Posted 3:46 PM by Blah blah

Damn it. A couple of weeks ago, Sally had invited me to go to this Sina.com MBA forum held today. I had bought a ticket but then totally forgot about it. They had MBA admission speakers from a variety of top schools, and I even know one of the girls speaking, Louisa, from high school. Get organized, Raymond! :(

My housemate and I picked a name for our company last night. We think it's very cool. I'll let you know when our website is up.

Posted 2:13 AM by Blah blah

The Rice Bowl Journal Discussion Boards have moved here. Check them out!

This is my 2nd plug for you to read God's LiveJournal. God, You just crack me up! Wanna cook dinner this Sunday night? I'll bring the loaves...You got the fishes?

God sayeth things like:

"I'm phasing out prayer, mostly for reliability reasons. Most of the time, all I can hear is a bunch of gibberish, and then you get all mad when I give you, for instance, a pot of honey, instead of a lot of money. I always wondered why all you girls were praying for bigger zits."

Posted 6:58 PM by Blah blah

Check out this site: SevenQuestions. Especially Chris Adamson's interview.

Digital cinema shoots for an industry changeover

A digital cinema initiative by Kodak will help change the way the movie industry delivers and exhibits full-length motion pictures -- and IBM will be the key technology provider. Kodak's Digital Cinema System using IBM's Intel-based eServer and rich media storage systems will contribute to an industry changeover from 35mm film to digital that is slated to reduce the high cost of delivering film to theaters, develop new revenue opportunities, and turn movie theaters into digitally managed data centers.

IBM knocked Dell out of the running after client representative George Hebert and his team convinced Kodak's executive management team and application developers that IBM is a solutions provider, not merely a "box seller." Hebert also credits Team IBM, including Steve Canepa, vice president, media and entertainment; general manager Dick Anderson; and Greg Harrison, business development executive for global digital media, for helping to close the deal. Future deals with Kodak are expected to include IBM software.

Movie makers, director George Lucas among them, are the most enthusiastic champions of digital cinema. The British-based Economist observes that the recent Cannes film festival had nine digital screenings for "some remarkable digital films." Other beneficiaries: Distributors will be able to send digital movies overnight to theaters around the world, and simultaneously show a given movie on several screens. And theater managers can develop new entertainment and promotional offerings, like corporate annual meetings and concert showings, to increase their revenue.

Overcoming obstacles

But makers of digital cinema systems, like Kodak, Qualcomm, and Boeing, and infrastructure partners like IBM and Sun, recognize that a technology shift from film to digital will take at least three or four years. A Booz-Allen & Hamilton study observes that movie makers, distributors, and theater managers will have to agree on finding "creative ways to finance the multi-billion dollar cost of the changeover." Today theater owners, who overbuilt megaplexes in the 1990s and suffered financial setbacks as a result, are balking at the $5 to $7 billion investment it would take to install a new digital infrastructure in a system that "ain't broke." Meanwhile, studios argue that there is not yet a digital cinema standard, and they are "reluctant to risk backing the wrong approach."

Yet the studios are in the best position to profit from the changeover. First, using digital cinema can boost revenue. As the arrangement now stands, studios get the largest percentage of revenue at the start of a movie's run. The Booz-Allen & Hamilton study notes that if demand for a new film beats expectations, "theaters can use digital files to immediately show the film on more screens," and "studios will actually get a larger share of the increased revenues from new releases."

Second, the studios will save money. A major proponent of the new technology is Industrial Light and Magic, a division of Lucas Digital. The New York Times reported in May that director George Lucas saved $2 - $3 million in production costs by shooting on digital videotape from start to finish. The new technology aims to reduce the cost involved in movie production by creating, storing, distributing and projecting movies electronically. Intrigued by the benefits, movie studios have formed a digital cinema consortium to accelerate the adoption of digital media.

Kodak demonstrated its digital media solutions and technology infrastructure, featuring IBM technology, at the Cinema Expo International Conference in Amsterdam on June 25. The first Kodak Digital Cinema Operating Systems are expected to be installed later in 2002.

Digital cinema slow to reel in fans (CNET)

Posted 12:44 PM by Blah blah

This woman wants to come on our TV show for our next taping, in August, to talk about her trip to Afghanistan. She is amazing---she was mayor of Mountain View and has served on its city council for the last several years. She ALSO is a web developer and even taught a networking class at DeAnza College. She originally studied economics at Cornell. It's cool I'm gonna meet her.

My review of The Bourne Identity, take two:

Actually, never having read the Bourne trilogy, I love this movie! I saw it twice already!

The whole POINT is that Matt Damon is not the typical dumb action hero. He and the others worked hard to make this an intelligent, character-driven story. When he was making the movie, one time Matt told the director he didn't want to say a line a certain cliched way.

Off camera, he nailed the line perfectly in the typical way, but on camera, he did it differently.

Anyhow, I like pretty much all of it. Casting Franka Potente was excellent, because she is not a typical blonde action beauty and really convinces me she is one of those wandering students you meet all over when you travel.

I especially love the first parts, where Matt looks dazed and awkward in discovering his powers, like Tobey did in Spider-Man. I like the awkwardness between Matt and Franka too. It shows his consideration for her feelings and is more realistic. I love how they show his own gradually increasing disgust with his work and the assassin's ambivalence about his work.

Both Matt and Franka gave complex, smart performances. Intriguing and thrilling. Jekyll and Hyde-like. Way better than Ben Affleck's in The Sum of All Fears. I give this movie an A.

If you want Schwartzennegger, go somewhere else.

Posted 11:35 AM by Blah blah

From The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. He is one of my favorite writers. I devoured The Three Musketeers in one night when I was a teen.

Chapter 16
The young man had never thought about escape. There are things that seem so impossible that one instinctively avoids them and doesn't even consider attempting them. To dig fifty feet beneath the ground, to spend three years on this task, only to arrive---if you were successful---at a sheer precipice above the sea; to descend fifty, sixty, perhaps a hundred feet, only to fall and crush your head against the rocks---if the sentries had not already shot you; and, even supposing you managed to evade all these dangers, to be faced with swimming a distance of a league---all this was too much for one not to resign oneself; and, as we have seen already, Dantes had almost resigned himself to the point of death.

But now that he had seen an old man clasping on to life with such energy and giving him the example of such desperate resolve, he started to reflect and to measure his courage. Another man had attempted to do something that he had not even thought of doing; another, less young, less strong and less agile that himself, had succeeded, by sheer skill and patience, in acquiring all the implements he needed for this incredible task, which had failed only because of a failure of measurement; someone else had done all this, so nothing was impossible for Dantes.

Chapter 17
"What might you not have done, had you been free?"

"Perhaps nothing: the overflowing of my brain might have evaporated in mere futilities. Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had previously been dispersed, now they clashed in a narrow space; and, as you know, the clash of clouds produces electricity, electricity produces lightning and lightning gives light."

Posted 8:19 PM by Blah blah

I've been skimming through this book: Eight Keys to Greatness by Gene Landrum. Some of these qualities describe me to a T, while others I seriously lack. Nevertheless, in all of them I can and must keep striving to be better.

Traits of greatness that Landrum observed from his research on eminent entrepreneurs, artists, politicians, and scientists:

Communications

1. Rich and fluent vocabulary
2. Excellent self-expression
3. Inspires others to follow your lead
4. A philosophic communication style
5. Voracious reader of nonfiction books

Views the World

1. Always sees the big picture or essence of situation
2. More interested in the qualitative than quantitative
3. Inquisitive
4. Seeks opportunities and possibilities---never the safe and secure
5. Has a long-term perspective on most things

Creativity

1. Has a vivid imagination
2. Short attention span when listening to proposals by others
3. Inveterate need to know---in constant search for new knowledge
4. Prefers math to accounting---the abstract to the routine
5. Intolerant of useless conformity

Lifestyle

1. Is a high risk-taker
2. Spontaneous adventurer
3. High in intellectual playfulness
4. Often called a renegade
5. Eats, talks, walks, and thinks fast---(for example, often receives speeding tickets) [I like to drive fast. Always managed to avoid speeding tickets till this year.]

Self-Image

1. Easily bored with routine tasks
2. Prefers to work independently
3. Comfortable with ambiguity
4. Enjoys juggling many tasks simultaneously
5. Belief in own ability to succeed at new tasks
6. Strong sense of self---uses "I" often
7. Optimism pervades thinking---very positive
8. Needs little confirmation to proceed on new adventures
9. Flexible in dynamic environments
10. Candid responses to controversial inquiries

Critical Thinking Style

1. Prefers being different to being perfect
2. Asks many questions
3. Compulsion to reduce the complex to the simple
4. Searches for similarities and differences in people
5. Impatient in lines and with incompetence

Self-Sufficiency

1. Needs little support in proceeding on novel ideas
2. Very achievement oriented
3. Has variety of interests
4. Grasps new concepts quickly
5. Gets things done without being told

Posted 5:38 AM by Blah blah

Wow. What do you think of this?

Survey says 19% of Filipinos want to leave, see no hope in Philippines (Philippine Daily Inquirer). How bad is it???

Science, semi-science and nonsense (Salon.com):

"The questions that I ask -- the quality of evidence, who's doing the research, what else do they believe, what else have they done, have they tested their own claims -- is the way of science. All skeptic stuff is science. Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry."

WorldCom may be going bankrupt, and other sad trends in the telecommunications industry. (CNET) Mona! How is it going at your end?

Posted 11:46 PM by Blah blah

Here we gooooo. The Oprahization of this blog continues:

Finding the career for you:
"My father told me to go 'where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.' " -Diane Sawyer

From Eight Keys to Greatness:

1. Charisma: the gift of divine grace
2. Competitiveness: the need to win at all costs
3. Confidence and self-esteem: believe and the world will follow you
4. Drive: great people live life in the fast lane
5. Intuition: seeing the forest through the trees
6. Rebellion: abnormal success demands abnormal behavior
7. Risk-taking: there are no great wins in life without great risks
8. Tenacity: if you never quit, you can never lose

Paradoxes of Success

- Catherine the Great, Napoleon, and Hitler became rulers of world powers on the basis of nationalism yet were of a different nationality than those they ruled.
- A man of the cloth concocted the theory of evolution---the most pernicious argument against the Church's most fundamental dogmas. (Darwin studied to be a minister!)
- A medical doctor who denied her own child became the Messiah of Education
- A man who couldn't hear invented the phonograph and first sound movie camera
- A Russian immigrant with no philosophical background wrote the greatest epic philosophical novel---Atlas Shrugged
- A peasant farmer rose to the status of god and implemented China's Cultural Revolution
- A man kicked out of high school derived the theory of relativity, became an avid pacifist, and then advised the U.S. president to develop the atom bomb
- A man who hated art and would not hire an artist or allow the word "art" to be used at work, created Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, and Goofy
- A woman became the Mother of Modern Dance without ever taking a dance lesson
- A man who feared the common housefly became a daredevil test pilot
- The woman known as the Duchess of Death never met a criminal
- Nikola Tesla, a pathological recluse, was a mesmerizing speaker who could captivate hundreds for hours
- The man who claimed sex was the motive behind all behavior did not have sex after age forty
- An eighth grade dropout solved the technological mysteries of the catalytic engine
- An average-sized female outdrove 80 percent of the world's professional male golfers
- A man who claimed he couldn't write became one of the most successful authors in the 1980s

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Introspection

"Ulysses," by Alfred Lord Tennyson

It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees. All times I have enjoy'd
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea. I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known,-- cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honor'd of them all,--
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains; but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
to whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,--
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill
This labor, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness, and pay
Meet adoration to my household gods,
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.

There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail;
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me,--
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads,-- you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends.
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Posted 6:58 PM by Blah blah

Look at this crazy, amazing scheme: Icepick.com, the world's least private house. It's completely wired, and this couple (I think the girl is Asian) even graphs statistics on the Internet, of things like number of times their toilet was flushed. Stalk them with me.

WOW. The Brick Testament. Stories from the Bible enacted in Lego building blocks! I'm not used to the sight of Lego toys having sex.

This sucks...just what I need now. :(

High-tech slowdown may be worsening (San Jose Mercury News): "Silicon Valley's high-tech hangover isn't over. In fact, it may be getting worse. In recent weeks, executives and economists have begun to acknowledge that the downturn in corporate spending on new technology is far deeper and more widespread than they imagined. With businesses continuing to slash the spending that fuels the Silicon Valley economy, local companies are watching their sales continue to shrink, leading to new rounds of job cuts to appease Wall Street."

Posted 4:35 PM by Blah blah

Saw Steven Spielberg's Minority Report yesterday. This movie just blew me away. It's one of the best science fiction movies I've ever seen---could become a classic. (Here's an excerpt from the short story by Philip K. Dick.) It will remain in my mind longer than Blade Runner (which I only remember as depressing), that other classic also inspired by a story from Dick. This and The Bourne Identity are the two best movies I've seen this year! Again, try not to read any reviews beforehand to fully enjoy the twists in the plot. Over the last year or two, I have come to increasingly admire Tom Cruise, not just as an exciting and talented Actor, but as a wonderful, down-to-earth human being. Read his bio for more details. Recently, we also watched Kate and Leopold on DVD, and I was amazed by how fantastic Hugh Jackman (aka Wolverine in X-Men) is in romantic comedy and as a romantic leading man. He blows everyone else way with his calm conviction and his playing the part of a perfect gentleman. Hugh Jackman definitely earns my awe and respect.


New Photo Albums

Because Yahoo Photos does not let you show full-sized pictures to the public anymore, I was not happy with it. Also, I wanted to reorganize all my photos by theme instead of date and to put them in one place.

I finally did it. WHEW! I will use Sony ImageStation for all my photos from now on. It's free and the space seems unlimited. Try it!

To transfer a LOT of photos in one group, they let you E-MAIL them instead of uploading them. Emailing photos is so much more efficient, plus I had trouble getting the normal upload to work.

Here are most of my digital photos from the last few years. Click twice on pix to view them in full-size. You only need the link for one album to flip through all of them. Enjoy:

- Taiwan 1997
- France 1999
- New York City 2001
- Friends
- Me
- Family
- Parties
- Outdoor Trips
- SF Bay Area

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I sang some more songs for you! Listen to them in RealPlayer:

Here they are in RealPlayer format. (Please download the free RealPlayer here if you don't have it.) Total from my singing page:

- Summertime by Gershwin

- Someone to Watch Over Me by Gershwin

- I Can't Help Falling in Love With You by Elvis

Posted 10:49 AM by Blah blah

Ha! Amazing Ellen just sent me this DJ-like recording of her voice! It is part of a short demo tape she made for a class last year. She has a sparkling, lively voice! It matches her cheerful personality on her blog, Sunny Side Up. I see why she wishes to be in broadcasting. :D

Anyone else? Let's hear ya!

Googlematching (from Ellen)

Google says Raymond is:

1. The coolest site 'bout the hottest thang.
2. A breath of fresh air at symphony orchestra "pops" concerts.
3. A fully equipped American Plan lodge with beautifully appointed and clean housekeeping units.
5. A web book of available photographs
6. Of Romany (Gypsy) descent and, as such, is an authority on the Gypsies.
7. Basically a blowhard.
8. A roots rock/Americana style band.
9. Just like my Husband.
10. Crazy enough to tell the world that it will work.
11. Acting for the Defendants in Sphere Drake Insurance v Stirling Cooke Brown Reinsurance Brokers Ltd.
12. The chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation.
13. Also in charge of the Intelligence Division.
14. Healed by Bue Ma, the mistress of the secret lake (called "God's End").
15. "Thrown out" of Mom and Dad's world into the world at large.
16. Now available price 11.95.
17. CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR A DRUMMER, SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY.
18. Often swamped by fans, some seeking autographs.
19. A playful creature who likes to interact with his surroundings, whether walking around on the ground, or flapping his legs rhythmically.
20. Definitely not wearing his underwear.

Posted 12:23 AM by Blah blah

Another amusing blog in the Philippines: Unica Hija's Top Ten Site. She's like fast food, but boy is she filling. From Trixy.

By the editor-in-chief of Scientific American: 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense. This is my last salvo in the whole Creationism vs. Evolution debate in May. Rah...take that!

I saw The Bourne Identity yesterday, starring Matt Damon and Franka Potente. A+. I LOVE IT. GO SEE IT. I absolutely think this movie is one of the most entertaining you will see all year. Better than Spider-Man. Complex, human performances by Matt and Franka. Excellent all around! I wouldn't mind seeing it again. Don't read any reviews if you haven't seen it. Keep the plot a surprise.

Sam wrote a thoughtful, revealing essay a few weeks ago about what it has been like for him to come from a wealthy background. And to keep it quiet. See "Insecurity in Wealth." Sam, what kind of "incidents" caused you to finally be open about this?

We're Broke: The Economics of a Web Community:

"Many people are under the mistaken impression that the business of media is collecting information or creating entertainment and selling it to the public. This is not true. Information and entertainment is the bait, the 'loss leader,' which is used to lure large numbers of people into looking at a magazine, newspaper, television show or what have you. The 'product' that media sells is you, the audience. Your attention, gained through information or programming, is sold to advertisers whose ultimate aim is to convince you to buy their product.

Advertising is not a means of supporting media. Media is an excuse for presenting advertising.

Have you ever felt like the tremendous power of media was being used for purposes that were lackluster at best, and downright disturbing at worst? When you watch TV, do you feel like you're getting dumber by the second? Have you ever felt like the news media was avoiding certain topics, or dancing around an uncomfortable truth? You were not imagining it. This, my friends, is the feeling of being a product. You're collated into demographics, analyzed, bundled, packaged, and sold to the highest bidder. Even in the media business, the customer is always right, but your opinions and desires don't matter, because you're not the customer. The grocer doesn't care if the tomatoes would rather be closer to the display window, and successful media organizations don't really care what you think of them, just as long as you're still watching."

Being Tom Cruise (Time): What makes Tom tick? "What he seems to have perfected—on film and in life—is the ability to win you over, to be liked without really being known."

Posted 11:33 AM by Blah blah

Here's my second plug for you to read Minnie (near Atlanta, a profound and eloquent Dr. Love if I ever saw one), Elen (with a journalist's background, she tries to adjust to married life in Austria from the Philippines), and Sharon (a chemist in Britain with a wry sense of humor).

Is This a Chick Blog?

This has become such a "chick blog" recently. You know, I could talk about business, politics, the World Cup, car maintenance, real estate, the Israeli suicide bombings, and all that other stuff too. But I am trying to write for the broadest audience, and the audience here seems to be mostly female. Plus, after digging deeper into more intimate subjects, shop talk---which I could do with my eyes crossed---seems cheaper, for some reason. Anyway, maybe you come here to get away from the pressures of the day for a few minutes. To relax and let your mind get a slow massage for a while. Think of Tiger Cafe as brain massage, and I as your masseur. And I'm not gay. Can you beat that? Didn't think so.

Without further ado, onward with the chick blog! From the book Why Can't I Fall in Love?...
____________
Why is it so hard to fall in love?...

- As a culture, we have become shallow.
We have lost our respect for depth, for truth and beauty. Our criteria for allowing ourselves to fall in love are based on superficial values that don't strike to our core. And in our shallowness we have become boring. We're bored with each other, bored even by ourselves, certainly bored with the whole dating ritual.

- Each of the two sexes has lost its sense of wonder about the other.
We have lost respect for the differences between men and women; at the same time, we have lost respect for the harmony that men and women are capable of achieving together. By becoming oh-so-familiar with each other, ironically, we have become oh-so-distant from each other. We have become brothers and sisters, not lovers.

- We have declared our independence from each other.
We shun the notion of need. Needing someone else---for love and support, for physical affection and emotional attention---has been reclassified as a bad thing, a sign of weakness. And in our society, showing signs of weakness, exposing our vulnerabilities, is a very bad thing.

- Our unwillingness to show weakness has robbed us of our innocence.
Another irony: though as a culture we're more willing and eager every day to bare all in every forum imaginable, from Calvin Klein ads and MTV videos to Jerry Springer romps, as individuals we've grown deathly afraid to go emotionally naked before each other....The innocence required to bare one's soul before another, one of our most valuable qualities, is now dismissed as naivete.

- We have become fiends of premature judgment, the sitting justices on the Supreme Court of Relationships.
We approach each encounter with the opposite sex with a list of nonnegotiable requirements. Fail to meet one item on the list? Next! And how did we grow so unforgiving? Because judgment, of course, is hard to resist as a short-term defense; it is the quickest and cheapest way to avoid the humiliation of being judged first ourselves.

- We have deluded ourselves into thinking we deserve the best relationship we can find.
You may be happy at work, satisfied with the station you've reached in life. And yet, ask yourself: Do you have the best job you could possibly have? Do you live in the best neighborhood in America? For that matter, are you the best person you know? We have forgotten that good---not better, not best---can be wonderful.

- We have come to view love as a luxury rather than a necessity.
Nice work if you can get it, but not worth any real sacrifice. Our parents understood the importance of marrying the right person even at the wrong time or even in the wrong place; today, on the other hand, we put the timing of our careers and education, and the place we want to live, well before romance and love.

- We love with our head rather than our heart.
We have become so "smart" about love and romance---thanks to magazine articles, books, tapes, lectures, and the collected street wisdom of the armies of singles who have gone before us---that intellect now rules over gut instinct. Our minds talk us out of relationships, with reason and logic, before a spark of passion can get ignited in our hearts.

- We have lost faith in the institution of marriage.
...The children of divorce approach marriage with all the enthusiasm of a visit to the dentist.

- We have become a disposable society.
...Issues that can't be resolved? Who has time? Time for a trade-in! Spouse putting on a little weight? Trade up! We have lost the willingness to accept flaws, to take responsibility for regular care and maintenance of each other.

- We have also become a distractible society.
Blame it on information overload, the quick-cut imagery of MTV, too many choices, too little time. We have lost the appetite for concentration; with so many stimuli floating around us, it can feel impossible to pay attention to one other person, much less to our own minds.

- We have pigeonholed the pursuit of love, made it a mere pastime.
We've penciled it in on our Day Planner: Next week I'll turn thirty; next year I'll be ready to fall in love. On alternate Tuesdays, between kick-boxing class and group therapy, we schedule blind dates. Rather than approaching love as an all-encompassing state of mind and heart, learning to build it from the inside out, extending one's love from oneself to family and friends and then to a lover, we treat it like a hobby, fitting it in where convenience allows.

In short, we have lost touch with the essential qualities that Adam and Eve learned in the Garden: comfort with our own nakedness, a respect for innocence, an appreciation of the pain that comes from loneliness, a sense of wonder, compatibility, selflessness, respect for the differences between the sexes, and an understanding that closeness comes from shared experience....

It will involve flying in the face of some of our strongest cultural currents. Yet those are the very currents that all too easily pull us into the sea of unhappiness. I am recommending that you abandon the deeply ingrained patterns that have deprived you of lasting love.
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Posted 4:58 PM by Blah blah

Exercise
Yesterday: jogged about a mile
Today: swam 20 laps

I started a new RBJ topic: Let's Hear Your Voice! How about you? Would you record something for us? It would be great to finally hear you!

For those who don't feel like singing in "Let's Hear You Sing", we still would like to hear your voice!

Use a program like Microsoft Sound Recorder, which comes with Windows, to record your voice.

Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Entertainment -> Sound Recorder

You may need to adjust your recording microphone. If you use Windows, click on the Volume icon on the lower right corner of your screen. In the Volume Control window that pops up, go to "Options -> Properties."

Click on "Recording," make sure the Microphone box is checked, and click OK. You should see a volume control for the microphone appear on the right.

Here's my voice:
- Hello (English)
- Hello (Mandarin)
- Hello (French)
- Hello (Japanese)

- Prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson (>500 KB)

Posted 8:43 PM by Blah blah

Singing

David started a thread on Rice Bowl Journals called Let's Hear You Sing. He had some very kind words to say about my voice.

Here's my reply:

Wow, Dave, I am very flattered! :)
I don't consider myself very good---just someone who appreciates the art very much.

Unfortunately, Yahoo Briefcase decided to block all public file sharing unless you pay, so I cannot share my previous songs with you. Have any suggestions where else I can put my files?

My singing page.

Here's something I sang today just for you guys! Use RealPlayer to hear it.

I Can't Help Falling in Love With You, by Elvis.

Other, better singers you should hear, both Taiwanese girls:

1. Kathy Wen. This girl is a musical performer on the side!

2. Sabrina Liao, singing answering machine messages. Now in Taipei.

If you guys want to record smaller files, use what I use, Real Producer Basic.

Posted 11:43 AM by Blah blah

If you are really religious, you might get offended by this. Please skip it and don't tell the priest about me. Otherwise, check out God's LiveJournal. It's about time God started His own blog. The comments are JUST TOO FUNNY!

Ernie seriously makes me laugh here. Oh well---he doesn't need my praise. Telling Ernie he is funny is like telling Pamela Anderson she "fits too well into a corset."

Posted 12:57 AM by Blah blah

I saw the movie Serendipity recently (John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale), and I love it! The critics disagree with me, but here is one of the few good reviews which expresses much of my similar appreciation. I guess a movie stays with you if it awakens memories dormant in your own life, past treasures that you had folded away and never told anyone. Suddenly that moment is out there on the screen, and across that void you relive it, filled with sugary magic and the aroma of croissants.

Serendipity is such a movie for me. Sometimes I wonder about how much fate is working in my life, how much further I have to go before my next big step, and how many signs I may have accidentally missed. But if I missed them or see nothing special, is that, as John Cusack says, in itself a sign?

What do you think of the movie and the idea of fate?

Posted 1:30 PM by Blah blah

Ellen usually finds the most interesting links! See The Date Project, "an exciting new effort by a [28-year-old] single man located in Portland, Oregon to find a girlfriend. Through this site, you will be able to see the issues and problems he endures and the success he (hopefully) finds." I wonder if this will turn out like that movie 20 Dates, where this guy Myles Berkowitz (an unsuccessful filmmaker) tries to boost his professional life and his love life at the same time. He does whatever is necessary to film himself going on 20 dates.

Michelle has this very funny page of actual responses to her ad, called Personals Hell. Check her out, too. She's witty and has a fantastic blog reading list.

Heather is also trying to date, too. This email reply she got from a personals ad just CRACKS ME UP!!!

Date 13-Jun-2002 22:21:00

Subject Hello

Message...

Hi Heather,

I was looking through the list of people and I was struck by your incredible beauty. Your picture reminded me of how my Mum looked when she was younger and as she is very important to me I thought it would be good to meet someone who is as beautiful as she was.

My name is Dan, and the rest you can read from my profile. I really hope you reply then we can meet and hopefully have sex.

With lots of love from

Dan

__________
Crackdown on Web cafes after Beijing blaze kills 24 (Reuters):

"At least 24 people were killed and 13 injured when a fire swept through a packed Internet cafe in a university district of China's capital, Beijing, on Sunday in the city's worst fire in 50 years....

China's tight controls on the Internet and Web cafes have driven many operators underground, where they operate illegally behind locked doors to avoid scrutiny in their rush to serve millions of people seeking Internet access....

Many Chinese youths turn to the illegal parlours because they cannot afford their own computer, and still others are lured by the freedom of anonymous Internet access in a country where teams of police monitor and track Web use from homes and offices.

A deadly blaze swept through an Internet cafe in the northeastern port city of Dalian earlier this year, killing 20 mainly young people who were trapped behind a locked door.

In his order to close Internet cafes in the city, Beijing's Mayor Liu Qi was quoted by Xinhua as saying:

"From now on, Beijing will not encourage the development of Internet bars. From today, all Internet bars should stop operation and departments concerned should stop issuing licences."...

In one cafe in the centre of Shanghai, 50 people crowded into a poorly ventilated single room, outnumbering the computers by two to one. They chain-smoked, snuffing out cigarettes on grimy ceramic floor tiles.

Andersen Guilty of Shredding Files in Enron Scandal (NY Times):

"A federal jury convicted Arthur Andersen today of obstruction of justice for impeding an investigation by securities regulators into the financial debacle at Enron. Soon afterward, Andersen informed the government that it would cease auditing public companies as soon as the end of August, effectively ending the life of the 89-year-old firm....

At bottom, then, the guilty verdict against Andersen on a charge brought because of the shredding of thousands of records and deletion of tens of thousands of e-mail messages was ultimately reached because of the removal of a few words from a single memorandum."

Alaska, No Longer So Frigid, Starts to Crack, Burn and Sag (NY Times):

"The leading Republican in this state, Senator Ted Stevens, says that no place is experiencing more startling change from rising temperatures than Alaska.

Among the consequences, Senator Stevens says, are sagging roads, crumbling villages, dead forests, catastrophic fires and possible disruption of marine wildlife.

These problems will cost Alaska hundreds of millions of dollars, he said.

'Alaska is harder hit by global climate change than any place in the world,' Senator Stevens said."

Posted 9:10 AM by Blah blah

Political TV show

Yesterday I hosted two more episodes of our political TV show. Interviewed Peter, a guy who's part of the national policy body of the AARP, about his views against privatizing Social Security. You may want to drink some coffee before watching that one! Next, I talked to my surgeon friend Dr. Lisa about her work with Project New Start, which is a laser tattoo removal clinic at Highland Hospital in Oakland. She's the medical director for this small project. What's fascinating was how much they found that having a tattoo, a visual mark of a person's gang-filled past, made it harder for these inner city kids to leave that lifestyle. She told me about a girl whose abusive boyfriend made her put the tattoo of a gun on her arm. It was a way of "branding her...marking his territory." After Lisa and others removed these people's tattooes, many of them felt that they finally could lift up their heads and get jobs, go back to school, and otherwise start a new chapter of their lives.

Lisa said that on TV I really looked like my talk show idol, Charlie Rose! Oh the sound of sweet praise! What do you think?



Christina made a new photo album of her recent pix. Do you think she is showing more and more leg nowadays? HAHA!

Posted 7:57 AM by Blah blah

Sensuality Test

What's your result? Please take this. Unfortunately, I don't have a very sensitive sense of smell. One smell that absolutely drives me crazy is that of Mrs. Fields Cookies! If they made a perfume with that smell, watch out...heheh!

I got a 79...Super Sensual. Heheh.

"Sensuality is to be acutely aware of what the senses perceive. This preoccupation or devotion to that which is smelled, touched, heard, tasted, and seen has some bearing on how one experiences life…and sex.

Studies have shown that people who are exceptionally sensual are very process-oriented. In life, this means enjoying the present moment and not always being hung up on the future or the past. What is going on around at the present moment is enough to capture the sensual individuals full attention. This is an excellent recipe for happiness. In matters of sex, being process-oriented means NOT being driven by the goal of orgasm. Instead it means enjoying sex for the experience itself, basking in the actual act and not driving to a climactic finish.

You are one sensual human being! You are titillated by the sensual stimuli of everyday life. The smell of flowers, the sensation of silk against the skin, the taste of food, the sound of music, and the rich colors of life tickle and tease you to ecstasy. Yours is a hedonistic attitude, and you deeply enjoy the physical pleasures that life has to offer. This is great-a good smell or beautiful color is often enough to keep a smile on your face and a song in your heart.

You are into long, emotional lovemaking (which is usually followed by an earth-shattering orgasm). This is fabulous for you and one would wager that your partner doesn't mind either!

Your senses are also inextricably linked to your emotions and certain sensual stimuli can evoke strong feelings. Therefore you tend to be emotionally passionate.

Because you get so much pleasure from your senses, you are eager to experiment in life. This is positive since you can make great discoveries and experience a lot of pleasure. However, being pleasure-driven can sour you from persevering if an experience isn't entirely pleasant. If that's your case, your lack of persistence might be keeping you from attaining worthy goals (sometimes it is necessary to wade through dull and insipid periods of life).

But most importantly, remember that 'too much of a good thing' can be harmful. People who delight is sensual pleasures are at a slightly increased risk for addictions (substance, sex, love, etc.). So keep yourself in check. Uninhibited sex, too much chocolate, and fine wine can all induce pleasure, but can get you into trouble if you abuse them.

All in all, you have the innate ability to use your senses to enjoy what this life has to offer!"

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From RBJ, a discussion about How Often Do You Think About Sex? I wrote:

Wow, Rasee, you have indeed warped my perception of you! (NOT!) Haha...

The fact that you are a creative writer says something about you and your sexual appreciation. I just think most people who are more artistic (including writers) have a heightened sexual awareness and appreciation. Add the artist's brain (the best sexual organ) to that tingling feeling in your nerve endings, and kapow!

Do I think about sex as much as Johnny (80 times/day? NO WAY!) NO. But of course I do think about it.

Since I'm a Libra and more the intellectual-aesthetic type, I tend to approach a woman's mind first, then her body. Seeing a gorgeous woman I don't know doesn't necessarily cause me to flicker an eyelash. To me it's a bloodless image easily forgotten. They say about Libras that they "can appreciate a beautiful tree as much as a beautiful woman." Welllll, that's PUSHING IT, but you get the point. We can find beauty in a lot more things than the obvious, prepackaged stuff. (No, I don't take astrology very seriously, but I am so much a typical Libra!)

For most women, I ignore how pretty they are at first and try to see if we have a mental connection. Yep---hard to believe, but TRUE.

The way to seduce me first is through my mind. Make me laugh, make me cry, tickle me, teach me something, and heighten my appreciation for life. Then I start to pay more attention to you and start thinking more sexually. But then small details about you may become sexual...it's a fuller appreciation.

For women who are only pretty but can't talk well or have a dull view of life, I get bored and forget them. That's me!

Sometimes I think the most boring woman can be a conventionally pretty one, because she's so used to men eating out of her hand and getting what she wants that she feels no interest in developing her brain, learning to be witty, exploring what's out there, etc.

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Poetry

Here is something that really TICKLED me and made me smile.

Belle, who is very eloquent and writes poetry regularly, wrote a POEM for me! For me! Haha...no one has ever done that! She wrote:

"As I see you as a very colorful person and very appreciative one at that to everybody, thus making you a nice, comforting, and unselfish friend, here's a very simple poem (tell me if it's silly, lol) for you.

out of the corner of my eye

i see a ray

brilliant sprays, shimmering

it bathes me

a shaft of grandeur, a spiral

of colors, you

are a prism

in the glass of friendship.

That was very sweet of ya, Belle!

I don't write poetry often, but here's what I wrote about my first love:

The Romantic Chemist

SUNSET HAD a bluish hue
Until you came within my view.
Fiery rays that give life worth
Radiate from your pink sweatshirt.

Who is she, in our room---
alert us!---
who looks like
actress Marina Sirtis?

She seems a child
As she spins round
Her long hair sashays
Near the ground.

Yet she is true Woman,
Helen of Greece,
Blessed with special
Inner peace.

When worries overwhelm my heart
You blink your eyes and work to start
Encouraging a confused boy
To catch your wild contagious joy.

Such warmth!---a smile
I still gaze on...
You purse your lips
And breathe "Rayyymon...."

Whene'er I feel the soul of thee
Robins nest in love's own tree
And sing in hearty unison
A song to all I come upon.

Ages fore and methinks hence
Some other boy may have the sense
To lift his brow that books have kissed,
And kiss instead a shy chemist.

Posted 11:03 AM by Blah blah

The old "nice guy" debate, twisted

From RBJ, topic: Are We Raising a Generation of Wimps? I was a little irritated at this guy AL who posted it.

What's wrong with being a nice guy? Plenty, according to a local therapist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). I agree with some of Glover's points, but generally I think he's a dork. What do YOU think of this article?
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Glover surmises that a lot of "Nice Guys" grew up with fathers who were abusive, overcontrolling, alcoholic, distant or just plain absent. Vowing never to be like their fathers, these men overshoot the mark and become ineffectual, emotionally repressed, manipulative and sexually dissatisfied....

Glover steers clients toward an ideal he calls the "integrated male" -- someone with a strong sense of self who acts with integrity, sets clear emotional boundaries and knows how to nurture without caretaking. [What the hell is wrong with guys doing "caretaking"???]...

Take his counsel regarding wifely chitchat, for instance. Glover makes no bones about telling husbands not to listen when their wives run on about "work, family, girlfriends and rude checkout people."

"I don't think men are inclined or even interested to hear about every detail of a woman's day," Glover says. "I'm just encouraging men to listen more selectively so they'll listen more carefully." [What the hell, dude?]

Without blinking, he adds that women may be drawn initially to men who "listen to them for hours and drink coffee with them and never sexualize them." [There's nothing wrong with just being friends at first without thinking sex, dude! That lets women feel more comfortable to be more open!] But in the end, he claims, women "come to despise" them for those very qualities.

His term for such men: "A girlfriend with a penis."
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AL said: "more men are becoming more sensitive & soft like women & more women are becoming dominate & assertive like Men! :-/"

I said: There's nothing wrong with that, dude! It's good that we don't force or expect people to act in their conventional male-female roles any more. It's the 21st century, man!

I don't think it's either you're sensitive OR you are dominant and assertive. I think that idea is simplistic and stupid. Depending on the situation and my mood, I can switch between both ways of behaving. I think this is a sign of MATURITY, of expanding the range of your behavior and becoming a more complex person as you grow up.

My theory: as men grow up and become more mature, they start to add some "female" characteristics to their repertoire (talk better, more patient, better at remembering birthdays, etc). As women become more mature, they naturally add "male" characteristics (get more aggressive, don't worry about politeness as much, ask directly for what they want, etc). We should encourage that as a modern society. This is a sign of a WHOLE person, someone comfortable enough with being a GUY he doesn't mind helping with his daughter's slumber party.

If you are confident with your masculinity, you wouldn't worry so much about people calling you a wimp and deliberately trying to act macho just to please some stupid friends who may talk smack about you.

Sometimes it IS the manly thing to act sensitive and soft. Example: when you have a baby! That will make your woman proud of ya.

AL said: "btw- watch out for Taiwanese church gals!
They are tough & mean! one bench presses mo than me & beat me arm wrestling :-[
( I can beat all the guys)!
Jen likes to hit me in the solar plexus & beats me up !:'(
another like to choke ppl! :'( so violent!
the last 2 r small so maybe it's mo a Small person complex! :P"

I said: Are you serious? What kind of neighborhood do you live in, dude?

What kind of guy do you think you are? Nice guy turned bad boy?

Posted 9:44 AM by Blah blah

Whoa, I was really sleepy when I wrote that last entry. What was I SMOKING? Today's entry is scatterbrained, like a David Lynch movie plot. Don't try to connect the dots here. They won't allow it. TGIF everyone! I'm gonna go see Shakespeare's The Tempest with Lorena tonight.

1. I talked to Laura yesterday, an IBM manager whom I went to for career advice. Based on what I told her I like to do, and on my personality, she strongly urged me to get formal training in project management and to learn stuff like contracts, scope, etc. She thought I would be happy in a job in project management, strategic alliances, or business development. People have usually said I have more of a marketing personality because I am outgoing, like to build relationships, can mediate arguments, can negotiate, etc. Hmmm....in the meantime, though, I'm still gonna go all out for technology and see what happens. Kathleen, are you reading this?

2. I finally got off my butt yesterday and started to refurnish my bedroom to make it into a home office. My housemate and I went to Fry's and in 15 minutes, I bought a new desk, office chair, and tall bookshelf. I completely threw away my old dining set, with four chairs and a table, which I've been lugging around for years. Goodbye to that part of my life! Raymond is reborn. Now I gotta assemble everything, and as my housemate says, "It's a mutha!"

3. Christina posted some pix of her officemates, like Jackey. She also took some really cutie pix of herself with Cherry. Hey, baby...wowr..! :D

4. Key, that big Korean flirt in New York City, linked to me from her new site. Her old site. Hey, she uses the same blog software (b2) as Christina! (Kudos to Carlos for working so hard to constantly improve Rice Bowl Journals, which has a new domain name now!) "Masturbation is Key..." hahaha! (it's a joke on RBJ)

5. I took back what I said about Julie in my post on "What Women Want?" She wrote me and explained in more detail what actually happened, and I realized I didn't know what the hell I was talking about. I'm sorry she felt bad enough to leave the RBJ boards and will miss her insightful and funny comments.

6. I added Minnie, a Vietnamese girl near Atlanta at the U. of Georgia, to my reading list. She sounds very thoughtful, passionate, and mature. She even gives relationship advice to guys. Not to mention---she's a tease. Please drop by and say hi! Hey Minnie, I visited Atlanta a while back and got to watch this hockey game between Atlanta and our own San Francisco Spiders. Guess who won?

Posted 11:41 PM by Blah blah

Dear Readers,
We of Tiger Cafe are doing a customer survey. Basically, we want to know what it is that will increase your urge to leave comments.

Should Raymond move to shorter and simpler entries (a la Reader's Digest)? Or should he keep doing what he's doing, which is to write until he feels he has made a substantial point or given a good sketch of whatever he's talking about? He wants to know. His exhausted fingers on the verge of arthritis wanna know. His housemate, who complains that Raymond spends too much time on this blog, wants to know.

SHORT, SIMPLE, and SCANDALOUS vs. LONG, INTELLECTUAL, and a GOOD CURE for INSOMNIA?
Please vote.

If you didn't know, Tiger Cafe is actually the work of a crack team of ghostwriters (we mean "crack team," not team on "crack") hired from various places like: a Harvard frat house, the 5th grade detention ward of John Muir Elementary School, the prison debating society at San Quentin, and the shower room at an undisclosed San Francisco bath house. Raymond's face is not that of one man's. It's actually a composite of the faces of a bunch of 50-year-old Hong Kong singers' faces, smooshed together on Adobe Photoshop with all of their beards digitally removed. Saved us from having to pay for a model---our budget is tight. You'll understand.

Here are a few suggestions our Writers have made for increasing both hits and readers' comments for this site. Tell us what you think:
1. Post a great many naked pictures of Raymond doing something sensual like licking a corn tortilla. Remember, pictures of Raymond's body are copyrighted by Tiger Cafe Inc. and are non-transferrable. They are also Photoshop composites of those 50-year-old singers' bodies mentioned before.
2. Post a great many pictures of BABIES BABIES BABIES. Make up a lot of births in the blogging world. Take unmarried bloggers, stick random baby pics next to their names, and ask everyone to send them a gift and celebrate the strange concidence of so many closely spaced pregnancies with us. Mention twins and triplets for good measure. Oh...by the way...make the babies naked too.

So SHORT vs. LONG? Cast your ballot now! Four more years! What would bring you lurkers out of hiding?
Sincerely,
The (very very sleepy) Management

Posted 3:42 PM by Blah blah

Hey guys, try using my new TAGBOARD on the left. It lets you leave short messages and talk with others too! It's a tiny message board.
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What a concept! Feeding off rejection. Calling all unpublished writers: For a fee, Penguin Putnam will tell you how bad your manuscript is. (Salon.com)

More on those guilty pleasures: TV dating shows. Thy tight buns are like a red, red rose (Salon.com):

"I found myself rereading my favorite chapter in medieval scholar Georges Duby's fascinating book...Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages.

What I found was startling. The medieval practice of courtly love and the contemporary dating show format evinced shocking similarities. Both were pragmatic, schematic, erotic and vicariously titillating. Both seemed to follow rules and codes established by people far richer and more powerful than the young lovers. Maybe the comparison is a little far-fetched, but all other avenues, like my patience, have been exhausted. Then again, maybe I'm on to something big....Romance as competitive spectator sport." Think BlindDateBlog too, guys.

Posted 11:00 AM by Blah blah

What Do Women Want?
How to Show Them How to Ask for What They Want?

On Rice Bowl Journals, I added this to the topic What Do Women Want? Do YOU have anything you want to add or say?

Al Sug, you say you are engaged but still clueless about what women want? How did that happen?

Here are some of the main things women keep saying they need but are not getting:

1. Someone who truly listens to and tries to understand them. Someone who resonates with and responds to what they say.

2. Someone who is reliable and there for them. True friendship and companionship. A feeling of security and trust. A place of refuge from the cruel world where they can be totally open and vulnerable.

3. Emotional support. A cheerleader for whatever they are passionate about, even if you secretly think it's silly.

4. Someone who makes them feel special, appreciated, and unique in the world. Someone who likes how they look when they first wake up, with no makeup and tousled hair.

5. Someone who's physically compatible, in all meanings of the phrase.

By the way, I don't think this list is just for women. All men want this too! Also:
6. Someone to make them feel all woman (and feel more feminine). For men, vice versa (feel more masculine).

Al Sug, why don't you show your fiancée this discussion and let HER tell you what she wants and needs?
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It's easy to know what they want. To develop the capacity to DO it for them, time after time, is MUCH harder.

Cindy replied: think raymond's got the perfect answer. and he's speaking from a man's perspective too! see, there *are* guys who get it. :)
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Aw, THANK YOU, Cindy!

It's not hard (I think) to know what women want. A more useful topic for men is

How to DO What Women Want? and how to do it reliably in a way that satisfies them?

or

How to Help Women Ask for What They Want in a Way That Men Can Understand?

Now THAT'S tough. For instance, women sometimes expect us to read their minds and say something vague like: "Why do you never help around the house?" And you say: "Well I did this and this already. And you never asked me to help with [insert chore here.]" And they say: "Well duh, you should have known. Do I have to show you EVERYTHING?"

How do we persuade or teach women how to make their needs known clearly, just when they need them, and not keep quiet and build up resentment until it suddenly explodes?

Posted 9:59 AM by Blah blah

Sunday, I finally put in some time to do this exterior detail on my car. After a wax, rub with clay, and polish, my car is an incredibly shiny red now. It gleams like a toothpaste commercial---fantastic what you can do for only 80 bucks. A footnote: some idiot hit my car between Saturday and Sunday, when it was parked. I found this bent-in rear left fender and no one 'fessing up to it. Luckily, it was mostly bent in one place, with little scratching. I reached into the trunk and popped the fender out with my hand, and now it almost looks untouched.

Sally came over Sunday to try the jacuzzi. Hadn't seen her for a while, and she was making all these excuses about not being able to stand the cold water of the pool. I should have splashed her, but I didn't. If I've been in the jacuzzi a few minutes, it feels plenty warm to swim in mildly cold water for a while---trust me. This time I only got in 20 laps and had to go. We caught up over dinner. This Friday, Lorena and I will go see Shakespeare's The Tempest. I haven't seen Shakespeare since at least a year ago in Cupertino Memorial Park, and I understand that this is NOT a play in which everybody dies. All compelling reasons to go.

Saturday I will be hosting two more tapings of our political TV show, Straight Talk. For the first show I'll interview this woman Fran about social security. For the second, I'll talk to my friend Dr. Lisa about the laser tattoo clinic for street kids where she helps out on the side.

Speaking of soul searching and new directions for me, Christine in Taipei recently laid out her life history (and resume) and says she now FINALLY knows what she wants to do with her life: "I am very ready to settle down and commit to where I am today -- to my life here in Taipei (or wherever it is I may find myself...), to my friends, and to my relationships. That is what I want in my life." What the hell? You are as vague as a politician, Christine! (I met her in person last December.) Mona, very unique, is like a Philippine cousin of Christine's.

[Christine replied to me (HAHA):

VAGUE!?

Dood it took me 4 hours to write that!

I'm ready to commit to the "here and now" and
no longer wish to keep thinking about tomorrow,
moving back to U.S., thinking my friends here
aren't as "real" as my friends in the U.S.,
dating haphazardly without responsibility
and attracting THOSE kinds of men, etc.

How much more clear can it be???

Gasp!]

The company she is starting, Oriented, has been launching all of these publicity parties in Asia and recently had one in Palo Alto.

Remember this: The 9 secrets to becoming a millionaire.

I will focus on building up our business at home. That's my plan for the next month. No school. No more thinking or sensitivity or mush. It's ENTJ time.

Posted 5:02 AM by Blah blah

a Boy's view

Poor Rasee is having love problems now and feeling that pang in her heartstrings that comes from deleting a person from her life. Please send her your support.

Rasee, I am SO sorry about Bubbles and the Boy. You wrote one of the saddest and most touching entries I have ever read. You are too kind to pretend not to be deeply hurt, to not ask for the Boy for yourself. I cannot say anything to comfort you but cliches. All I can say is, you are too kind. And you mustn't deny yourself like that next time. Having the Boy ask your friend out for coffee does not mean he would not respond to your advances over time. I guess for you, coffee is almost like adultery. But it might not mean that much to all Boys. In pursuing a boy, victory is not always to the swiftest girl. It's like the Tortoise and the Hare. A boy may change his mind; he may wait to see what his feelings are with time.

I was once such a Boy myself. I had gotten to know two sisters at the same time. Both liked me, and I liked them. From a Boy's view, victory can be to the more compatible and devoted girl, not just to the faster or prettier or louder one. You don't need to give up so soon.

Next time, please don't automatically put yourself down and say you "knew" the Boy was going to go for someone else, ok? You have some very amazing qualities, and any Boy on your radio frequency can see that and will know your value.

Cindy is also in lovepain now too. Send her some encouragement!

Posted 4:07 PM by Blah blah

Bookmarks for myself. The Mercury News had a great column in Perspective about this and what this says about the decline of the classics and arts.

San Jose Symphony performs final concert. My city is now the largest city in America without a symphony orchestra. It's very sad.
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Be creative -- or die (Salon.com):

"A new study says cities must attract the new 'creative class' with hip neighborhoods, an arts scene and a gay-friendly atmosphere -- or they'll go the way of Detroit....

What that means for cities is that instead of 'underwriting big-box retailers, subsidizing downtown malls, recruiting call centers, and squandering precious taxpayer dollars on extravagant stadium complexes,' the leadership should instead develop an environment attractive to the creative class by cultivating the arts, music, night life and quaint historic districts -- in short, develop places that are fun and interesting rather than corporate and mall-like. It's advice that city and regional leaders can take or leave, but Florida contends that his focus groups and indices -- reporting the important factors needed for economic growth in the creative age, from concentrations of bohemians to patents to a lively gay community -- are more accurately predicting the success and failure of metropolitan areas.

By Florida's estimation, the top cities when it comes to attracting the creative class are San Francisco at No. 1, followed by Austin, Boston and San Diego, with New York coming in at No. 9. Decaying industrial centers like Detroit, Buffalo and Grand Rapids, and Southern cities like Memphis, Tenn., and Norfolk, Va., bring up the rear. However, the book isn't an ode to the survivors of the new economy or a utopian vision of the future. Some of the widening rifts between the creative and other classes are somewhat troubling, forecasting growing economic and regional differences. In the end, Florida writes, this will be another challenge the new creative class must face....

Gays are the canaries of the creative economy. Where gays are will be a community -- a city or a region -- that has the underlying preconditions that attract the creative class of people. Gays tend to gravitate toward the types of places that will be attractive to many members of the creative class. That said, a high score on the gay index, for example, New Orleans or Miami, does not translate into being a creative center, unless you couple that with technology assets. It's not that gays predict high-tech growth, it's that gays signal an environment that would attract creative-class people from a variety of backgrounds....

So in order to understand what moves creative people, you have to first understand that, of course we want money, we're not going to live dirt poor. But in a post-scarcity, post-materialist society, we find ways to feed ourselves. Some of us are even waiters and waitresses and do our creative things secondhand. And, this is the best example, some of us are software programmers, bored shitless at our work, so we do open-source software at our desks, while IBM or Hewlett-Packard are paying us. That's the way we get our intrinsic jollies. I do the work that I have to do to feed myself, but then I write books like The Creative Class. So you do the work that motivates you somehow.

Creative people are highly intrinsically motivated. Therefore in order to understand their location choices or their workplace choices or their lifestyle choices, we have to understand that they are choosing things based on intrinsic motivations....

They created a lifestyle mentality, where Pittsburgh and Detroit were still trapped in that Protestant-ethic/bohemian-ethic split, where people were saying, 'You can't have fun!' or 'What do you mean play in a rock band? Cut your hair and go to work, son. That's what's important.' Well, Austin was saying, 'No, no, no, you're a creative. You want to play in a rock band at night and do semiconductor work in the day? C'mon! And if you want to come in at 10 the next morning and you're a little hung over or you're smoking dope, that's cool.' I went to the Continental Club -- I was invited by Austin's leading political officials -- and we went to see Toni Price the singer-songwriter, and there were hippies smoking dope right there on the back porch.

The point is, this sense of having fun, being yourself, expressing yourself fully, is valued. But as long as people continue to try to prop up the downtowns, throwing money, burning money, by building stadiums and convention centers, it's not going to happen. [This describes MY city to a T.] Cities have become cities of ideas and cities of consumption. They are no longer cities of production, and people in Detroit and Pittsburgh keep thinking, 'We're going to have a headquarters, we're going to have the stadium, mom and dad are going to come from the suburbs and take little Johnny to the game, we're going to have retail.' That's just not what drives a city now. What drives a city we know increasingly are good places to live, great neighborhoods, great cafes, night life, places to have fun. Austin saw this from day one."

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