Health

  • Male vulnerability

    Behind the tatoo, the tobacco and the toughness, lies male vulnerability. I read about how the Watergate break-in was just one among a list of outrageous proposals such as kidnapping, wiretapping and high-priced hookers blackmail etc… You can’t find tougher looking bunch than those “plumbers” and their Archille’s heels. Yes, there is also female vulnerability.…

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  • My left eye

    A speck of dust hit my left eye. It’s all red and feels painful. Then I thought of my friend from Junior High. He was drafted and went to war. Just to come back with one eye left. We have hung out at cafe, more than any other classmate since that time. Just a few nights…

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  • Shame and Stigma

    Making small talks on New Year‘s morning, I mentioned various distant relatives, among whom a handsome ping-pong playing cousin of mine. I remembered him as 60’s looking, hair, glasses and short shorts. He was later married with kids before got  sent to re-education camp. While he was away, his wife had an affair and made…

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  • You would find that I am surprised by the number of employees Google and Apple employed only 75,000 combined (compared that with HP, GM or US Government‘s). You would find that I still remember “the jumpers” on 9/11, and that we lost good men and women on United Flight 93, as well as Peter Jennings of ABC…

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  • Tech rules again

    We all saw Google’s numbers surge. I remember the last time I feel this way was a decade ago. Something is in the works. The market responds. New apps, new ways of accomplishing things. This might be it. Just like a line in “It Might Be You“, a theme song in Tootsie. Maybe it didn’t…

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