Dec 23 2006
In the past, I’ve managed indoor winter league few times: couples and ladies. I priced in the cost of balls for each week, demanded their e-mail addresses, lectured them on the good manner of on time, and made it very clear that each player is responsible for his or her own sub in the [...]
Dec 22 2006
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Police in central China have scotched a wine maker’s plans for a mass Christmas Eve “nude run” which the company said was a public-interest event to discourage the use of “excessive packaging” in the industry.
Jixiang Ruyi Tobacco and Alcohol Company offered 284 people 10,000 yuan ($1,280) in cash and prizes to [...]
Dec 22 2006
On the way home from San Francisco, I made a pits stop at Denver, the mile high city. Passing by the Sierra and then the Rocky, reminded me of the poem Mao wrote, 雪 Snow … he told Robert Payne that he wrote it in his first airplane ride on August 28, 1945 from [...]
Dec 19 2006
Tzu Chi is a foundation started by a nun, Cheng Yen (1937- ) focusing on charity, medicine, education and culture. It has huge followings since founding in 1966 ‘with over 5 million supporters and over 30,000 certified members who carry out its missions globally.’ I got involved because few of my neighbors. [...]
Dec 16 2006
Last week I went to San Francisco Opera, Carmen. Long is the word that jumps to my mind as I recall it. And the massive number of children the production employed. It opened with the familiar march melody which was great. But two intermissions plus a long pause toward the end [...]
Dec 14 2006
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of my favored artists. The Musée Rodin was one of the places I hit once I was in Paris, well before Louvre. It’s more manageable (size wise) and personable: my private art teacher in Beijing loved him, showed us one of few books she had. Stanford’s Cantor holds the largest [...]