Archive for May 21st, 2007

May 21 2007

Cycling is the new golf

Published by The Kibbitzer under Current Affairs, Sports

Cycling is the new golf, at least in Silicon Valley.  On any given weekend morning, scores of spandex-clad rainmakers coverage on coffee shop parking lots across Silicon Valley to prepare for a mourning climb up the roads that wind their way through the nearby hills …  This’s been going on for a while.  I do [...]

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May 21 2007

She scored two goals

Published by The Kibbitzer under Saga, Sports

Ya, Slowpoke scored 2 goals at today’s lacrosse, but her team still lost.

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May 21 2007

A sudden assignment

My g/f’s Mom marched into town late last night, called me up at 9:30am this morning, needing a chauffeur basically, lol …  No, not that bad, I missed seeing her, and she wanted to talked about some biz. So hurriedly, I rushed out of the door by 9:45. Dropped off the tennis racquet to restrung, [...]

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May 21 2007

The American influence

Published by The Kibbitzer under View from Bottom

Like it or not, America has profound influence on the world, from culture, entertainment, to how business should be conducted.  The Jap has the reality show for the longest time, it didn’t matter till the Americans begin to enjoy it.  LD, laser disks were so popular in Hong Kong, didn’t matter either.  America skipped that all [...]

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May 21 2007

Carter vs Bush

Published by The Kibbitzer under Current Affairs

Does Jimmy Carter have a book to promote or what?  Who’s he to criticize when Bush’s record beat his?  Geee I hardly remember that he was a president once.  Oh, no, he’s the one who got elected after Nixon.  A dog registered as a democrat would have won at the time.  Pls someone ought to [...]

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May 21 2007

Colloquial English

Published by The Kibbitzer under View from Bottom

One of colloquial English is Singaporeans’ lah, can not lah, or can lah, meaning can’t or can. They like to add lah at the end to stress their abilities or commitments.  I know they can people for petty offense, so do Singaporeans say can lah as strong affirmative to canning the kid who spitted his chewing gum, hard? [...]

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May 21 2007

Famir on DAX

Published by The Kibbitzer under Trade of the day

A nice farmir on DAX this morning.  2 trades in gold resulted in a $80 loss.  One more trade in gold made it into plus.

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