Apr 30 2008
As we were having a drink with few friends, one’s brother called. He got arrested in the city, had fight or something with some one or a few. The friend put down his beer and left in a hurry.
I meant to tell his whole story for a while, just never got to it, [...]
Apr 30 2008
I’m mindful about my grunt, it’s ugly but can’t help it. .. It’s the women in tennis who scare David Feherty the most. He felt we start our scream on the backswing, change the tone and volume at impact, and let it subside on the follow-through: “Aaaaaa-WEEEEEH-gaaaaah!” Some of the men are in on it [...]
Apr 30 2008
China is experiencing breakneck speed modernization, and the transformation since 1980s. No sector has the seismic change as the real estate. Chinese love to own real estate. The landowners in the past were solid middle to upper class. Then they were out cast during Mao’s reign from 1949 to 1976 and [...]
Apr 30 2008
Si gupo 四姑婆 Grandaunt Lily (1914 Beijing - ) is Yeye’s youngest sister. On our way home from Virginia, we stopped by her apartment. At 94, unbelievably healthy and still lives by herself in Silver Spring. Compare to Lucy who’s separated from her husband since late 70s or 1980 (more free time with others) and [...]
Apr 29 2008
I don’t remember his name, but our history/geography teacher was the most popular and beloved one in our school . He’s quiet, mild mannered with a thick black framed glasses, didn’t seem 100% comfortable at the lecture stand. But he’s always in his element and passionated when he talked about the subjects of [...]
Apr 29 2008
Li Dongjiu was our principal at time - that’s 1970s, the little compact lady who sported 阴阳头 only half head of hair was cut, courtesy of her former students during the Cultural Revolution but nevertheless came to guild us with steel hands.
It’s was a cold February morning, I went to school with Aunt Spalding to [...]
Apr 29 2008
Surprisingly I met a group of girls from Maryland at the Massanutten in Virginia. This resort at Shenandoah Valley is neither known for golfers nor tennis players. It used to have a 9-hole short course now expanded into 18 holes and an 18-hole. The short course was much nicer before the expansion, now inter-linked with roads. Golfers have to [...]
Apr 29 2008
This issue of National Geographic is devoted to China. One of the contributors title the article Gilded Age Gilded Cage in which talked about my school:
.. .. “At times educators go to extremes: At the Zhongguancun No. 2 Primary School in Beijing, vice-principal Lu Suqin recently took two fifth-grade boys into her home. “Their parents couldn’t [...]
Apr 29 2008
Xiaohui 吕孝惠 (1902 - 1922) [right in the picture] was Yeye’s older sister. This is perhaps one of few pictures we have of her. The little girl is grandaunt Lily. Two girls facing the camera were friends. Xiaohui died of pulmonary tuberculosis when it recurred in Henan. Not sure if she had a better chance if they were in [...]
Apr 29 2008
Hi mothers, look here .. gosh .. I went there years ago with Pumpkin .. now she moved on and I’m still there. :)) ..
They have long limbs, slim figures, pretty faces, beautiful hair .. what I see: bow legs, pot belly, wrinkles, fa cai 发菜 :)
ha ha ha .. Mother’s Day’s coming !
Apr 28 2008
Danica has finally won, after 50 starts. She paid her dues, so its well deserved win. No longer just another Anna Kournikova but a champ. Hmmmm .. .. Anna competed with the girls and Danica with the boys. (Where is the other Patrick girl, Tera? I read about her in the Village Voice years ago, found her [...]
Apr 28 2008
A few good men feel the same ..
Not sure that Jack Cafferty is a racist, but he sure said some inappropriate things at very inappropriate time. It’s a long story - history - how the western media portraits China and everything associated with it, starting from their so called China-hands. Mere a century ago, China was the sick man of the [...]
Apr 27 2008
Preparing to get to the best American universities has become something of a national obsession in S Korea, and they yield result: Korean students at Harvard alone have tripled, to 213 this spring, up from 66 in 2003.
I have always feel that Chinese way or the Asian way of education is based on hard study - long hours [...]
Apr 27 2008
Virginia is full of hams, holes and battle fields. Luray cavern is the second one we’ve visited over the years. Pretty cool if you haven’t. This one is far better than the Endless in the area. The almost deadly calm reflecting pool there is the most memorable. Look closer at the picture you can see the ripple [...]
Apr 27 2008
Before the color photo became affordable and common, the so called ‘color photos’ were actually all coloring jobs. Jiujiu, Mom and Xiaoyi on the left and Aunt Judy, Uncle Alan and Phillips on the right, a better coloring job, .. better looking kids too. Hey, their mom’s beauty queen.
Apr 27 2008
If you didn’t catch this last week, then watch it here .. Kenny Smith ..