time discrepancy on blogger and

The first pic is Ivo saying "Two!"

Flying down the slide like Superman

I posted the last one at 8:52pm not 7:52pm - I guess blogger doesn't know that Taiwan doesn't observe daylight savings time...

Since the earthquakes aren't gonna let us sleep for awhile, here are those park pics...

Also, I was wondering how Rosie O'Donnell expects us to believe she didn't know squinching her face up saying "You can imagine in China, it's like, ching chong ching chong ching chong Danny DeVito ching ching chong chong ching drunk The View chong " wasn't gonna be offensive - in addition to not being funny. I can't understand why she doesn't acknowledge her misstep and really apologize.

Aside from being a minority and living in one of the most cosmopolitan cities on the planet, she's in entertainment/media/celebrity-ville - didn't she hear about Shaq's racist gaffs of 2003? He used the exact same "ching chong" -among other slurs - while talking about Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets and Wang Zhizhi of the LA Clippers. Weird, Shaq's also a minority...

My college roommate was a 1st generation Chinese American. Her widowed mother sewed in a sweat-shop in Chinatown, she attended Stuyvesant High School (before it moved down-down-town) and then NYU on scholarship. Excepting one guy - who they called "White-boy," all her high school friends were Asian Americans. Not all were Chinese, but all were Ivy Leaguers. She went to the least exclusive university of the bunch. In spite/because of all this, she railed against the stereotype of Asian-Americans all being smart, all being anything.

This was back in 1987 - at the beginning of what ended up, derisively and in many ways, dis-armingly, known as the Politically Correct movement. This was before the 1992 hooplah-struggle over the Western canon and the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' "discovery."

Do North Americans somehow believe that positive sterotypes cancel out racism...