Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

Last week I saw a video of Mark Zuckerberg conducting an interview at Tsinghua University of China entirely in Chinese.  That was quite impressive and unexpected.  The audience was surprised and delighted.  I give Zuckerberg a lot of credit and I think more businessmen going to China should learn the language.  It certainly create good will and by learning the language, one can better understand the culture and thinking of the people.  This would help immensely when negotiating and may help when the other side is speaking in Chinese to each other in say, the bathroom!

Having given Zuckerberg kudos for learning Chinese, I must say that  there is a double standard.  When my brother in law who is white goes to a Chinese store in LA and starts to speak in Cantonese with the clerks, immediately he is surrounded by Chinese women googoo and gaagaa over him.  They are surprised that he speaks fluent Cantonese.  Now I walk into a GAP store and speak fluent English and no woman ever comes up to me, all delighted.  Isn't this a double standard? 

The World Series was a good one this year.  But I must say the Giants and Royals are the two worst teams among the ones who were in the playoffs.  I understand the teams that are hot at the right time deserve to win.  But when every series in this playoffs was won by, I think, the inferior team, then there is something wrong with the game.  I means the Tigers killed the Royals during the season and the Dodgers killed the Giants.  OK, enough sour grapes.  I will salute the Giants who won for the third time in five years.  That is hard to do in this era.  And they did it without an extraordinary payroll.  Plus Madison Bumgarner won games 1, 5 and saved game 7 on two days rest.  That reminded me of Mickey Lolich winning games 2,5 and 7 in the 1968 Series.  So maybe we can go back to depend on a great starter more in the future instead of endless change of relief pitchers.