You've lost weight

Today, some hot chicks at work said that my compliment to her "hey! you've lost weight" was not a compliment. That it implied that she was overweight before.

"That's not how you're supposed to say it, say, you look nice today"... one of them helped out...

"Have you lost weight?" I added..

"No, that still meant you think she weight too much"

"But it's really noticeable!!" I said! (slimmer waist on a big boned girl is very very visible)

The pair of girls gave up in frustration...

"Well, you look really good!" I said, trying to make up for the mile in my mouth...

"Thank you" she said, and disappeared before I could say another word.

sigh... it's nice to hear an honest response to my compliment...

Regarding age, sex, and the quantity thereof

I feel compelled to post a link and copy this article by By Dr. Seth L. Haber, MD, FCAP posted on a site called yourdictionary.com, which, I've gathered dervies from his book named Innovations in Pathology. The portions reproduced here are not with knowledge and approval of author or publisher.


The ones related with medicine are especially funny: a bundle of neurologist, a smear of obgyn... A Scam of corporate officers...

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birds are a flock, a congregation, a flight, a volery, or an aviary. The nightingales that sing you to sleep are a watch. Several rooks are a building or a clamor, hawks a cast, snipes a walk or a wisp, quail or larks a bevy, grouse a brood or a cover, pheasants a nide, and partridges a covey. Peacocks, as we all know, are an ostentation, a muster, or a pride. Plover are a stand. In flight, ducks are a team or a skein, a paddling on the water, or a brace if only a pair. Mallards, in particular, are a flush, a paddling, a sord, or a sute. Geese are a gaggle on the water, but a flight anywhere else. Herons are a siege, where'er they may be. Swans are a herd, a team, a bank, or a wedge. Eagles (bald or hirsute) are a convocation. Parrots are a flock. Cormorants are a flight. Ravens are an unkindness, and crows are a murder (most fowl?). Swans are a herd, a team, a bank, or a wedge. Turkeys are a rafter. Starlings aggregate as a murmuration, larks an exaltation, turtledoves a pitying, and goldfinches a charm. Woodcock are a fall or flight and woodpeckers a descent
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elk are a gang, foxes an earth or a skulk, sheep and goats a trip, tribe, herd, or flock, lions a pride, sowse, sault, troop, or a flock, bears a sloth or a sleuth, and hares a drove, husk, or a down. Deer are a herd. For the gatherers, too many nouns of multitude are a plethora. Buffalo are a troop or a herd, wolves a pack or a rout, domestic pigs a doylt, litter, trip, or herd, wild swine a sounder, oxen a drove, and
leopards a leap. Dogs come as a kennel or a brace; if wild, a pack
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wish for a barren of mules, a herd or haras of horses (I know it may seem a contradiction, but there sometimes seems to be more horses' harases in this world than horses). Colts are a rag, and chamois are a herd, although I would have imagined it would be a rag of chamois and a herd of colts. Badgers are a cete or set, moles a labor, kangaroos a troop, and ferrets a feamying. Those cute little kittens are a kindle, cats a clouder, tomcats a clowder, cluster, or glaring, curs a cowardice, and apes a shrewdness. Boars are a singular and some humans are singularly boaring. Ferrets are a business
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[fishes are]a school, draught, haul, run, or a shoal. Commercial fisherman refer to them as a catch. Herrings are an army, perch a pack, sardines a family, jellyfish a smuck, and lox a mekhaya
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Witches are a coven, boys a blush, girls a bevy or a giggle, beauties a galaxy, children a troop, butlers a drought, hermits an observance, consultants a maven, and some editors a pain. Worshippers are a congregation and angels a host. Thieves are a gang or a skulk, ruffians a horde, blackguards a mob, robbers a band, and some people a crowd
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[Physicians are a]college, and often a bore. In conventions, they may be a caution. In days of yore, they were an independence; now, they are a review of peers and an inadequacy of reimbursement. Medical students often are a disappointment, and interns a trial or a tribulation. Residents come by the rotunda, although I have heard some refer to a term of residents. Orthopoedists are a brace, osteopaths a joint, and podiatrists a parade. Dermatologists are a rash. Surgeons are an incision, a pack, or a stitch. Many an anesthesiologist is a gasser.
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Neurologists are a twitch or a bundle. Analysts are a dream, psychiatrists a complex or a detachment, virologists a strain, geneticists are a gene or a succession. Don't forget, there are some cytogeneticists who look great in designer genes. Immunologists are a complement, mycologists a tuft, parasitologists a cycle, and epidemiologists a plague or a vector. Gastroenterologists are a rumble or an eructation. Cardiologists may be a cor, a thrill, a flutter or a murmuration, diagnosticians a guess, hematologists a clump or a blast, and radiologists a ray, a screen, or a scan. Both electrocardiographers and electroencephalographers are a squiggle, and ultrasonographers are a sounding
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gynecologists are a sexion or a smear, cytologists a cell, obstetricians a push or a labor, and pediatricians a nursery or a squall. Urologists must be a stream or a puddle. Otolaryngologists are a gaggle, otologists a herd, and ophthalmologists an ogle or a see. Plastic surgeons are a pride, a tuck, or an augmentation, and dentists a drill
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Anatomists are a corps or a gross. Pathologists, those gentlemen and scholars, are a section or a tissue, some say "a lesion." Forensic pathologists are a slew or, like crows, a murder. Occasionally, hospital administrators and governmental bureaucrats may be a plague
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physicists, a big bang or a cosmos of astronomers, a reaction of chemists, a slither of herpatologists, a wilt of horticulturists, or a testing of psychometricians (those souls who time men's tries)? What about a lynching of attorneys, a number of accountants, an assemblage of factory workers, a scurrying of gofers, a typing of secretaries, a fraud of auditing/accounting firms and a scam of corporate officers
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A couple (mating pair) of ducks, known as a drake and a duck, may have a duckling. The group would still be known as a team or a skein, a paddling on the water, or a brace if only a pair, and a flush, a paddling, a sord, or a sute if they're mallards. But, let's move on.
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Mr. and Mrs. Goose, a gander and a dame, is a gosling. A cob and a pen swan, may produce a little cygnet. The mating of a cock and a hen eagle produces an eaglet. Grouse produce a cheeper or a poult, hawks an eyas, partridges a squeaker; and cock and hen pigeons a squab. Of course, everybody knows that a peacock's mate is a peahen, and that a cock pheasant mates with a hen. Cock and a hen fishes may have fries
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mating of a jackass and a she-ass will produce a colt or a foal. A boar and a sow badger will produce a set, while a bear and a she-bear will beget a cub. A bull and a cow, whether buffalo, camel, or whale, produce a calf.
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kindle of kittens. A stag or a hart red deer, mating with a hind, will produce a fawn or calf. A buck and a doe fallow deer produce a fawn and, if they are roe deer, a roe-buck and a doe produce a kid or a fawn
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billy-goat and a nanny-goat produce a kid. Ferrets are a dog and a bitch. A dog-fox and a vixen produce a cub. A buck and a doe hare produce a leveret, not a bunny rabbit. A dog and bitch produce a puppy. There is no such thing as "a hare of the dog," although the condition necessitating the search for one may be a bitch
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horse and a mare produce a foal which, in its teenage years, may harass its otherwise stable parents. Big cats, including the leopard and leopardess, the lion and the lioness, and the tiger and the tigress, all produce cubs. A dog and bitch otter also produce a cub. The boar and souse pig, if domestic (sounder, if wild) produce piglets. A hob and a jill polecat can produce kittens. Ram and ewe sheep produce lambs
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11/17/2011

Looking back

I'm reading through my backlog of unposted blog entries. Below is a copy of a draft circa q4 2010, a slight repeat of this entry. This thread of thought continues in my mind, though now has transformed, hopefully, to a more material facts based and quantitative analysis.

There are probably some social trends that cannot be overcome by individual efforts. Like, why is it that I feel gay people are more welcomed in high-tech work place than straight people? Is it just my imagination? There has to be something that I'm missing here. What is the economic benefit to the company if more employees are gay? Some of their sexual behavior tend to increase the risk for diseases which in turn increases cost of health insurance. Their being single or not married does not seem to impact the company's taxes...

I wonder if it is because of their spending habits? Do gay people spend more money than straight people? As below, do Koreans and Indian people spend more and save less of their earnings than Chinese? is this why they appear to be more welcomed in the US?

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The Chinese (the country P.R. of China) are flexing their muscles. The Nobel boycott being the most notable, but also an attempt to buy American soil in Nevada to mine rare earth metals. What audacity!! Buying American land? In the history of America only Americans have money buy other people's land !!

But to be honest, I think this recent bout of struggle for a fair place in the world ("global dominance" according to american media) may end in failure. HuJintao's term may end voluntarily 10 years from when he took power in November of 2012, which is exactly two years from now. I feel this may be the case because I, among many Chinese, have no faith in the Chinese government. So what if every few terms there come a fairly successful, young, and reasonable leader? It's only been around for sixty some years. Look at the American democracy, two hundred odd years of continued survival and dominance in its semi-sphere and certainly within its continent.

Added on top of that, for the most part of it's existence, it had been a country that exercised government mandated discrimination and public acts of hatred toward it's own people. I, being of Chinese origin, know that my people have been seen as the lowest and treated the worst. 

The fact that American openly embrace Korean and Indian more so than Chinese is not because the Chinese are a lesser people, as they would like you to believe, but it is because of the spirit within these people whom tho physically participate in the economy and labor force resist the continuing the fact of segregation, persecution, and enslavement within the United States of America. I continue to feel that there is not one accent that I can speak with that makes me feel acceptable among those in power, not the worst accent used by my Indian colleagues, nor any of those rounded cutesy Asian accents. Coworkers have for the most part will take any and all opportunity to mock me. The grass is definitely greener on the other side of the glass door (glass door is the replacement for the glass ceiling, on the surface, you are on the same level with the others, but you know they're being treated differently on the other side of the glass and you can see it!)

Because of this, the Chinese is bound to fail. Despite it's large population, overcoming the adversities of America is not something on the horizon. And even if the battle is won, there is still a war in progress... and you're either with them, or not.

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