Aug 31 2008
John is attending his friend’s wedding at picturesque Lake Champlain. The Style section of the Times is full of wedding announcements, several pages with Amy Dickinson and Bruno Schickel as the main course. They were childhood friends and after nearly two decades apart, they found their true love. how moving - 有情人终成眷属 - never too late. There [...]
Aug 31 2008
Sweet Pepperbush, Anne Bidwell or Summersweet, what a boundle of sweet names. We bought two purple Clethra alnifolia from Hicks. It originally from S China, attracts butterflies, which I already saw few this morning, two little white and a pretty blue.
Aug 30 2008
Jiujiu, Mom’s older brother is the fourth generation of single male heirs in the family. His marriage was a monolithic concern to many.
He and Lulu dated for many years, till she said no - another love story for another day. Jiujiu was athletic and outgoing. When he met his future bride in the swimming pool and [...]
Aug 30 2008
A sensible article by Tony Blair on WSJ’s Opinion page. He sees the rising of the East isn’t a threat but an enormous opportunity, resonating with Michael Bloomberg’s. Interestingly, Blair compares China to USA and mentioned USA few times. A worldly man. I have always admire him more than any Brit PMs in the recent history. [...]
Aug 29 2008
Lou sent this group of beauties claimed to be the working girls at the Beijing night club Passion, 天上人間. Not sure how he got it, nor if it’s timely, but the height seem to fit the bill. They don’t shave?
Aug 28 2008
I often wondered how effectively the government functions. We’re paying high taxes and here is where the tax dollar at work: Back in April, my pool closed down for renovation or rebuilding. Before we left for the last time, we filled out a form to get reimbursed for the remaining portion of the due. You would [...]
Aug 28 2008
It’s half time, New York Giants is leading New England Patriots 13 to nothing. The demo convention got a few seconds during the half time. Isn’t this cool or what, the presidential race got a few seconds out of half time, when half time was just few commentators, well commenting. As if frying some cold [...]
Aug 28 2008
The Year of The Fish, a realistic portrayal of New York City’s Chinatown, in a animated movie opens tomorrow at Angelika Film Center in downtown, on Houston Street. I don’t go to Chinatown often, but this movie sounds interesting and could have dinner in Chinatown afterward?
Aug 28 2008
Michael Strahan and Brett Favre retired early this year. I’d consider them both exited at the height of their career. Smart move. Then something isn’t right, and the QB wanted his old job back. His team said thanks but no thanks. So he ended up with another team. Michael is asked to come back by [...]
Aug 28 2008
I heard people gossiping about little brawl broken out between Moscow and Georgia. The assassin stepped down from presidency to be PM and now turned to be a bully. The West can’t do a thing. America’s army ties down in the Mid east. Might it be the French or German’s turn to police the world?
I [...]
Aug 27 2008
Chinese cop-killer becomes internet hero, and Two policemen dead in ethnic group clash. Sad.
Aug 27 2008
LPGA is going to enforce a minimum English language requirement for its players. There are 121 international players from 26 countries, including 45 from South Korea on the LPGA. Many of them have minimal English language skills.
Good move. Those international players are making nice living on American soil, should they at least learn a thing [...]
Aug 26 2008
He is a composer and director, best known for his works with the animator Hayao Miyazaki. My family enjoys his animated films (with Hisaishi’s music) very much. They’re whimscal. King and his friends have been listening to his music lately, he forwards me few .. check them out.
Aug 26 2008
School doesn’t start till next week. But thank god our schedule is clear for this week: tennis try out time. Pumpkin and her friends go to school every day this week. She tells me that high school’s drill is so different from the middle school’s, “they’re serious!” Many her friends were panting at the end. She’ll [...]
Aug 26 2008
Skagway was one of three port of calls on our itinerary. The little town has 862 people year round, doubling that in the summer season when nearly 1m visitors drop by. Like two other ports we visited, Ketchikan and Juneau, there were endless jewelry stores and diamond shops - the pictures here are taken at [...]
Aug 25 2008
The convention in Denver is competing with tennis for my attention - Blake is playing. The repeating vocabulary I heard describing Michelle Obama is ‘beautiful’ and ‘smart’. I won’t dispute her intelligence, a Harvard lawyer can’t be dumb and with $300,000 salary, she has to be smart. But beautiful??
1. It sounds like the over used term ‘classy’ [...]
Aug 25 2008
The wine bar at SEA, Seattle airport. How could it be? Those sleek life style thing should dotted ours. No disrepsect to others.
Are we ever, going to renovate the crumpling JFK, John F. Kennedy International Airport? Making it pleasing to the eye and functional? JFK was the first place I encountered when I came to New [...]
Aug 25 2008
The cruise decorator(s) has very good taste, the art works displaying around the ship are very beautiful.