Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

An extra hour last night afforded me to sneak in a movie, Woody Allen’s Manhattan. I saw when it was first released. More than quarter of century apart, the feeling is very different although it still earned some tears. I felt he was extremely cruel to Mariel Hemingway, back then. Now, [...]

Golfer asked kids casually,
“Have you thought about what would you like to do when you grow up?”
“I know, I want to be a caveman.” King replied with a big grin.
“You already are” his daddy countered.
“I have a second thought about becoming a teacher.” Pumpkin said as matter of fact.
“What’s the ’second thought’?”
“Hmmmm [...]

Americans live on credit. I can accept that. They thrive on it, I am fine with it too. But what I disapprove is the way people over spend and blame others, such as credit cards issuers, and media often portrait those consumers as the victims. Oh so naïve, felt into [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — More than a half century after he died in the flaming crash of a CIA-owned cargo plane and became one of the first two Americans to die in combat in Vietnam, a legendary soldier of fortune known as “Earthquake McGoon” is coming home.
The skeletal remains of James B. McGovern Jr., discovered [...]

This rare bond signed by my great granduncle during his second term as Minister of Finance I found in a store in Paris – Numistoria has finally arrived today. The sweet postmaster stood there in the rain, handing me the thin envelope, waiting for a signature. I kept telling everyone in China, stop [...]

Tags: Philately

Where was I? Oh, I’m milking the MS Bike Tour,  … pls do allow me to do so, after all, I raised $500 and rode 30 miles. My right leg hurts so much that I can’t bend, walking with a limp, that, does look my age, lol. My right leg began to feel tight since [...]

Tags: New York, tennis

I biked around the Isle of Manhattan, 30 miles! It’s 2006 MS Bike Tour. Really cool. Everyone got to do it.
I sincerly thank all my sponsors who made this race possible, for me.
The party started as soon as I got on LIE at 6am, lol … there were few cars [...]

Tags: New York

I had a very very long chat with John Goudey, who is not only one of the major bond collectors – the fancy name is – Scripophily, but happens to know so much of China and Hong Kong – his first trip to China was 1972 (the novelty being Canadian), the year Nixon went, ahead [...]

Tags: Philately

I just firmed up my plan to go to Seattle early next month. It’s Lucy’s first anniversary. I was back and forth with my uncle for the dates and when I informed him that I also wanted to meet up with a trader I met online, he was amused.
After I sent [...]

Exciting! Another little coup in my otherwise very dull and solitary research: I found a gentleman who collects Chinese bonds!
I have been acquiring old bonds that bear my ancestor’s signatures. One of them pops up in Paris, which I haven’t never seen in New York, nor it is in the Kuhlmann’s book (like [...]

I took kids to see an ophthalmologist after school. Starting from filling the paper work (we’re new to her; I had the kids filling them out self) to the end, King being a ham nonstop, Pumpkin played his sidekick. Boy, it’s like a traveling comic show, from reception area to the treatment room, [...]

In his revealing new memoirs, Sandy Weill, the man who built Citigroup into a financial services powerhouse, recalls his battles with Eliot Spitzer and a hostile press…
FT began to excerpt Sandy Weill’s memoirs, The Real Deal: My Life in Business and Philanthropy. So he retired to save his name. Would it be him [...]