterity of a highborn beggar to maintain.

Seeing that we didn’t know anything about ourselves, he whipped out three sticks of tea and said to go ahead, supper’d be ready soon.

The kiasi (those afraid to die) who insist on seeing a doctor for the most minor complaint such as my baby sneezed this morning leh.

Fearful that the Japanese forces at Lung-ling would mount a counterattack and eventually overrun the Chinese and cross the Salween River, the generalissimo added to the issues a request that the Chinese soldiers who fought at Myitkyina be redeployed to the Lung-ling front. Chiang could not order but only ask for these troops because once they entered Burma they were part of Mountbatten’s Southeast Asia Command.