Going to work Monday vs. going for weekend

My kids had an absolute ball with this movie. They both got it and were dancing like crazy and then mimicking the bear on the floor ... it was hilarious.

Financial Sector to lose thousands of jobs

Joke about it (since it isn't going to be that bad in this country as economy will turn around sooner or later and people will borrow more ... what else will they do?) but right now I bet this is not a laughing matter for many ...

Terminator SG1

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A cyborg (part man, part machine) is sent from the 31 century to present-day Midwest America to assassinate a seemingly innocent women whose child will play an important part in the world from which the killer came ...

.... the half man half machine's name is ... Shamick Gaworski ... production of this monstrous machine started last year in some dental labs in Midwest USA, reportedly in the state of KY, probably in the city of Lexington ... the year is 2008, 1028 years before the rise of machines ...

... his first dangerous ability is a killer bite with his lower left jaw .... just look at those!!!






See Final Result - April 30, 2008

Being of many things ...

I have been accused by Europeans (both new and old ... think Rumsfold) of being too Americanized while Americans give me a grief from time to time (like on YouTube) of being too European. [If you do not like it here, why don't you leave]

I was taken by a NPR "This I believe" yesterday and Yo-Yo Ma literally talking about himself in a way that I could only add "amen" to his words

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87960790

I am not You You Ma (if I had his talent, I would stay in Music) but his approach to being a citizen of no country and yet all countries speaks volume to me.

Since I do not want to lose what he said, I am quoting his words here.

"All Things Considered, March 10, 2008 · I believe in the infinite variety of human expression.

I grew up in three cultures: I was born in Paris, my parents were from China and I was brought up mostly in America. When I was young, this was very confusing: everyone said that their culture was best, but I knew they couldn't all be right.

I felt that there was an expectation that I would choose to be Chinese or French or American. For many years I bounced among the three, trying on each but never being wholly comfortable. I hoped I wouldn't have to choose, but I didn't know what that meant and how exactly to "not choose."

However, the process of trying on each culture taught me something. As I struggled to belong, I came to understand what made each one unique. At that point, I realized that I didn't need to choose one culture to the exclusion of another, but instead I could choose from all three.

The values I selected would become part of who I was, but no one culture needed to win. I could honor the cultural depth and longevity of my Chinese heritage, while feeling just as passionate about the deep artistic traditions of the French and the American commitment to opportunity and the future.

So, rather than settling on any one of the cultures in which I grew up, I now choose to explore many more cultures and find elements to love in each. Every day I make an effort to go toward what I don't understand. This wandering leads to the accidental learning that continually shapes my life.

As I work in music today, I try to implement this idea — that the music I play, like me, doesn't belong to only one culture. In recent years, I have explored many musical traditions.

Along the way, I have met musicians who share a belief in the creative power that exists at the intersection of cultures. These musicians have generously become my guides to their traditions. Thanks to them and their music I have found new meaning in my own music making.

It is extraordinary the way people, music and cultures develop. The paths and experiences that guide them are unpredictable. Shaped by our families, neighborhoods, cultures and countries, each of us ultimately goes through this process of incorporating what we learn with who we are and who we seek to become. As we struggle to find our individual voices, I believe we must look beyond the voice we've been assigned, and find our place among the tones and timbre of human expression.

Independently produced for All Things Considered by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman with John Gregory and Viki Merrick.

3 more of weeks and marriage finally over

3 more of weeks of marriage and it is finally over!
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My clever 15 years in the making plan of getting inexpensive and easy citizenship of USA by marrying 'whoever happened to come around' is finally materializing. I am so clever!!!

I know I know, you may think it would be just easier to pay $10,000 on the black citizenship market than going through $2-3,000 wedding, years of putting up with her [and her family!], all her shopping expenses, then kids with at least $1,200 going on daycare per month ... but heck, 'the Iraq war was also supposed to be paid by oil revenues' ... OK, you got me, I miscalculated ... big time ...

But at last, nevertheless, despite of it all ... it is the finish line!

3 more weeks and at noon on one Friday day in Lexington I'll become citizen of USA. Idiotic picture of Bush and Nazi Cheney will be there too ... shoot, I kind of wish this ceremony could be postponed by 1 year ... but at least I got my 'evil' plan of becoming the citizen finally done ... I try not to look at those evil pictures.

Juli is glad too, she can finally come out of the closet, throw away the 15 years old charade of 'smiling and happy wife' and go on with her life ... And her mother and the rest of the family that I got on this scheme ... wow, they are so tired of this whole BS ...

Oh the kids, yeah ... that's a bummer ... we don't yet know what to do with them ... (I am taking the dog, no question there!)

I'll get back to you soon ... still have 3 weeks to think about those kids ...

Just in case you would be stupid enough not to get the sarcasm of the above, let me assure you that the sarcasm is there 100% and there is actually nothing else (except the truth about believers in Nazism and other Nationalistic dangerous ideas).

Southwestern trip

My in-laws are gone ... for 6 weeks
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They started a big trip in their makeup van across USA.

Larry took back seats out and made special folding bed (he had special mattress made for it)

It is really cool as the van resembles more now little RV (storage space is under the bad which folds easily so half of the back is still 'empty')

Read more about it on a blog I made for them - they just left today (I think. Larry postponed the departure by one day ... he wasn't ready ...)


http://southwesterntrip.blogspot.com/2008/03/southwestern-trip.html