Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

       I had my make up lesson today with a fill-in coach.  He’s the first one ever to tell me, “don’t jump” on serving.  Geeeee, serve comes very nature to me too, it’s like part of me, lol … No jumping?  I felt odd.  One of the girls checked me out, asking where and when do I [...]

Forest and I both grew up on the CAS compound, Chinese Academy of Science in Zhongguancun, now dabbed as Sillicon Valley. Our parents worked at the same institute. He’s not only tall and dashing but he spent his weekends at Zhongnanhai with his cousins whose dad served as President of China during the 80s. We called [...]

– The gunman in Monday’s Virginia Tech campus shootings has been
identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a student and native of South Korea,
campus police chief Wendell Flinchum said.
I thought when the Asians get depressed or upset they commit suicide, only killing themselves.  Gosh, the trend is changing now, or it’s the kimchi effect?  S Koreans do [...]

The juniors of the senior cadres - princelings are selected few in China, mostly in Beijing. They are privileged because of their parents had rendered service or given lives to the liberation of China. Supposedly the national flag is soaked with their blood.  The poster boy of the princeling at the moment is the Bo Xilai, [...]

Before I began to learn English when I was in Beijing, I’ve never realized just how differently we Chinese greeted each other from the West, for we didn’t say how do you do or how are you up on meeting.  Rather, we said 吃了没有chi le mei you - have you eaten yet.  It was when food was scarce.  [...]