Archive for May 19th, 2007

May 19 2007

Reascending Jinggan Mountain

Published by The Kibbitzer under Celestial Empire

Reascending Jinggan Mountain is the name of a Mao’s poem that we all learned to memorize at school.  Written during his re-visit there May 22-29 1965, 38 years after the first gun shot that ultimately established the PLA.  Very testosterone, not my most favored of his, but there are few lines that I like to [...]

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May 19 2007

The press release

Published by The Kibbitzer under Celestial Empire

Forest’s tour press release in Beijing was a hit,  CCTV, Xinhua … all covered it.  Lord, he looked old.  I’ve been nagging him to quit smoking, lol… guess all felt on deaf ears.  Oh well.  I should get a new hobby and quit nagging.

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May 19 2007

Hand me up

Published by The Kibbitzer under Saga

I used to dress my kids, back then, in a simpler times.  I didn’t have to worry about their approval, went whenever my time allowed  …. Today Slowpoke wanted to go cloth shopping, so I cut my tennis short, showered…. “mom, you smell nice”; and put on a decent outfit, “you looked nice”  so I didn’t [...]

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May 19 2007

Beijing sets up futures safety net

China plans to establish a fund to protect investors against failures and mismanagement at futures brokerages.  The rumor that China is launching a index futures is true and imminent.  Many had predict in July.  The initial target for the fund is 800m RMB, about US$104m, small, but a good first step.  They had established China Financial [...]

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