Innovative English names adopted by Chinese: Ancient Ma Broke Li Circle Xia Echo Lan Fairy Li Fanboly Wang Forrest Lee Fox Lin Gream Li Hammer Cheng Haven You Happy Yang Hawk Lin Holy Man Hoper Hou Icer Cheng Icey Wang Jams Pan Kiddy Han King Kong Leaf Zeng Lemon Tian Lever Zhong Money Lin Rubber… Read More »
A recent event provided testimony that Singapore is one of the “safest” places in the world. It has few disturbances to social harmony, and when it does, the agitator is swiftly put behind bars. The event also showed that the Singapore police force must have very few crimes to solve and very few law breakers… Read More »
Speaking to a crowd of roughly 1,000 people just before he and the rest of the Class of 2006 were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last Friday, Geno Auriemma, the head coach of the University of Connecticut (UConn) Huskies women’s basketball team, paid tribute to his players – past and present… Read More »
Last weekend, I watched a Frontline/Washington Post special entitled “Rumsfeld’s War” on cable TV (can’t remember which channel) that suggested the Iraq “war” (perhaps invasion would be a better word) was very much one man’s fanatical drive to bitch-slap the uniformed military command at the Pentagon into submission and turn the U.S. military into a… Read More »