Muskblog: the sad, pathetic truth

I wasn’t going to blog today, but Canada’s Men’s Hockey Team finally is playing so my attempt to take a break from going out lasted one night. Last night I watched the Olympics at home, but I also played the guitar and even watched a DVD. I shouldn’t have done some domestic chores [...]

I’m at home watching the Olympics on CTV. Canada and Japan are racing long track speed skating, the 500m so the shortest distance. Canada must do well in this as I don’t think it is live. The Japanese guy won. “Nip-pon, Nip-pon!” Canada is doing well enough, but if the [...]

Actually there has been a lot of big news over the last few days, so I’m stealing some moments to summarize much of it, as having just come from Storm Salon, not everyone has been paying attention to the news.
One of the other customers didn’t know that Wilco, yes the band Wilco from Chicago fronted [...]

While looking for a Chinese proverb to complete my Christmas/New Year’s card I found this one. Which literally means “Over a long distance, you learn about the strength of your horse; over a long time, you learn about the character of your friend.” Apparently it can be used as a compliment or to [...]

The other day while trying to study a Chinese guy started playing guitar in Waves. I tried to remember the Chinese folk song I learned but could not remember just one part. I got the beginning and the end. It is a very famous song called “月亮代表我的心” or “The moon represents my [...]

I’m not sure the true benefits of this other than you probably get an icon next to your name in rankings such as “Which MBA?” but being the first public university in China to achieve this, is something to remark upon.
At least I can be proud of attending one of the schools I did my [...]

On the day Canada wins it’s first Gold Medal at the Beijing Olympics, I also read that a Korean woman won gold in weightlifting, beating the heaviest Olympic weightlifter man or woman Olha Korobka.
Chinese women had been dominating woman’s weightlifting but chose not to enter an athlete in Jang Miran’s weight class. IOC [...]

..is my old alma manta, Tsinghua University in Beijing China. This doesn’t surprise me. I know how hard it is to get into their undergrad programs. I also helped more than a few undergrad students apply to US grad schools and even though I’ve been out of China for years people still [...]