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The summer of my 8th grade, I took up Hapkido. Had to keep up with my classmates, who, one by one, held Tae Kwon Do and Judo titles; who, when horsing around, often used my face for target-practice It took some arm-twisting for my mom to sign the Release Form and open her purse my…
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While we are looking at various modeling to assess the damage caused by Covid19, we inadvertently create longer term damage with labels like Kungflu and Chinese flu etc…From Harlem to Houston the nearly forgotten Yellow Peril’s 1982 Vincent Chin somehow get a new re-mix. This time, it’s not because of Detroit slip and slide (Japanese…
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—- Eyewitness account —- “All I know was, one day I was sleeping in my bed; the next day, I ended homeless, stateless and fatherless.” — Historical timeline — 1945 2 million dead 1954 Geneva Accords 1968 US embassy breached 1969 540,000 US boots 1970 Cambodia bombing 1973 Paris Peace agreements – Nobel Peace Prize…
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Before Edison and Ford, people used candles (for lighting) and carriages (for transportation). What did these 2 C’s have in common? slow and unpredictable (horse manure). People took a stroll on Sunday, along the river bank and at the park. For the well-to-dos, a road trip in the country side. There wasn’t much of a…
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Among Dumas treasure was Count of Monte Cristo: the betrayal, the incarceration, the transformation and finally the reward/revenge . All neatly packaged and followed the sequences we wish we had in our own life. But life as it turns out, has its own foreseen conclusion imbedded at birth. Closure is a psychological concept. It entails…
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You wanted to get away from it all. Book a cruise. Turns out, it’s a cruise from Hell. Can’t get back inland. Some tourists contracted the virus. Voila. Cambodia, the Killing Field, would take you in. After all, it’s used to genocide, pesticide and any kind of death and dying. In my time, I experienced…
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Before “dust come to dust” i.e. my cremation, I just want you all to sit down and enjoy the show. A multi-media, multi-lingual slide show, interjected with live comments from friends who pass the mike around if they feel like saying something (stirring and settling ). No need to pay for the podium. We can…
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We exist in space and time, stringing each moment to become a whole, to make a life. Some moments are more memorable than others, but all count. The learning years, the earning years and the “burning” years. This is a moment I throw in the towel. Can’t compete for online attention. We’ve got Twitter and…
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The Beach Boys turned it down. So Terry Jacks went ahead and sang it himself. It turned out to be a hit back then. Sometimes, fate has it for us to experience those “rejects”. In sales, we all know rejection comes with the job. Walk the pavement until it’s blue in the face and faint…
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To join a chorus of “best books of the year”, I want to reflect on my reading life, on what struck me in particular and who left long-lasting legacy in shaping my thoughts The Remains of the Day – told from a “downstairs” perspective Never Let Me Go – how humanity, esp love, somehow cross-over…
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