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“Sichuan Earthquake is karma because China is not nice to Dalai Lama, ‘good friend’ of mine~~~~~~”-Sharon Stone

Sadly, few idiots are not representing America properly.

How dare you, Sharon Stone? Don’t you have a brain? It’s very obvious that Stone is going to loss all her business in China, loss all the fans that are Chinese in the world; you know Chinese people are everywhere.

For god sake, almost 80,000 people are dead in my hometown, and there is this old washed up Sharon Stone had to say something so cold-blooded. She had apologized 2days ago through her agent, only in Chinese.

I finally feel how awesome it is when my homeland is getting richer and richer, because we can tell you:” We don’t accept your apology, and Kiss My Fat Ass!”

“What’s wrong with love, understanding~~~” Richard Gere, Tibet affair.

Yes, what’s wrong with love and understanding? Why didn’t Richard Gere yell to those affairs in Iraq, Africa, Afghanistan and The United States?

Richard Gere should turn on the BBC world service news hour to learn what’s happening exactly.

Sick of those nonsensical from Richard Gere and some Hollywood stars, go home, find something more important to do.

After the huge earthquake in my hometown, about 6days, I couldn’t contact my mom, because her cell phone didn’t work for awhile by the damage.

Last Sunday morning, I tried call her for 10times, finally, She picked up her cell phone, woohoo!!

“Mom”

“Oh! Little daughter! Don’t worry, we’re all fine! Ha..ha..ha..ha” Of course my mom was laughing like my dad.

“I called you 100 times this week, finally found you. Are you with grandmother? Is she OK too?”

“Yes, everything is fine now. Grandmother is great. Today is sunny in Chengdu, my phone just started to work few hours ago.”

“So what happened to you when the earthquake arrived, you weren’t with dad?”

“No, I went shopping, I was at a mall, my hands were full of groceries, and I saw some beautiful slippers, so I putted them on my feet, thinking I would buy few pairs of them for me, my sister and my nephew. Soundly, I felt so dizzy, I thought all my body problems came together to hurt me, but I didn’t care, because I have to get those nice slippers. Then I felt dizzier, a woman was running, and telling me ‘big sister, run now! stop shopping, it’s earthquake!’ Then I throw all my groceries and slippers, ran so fast to outside the mall.”

“Wow! When Rindy told me about it, I didn’t take it seriously, because Chengdu is flat lands, nothing big would happen.”

“That’s right, people in Chengdu city are all fine. Your dad was doing laundry by hands that time, our neighbor went to our door and asked him to run with them together, but your dad said ‘no rush, let me finish my laundry first, only few left, you guys go ahead’. 

“What?! He told me that he just got up from a nap!! So how soon did you meet up with him?”

“We didn’t meet till next day, because after he done his laundry, he called my cell phone, didn’t work. So he ran outside look for me, people were everywhere; it was demanding to find each other. We gathered together at the out door stadium next to our home, but we couldn’t find each other, after midnight, I didn’t want to go home alone, so I went to our neighbor Jiang’s apartment, slept on their couch. Your dad went home around 3am by himself, slept alone, he wasn’t afraid of the aftershock. Your dad is so brave! Ha..ha..ha..ha..ha..ha…”  Mom laughed again, big ones.

My parents love laughing, that’s for sure!

“I already talked to my sister and nephew, they’re fine, and I’ll visit them tomorrow from grandmother house, your dad will live alone for few days, but our mayor told us everything in the city is ok, so I’m not worry about leave your dad alone.”

“Ok, but be careful! Run fast if anything happens!”

“I know, I know”

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It was a long, warm and funny conversation. Again, I’m happy they’re fine, wish I could hang out with them now.  

Just read all the updated news about earthquake in Sichuan. More people are gone, kids, mothers, fathers, strangers, they’re my people, I wish I could be there right this moment!

I opened chinese websites where I can find all the songs that my people love to sing, and I’m singing for them. Those are just old pop songs from Lijun Deng, Fei Wang, they sounded so warm rightnow.

My heart is there! Sichuan, my HOME!

But, few restaurants are trying hard to provide the real meal that we would dying for it. So thanks to them! They are,

Chengdu 1 in New Jersey

Sichuan Gourmet in New York

Ollie’s Chengdu Restaurant in New York

Da San Yan- Cantonese restaurant in New York

Da Pai Dang- Cantonese restaurant in New York

I know there might be more, like restaurants in Flushing, New York, can’t wait to try them.

We don’t have fortune cookies in China, so why am I getting those things in English in the U.S? How silly! But few restaurants I went, they stopped this silly treatment, such as Grand Sichuan, Sichuan Gourmet, maybe Ollie’s too, I have to find out later.

Give us some real treatment instead, for example, a good pot of green tea, pu’er tea or jasmine tea, I love jasmine tea the best, it’s so refreshing, the flavor is so wonderful, this is the tea I grow up with, I’ll write a story about my tea drinking history next. So, if Chinese restaurant would provide real tea treatment instead of a pot of old tea water (who knows how long the tea sets inside the pot), that would bring more money to the restaurant.

Don’t make people think Chinese food means cheap and grease, just because some people never had a real Chinese meal.

Most of the time, I walk out of the Chinese restaurant with unhappy face, especially in suburbs in the States, I can’t handle the way they cook, each meat is so huge and taste fake, can vegetables are just more pitiful, and the sauce, why it looks like jam??

Next time, I’ll take out a dish from a “chinese restaurant”, then figure out what exactly they put inside the meal.

In these 3days, I keep getting message from my friends about the earthquake damage in my hometown Chengdu. Friends from Chengdu, Beijing, Dubai, London, Australia, Shanghai, New York, Boston, New Jersey, Colifornia, Denver.

Thank you and Love,

Xianyi

OH MY BUDDHA!! Earthquake, Aftershocks!!! Huge one in Chengdu in 58years. How?? We never get that kind of thing, because Chengdu’s awesome!

Just found my Dad at home after talked to him yesterday before the aftershocks. During the earthquake, my dad’s wine bottles all fall down, and the refrigerator been moved for 10 inches.  During the aftershock, their building was shaking. My mom’s cell phone doesn’t work now, because of the damage, wireless, network don’t work, only house phone works so far. My parents visited my grandmamma the next day after the earthquake, and my mom will spend few more days with her.

So I called my dad just now, he was laughing and laughing, he told me everyone was gathering together outside to hang out, even they never met before, things were moving in their home and stores, they felt they were on waves, like boating in sea. My dad believes Chengdu will always be fine no matter what. Then he laughed just like buddha.

Thank Buddha, my family and friends and their family are fine. But the little city DU JIANG YAN, I almost visit there every year is shaking now, not the earthquake, their people. more than 10,000 people dead. There is a family we know, their house is surrounding by mountains, what happened to them? Are they ok? They have 2 kids, were they in the school, or I hope they’re fine…..I have to visit them when I go back to China sometime, just to make sure the place we loved is fine. My friends and I had so much fun there. The day before my Chinese wedding party, friends all went there, stayed with the family and those 2 cute kids, which was a great time for my friends. 

I just hope Buddha will bring so much love from everywhere to DU JIANG YAN, a beautiful city with so many awesome sceneries and their lovely people.

Will is a player. He always beats me. But yesterday the golf gods were on my side, because I whipped him good, and took $28 off him in the process.

To be fair, the kid had just had a lesson, and so was in the process of fixing his swing. It really showed. He sprayed it all over the course, especially on the first nine (the back). And he gave me four shots a side, as he has for years. But it wasn’t all his collapse. I had one of the best rounds of my career, shooting 42-42, with some absolutely fantastic shots along the way.

Some of the bagroom dudes watched me tee off #10, our starting hole, and I duffed a couple real good, which drew howls of laughter. But I was laughing later, crushing 270-yard drives, striping hybrids to the green, chipping solidly and rolling it beautifully on the green.

I think I had four or five double bogeys - meaning I could have broken 80 for the first time if I had had my game together from the start. I won the first nine 6/4/2 and the back two-up. Closed out the match at 4 and 3. Took all four greenies on the last par 3 and had a birdie somewhere along the way - I think? What’s not in dispute is that I thrashed him after years of losing. It felt like justice.