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Oh God he would kill me if he saw this,
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My Anime Life: A portrait of my 400-year-old Asian sensei in 1987.
Eight years before, he was on a boat headed away from Vietnam, with his loved ones dying of starvation and dehydration and diarrhea around him. A year or two later, and he got his degree in French from UTA. In between that time, he instructed me in oriental philosophy by the hour, including:
a.) lots of stuff I didn't agree with at all, such as, "that which is against Nature must die!"
b.) history and potential future of the Hoa Hao sect
c.) best ascetic lifestyle EVAR: made French coffee in a beer can, abandoned digital watch connected to his jacket by an also-abandoned rubber band
d.) his take on how marriage should work ("the man is like the sun, in the center and motionless. First wife should run the family business. Second wife through nth wife will manage the other stores")
e.) inspired me to quit smoking. He quit after he lost a lung, and to remind himself to not smoke, he shaved his head. I did that 5 years later in '92--fortunately for me, before I lost a lung.
f.) one of the most extroverted and highly weird Orientals I've ever met, but he's also proof of how you get HARMONY in the old country. Ship the outspoken ones over here. Hmmm....
Mr. L_ would try to kill me with his meat cleaver if he knew I was who I really am. But that would be an honor, really, even as I got the restraining order done and went to give it to him at his nursing home bedside. I never told him I drew pr0n or had a lifestyle that didn't mesh well at all with his ideals of purity. But listening to the reasoning of the other side can be very instructive, and show you where you share hopes and dreams for your offspring.
or:
My Anime Life: A portrait of my 400-year-old Asian sensei in 1987.
Eight years before, he was on a boat headed away from Vietnam, with his loved ones dying of starvation and dehydration and diarrhea around him. A year or two later, and he got his degree in French from UTA. In between that time, he instructed me in oriental philosophy by the hour, including:
a.) lots of stuff I didn't agree with at all, such as, "that which is against Nature must die!"
b.) history and potential future of the Hoa Hao sect
c.) best ascetic lifestyle EVAR: made French coffee in a beer can, abandoned digital watch connected to his jacket by an also-abandoned rubber band
d.) his take on how marriage should work ("the man is like the sun, in the center and motionless. First wife should run the family business. Second wife through nth wife will manage the other stores")
e.) inspired me to quit smoking. He quit after he lost a lung, and to remind himself to not smoke, he shaved his head. I did that 5 years later in '92--fortunately for me, before I lost a lung.
f.) one of the most extroverted and highly weird Orientals I've ever met, but he's also proof of how you get HARMONY in the old country. Ship the outspoken ones over here. Hmmm....
Mr. L_ would try to kill me with his meat cleaver if he knew I was who I really am. But that would be an honor, really, even as I got the restraining order done and went to give it to him at his nursing home bedside. I never told him I drew pr0n or had a lifestyle that didn't mesh well at all with his ideals of purity. But listening to the reasoning of the other side can be very instructive, and show you where you share hopes and dreams for your offspring.
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I have tried to adopt some of his ideas I agree with, though. I agree with his approach to how to deal with difficulties in life. This is why I don't participate in flame wars or Internet drama if at all possible. 98% of my opinions are kept to myself, because I believe he was right when he said:
"When you face difficulties (such as his own nieces and nephews dying in pools of bloody effluvium in a boat on the South China Sea with no water under the murdering sun)--do not be as the ones who release their emotions with their lawyers and counselors.
Do not cry, do not weep: keep silent! And overcome."
Now sometimes it's OK to cry. He's talking about how to survive a murderous crisis, though. Until you've reached safe harbor in Hong Kong, keep control of your emotions. Understand that you don't have to comment on everybody else's choices while the sharks are circling. Weigh the relative importance of issues.
He lived, many did not. He knew that luck had a lot to do with it. But he also worked hard to not make things worse, for himself and others, in the life-or-death crises he lived through.
"When you face difficulties (such as his own nieces and nephews dying in pools of bloody effluvium in a boat on the South China Sea with no water under the murdering sun)--do not be as the ones who release their emotions with their lawyers and counselors.
Do not cry, do not weep: keep silent! And overcome."
Now sometimes it's OK to cry. He's talking about how to survive a murderous crisis, though. Until you've reached safe harbor in Hong Kong, keep control of your emotions. Understand that you don't have to comment on everybody else's choices while the sharks are circling. Weigh the relative importance of issues.
He lived, many did not. He knew that luck had a lot to do with it. But he also worked hard to not make things worse, for himself and others, in the life-or-death crises he lived through.
jesus christ.
I may be a conservative guy, but we have to understand he trully went through hard moments in his life. that uses to make people choose some more traditional (simplistic?) ways to analize and understnad life.
I dig his opinion about having several wives tough ^.^ aaah..... traditional people, they know their business very very well ^.^
I may be a conservative guy, but we have to understand he trully went through hard moments in his life. that uses to make people choose some more traditional (simplistic?) ways to analize and understnad life.
I dig his opinion about having several wives tough ^.^ aaah..... traditional people, they know their business very very well ^.^
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