Yue’s Yappings

With no credit card, no cash and no key to my parent’s apartment I had to spend the night with my friend Jane at her tiny apartment in Shanghai. I got up early this morning to rush to the American Embassy. As always, there is a long line of people wrapped around the building trying […]

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Here is one of my favorite pictures - it makes me laugh every time I see it.  But it also give me the courage to face life’s challenges.
As Frank Herbert famously wrote in Dune:
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit […]

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Spring has almost arrived in Denver.  Here’s a picture from my backyard of a beatiful blue flower about to bloom in my Garden.

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Most people I know love their BMWs. After six years, I have failed to have a beautiful relationship with mine. It started in the summer of 1999, the year when BMW changed the body style for their popular 3 series. I pre-ordered my car to be built to my specfications […]

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Whoever said “you can never be too thin” must have visited China. Being size 2, with BMI (body mass index) of 19, I never thought I was too fat until I visited Shanghai. The streets of Shanghai are full of skinny women that look like they breathe air for food. Once my friend […]

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Yesterday, after a decade of being pegged against the US dollar, China finally decided to let it’s currency, known as the yuan or RMB, to float. As a result, the yuan went up 2 percent on its first day of being “freeâ€? from the dollar, from 8.27 to 8.11 per dollar. Most Americans […]

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I am new to the world of blog. Last week, Charlie helped me setup this blog on our website, and I am definitely loving this. It is so hip to have your own blog. But the problem is posting something interesting every time. To be honest, my […]

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