Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

The campaign for occupying the White House has started earlier and wider, now that the better halfs are more visible than ever.  I wondered will Laura Bush be the very last traditional First Lady?  Cherie (what a name!) worked while Tony was in Downing Street.  That’s so cool.
If weren’t for Time’s article, I won’t know that [...]

DC has a Mall, so we New York ought to have one too ..

The Central Park I know was the place that you can play pick up softball which I enjoy very much and did so.  I thought its fame’s due to the location.  Open up a map of NYC - subway map will just do fine - you can’t miss the emerald.  Big, bold, sitting pretty in the center [...]

The 焚书坑儒 的老秦 Lao Qing - Qin Shihhuang who burn the books and bury the Confucian scholars alive (that’s how we began getting to know about our first emperor) is sure popular nowadays.  There are films about him, opera .. now his soldiers are transport to Europe, a place I’m sure he’d love to conquer.  The British Museum [...]

CNN .. Taiwan’s pres Chen blasts U.S. over Taiwan’s U.N. referendum.  He criticized the US for refusing to support a referendum on whether to seek UN membership under its own name.  He went on to whine, “As a leader in the community of democracies, why can’t the US say no to China? … I’m convinced that the [...]