May 29 2008
Tonight is her school dinner dance night (the gas is at $4.51). We went to shopping couple of weeks ago, she found a cute dress that fits her perfectly, simply pretty. My little girl is a young lady now. It’s pretty lame to say that time flies, but it is. As if it’s still yesterday when she [...]
May 29 2008
I wished that Golfer speaks Chinese, so do my children. But they don’t. And I’m very exasperated and embarrassed, especially over my children’s refusal. From time to time, some Chinese friends invited us and they’d assure me that ‘don’t worry’ that they speak English (for the sake of Golfer). I really appreciated their consideration and hospitality, [...]
May 28 2008
The tallest girl I’ve seen .. away from sports One of the BBQs over the weekend was cancelled, so when someone offered free tickets (Bachiana Chamber Orchestra, conducted/piano by João Carlos Martins. It cost only $2 in the box office anyway; corp sponsors picked up the bulk of it), we ended up going to a [...]
May 28 2008
King likes history. He asked me what history course should he take in his sophomore year, World or European. I teased him, how about Chinese history? He replied, “Mom, there isn’t one.” I know, I know. Our school language department has expanded to inlcude Chinese in the middle school, but history curriculum hasn’t changed. Asia is [...]
May 28 2008
If it takes ten thousand deaths to make the Mandarin to be more humane in public, so the earthquake in Sichuan would be it. The 1976 quake didn’t do it. Loosen up Grandpa Wen (this is so uniquely Chinese would never ever happened in the west.. .. can you image dabbing W Grandpa Bush, or Grandpa Kissinger??), we’re [...]
May 28 2008
Last Friday I thought Golfer went to golf – shows how much a wife knows her hubby .. it turned out he went to shop for a piano. And asked me what color do I prefer. Shiny black would be my only objection. Lee‘s been enthusiastically encouraging him to get a baby grand – she has three baby grands in [...]
May 27 2008
Consul General Peng Keyu was at a small fundraising reception (about 50 people or so, mostly Chinese in finances) last week at Harvard Club, with a pledged donation of US$55k for the quake victims. He took the floor after the featured speaker. Couple of minutes in to his opening notes, he ditched English in [...]
May 27 2008
Long before Mick Jagger and the Dream Threter, there was Henry Kissinger, the very first rock star in the People’s Republic of China, not just American rock star, he was the most talked about rocker, period. Famous and larger than his boss Nixon. Auntie Spalding’s 4×4 meter home (a single room) in Building #16 was the little salon [...]
May 26 2008
Front page news that the saint in orange is losing the support of many of his followers inside Tibet because of the Chinese government’s refusal to strike a deal with him over the territory’s future. How timely when China and the rest of the world is centered on the earthquake in China, trying to save [...]
May 26 2008
Open water swimming isn’t my cup of tea ever since I switched to free style from breast stroke. There’s little rock or tiny island off the Repulse Bay in Hong Kong that we used to swim to. The water in HK is crystal clear, so regardless of company or not, I’d go. But when the water turns to muddy, [...]
May 26 2008
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. By Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ~ . ~ . ~ Chinese has good education but no upbringing. Ok, let me rephrase it, Chinese who with adequate to excellent education lack the social grace or basic upbringing, severely. There [...]
May 23 2008
Veniero’s Pastry 342 E.11th Street @ 1st Av. New York, NY 10044 212.674.7070 Veniero’s is always busy. When we got there at 10:30pm, the line is already in place, not as far back as to the door, but it’s a solid half hour wait. Their cheesecake is sublime, creamily yet not too sweet, suits Asians’ palate [...]
May 23 2008
Last Tue was Pumpkin’s Spring concert. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #3 was one of three pieces they played. OMG .. was great! In support of all the kids that night, I stayed till the end – Pumpkin’s orchestra was the second of the night. Lacrosse season is on, she’s scored almost every game abut her team [...]
May 22 2008
Did Kishore Mahbubani develop this idea from me? A well written article. And this one was published in the newspaper, not as a letter to the editor. .. When the 1.2b Muslims seeing China and India prosper, they’ll learn to ask why can’t we look like Chidia? And a successful Beijing Olympic game is a positive [...]
May 22 2008
The following picture was taken from the third story balcony of Saint Stanislaus College located next door to Our Lady of the Gulf church in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi on the morning of August 29th, 2005. This is believed to be the initial tidal wave from Hurricane Katrina. The tidal wave was approximately 35 to [...]
May 21 2008
What a name. Mets traded him last season, due to .. he’s too flashy. Too flashy, in NY? Got to be kidding. I think it’s more to do with him not being proven more than high-fiving fans. Michelle Wei hasn’t proven herself before she started to compete with da boys. Gosh, baseball .. I stopped [...]
May 21 2008
Luray caverns in Virginia. Help .. Help .. prospect .. my past, my present and my future .. oh lord hairy toothy decaying, how many dentists do I need to fix those? I think I’ll need to start to floss and brush maybe every other week? Tea and wine have stained my teeth, ok, I’ll increase [...]
Irene's a Beijing-born New Yorker who sees nothing beyond China and the USA is very passionate about .. ..
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Winning the Queens semi final
Wanderlust - my travel
My family tree
My photo albums
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