Archive for October 2007

30 Oct 2007 2128H

The state of financial literacy in America?

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It’s appalling. Frankly appalling. And that goes for maths, sciences and critical reasoning tasks as well. Apropos to one of my clients right now, we’re dealing with generations of very very smart young people with advanced education and yet they still can’t seem to figure out the math when it comes to paying for their [...]

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28 Oct 2007 1515H

Best anime of 2007?

I can’t say I’ve been watching much in the way of fansubs this year — seems that the number goes down and down with each passing year — but I have watched some in the last year, mostly to fill the vacuum left by Heroes and Galactica. And I’d almost say that the anime win [...]

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24 Oct 2007 0816H

The weight of it all

Show me where the sun comes through the sky
I’ll show you where the rain gets in and I’ll
Show you hurricanes
and the way that summer fades
underneath the weight of it all

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11 Oct 2007 0921H

More Asian Americans meeting obstacles to academic success

Collectively, more Asian American college and university students are experiencing obstacles to academic success in U.S. higher education than in the past, according to a new UCLA report.
More Asian American students now come from low-income homes with limited financial capacity to pay for college, and fewer are attending their first-choice institutions than in past [...]

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10 Oct 2007 1016H

The Du Doan murder in Chicago and ‘nippertipping’ near Toronto?

Asian Canadians fishing at Lake Simcoe, one hour north of Toronto, are being targeted with such frequency that the locals have now come up with a sobriquet for this activity: “nippertipping”.The Chinese Canadian National Council has gotten involved. I keep hearing about it on Simon Li’s Power Politics, although less so since election coverage [...]

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08 Oct 2007 1031H

Random things

This is a random post.
Today is Canadian Thanksgiving Day. It is also the second week I have had the Mazda3. It does not and will not have a name. It is a little dusty from all the running around I’ve been doing (nearly 300 miles now).
Also, apparently, ma lai chung (馬拉松) does not mean [...]

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