Ecuador lost the game to Germany.
It was expected, still my heart sunk to the floor.

Knowing that I'm 1/8 "Bannerman", I've always been fascinated by the history & influence of Altaic nomadic peoples throughout Eurasia, from Manchuria to the Baltic.

So who are the Manchus? In the West, "Fu Manchu" is almost synonimous with Chinese. But this is not entirely true. Nor are they the jibberish-speaking barbarians depicted in Chinese ( Read more... )

That is, Harris Hawk (HaHa) Diana (pronounced Dee-ah-nah in Spanish), my first bird: might as well finish what I started ( Read more... )

Ecuador 2, Poland 0.
Wish the Ecuadorian soccer team the best of luck in the World Cup.
As much as I hate the taste of alcohol, me & bro killed a bottle of Chardonnay in celebration (I'll save the Champagne for the day when Ecuador wins something).

http://www.china-defense.com/oped/chntwus/chntwus01.html
I'm just as knowledgeable about the security environment of the Pacific Rim as this amateur comentator, yet I couldn't have worded it so eloquently like he did.

Went to the greater Sac area  last weekend (6/2-4), mainly for the airshow at Beale AFB, but also to visit my brother, who will be attending med school overseas (Grenada), and a friend who just moved to Sac recently.
Out of the three friends who planned to go to the airshow with me, none of them showed up. One had a medical appointment, another ( Read more... )

A professor from my Alma Mater getting into porn industry, addressing some very real (admittedly trivial) social issues. Don't know whether I should be proud or ashamed of him ( Read more... )

You get that when you combine Christian morality with Confucian filial piety: such is the case of tennis player Michael Chang 張德培 (well, he's actually only 34). As a good Christian, he sought to save sex till marriage. As a traditinal Confucian Chinese, he seeks approval of his parents for marriage. Apparently they're extremely picky with his GF. ( Read more... )

All rumor mongers must die!

So they decided to make a ruckus at UC Davis animal care facilities, trying to release their cows, sheeps, & horses ( Read more... )