Best English reports.
By Victor Chen, bostonese.com
Boston, Feb. 10, 2015, — The New England Chinese Professionals 2015 Chinese New Year Gala is co-organized by 16 New England Chinese-American professional associations. It will be held on Feb 21 from 1:00 -11:00 PM at Boston Marriott in Newton, Mass. The cultural performances in the evening feature some of the best performers in music, dance and arts locally and internationally.
Boston Kongfu group led by International Kung Fu star Xiaoyi Chen.
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By Menglei Han, bostonese.com
Boston, Feb. 3, 2015, — Kwong Kow Chinese School(KKCS) held a fundraising dinner party at the Empire Garden Restaurant in Boston Chinatown recently. The theme of the party is “Heritage, Innovation, and Responsibility.” Nearly 500 people attended the party and donated. KKCS collected about $180,000 for their future development. Boston City Councilor-At-Large Michelle Wu, a volunteer at KKCS years ago, congratulated the achievements by the its teachers and students.
Theresa Tsoi gives Make the Difference award to Michael Wagner, CEO of Tufts Medical Center (photo by Menglei Han).
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Boston, Feb. 3, 2015, — Tom Brady took home the MVP, but it was former West Alabama All-American Malcolm Butler who made the play that clinched the New England Patriots win in Super Bowl XLIX. Brady agreed to give the Chevy truck awarded to him with the MVP prize to Butler during this morning’s interview on WEEI sports radio.
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By “Dr. Tea”, CEO of Mylovetea Company
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 2, 2015, — Stephen Allen Schwarzman, chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group, visited Harvard University and gave his speech at the Science Center on his company and their collaboration with China, especially the Anbang Group. The personal fortune of Mr. Schwarzman is estimated to be $10.8 billion and ranked at 122nd on the World’s Billionaires List by Forbes.
Mr. Schwarzman graduated from Yale and don’t known much about the Harvard campus. I gave him a tour. He joked he was not smart enough to get into Harvard and he went to Yale when he was 18. He contacted Harvard Dean of Admission and yet the Dean said Yale was pretty good too. Stephen said, later on, the Dean felt regretful for not enrolling him to Harvard though. Also, he felt more excited to run a company than a school. However, he said: “never stop learning!”
“Dr. Tea”(left) with Mr. Schwarzman.
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Boston, Feb. 1, 2015, — Visitors to Disneyland were treated to a victory parade of Super Bowl champions Julien Edelman and Malcolm Butler today. The New England Patriots defeated Seattle Seahawks last night at Super Bowl XILV in Glenndale, AZ. Quarterback Tom Brady threw four touchdown passes in the come-from-behind victory, and won the Super Bowl MVP award.
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By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist
In the morning of Jan. 24, I was debating whether I wanted to go to Chinese American Association of Lexington’s (CAAL) Chinese New Year celebration or not. The ride decided for me as I could not change the time. I’m glad that I did. I probably was among the very first ones getting there. They were still trying to set up the place.
(from left)Peter Lee, Weidong Wang, Melanie Lin and Hua Wang of CAAL pose for a picture.
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By Victor Chen, bostonese.com
Boston, Jan. 24, 2014, –In his column Next Week’s Bloodbath At IBM Won’t Fix The Real Problem in forbes.com, long-time silicon valley journalist Robert X. Cringley said he learned about the Project Chrome, the largest “transformation” in IBM’s 103-year history around Christmas time. He suggested that over 26% of over 400,000 IBM employees worldwide could be notified the layoffs starting the week of January 26.
China Press’ report of IBM’s Centennial Celebration in June 2011(file photo).
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By Nancy Fray, translator and calligrapher of The Pearl River Collection, Selected Poems of Tommy Gee
When Tommy Gee and I first met, I had been studying Calligraphy for three years. I was being taught to copy the classic Tang poems with a brush in Li Shu style. I wanted to compose something different – something that would stand out. I also was beginning to study Mandarin and was curious to understand exactly what I was writing. We talked about translating some of his poems to further my education. As this project progressed, I realized that I wanted to introduce his beautiful poetry to English speaking readers. We decided to proceed with this book.
Poet Tommy Gee with his new book The Pearl River Collection (photo by David Li).
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By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist
Medford, Mass., Jan. 21, 2015, — What kind of world that we are getting into now that the cardiac surgeon Michael Davidson, 44, from Wellesley, was shot in Brigham and Women’s Hospital by a crazy man? As a mother of a doctor, I’m horrified.
Dr. Michael J. Davidson (file photo).
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Hometown
By Quan
Life without language: all the ideas, thoughts, and emotions present, but unable to be expressed. This is how I picture my grandfather when he first immigrated to America with my grandmother and their nine children. Lost, he wanders around, hoping to bump into someone who can understand him. He raises his own children to know Vietnamese and hopes his future grandchildren would also be connected to the language of their ancestors. But when I form my lips into unnatural shapes to speak these words, they come out pathetically.
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