Archive for July, 2006

Jul 29 2006

Katyusha

…. Most of the estimated 12,000-rocket inventory with which Hizbollah started the fighting are relatively crude Katyushas, with a 25-40km range.
… Reports FT.
Gosh, can’t believe the Katyushas are once again falling from the sky, big time. More than half a century ago, my Dad captained the army basketball team Katyushas in [...]

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Jul 11 2006

China Trends

Published by The Kibbitzer under Celestial Empire

Good laughs ..
On women Chinaman thinks that beautiful women won’t go into kitchen. The one who’s willing is not gentle and soft. The gentle and softy doesn’t have any ideas. The one with own thoughts lacks femininity. The feminine spends too much money. The one who saves looks shabby [...]

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Jul 06 2006

The Academy

They started their summer camp – tutor school – at this academy yesterday for the next 7 weeks. Mon-Thur, 9am to 2:15 pm with 30 minutes of lunch break. Pumpkin came home yesterday beaming, she loves it and King was not. She loves her French teacher there. The academy divides the [...]

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Jul 05 2006

Vol. 1 of Journal of China Philately

David sent me the first issue via air. My article is the last one in this 282-page (plus dozen more ad pages at the end) hard cover tome. Given the Internet age and video games, the hobby of collecting physical items are vanishing, rarer than the lovers of classical music. How long [...]

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