Taomeow

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  1. Do you have a blog or a website?

    Nice looking site! (talking presentation for now, might explore later.) My Grandmaster is also Chen Zhenglei. Which makes you my taiji brother. (Unless of course you mix "creativity" into the traditional style, in which case it makes you my taiji not-my-cup-of-qi. )
  2. Who are these people ?

    That Ermakov book was first published in 1995. The 90s were the lawless decade for the freshly collapsed USSR, and there's no end to horror stories I heard and read about those times... but they were unique in that respect, those times I mean. I did take that trip as a toddler, and I could swear I remember stuff -- except my mom told me stories about it later, so it's hard to tell now which ones I really remember and which ones came alive for me based on what she told me. If anything, according to my mom people on the train were afraid of me, because I looked like a much younger child but talked like a much older one -- they thought I was some bewitched infant, and some old ladies discreetly made the sign of the cross...
  3. Who are these people ?

    Interesting thread, thank you.
  4. Who are these people ?

    This thread has lake Bikal and lake Bakai but it is Baikal. Buryat-Mongolic languages origin. In Buryat it is pronounced closer to Baygal, the meaning is something like "rich lake" or "nature" -- I guess it was almost the same thing to the folks who named it.