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Anyone have Lady Improper? Haven't seen it here yet... Thx!

What time do the crabs come in?

Hi Flames, Mr Evol. Nice to be here, and thanks for the welcome

welcome back

Narrowing things down now .. moving up the euro trip to next month because mrs is due in July .. June is too close .. lol

All good! I have been busy with work and planning a family trip to Euro this summer so haven't read up on the recent news. It's also LNY and TAX; thus, very crazy around this time of the year.

I'll be driving in Euro ..any tips with parking and stuff?? Still undecisive about where to visit in the Netherlands (Holland, Amsterdam) and Switzerland (Zurich, Geneva) .. Suggestions??

Happy Lunar New Year!! What are you up to these days?

Yeah .. I started working then. Unfortunately, my boss left the com shortly and a SOB took over his job. In short, my former boss and I agreed to a flexible schedule so I can take care of my family. The new guy said NO ..so I quit. Working for another com totally different from my field .. OIL .. lol There aren't many oil coms in the US you can probably guess it ... the money is good but growth is "nada" as I am already up there on the corp ladder (last ring of any Asian exec here). Anyway .. stick around for a bit and see what's gonna happen .. just might retire from here .. everything is great and the job is so damn easy .. can't think of a reason to quit .. for now.

Enough of that .. jsut got back from Hawai'i recently .. good .. not great vacation like it used to be .. too many tourists this time and it was dirty ..foggy and rainy instead of the usual sunny weather. Should have gone to Guam .. possibly better weather and less traffic.

hey .. what's up??? anything new w/ you??

From the New York Times:
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“Beijing first promised us one person, one vote in 2007, then in 2012,” he said. “Now they say we may have it in 2017. I don’t think they’ll ever allow democracy here.”
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...which really shows the political naiveté of people. Beijing will never grant one person, one vote as such a mechanism would literally spell the end of the party. Like I'd stated year's ago, in '97 the mistake was to give HK to China when we should have given China to HK. Frankly IIRC, Thatcher didn't need to "give back" HK, just the new territory extension. However, since keeping HK without the new territories would have been a logistical nightmare, "an impossibility" as they then called it, the Brits walked away from it. This did a huge disservice to the native Chinese there. The only way HK elections would ever have meaning is when there are elections via genuine one man one vote in the mainland.

Just my 2 cents.

hahahaha don't worry I only keep to people I know or online but yeah I haven't seen negigboyz as well, I've been MIA in PA for a while only drop by here more often recently, so hardly have a clue where he go or anybody thats also vanished lol. But yeah if I see him, I'll pass him the message.

Lol, I'm just bored, but it makes wonder how a few awkwardly placed smiley can make a simple conversation creepy

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