Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Re: Family unfriendly
Well, it should be me who say 'Thank you', thank you for covering this
side of the world, and thank Chronicle for publishing it.
It is really sad, my sister has been wanting to come over to see my
life, but have been withholding her dream for 4.5 years now, and I
don't know when I will feel OK for her to apply again, without even
thinking of the "non-refundable application fee of RMB 830" (which is
$100), that's about 1 week's salary for a lot of average Chinese
salaryman, and she paid double the amount, because she applied for me
niece as well.
On the other hand, my brother-in-law, who is a prominent scientist in
Chinese language processing field in the world, had actually
come to the US for conferences before (and could come if he wanted
to), after 9/11, he said gradually, all the conferences are moved
to Europe/Asia, people tried to avoid US now. Isn't that sad? We were
avoided/ignored by rest of world, even hated by some of them, and we
still think beating them up is the solution, and our
beat-them-and-invade-them should not be seen as 'terrorism' by
them? Sad, Sad, Sad, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:50:46 -0700, Estrella, Cicero
wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Thanks for your note. Very funny (and at the same time sad) story about
> the the angry man. People from Lithuania to Japan have e-mailed me with
> similar horror stories. Thanks again.
>
> Cicero
side of the world, and thank Chronicle for publishing it.
It is really sad, my sister has been wanting to come over to see my
life, but have been withholding her dream for 4.5 years now, and I
don't know when I will feel OK for her to apply again, without even
thinking of the "non-refundable application fee of RMB 830" (which is
$100), that's about 1 week's salary for a lot of average Chinese
salaryman, and she paid double the amount, because she applied for me
niece as well.
On the other hand, my brother-in-law, who is a prominent scientist in
Chinese language processing field in the world, had actually
come to the US for conferences before (and could come if he wanted
to), after 9/11, he said gradually, all the conferences are moved
to Europe/Asia, people tried to avoid US now. Isn't that sad? We were
avoided/ignored by rest of world, even hated by some of them, and we
still think beating them up is the solution, and our
beat-them-and-invade-them should not be seen as 'terrorism' by
them? Sad, Sad, Sad, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:50:46 -0700, Estrella, Cicero
> Tom,
>
> Thanks for your note. Very funny (and at the same time sad) story about
> the the angry man. People from Lithuania to Japan have e-mailed me with
> similar horror stories. Thanks again.
>
> Cicero
