Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

Golfer is having a ball in Dallas.  Women in Dallas dressed to the nine to go to golf tourneys, skinpie short skirts, high heels … there were even groupies hanging around at trendy hotel W when he checked in.  Of course he said he didn’t …. but his colleagues did, :))).  The dinner party was great, with [...]

Slowpoke came home with her lacrosse uniform, top and skirt, in blue … I need to sneak a pic for the record.

Professor Ma is a native of Hefei, capital of Anhui Province and the cradle of the 淮系 Huai Clique that had dominated China and the world from 1860 till the death of its curator Li Hongzhang in 1901.  He edited two books on the Huai Clique, one focused on the military leaders and one on civil which [...]

Golfer is off to Byron Nelson tourney in Irving Texas, playing and entertaining his clients.  Just the other day we talked about handicap, a practice of giving advantage to a player of lesser ability to level off the playing field.  … I thought about Chinese historians in China: on the surface, they should be the one dishing [...]

One of my forebears was dismissed under the imminent pressure of a foreign power’s naval intervention in 1895.  It’s a myth to me that he’s been picked as the culprit, for the calamity that leading up to the British ultimatum didn’t even occur in the province where he governed as the Viceroy. So I spent [...]

Jap should just make that official and get on with it.  S Korea might be able to be pushed aside, but not when China is also weighted in.  The economical success had given Chinese a great leverage and sense of pride.  We  want to right the wrong.  We have the right and means to just do [...]

At one time, we had more than 20 people showed up on the same night for badminton.  But lately, there were few nights hardly anyone showed up … so I generously labeled myself as the professional, lol.  Last Wednesday there were only Mike, Simon and I.  Today we had exactly a foursome: Mike, Sunny Simon and [...]