Posted 10:08 PM by Anonymous

Hello from Christina!

Today I put up some information about "Shanghai new look," because many foreigners want to know more about China. Hi everyone! I am a new co-writer of this Tiger Cafe, with Raymond. We both like writing very much. How should I introduce myself in English?......hihihihihi....I work in a foreign trade company in China's Jiangsu province, and I have lived in Nanjing from 1987 till now.



By the way, do you like dogs or other pets? I have a "bo mei" dog and his name is "Xiao Xiao" in Chinese, which means "small."

I hope Tiger Cafe is a spiritual space, and I hope our friends can, through this site, realize a different world. Anyhow, I am pleased to meet you!

Posted 10:06 PM by Blah blah

Oh my God! Jody finally updated! Ya baby... Another classic as usual.

I hadn't checked Jeff's journal for a while and discovered he stopped writing over a month ago. What a bummer... Jeff is one of my all-time favorite bloggers. Eloquent, passionate, sexually explicit, intellectually challenging, and always interesting. He gave a fantastic perspective on the life of a gay lawyer in New York City. Even his last entry explains how you can get tired of blogging and does it much better than I did:

You start to live like there's this Greek chorus around you. Slave to the blog, slave to the readers. They're going to be pissed because I haven't updated in a while. They're going to make fun of me for thinking this, get pissed at me for doing that, get on my case about that other thing. But I have to tell them, I have to update, because if I don't, they'll leave, and I need them.

I needed it. I wanted to prove that I exist. But I know I exist. And I don't need this anymore -- or want this anymore. I'm just a person living my life, and I want it to be mine again. I want to stop swimming around in a fishbowl.

I've felt so liberated since last week. I've remembered that I don't have to tell anyone else what I'm doing. I don't have to worry about whether I should write about such-and-such. It feels so refreshingly normal.

A blog gives you instant gratification. It's like anonymous sex -- it's quick and it's cheap and it depletes you and it's never quite satisfying enough but you keep doing it anyway, trying to get there, you don't know where but there, and meanwhile you could be making things that are deeper, more intricate, but instead you keep draining the well every day, and you never have anything left over.

I want to put my creative energies into something that doesn't give me instant gratification. I want to work on something more long-term, something deeper.

Amen, Jeff. Same here. I will miss you.

I was checking up on Christine and noticed that she just formally launched her company's site, Oriented, a few days ago. Wow---many congratulations, Christine! She is definitely the Queen of Marketing, in my book. Note how she tackled promoting her business by asking her connections to organize a series of Happy Hour parties in Shanghai, Taipei, Beijing, San Francisco, and Seattle. I'd met one of her friends helping with the venture, Jim Leu, last December in Mountain View. He's now in Shanghai stirring up trouble.

Posted 8:21 PM by Anonymous

ANCIENT CHINESE FABLES

Safety in Numbers
Whenever King Xuan of the state of Qi ordered musicians to play the yu, an ancient wind instrument consisting of reed pipes, he insisted on three hundred musicians playing together. Nanguo, an educated man in retirement, asked permission to play the yu for the king. The king graciously gave his consent and Nanguo received the same salary as the other several hundred musicians.

After the death of King Xuan, King Min became the ruler of Qi. He liked to listen to the musicians one by one. Nanguo fled.

Hanfeizi

Posted 5:58 PM by Anonymous

SHANGHAI NEW LOOK(5)
The scenic Huangpu River
Cruise on the Huangpn Rlver
Riding a cruise boat along the Huangpu River. you wlll take a glimpse of the today and yesterday of Shanghai. On one side of the river. there is the Bund, a landmark of Shanghai. Lining the boulevard of the waterfront are grandiose solid buildings of Western style dating back to the early this century. You will also see the Park bridge. the first toll bridge in Shanghai; the People's Heroes Monument and Huangpu Park, the city's first park. On the other side is the image of a new Shanghai. Lofty Oriental pearl TV Tower and sleek high-rises in the Lujiazui Financial Zone give a fresh outlook of the city. On the cruise, you will also marvel at the two giant suspended bridges over the river. Cargo slips that sail to and fro on the river will make you realize how busy the trading business is ongoing in this most bustling trade outlet of China. Sailing further northward, you might be impressed by the scale of industrial plants, such as the steel giant Baosteel.The cruise will end at Wusongkou, where the Huangpu River flows into the East China Sea.

SHANGHAI NEW LOOK(4)
Shanghai Stadium is a giant sports facility boasts unique designing. Covering a floor area of 190,000 square meters, the stadium is a sphere in an radium of 300 meters. The saddle-shaped stadium has a total construction space of 150,000 square meters Above audiences' stands there are awnings that could be spread out in case of raining and big sun. The stadium can seat 80,000 audiences. In addition to playing host to sports games and performances, the stadium also has facilities for dining, accommodation, conferences and exhibitions. The exhibition hall at the southern part of the stadium can play host to various seminars and press conferences.

SHANGHAI NEW LOOK(3)
The Bund is the birthplace of Shanghai.Cruise boats meander eastward along the golden waterway to the intriguing"three-layer waters"at the Wusong Mouth.
The Bund is the most famous sightseeing spot in Shanghai. The Waibaidu Bridge, the long embankment along the Hungpu River, and the imposing array of tall buildings known as "an international exhibition" together from a symbol of the East . The Bund has always been closely linked with the developlment of Shanghai.

SHANGHAI NEW LOOK(2)
Shanghai Museum is situated at the southern side of the People's Square. Total construction space is 38,000 square meters. The museum structure, 29.5 meters in height, includes five floors aboveground and two floors underground. Total investment of the museum is 432.69 million yuan. The museum opened to visitors at the end of 1995. The design of the museum, a square foundation supporting a circular roof, incorporates ancient Chinese philosophy that the sky is round and the earth is square. The museum has 10 showrooms featuring bronze wares, ceramics, ancient Chinese paintings, calligraphy works, sculptures, seals, coins, jade wares, furniture and handicrafts of Chinese minorities. The museum now collects some 120,000 pieces of precious antiques, accounting for almost half of the total such collections in the country. The museum is highly acclaimed internationally.

SHANGHAI NEW LOOK(1)
Shanghai Grand Theater is at the northern part of the People's Square, at the intersection of the square's Central Boulevard and Huangpi Road. The theater covers a floor space of 11,528 square meters. The east-west length of the theater is about 120 meters and the south-north length is about 1,378 meters. The modern and grandeur theater has 10 floors. Total construction space is 62,803 square meters.
The theater has a 2,000-seat audience hall and a 760-square-meter hall for VIPs. (The backstage is 420 square meters and the two side-stages each has around 280 square meters of space). The theater will play host to performances of top-notch ballet troupes, opera troupes and symphony orchestras. Near the arch-like ceiling of the theater is a 500-plus-seat multi-functional ballroom where banquets, fashion shows and exhibitions can be held.

Posted 5:04 AM by Blah blah

YEAH! My translation button, on the left, works now!!! Please be patient though. Translating English to Chinese takes longer and works less consistently than Chinese to English. You may have to wait a minute or so. Also, Babelfish only translates the first part of the page. Try it.

It also works with my archives (previous weeks' entries). Try reading my archives in Chinese. YEAH BABY!!! Let me drink a gulp of rice wine...

I have also added translations from English to Italian, French, Korean, Japanese, German, and Spanish! Also, if you have FIRST translated one page, then you click on one of my links while still in translation mode (like "Raymond's Retreat"), it will translate the first part of the new page, too!!! HAHA....So you can try to read my old journal as well.

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Today I will introduce Chinese Zodiac Picks here.Becasue I met many people don't know what is the Chinese Zodiac?hey ,now I tell you as below:

Rat ---- Born in 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996.
You are imaginative, charming, and truly generous to the person you love. However, you have a tendency to be quick-tempered and overly critical. You are also inclined to be somewhat of an opportunist. Born under this sign, you should be happy in sales or as a writer, critic, or publicist.
Famous RAT people: Richard Nixon, Shakespeare, Prince Charles, Julia Child, Louis Armstrong, Prince Andrew, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Kathleen Battle, Albert Finney

OX ---- Born in 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997.
A born leader, you inspire confidence from all around you. You are conservative methodical, and good with your hands. Guard against being chauvinistic and always demanding your own way. The Buffalo would be successful as a skilled surgeon, general, or hairdresser
Famous Ox People: Tung Chee-Hwa, Sukarno, Richard Burton, Napoleon, Charlie Chaplin, Peter Sellers, Margaret Mead, Jawaharlal Nehru, Eisaku Sato, Princess Diana

Tiger ---- Born in 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998.
You are sensitive, emotional, and capable of great love. However, you have a tendency to get carried away and be stubborn about what you think is right; often seen as a "Hothead" or rebel. Your sign shows you would be excellent as a boss, explorer, race car driver, or matador.
Famous TIGER people: Sun Yat-Sen, Jiang Zemin, Ho Chih Minh,Princess Anne, General Charles de Gaulle, Charles Lindbergh, Beethoven, Queen Beatrix, King Juan Carlos I, Jonas Salk, Queen Elizabeth

Rabbit ---- Born in 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999.
You are the kind of person, that people like to be around affectionate, obliging, always pleasant. You have a tendency, though, to get too sentimental and seem superficial. Being cautious and conservative, you are successful in business but would also make a good lawyer, diplomat, or actor.
Famous RABBIT people: Hu Shih, Hu Yao-Bang, Kim Young Sam, Sally Ride, Leonardo Di Caprio, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Arturo Toscanini, Leontyne Price, Clare Boothe Luce, Tiger Woods.

Dragon ---- Born in 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988.
Full of vitality and enthusiasm, the Dragon is a popular individual even with the reputation of being foolhardy and a "big mouth" at times. You are intelligent, gifted, and a perfectionist but these qualities make you unduly demanding on others. You would be well-suited to be an artist, priest, or politician.
Famous Dragon People: Ringo Starr, Edward Heath, Dr. Seuss, John Lennon, Harold Wilson, Helen Keller, Pearl S. Buck, Salvador Dali, Francois Mitterrand, Hosni Mubarek, Maya Angelou.

Snake ---- Born in 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989.
Rich in wisdom and charm, you are romantic and deep thinking and your intuition guides you strongly. Avoid procrastination and your stingy attitude towards money. Keep your sense of humor about life. The Snake would be most content as a teacher, philosopher, writer, psychiatrist, and fortune teller.
Famous Snake People: Mao Tse-tong, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Ferdinand Marcos, Abraham Lincoln, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, Martin Luther King, Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy, Edgar Allen Poe, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bob Dylan

Horse ---- Born in 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954,1966, 1978, 1990.
Your capacity for hard work is amazing. Your are your own person-very independent. While intelligent and friendly, you have a strong streak of selfishness and sharp cunning and should guard against being egotistical. Your sign suggests success as an adventurer, scientist, poet, or politician.
Famous Horse People: Duke of Windsor, Princess Margaret, Billy Graham, Igor Stravinsky, Bertrand Russell, Joseph Haydn, Barbra Streisand, Nelson Mandela, Anwar Sadat, Neil Armstrong

Lamb ---- Born in 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991.
Except for the knack of always getting off on the wrong foot with people, the Goat can be charming company. Your are elegant and artistic but the first to complain about things. Put aside your pessimism and worry and try to be less dependent on material comforts. You would be best as an actor, gardener, or beachcomber.
Famous Lamb People: Sir Laurence Olivier, Josephine Bonaparte, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Toni Morrison, Leonard Nimoy, Pierre Trudeau, Katharine Hepburn, Boris Yeltsin

Monkey ---- Born in 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992.
You are a vary intelligent and a very clever wit. Because of your extraordinary nature and magnetic personality, you are always well-liked. The Monkey, however, must guard against being an opportunist and distrustful of other people. Your sign promises success in any field you try.
Famous Monkey people: Elizabeth Taylor, Charles Dickens, Lyndon Johnson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Rockefeller, Leonardo da Vinci, Simone de Beauvoir, Isaac Stern, George Lucas

Rooster ---- Born in 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993.
The Rooster is a hard worker; shrewd and definite in decision making often speaking his mind. Because of this, you tend to seem boastful to others. You are a dreamer, flashy dresser, and extravagant to an extreme. Born under this sign you should be happy as a restaurant owner, publicist, soldier or world traveler.
Famous Rooster people: Suharto, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, D. H. Lawrence, John Glenn, Emperor Akihito, Yoko Ono, Eudora Welty, Bette Midler

Dog ---- Born in 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994.
The Dog will never let you down. Born under this sign you are honest, and faithful to those you love. You are plagued by constant worry, a sharp tongue, and a tendency to be a fault finder, however. You would make an excellent businessman, activist, teacher, or secret agent.
Famous Dog People: Chiang Chin-Kuo, Zhou En-Lai, Lee Teng-Hui, Benjamin Franklin, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley,Jacques Cousteau, King Carl XVI Gustaf, Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir, Mother Teresa, Jane Goodall, Prime Minister Jean Chrien

Pig ---- Born in 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995.
You are a splendid companion, an intellectual with a very strong need to set difficult goals and carry them out. You are sincere, tolerant, and honest but by expecting the same from others, you are incredibly naive. Your quest for material goods could be your downfall. The Pig would be best in the arts as an entertainer, or possible a lawyer.
Famous Pig People: Chiang Kai-Shek, Lee Kuan Yew, Kim Dae Jung, Syngman Rhee, Tennessee Williams, Julie Andrews, Albert Schweitzer, Jerry John Rawlings, Prince Rainier, Georges Pompidou, Chuck Yeager, Henry Kissinger, King Fahd

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NEW: A Co-Writer

Hi guys, I recently was talking to one of my friends, Christina, from Nanjing, China.

I was introducing her to the whole idea of blogs. Since she enjoys writing, in Chinese, and I won't be writing often here anymore, I thought, "Why not let her use my site and be my cowriter?" If you understand Chinese, you will have a chance to see her unique point of view! Her post in English below is a translation by another of my friends. Without any delay, I give you... Christina!!! Her photos.

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Translation from the original Chinese:

It was past 10 o'clock when the phone rang. Someone from my middle school was calling from Guangzhou. I just got offline and was ready to take a shower and go to bed. He sounded tipsy and excited.

"May I speak to Rose?" I recognized his voice right away.

"Rose" was a name given to me by my homeroom teacher in middle school. She had hoped that I would grow up to be full of thorns like a rose, and that I did.

I smiled and asked, "Where are you? What are you doing this late in the evening?"

"Oh, I am on business in Guangzhou. Just had dinner with a few clients, and drank a few more than I should've..hee hee"

It sounded like he was in a good mood. He shared a desk with my best friend in school, and like so many guys he was obsessed with soccer. On a balmy summer afternoon, I was invited to visit the university he attended. I was enrolled in another university in the same city at that time. There was an annual soccer match going on, and he was a star player for his team. He shot two beautiful goals that afternoon and each time he would turn around and give me a smile. Like a hero returning from war he was surrounded by teammates, and he stood and smiled in my direction .

After graduation and having worked two years at a state enterprise, he readily gave up his stable and well-paid job to pursue something in another city.Now he works for a large cap foreign company. One day he called to tell me that he was promoted to be in charge of the marketing and sales divisions. I was on business at his city, but we didn't meet to celebrate his promotion.

He still had that smile "I really envy that you have the time and mood to travel and so many different things move you. Grass and trees don't excite me that at all."

"Emptiness makes me travel and go to places filled with excitement."

"The last time you left me a message you asked me how I was. Well...it is just work day in and day out. There is nothing that can make me happy or sad. Even if there was, it only lasts a few seconds".

"Are you really that bored? Maybe you need a girlfriend. That would improve things."

"Haha...I don't have time." Well, I thought to myself, this was a well-used excuse by single guys to cover themselves. "Besides, these things can't be rushed." he said.

"Life goes on like this; only memories from the past still bring me excitement."

I stayed silent.

"So do you have any plans for the long weekend?"

"Nothing, but I do want to get out. How about you? Let's go together? We will round up a few more people?"

"Everywhere will be full of people anyway. I haven't gone home for at least six months, it is time that I go see my parents."

I began to feel guilty. I am the kind of person that follows my own feelings, and somebody else has always pampered me. Responsibility was never in my vocabulary even though I deny it. Now I am flooded with guilt for those who have cared for me so deeply.

"Want to go to Tibet?"

"Of couse, that's a great idea."

"We can make it our short term goal," I smiled, usually for no reason.

"I will definitely go to Tibet, but not now. Maybe when I get married. It is such a sacred place..."

"What happens if your wife can't go?"

"That would be impossible, because I won't marry anyone who won't go"

I didn't want to argue. Usually these self-centered guys annoy me. Maybe it was in the way he spoke, or that it had something to do with Tibet that what he said actually sounded good to me.

"I really had a few---don't mind if I am chatty." When did he become so polite---seems phony.

"We haven't talked like this for a long time." Again, I heard his dry cackles.

"Okay, I am going to go," He quickly said without any warning.

"Okay...."

Before the story ends, I want to tell everyone to return to life.

When you have lived in the same environment for a while, life will become boringly routine. The only way to truely put life into perspective is to go away on a trip. Only by knowing how to live in a different way, can you really understand life's true meaning.

Posted 1:30 PM by Blah blah

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Arrgh. You know I'm addicted to writing when I keep writing. Bad boy, Raymond! Stop! STOP.

Today was a pivotal day for the computer industry, as shareholders of HP voted on the merger of HP and Compaq. As of now, voting is still incomplete and too close to call. However, HP CEO Carly Fiorina has claimed victory. Here's a blog of developments in the vote in the Mercury News.

Withdrawal pains from HP-Compaq drama (funny!)
"You'll miss it then.
Miss it? It's like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, except with older people."

I leave you with these lovely poems I just got today from L. They are by the lyrical writer Khalil Gibran:

On Marriage

Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

On Love

When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Posted 3:40 PM by Blah blah

One more thing about the Andersen case. This reads like a TV drama! Talks about why the government decided THIS time to become so impatient and strict with Andersen. And describes what probably happened to cause the massive Enron shredding.

Andersen Misread Depths of the Government's Anger (NY Times):

"Obviously," said one person involved in the case, "the question finally came down to, `How many times do investors have to lose millions of dollars because they relied on Andersen before somebody finally charges them with a crime?' "

Some more plugs. Two ethnically based magazines at which you should look. Fantastic writing.

- Yisei, Korean-American literary student mag at Harvard.
- The Iranian.

This interesting lady, Jaz Gordon, just linked to my Cooking Blog. On her beautiful site, she has her own cooking log and a self-improvement journal. What do you guys think about using an online journal to improve your bad habits? I think it's a wonderful idea and wonder how well it has worked for you personally. Sorry Jaz, I don't feel like recording a regular journal any more, although I still do cook. If you wanna find out what I'm making, y'all have to come over and try it yourself!

Winding down

Well guys, I've been writing for almost a year and a half, and I've had fun. Met a lot of interesting people and got many unusual and rewarding perspectives. Have been moved, angered, dejected, and inspired by you and your lives.

Unfortunately, I have this strong urge to move on and do other things with my time. Work/school is my main focus now, and I realized recently that I need to develop my skills much more if I ever want to get out of the loop I'm in right now---to move on to the next phase of my life.

That takes more time and intense dedication. Online friends are fine, but I still prefer to know people in the flesh and deal with the imperfect but challenging problems of the real world.

I'm not abandoning this journal, but I am seriously cutting down. Maybe once a month. Maybe more when I have something I need to get off my chest. But I will not write regularly here any more, as far as I forsee.

Keep in touch, as always, by phone and email and chat (Yahoo Messenger). I'll be here and sometimes on the Rice Bowl Journals Discussion Boards.

And if we are ever gonna be in the same part of the country at the same time, please let me know. Let's drink and talk great dreams together. I'll post here if something major happens. Au revoir for now!

Warm wishes,
Raymond

Posted 6:08 PM by Blah blah

Wishing people well:

- I wanted to wish Min Jung the very best as she starts her new job Monday.

- Wishing Tae and his girlfriend well! They got engaged last month. (And I'm the last to find out. :( )

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As Scandal Keeps Growing, Church and Its Faithful Reel (NY Times):

"The sexual abuse scandal engulfing the Roman Catholic Church, far from being nearly over, has only begun. Across the country, in an effort to restore credibility, many dioceses after another is volunteering to turn over its records to prosecutors. The publicity is emboldening more people to step forward with accusations of of sexual abuse. The news media daily are exposing new cases of priests accused as pedophiles and new reports of cover-ups.

Already, the scandal has traumatized the church's faithful, demoralized the clergy and threatened the hard-won moral authority of its bishops. It has brought down a bishop, removed dozens of priests and tarnished the nation's preeminent prelate, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston. But the real extent of the impact on the church's life, status and future is only now becoming clear.

From schools of theology to dining- room tables, a growing number of Catholics are questioning the bedrock on which the church is built the all-male, celibate priesthood. Parishioners are calling for open dialogue and debate about a tenet that Pope John Paul II has said is closed for discussion.

In a startling step, the official Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, said in an editorial on Friday that the Catholic Church must now confront questions and commission studies about whether the celibate, unmarried, all-male priesthood should be continued.

Cardinal Law, who is considered a conservative Vatican loyalist, said on Friday night that the editorial was not intended to question the church's position on clerical celibacy, but to reflect issues raised by others because of the scandal. No church leaders expect any immediate change in a doctrine that has served the church for centuries. But the practical effects of the scandal are evident already.

The church is at risk of losing some of the legal protections that have shielded it from criminal prosecution in the United States. Its moral authority on such issues as social justice and the status of Jerusalem is also in peril."

Posted 11:21 AM by Blah blah

Topics I don't have time to flesh out as I wish:

- My aunt in the Philippines has started a foundation in memory of my uncle who passed away. It will give a grant to a faculty member in the College of Engineering at the University of the Philippines for this coming year, starting in June!

- Post pics of Dolly's party. I know I know...

- My crazy weekend in mid-February: hosting my political TV show, meeting and having dinner with Ginny, singing karaoke at her friend Erica's place, going to a comedy club with June and Tony, and letting "psycho-girl" borrow my car.

- Dinner at Linda's place.

- I'm planning to buy a new laptop.

Maybe that's it. I'm kinda a perfectionist when I write here, and it causes me to delay posting when I know I could write a great story. Anyhow, if I don't have time to write about something, maybe I'll just make quick notes like this, so at least you know I have a life.

As always, I'd appreciate some feedback. Does my writing put you to sleep? Am I talking too much about serious topics? What do you like? I mean I'm here lamenting the treatment of Andersen, and I go to some other journals and people are describing their bellybutton lint. It's just a lot faster to write about the news and a lot harder to write comedy or something truly poetic. I like that quote: "Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit in front of a blank sheet and wait for beads of blood to form on your forehead."

Posted 4:42 PM by Blah blah

I feel the government is treating Andersen and its employees, who may lose their jobs, as scapegoats for the sins of Enron. Another sad article:

Employees Indignant: This 'Just Isn't Fair' (Washington Post):

Young said he and his co-workers were disturbed by the attitude of government officials, which he termed "a little bit cold" in their disregard of how the indictment would affect the firm's 27,000 U.S. employees, including the 5,500 who work in the 28-story glass-and-steel headquarters building, its lobby festooned with huge American flags.The prosecutors' "hearts are with the investors and with Enron, and we're being held responsible," he said.

Andersen employees have been known for great pride in their affiliation with the firm, even for cocky self-confidence. But yesterday, when asked whether they worked there, many silently shook their heads no and walked quickly away, passing a row of newspaper racks blaring headlines about Andersen's fall from grace.

It's a dramatic, even radical change of events for Andersen. In the accounting industry, the 88-year-old firm, an institution in its hometown of Chicago, has long been the object of envy among its competitors. It was known for hiring the best of each season's crop of students, offering them the best training and helping develop them into the nation's most elite corp of accounting officials.

"They had the best reputation of any of the firms," said a 37-year-old Chicago accountant who stood watching the activity at Andersen headquarters across the street and asked not to be named. "They were like the IBM guys in the blue suit. They had a swagger in their step, and they deserved the swagger."

Some local restaurateurs said Andersen employees are avoiding many people these days, not just reporters. Steve Salameh, manager of a nearby restaurant called Beef 'n Brandy, said his eatery used to be a regular haunt for a group of Andersen workers. They worked long hours, he said, often quickly eating a sandwich so they could get dash back to work, with body language that bespoke confidence and a sense of mission. In the past few weeks, however, they've hardly come to the restaurant at all, and he doesn't know where they've gone.

Posted 9:05 AM by Blah blah

Asian American mags and communities

Click2Asia and aMagazine are going bust! One of Click2Asia's board members, Chin Yao, is a friend of my friend, and we all went kayaking together once.

Click2Asia and aMagazine Shutting Down (AsianWeek):
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Internally, [Click2Asia] also struggled with what many say is the problem with the premise of a monolithic APA market: individual ethnic and language loyalties. According to one former staffer, Chinese employees sat on one side of the office and the Koreans sat on the other, with each group tending to speak in their native tongue....

The original vision [for aMagazine] was something akin to Time magazine for APAs, [Amy] Chu says. None of the founders took any pay, including [Jeff] Yang, who had the biggest stake and was even then the “driving visionary behind the magazine,” she says. Funds for expenses such as printing costs were raised from friends and family, as well as throwing Asian-themed parties at New York nightclubs.

“We always made more money throwing parties than from the magazine,” Chu says.

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By the mid-1990s, the magazine had upgraded to offices near Chinatown in Manhattan and moved from an erratic quarterly publication schedule into a true semi-monthly.

As the magazine’s circulation continued to grow, winning big national advertisers remained a struggle. Securing support from APA advertising agencies actually proved an obstacle. Wang, who headed sales at aMagazine for eight years, explains that most ethnic agencies specialize in translating and creating “in-language” ads in Hindi, Tagalog, Korean and other Asian languages. Supporting magazines like aMagazine would’ve “undercut their own bread-and-butter,” she says.

Despite its financial problems, aMagazine, along with Yang, was steadily growing in influence in the community. At the same time, it was slowly morphing into a magazine focused on generating buzz. Its annual list of the 25 most influential APAs — similar to the “New Establishment” list of media elite as anointed by Vanity Fair magazine, the magazine that aMagazine seemed most bent on emulating — was widely discussed. Otherwise, aMagazine tended to feature lightweight profiles of APA actors and authors, first-person pieces about Asian identity and fashion layouts with an artsy tilt.

Occasionally there were hardhitting articles, like a series about APAs in prison. But the magazine, by embracing the upbeat and downplaying the controversial, sometimes appeared to be out of touch with its readers.
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Shows how difficult it really is to make money from the supposed market for pan-Asian, rich young professionals on the Internet. I have an account with Click2Asia but never really used it for anything. aMagazine did have a lot of hot pics of young Asians. But if you read it, did you find yourself coming BACK to it? Even though I'm Asian American and interested in magazines about my "own people," I find the stories they tend to publish very repetitive. They give too limited a view of the world for me. Do you think a good, successful Asian American print magazine is possible? I still have not seen one. The only other AA mag I've seen in the newstands is Yolk. In fact I prefer the online one---Chris and Ki's IIStix---because the people there are real, not celebrities.

Asian American mags seem to circle endlessly around these topics:

- Entertainers who aren't really great actors but, hell, they're cute and Asian, so...
(Lucy Liu, Tia Carrere, Russell Wong, Garrett Wang, Margaret Cho, etc.) How about all the truely talented actors or comedians who are less known? For example, Lane Nishikawa, whom I saw give a hilarious one-man show at the Julia Morgan Theater in Berkeley.

- Business leaders like Jerry Yang of Yahoo, David Lam of Lam Research, or Andrea Jung of Avon.

- Asian discrimination and stereotypes (the model minority myth---or "Why should you be studying when you should be out partying and breaking stereotypes?", the Suzy Wong view of Asian women, glass ceilings, Japanese internment camps, etc.) Yawn....

- Beauty issues like heated vs. non-heated eyelash curlers.

- Asian writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and why Asian guys dislike their portrayal in The Joy Luck Club.

- Money...How to buy your next Mercedes.

- Relationships: SISTERLY ADVICE FOR ASIAN MEN, WHAT DO WF LIKE BEST ABOUT AM?, WHAT FOBs THINK OF AMERICAN-BORN ASIANS, What do ABCs think of FOBs, What do ABCDs think of FOBs who are wannabe ABCs, Why Asian guys are shy Nintendo-playing geeks, What his mom thinks of you, How to deal with her poodle, Why arranged marriage may suck at first but last longer than romantic marriage, Why do Asian girls date white guys, How to ask these girls out, Why they still won't go out with you, Why am I spending all my time writing this???
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Andersen is dying?

Formerly the world's top accountant, Arthur Andersen is dying, and that is a huge shame. I understand the legal reasons behind the Justice Dept.'s going full steam ahead with bringing felony charges against the firm, and I have read the scandalous indictment, but it's hard to justify in human terms the blow to tens of thousands of innocent employees who knew nothing about the Enron shredding. (Andersen has been forced to pay huge settlements in the cases of dishonest financial reporting for companies such as Waste Management, Sunbeam, and the Baptist Foundation in Arizona. Enron was the final straw, from the government's point of view.) Not only will thousands of middle and low-level employees have a tough time finding jobs in this depressed market, but a huge fraction of the largest companies in America, for whom Andersen audits and consults, will have to scramble to find new auditors or---in the worst case---risk the wrath of investors by submitting unaudited financial statements for up to 60 days, which the Securities and Exchange Commission is allowing for ex-Andersen clients. My old school, the University of California, is one of the plaintiffs suing Andersen. Since Andersen's reputation is in the tank and clients are fleeing, the bottom line is with this indictment it will have much less money to pay off people trying to recover some of the zillions they lost from Enron. Everybody loses. I hope Andersen does not become the main fall guy for Enron's crooked practices.
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Andersen Crew Baffled but Happy for Hugs (NY Times):

For their part, Andersen employees said they had received gratifying — and surprising — displays of support from clients. Ms. Schleicher said that after she gave a speech about charitable giving to a group of business and civic leaders yesterday, "six people got up and hugged me."...

On the street in front of Andersen's headquarters in Chicago yesterday, one Andersen employee, Bryan Younge, said, "It's a shock." Mr. Younge, who joined Andersen in September, said, "88,000 people have been indicted for the actions of 15 or 20 people."

Tony Gutierrez, a partner in charge of Andersen's marketing practice in New York, echoed that view in describing the feelings of his co-workers, who he said were "good people."

"They're bright people" who get up every morning like everyone else, he said, and "they have a difficult time understanding why the Department of Justice is going after a firm- wide indictment."

Scott Soussa, who works in New York in Andersen's audit practice, said, "This indictment is essentially going to bring us to our knees." He and others in the firm are hoping for changes that will improve the entire industry and for aid for those who were hurt financially by Enron's collapse, he said. The Justice Department, he argued, "has taken the two positive things that could come out of this and put them in severe jeopardy — and that's very tough to understand," he said.

Andersen's employees are facing a world of uncertainty, said Dean McMann, the chief executive of the Ransford Group, a Houston consultant to professional services firms: the industry is in a brutal downturn, so anyone aside from the true specialists and stars who wants to jump to other firms has slim prospects, he said. "There are an awful lot of them in Andersen, and there's not a lot of opportunity," he said....

Another participant in the Vault forums who said that he worked in Andersen's Houston office worried about the possible cloud over employment prospects of Andersen service.

"I am afraid it will keep me from finding a new job," the participant wrote, using the online name popgul. "I can't shake this sick feeling in my stomach."
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An incorrect email has been circulating around the Internet, saying that Esprit, the casual clothing company that was so popular in the 80s, is closing down.

Esprit not closing down, as US e-mail suggests (Straits Times):

"A spokesman for the Singapore office explained that the Hongkong-based Esprit Holdings, which sells the brand outside the United States, recently bought over the American trademark rights of Esprit.

The deal gives the Hongkong company - which is run by former Taiwanese movie queen Lin Ching-hsia's husband Michael Ying - the rights to sell the casual apparel brand in America, on top of the 8,000 Esprit stores in more than 40 countries that it already has....

Yesterday, Esprit's vice-president of the group's finance division in Hongkong, Mr Patrick Lau, told The Straits Times over the phone: 'This is just a big misunderstanding.

'The e-mail is true, but only for the US. We are the opposite. We are expanding into the US.'

The group's net profit surged 40 per cent in the second half of last year, he added."

If you want to get cheap Esprit clothes here in the U.S., however, GO FOR IT!

Posted 1:25 PM by Blah blah

Chatted with Sam this morning about what he calls his "emotionally gutwrenching" experience talking to an 18-year-old homeless girl, which "smashed [his heart] into so many pieces." I hope you feel better, Sam, and have the chance to do something practical with your sense of outrage! He will update his site more later.

Since poor Sam is my foil to talk religion, what do you think of this? Sam?? As Rabbis Face Facts, Bible Tales Are Wilting (NY Times):
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Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred. The same is true of the tumbling of the walls of Jericho. And David, far from being the fearless king who built Jerusalem into a mighty capital, was more likely a provincial leader whose reputation was later magnified to provide a rallying point for a fledgling nation.

Such startling propositions the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years have gained wide acceptance among non- Orthodox rabbis. But there has been no attempt to disseminate these ideas or to discuss them with the laity until now.

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, which represents the 1.5 million Conservative Jews in the United States, has just issued a new Torah and commentary, the first for Conservatives in more than 60 years. Called Etz Hayim ("Tree of Life" in Hebrew), it offers an interpretation that incorporates the latest findings from archaeology, philology, anthropology and the study of ancient cultures. To the editors who worked on the book, it represents one of the boldest efforts ever to introduce into the religious mainstream a view of the Bible as a human rather than divine document.

"When I grew up in Brooklyn, congregants were not sophisticated about anything," said Rabbi Harold Kushner, the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People and a co-editor of the new book. "Today, they are very sophisticated and well read about psychology, literature and history, but they are locked in a childish version of the Bible."
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Great interview with one of my favorite actors, Sir Ian McKellen, or Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings (The Observer):

" 'Well, it's easy to underestimate someone who doesn't wear shoes and who's only got two shirts and they're both the same colour and never cuts his hair. Peter Jackson doesn't look like a major director who can organise vast troops. He looks like a... hobbit. But a major director is exactly what he is, and he did it with massive equanimity and humour and devotion. So I should have known it would be all right, but I didn't, not until I saw it complete.'...

McKellen famously came out in 1988 during a radio conversation with Peregrine Worsthorne, and went on to co-found the gay rights group Stonewall. Why, in retrospect, had it taken him so long, given that he was in the world of acting, at a time when closet doors were swinging open everywhere?

'I'm the guy who gets cowed by authority,' he says. 'Which means you resent authority but you don't necessarily fight it. I do feel I should have spoken sooner, yes. Suddenly a huge weight dropped. All that stuff with parents' friends, you know - "why is so-and-so 45 and still not married?" "Oh it's just because he hasn't met the right girl" - and I didn't quite lie but didn't quite tell the truth. Deep down, I was ashamed of the fact that I wasn't normal, I didn't think I was normal. In 1969, I was breaking the law in Edinburgh; it was still an offence for two men to make love; I was a criminal. And if your instinct is to be accepted, and yet you think yourself odd, then you find yourself lying.

'But this has all made sense to me only over the past 15 years. And now I can go on David Letterman, as I did recently, and answer about Christmas, saying I had a very pleasant time with my boyfriend, and it's unchallenged! But, currently, there's maybe less politics. It's the problem with being happy. I'm currently a bit inward looking, concentrating on being happy myself rather than telling everyone how as a nation we should organise, and if I was on a march at the moment I would just be saying to everyone... be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can, in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy - but how do you put that into legislation?'

Coming from a new-age proselytist, it would sound faintly ludicrous. Coming from the knight, the thrilling Coriolanus and perhaps the best Macbeth of last century, his mobile face suddenly rigid with sincerity, it makes a certain sense.
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Andersen at the brink. The Enron fallout.

The U.S. Justice Dept. indicted Arthur Andersen today under felony criminal charges, for obstruction of justice related to its shredding of documents in the Enron scandal, threatening the very survival of one of the world's most prestigious and oldest (88 years old) accounting firms! Andersen cried foul, saying this indictment is a "death penalty" for the firm. Imagine, 85,000 employees may be scrambling for jobs while the firm may be forced to declare bankruptcy. Any thoughts, Sophia, as an accountant, on what this means? What do you think about the need for reform of the accounting industry?

About the shredding:

Andersen Is Said to Rule Out Plea (NY Times):

Separately, officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission have begun discussing contingency plans with the rest of the Big Five accounting firms on how to handle a possible collapse of Andersen, according to people who have taken part in the discussions. Such a collapse, if it occurred, would require a virtually simultaneous transfer of auditors by almost 20 percent of the publicly traded companies in the United States....

Indeed, the document destruction that began in Houston appears to have been more widespread than previously believed, according to the findings of an internal investigation conducted for Andersen by Davis Polk & Wardwell and Mayer, Brown.

According to the findings, partners in the Houston office directed Andersen offices in Portland, Ore., and London to destroy records relating to Enron. Those instructions were issued after Andersen partners were aware that the S.E.C. had begun a preliminary inquiry into the Enron matter, the findings say.

The document destruction in the Portland office was limited, the findings say, because many employees were told to disregard the instruction. There is no description of the amount of shredding in London.

In addition, the findings concluded that Andersen's national accounting experts in Chicago, known as the Professional Standards Group, engaged in document destruction in September. However, at that point, there was no S.E.C. inquiry into Enron and thus no official proceeding that could be obstructed.

Still, the internal investigation found no evidence that Andersen's management played a role in the document destruction, which the findings say was initiated by the Houston office.

Indeed, the investigators found, in the three days after Oct. 23, when partners assigned to the Enron audits held a series of meetings, at least 26 trunks of records, as well as 24 other boxes of Enron-related paper, were shredded.

"This volume compared to a weekly average of less than one trunk during the preceding week," the findings said. "In addition, there was also an almost threefold increase in the volume of e-mail deletions that week."

According to the findings, by the time the document destruction began, Andersen partners in Houston — including David B. Duncan, the partner in charge of auditing Enron — were aware of the S.E.C.'s request for documents from Enron.

The Houston partners also learned from Enron on Oct. 22 — the day before the shredding began in earnest — that an S.E.C. letter requesting accounting information was expected soon.

Mr. Duncan's lawyer did not return a call seeking comment.

The findings also indicate that there were efforts by Houston officials to mislead others in Andersen about the document destruction. In preparation for demands from the S.E.C., an Andersen partner who had experience with the agency traveled to Houston during the week that shredding was taking place. The partner, John Riley, met with Mr. Duncan. "Riley had a conversation with Duncan in which he apparently denied that any unusual shredding activity was in process," the findings say.

"Instead, Duncan apparently acknowledged that he understood it would not be a good time for the engagement team to be shredding work-related documents."

Through his representatives, Mr. Duncan has maintained that the document destruction came after he received an e-mail message from Nancy Temple, an Andersen lawyer in Chicago, reminding the auditors about Andersen's document retention policy, which required the destruction of certain material once an audit file was completed. But the findings said that the e-mail message was not a likely trigger for the shredding, which occurred 11 days later.

Ms. Temple has testified before Congress that the purpose of her e- mail message was to remind the auditors to follow the firm's policies on destruction when working on draft memos in progress.

However, the findings say, "given the broad scope of the firm's document policy as it then existed, it is possible to read the Oct. 12 e-mail as not limited in the way that Temple testified she intended."

Is Arthur Andersen's Number Up? (Washington Post):

It's not just that several dozen clients have already announced they are taking their business elsewhere -- it's also that hundreds of others are reported by competitors to be quietly shopping around as well.

Key partners, meanwhile, have reportedly begun serious discussions about jumping to rival firms -- a recognition of the fact that their equity in the firm is almost sure to be wiped out and that, going forward, they are likely to make more money working somewhere else.

And hopes for selling the firm dim as other firms conclude there is no way to wind up with the valuable parts of the Andersen franchise -- the clients and the experienced practice teams -- without also running the risk of inheriting the liabilities that might be owed to the shareholders, creditors and employees of bankrupt clients. Just yesterday, Ernst & Young and Deloitte & Touche announced they had ended discussion about possible combinations with the global Andersen organization....

One other second-tier player, Chicago-based BDO Seidman, has made a run at the big time but with only limited success. The problem, explained Lee Graul, head of its public company practice, is that Wall Street analysts and investment bankers tend to frown on companies that don't have a Big Five seal-of-approval on their financial statements.

Ironically, one reason Wall Street prefers the biggest accounting firms, said Graul, is that they are thought to have the "deepest pockets," with the biggest insurance policies, in case things go wrong and shareholders want someone to sue. With Andersen, that belief may now have been shattered.

In addition to competition issues, a number of leading critics of the accounting industry -- including [former Federal Reserve chairman Paul] Volcker and former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt Jr. -- warn that the collapse of Andersen may scotch the best opportunity in decades to clean up problems that are widespread in the accounting profession.

Their argument is that if Andersen can be "reformed" along the lines outlined by Volcker -- without the temptation to cut corners on audits to win lucrative consulting contracts -- it will create a tough, quality auditing firm sought after by corporations now eager to allay shareholder anxieties.

In the resulting competition, other firms would eventually be forced to emulate the "new Andersen," in the process enhancing auditor independence and audit quality across an industry where questionable practices and audit failures have not been limited to Andersen.

"My purpose is not to save Andersen but to finally bring some reform to an industry that has resisted it for decades," said Volcker. "Maybe its a romantic notion, but I thought it was worth a try."

But skeptics wonder whether, even with Volcker's help, a firm as tarnished as Andersen can suddenly brand itself as the guarantor of financial reliability -- and whether such a tough-minded firm would suddenly become a market leader.

"The fundamental problem has never been with the auditing firms -- it's with corporate America," said Arthur Bowman, publisher of a widely read accounting industry newsletter. "Up till now they've gotten the kind of audits they wanted. And there is no reason to believe their preferences have changed."

A number of top corporate executives have stepped forward in recent days to defend themselves and their accountants. Lawrence J. Ellison, chief executive of Oracle Corp., said yesterday that his company would stick with Andersen despite what he termed the "mob rule" that demands punishment for thousands of Andersen employees for the still-unproven mistakes of a few "rogue" colleagues in the Houston office.

But harsh as it may seem, industry's critics say such punishments are the only way to change accounting industry behavior.

If you are curious about some of the ideas behind this whole Enron mess, why not take these quizzes from the Washington Post? Financial Literacy Quiz and Economy Quiz.
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Thanks to Rose, I discovered a new quick-and-easy blog commenting system: Netcomments.

I had a good exam yesterday, followed by a lousy parking ticket. Was feeling down when some people (you know who you are) had a nice chat with me last night. Felt much better afterwards, thank you =) !

Posted 9:20 AM by Blah blah

Congratulations to Cheshire Dave for winning in the Personal/Online Diary category at SXSW! I'm sure you'll tell us all about it, right Cheshire? Yay! His play "The Finest Poet" is playing at La Val's Subterranean Theater in Berkeley right now. How did your new outfit go over, Cheshire?

I'm sitting here envying Peggy's baby-raising life right now. Her baby Ashlyn looks like a human dim sum roll here, with her red cheeks! Sigh...

Posted 8:07 PM by Blah blah

Autumn in New York

Thanks for your patience, guys. You might be wondering why I am talking about all this nonsense and avoiding my personal life. You are right. I should say more about the ordinary day-to-day huh? Well my day-to-day life is pretty unremarkable. I am pretty much dealing with school, work, and a car. Have an exam Wednesday and a Tic-Tac-Toe program to write for next Friday, which should be interesting. For the Tic-Tac-Toe class, the teacher is a young guy who just got his PhD and was at UCLA. Very cool and easy to talk to. He's set up everything so that we submit our homework only through the web, and his site will print this confirmation number page we keep.

I like young professors because, like him, they still really care about explaining the full story to you. They don't get impatient with basic questions, and they try to really satisfy and encourage your curiosity. If you know me, you know I can be an endless bucket of questions if I really try. I usually don't, but one summer in high school I was in a medical program at Stanford, and one of the counselors there diagnosed me with a "question-comment imbalance." He bet me that I could not go through one whole day without asking a single question. He won! I'd meet new people at dinner where we were staying, and I was killing myself trying to get to know them but not say it in the form of a question. Sort of an anti-Jeopardy. "So, Mr. Smith, you ARE from Michigan and you DO some kinda back surgery. Yesss." "Ella, you are standing on your head and wishing to go have dinner, I know..."

Work: I have this new software package my boss wants me to learn. Wants me to be in charge of taking care of the code for my group. Am working on that. Times are tight financially at IBM now, so we are kinda coasting right now, lying low and not trying anything really ambitious.

Car: Basically I made a stupid stupid mistake. I bought a car recently and sold it back. Long story which I will not go into here. But that wasted lots of time and money and interfered with my life the last two to three weeks.

This weekend: Did nothing. Stayed in. Saturday night my housemate took our leftovers from our fridge and whipped up this pho soup, with those umbrella mushrooms and a sour flavor. It was surprisingly good! I am so lazy and lucky. Then we watched this leftover DVD that his girlfriend refused to watch, Autumn in New York, with Richard Gere and Winona Ryder, directed by Joan Chen (her 2nd movie as director). I had read a lot of bad reviews about the movie, but hell I still wanted some pointers from Richard Gere, so Saturday night was two guys staying home watching a chick flick. Yap. Actually I liked the feel of the movie, even though the premise didn't make sense. The Chinese cinematographer, Changwei Gu, was one of the stars of the film, I'd say, making New York and the restaurants and snow and twinges of winter so romantic and otherworldly. He had also shot Farewell My Concubine. I was floating. Watching it was like savoring rich chocolate and knowing it's a guilty pleasure that you'll pay for later but not caring. Richard Gere, acting suprisingly similar to the personality he had in Pretty Woman, was my favorite character to watch. Surprisingly, despite her beauty, I just could not get myself to care about Winona Ryder. But Gere, who plays every pore of anguish and flicker of guilt to the back of the theater, really got me. I felt like he was more naked emotionally than Winona when she was naked physically. Athough the characters differed agewise by 26 years, it was more believeable than the Sean Connery-Catherine Zeta-Jones pairing in Entrapment. Gere just looks eternally boyish with his bright eyes and crinkly grin. (Here's a photo of Joan Chen and Changwei Gu.)

Amazing how a couple of years ago, Liu and I had an argument about Autumn in New York that partially led to me not talking to her for a few weeks. She'd not liked this other movie I liked, The Tao of Steve, but instead she liked Autumn, which had gotten all the bad reviews. I know I know. Petty...that wasn't the only reason I was acting childish with her. I still remember I'd come over to visit her sister, who had made some dinner, and Liu just sat there uncharacteristically cold, with tight silent lips, a slouch, and ignoring me. Then she excused herself and went upstairs. Her sister and I did a double-take and looked at each other like: "what was that all about?" I stood at the bottom of the stairway, pleading in the same way Richard Gere does so well after he's been naughty, and got her to smile again.



That's my personal Autumn in New York.

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HEE hee heh... I couldn't resist posting this: Budget babes for busted bachelors (Salon.com):

"An adult Web site called FrugalJohn, billing itself as 'Where cheap bastards find quality ladies,' has become a favorite of Silicon Valley horn dogs hard hit by the dot-com downturn.

FrugalJohn features a clickable directory of more than 80 female escorts and full-body massage providers whose going rate -- no more than $200 an hour -- significantly undercuts the $300-and-up rate typical in the Bay Area during boom times. It's the sex trade's version of the auto industry's zero percent financing, and customers are lining up to drive these babies off the lot....

Launched last November, FrugalJohn has already attracted something of an underground following among 'hobbyists,' as those who frequent these ladies like to call themselves. The site's page views -- currently about 350,000 a month -- have doubled every 30 days since launch. The FrugalJohn network has expanded to include escorts from Seattle, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego -- with Houston and Dallas soon to come, so to speak.

No one's more surprised at FrugalJohn's tumescent popularity than its founder, a 30-something out-of-work midlevel Internet executive who goes by the handle Giorgio Xo.

'I started it as a lark, but it's exploded into a real business,' says Giorgio, with a genuine sense of wonder. 'And it's all been viral marketing. I don't do any advertising, and I'm not even listed on the search engines. I'm kind of scared to think of what might happen if I advertise.'

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Lessons from Lou Gerstner.

Case study (reprinted in full): He Loves to Win. At I.B.M., He Did. (NY Times):

THE revival of I.B.M. over the last nine years is most tellingly measured not in numbers but by its return to pre-eminence as the industry leader. Once again, I.B.M. is the model others follow.

Consider the strategic debate behind the fevered proxy fight at Hewlett-Packard. Its planned purchase of Compaq Computer makes sense, Hewlett-Packard says, because the merger will make it more like I.B.M. A dangerous delusion, reply the deal's opponents. Who, they ask, could possibly compete broadly with I.B.M.?

Even the main question these days about I.B.M.'s future lends perspective. Sure, the skeptics say, I.B.M. is back with a vengeance, a powerhouse in the marketplace with strong profits. But, they ask, how much growth can be expected from a corporate giant with sales last year of $86 billion?

In 1993, when Louis V. Gerstner Jr. became chairman and chief executive, the question asked about I.B.M. was whether it would survive. And in choosing him, the I.B.M. board had taken a historic gamble on a professional manager with no experience in the computer industry.

Last Monday was Mr. Gerstner's first day at I.B.M. bearing just one title — chairman. He will keep it until year-end, then depart. On March 1, he was succeeded as chief executive by Samuel J. Palmisano, a 29- year I.B.M. veteran who built up the vital services business, which now represents about half of I.B.M.'s revenue and profits.

The rearview mirror holds little interest for Mr. Gerstner, who is 60. Yet in a lengthy interview last Monday at the company's headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., he reflected on his worries in taking the job, the challenges he faced and the reasoning behind his crucial strategic, organizational and technical decisions there. He spoke of where he thought I.B.M. had been smart and where luck had helped a lot.

He spoke of matters beyond I.B.M. as well. He explained why he believes there is no new economy, a statement that prompted boos from the dot-com world when he first made it in 1999. He answered the criticism he received in the industry in 1993, when he said, "The last thing I.B.M. needs now is a vision," and explained why he was right. And, ever the outsider in the computer business, he discussed what he thought was special about the industry, what was ordinary and what still irritates, even amuses, him about it.

Mr. Gerstner also offered a bit of personal reflection. After leading three large corporations and achieving vast personal wealth, he said that the enduring thrill of being a chief executive — and the part he would miss — was really quite simple. "I love winning," he said, pausing briefly before answering the question emphatically. "I love the process of leading an institution and being part of an institution that succeeds, that wins. I get excited by our success. I get very frustrated by our failures, too, but I enjoy the game."

At I.B.M., the Gerstner record is mainly a success story. "Lou Gerstner re-established the company's belief in itself," observed Andrew S. Grove, the chairman of Intel, who has known I.B.M. as a partner and competitor for more than two decades. "It's hard to describe how beaten down that company was."

When he took the job, Mr. Gerstner, a former McKinsey consultant who went on to become president of American Express and then chief executive of RJR Nabisco Holdings, was far from the obvious choice for guiding Big Blue, the fallen icon of American technology, back from the brink. Among I.B.M. directors, there had been a sharp debate over whether to hire a technologist or a professional manager. In the end, the board bet that I.B.M. needed a leader, a strategist and a manager — Mr. Gerstner's portfolio of skills — not an executive with a deep understanding of computer technology.

He also had qualms. "If the board had been wrong, and that was my big concern — that underlying it all there was a technical problem in I.B.M. — then it would have been a very short tenure for me," he said, smiling and shrugging.

THOSE misgivings are a distant memory. Even last week, it was clear that he does not plan to slow down until he leaves. Monday was his first day at the headquarters in two weeks. He had been on the road, going to Philadelphia, Boca Raton and Salt Lake City, and abroad in Stuttgart, Munich, London and Edinburgh, mostly meeting with I.B.M. customers.

The day was the equivalent of a corporate pit stop; he was headed out again on Tuesday, adding to the more than 1.1 million air miles he has logged since 1993. His travel regimen reflects his management philosophy: getting out of the office to deal with customers and dwell in the marketplace is an antidote to the corporate insularity that was nearly I.B.M.'s downfall.

He began traveling to meet customers and to visit I.B.M. outposts as soon as he took over, and what he heard guided his action. He also read. As a former McKinsey consultant, he asked first for the I.B.M. strategic plans, current and recent. There were plans aplenty, he found, strategic blueprints for each division, even down to the product level. By the end of his first month, Mr. Gerstner, who always carries two briefcases of reading material when he travels, had read thousands of pages of strategic documents.

The reading left him enlightened — and appalled. I.B.M., he said, was filled with smart people who had recognized the industry's major technological and economic shifts. Yet I.B.M. had repeatedly failed to respond. "Part of the culture was a tendency to debate and argue and raise every issue to the highest level of abstraction," Mr. Gerstner said. "The process almost became one of the elegance of the definition of the problem rather than the actual execution of an action plan."

SO, a few months after arriving at I.B.M., when he said the last thing it needed was a vision, he was declaring a break with the old culture of introspection and foot- dragging. Had he spoken of vision at I.B.M., he said, he knew it would have started "a yearlong debate."

"And we didn't need the vision," he added. "We needed to save the company economically."

Instead, he gave marching orders to the I.B.M. troops. "We were going to build this company from the customer back, not the from the company out," he said. "That was the big message from my first six months in the company, that the company was going to be driven from the marketplace."

As one symbolic step, he abolished the ritual of the I.B.M. organization chart. These fold-out charts were minor masterpieces of draftsmanship and printing, an intricate latticework of lines, color-coded boxes and asterisks. Lovely to behold, they recalled the engineering drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, according to one executive. Producing them was a cottage industry within I.B.M., and thousands of them were pinned on the office walls of its workers.

When asked about how to revise the organization chart under his management, Mr. Gerstner declared there would be no more organization charts, that anyone asking for one was focusing on the wrong thing.

Early on, he also changed incentives to put I.B.M. and its people more in step with the marketplace. When he came to the company, only 300 employees received stock options. Today, more than 60,000 do. He told his top 300 executives soon after he arrived that he expected them to own I.B.M. stock equal to one to four times their yearly compensation.

Mr. Gerstner argues that strategy and corporate culture are intimately linked. "You can't talk a culture into changing," he said. "You can't just exhort people to be different. You've got to point to fundamental strategic changes you're going to implement in a company and then drive the execution of that strategy. And it is in the execution of the strategy that the culture begins to change."

The first major decision Mr. Gerstner made was to decide to keep the company together, not split it up into 13 loosely linked "Baby Blues." Under that plan, put forward by his predecessor, John F. Akers, in December 1992, some would be spun off as separate companies with their own names, like AdStar, for the disk storage unit.

This so-called federation plan was moving ahead briskly when Mr. Gerstner arrived. "It was an extraordinary Balkanization of the company under way when I walked in," he said. "There were investment bankers sticking their flag on every piece of I.B.M. they could."

Auditors had been hired, costing millions of dollars, to create stand- alone financial statements for the spinoff candidates. "Every unit had run for the hills," Mr. Gerstner recalled, "creating their own human resources policies, their own communications policies."

In theory, the federation plan addressed I.B.M.'s fundamental trouble — that as an integrated company it was not quick and nimble. It would be better off aping the personal computer industry, where fast-moving technology specialists like Microsoft and Intel prevailed.

"That was the industry model that I.B.M. was responding to," Mr. Gerstner said. "And I looked at that and I said, `Wait a minute, as a customer of I.B.M.'s, I'm not terribly drawn to that as a model for I.B.M.' "

Mr. Gerstner, an I.B.M. customer at American Express and RJR, liked the concept of "integrated solutions" — that I.B.M. could distill the complexity of computing to solve business problems for companies. In his early travels for I.B.M., he heard similar sentiments from customers.

Aside from its breadth, in Mr. Gerstner's view, I.B.M. had another unique feature: its research prowess. "Now, I walk in and they're atomizing the company," he said. "I see both of I.B.M.'s distinctive competencies being destroyed."

Within 90 days of his arrival, Mr. Gerstner irrevocably decided to keep the company together. "I knew it was a big risk, but I never doubted that it was the right thing to do at I.B.M.," he said.

"What scared me" he added, was the need to do three things at once: change I.B.M.'s economic model, its strategy and its culture.

First, though, Mr. Gerstner had to cut costs. Work force cutbacks and plant closings were already under way, but he went deeper. In July 1993, he announced the company would eliminate an additional 35,000 jobs, bringing the declared total for the year to 60,000 and bringing the charge against earnings to $8.9 billion. As a result, I.B.M. reported a record loss of $8.1 billion in 1993 and, the next year, its worldwide employment fell to a low point of 220,000, from 302,000 in December 1992.

Looking back, Mr. Gerstner pointed to three strategic decisions that were "the fundamental underpinnings of building an integrated company." First, he created a broad computer services unit that sold bundles of hardware, software, consulting and maintenance to manage business processes like manufacturing, purchasing or marketing.

I.B.M. had a services arm before, but it merely kept the company's machines up and running for customers. To be a real computer services company, Mr. Gerstner noted, "it had to be product agnostic."

"The customer would not accept a services company if all it did was flog I.B.M. products," he said.

His decision to move into services set off "an incredible bomb in the company," Mr. Gerstner recalled, adding, "Here was a part of I.B.M. that was going to work closely with Oracle, Sun Microsystems and, God forbid, Microsoft." Yet IBM Global Services became the company's biggest business, the corporate vehicle that would, as Mr. Gerstner observed, "look at technology through the eyes of the customer."

His second crucial decision struck at another I.B.M. heritage, that of relying almost exclusively on its own homegrown technology. Before, when the company had gone outside — when it plunged into the personal computer business in 1981 using Intel's microprocessor and Microsoft's operating system — the move had been regarded as a grave mistake.

But by early 1994, Mr. Gerstner had decided that I.B.M. would move to "open systems." In other words, Mr. Gerstner said, "All of I.B.M.'s software would run on major competitive hardware, and all of I.B.M.'s hardware would support competitive software." To do that, the company would have to adopt standard software protocols that allowed different hardware and software products to talk to each other.

To Mr. Gerstner, the move toward openness was a technical manifestation of his broader strategy. "There's no way that you can get a company built around proprietary control to accept the open model unless they start with the customer and realize this is what the customer wants," he explained.

His third decision, made in 1995, was to fully embrace the Internet and what I.B.M. calls the "networked world" model of computing. Moving to open systems made it easier for the company to adapt to the Internet early. But the networked model of computing suited I.B.M.'s strengths — big data-serving computers are the equivalent of power plants on the network, and the Internet shift moved the center of computing away from the personal computer.

As the Internet moved into the mainstream in the mid-1990's, it brought an explosion of computing complexity, as all kinds of hardware and software had to be able to connect to the global network. I.B.M.'s breadth and its services group were big advantages in this new environment.

"Here was a chance for I.B.M. to lead again," Mr. Gerstner declared. "We were able to articulate a role for I.B.M. in the networked world that spoke of the value of all we did."

I.B.M. welcomed the sudden spread of Internet-style computing as a gift, Mr. Gerstner admitted. "The company was extraordinarily lucky that the networked model of computing arrived in the mid-90's," he said. "And let me tell you, having worked in industries where the cycle of change is measured in decades, if not centuries, one of the things that is extraordinary about this industry is that if you miss a turn of the wheel you have a chance to get back in the game" every 10 years or so.

Still, it was his earlier decisions that put I.B.M. in a position to ride the Internet wave. Given the company's size, that strategy evolved quite rapidly. In late 1995, it formed an Internet division, which was not a product group, but more a corporate SWAT team to make sure the entire company was marching toward the Internet. Then, it carved out its niche, trumpeted in a massive advertising and marketing campaign, beginning in 1997, to push "e-business."

Competitors scoffed and advertising experts scratched their heads, but the message resonated with corporate customers.

The message — helping companies do "e-business," documented in ads by examples — remained consistent, as did the strategy. Amid the dot- com mania in 1999, Mr. Gerstner told Wall Street analysts that he regarded the hot Internet start-ups as "fireflies before the storm," suggesting that the big impact of e-business would be in the old economy. At the time, that was hardly conventional wisdom.

At the conclusion of Mr. Gerstner's tenure, his three strategic pillars have come together in what could be mistaken for the very word he avoided, a vision. And that strategy shift, actually executed, insured a real change in the corporate culture.

THE company's sheer number of recent hires is a clear sign of that — and the buildup of the services business is a big reason. IBM Global Services employs 150,000 people, up from 7,600 in 1992. All told, more than half of I.B.M.'s employees have worked for the company for five years or less. In 1992, the figure was 14 percent.

Having succeeded in an industry skeptical of outsiders, Mr. Gerstner feels free to assess it. The computer industry tends to go astray, he said, when it "tends to reach to promise value in utopian schemes" — the paperless office, the cashless society, the notion that shopping Web sites would bring the demise of bricks- and-mortar stores.

"The payoff from information technology is going to be in making transactions and processes more effective and efficient," he asserted. "So it's not about creating a new economy, it's not about creating new models of behavior or new models of industry. It's about taking a tool, a powerful tool, and saying, `How can I make my supply chain more effective and efficient, how can I make my purchasing process more efficient, how can I make my internal employee communications more effective and efficient, how can I as a government deliver services to constituents more efficiently and more effectively?' "

"So the computer," he continued, "is in a sense like the electric motor 120 years earlier. It's an invention that in and of itself is kind of interesting, but doesn't have a lot of value unless you like hitting the alt, control and delete keys, and all the other things you can do on a keyboard. Its value is in the application to other processes."

His reference to alt, control, delete — the keys users strike to try to reanimate a personal computer, running Windows, that has crashed — was a slap at Microsoft. Like many people, Mr. Gerstner, who travels everywhere with an I.B.M. Thinkpad notebook computer, finds PC's too hard to use. He believes the problem reflects the technical parochialism of the industry.

"There's an absence of concern about ease of use and almost a pride in technical complexity," he said. "What other industry would give you a product that, to turn it off, you first have to press a button labeled start? And you tell me one other industry where somebody could sell a product that you have to reboot on average five or six times a day to get it to work?"

Yet, unlike so many in the software business, Mr. Gerstner did not let his critique of Microsoft drive his business decisions.

In 1996, he decided that I.B.M.'s OS/2 operating system could not compete with Microsoft's Windows. "Most of the big technical decisions we made were half as much business as they were technical," Mr. Gerstner explained. "I mean, the decision to basically stop fighting Microsoft with OS/2 was hardly a technical decision. It was a decision on my part that it looked like we had lost, so why don't we get on with doing something else?"

That kind of unsentimental pragmatism has served I.B.M. pretty well for the last nine years.