Next time u r stuck in a traffic jam, think positively!

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• SNAFU - Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.
• SUSFU - Situation Unchanged, Still Fucked Up.
• FUMTU - Fucked Up More Than Usual.
• FUBB - Fucked Up Beyond Belief.
• TARFU - Things Are Really Fucked Up.

The photos of Half Dome immediately gave me a sense of deja vu, sure enough:

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It went KABOOM big time!

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騎驢找馬: ride a donkey while look for a horse.
You're a smart girl, you know what this means.
Good luck! You're destined to succeed in life.

But for God's sake, do forgive.
7/7/1937, Marco Polo Bridge Incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lugou_Bridge
Chinese should stop crying for blood. WWII is over, & Japan got what it deserved.
OTOH, Japan's strong Fascist undercurrent must be curbed (note how Japanese pop culture glorifes Fascism, not to mention having THE largest pseudo- ( Read more... )

In order to avoid boring my readership to 400 million pieces, I'm taking a more folkish approach to the Manchu history.
The tale of Chen Yuan-yuan (陳圓圓): a mere courtesan who unwittingly tempted so many ambitious men into gross missdeeds that costed a nation its sovereignty, & hundreds of thousands of lives.
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The Filipino brewery should be sued for misleading labels. 80 proof "root beer"? And the sucker tastes like cough syrup.
Almost got into a knife fight: not cool. Third brush with violence since I started seeing Cori. WAY too many unsavory "friends".