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Saturday: watched “Letters from Iwo Jima.” What a movie - Clint Eastwood’s quite a director. The movie, if nothing else, does quite well in showing how War Is Bad - and how one’s culture affects how one conducts a war. Actor Ken Watanabe - he is the man - as he plays [...]

I was over at P-’s parents’ house and was looking over her aunt’s yearbook from 1967. Yes, it was from 40 years ago, and it had plenty of pictures of nuns wearing the super-old fashioned whipples. However, it was extremely complete. The sign of a good yearbook is one where the pictures have captions, and [...]

In a total gag, I participated in a charity fund raising spelling bee, a la the Putnam County Spelling Bee on Broadway. There were about 40 people in on this. I survived the word “treatise” but got knocked out on the word “chauffeur” - needed to buy a vowel. I would have done much better [...]

Celebrating the Lunar New Year in… Las Vegas? Hmm.
And, in Wednesday’s NY Times’ Food section: Mark Bittman, the Minimalist, does pudding. Check out the demonstration video that’s posted - he raises the good point that instant pudding is — well, ok, chemical-filled. But, my childhood was all about that artificial coloring! [...]

37 years and I’ve finally been able to celebrate Chinese New Year with my relatives in Malaysia :).  It’s a nice feeling.  Got to see some lion dances and firecrackers.  Eat lots of good food and relax from work!
Life is pretty good!