Ubuntu 11.04

Zzzzz

UPDATE:
The start up takes longer.  Come on, I do turn off my computer so a longer startup time is almost unacceptable.  The interface, well it takes some time to get used to but hey it's subjective, after a while I kind of like Coca-Cola too so you never know.  But start up time is objective.  You got to make everything faster not slower.

Film Scans

The top one was shot with the newish Kodak Portra 400, Hasselblad 500C/M and Carl Zeiss 80mm f/2.8.  I like the color and the grain isn't bad at all.

The middle two were shot using a Yashica Mat-124G and Kodak Ektar 100.  I like the color and everything.  I am always pleasantly surprised by how good the images are coming from such a small lens of such primitive contraption.

The bottom one was shot using a Nikon FE and Kodak 400VC.  I don't like the color and grain at all.  This is not the first time.  I don't know if it's because underexposed.

凱特

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!  Number one, Kate is not her official name, Catherine is. Number two WTF is 凱特. It's just a terrible sounding name. Maybe it suits her I don't know but I don't think so.

Royal Wedding Fever

Just in case you can't get enough of the Royal Wedding (Or I just want to annoy people with an animated gif).  I think the gown is just pretty and contemporary without the fuzz and fluff.  It's down to the essentials, a veil, a train and a very slimming bodice.  And the royal red is just impressive.  What's not to like?

via Kate Middleton For The Win.

Royal Wedding Fever

For those of you who catch a bit of Royal Wedding fever, and yet don't have a day off like in England, I suppose you can still catch a bit of the festivities on YouTube.  If you're too cool for the Royal Wedding then never mind.  I am all for people being happy and getting married and living happily ever after.  And I like the over the top silliness of the spectacle too.

Random Excellence

Nikon announced another 50mm yesterday.  That inspired me to shoot my 50mm today.  Hey nothing's wrong with it.  Just save myself another $220.

Something To Do

Mother's Day is coming and how do I know about it?  Because I don't live under a rock; all the channels I frequent are beginning to remind me that.  I never feel the need to know or remember when Mother's Day is.  When the time comes, I will be reminded.  I need to do something about it.  I knew I need to get a card to send home at the very least but I kept forgetting for the past couple of days.  And I forgot again today.  I thought I am going to get one during lunch hour but again I forgot about it.  Somebody's birthday is coming up soon.  So I have to think of something.  Thinking is hard.

Obama Trumped

Obama relented.  At long last, the president provided his birth certificate.  Trump wasting no time took full credit and went on to caution that the certificate needs to be checked out.  I guess this will never end until Trump finally announces in June that he is actually not running for president.

Your Casio Will Land You In Guantanamo

image from guardian.co.uk

Casio got its latest cachet from Al Qaeda (and despite whatever people say about Toyota, they just love their Hilux, anyway, NASA clears Toyota's name also, if you still believe in NASA).  Just like all the cheap skates around the world, the Al Qaeda loves a good cheap Japanese watch as much as anybody.  The parting gift of choice for a bomb making session is said to be a cheap chic Casio wristwatch.  32 detainee reports make reference to the black Casio F-91W model while another 20 link detainees to a silver version A-159W.  Black wins in the popularity contest while silver wins in the scarcity department.  But rest assured both can and will land you in Guantanamo.

via The Guardian.

Google Videos Makes Amends

A week after Google Videos* issued a missive telling users their content won't be available for playback after April 29 and download after May 13, Google Videos did a 180 and sent out another email, sort of conceding that they could do better and OK nothing will be broken.  So the demise of Google Videos is at least postponed.  I am still a bit disheartened that the original files aren't available for download; it's the converted FLV files that are available instead.  I understand it's not exactly a file storage service but I always think Google can and should do better than me.

*  Google Videos is confused from day one, it says video on email but on the web site it says videos.  Not a good sign.

D7000 Firmware Upgrade A:1.02 B:1.02

I skimmed through what the firmware is supposed to do.  I don't think it fixes anything that's wrong with my experience.  Essentially I think my D7000 is flawless as it is given I knew exactly what I got myself into, that's it's a DX sensor camera so I don't expect all of a sudden the firmware will make it a full sized FX sensor or it will take 10fps or 30fps at 1080p though they all will be nice if implemented but that would be like a dream comes true, somewhat scarily unrealistic.  And the AF and all those finicky stuff?  I think the AF works fine with my camera.  I myself need a better pair of eyes for sure.  I need better AF lenses but given the astronomical and never comes down Nikkor prices lately, I think I will stick with my good old manual AIS lenses for a long long time.  It's just economically not feasible to me.

HEA ROOM

picture hyperlinked from Terry Richardson's.  update:  hyperlink "expired".  Here is a screen capture for illustration purpose.

Here to you kids in Hong Kong who love to hea.  I don't know the etymology of the word but I know it's kind of popular in the ever changing youth vernacular.  What's shocking, to me that is, is an unemployed(unemployable?) kid, in a mock job interview, uses the word freely as he describes himself likes to hea around shopping malls in his spare time when asked how he spends his day while unemployed.  I think that's pretty shocking.  Kid, you gotta lie.

The Pirate Life Of President Obama

picture from The NYTIMES.COM

The latest article The Young Mother Abroad on the Sunday New York Times Magazine by Janny Scott, with photographic evidence, confirms unequivocally that Obama was once a pirate.

Scott's article wasn't particular interesting or revealing except for a few things.  First and foremost, the cover photo which strictly speaking isn't by her, depicts a fiercely funny Obama and a lovely, loving and protective young mother Stanley Ann Dunham.  The piece goes on suggesting Obama's stepfather, Lolo Soetoro might have given his mother a bloody nose and Dunham prescribes corporal punishment on the young Obama by "spank(ing) him with his (step)father's military belt."  This is all from Saman, a domestic helper of Dunham's Indonesia's home.  Apparently it's reliable enough for the New York Times to print them.

Hanna

The wild child grew up in the wilderness can be seen impossibly a double pierced ear lobe in a 5-second cheesy head shot.   As much as I want to like the Kool-Aid director Joe Wright dishes out, once I saw that, the suspension of belief crumbles down like a sack of potatoes.  The movie stars two of the fairest female actresses you can find on earth, if they get any whiter, I probably need to wear sun glasses to sit through the movie.  I always like Eric Bana, he's a manly man.  Alas his character is kind of I don't know maybe lame.  Erik, that's right, Eric Bana's character, first potentially significant fight happens off-screen and I am left forever wondering how he disposes of the two (border) policemen.  The look of Hanna (not the character, but the movie), feels oddly like The Bourne movies but just not as good and lacks the obvious kinetic momentum that propels the movie forward or the more subtle but well crafted moral dimensions of the Bourne series (Bourne Supremacy in particular).  The finale is also lame.  So all in all, it's a let down.

As far as young female freaky protagonist movies go, Hanna ranks the last, after, Let Me In/Let The Right One In and Kick-Ass.  It's not entirely bad so long if you can admire and don't look beyond the thoroughly, flawlessly translucent skin of Miss Ronan's.

Flushing Noodle Restaurant

Sent from my thumbs.

Beef stew and wonton over broad rice noodle soup and oyster sauce over greens.  $13.  Surprise, the wait staff actually talk in Cantonese (and of course, the open kitchen hooligans can be heard in the vulgarest Cantonese, like the perennial evergreen fuck your mother's stinky cunt).

This is an A rated restaurant.  Classy.  I could not find it listed on the department of health web site with the name outside the restaurant.  The food is OKAY, but the wait staff, all women, seem to be friendlier than most other Asian/Chinese restaurants I frequent.  A pleasant surprise.  But still the general attitude is still take it or leave it with minimum hospitality.  They won't open up unless you talk to them first.  It's vastly different from the cheerful staff at Uno's, Outback or Applebee's.

There is nothing to write home about the food.  It's decent, it fills up the stomach and it doesn't give me diarrhea.

Restaurant located on Roosevelt Avenue, near the subway station on Main Street.

C For Clean

This, Hop Won Express, is the only restaurant, or greasy spoon that I know earned a C rating from the department of health.  And I am a regular.

For long time readers of my blog, you know this blog is where all the fancy food reviews are, not.  And you can count on me to go to where devils scared to go,  from normal shitty to extra shitty places and let you guys know the inside scope to help you decide whether to experience them (or diarrhea) one day.  I just Googled the New York City Department of Health's detail report, holy cow, this is really the place to be--If you eat there and feel fine most of the time like me, you know you have a healthy stomach and a strong immune system.  For delicate wall flowers try some place else.

The above hyperlink doesn't work (search result not part of URL)

Violations from 04/13/2011 Inspection
Tip! "Critical" violations are displayed in red.
Violation points: 49
Violations were cited in the following area(s).
Sanitary Violations
1) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F.2) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.3) Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding.4) Live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.5) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.6) Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.
7) Pesticide use not in accordance with label or applicable laws. Prohibited chemical used/stored. Open bait station used.
8) Plumbing not properly installed or maintained; anti-siphonage or backflow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly.
9) Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.

Suspenders and Jeans

Pattinson wears a pair of suspenders (or braces) but not actually wears it.  It's tricky.  Poster copyrights belong to its rightful owners.  Image from imdb.com for illustration purpose only.

The latest cinematic suspenders wearing chum who does a good job wearing them is Denis Meochet whose character, Perrier LaPadite, in the opening scene of The Inglourious Basterds (2009) seems just right at home holding up his pants using them while smoking pipe and chopping firewood.  Not a big role but sort of begins the movie with the right tone, sadly the movie goes downhill after that.

Pattinson can be seen in the poster wearing, very likely, a vintage looking Levi's with suspender buttons.  A similar if not exact product is currently available for mass consumption, the Levi's 201 selvedge rigid jeans, part of Levi's workwear collection.  The thing with this model is kind of troublesome.  It 's supposed to be somewhat loose fitting and yet I read people whinge about how big it is.  I can't imagine wearing it tight and then "holding it up" with suspenders.  For me that would be ridiculous.  Or even worse, putting on a belt and a  set of suspenders--believe it or not, I actually saw on YouTube a woman--a self proclaimed beauty and style expert, telling people how to wear a belt and suspenders, the clip-on type no less, what horror, together (I cringe watching it again, and she says boob loop, and look at the rainbow color plastic clothes hangers in the back.  Good entertainment).  I mean suit yourself.  Life is too short to care what others think.  Anyway, with the suspender buttons on the outside of the waistband, three sets and six of them, I don't think it's such a good idea or all that comfortable, running a belt through the belt loops and on top of those not-so-small suspender buttons.  The back pockets has rivets, the type that actually has the the little nipple thingy out instead of the flat one.  The hard nipple thingy can and will damage your saddle if you're horse back riding or your creamy leather seat in your Land Rover.  I think Levi's got rid of them, or modified it so the head is flat nipple-less or just hide it on the bar of the back pocket, for a very good reason.  The cinch back buckle is there and thankfully the double-pronged bar is beneath the cinch fabric so it won't scratch anything.

The 201 looks good but kind of hard to wear it well because it just looks a wee bit weird wearing a pair of suspenders with a pair of jeans nowadays.  Even(or unless) you are that good looking like Mr. Pattinson.

Fetishization of American Made Shoes Complete

The inevitable fetishization of Alden shoes is complete with today's New York Times article on high-end American hand made shoes.  Are there even such things as low-end hand made shoes?  I know it's coming and it's just about time.  The article mentions a few American old cobblers like Allen Edmonds, Quoddy and Florsheim in addition to Alden.  One quote is quite interesting and mildly disappointing coming from a native from Wisconsin.

“I had no idea there were actually any footwear companies in Wisconsin,” said David DeZur, 36, a designer for Florsheim (which was originally based in Chicago). “And I grew up in Wisconsin.”

I know at least one shoe maker in Wisconsin that's been making triple vamped moccasins since 1898. Might as well stay out of the hype before it jacks up its price ten folds and further increase its current 20 weeks turn around time.

The Sweet Bitter Truth

After reading the NYT article, Is Sugar Toxic?, I think I will stop drinking soda.  Maybe for a week at least.  Over here, Coke still uses high-fructose corn syrup or HFCS whereas in England, it is disallowed--a friend told me that, if it's wrong, blame him not me.  I was reading the article through a tiny screen under glaring sunlight and chilly April wind in what some calls 15 years ago China, aka Flushing, sitting on the dirty slimy stairs outside the closed Flushing Main Street library on last Sunday's morning while one of my kids was practicing kick-ass Kung Fu in preparation to defend himself in the corridor of one of New York's finest public high schools in the not so distant future.  The article was as chilly as the swirling air and only got chillier as I read on, so I don't think I will ever have the courage or stomach to read it again on paper or otherwise.  But the take-away was all sugars are bad, they cause obesity, diabetes, heart disease and get this, cancer.  I used to kill a whole large pack of gummy bears in one afternoon.  No more.

Yu Gi Oh Cards and Nikkors

I think it's outrageous to pay $10 for another pack of Yu-Gi-Oh cards.  But then when I look at my lenses, I can't say with a straight face that "They all look the same, why do you need another pack?"  Well they look the same to me but entirely different in the eyes of a card player.

Google Videos No More and So Are My Files

One of the things I like uploading my stuff online is I don't like to deal with maintenance.  I can't possibly do a better job keeping my files than Google or Yahoo or actually anybody else.  Alas, Google Video, the video hosting site by Google is going to shut down its business on April 29.  I uploaded six videos there.  The oldest there was uploaded in 2005 with content even earlier and kids just looked very different then.  And surprise Google "destroyed" them and I could only download the flv format from the site, whatever original avi or mpg format files I uploaded aren't available for download.  I have no idea where my originals are and am too lazy to look.

Nikon D700 Replacement

The Nikon D700 replacement camera will be a very expensive camera--what an insightful prediction.

The Chemist In Me

The chemist in me always begs myself to do something similar--let's see what happens if we add two readily available household cleaners together ... Ka Boom!  Actually years ago, while I was laboring inside the bathroom cleaning whatever disgusting I needed to clean (I still do that, washing dishes, laundry, cleaning the bathroom, taking the garbage and the god damned recycles out) I mixed equal portions of some chemicals and holy cow, chemical reaction ensued.  The fume burned my throat.  Of course, I toughed it out and never bothered to see a doctor.

Kids don't do it at home or even outside in the open.  Because you are not me.

Breakfast At Home

Me constantly annoying household members by pointing my camera at them, as evidenced here.

Gyro Corner

I think I take better pictures at Gyro Corner.  I like their food there, maybe except the Donner plate with rice:  the meat is like what's left over--too dried and cut too small.  The Octopus is fresh and cooked just right without being chewy or anything.  I always love their salad.

Technical details nobody cares:  The Nikkor 28mm turns out to be one of my favorites lenses.  It's just good at close range shooting.  Nice contrast, color, sharpness and out of focus rendition.  Best of all, I got it on craigslist at a good price.  I think the white balance is right on without giving me or my subject any jaundice.

IHOP

Junk Food Night

The Grand Tour - Evan Osnos

Here are passages I found interesting while reading Evan Osnos' The Grand Tour.  I much rather come up with original content but I can't so I am, rather shamelessly in my opinion, doing all these reblogging, retweeting kind of stuff, a better name for this kind of activity perhaps is curating I think.

Ten-year-old Liu Yifeng, who had a bowl cut and wore a black sweatshirt covered in white stars, smiled up at me and asked, “Do all foreigners have noses that big?”

“Besides, we’re too busy to travel the rest of the year.” We spoke in Chinese, but when he was surprised he’d say, “Oh, my Lady Gaga!,” an English expression he’d picked up at school.

He often referred to himself in the third person—Guide Li—and he prided himself on efficiency. “Everyone, our watches should be synchronized,” he said. “It is now 7:16 P.M.” He implored us to be five minutes early for every departure. “We flew all the way here,” he said. “Let’s make the most of it.”

He informed us that French scientists had determined that the optimal length of a tour guide’s lecture is seventy-five minutes. “Before Guide Li was aware of that, the longest speech I ever gave on a bus was four hours,” he added.

(“For six or seven years, I drove Japanese tourists all the time,” he told me later. “Now it’s all Chinese.”)

“In China, we think of bus drivers as superhumans who can work twenty-four hours straight, no matter how late we want them to drive. But in Europe, unless there’s weather or traffic, they’re only allowed to drive for twelve hours!”

every driver carries a card that must be inserted into a slot in the dashboard; too many hours and the driver could be punished. “We might think you could just make a fake card or manipulate the records—no big deal,” Li said. “But, if you get caught, the fine starts at eighty-eight hundred euros, and they take away your license! That’s the way Europe is. On the surface, it appears to rely on everyone’s self-discipline, but behind it all there are strict laws.”

“Throughout our trip, breakfast will rarely be more than bread, cold ham, milk, and coffee.” The bus was silent for a moment.

some of his older travellers used to have a habit of hiding cash in the toilet tank or the ventilation ducts. “The worst case I’ve had was a guest who sewed money into the hem of the curtains,

We headed for our first stop: the modest German city of Trier. Though it’s not quite a household name for most first-time visitors to Europe, Trier has been unusually popular with Chinese tourists ever since Communist Party delegations began arriving, decades ago, to see the birthplace of Karl Marx. My Chinese guidebook, written by a retired diplomat, said it once was described as the Mecca of the Chinese people

“In China, if you can get ten things for a hundred dollars, that’s still better than getting one thing for a hundred dollars,” Li said.

“We have to get used to the fact that Europeans sometimes move slowly,” he said. When shopping in China, he went on, “we’re accustomed to three of us putting our items on the counter at the same time, and then the old lady gives change to three people without making a mistake. Europeans don’t do that.” He continued, “I’m not saying that they’re stupid. If they were, they wouldn’t have developed all this technology, which requires very subtle calculations. They just deal with math in a different way.” He ended with some advice: “Let them do things their way, because if we’re rushing then they’ll feel rushed, and that will put them in a bad mood, and then we’ll think that they’re discriminating against us, which is not necessarily the case.”

Li made a great show of acting out a Mediterranean life style: “Wake up slowly, brush teeth, make a cup of espresso, take in the aroma.” The crowd laughed. “With a pace like that, how can their economies keep growing? It’s impossible.” He added, “In this world, only when you have diligent, hardworking people will the nation’s economy grow.”

“Feel the openness of the city!” Cameras whirred, and he pointed out that central Paris had no skyscrapers. “In Shanghai, unless you’re standing right next to the Huangpu River, you can’t get any sense of the city, because there are too many tall buildings.” Europeans, he added, “preserve anything old and valuable.”

“We cast aside our three core ideas—Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism—and that was a mistake. We were taught Marxist revolutionary ideas from 1949 to 1978.” He paused and watched his wife and daughter snapping photographs at the railing, an orange sun sinking into the city beyond them. “We spent thirty years on what we now know was a disaster,” he said.


Several in our group told me how sorry they were that we weren’t stopping at a place called Aotelaise. The name baffled me. Someone explained that it’s a new Chinese word: “outlets.”

“Can a place where workers go on strike every day grow economically? Certainly not,” he said. “People here are strangely used to it. Their laws on public demonstrations are very mature. As long as you apply to the government, you have the right to protest on a predetermined route.” This is their “routine way of demanding their rights,”

In one of Marie Antoinette’s chambers, the Salon des Nobles de la Reine, he pointed out a blue vase of “beautiful Chinese porcelain, which was stolen from us and brought here.” The Hall of Mirrors, he said, was host not only to royal galas but also to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, in June, 1919—a notorious document in Chinese history, because it allowed German territory in Shandong Province to be placed under Japanese control.

Zheng said her countrymen have come to believe that “if you don’t elbow your way on to everything you’ll be last.” A car paused for us at a crosswalk, and Zheng drew a contrast: Drivers at home think, “I can’t pause. Otherwise, I’ll never get anywhere,”

At the very moment that American parents were wondering if they had something to learn from China’s purportedly hard-nosed “tiger mothers,” Chinese parents were trying to restore creativity to the country’s desiccated education system.

When Promise finally put down his wilted copy of the Wall Street Journal, there were no trumpets. He said simply, “When I read a foreign newspaper, I see lots of things I don’t know about.”

The State Of Flushing, NY

“People come from China, and when they look at Flushing, they say, ‘This is the way China was 15 years ago,’ ” said Michael Meyer, the president of TDC Development, a subsidiary of the F&T Group, which plans to turn that parking lot into Flushing Commons, an $820 million, 1.8 million-square-foot mixed-use development. Mr. Meyer said he hoped to break ground within a year, and he estimated that construction would take three and a half years. It is one of several major developments that promise to refashion the neighborhood’s landscape.

Yeah, right.
Source.

UPDATE:  Now that Hong Kong, part of China, has like this world's first major 3D pornographic release, Carnal Prayer Mat or something,  it definitely puts Hong Kong, by extension China, 1,000 years ahead of Flushing or most likely the entire USA.  Here over in the States, we pay $13 to watch kids cartoons (or animations?) in theaters.  The Hong Kong 3D porno flick will make James Cameron's 3D Blue Boob or otherwise known as Avatar look like a child's play.

CoCo

Bill At Work

Mini Olympics

Cloudy, cold.  I shot most of them in manual f/4 and 1/640 or there about at ISO400.  Usually I shoot at aperture priority but I think I am not going to let the camera choose this time.  And I like my result better.  At times the camera does give me jaundice--my impression is when I shoot at aperture priority and auto white balance ... it doesn't sound scientific and it probably isn't but I find manual exposure works for me in terms of better saturation and exposure control and consistency.  AE at times give me washed out images.  This time I almost exclusively shot using my 80-200, just trying to get familiar with my equipment.  I think it performs reasonably well.  My take is anything at f/4 or smaller and at 1/500 or faster seems pretty sharp.  Anything outside these perimeters needs special attention.

Weekend Leak

Yet more email leaks from the Internet gutter ...  I have made an effort to redact any source out to protect the innocent and rearrange the email exchange some what chronologically for easier comprehension.  The exchange touches on different topics concerning modern China.




中國當代藝術家艾軒，艾未未均為艾青之子。 另有一子艾端午移民美國紐約，是專職的風水師


Damn, it's seems that Uncle Sam accept all kind of expertise
[redacted]

From: [redacted]
To: s[redacted]
Subject: RE: 回覆： Fwd: 回覆： Trekking & Summitting Mount Mi’le 彌勒山
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:14:11 +0800

under until today, my colleague told me Ai has been stayed in US for more than 10 years, like [redacted], Ai also has a brother, in New York


艾未未為艾青與高瑛之子，1957年於北京出生[12]，其妻為路青，目前居住在北京草場地村。[13]反右期間，艾青一家於1958年被流放新疆，艾未未在新疆石河子居住十六年，後於1975年全家返回北京。[14]
1978年，入讀北京電影學院，同期的學生包括中國導演陳凱歌與張藝謀。 [15]1981年至1993年居住美國，主要居於紐約，曾就讀紐約帕森設計學院。後因一門課未通過被學校停止發放獎學金，於是離開學校，並因此成為了非法居留者。[16]他混跡於紐約，他的公寓成為了許多中國未來的藝術家們在美國的中轉站。1987年，在美國舉辦《舊鞋、性安全》藝術展，被藝評家稱為「引人注目的新達達主義」[17]。在紐約，他也是一位積極的街頭抗議者，參與了許多街頭的抗議活動。1989年，在六四事件中憑著美國政策得到美國綠卡，1993年4月，父親艾青患病，他返回北京照顧父親並同時放棄了美國居民身分。[18][19]


那你老哥認為老艾抵撚死?
[redacted]

> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:36:57 +0800
> Subject: Trekking & Summitting Mount Mi’le 彌勒山
> From: [redacted]
> To:[redacted]
>
> 敢拽老虎尾巴的艾未未，常常打擦邊球，終於令共產黨忍無可忍，胡溫連劉曉波都不怕，哪會怕艾未未。
>
>
> 2011/4/7[redacted] :
>
> under until today, my colleague told me Ai has been stayed in US for
> more than 10 years, like [redacted], Ai also has a brother, in New York


[redacted] has some points in this email
[redacted]

Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 19:03:44 -0700
From:[redacted]
Subject: Re: Trekking & Summitting Mount Mi’le 彌勒山
To: [redacted]

[redacted]has always this little red guard thing going on. In a way, if one is to go against the Chinese government, one is asking for it. So in that sense. He deserves it, knowing too well that the Communist won't forget or forgive. Most people will just STFU all things considered.

共產黨啊, 青面獠牙, 共妻共產, 太可怕啊

別忘了，老弟，你現在喝的是共產黨賣給你的水，90%
吃的是共產中國出產的食物，你可以不喜歡共產黨，甚至妄想光復大陸，但不能逃避以上的事實，除非你像[redacted]老弟一樣住在[redacted]。我的論點是：我們都要學會怎樣跟共產黨相處，因我們都活在共產黨轄下的香港，除非你願意跟劉曉波、艾未未一道做烈士。

我這樣説夠清楚了嗎？我不是紅衛兵［可能以前是］，但抹殺中國共産黨這90年來在中國所做的一切，也比毛主席的紅小兵高明了沒多少。你們説是嗎？

BTW, July 1, 2011 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the CCP
-- Chinese Communist Party.

[redacted], when you settle in London after your retirement, you may
consider starting an international crusade against the CCP and its
rule in China and we'll see whether there's still a market for that.

精誠團結, 同心同德, 一年準備, 两年反攻, 三年掃漡, 五年成功


It's not for me to say. I could march to the Central Government
Representative Office here and pelt stones into its compound but it
wouldn't help a bit. Ai should have known full well there might be
consequences to what he did considering that fact that he's in China
instead of New York City. What's the surprise here, buddy? Tell me.

It's for the Chinese people as a whole to say whether they still want
the Communists around. Look what's happening in Libya. Maybe by
that time, Uncle Sam and NATO or even the UN [which is a bit remote]
would be willing to lend a hand to the Chinese uprising against the
CCP. You and I may not be able to witness that day, pals. Keep
praying, [redacted]. That's the best thng you can do while you're still
residing in the HKSAR. [Emphasis on SAR]

Tell me, [redacted], how many f**king years have passed since the
following slogan was evoked. You haven't grown up at all. Do you
know the CCP is celebrating its 90th anniversary on July 1 of this
year. I dare say not a single person in Taiwan believe in the
following BS any more.
The Chinese don't deserve democracy. They are an inferior people. They are only interested in eating, shitting, having sex, quarrelling amongst themselves and backstabbing his/her friends. The Chinese deserve this communist virus. After all the countries have thrown it out as an ideology, these backward people still use it (or stfu as the common people) as controlling its people. This all comes down to thousands of years of oppression and feudalism. Lucky us that we (or our parents) got outta of China. But in Hong Kong. Not for long. We are going to be increasingly like them.>

痛心疾首

Like it or not, [redacted], a Royal Society report shows China pushing UK
into third place in scientific publishing and predicts it will soon
surpass the US as early as 2013. I'm sure this is sad news for you,
the Queen's subject. That said, I don't think you'd argue with the
Royal Society.

I think [redacted]would also like to reconsider the proposition that the
US system is the best one to harness and harvest the best minds in the
world, or words to that effect.

I know for a fact that there's rampant fraud and plagiarism in Chinese
academia. Be that as it may, China is still poised to be world No. 1
in R&D.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/mar/28/china-us-publisher-scientific-papers

http://pressroom.ipc-undp.org/2011/news-science-peer-review-and-scientific-publishing-china-poised-to-overhaul-us-as-biggest-publisher-of-scientific-papers/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110329/sc_afp/britainchinausscienceresearchinvest_20110329074459

http://indiglit.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/in-2-years-china-will-surpass-the-us-in-science-research-2/


驅除馬列, 恢復中华, 反共抗俄, 殺朱拔毛



That's fair comment, buddy. Do you guys still remember what 林沛理 said
about the Apple Daily in HK:

“對於《蘋果日報》日後的發展，最大的關鍵在於它把「人」看成什麼﹕
是愚民、笨伯、消費者、經濟人，還是一個公民社會的成員、一個雙肩承擔得起民主政治責任，也因此是應該得到民主的群體(a people
deserving democracy)。”

In order for democracy to prevail in a place, you've got to have
people who are 一個公民社會的成員、一個雙肩承擔得起民主政治責任，也因此是應該得到民主的群體。


2011/4/8 :

The Chinese don't deserve democracy. They are an inferior people. They
are only interested in eating, shitting, having sex, quarrelling
amongst themselves and backstabbing his/her friends. The Chinese
deserve this communist virus. After all the countries have thrown it


[redacted]is the only educator I know who comes out in support of those guys. But he is not a chancellor or anyone. And we are in Hong Kong. In 1919, Mr Cai Yuan Pei 蔡元培， the chancellor of the Beijing University stuck his neck out for the students. He had no fear of the warlords. We all stfu.
>
Behind closed doors, I think many [redacted]in HK are at least as
brave as Sir [redacted]. But are they marching to the Liaison Office of
the Central People's Government in the HKSAR in protest, probably not.
Ask [redacted]if you don't believe what I say.
[redacted]. C'mon. I agree China is making a lot of headway on a lot of fronts. But go and live there for a while and you will see what kind of a society there. People are indifferent, just getting by with the communists controlling everything. This environment is not conducive to the development of ideas, the information revolution. In the west, people like to emphasise the CONSUMERS in China. But the fact is China still can't get its domestic consumption up. Most of the people are still poor, getting by. The buyers you see on Canton Road don't represent China. At most it is the 1% (albeit 13 millions) of China who have become rich. As a system, it is built on shaky ground. That is why the communists are so nervous about those dissidents.
China also won a lot of gold medals at the Olympics. That is good. But does that mean China have a sporting culture? Do the Chinese enjoy sports? Do they have the time to do sports? ...

ask yourself, why don't you send your kids to those pro-communist schools, I am sure that they can teach your kids how to deal with communists much better than [redacted]

Of course there are many. But will you find a chancellor in HK, in the safety of hk that is, who is willing to come out to comment on the goings-on in China? That is why I like Mr Cai a lot. He is a great person. Not Chinese. By the way, he was buried in HK, at a cemetery near Aberdeen.
>
> 寄件者: [redacted]
> 日期: 2011/04/08 星期五 下午 12:00:42 HKT
> 收件者: [redacted] ,
> [redacted] ,
> [redacted] 
> 主旨: Trekking & Summitting Mount Mi’le 彌勒山
>
> Behind closed doors, I think many educators in HK are at least as


at least one, 王友金, the Mainland law expert, I watched his interview in NOW TV yesterday, he stands for Ai


here is Professor Wang

王友金，著名法律學者，中國維權律師關注組顧問、中國政法大學客座教授，是公共專業聯盟的成員之一。他在劉曉波獲得2010年諾貝爾和平獎的時候曾經到挪威示威。

[redacted], that is right. Those guys have more moral courage than those in HK. This One Country Two Systems is not going to work. In a way, the Hong Kong people have very bad rulers. We are losing our values. Slowly but surely, we will be just like China. Let's turn the lights off.


I'm stating it as a fact [i.e. a Royal Society report shows China has
pushed the UK into third place in scientific publishing and predicts
it will soon surpass the US as early as 2013], buddy. We'll have to
wait and see how future generations in China fair. China is still a
backward and autocratic country, no doubt about that. But the
country as a whole has gone a long way toward modernisation and has
made huge impacts on people's livelihood in the last three decades.

Pro [redacted], my old school chum, travels a lot and far and wide in China.
He gave lecture in Jinan and Wuhan recently about social work. He
even surmises that a people's revolution is imminent or not far away
in the Mainland. In his own words, the CCP and its many local
branches have created lots of powder kegs all over China -- sound
familiar? Remember Gordan Chang?



If they offer IB Diploma courses and teach entirely in English, I'd
consider doing so.

2011/4/8 [redacted] :

ask yourself, why don't you send your kids to those pro-communist
schools, I am sure that they can teach your kids how to deal with
communists much better than [redacted]
The problem with Gordon was that he said it 10 years ago. He was dead wrong in the last 10 years. But now I think it is the time to go short on China. Yes, it has co-opted the 1% rich into its ranks. But the seeds of in-stability have been sown. There is going to be more and more unrest. Guys, you have to remember that the CCP has to keep the growth rate at 8% to keep the country 'stable'.
>
> 寄件者:[redacted]
> 日期: 2011/04/08 星期五 下午 12:15:58 HKT
> 收件者: [redacted],
> [redacted] ,
> [redacted]
> 主旨: Trekking & Summitting Mount Mi’le 彌勒山 >
> I'm stating it as a fact [i.e. a Royal Society report shows China has
> pushed the UK into third place in scientific publishing and predicts
> it will soon surpass the US as early as 2013], buddy. We'll have to


Yeah, [redacted], add one more imperative for Premier Wen, he's got to
keep house prices down in Chinese cities, big and small, costal or
inland, for a swelling rank of urban dwellers.

In the meantime, the US federal government is threatening to shut
down, as it had done briefly before back in 1995.
The problem with the people in hk is: they don't read history books. They would like, their children as well, to go to business schools. But they don't know Chinese history. They don't read the history of the CCP. They don't know the nature of the CCP. In my view, the CCP is just another dynasty in the Chinese history, just like the Qin, the Han, or the Qing dynasty. After a while, from 50 years to 250 years, another dynasty would come up. Revolutions take place. Anywhere from one quarter to half of the population would be wiped out in the turmoil. That is why the Chinese are inferior. They never learn from history.
>

Be that as it may, another dynasty or not. Who can tell what's going
to happen 200 years from now? The United States of America has
lasted 234 years. Meanwhile, everybody is predicting China's rise
and the descent of the West in the 21st Century.


As food for thought, some [redacted] have left these comments under the
Guardian article:


"Leondeinos -- 28 March 2011 11:18PM

It's not surprising to see that China has moved forward in scientific
publication, both in quantity and quality. What makes the prognosis
worse for the US than implied here is the growing scorn toward
education, in general, and science, in particular, in the United
States. The Congress is full of ignoramuses who, for example, don't
(won't) understand climate change, evolution, the underlying problems
with nuclear power, or the fallacy of missile defence. These
nincompoops have great power and are using it to great effect. Support
for public education is being cut back massively in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, and Ohio, not to mention the more familiar fundamentalist
anti-evolution states to the south and west, where the anti-science
battle has been running for years.

This means that the trend reported by the Royal Society will continue,
with additional, far more important evidence of loss in American
scholarship showing up over the next twenty years. By then, the real
bill for today's budget balancing stunts (in a country that is not
poor at all) will come due."


"Chadwick4th -- 29 March 2011 12:38AM

It's not a question of mental ability. Countries are obviously not
equal. China is in a developing stage after having gone through
numerous internal struggles, yet they are now 2nd in publishing
scientific papers and 7th in global citations. In terms of GDP per
capita, they are 93rd meaning they have less resources to educate all
of their students. Having a very poor (per capita), developing country
rise so quickly in scientific output is amazing. As a good comparison,
what rank is India on that list?

I can't even imagine where China will be when their university systems
develop further and their current graduate students become professors
since it takes many generations to develop a foundation for a
university system. China has done so in an amazingly short time."



If you believe all those stories, you would think the States is one of the most backward countries in the world. But let's face it, it is still ahead in everything. That country has the unique ability to renew itself, to change course. Most important of all, it attracts immigrants. Scientists, engineers, doctors love to go there from all over the world. My nephew would love to be one of them.
>

Of course not, I take it with a pinch of salt. Another guy,
probably in academia, has this to say:


"For those in the research community this comes as no great surprise.
Over 20 years in the US, the majority of students and post docs that
have passed through my lab have been foreign, with the majority of
those being chinese.

You make the point that the per capita output of publications from
China comes nowhere near that of the US. That's a fair comment.
However, you have to appreciate that a significant percentage of the
US research output is actually provided by foreign scientists, both
graduate students and postdocs. In years gone by, many of these would
have remained in the US to pursue their careers. These days more and
more are returning to their home countries. Indeed I know an
increasing number of senior scientists (at the full professor level)
who are returning over seas (myself included actually).

While US science is still exceptionally strong, it seems to me that
fewer and fewer US born students are considering careers in research.
This is hardly surprising given the paucity of entry level (assistant
professor) positions that are currently available and the difficulty
in obtaining research funding. A couple of years ago, the average age
for a first research grant from the National Institutes of Health was
43. This is a ridiculous situation given that the majority of us were
probably at our most innovative in our 20s and early 30s. My view from
afar is that the UK is in no better shape scientifically. The only
western country that seems to be maintaining its standing is Germany
(this is merely my impression).

Let me be quite clear, I don't think US science is going down the
drain. It is going to remain a powerhouse for the foreseeable future.
However, it is certainly going see increasing competition from the Far
East, and not just from China."


I tend to agree with the BRAIN DRAIN thing in the following comment:

"You bring up literacy rates yet that tells us nothing about the
university system. You think that being able to read makes you a
scientist? What nonsense. It's very well known that China's university
is not nearly as developed as those in the UK, the USA and Japan,
especially on the graduate level. Is that somehow surprising
considering they are 93rd in the world in terms of GDP per capita? How
can you fund quality education for so many students with that little
money?

Yes, the Chinese students in the top US universities are the cream of
the crop, which is an even bigger argument for why this is so
impressive. China has been experiencing brain drain to other countries
for many years now, and still their scientific production rises
relentlessly. As China develops and its education system develops,
it's going to have more top-level graduate level students going back
to China to find opportunities or choosing not to leave in the first
place. This happened with Japan as well of decades past.

In the next few decades, we are going to see a huge change in the
scientific communities of the world."

Every year, 6.5 million graduates come on stream in China. Many of them can't find work of any kind. Sexual work is work too. Also, as my goddess 曾子墨 said:
二奶不偷不抢， 何罪之有。


Do you know China builds its own boomers [nuclear subs carrying ICMBs
launched under water] and nuclear attack subs that fire cruise
missiles and super fast torpedoes, [redacted]? Where's the surprise
that they also build their own nuclear power plants? Yet, many of
those in China are made in France or the US.

2011/4/8 [redacted] :

Have you read the news in Apple Daily, even China can made Nuclear
plants, an ordinary guy like you and me, just pay RMB100 to those
"tourist guide" in Shenzhen, can gain access to those core area, I
mean their way of control, if any, thus almost no control at all no
matter how they set their strict standard
william
>
> 寄件者: [redacted] 
> 日期: 2011/04/08 星期五 下午 01:45:53 HKT
> 收件者: [redacted] ,
> [redacted]
> 主旨: RE: Trekking & Summitting Mount Mi’le 彌勒山
>
>
> I can personally tell you, from my experience, there's lot of mainland female graduates, worked in Tokyo or other major cities, as massage girls or properly sex workers


Ten years ago, I paid rmb 100 to have a hug with three giant pandas inside a cage in SiChuan. You are right, the control centre of a nuclear power plant is also open to anyone who is willing to pay.



They're more useful in solving social problems than social workers
like Prof [redacted].
Have you guys ever heard of the 汉芯一号 farce in China? If you haven't, you should. There is no honesty in the Chinese academia. It is shameless. Many of those 'scholars' are 海归 too. That doesn't make them honest. As their ancestors said more than two thousands years ago, 橘逾淮而枳。 Pals, it is not the fruit. It is the soil that makes people bad.
>

Since 2008, some pro-chinese commentators have been saying the west is in decline. There is the need of Chinese rating agencies. The S & P and others like 穆迪 have a bias against China. China should have a higher rating in everything.
I agree to this to a point. But China has only been more 'normal', less radical in the past twenty years. While the US has been stable, free of the likes of the Cultural Revolution, in the last 234 years. No one knows the future. But would you put more faith in a model that has shown to be working smoothly in the past like the US? Or would you put all your eggs in China?
>

Of course. I know quite a bit of the story. As you once said,
they've got another set of morals. If you read Liang Wendao's
article about fake interviews of the rich & famous in the Chinese
media and Yu Hua 余華 《十個詞彙裡的中國》 中的 “山寨” 一詞，那就更好笑了。

I don't have much of a choice, do I? Deep down, I don't subscribe to
Communism any more. I was born to a poor Chinese peasant and I'm
staying in China. All in all, I want China to be rich and powerful
and stand shoulder to shoulder with other superpowers. Yet I don't
have a clue how to achieve that. There may or may not be ways other
than western democracy.

All I ever want is to live a peaceful life in a harmonious society.
That society may not be just or even democratic but it has to be
secure. In fact, I love to live here in Hong Kong. Malaysia is
another place that I like to spend my retirement in. I also like an
orderly place like Singapore. Tell you the truth, pal, I'm very
worried about the prevalence of firearms in the US. For me, I
wouldn't want to live in the USA. Lastly but not least, I like
Beijing as both a vibrant and historic city despite the fact that it's
the capital city of autocratic Communist China.

2011/4/8 :

Since 2008, some pro-chinese commentators have been saying the west is
in decline. There is the need of Chinese rating agencies. The S & P
and others like 穆迪 have a bias against China. China should have a
higher rating in everything.

I agree to this to a point. But China has only been more 'normal',
less radical in the past twenty years. While the US has been stable,
free of the likes of the Cultural Revolution, in the last 234 years.
No one knows the future. But would you put more faith in a model that
has shown to be working smoothly in the past like the US? Or would you
put all your eggs in China?



Literally all my eggs are in China at the moment -- a special
administrative region in Communist China.

Not only eggs, sexually he has put all his sperms in China women
how about Thailand, your second fatherland
there I support the government in importing more mainland women

then you paid more, my youngest sister once paid only RMB10 or 20 to hug with Pandas in Shenzhen Zoo, they manage the Nuclear Power Plant like a zoo or I can say, like a public toilet

I bet they do the same thing with their nuclear subs, [redacted]. Fancy
a joy ride under the sea?

they can also solve scientific or technological problem, I mean China didn't need more scientific reserach, they have plenty of supply of busty women to steal the western, Japanese and Korean technology, and those chinese bond girls have proved to be very successful
[redacted]


had my hugs at Wo Lung, the home of the giant pandas.


> Just like in Accountancy, if you can attach a dollar value to transaction then it means something, otherwise they are just footnotes that most people tend to ignore. ?If people can attach a dollar value to moral integrity or courage than perhaps the economic animals in Hong Kong can understand that better.

> ________________________________
> From: "[redacted]
> To: [redacted] 
> Sent: Friday, April 8, 2011 12:10 AM
> Subject: 回覆： RE: 回覆： Trekking & Summitting Mount Mi’le 彌勒山
> [redacted], that is right. Those guys have more moral courage than those in HK. This One Country Two Systems is not going to work. In a way, the Hong Kong people have very bad rulers. We are losing our values. Slowly but surely, we will be just like China. Let's turn the lights off.




Exactly, what is the big deal about the economic take-off? The Chinese are hardworking. They have good biz acumen. They are suited for capitalism.
That jerk is called 李国华。 You have made a great point there.
>
> 寄件者: "[redacted] 
> 日期: 2011/04/08 星期五 下午 10:23:50 HKT
> 收件者: [redacted]
> [redacted]
> [redacted]
> 主旨: Re: Trekking & Summitting Mount Mi’le 彌勒山
>
> You never know. ?All the communists need to do is to force the hand of history, perhaps by arresting more economic criminals. ?In Tunisia, all it takes was one fruit vendor who burned himself to death, it's an absurdly nonevent compared to what happened in China. ?Many Chinese are enjoying unprecedented prosperity and don't really want to rock the cradle. ?And the communist regime is largely credited to this double-digit economic growth. ?But can I even make the argument that maybe just maybe China would have taken off much earlier economically speaking if not because of the Communists hamstringing's its people with stupid dogmas and even stupider policies, look at smallish Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. ?Not too long ago, I read the news that a crippled man who runs an orphanage in China, benefiting children providing them food,?shelter?and education. ?But in return, young girls need to sleep with him. ?I think one of the victims still feels
> ambivalent towards the guy, on the one hand he's like a good guy providing her a roof on the other he's like?ruining her life. ?I think that's how some Chinese people feel about the Communist Party in China, it's like the Stockholm syndrome--problematic, troublesome and yet understandable.
>
> ________________________________

You guys really loathe the Communists. Well, whether you guys like
them or not, they're gonna stay -- perhaps for 500 years.

Despite the fact that Tunisia and China are completely different and
incomparable, let's pray for the appearance of another Mohamed
Bouazizi in China.


500 years? I don't think so, in history there's no Empire can last for 500 years, Roman empire, Mongolian Empire, British Empire cannot, CCP is not an exception

Well, I don't loathe anyone. I am just not comfortable with anyone or any group having a monopoly of power.

Scrabble

Frooty Loops

Frooty Loops time again.

Gentleman Stamp Collector

Pale King

Boring you at a bookstore not quite near you on April 15.

Remembrance Of A(nother) Great Educator

I still have nightmares from his math class. Knock knock. Sin(0)? Cosine(0)?

He was a good teacher. He was our class teacher.

I am sure he was especially through the passage of time and the filtration of memory. Everything kind of looks better in the rear view mirror. Looking back I can almost laugh at it but not during the time.

Remembrance Of A Great Educator

Email salvaged from the Internet gutter. The email exchange is in reverse chronological order so one may find it easier to understand reading from bottom to top.


This is getting quite complicated. For all I know, [redacted],[redacted] and some others guys (still on the loose) decided to break into the women's dorms one Saturday morning at around noon in 1981. Afterwards, you guys tried to get out thru the windows, and as it happened the headmaster saw it, yelled, and ran down the stairs from the 4th floor to the carpark area out[redacted]e the dorms. [redacted], being the more athletic one (compared to [redacted] that was), held his head in has hands and ran out of the school with his tail between his legs.
Poor [redacted] was caught with his pants down. The headmaster went ballistic by the time he got down from the 4th floor. He was literally foaming at the mouth. Looking back, it could have been too much pressure from the [redacted] Board. But [redacted] insisted that his rage stemmed from an unsatisfactory sex life. Anyway, [redacted] hid behind a tree for 5 minutes. But [redacted] was the one who got to see the headmaster's shaking hand the next day.
Poor [redacted] had nothing to add. At that time, he was still a virgin.

xxxxxxxxxxx

yes, you are right, he shouted at his 3/ft or 4/fl,
[redacted]

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:00:27 -0700
From: [redacted]
Subject: Re: 回覆： Re: Personal Alert on Your Favorite
To: [redacted]; [redacted]; [redacted]

 WTF is "he shouted at his 4/F."  You lost me right there.


From: [redacted]
To: [redacted]; [redacted] ; [redacted]
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:32 PM
Subject: RE: 回覆： Re: Personal Alert on Your Favorite

back to the time of 80's, or as his colonial background or his position as Pre[redacted]ent, you won't expect he will apologise, when he "caught" me,
he shouted at his 4/F., then I said I want to explain, at that moment
he told me to come to his office to meet him on the next day. When I went into his room, he didn't ask me to explain.
In the first instance he only me that some students didn't follow the rule and cause the misunderstanding and he told me not to keep it in mind,
then he showed his shaking hand with me. All of it only finished in 1 or 2 mins. In fact I didn't say anything and just feel that much relieved.
[redacted]

> From: [redacted]
> To: [redacted]; [redacted][redacted]
> CC: [redacted]
> Subject: 回覆： Re: Personal Alert on Your Favorite
> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:14:41 +0800
>
> I remembered you guys told me this story. He went berserk. Can you guys refresh us specifically how he behaved and how he apologised afterwards? The fact that he apologise still means sth to me.
> >

time has changed, now in [redacted], even the student being caught in exam cheating case, they even deny and behave in a very rude manner
[redacted]

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:52:37 -0700
From: [redacted]
Subject: Re: Personal Alert on Your Favorite
To: [redacted]; [redacted]
CC: [redacted]

He probably didn't have sex or something.  He looked perennially constipated.  For some reason, or you might have told us, he went totally crazy on you like a pit bull.  Crazy motherfucker.
Back then kids were meek and obedient.  Thank you for taking the bullet for me, though involuntarily.  I totally lucked out.


From: [redacted]
To: [redacted]; [redacted]
Cc: [redacted]
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:42 AM
Subject: RE: Personal Alert on Your Favorite

date back to earlier 80's, for his background in the colonial government and the atomosphere or style of management in [redacted],
I think he admitted that he made a mistake and he handle the case in a very proper manner, but you are right, he was really crazy when he caught me.

For me, in that age, I think I was calm and behaved properly in handle that case
[redacted]

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:35:41 -0700
From: [redacted]
Subject: Re: Personal Alert on Your Favorite
To: [redacted]; [redacted]
CC: [redacted]

now refresh my memory.  Was it some time or day after that he came to apology?  He must have felt bad about it.
If if you were the dorm breaking window climber, was it so bad?  I don't know.
I don't know how I found out you were the fall guy.  Was it many years later?  The fact that admitted he made a mistake and apologized for it certainly means something.
  But I guess he was really crazy when he caught you, wasn't he?

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Subject: RE: Personal Alert on Your Favorite

I have the honour that he shaked hand with me, for he made a mistake
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:29:02 -0700
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I could never make out Ho's features. Eyes, nose and everything there is just mashed together behind a giant pair of black frames with prescription Coke glasses. Even he has the physique of an over sized penguin considering he's always in black suit and crisp white shirt, but he doesn't waddle, he walks with a steady gait: arms close to body, small steps, almost like a woman.

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Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:18 AM
Subject: Personal Alert on Your Favorite

I remember you telling me that saga of yours but I forgot that [redacted]
became the fall guy.  I remember Ho wore coke-bottom glasses [they
are not round, though] so it's not surprising he couldn't see you or
your face clearly from far away.  You and [redacted] were both tall and
slender back then.


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Oh, yeah.  He was practically an English man for all I know.  Always
dressed like a gentleman.
But, there is a big but.  He was kind of blind.
I remember one Sunday afternoon I went back to the dorm being young,
agile and reckless, I just climbed inside the room through the first
floor window.  I remember seeing some classmate who waved at me rather
over enthusiastically and frantically as I was in full action--imagine
Bruce Lee climbing down the secret drug pit in Enter The Dragon.  I
thought they were greeting me since I was so popular.  But they were
signaling me not to.  Then I bet you guys know the rest of the story,
at least [redacted] does.  Ho came down unhinged and looked for blood.
But since he was blind he thought [redacted] was the culprit who climbed
up to his room.  Now I don't know if I should feel lucky or feel sad
for being mistaken as [redacted], come on.