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From: wing@pegasus.com (Wing Ng)
Subject: Re: Why? Why? Now I'm going to tell you why.
Organization: The Ohio State University; Department of Phyiscs
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 02:48:30 GMT

> From: Wun-Chun Chau
>
> [1] Re: Why? Why? Now I'm going to tell you why.
> Date: Mon Sep 28 17:45:06 HST 1992
>
> In article <96953@bu.edu>, kingchun@buengf.bu.edu (Tsai King Chun)
writes:
> >
> > I can understand the joy of talking to this kind of smart  and
> > beautiful  girls.  However,  I always feel these girls are very
> > hard  to approach,  at least at the very first time before  you
> > really know each other.  Sometimes you may be just too  nervous
> > to  smile  or  talk naturally in front of this  kind  of  perfect
> > girls,  especially at the first moment when you are introduced.
> > I am not sure if anyone of you have had the same experience.
> >
> > At last, I sincerely wish Wun-Chun good luck.
> 
> Thanx,  but I have to admit that I failed. She said she has had a
> boyfriend  already,  and  that  doesn't want to  go  through  the
 
Standard women's excuse when she is not too interested in you.
 
> trouble  to  break up with him...  well,  at  least  that  excuse
 
That's the standard caveat to say it's not hopeless yet.
 
> wouldn't hurt that much... :(
>
> Wish me better luck next time.
 
Now you get too pessimistic and become sarcastic:
 
> mmmmmm......  Maybe that guy was right,  I mean,  the one who has
> said:  girl  are  all alike when they are all naked and  it  is
> totally dark... well, who knows :)
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> ANYONE want to test it out and post the result of the survey ? :)
 
At least they all *look* alike under such circumstances: there is
the standard phrase about black people in a pitch-dark African
forest trying to catch black ravens  ... .
 
Wing
From: ckkwan@acsu.buffalo.edu (Chunming Kenneth Kwan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: pretty women, good wives?
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:33:22 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Sep24.191404.13856@jho.com> john@jho.com (John Ho) writes:
>siu@athena.mit.edu (Olivia I Siu) writes:
>
>>>A clever man will marry a hard working wife. Get a beautiful girl friend
>>>and go visiting prostitutes sometimes. 
>
>>>MEN SELDOM SATISFIED WITH JUST ONE WOMAN.
>
>This theory sounds familiar and I am just curious if it is 
>also true the other way around. :)  Can our male netters accept that? :)
>-- 
>John Ho from Dallas, Texas USA. (john@jho.com)           - No news is bad news.

Anyone who's really been in love will tell you that 24 hours a day is 
absolutely not enough to be around your significant other, the thought of
being with somebody else is, ludicrous though it may seem to some of you,
totally horrendous, to say the least.

To the people who think that you really need to play around in spite of your
partner---maybe it's time to realize that you don't really love him/her, at
least not enough.

As to Ms Siu, I'd hang in there if I were you.  Believe it not not, many
people have found their true love and live happily ever after, though I'd have
to admit that luck and gut tenacity have a lot to do with it.
From: yuk@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Yuk Lun Chan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: GPA (Re: Ph.D. in Hong Kong and U.S.)
Date: 5 Oct 92 08:30:27 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard ISG-SBU-PWD, UK.

>soc.culture.hongkong / vchan@haas.berkeley.edu (Vincent Chan) / 12:33 am  Oct  1, 1992 /

>   Nobody ever asked me to show my transcript when I was hunting for jobs.
>I think it depends on the practice of that company. Some companies use
>GPA as one of the factors in hiring. They believe that people with high
>GPA from a prestigeous schools are so smart that he/she can be trained 
>as a XXXX even his/her majors in YYYY.

In U.K.,the Universities do not give out transcript usually unless asked. And 
no companies I came acrossed asked for transcript. But the first job I try
in HK asked for it after I have ten years in work??? Just can't belive that.
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From: cs_rayhy@uxmail.ust.hk (YaN HO LEunG)
Subject: Contributions to schk from HK students
Organization: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:57:07 GMT


Hi, netters:

	HK students really have no contributions at all in schk.
	There may be some reasons behind.

	I am a mechanical engineering student in HKU. As far as
	I know, HKU hasn't subscribed any one of the newsgroup
	such as alt...., soc...., comp.... etc. So, God knows
	there had had such entertaining postings in schk. In HKU,
	hku.open-forum is quite a popular newsgroup that are
	frequently read by users and that's all! HKUST and CUHK
	students may be more lucky....

	Postings in schk are (sometimes maybe) too ethical or 
	political to be there for those HK netters(except some-
	things like Deanna-incidence or Jan-incidence). This is my
	opinion and maybe a sensible assumption. (Why not they
	express their point of view in other sources of media?)

	Actually, some postings like the best way to cook instant
	noodles...something like that..can't catch those HK students
	attention as they, unlike you guys, never had hard time
	(experience) on eating instant noodles for 2 months. (I
	had such kind of experience 'cos I lived alone.) They may
	not like any discussions on pop singers/actors in HK 'cos
	they can watch SOLID GOLD every weekend...get the most
	updated news....And lose the chance to discuss in schk...
	no big deal!!

	The biological/psychological/mental conditions of overseas
	students are really different.. you must agree that. Personally,
	overseas students are sometimes more mature to have deep
	discussions on various topics..although some are crazy....

	Well, sometimes it's quite unfair to blame on HK students'
	contributions to schk as they are the minority when compared
	with the majority out there.

Clement. 

P.S.	Clement is a friend of cs_rayhy.
	Can any HK students who are frequent readers of schk, please
	respond? Thanx!
From: chiu@delilah.ccsf.caltech.edu (John Chiu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Why I got this GRADE in Econ...
Date: 29 Sep 1992 04:59:40 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: delilah.ccsf.caltech.edu

In article <BvAzsw.Mv2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mtam@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Johnny Wu) writes:
> I'm a sophomore and is undecided in major.
> But try to get an easy A from Econ.. But on the last test I had STUDIED very
> hard and thought I got everything down in memory.  But when I got my grade 

First of all, sheer memory doesn't gaurantee good grade!

> back I find out that my friend who didn't study and got a better grade then
	^^^^^^								^^^^^^
	found								 than
	
> me. Now I feel so stupid and dumb and is looking for a lake to jump in.
 ^^^^
  I

Second, too many spelling errors would lower your grades!

> Could anyone help me to acheive my goal of a failure.. please HELP ME...
>


Think about it this way.  There are always others more gifted and hardworking 
than you.  And meanwhile, you are better than quite a lot of other people. 
And even for one who is the best, there is no gaurantee that he/she is living
happily.  Being successful would take tremendous effort.  And being mediocre
is a lot better in most cases!  Also, remember the fact that being gifted in
academia would hardly mean one is going to make lots of money, or be happy!
That's true in every sense!  So carry on!  Do your best and be happy!

John Chiu
From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: regarding HKUST's "color wolf"
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:43:15 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

I feel bad after posting my suggestion for helping him.  I hate sitting in an
ivory tower, giving some smart-a** advice, yet not actively doing something to
help.  May HKUST people please do me a favor, and invite him to send me e-mail?
I would like to talk to him.

If he wonders why I want to talk to him, just tell him that I am concerned 
about him, and would like to have him as a pen-pal?  Thanks.

BTW, anyone else interested in talking to him?  and please don't volunteer
if all you want to do is to mock him.  Thanks.

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin
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From: mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Michael C. KWAN)
Subject: Just a joke (hee.. hee.. I am back)
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 23:41:57 GMT

	Yesterday, we were talking about the economical problems in
South-East Asian, Australia, NZ and pacific regions.  When we came across
the situation in Hong Kong, my friends (Aussie) wondered why HK could still
have 5.7% growth while she is facing with uncertainty of 1997, globle
recesion and strong competitors, and why Australia is sufferring two
digits unemploymnet figure.  The senior lecturer suddenly made this joke :-

	There were two persons camping somewhere in Africa, one of them is
a HKer, another one is an Aussie.  Suddenly, a hungry lion was looking for
food and these two persons noticed that a lion was around.  So, the HKer
started wearing a running shose to run for the life and the Aussie just
sat there and said to the HKer that 'You better take a rest, have a beer and
enjoy the last minute of your life.  We can not run faster than a lion.",
and the HKer replyed him that "I don't care whether I can run faster than
a lion, so long as I can run faster than you !"

	Cheer.


PS.  My senior lecturer just picks HKer as a example, because I am a 
     only HKer in the group.  He actually means is Asians and not only
     for HKer.

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From: bhchan@soda.berkeley.edu (Billy H. Chan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Three Lonely Hearts Club
Summary: Virtual Love
Date: 2 Oct 92 20:51:37 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct2.155156.22176@dsg.tandem.com> leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung) writes:
>No, freedom should not be our (OK, I speak for myself only, so it is my)
>primary concern. My primary concern is technology. The TLHC idea is fine,
>and Edwin's contribution is his proposal of "a network version," which
>is technically feasible. But it should be more far-sighted. With the
>nascent virtual reality (VR) technology on the horizon, I think we need
>to approach the TLHC with this in mind, i.e., a network based TLHC that
>is capable of delivering VIRTUAL LOVE!
			  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wouldn't it be better if we go for the real thing?  (less traumatic because
it's real, not fake)  :-P

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From: wchau@acsu.buffalo.edu (Wun-Chun Chau)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Why? Why? Now I'm going to tell you why.
Date: 27 Sep 92 04:56:50 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci

In article <1992Sep21.225017.19089@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
>cc015@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Vito T. Kwan) writes:
>
>>Why the rich men like dating beautiful girls? It is because they (the rich
>>man) only like their bodies, not the brain. However, if you are not that rich
>>enough, I suggest you marry a smart lady, that will help your generations
>>too. Think in this way, after you turn off the light, take off her clothes,
>>they all look almost the same. But the wisdom is THE HELL DIFFERENT.
>>A smart wife help you build up your career. After you become rich, you
>>can if you want, occasionally, date a beautiful girl in secret. BUT
>>DON'T MARRY HER. 

Boy!  ARe you really going to practice what you have said?
Be careful! If your wife has only look w/o brain, then you might be damn
safe - for that the only "weapon" to "fight back" is her own beauty...
but, if you wife is smart w/ or w/o look, then well, good luck to you :)
Sincerely wish you won't get bite off too much :)

>
>Mm.. a smart woman should know how to pick a husband who cherish her
>and "help <her> generations" too... if we want to have a wife who respect us,
>shouldn't we first respect her? ;)

wholeheartly agree! Even she is not smart, if you has picked her as your
wife, you still have to respect her! Afterall, that is your decision to
marry her.

I was so lucky to have a chance to get to know a girl who is extremely
smart and damn good looking :) I won't tell you guys who she is or there
will be another deana-sort-of-things happen again :)
It feels so good to talk to this kind of girls, yes, they always appear to
"inch" because they seems to be able to read your mind. Man, isn't it
fantastic to have a girlfriend who knows all your need, knows when to cheer
you up, when to shut their mouth up and leave you alone, when to comfort
you, when to force you to work... and most important of all, she is damn
beautiful! Ha Ha!

Oh, no, she is not my girlfriend... not yet :)
 
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From: eln235s@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr H Hui)
Subject: Re: They got no brain..
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:43:31 GMT

cs_rayhy@uxmail.ust.hk (YaN HO LEunG) writes:

>>glo@dvlseq.us.oracle.com (George Lo) writes:
>>
>>>In article <stevew.717276678@helios> stevew@helios.unl.edu (Steve Wu) writes:
>>>>tchow@ra.cs.umb.edu (Tony Yee Chow) writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  By the way, for a Ph.D student, his/her GPA must maintain at least
>>>>3.5 something or higher. (at least for most of the cases).
>>>>
>>>Getting below 3.5 in any university in US isn't easy but very hard
>>>in HK. 
>>
>>*** As an engineering student in CUHK, I have never dreamed that my GPA
>>can above 3.5. I find it even vary difficult to reach 3.0 (maybe I am
>>not smart enough :( ). But there is still a few of us can get a 3.xx.
>>As far as I know, there are  just 3 or 4 of us can get 3.5 or above
>>(within 180 students in 2nd year, ie last term).
>>

>I am an engineering student in HKU. In our dept, one can get a A if
>one scores over JUST 70. That may be equilvalent to 85 in US and CA.
>But still, they enjoy applying GPA to HK students.

When I was studying in HKU, our fellow-student would be very happy if
they got straight B (60%-70%). Frankly, getting a B was not easy.
However, when they came out and face the world, they would find their
GPA-equivalent are really shit! For example, very few among those on
the 1st class honours list got A grade average in the final year. (In
fact, I doubt if anyone got a A-average in the final year.)




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From: swl@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Samuel Wai Kay LEUNG)
Subject: Re: Who Are You?
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: world,local
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 15:06:20 GMT

wongcj@evax2.engr.arizona.edu (Just John) writes:

>  Hello .. Who Are You?

I am myself !!!!

What a stupid way to get a friend !!!

If you want to know someone over the net, please get some hostnames
and finger, then find a suitable person and talk to him. (But I cannot
guarantee you won't be F***ed by the person over the talk)

Please don't put such dumb (so-called) article on this news group.


Samuel

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From: siu@athena.mit.edu (Olivia I Siu)
Subject: Re: pretty women, good wives?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:29:22 GMT

Since there are so many people interested in knowing what I really meant in
posting the first and the second articles, I'll post an answer which I replied
one of those who sent me response.

With all the contradictions and arguements, I must have made
myself very unclear.  Well, perhaps not, different people reading the same
quote should generate different perceptions.

What I'm trying to say is that too many girls think that they should pursue
the guys that they love, and it is vice versa too, esp. vice versa actually.
I think the person would be much happier to be with the person whom they
might not wholeheartedly love but whom loves him/her very much.  Of course,
that must exclude the perfect case in which both love each other.  
There would be no point in my saying if such an assumption was not made.
If the person you are with is a person you don't love, at least you are
the factor which can be changed.  That is, you can learn to love that
person.  But if it's the other case, then you are not the factor, then
you cannot control what the outcome can be.  One may feel that she/he
loves a person so much that it doesn't matter that the other person
doesn't love her/him.  If the other person is indifferent to being with
him/her, then such a relationship can exist.  But he/she would end up
being more hurt being with a person she/he loves than being with a
person whom he/she doesn't love.

Olivia
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From: cs123057@cs.brown.edu (Chainsaw)
Subject: Re: MADLY IN LOVE WITH HER!!!!
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:13:46 GMT

In article <BvEHCH.828@nic.umass.edu>, s6883289@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Absolutely Chinese) writes:
|> In article <92274.100045U61508@uicvm.uic.edu> <U61508@uicvm.uic.edu> (A____ T___) writes:
|> >   I have been noticing this girl in my gym class for a while.  Today, I
|> >made my first move, I ask her to go drink a cup of coffee with me.
|> >But she told me she couldn't go because she have a class to go to.  Anyway,
|> >can anyone give me advice of what I should do next?????????
|> >Is she trying to avoid me or does she really have a class to go to?
|> >Or maybe she just doesn't like coffee, right?  Please help me out as soon as
|> >possible.  Thanks!!!!!!
|> >
|> >                                               A crazy boy
|> 
|> hear my story:
|>    i met this girl from my class last fall. she's from nearby school 10 miles
|> away, so my only hope of seeing her was about class time. i liked her and made
|> acquantaince with her. the next semester (last spring), i purposely took the 
|> same class with her, hoping to see her more often. then on valentine's day,
|> i told her that i loved her and since then, she never talked to me again.
|> i was really depressed, i began to skip that class all the time and finally
|> failing that class at the end. frustrated, i started messing up the Internet,
|> posting lots of ugly articles and cursing people. some idiots complained and i
|> end up losing my job at the computing center. i spent the whole summer thinking
|> about her. i wrote poems about her but couldn't have her to read, i have lots 
|> to say to her, but can't have her to listen. now, another school year has 
|> started, she's no longer taking any class here. i am working three days a week
|> and taking a full course load, my hope of seeing her again is even more remote.
|> i called her but as soon as she picked up the phone, she wanted to hang up. 
|> i don't know why i am such a turn off to her. i am not very ugly, not very
|> stupid, not very rude, but my love of her was very sincere, is very sincere 
|> and will be very sincere. is it because she is extremely smart? extremely
|> beautiful? extreamely classy? i can't help but wonder what will happen to us
|> this semester, me in particular.

NO, that's because Chinese girls are almost alway too conceited, too damn proud,
and too damn insensitive.  She is just playing hard to get, girls like that are
not worth the effort to even look at.  If I were you I would find myself another
girlfriend and have MARVERLOUS SEX with her.

|> PS. my loved one, i really hope you're reading this.
|> 
|> - Peter, forever in love with that malaysian chinese girl

				Chainsaw - forever in search for pretty girls
From: glo@dvlseq.us.oracle.com (George Lo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Chinese wife is good? (Was: Why? Why? Now I'm going to tell you why.)
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:56:05 GMT
Organization: Oracle World HQ, Redwood Shores, California
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <97133@bu.edu> kingchun@buengf.bu.edu (Tsai King Chun) writes:
>Yes, that's very true. However, you have to consider the consequences of
>chasing a girl with boyfriend. You may be criticized by the community, as 

If anyone tries to take away my girl-friend, his neck would be broken
before the next morning.
From: chitwong@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (wong chit)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: They got no brain
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:29:48 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: chitwong@doc.cc.utexas.edu

bs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes :

> I know you worked very hard at school, George (from talking
> to you a while ago), but I am not sure if 3.5 is really that easily
> attainable)

It is easy for Michael Jordan to dump but he could not do break dance as good
as Michael Jason.  " Easiness " is a relative term apply to different people.
By the way, If I have not been mistaking, George is the first student in HK
to get 10A in Cert.  ( I hope that I have not encroach your privacy, George ).
I just want to point out that people have different talents and also the stages
of development physically and mentally are different.  We could not expect that
we are born to do any thing right and assume that if we work hard then it will
pay.  There are always all sorts of adaptaion and unexpected frustration we 
will meet.  At our stage, what we need to do it do be aspired and improve our
selves. 
So there is no need to jump into the lake.  We will treasure later in our life
we have fight for our aspiration and never dodge problems.

Patrick Wong.

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