Archive for February 2009

25 Feb 2009 1212H

Lots to catch up on

Hard to believe a whole month has gone by but here we are. A lot has transpired:
German language acquisition proceeding apace. Some problems with pronouns and cases, as predicted due to declensions.
Went to Germany for business. Of course I have pix of food.
E. and I. are fasting for Lent! No meat and no [...]

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06 Feb 2009 0723H

Shooting in San Gabriel

Two dead, five injured, some critically at this hour, after gunmen opened fire at the Coffee House in that predominantly Asian American city near Los Angeles. Out of curiosity, looked up the Coffee House where the shooting occurred. Might it have been gang related?

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04 Feb 2009 2354H

Hung kuen is like. . .

whatever you want it to be. Perhaps that is true of all martial arts; perhaps that is the art in martial arts. I had thought that the essential character of hung kuen is hard, short, crushing, steamrolling. But people don’t have to be big and beefy to play hung kuen. It helps only with the [...]

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