Status updates - 2010 - Second Half

12.16

“在本案 [连胜文案] 水落石出之前，类似的口水战还将持续上演。身在狱中的陈水扁这次决定不帮民进党说话，他9日发表一篇狱中札记，词锋尖锐地说，一颗子弹打不掉17万票，民进党别输不起。扁在文中还详尽分析选举得失，贬苏贞昌，赞蔡英文，指点江山意气风发一如往日。” ── 这牢坐得相当爽！

12.14

Received an email from "CIUBeijing@state.gov" on my sixth and final year as a student in the US. Feels like winning a lottery. Apparently Hillary Clinton is doing great things for US-China relations by emailing us this discount information for visa renewal.

12.13

火烧眉毛

12.12

1031(e) Exchange of livestock of different sexes. -- For purposes of this section, livestock of different sexes are not property of a like kind.

12.11

Don't click.

12.10

倾举国之力对一个人进行迫害、抹黑、打压，可悲、可笑、可怜至极。

他只是尽了一个读书人的本分。

欲加之罪，何患无辞。

纸里包不住火。

12.9

Reading everyday the two most popular news outlets in the America and China -- the New York Times and 163.com, respectively, I find a new and mind-boggling pattern: that people from both countries are increasingly prone to deride their own countries and openly admire the other. The two peoples must be so in love. In fact I suspect they might get married if the Pacific did not exist.

12.6

虱虱啼危

12.5

近读中国新闻，屡屡想起去年清华大学孙立平教授提出的中国“最大的威胁不是社会动荡而是社会溃败”论，深有感触。

12.4

一念愚即般若绝，一念智即般若生

My biography begins like this: 18 years of schooling in China and 6 years of schooling in America later, this 3-year-old boy finally finished his education.

This is my 47th consecutive semester since going to kindergarten at 3 years and 3 months old. I'm so sick of taking final exams 23.5 years NONSTOP and so glad that after my 48th and last semester in school it's gonna be ALL OVER.

12.3

Attach. Bond. Depend.

I take it as a good sign. It shows that press freedom is expanding, and journalists are not sitting idle on these gold opportunities to fully explore and faithfully record all sides of China's metamorphosis, and the audience are not turning a deaf ear. Bad things happened in the past - they just didn't get reported real-time and broadcast to the world.

Mr. Friedman's painting of an unjustifiably favorable picture of China is, unfortunately, as misleading as the demonization of that country. And he plagiarized himself in the following quote, which I read some time ago from one of his columns: “When someone calls you from China today it sounds like they are next door. And when someone calls you from next door in America, it sounds like they are calling from China!”

12.2

It's scary when someone insists on retaining you as his or her lawyer, unless the person actually pays and the ABA takes that "unauthorized practice of law" out of the Model Rules.

12.1

The balance in my printing account speaks volumes about how little I studied this semester. or how environmental I have turned.

11.29

才贪了五千万就上了报纸头版，这样的国力怎么跟美国争第一。

11.24

editing newsletters is escalating my 变态程度 from moderate to severe.

11.23

最近常干的一件事是跑到健身房，拿一条大浴巾铺在垫子上，然后躺下开始睡觉。然后听到旁边人们都在很卖力地运动感觉很爽。

unwilling hero

11.21

expert literary debt collector

I compose 100 status updates in my head everyday and I suppose that's not very healthy. In fact they might call it a symptom.

11.20

dear hi dear hi dear

11.19

east and west each took couple of thousand years to develop their ways independent of each other, and i'm not surprised that it takes couple of hundred years to sort out the differences and come to terms with each other. of course, america is way ahead of other places in this regard.

11.17

高三时，努力学习的最大动力就是为了以后不要再过这样的日子。整十年，绕了一大圈之后又变回了当初的自己。

Finally back on track. Hope it's not too late.

税法：按图索骥

11.15

戳破这层纱

Moments.

Double Jeopardy (Newsletter and Note)

请全体指战员各就各位

Upriser in Suit 穿西装的造反派

11.12

再信一次

掙不脫這一八三零的巴黎，剪不斷那波旁王朝的背影。

11.10

I still believe that we have an obligation to free our nation from this monumental stupidity. (responding to NYT article "China bars rights lawyers from leaving country.")

11.6

Congratulations to all newly-minted New York lawyers!

春風得意馬蹄疾，一日看盡長安花

11.4

don't suppress, don't indulge

和諧之錘

11.2

Icebreaker, jukebox, wedding crasher.

10.20

I was 3/4 asleep in the Income Tax class until the professor suddenly proclaimed: "...oh that was a great year to die!"...and just because Congress enacted some stupid law??
[recorded on 11.20]

9.17

Writer, essayist, novelist; speaker, orator, conversationalist.

Bostonian, Washingtonian, Chicagoan.

8.28

岂能因为声音小而不呐喊