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WoW!

Gunish — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:58:26 -0700

I just completed reading the article and wow! you are really amazing sir, in all possible ways!

The way you plow the road to a conclusion, while accomodating or rahter digesting so many deviations in the way. You spoke of everything in it! right from the chinese traditional hinderences.. your youngster experiences, the bush blunder, the interviewing strategies.... i mean your writings are surely a Feast for our Brains!
We Get to know so much ... derive so much ... experience so much out of it! Yet the content is not complete alien to ordinary 'schmoes' like me!
I'll tell you a lil secret ... everyday when i get to work , i open this website in sheer hope that i might get to read one of your articles!
it just amazes me, a person like you with so many experiences is such a simple man, has limited dreams ... prefers to spend his life on the Lama Island rather than returning back to home and running for the president (lol, that was a good analogy by the way!)
i am seriously too young to understand the consequences that have shaped you in a way that i find no body else! ...

your writings sometimes sound so much familier with what happens in our daily lives and yet gives us the BIGGER VIEW of the world and things around us ... its simply WOW!

it has always been a honour reading your work sir! honestly!
(p.s. : any by the way i'll take your closing line as a remider to me, 2 be carefull about wishing to go to USA for higher studies!)

Boo-Yaa

Daniel Read — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:37:12 -0700

Edward,

Great post. I'm still absorbing it. I did want to comment, though, on one point from your post: the origin of the term "boo-yaa". This actually comes from American hip-hop culture. It is onomatopoeia for the sound a portable shoulder missile launcher (like the M72 LAW) makes when it is fired. It was made popular by a group call the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., which is still around I think. They made their first splash, if memory serves correctly, in the early 90's.

Dan

Island of the Ghost Teachers!

Edward G Nilges — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:06:36 -0700

Everyone deserves a maximal education. Programmers need to be taught computer science including Turingâ€™s Magic Machine. In general, everyone deserves to learn both about the dominant culture, and their own.