"You don't like my rice?"

Going through this list of the world's most powerful crime syndicates, I cannot help but ask: where are the Chinese?

Can it be that neo-liberalism overrun the 黑社會1 ??? Is it possible that my "Mark/Ken Gor", who looks good even with fried rice on his face, becomes his own mob victim?

I think I may be on my way to getting some research funding.

1. Chinese term for triads.

That Glorious Instep

In the same week when Nian Nian sprained his neck, a fire broke out in Eddie's apartment and I killed Echo and Politics of Friendship, I also caught the greatest ballerina of our times.

And if I were more capable, I would be able to describe to myself what the week was like. But till I return from Bali still choking over Sylvie Guillem's insteps, the wait would have to be a reincarnation, if it's still trendy to believe in one.

Fodder for the "event": we need it in order to no longer have it. We can substitute the word for many others, for example, that of the "classical/canonical," "structure," etc. Some say, "life."

Misery loves echoes. So burst my eardrums now.

(No geek joke about otobiography allowed.)