1. Some of the people who know me the best have been discussing Asian American culture with me.  The common themes – superficiality, hollow, posers.  It’s not just the larger majority culture that’s the problem.  The true Asian culture is rooted in thousands of deep thought and history.  Not this facsimile.One time, this Asian guy was pretending to be Allen Iverson, doing fancy dribbling moves.  I just went up to him, got into my crouching defensive position, stuck my hand in his face and said “Let’s go.”  Homeboy drops the ball and refuses to play.

2. At the end of it all, it was about the stolenmoments of solitude and serenity in the midst of life’s loneliness and chaos.  Do we choose our journeys or do they choose us? It’d probably a bit of both.

3. I used to envy (sort of) peers with higher salaries, fancier titles, cars (not so much).  But it’s true, you take nothing with you.  It’s all about what you leave behind. I was talking to a friend and I said I wasn’t anywhere near the master, Bruce Lee.  But one day, people will remember that a kid from Malaysia and Gaithersburg, Maryland, stood and spoke up in court and the boardroom. taught, guided, made shots, saves, catches that no one else could.  And that’s how things slowly change.

4. In a snowstorm, what do you build with the following. A bicycle, a toy tractor, a speedboat. The answer – a snowmobile.  The handles from the bicycle, treads from the tractor, and the motor from the speedboat. And that in a nutshell is how strategic works courtesy of Col. John Boyd.

5. Recently, I also listened to a book  – Lament for a Son.  The author, a theologian, lost his son in a climbing accident.  Some of his friends said the most imbecilic things to him.  Stuff like you still have other kids, God chose not to save him, God caused the mountain to shake, etc. He concludes that for those who have the words of life, be truly grateful.  For the others, he was gracious and said something like they would fade out but  you know he really wants to say “Shut the f___ up.”