Mar 31 2009
I went to play badminton tonight after three long months of hiatus, due to the right ankle. It’s so good to see everyone !! There are few new players. I only got to play 3 sets. A very good 3 sets – 3:0. 2 sets were teaming up with Simon [...]
Mar 31 2009
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — Cloaked in a traditional flowing red and saffron Tibetan robe the Dalai Lama took a deep breath as he began to express his gratitude to the country that took him in as a refugee 50 years ago.
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“Naturally, sometimes (a) little disagreement may come but (it) doesn’t matter because there [...]
Mar 31 2009
Beijing has Penis Restaurant .. and who said Asians are conservative?
Top 10: Horniest Countries:
10. Mexico
9. Switzerland
8. Spain
7. Malaysia
6. Italy
5. Poland
4. China*
3. Russia
2. Brazil
1. Greece
The big USA didn’t make the top 10 list ..
*China
The more China’s Cultural Revolution thaws, the more its sexual revolution heats up. Want [...]
Mar 31 2009
Now you understand why my Chinglish is so bad good .. 才氣縱橫的內地翻譯，中國人太有文采了, 寫的英文老外也看不懂，因為他們的中文程度太差了 ！ Exactly, IF their Chinese is any better, did I have to learn English?
A nation full of shoddy workers. Reminding riders to queue inline just confirms the low level of civility – 有教育没教养
China in pictures ..
Mar 31 2009
Michael Wolff wrote in The Man Who Owns The News [page 400] .. that ..
He [Rupert Murdoch, after he acquired the WSJ ] thinks the Times, with its soft stories and newsless front page and all its talk of being a news brand instead of a newspaper – has forsaken what a newspaper is. [...]
Mar 31 2009
The Japs are crazy lot .. good to know we human’s no limits
Mar 30 2009
While at the Citi Field, I wondered what’s happened to Mr. Charles Wang’s coliseum plan? The Nassau Coliseum, the home of Islanders is the most unpleasant sport arena to go to, very very depressing. The owner of the team wants to rebuild and develop the entire area for years. Died in the [...]
Mar 30 2009
TORONTO — A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded.
In a report to be issued this weekend, the researchers said that the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively [...]
Mar 30 2009
Some world’s weirdest fun/fine architectural structures/houses
Out of the 50 buildings pictured here ..
3 libraries
- The National Library (Minsk, Belarus),
- Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, USA), and
- UCSD Geisel Library (San Diego, California, USA)
1 fm Beijing National Stadium (Beijing, China)
16 are fm USA
1 fm North Korea
Mar 30 2009
Sean Avery is New York Rangers’ left wing who really into fashion beside being brutal on the ice. He twice led the National Hockey League in penalty minutes, perhaps is better known for the Avery Rule.
“I [Avery] admire well-dressed men no matter where they are — a guy in a police uniform that [...]
Mar 29 2009
The ticket to today’s game was $5 since it’s only college .. but someone’s already scalping it on craigslist for $12.50 each yesterday.
Reply to: sale-daxeu-1096437635@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-03-28, 3:15PM EDT
i have 4 pairs of seats left for tomorrows game:
section 121 row 4 row 10 and row 15 (1 pair in each)
section [...]
Mar 29 2009
I’m always being unfairly targeted.
With my kids, I always have to be conscious, not to take picture of ..
the parking lot (Mom … it’s parking lot for pete’s sake!!)
of highway (what’s there to take, Mom?)
of them (oh … Mom .. give me a break will you??) ..
of bathroom
Actually on our last vacation, my family [...]
Mar 29 2009
the PA announced that all the tickets were sold out.. the limited number of tickets were sold out on the first day at the brand new stadium.
The greasy fried perfume was thick in the air. It was dampy and cold, so it was bit bearable; not sure in the hot summer day. [...]
Mar 29 2009
After 9/11, the word compliance is hot.
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Just as corporate raiders represented the Wall Street of the 1980’s (think of Gordon Gekko) and mutual fund managers were the icons of the 90’s (Jeffrey N. Vinik, who ran the Fidelity Magellan fund, was a minor celebrity), the lawyers who keep companies in compliance with increasingly tough [...]
Mar 29 2009
The new Citi Field had opened today, hosted St. Johns vs Georgetown. The season opening is slated on 4/13. The new stadium is classy, cozy, wide open, less seats (they couldn’t sell out anyway, might as well make them nicer and less ..) nicely done, with an old world charm, or old [...]
Mar 29 2009
I miss Bobby Valentine. The game was more exciting when he was around. Anyone still remembers once he was being thrown out of the game, but came back with disgust, a fake mustache and all that. It was for a good laugh although he got fined. Who cared. We loved [...]
Mar 29 2009
Does this look like a $18m make over? I wonder where that $18 million had gone. The Citi Field is grand and great, but the subway is still a dump .. .. who pocketed the $18m?
Mar 29 2009
China Institute in America
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
212.744.8181
Few decades ago, the Institute used to organize Labor Day 2 night/3 day trip to Silver Bay YMCA at Lake George/Adirondacks. The resort offered cottage and hotel rooms. I planned the trip with my roommate and two girls. But as the trip grew [...]