May 05 2008
Ferrara cafe in the Little Italy is an institution, sort of. Established in 1892. I would always stop by when I’m in the area. It’s only two blocks away from Canal Street. This coffee shop’s tiramisu is sublime, cheese cake is fine but not as good as Veniero’s (est in 1894), but it cost double, 6″ [...]
May 05 2008
Our school’s web provides many info that used to reach us va snail mails or phone calls, now in a timely manner. Sounds great, but do we parents need to know all of those, and have they implemented those in a timely manner?
Many years ago, I was more involved with school and the community, joined few committees. One of [...]
May 05 2008
I went to a ballroom dancing party the other night in jeans. Katie’s friend, actually her mother-in-law’s friend was performing and she was there to lend her support at cost of $40 per person. I kidded her, “60+ years old? She ought to pay me to watch her ..”
I thought it’s a dinner party with a [...]
May 05 2008
Why there are so many world class Korean golfers around, given the size of their entire population, which only estimated at little less than 50 millions? Hard driving and ball-sy? One of friends loved to tell this story: he went out alone to play the Bethpage Black where it hosted US Open in 2002 (will host it again in 2009), got [...]
May 05 2008
Yizang’s having great time at his current job, the art director for the Trojan 木马. He sends me his work often. He’s great sense of style, but the wording often left me guessing: not that I couldn’t read Chinese - thank you very much I’m still very able - but the modern vocabulary is way [...]