May 28 2008
The tallest girl I’ve seen
One of the BBQs over the weekend was cancelled, so when someone offered free tickets (Bachiana Chamber Orchestra, conducted/piano by João Carlos Martins. It cost only $2 in the box office anyway; corp sponsors picked up the bulk of it), we ended up going to a concert at Carnegie Hall [...]
May 28 2008
King likes history. He asked me what history course should he take in his sophomore year, World or European. I teased him, how about Chinese history? He replied, “Mom, there isn’t one.” I know, I know. Our school language department has expanded to inlcude Chinese in the middle school, but history curriculum hasn’t changed. Asia is [...]
May 28 2008
If it takes ten thousand deaths to make the Mandarin to be more humane in public, so the earthquake in Sichuan would be it. The 1976 quake didn’t do it. Loosen up Grandpa Wen (this is so uniquely Chinese would never ever happened in the west.. .. can you image dabbing W Grandpa Bush, or Grandpa Kissinger??), [...]
May 28 2008
Last Friday I thought Golfer went to golf - shows how much a wife knows her hubby .. it turned out he went to shop for a piano. And asked me what color do I prefer. Shiny black would be my only objection.
Lee’s been enthusiastically encouraging him to get a baby grand - she has three baby grands in her [...]