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    Friday Favorites

    This guy is amazing. If the link doesn't work, search for Downtown Spokane Street Musician Bryson Andres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPYGeELPpno Why don't we see any buskers in Irvine? Is it not allowed? With no sarcasm intended, so many Asian kids are good at one instrument or another...
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    How do you spoil your kids

    But how do you deal with the begging eyes? The furbies, the american dolls, the justice, the shoes, nail polishes, nail saloons, endless string of birthday parties and gifts and everything pink. I have one boy and one girl. In comparison, the girl is going to cost me a lot more than her...
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    How do you spoil your kids

    When xbox and nintendo cube first came out, I got up at 4am to line up outside Best Buy. Ever since there highlights of our lives have been hinged on the yearly upgrades, ipod, iphone, ipad, another iphone, another ipad, another iphone ... I didn't just spoil my first born, I think I have...
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    How do you spoil your kids

    I hate other people's spoiled brats but secretly I try to out-spoil mine. Honestly and hopelessly, I think the happiness-buying is an absolute necessity for healthy parents-kids relationship. In many ways (socially speaking), we have so little to offer them now. They no longer come to us for...
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    Gilding the college-bound

    Thanks, IHS. This is eye-opening. I didn't know you can actually 'buy' popularity. What's the going rate for each 'like'? Maybe I can start a ponzi scheme based on just that. Cha-ching!!! Update: Just found this. I must've been living in a hole all these year...
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    Veterans Cemetery coming to Irvine

    Quoting from the same article, I think the developers have a hand in this anti-cemetery sentiment: "It's not the cemetery that's put in the wrong place. It's their homes that are put in the wrong place," he said, noting that two other cemeteries are located within three miles in Lake Forest...
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    Gilding the college-bound

    Interviewer: Come right in!
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    Kobe Buffet

    A general question - Should I half the tip at buffet restaurants? You are doing almost 50% of the work already, are you not?
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    Gilding the college-bound

    I wonder how effective this 'packaging' can be in real life. I'd expect the admission offices to distinguish the type of credentials money can buy from those a kid will have to earn through his/her own ingenuity and weigh these differently. I also wonder how admission offices interpret the...
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    Gilding the college-bound

    Yes, please do share. I promise my kid won't be competing against yours as I can't afford the service anyway. I just want to know what a $17-mil mansion looks like. Thanks.
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    Gilding the college-bound

    Specifically, I'd like to know (as I'm too lazy and reluctant to find out myself) whether this type of service would direct you at certain activities or even provide activities that would boost you point on extra curricular activities. I worry that I would sign up only to discover that I have...
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    Is Harvard Unfair to Asian-Americans?

    Confucius says, "A wise man in his judgement of the world, has no predilections nor prejudices; he is on the side of what is right." I solute you, IC.
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    Gilding the college-bound

    Thanks but just so you know, your generous info has just hurt me twice in the same spot: I am late in the game, and moonlighting for Uber is obviously not a viable solution.
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    Gilding the college-bound

    Hardly. I was just google-translating what I got from wechat.
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    Architecture Quiz

    Don't fall for it. The first one is a QR code for a book on Feng Shui.
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    Sad...

    ... meanwhile, a traumatized female Asian driver kept the police line busy for 20 minutes while demanding them to capture the person who allegedly dinged her 2016 ML650 on purpose with a shopping cart then fled the scene in a black Ford Mustang ...
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    Gilding the college-bound

    Does anyone have recommendation on college planning consulting services? I'm talking about the top-of-the-line gilding package, not SAT preps.  I'm like to know how much it may cost and what they offer.  Thanks.
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    Birth Tourism

    Speaking from first hand experience, city zoning department is quite responsive to such reports. Haven't tried HOA tough.
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    Is Harvard Unfair to Asian-Americans?

    Okay. Let me put it down in my book: Irvinecommuter, Chinese, a self-hater.
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    Is Harvard Unfair to Asian-Americans?

    Jeff Yang's article has its merits but it is gross generalization to paint all Chinese families that way. Most Chinese people I know are either progressive enough or cynical enough not to support or care about the law suit and the recent complaint (because they are all focusing on the cemetery...
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