Our re-union went great! The attendees were Zhang, Li; Zhang, Huizhen and her husband and son; Li, Xuxiang; Wang, Zhili and wife and two children; Xia, Bing and wife. Just a thought, may be we can get together again in the summer. Either memorial day (end of May) or July 4th. We can have a crab feast! Any question? Any suggestion? Again, everyone is welcome! Without the cold weather effects, more people should be able to come, I hope! Have a great new year, everyone!
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: Jan. 6, 1999
Subject: My Internet domain 'HomeIP.com' I just set up a Internet domain 'homeip.com'. There is no too much things on my web site yet. Only some of my son's pictures. If you want to put up anything there, please let me know. The web site address is: http://www.homeip.com -Siwei
Name & E-mail: Siwei Zhang swz@dor.kaiser.org Date: 1/23/99
Subject: Changes Yang, please change my e-mail address to mcai@bellsouth.net. Thanks.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 1/26
Subject: Updated information Yang, please update my information in Chem79 list. e-mail: mxcai@yahoo.com; working phone: (404) 815-4307. Thanks. BTW, Everyone keeps silent for a long time. Is't true? or I have some problem on the connections.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 4/30/99
Subject: RE: Updated info. Cai: You don't have problem on the connections, it has been quiet here. What's new with you?
Name & E-mail: Yang Date: 5-5-99
Subject: PKU Can you help with some info on PKU? What if 2 parent are heterozygous for an autosomal recessive trait (PKU), what are the chances of them having a chold with the trait? Are there any specific causes of PKU?
Name & E-mail: lakers@ns.sympatico.ca Date: May.18/97
Subject: RE:PKU lakers@ns.sympatico.ca: The PKU here stands for Peking University, not Phenylketonuria, which you could find info. at: http://www.wolfenet.com/~kronmal/
Name & E-mail: Yang Date: 5-26-99
Subject: Enjoying summer? Hi, dear friends! Hope you are all enjoying the summer? It's been long since we welcomed 'new' old classmates to our alumni list. Zhu, Hong xli@istmail.com and Guan, Fuyu guanf@vet.upenn.edu have recently been 'found'! Please give them our warmest regards. Thanks, Yang
Date: 7-20-99
Name & E-mail: hong Zhu, xli@istmail.com Date: 7-21-99
Name & E-mail: hong Zhu. email:xli@istmail.com Date: 7-21-99
Subject: Welcome Welcome Zhu Hong. Always hear about someone someone is in US. Never sure until you get their phone number or email address. I don't have an email of my own. So I normally nag on this board. Unfortunately, most of the time I feel like I am talking to myself. That wouldn't be too interesting, would it? I thought about planning another get together party. I am not sure if it is a right thing to do.
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 7/21/99
Subject: RE:Welcome thanks,chingfei chen. are you planing a gettogether? that sure is a good thing, not a easy thing though. i still remember about 19 years ago. i slept over in your parents' home. two sofa putting together---my bed. i am still that short. seems you are still talkative, chingfei. please talk more. good for you, and for us.
Name & E-mail: hong zhu Date: 7--23--99
Subject: RE:RE:Welcome Zhu Hong: what are you doing in Detroit? How do you like it there?
Name & E-mail: Zhang Yang Date: 7-23-99
Subject: RE:Welcome Chingfei Chen, I think this 's not the problem. You can get free email address anyway, Yahoo, hotmail, bellsouth.. You name them. I and Yang used Yahoo. By the way, welcome these new guys on board, I just called Lao Guan and he is in good shape. Thank Ynag again for the homepage to bring us together. Zhu, Hong was also in class 3, wasn't she?
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 7/26/99
Subject: E-mail address I was just told that I have an e-mail address: faye-chen@usa.net I don't know if it works. You can try it. My problem is not only the address. I don't have time to play unless I have it at work. I guess lots of you guys actually read/send mails at work. My evening time is pretty much occupied with my two kids. Once in a while, I nag on this board. Next time I check it might be a few months later. Anyway, if I get a chance, I won't miss it.
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 7-31-99
Subject: Detroit Yes. Zhu Hong thank you for remembering our good times. How long have you been here? What are you doing now? At least three years ago I heared from Wei Chunmei (through e-mail) that she met you when you are on the way to the US (stoped at Guangzhou?). If you have time, send me a message. Thanks
Name & E-mail: chingfei Chen Date: 7-31-99
Name & E-mail: Zhang Yongliang, larry.zhang@pharma.novartis.com Date: 8/2/99
Subject: Good for you Yongliang, glad to hear from you again! It looks you got a big house to fill everyone in. XuXiang will visit me and other guys in this week. I am not as luck as you are and I don't think we can have a big party here. I only wish he would have a nice trip. By the way, how about your family and the little girl? Say Hi to your falimy and other guys.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/2/99
Subject: Party It is very nice for Zhang Yongliang and Qiao Ying to give that party. Unforturnately, I couldn't be there to meet with all those people. Now there are more and more of our friends moved in this area, shouldn't we give everybodyelse another chance to get together again?
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-2-99
Subject: RE:Good for you Ming-xiang: Li Xu-xiang will describe how small my house is to you but the party is real big--at least in my mind. The bad thing is that I could not have Zhang Hui-zhen's family and Wang Zhi-li's family in the party but to my surprise people like Wang Yu-xing and Gai Feng popped up to fill in. Thanks a lot to your concern to my family, we are all doing great. When could we two families meet somewhere, for vacation or something? Hope you enjoy your gethering with Li Xu-xiang. Chen Ching-fei: We are making our mind about your party. When is it going to be?
Name & E-mail: Zhang Yong-liang Date: 8/3/99
Subject: RE:RE:Good for you Yong-liang, I almost run out of vacation this year. Maybe, we can go to vacation together next year. Maybe, Orlando? I just backed from there and it's a nice place for vacation but not summer time. I don't like NY City. You can pick up someplaces else except NY city. I don't hear from XuXiang again so far. Maybe, he changes minds. He will stay in San Fancisco for 3 days at the end of this month on his way home. These guys in Bay Area may have a party for him. Thanks.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/3/99
Subject: RE:RE:RE:Good for you Looks like we missed all the fun out there in the eastcoast. I haven't heard anything about Li's coming, he is probablly back in China now. Well, you guys in the east, don't let that heat wave get to you. If you ever come to the SF Bay Area, let us know!
Name & E-mail: Yang Date: 8-5-99
Subject: RE:RE:RE:RE:Good for you Yang, Li's still in USA. He will be in Atlanta tomorrow. He will be in SF area around 27th of this month. If you or other guys in that area are interested to get together at that time, I will let you know his detail schedules.
Name & E-mail: m. Cai Date: 8/5/99
Subject: Re:Good for you/good for all of us XuXiang's cross country journey brought him to Atlanta --Cai Mingxiang played host, a real good one and I trust he's had a good stay here. It's event like this that seems to brought us together in recalling fond memories from the past and getting updates on other friends we'd missed in our our own busy life. In that sense, XuXiang is doing us a service---we ought all appreciate his bus journey.
Name & E-mail: Ning Xin Date: 8-10-99
Subject: RE:Re:Good for you/good for all of us Li XuXiang has met more people here in the past few months than any one of us who has been this country for years. We should thank him to give us a chance get together.
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-10-99
Name & E-mail: Tan Yunzhou, Claudia.tan@Roche.com Date: 8/11
Subject: ACS meeting I think a few month ago Wei, Chunmei sent me a e-mail telling me that she is going to be in that meeting. I wish I could be in that meeting to meet with her. If you see her, please tell her to give me a call.
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-11-99
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-11-99
Subject: Xuxiang's trip Hi, Tan Yunzhou, how are you? Xuxiang left Atlanta at Tuesday morning. He should be in or on the way to Columbus, OH now and he will back to NY city this weekends. He isn't sure your home phone number and he may call you before he leave NY or you can pass the number to me. I did appreciate him to bring a lot of information about our classmates and friends in China and USA to me. You see, even this page also is benefited. You are right, it keeps quiet for months. Hopefully, After Xuxiang's leave, we still can keep this board active. Thanks.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/12/99
Subject: Internet Phone Chingfei Chen, you should discuss this tech w/ those guys in CA. There are some new devices, cost around hundreds, to provide long distance service through Internet but w/o this delay problem. Currently, it requires you buy the device by pairs, one is attached on your phone and another is attached on the phone of another side. Very soon (or already available), you only need to buy one for your phone then you can call the whole world for free. If your daughter will stay in China more than several months, this investment is worth.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/11/99
Name & E-mail: Tan Yunzhou Date: 8/12
Subject: Thanks Tan Yuzhou, thank you for your information. The bad thing is he has no number I can reach. I will pass your number to him when he calls me (he promised). He will be at SF airport around 7pm of 8/27. That's why he wants to make sure to have your home phone number. Anyway, I will post all his information here when they are available. When do you back to SF? the same day? By the way, I missed the chance to meet Wei Cunmei in Guangzhou when I backed China last Nov. Please say Hi to her. You guys may have chances to visit us in Atlanta, by the way, don't you? Anyone is welcome.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/12/99
Subject: RE:Xuxiang's trip M. Cai, Thanks for your message. My home phone # is 408-927-0948. I'll try to catch him in Ohio. Just in case I couldn't get in touch with him before I leave for New Orleans on Aug 21, please let him know I'll meet him at the airport on the 27th by the luggage claim area. I plan to take him to SF on 28th and it will be his choice for the 29th, either go to Montery bay or have a party at my house. I want to know ASAP so that I can invite everybody if he want to have a get together. BTW, do you have any plan to come to the west? Maybe you can come for a vacation next year? I am glad that Wei Cunmei will be in New Orleans. I'll definitely look for her. I'll pass any information I get from her in regard to our classmates.
Name & E-mail: Tan Yunzhou Date: 8/12
Name & E-mail: Hong Zhu Date: 8-13-99
Subject: Question Hong Zhu, what do you mean homemaker? Builder or kind of contractor? Thank you to bring someone back to this page. I am glad you enjoy the life in Detroit. I was only in that city once for a conf and I didn't feel good except the cheap taxi. Maybe, I only stayed for a short time and not in a good area (The hotel was located near the convention center). Just like those guys don't like Atlanta. Downtown area is occupied by our black brothers. Tan Yunzhou, You reminder me, I may call him tonight. Thank you for your kindly invitation. I may try to arrange some time next year to visit west coast. I visited Bay Area 3 times recent years. Unfortunately, no one trip was more than three days. The shortest one was less than 20 hours (round-trip red-eye). I have not much to say about S.F. Only things in my mind are good food (both taste and price), clean ChineTown (compared to other places), heavy traffic and expensive house, gas, mm, almost everything. Until now, I still wonder how you guys can afford the house. You guys must be very rich. Oh, one more advantage: short time and lower cost to back China or to Hawaii. I do need vacations! Have a nice weekends, everyone!
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/13/99
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-14-99
Name & E-mail: Hong Zhu Date: 8-15-99
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/16/99
Subject: RE:Question M. Cai, We are not rich, or I should say, I am not rich. People say,If you are a millionaire, you are only a middleclass here.You should really come and see what we paid for what we got in terms of housing. It is amazing! Zhu Hong, Glad to know you can stay home with your son. Enjoy him and enjoy the time with him. I envy you!
Name & E-mail: Yunzhou Tan Date: 8/16
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-16-99
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-16-99
Subject: Cab and so on Chingfei Chen, I recommand you take cab when you have to go to NY city. I'd like take cab other than drive there thought the cab is not neat. It's terrible to drive and very very expensive to park. I don't think USA is an unsafe place unless you live in the bad area. I am not rich but still can afford to live some better area. Peachtree City, the place I live, was the most safety city in USA in a survery of two years ago. So far, I have no trouble when I don't lock or forget to lock the doors. You may have no experience what means unsafety. You may ask Wei Cunmei what the situation in Guangzhou a few years ago. There is no place you can call safe unlike here, you have a choice. I used to live in the bad area in DC for a year. I don't think it was much worse that that in Guangzhou, at least, several years ago. My parents-in-law visit us and stay w/ us recently. They are used to lock the doors anytime and still wonder how unsafe of our glass doors. As to work, it's nonsense. If it'd been not for money or there had been enough money, most of people, at least, I would quit the current job. I think it's common sense: to spend more time and enjoy the life w/ family & friends and to do what you want to do not what you have to do. Tan Yunzhou, talking about money, you may be right. We have different standard. Compared to millionaires, you guys may feel compiliable. I never, so far, dream I would be a millionaire. So, compared to my level, you guys are really ...
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/17/99
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-17-99
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-17-99
Subject: Discrimination I want to know which race/which country has no discrimination. Let's talk about Chinese/China. What's most of people in Beijing think about Blacks? If a girl or your daughter dates w/ a black, what's your feeling and what do you/your friends say? You guys should agree this's not only Whites' problem. Even between Whites, there is the same problem. The wars in Europe is an example. You should also agree USA is one of best country because American is a "mixed pot". Almost no one is "original". I believe the main problem here is education and country background. Chingfei Chen, do you know which group is most dangderous in DC area? You may know, Blacks may be in the 3rd places. AS to N.Y. city, I don't know where you were living. Maybe, I don't go to many big cities. But, NY is only one place I saw the double parallel parking, parking in the side walk and drive on the side walk. The parking price? It's also I only see in USA, $12 for a half hour (I don't think it's the highest). Even in DC, you may park for a whole day w/ this money. Here is a joke. A rich man drives a nice car to a bank in NY. He gives the key to the bank manager and say: "I need $5000 load for a week and you can hold my car". The manager sees the car at least worth ten times than the money, so lend him the money. This guy backs after a week and returns the money plus the interests (i.e. 20% or 30%). The manager is wonding and ask: "Sir, I don't think you have finance problem w/ this small amount of money. Could you tell me why?". The guy smiles: "Could you find a place to park my car with this price, also more safety than to park it here?"
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/18/99
Subject: RE:Xuxiang's trip hi, everyone xiangzi is in Columbos now. we had a welcome and farewell party for xiangzi, Song xiaoqing's family was here, he is only one living nearby to me, it's not a big party , but was a nice re-unit event at least. we had Good time. xiangzi's going to go to Wang zhili'home for next stop, he will meet huizhen Zhang there at Philadelphia city PA. tanzi, call him to my home, he will leave around Aug 20th. I told him you were looking for him--I did't know that untill I come to here today, I was to buys too come here, I hope it is not too late to tell.
Name & E-mail: Jin F Date: 8-18-99
Subject: RE:Homemaker or housekeeper Recommended site: www.dictionary.com Some of you may have always-on Internet connection at work. You may look for new words at Dictionary.com. One example: homemaker n : someone (especially a housewife) who manages a household housekeeper \House"keep`er\, n. 1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. --Locke. 2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs. 3. One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton. 4. One who keeps or stays much at home. [R.] You are manifest housekeeper. --Shak. 5. A house dog. [Obs.] --Shak.
Name & E-mail: Bing Date: 8/18/99
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-19-99
Subject: Parking Someone who grew up in New York City told me a trick of parking in New York City: Flat your tire then have it repaired in a garage. This way you can park your car in a safe place for a day for a small amount of money. I had never tried it though. The last time we were in New York City was September 1996. We took my dad there for a tour. I believe we parked our car a few blocks away from the Greyhound station at 42nd street and took the subway. I can't remember clearly but I don't think we paid more than $36 for the daily parking.
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-19-99
Subject: Help wanted I have four Luffa plants (dish cloth luffa, "Si Gua"). For some reason, the vine grows everywhere but I don't have one single flower on them. One cucumber plant right next to them is continues giving me cucumbers. They were planted in the same kinds of soil and fertilized the same way too. I can't believe the requirement of N/P/K ratio in the fertilizer would be so different for these two types of plant. Any suggestion?
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-19-99
Subject: RE:Help wanted Go to Home Depot or similar stores where you can buy the plants and plowers to ask the fertilizer for flowers you want. There are a lot of different types for different flowers.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/20/99
Subject: Anniversary We entered Beida twenty years ago. This September is our twenty years anniversary. Anyone has anything to talk about? I haven't been back there for a long time. I may not be able to remember lots of our professor's name but I still remember the stairs of our department building. We were so yong then...
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-25-99
Subject: RE:Anniversary How many stairs?
Name & E-mail: m. cai Date: 8/26/99
Subject: RE:RE:Anniversary Which building? Which stairs? Gotta be specific. But I appreciate that Chen Ching-fei raised this interesting thing. Personally, my top five most favorite places around Beida are the followings: 1) the LongMarch Restaurant--still remember how much cash we dumped there? 2) the Hai-dian Book Rental Store--where I rent lots of Wu-Xia novels, 3) Dining Hall #3 (top three entries were rou(4)-bing(4), stir-fried sausage and Zhu(1)-rou(4)-pa(3)), 4) Classroom Building #2, and 5) the old Chemistry Building. I wonder how other people would think about their favorite things/places back to our college age there?
Name & E-mail: Zhang Yongliang Date: 8/26/99
Subject: Anniversary I am ashamed that I can't remember the details. The building I was talking about was the main building where the offices located at (please don't tell me the head of chemistry department had more than one offices at different building. Do not count their labs!) I vaguely remember there was one medium sized class room at the end of some building we used to climb in to study after all other classroom building closed at night. My favorate food was "Shao (1) Shuang (1) Qie (2)" that was a dish with both tomato and eggplant. During the my first week, I felt I was so lost that I had to find the bookstore first before I could get back to my dorm room. What was the number for the Big dinning hall? I think it later turned into a theatre. Does it still serve food during the day?
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8-26-99
Subject: RE:Anniversary My #1 would be Bang(4) Zi(3) Zhou(1), the cornmeal porridge!
Name & E-mail: Hao Dong Date: 8/27/99
Subject: RE:Anniversary I am pretty confident that the stairway you mentioned has FOUR step-levels. Anyone wants a bet on this?
Name & E-mail: Zhang Yongliang Date: 8/27/99
Subject: RE:RE:Anniversary Dong Hao: I'm glad to hear from you--where have you buried yourself? I hope they would still serve this BangZiMianZhou now.
Name & E-mail: Zhang Yongliang Date: 8/27/99
Subject: RE:RE:Anniversary Dong Hao: I'm glad to hear from you--where have you buried yourself? I hope they would still serve this BangZiMianZhou now.
Name & E-mail: Zhang Yongliang Date: 8/27/99
Subject: RE:RE:RE:Anniversary HaoZi, How are you? I heard you were in USA a decade ago. But, no one has any details of information about you. What are you doing now and how's everything going? Wish to hear from you again. My favor are ice-ski in the winter and the nice tap water in summer. Any food? Compared to what I got in Guangzhou later, Only bad or very bad memories.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/27/99
Subject: RE:RE:RE:RE:Anniversary Ming-xiang, I don't blame you for your bad feeling on Beida's food service--after all you are a southener. But when I try to recall my poor memory about the time at Beida from all these things around me that keep bothering me endlessly since the first step I made in the USA, I am really surprised on how nicely this memory can make peace of mind even with all the bad patches (dead flies in soup, small pieces of glass or stone in steam-rice, tasteless noodle and dumplings, etc.) on it, just like the feeling I always have while I visit this webpage--we all owe a big applause to Yang for it. I don't mean to polish what we got at Beida but because of it we can share something good.
Name & E-mail: Zhang Yongliang Date: 8/27/99
Subject: RE:Bang zi zhou Looks like food got people going. :) Universal language. I have a friend who said, 'if food represents culture, then my stomach is the embassador'. Bang zi zhou goes great with You2 Bing3. Even till now, I had to have somekind of 'zhou1' to go with pizza. :) strange? Many of my friend now do the same!
Name & E-mail: Yang Date: 8-27-99
Subject: RE:Anniversary I think we can complain about food in Beida or some stupid policies. But after all, what we gained from Beida played big role of who we became today. I thank Beida for everything.
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 8/27/99
Subject: RE: Anniversary Hi, everyone. I have been in this hole called Ohio for so long I was not quite sure people would still recognize me. Anyway, I am so glad to have found this page. A million thanks for a great site Yang has done for all of us! My memories about Beida certainly are not all sweet, as some of your postings also atest to. Yet how is it that we don't just erase the bad tasting (pun intended) ones all togather? We remember the good and bad, both fondly! When I said BangZiMianZhou was my #1, notice I did not use the word "favorite". Here is another that I would rank as almost #1: Hundreds of us, if not thousands, each with a bench/stool overhead, storming into the #4 dinning hall to catch a movie. Yang, please add the following to the list. Thanks! 6667 Scioto Darby Rd. Hilliard, OH 43026 (614)644-2130 howarddong@yahoo.com
Name & E-mail: Hao Dong Date: 8/30/99
Name & E-mail: Yang Date: 8-30-99
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 8/30/99
Subject: Good/Bad? Come on, M. Cai, I agree that most of your complaints were true, but you have to give it a fare evaluation. I believe that everything there now should be better than 20 years ago even I don't know what happened in the past thirteen years. Anyway, I think you just enjoy argue for the sake of argument. At that time, I don't think any other college had condition/teacher/equipment better than Beida either.
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 9-2-99
Subject: Re-union party Hi, Everyone: I am giving a re-union party this coming Sunday (Sept 5th). I messed up the date on my first invitation. It is a BBQ party at about noon time, Sunday. Everyone is welcome! There will be 15 families from my husband side (Beida Mechanics 79) coming to join us too. Please contact me if you can come. 410-531-0675 (home)
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 9-2-99
Subject: RE:Re-union party I can't believe I'm missing out parties on both coasts! No, Cai, I had no intension to chase after Dennis. He showed up after we bought the tickets. and I almost wanted to cancel the trip. I agree with Chen Chingfei, giving what I knew back then, it wasn't that bad at all. You were lucky to have gone to a well equiped high school.
Name & E-mail: Yang Date: 9-2-99
Subject: RE:Good/Bad? I don't enjoy the argument here just like the life in Beida. I just tell the true and my feelings. By the way, I used to live in HuaZhong Science & Tech. Univ. (Wuhan) and graduated from associate High School there. I worked in Zhongshan Univ. after graduated from Beida. The living conditions and equip. of both places were much better but the teachers, thought my parents worked there(Huazhong), I don't think so. The reason I picked Beida not HuaZhong was to have a chance to visit Beijing (for the similar reason: to have a chance to visit other places in the world, I came here). I always agree, I am not a good student. Anyway, as I mentioned, I will be out of this topic. How about some jokes? They are real stories about Beida. 1. at the the summer of 1980, I went to home for summer time. A guy sat near me on the train said he went to Beijing for a meeting to make education guides. He didn't go to sleeping cart(he went to there very soon late) because he had to leave earlier. He asked: "you look like a student, which school?" I replied: "Beida". "Beida?". "Oh, Beijing Univ." I said. He said: "Oh, good Univ. ..mmm..(a while) Which Univ. in Beijing?" "???" You guys can answer for me. 2. Do you guys remmber one guy from Phys80 of Beida killed several profs and another Chinese student in Iowa? At the second day, my prof went to the lab and talked w/ me: "... you are a real smart guy, I like to have as many students like you and from your school .. Do you feel good here?" "Oh, ya, thanks, do you need any help?" "Oh, no, .. I checked my files yesterday and found you came from BEIJING UNIV., a very good Univ." "..." You see, Famous Beida helps me to get my degree smoothly. I do like any kind of jokes. Could you paste them here if you guys find any good one. Have a nice and safe long weekends!
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 9/3/99
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 9-3-99
Subject: RE:Re-union update
Subject: RE:Re-union party The party went OK (I think). There were total of 64 people coming (including all the kids). Since it was raining all day Sunday here, we had to BBQ in the garage and kept everyone in the house. 16 people from "Mechanics 79" and 10 from "Chemistry 79". The attendants were: Xu Rongfang, Song Xiaoqing, Fang Jin, Zhang Huizhen, Qiao Ying/Zhang Yongliang, Zhang Lanhui, Guan Fuyu, Gai Feng. I hope everyone had a good time. In four years, shouldn't we again get together to celebrite our twenty-year graduation?
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 9-6-99
Subject: RE:RE:Re-union party I am sorry to leave DC area a few years ago and hopefully, I can have a chance to join you guys next time. I do like DC area (not downtown) and have a lot of friends there. Unfortunately, it's a little too far for me to drive (for my age). I just backed from Niagara Falls and met Zhang Delong there. I want to thank him for the care and nice dinner and to give me a wonderful time. He really has a nice family. It's always very nice to see old friends.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 9/6/99
Subject: RE:RE:Re-union party Ching-fei: thank you and your husband for hosting this wonderful party and I still feel sorry for being late (I don't want to repeat my excuse but I'm really innocent on this). I hope that we could host your family sometime in near future.
Name & E-mail: Zhang Yongliang Date: 9/7/99
Subject: Parrot talk A guy named David received a parrot for his birthday. The parrot was fully grown, with a bad attitude and worse vocabulary. Every other word was an expletive. Those that weren't expletives were, to say the least, rude. David tried hard to change the bird's attitude and was constantly saying polite words, playing soft music, anything he could think of to try and set a good example. Nothing worked. He yelled at the bird and the bird yelled back. He shook the bird and the bird just got more angry and more rude. Finally, in a moment of desperation, David put the parrot in the freezer. For a few moments he heard the bird squawk and kick and scream. Then suddenly there was quiet. Not a sound for half a minute. David was frightened that he might have hurt the bird and quickly opened the freezer door. The parrot calmly stepped out onto David's extended arm and said, "I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I will endeavor at once to correct my behavior. I really am truly sorry and beg your forgiveness." David was astonished at the bird's change in attitude and was about to ask what had made such a dramatic change when the parrot continued, "May I ask what the chicken did?"
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 9/8/99
Subject: RE:Parrot talk I only wish kids are as easily taught as the parrot. Well, I was away for a week and missed all the parties and fireworks. No response to the 2003 party yet? I think it is a great idea. Anyone interested in working on it? If we have a 3-4 people organizing committee planning this starting now, we should be able to get good "coverage" so a lot of people can make it.
Name & E-mail: Hao Dong Date: 9/9/99
Subject: Kids Haozi, talking about kids, here are some good stuffs. My favor is the last one, how about you? ------ Teacher: Little Johnny, go to the map and find North America. Little Johnny: Here it is! Teacher: Correct. Now, class, who discovered America? Class: Little Johnny! ---- Teacher: Are you chewing gum? Little Johnny: No, I'm Little Johnny. ---- Teacher: How can one person make so many stupid mistakes in one day? Little Johnny: I get up early. ---- Teacher; Didn't you promise to behave? Little Johnny: Yes, sir. Teacher: And didn't I promise to punish you if you didn't? Little Johnny: Yes, sir, but since I broke my promise, you didn't have to keep yours. ---- Little Johnny: Teacher, would you punish me for something I didn't do? Teacher: Of course not. Little Johnny: Good, because I didn't do my homework. ---- Teacher: Why are you late? Little Johnny: Because of the sign. Teacher: What sign? Little Johnny: The one that says, "School Ahead, Go Slow. "That's what I did. ---- Teacher: I hope I didn't see you looking at Don's paper. Little Johnny: I hope you didn't either. ---- Teacher: Well, at least there's one thing I can say about your son. Father: What's that? Teacher: With grades like these, he couldn't be cheating. ---- Teacher: Johnny, give me a sentence starting with "I". Little Johnny: I is... Teacher: No, Little Johnny. Always say "I am." Little Johnny: All right. "I am the ninth letter of the alphabet."
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 9/9/99
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 9-10-99
Subject: 2003 Re-union May be we should all get together at a beach or Disney world. When we are having fun the kids can have fun of their own! Work harder, in four years, we will deserve this vacation too. Or may be Las Vegas to win some money? Any other idea?
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 9-10-99
Subject: RE:2003 Re-union The beach idea really appeals to me.
Name & E-mail: Hao Dong Date: 9/13/99
Subject: RE:RE:2003 Re-union You are very special. At least, this is my 1st time to hear HaoZi likes sandy place w/ crowded people and a lot of sunshine. Just kidding. Four years is a long time. Maybe, it's a little bit too earlier to talk about now. HaoZi is right, we may need a group of people (committee) not any single one to take care this issue. So, we may need to register as some type of 'Club' or 'Association'.
Name & E-mail: M cai Date: 9/14/99
Subject: Floyd I understand that many of our fellow alumni live on Floyd's path. With the largest ever evacuation in US history underway, I wish the best of luck to all. Any one who encounter problems, please post a message here to let the others know.
BTW, Cai, I did like the one about the ninth letter. Can any one think of a form of "be" that can not be used with "I" besides "are"? All the ones I can think of (am, is, was, were, will be, etc.) can be made legit. :)
Name & E-mail: Hao Dong Date: 9/16/99
Subject: RE:Floyd Based on the news, Floyd already became a storm and will affect New England area. His effects are much smaller than what expected. I don't think any one of our classmates would/will be impacted significantly by him (no one lives in beach area of east coast). Baltimore area has a little of problems. Chen Chingfei, are you and your house OK? Of course, you can use any form of 'be' after I. Here is for 'ARE': I are a student is not correct in grammar.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 9/17/99
Subject: Significantly RE:RE:Floyd
It took me 95 min to drive to work this morning. The same drive is less than 15 min (less than 5 miles) in a typical day.
Name & E-mail: Bing Date: 1:38 PM 9/17/99
Subject: RE:RE:Floyd I guess we expected worse but it turned out to be OK. Some areas were out of electricity due to the heavy rain/wind. Public schools were closed for two days. This is new for me to deal with (daycare centers normally don't close due to bad weather).
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 9-17-99
Subject: RE:Significantly RE:RE:Floyd Xia Bing: Why did the drive take so long? Road condition? Traffic? Weather? All of the above? Something else...?
Name & E-mail: Yang Date: 9-18-99
Subject: RE:Significantly RE:RE:Floyd Thank goodness it was not that bad. Only a few dozen people died. Anyone has somebody they know affected by the quake in Taiwan?
Long time ago when I was in northeast Ohio, one year we had a particularly heavy snowfall. The city was closed for two days. We stayed in for quite longer because the side streets were covered for almost a week. Then after we moved to Columbus, about four years ago, one snowstorm hit us all night. I had to get up at 4 AM to get the snow (about one foot and counting) out of my driveway. After a huge struggle (driving in snow took about one hour for a normally 20 minute trip) to get to the office by 7 AM, and staying there for about one hour with about 10% of regular number of staff, all doing nothing of course, the State Trooper finally called an emergency. So I had to drive another full hour just to get home. The moral of the story? Don't work for the State. :) Pretty much everyone else goes by the city police's call. Only the State agencies have to wait for the Troopers. I like that at least I know by about 7 AM if kids' school would be canceled.
Name & E-mail: Hao Dong Date: 9/21/99
Subject: RE:RE:Significantly RE:RE:Floyd Are you talking about Floyd or Taiwan? The number you gave is too large for Floyd but too small for earthquake. I was almost hit by LA earthquake in 94 (I left 20 hours earlier). However, I did cover by the big snowfall when I arrived VA home. After several days, it spent me several hours to dig my car out. That's why I like Atlanta. Traffic? If you like to live in or near to a big city, you have to tolerate it. It's not strange to drive over a hour for 5 miles in city like NY, DC, SF, LA ... The record I hit is moving less than 1 mile in one hour w/o any accedent in Atlanta (very good weather)! The only reason is holiday. everyone gets out of office at 3 pm but policymen start to work at 4 pm. So, Xia Bing, it's not really "significant". Are you guys' house okay? I saw heavy flood in NJ area. Good luck for every one!
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 9/27/99
Subject: RE:RE:RE:Significantly RE:RE:Floyd I was talking about Floyd. I thought the number on the news was forty something. The comment about the quake was added at the last minute after I wrote everything else. Thanks for pointing it out.
Name & E-mail: Hao Dong Date: 9/21/99
Subject: Blizzard We moved to Maryland the end of 1995 from Texas. Within a month, we got hit by the "Blizzard of 96" in January. On the top of everyone else experienced, since we were still wearing T-shirt when we left Texas, we had no winter coats nor snow boots. I had no idea how bad the blizzard could be, I didn't even prepare enough food for it. Everywhere were closed (were you here at that time Cai?)and we had no friends either! We managed to survive after all. I guess I didn't learn the lesson. Last week when the electricity was out, I had no flash light! Luckly it was only for a very short period of time. Does anyone think we should prepare for the Y2K new year's day? May be get some kind of none electric heater?
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 9-21-99
Subject: RE:Blizzard Yes, I was still there. But, I got used to that. In '91, I experinced one night w/o heater in the similar blizzard (no electricity, the starter of heater didn't function). DC area is nice place to live and the weather is okay compared to the north/ central of US. You may need to prepare for huge temperature changes daily especially in fall. Sometimes, you may wear T-shirt at morning and need winter coat at evening. I only don't like to drive there after snow. I don't think it will be serious problem for Y2K, at least, in US. Anyway, you should prepare some wood for fireplace during the Chrestimas time, right? You shouldn't worry about the heater then.
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 9/22/99
Subject: RE:RE:Blizzard I have a gas fireplace. Last January the electricity was out for a whole day plus. The fireplace worked but without the blower (fan), it didn't really heat up much area. Since my son didn't know how to fell asleep with other people around, we still had to leave him in his cold room with plenty of blankets. (He didn't make a sound that night). So none of us stayed by the fireplace. It wasn't a good experience. That's also the reason why am I really afriad of lossing power on Y2K new year's eve.
Name & E-mail: Chingfei Chen Date: 9-23-99
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Name & E-mail: 俛倝値倗 Date: 侾俋俋俋擭拞廐
Subject: A real story In keeping with Mingxiang's theme of telling real stories, allow me to tell this. It happened last week (9/21 to be exact).
There is this HUGH annual "Farm Science Review" where companies come to exhibit their lastest farming equipments/technologies/etc. Our agency also rents a tent to do the PR thing for the three days there. An 84 year old gentleman walked up to a female staff of ours and had a conversation which went:
... ...
Old man: "How old are you?"
Staff: "29."
Old man: "Married yet?"
Staff: "Yes."
Old man: "Got any kids?"
Staff: "No."
Old man: "Gal, you are no spring chicken! Better get started soon."
... ...
Before he left: "Go home and kiss your husband. You need to get started
tonight."
Name & E-mail: Hao Dong Date: 9/27/99
Subject: RE:A real story Haozi, it's hard to believe it's true story. It's my 1st time to hear an American ask ladies' private things, especially, the age in public place. By the way, how do you know he is 84?
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 9/27/99
Subject: RE:RE:A real story I think if you talk to enough number of the farmers (any other class considered blue-collared could fit here too), you will find it easy to believe. As to the age of the old guy, it is part of the "...", of course.
Name & E-mail: Hao Dong Date: 9/28/99
Subject: Some more jokes related to marriage I like jokes. No matter is true or not. Here are some more in my collections: Marriage is when a man and woman become as one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one. > My wife only has 2 complaints: Nothing to wear and not enough closet space. >Maybe you heard about the man whose credit card was stolen but decided not to report it because the thief was spending less than his wife did. > How do most men define marriage? A very expensive way to get your laundry done free. > Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. > You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that. > At a cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" The other replied, "Yes, I am. I married the wrong man."
Name & E-mail: M. Cai Date: 9/28/99