Jun 06 2010
A little note posted at my children school:
We cannot have everything
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Things don’t always go our way
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There is injustice in life
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Some people will never understand
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We can’t please everyone
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Traffic is slow during rushhour
Apr 21 2010
This year’s opera production was Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. I was grateful that school had chosen this one because I probably won’t go to Met for a Puccini – his just aren’t as spectacular and beautiful as Mozart’s – the last four productions, two were by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the other one was [...]
Mar 30 2010
Word of the day: Tympanometry .. acoustic reflex testing
Although I think medical doctors deserve getting paid and felt the health insurers have hacked too deeply into doctors’ pockets but I’m increasingly leaning toward the middlemen in bill disputing.
This time it’s the pediatrician.
新官上任三把火 Pat is the new billing girl or the receptionist at our pediatrician’s office [...]
Mar 16 2010
At last week’s lesson, coach Dai told girls there’s one trick that kids employee: late calling serve out, when the two failed to call out each others serve loudly and in a timely fashion.
Pumpkin delivered a serve that’s 3 inches out. Bev returned it. Pumpkin didn’t know if to continue or stop. [...]
Jan 31 2010
Long long time ago when I first heard about affirmative action, I joked to Golfer that should we had kid, I would name him/her (Washington, Williams, etc. don’t exactly telling you anything ..) Gonzalez, Lopez, etc. Next day he came home with a video: Soul Man.
Guess Irene isn’t a genius. Someone already [...]
Nov 27 2009
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Stealing a little time here and there to post. This year’s Thanksgiving was uneventful like last year but is very busy nevertheless. Played some good tennis on Wednesday, hot pot for dinner with friends. Yesterday turned out to be nice so more tennis in the early [...]
Oct 07 2009
This subject sure will get my attention:
A bag of heroin can sell for $5 to $25 and induce a six- to eight-hour high, according to officials and former users. Cocaine, by comparison, can cost $40 to $60 for a 30-minute high, while prescription painkillers like Vicodin or OxyContin sell for upward of $40 a pill [...]
Oct 01 2009
Pumpkin’s serve and backhand
Poor babe, it’s a sweltering afternoon at North Middle
Sep 21 2009
Pumpkin’s serve ..
Their team lost narrowly to Roy and Pan – they were leading 5:1 in tiebreak .. .. and beat Roy and I 6:3.
Sep 20 2009
Not sure Tini Tran and Edward Wong’s is the first wedding announcement took place in Beijing that appear on the New York Times.
The bride and bridegroom are foreign correspondents in Beijing, the bride for The Associated Press and the bridegroom for The New York Times.
Daniel Gross and Steven Goldstein were the first same-sex couple to [...]
Sep 03 2009
Here is Rog pulling his truck load of trophies .. if you haven’t seen that commercial enough times on TV..
Going to the Open with Pumpkin has it pro and con. With obstruction (fm her) of my endeavor – I missed many photo ops .. women in Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik & Christian Louboutin .. [...]
Sep 03 2009
Or tennis craziful?
Night Falls On Manhattan
Whatever ..
I finally went to US Open with Pumpkin .. that, made NY more beautiful
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Something/where is beautiful .. is good enough for me.
It happens to be Noo Yawk …
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was the site of New York World’s Fair in 1964/5. US [...]
Jul 20 2009
Pumpkin’s off to her lacrosse camp soon, the 2nd. The first one she went to was two weeks ago. As soon as we arrived, I was like … Oh mighty!
Her fellow campers were all so so tall, big and strong. And so legally blonde. The parents, mostly moms were all [...]
Jul 08 2009
Ran into a friend last weekend at a BBQ, the hat lady. Her hubby loves to collect antique furniture and earrings; he brought her this hat too. It must sound like cliché when I say you don’t feel old till seeing your kids. We first met more than a decade ago when the Pokemon was [...]
Jun 23 2009
Great Neck Public Schools Profile: Class of 2009
GN Public Schools Profile: Class of 2009
May 29 2009
I missed King’s concert last Wednesday, the Spring Concert I. There is III next Wednesday.
Our school’s music program has mushroomed over the years, very quickly. The director, Michael Schwartz mentioned that when he joined the school in 1992: there were only 42 students. Just this II concert (on 5/27) had over 150 students.
Sharon Lee is [...]
Apr 07 2009
I got this magnetic Health Hoop at the local Korean store for $19.99. The one with 98 projections cost $24.99, heavier.
I have never done hula hoop but can manage to do a few. Pumpkin loved it when she was little. Once we vacationed at Dominica Republic in an all-inclusive resort. In [...]