Mar 07 2008
I got my Tiffany’s credit back this Monday, on a merchandise card. Gee, if it issued me a card seven years ago, they might not have to gone to this much trouble. Whatever.
Macy’s is pretty good. The last time I needed to returned something, but forgot to bring the receipt. The clerk said, no need .. he fished [...]
Mar 07 2008
<- my actual and with the falling vision I see this ->
I’m getting old, I think, :)) .. that my eye sights are falling (good in a way, that I don’t have to deal with my wrinkles … hehehehe), and can’t remember things that’s important (well, this symptom had started occuring in my 20s .. hehehehe) .. [...]
Mar 07 2008
The dance is nothing special, but the music she danced to is one of two my most favored concertos out of China. I bought this CD in Wangfujing - I was just thinking how nice would it be to find a CD with both concertos: Sheng Zhongguo playing the Butterfly Lovers violin concerto and Yin Chengzong on the piano for [...]
Mar 07 2008
AIC vs ABC .. .. Managing the Dragon author attended Yale on a football scholarship and was a successful investment banker. After 20 years there on Wall Street, he decided he could set up a business in which he knew nothing about in a new country in the 1990s China. He speaks no Chinese and is [...]
Mar 07 2008
More dentists. Dr. Moss’s mission is accomplished. Now all I need is a dentist to actually put in the tooth, crown (?) I’m not too happy with Dr. Linsky. Calls to his office get only 50% return rate (I don’t think I’m the right person to lecture them about customer service. But it is. I don’t wish to rub salt on [...]
Mar 07 2008
The servant pecking order in Hong Kong was geographical: Shunde, local HK Chinese, China mainlander and Filipino.
Shunde is a small town in Guangdong province. I don’t know the history of it, but women from there were single with excellent domestic skills. They were a dying breed hence were very much in demand among the affluent. They were easy to identify: worn [...]