Oct 31 2007
I had the feeling that this will be the last year of the hunt. Not sure each year that we give out more than the kids brought in, or vise versa. The very first year we attended Chinese school, one of the mothers was distributing hard candies (some looked really gross, old, half wrapped ..) [...]
Oct 31 2007
Zhang Shengliang, a 10 years old will perform Shostakovich’s sizzling C minor Concerto at London’s Royal Festival Hall tomorrow. The world over notices that there are 15m people play the piano in China now, that Yundi Li won the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2000, at the age of 18, followed in fourth place by compatriot Sa [...]
Oct 31 2007
Mr. O’Neal didn’t lose his job because he lost 8 billion, rather for not telling his bosses what he’s up to, like authorizing the negotiation of a possible merge with Wachovia. He’ll get $160m exit package. Last year GS’s Lloyd Blankfein got about 50m for the record breaking profit he delivered. Just a thought; playing the numbers; fairness.. ..
Oct 31 2007
During lunch today I saw part of FOX program, talking about a beach house inferno when 7 college kids perished. It seems death means so much in the US, because the entire story has nothing to offer except the death. Again, I’d expected the program tell us how the fire started? No, there’s no clue, wasn’t mentioned. [...]
Oct 31 2007
Doing cleaning up I found my Seven jeans (ok, back then .. was Fives? lol .. ) which was bought in HK over quarter of century ago, made by Levis. I didn’t want to threw it away because I liked the way it made and how it looked. For the fun of it, I squeezed in .. .. looking like a sausage, or congar. [...]