Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

Larry and David Prince (on the right) are colleagues of K L Chow, whom I met last December in San Francisco.  Larry was the one I initially went to see.  He came late for the meeting, walking briskly with a sweat.  Once he sat down on the bench, he talked about Chow at length, with affection.  On our [...]

My summer starts from French Open in May, ends when the man hoists his trophy over his head at Flushing Meadow.  Then life goes back to normal, or abnormal, :).  My first fall gathering is two weeks away.  Soon we’ll have hot pot .. ..

Kids know their limit.  They test that limit all the time.  They negotiate that limit all the time too.  When mine were little, when the hope was still burning bright that they’ll speak Mandarin.  Let’s start from simply task, like asking me in Mandarin for things.  Didn’t work.  Like when they wanted milk … fine Mom, I don’t [...]

FedEx pocketed $1.4m from the US Open easily, plus another $1m as bonus.  A buddy of mine decided to work there every year since his second year playing tennis.  It’s been 4 years in a row.  Each year he has to apply, felt lucky being chose.  This year his job was crowd control.  Working 2 weeks straight.  He [...]

I played a relative mistake free match with Simon against Bob and Peter.  I choked 3 points in the tie break = lost.  When the ball comes fast and furious, I seem to have a better answer for it than when it’s soft, I mostly don’t know what to do, with too much time on hand.  Story of [...]

Joker is being destroyed, was up 4:1 in the second, ended up losing it too.  I miss Sampras very much, for his serve and volley style of play.  So did Becker.  One year he stubbornly stayed by the baseline and won the championship.  I found that amazing.  FedEx is only few years older, but looks [...]

Djokovic Joker 地包天 had 5 chances at 6:5, but couldn’t close, went on to lost the set.  A lot like Eliot Spitzer, who rarely could close a case that made huge headline on Wall Street while as the attorney general of NY, i.e. Frank Quattrone, whom he tried and re-tried - still couldn’t close.  Many careers had been [...]

Foot ball has just kicked off (are they really banning the beer from the tailgate parties?), FedEx is to play his 4th final, and Djokovic first.  It’s a tough call .. but I’ll go with FedEx, for his single hand backhand.  And he moves like a butterfly, although 地包天 is cuter.  He definitely has better [...]

Cucumber is called yellow melon in Chinese, even it has nothing in yellow, till now .. lol .. (as there isn’t an egg in the purple eggplant ..) Back to the Future? … Sandy’s green thumbs are formidable.  She has other kind of cucumber, a little smaller than a cherry tomato, very cute and delicious.  I took few pics, [...]

OK, here is my little flower plant bought few days ago, and is being serenaded by my Popo’s poem.  Some leaves are already yellow, as I sure always check what I buy.  Will water it regularly!  What else??  Oh, fertilizing it too.  With what?  Oh well, go shopping.  Will dog food do? :) - don’t be surprised if [...]