Mar 25 2008
Larry Flynt’s Hustler by the Hudson employees fairly good looking girls. Most of them are from Eastern Europe. Some of them are lively, out going, playful; and some looked like they’d rather be somewhere else. It isn’t a glamour profession, but if that’s the only thing you could do, you should put on a brave face, [...]
Mar 25 2008
J came to play card game baifen this past Sunday. I haven’t seen her for a good few years. Last time was at a ski resort, we had hot pot and well, played cards in the evenings. She just got divorced then, and the older son (now sophomore in college) lives with dad and she [...]
Mar 25 2008
There is a well-established pecking order of prejudice in western Europe [mostly geographical]. The British look down on the French, the French look down on the Italians, the Italians look down on the Spanish, the Spanish look down on the Portuguese – and everybody fears and ridicules the Germans… Well said. There are plenty pecking orders going [...]
Mar 25 2008
How much a legal US residency - green card - worth nowadays? EB-5 is a federal program, it’s either $500,000 (for investing in a business in a rural or high unemployment area) or $1m elsewhere. Gee, I gave up my green card for nothing, gosh, should have kept it.
There were few such families from China. One came to US via [...]
Mar 25 2008
I’ve long heard that Americans use drugs. All kinds of drugs. Good and bad. The first time on the Beautiful Country’s soil, I saw Drug Store signs everywhere. Despite my poor English, I think I wasn’t mistaken ’drug’ for candy. I wasn’t.
Now there are slew of companies just to manage your drug purchases. Geee, either I’m [...]
Mar 25 2008
I understand, but don’t understand the fuss over senator Clinton’s lie, or misspoke on her trip to Bosnia under gun fire. (Btw, isn’t she been under fire ever since the day she surfaced next to her hubby, singing I stand by my man? People just don’t like her .. .. now even more for their - Billary [...]
Mar 25 2008
This former NYT Paris bureau chief said that an interview is sometimes not an interview in France, because ‘it has long been common practice for journalists in France to allow their interview subjects to edit their words. “Read and corrected,” the system is called.’ This isn’t a political satire (in light of the fierce competition in the US democratic jockeying [...]
Mar 25 2008
The glaring differences in the way the news are being handled: in the west, if a newspaper or magazine is backed by da government, no one would read. But in China, if it isn’t backed by Beijing, no one would believe it: because reporters are able to sit in internal government meetings and read files. Btw, for those [...]
Mar 25 2008
Bankers, especially IBs, conjure up fat pay checks, astronomical bonus and 80+ hours workweeks. It’s interesting to know how much salary do the CBs, central bankers that set interest rates are being paid around the globe. Ben isn’t on the top! Ben Bernake, the US federal reserve Chairman since 2005 only receives US$191,300, 4.1 times of American GNP per [...]