plugging kimi's ebay auction. if you are interested in sailor moon stickers, she's got a bunch. i'm eyeing the hellokitty clock hehe

google launched their web-based email service

http://ratemykang.com/contentmedia/Bizarre1.jpg

today's supposed to be the start of easter hunt at qbee but has qbee been down for me :(

one of the reasons i love reading richard's blog is that he's always able to speak my mind with much better writing and more lucid explanation.

http://pekingduck.org/archives/001123.php
"Where have all the flowers gone?
I remember last spring when the US made its march into Baghdad. We were so invincible. It was so perfect. Gweilo Diaries put up one of the most beautiful posts, headlined "Victory!" with a photograph of an old Iraqi woman approaching the US troops, arms outstretched with beautiful flowers, looking at them as true liberators, as her saviors. (I'd link to it, but I can't pinpoint it on Conrad's site.) For a moment it all seemed so right. We were heroes. We had done the right thing.

It's been hard going ever since, but I don't think America was at all prepared for the horrors of the past seven days, which I think it's safe to say constitute nothing less than a meltdown.

The atrocities in Fallujah were bad enough, but they were at least understandable; we always knew the Sunni triangle would be a major challenge. It was only more recently, early this week, that the scales fell from our eyes. The Shi'ites were the ones who were supposed to support us. To see them mobilize en masse against us, and in so doing murdering 12 US marines and many more Iraqis today alone -- that crossed a line. Suddenly, the conversation shifted to a new plane, and the buzzwords of the day were Vietnam, quagmire, no way out, and hopeless.

Amazing, how far we have come from Bush's Top Gun landing on the aircraft carrier, under the huge banner announcing, "Mission Accomplished."

I'm not posting to tell of what I think the solutions are, how we can get out of it, what we should do next or what we should have done earlier. I'm posting to tell my friends in Asia how shocking it is to be in America right now, how different it is today than it was even three weeks ago when I arrived in New York.

Listening to the chorus of most (not all) Republicans, you'd think the horrors of the past week were mere blips, minor disruptions. The way they're talking we can just pick up and go on June 30 and Iraq will be a fully functional democracy. Bremer insists we are in "complete control" in Iraq, and has no idea how surreal such a claim appears to us in the US, where scenes of butchered Americans and flaming cities and soaring death tolls tell a somewhat different story.

Certainly, we can win "control," at least in military terms. But if the Iraqis despise us and see us as murderous occupiers, what hope is there of Bush's grand vision that Iraq will follow in our footsteps, serving as a beacon of democracy in the Middle East that will inspire others to renounce terrorism and seek democracy for themselves? At the moment, that vision seems so unrealistic, so preposterous -- so patently absurd. And Bremer is talking as though all is going according to plan.

I started off supporting the war because I believed Iraq and the world would be much better off without Saddam. I had lots of doubts along the way, especially as Bush destroyed alliances, vilified those who questioned and displayed a smugness I never imagined the American people could find acceptable from their president. I still think it was the right mission, wrong execution. But all things considered, it would have been better if we'd held off and focused more on the true threat of terrorism in places where al Qaeda thrives.

A spectacular mess, and one that is likely to plague us for years and years to come, courtesy of our "war-time president," the most venal, unscrupulous, arrogant piece of shit ever to desecrate the White House.
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read this and be disgusted.. of course it's no close to the worsest altho it's quite odd.

http://www.brainysmurf.org/archives/000953.html

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/archives/002434.html


Lucent Technologies, the leading US telecommunications equipment manufacturer, has fired four senior employees in China after discovering potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which bans the payment of bribes overseas.

Lucent said it fired the president, chief operating officer, a marketing executive and a finance manager in its Chinese operations after discovering "internal control deficiencies".

as i said before i do admire this wen jia bao in many ways. he's able to speak out and care for china in ways no one has done before.

here's another pleasant surprise.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/international/asia/09DAMS.html?th
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phony adoption. cute.
http://www.geocities.com/kajikan/webstuff.html

plugging it again coz it's growing very fast. i love the pooh bear one :)

so cute

:) i think the site had created more cute clothes for your hellokitty to wear.

http://www.geocities.com/craptacular_site/dressup.html

..... this professor is weird in many ways. he always likes to send us emails... sometimes about things we care nothing about. but read this one, it's hilarious!

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Good news for friends of Asian Humanities,

We will have our final presentation next tuesday. Try to dress wild and sexy for our last pics.

Next Thursday April 29 will be the day for consultation. I will stay in my office at PH 628 Phillips Hall from 2:30pm-3:40pm. Any one who wants to talk to me about your paper/ project is welcome. U may also call me at 353-2203. There are people who still feel unhappy about grades of their mid-term/ presentation. U can also come to discuss with me if u want. Sometimes u argue so eloquently for your grade that if u put the argument down in your mid-term, u will probably got an A. Maybe I should change the format of mid-term to an oral exam so that your talent can be fully used.

As for the presentation, most people got between 10 (B) to 12 (A)out of 15. To encourage u people to work harder, I will give 3 A+ for this course for those with the highest marks. So far, those who got 45-50 out of 60 for your mid-term, 11 (B+)-13 (A+) out of 15 for your presentation, with attendance for at least 5 tutorials (excluding your own presenting day), having asked 3-5 questions altogether in different tutorials are encouraged to work a little bit harder to get the A+. Those who are a little behind can still work for the final paper/ project which carries 50% of your total marks.

Imagine how good an A+ looks in your academic record! What is its magical effect upon your term GPA! How great is the impact of Chinese culture on u!

Hope everybody is happy. I will be smiling on my plane thinking of u all.

Yours,

Paris

PS By the way, some of u asked some frustrating questions about me: whether I am taking some classes at UI, whether I am doing a postgrad study myself. I have to emphasize the important fact once again: I am an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR here -- "not" a TA. I am Dr. Lau who is going to be an important scholar sooner or later. What do u think?

$1 off any Low Carb Toasty^TM Flatbread

http://www.quiznos.com/qpon/index.aspx?NRC=QZ1003&NRX=QZ1003

just thought it's kinda weird that i'm in this "dodo" directory of this search engine :)

http://www.blintz.com/directory/dodo/

hehe the foody layout i auctioned at DMB got used.. i just found it out today

http://booyaka.net/

This is so freaking COOL!!!! i wish i know where to get this software hehe.

http://www.angel.jazzyutopia.org/pics-cats.html

we are getting a mobile home so i'm looking all over for pomeranians. we want one so bad.

I FOUND THIS PERFECT PUPPY but it's in florida. not every breeder ships :(

pompom pic



and check out this url lol.... adorable!