Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

I’m so beat, played tennis three times: early morning with my usual group, mid day per Slowpoke’s request and night when she took her lesson, I ended up playing with Henry.  He and his wife were very much on my mind, becasue the protest thing yesterday.  They both are very active, she now works (not [...]

I’ve a friend in town who stays at the W on Lex at 50th Street where many the draftees stay.  This W hotel isn’t the nicest one, felt cheap.  There are many groupies around, but most of them aren’t pretty, couple of them are down right fatso … … I just love football but never been [...]

From left to right -
Back row:
Mom and Dad
Jiujiu 舅舅: mom’s older brother
Xiaoyi 小姨: mom’s younger sister
Front row:
Nainai 奶奶: Yeye’s last concubine
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Yeye 爷爷: my maternal grandfather
Popo 婆婆: my maternal grandmother

Not yet in the picture:
Jiumu 舅母: Jiujiu’s wife
Xiaoyifu 小姨父: Xiaoyi’s husband

Slowpoke played Katie yesterday.  They rallied nicely for an hour, constantly saying ’sorry’ and the other would return ‘that’s ok’, :)) ..  Each hit plenty winners!  Still would say, ’sorry’, so cute.  Toward the end, I suggested them to play a game or two.  Katie served first with 4 double faults.  Slowpoke served two double faults [...]

I got an e-mail for a protest at CBS TV station in the city at noon today.  It said little about the reason other than ‘CBS program’s humiliated Chinese … ‘  What exactly did the host or hosts say to be offensive to us?
This reminded me of an incident happened in the spring 2003 in our [...]