Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

Owning a home is the American dream, or so it painted that way.  American dream or not, the Yankees do love to live under their own roof.  And talking about home values, sales, renovations, etc. is as popular as talking sports, especially among the neighbors.  Every year, there are plenty of mailings from the county and the town, in regard to the piece of dirt: [...]

  
The joy of finally taking it home the second time was still so vivid, but the frame is falling apart, so is the map.  I am very disappointed at the out come.  The store said it will redo it for me.  But the time wasted in bring it back and forth is just too [...]

Found this one in the grocery store, happily bought it home.  We ate this a lot in Beijing back then.  I even offered this to the cleaning lady who’s also from Beijing.  She took one look at it, and declared that she only eat her own simple food.  Omg, I must look like a taike, :).  [...]

Columbia’s new year celebration held at Lerner Hall on B’way @ 115 Street was pretty neat.  They had a simple reception for the invitees, that included the Consul General of New York Peng Keyu who came right before the performance, greeted each table like a groom does in the wedding banquet, followed by his entourage.  [...]

I saw this poster hung at our high school’s hall way, wondering if the absolute value teaching is doing the kids service.  I’m sure there are people live on less than $2 a day.  But considering all the facts or circumstances, mainly cost of living, $2 a day in some locales beat out $200 a day in New [...]

The little girl conductor from a tiny town Dadong in NE China that bordering N Korea is doing very well in NY - after her success first in Beijing then Cincinnati.  Zhang is the associate conductor of the NY Philharmonics.  I saw her once.  It seems a little odd that when Marin Alsop named as music director of [...]