A Building Encounter With A Russian

The best company I could come up with was any company from anywhere I did not buy into the latest reports on bad performance but relied on over as well as current performance and a man with a Russian accent came into the picture here in America. I'm not writing this report for profit as yet to date I do not get paid for what I write but what is valuable to me as hinted by a renown editor who has read my works writing is good for the soul and I need all the good soul that can be mustered. The owner and boss of his company was rather unique and prepared to do business from the get go although I will not mention the name of the company as I am not here to plug or advertise anyone at the moment now. But will I in the future? I'm writing this post as a human interest story and yes I know no one wants to be fooled. Having carefully studied the market and what would suffice for my building needs to make a long story short I used fiber cement for the material although I never heard of such material until I began to examine it for the present day circumstances. It was for construction and repair of old siding or wood which in my opinion was decaying. Would stereotyping this Russian man be of any assistance to my needs? I knew the Russians built the Kremlin and they were very successful in producing a machine gun in answer to the brutal assault to their homeland during the second World War against the invading Germans. But could this Russian man meet my needs for design and durable structure outside my very own house? As you know stereo typing is a dirty word or dirty words it is politically incorrect to the fullest and judging the Russian people by only one man of this ethnic culture would be unfair and not just. How can I stereotype when I never saw this man playing music or ever typing? And my point? Reiterating I am not your typical journalist my blog is nothing more than a diary I call a journal as I journey through life noting the news in my life as seen as well on the news channels and the internet as I attempt to assess all views on life rather than just mine. And the end result of this story? They did a knock up job or in other words the job they did was excellent meeting approval not just of my judgement but by all. Any corrections to my story are welcome.

The Major Causes of A Breakup

A famed psychotherapist spoke on the radio the other day indicating that the primary reason are financial problems to religious differences. My question posed to her was one of completely different approach. My question challenged the validity of whether pornography hindered a marriage or helped. Her response was an excellent one as Ronn Owens commented my question posed was an excellent one. Being prepared and at the ready to answer her questioning for me Owens interceded replying I would be on hold. It did not take a rocket scientist to come up with a smart answer.

Quality Of Products Will Improve

One of the first Chinese made or made in China products was one I had bought and took great pride in the ownership of this merchandise. But that was so long ago when a young man. Now that I am older and losing my hair many years from now little did I realize that almost every product on market is made in China or would be made in China as it is today. I never in my most wildest imagination or dreams think that this would happen. The thoughts were that China is a third world nation a laggard so to speak doing things the primitive ways and in the thirties in the last century the thought was that it was a poor nation filled with starving people and it would remain that way indefinitely. I had no ideal the economy would rapidly advance so fast and accelerate like there was no braking power. It had to slow down no industrialized nation had ever kept up such pace in that number of years. It had never been done. It is just not me that has made this observation but almost everyone I have come into contact with which is the masses or the common person on the street not the advanced degree educated of the elite. We must never forget that it is the masses of the people who have created the very foundation with which the elite can survive and prosper. So then what is my point? I have seen the light of day when in my later years when all of hope had little chance to survive that indeed perhaps a laggard nation had a breathe of life and a chance for hope.

It Takes A Hero

My idols are Ann Frank and my father and his brother Ed. Ann Frank wrote about her life expectancy and in my mind wrote one of the most important literary works of the modern times. Most of us would agree that the world was at a major war and for the most part not a subject to bring up anymore unless taught in history classes but knowing about history these days...ops here I go off again into tangents not relevant to the purpose of this journal. For one concept is that I am American and no I did not just arrive in this country of America from China and make claim to it because it suits my fancy. I just wished my immediate ancestors left a journal or a diary about their hopes and wishes and what was important to them if anything at all. This is the intention of this journal I am writing. If it appears that I am writing an introduction to this blog called Journalism Reports for an endless length of time I am in all probability. Believe it or not I am inspired by the works of Ann Frank and if can ever be an inspiration to anyone and do good then maybe just maybe I will have accomplished a dream. My father when I knew him while he was alive was a good man and I have no fear of being connected to him and what his brother did in World War 11 in his mission to Nazi Germany has made me into an American proud of what he had done. His story can be googled his website is accurate from all of my accounts and if I stand to be corrected then let it be known my knowledge of the mechanics of this Internet is something of desire or in other words why more commentaries to this blog is not in order remains a mystery to me. My father is a book author and his story within me lives and if in anyway I can promote his book I will. It is called "Resourceful Chinese" which to me initially struck me with embarrassment. Being Chinese in America for the most part was a very good thing for many ethnic Chinese if they wanted to subsist and survive as America was certainly a place to do it. But to become a mainstream rock of part of an affluent society the Chinese had little place but a waiting line to be admitted into this country of America. No I am not an immigrant nor was my father or his father a bank teller who drove around in a model T Ford. Ann Frank wanted to become a journalist and she too had a dream and a story to tell but then again Adolph Hitler did too and he did his best to smash her dreams. Yet her story lives on through her book and will never die and it triumphs over Hitler's story the name I wish not to give credit to. If I can tell of my father's story then maybe his dreams will live on. He was very proud of his book yet no one paid it attention. But now I have. The evidence is here it has been made. He left this piece of evidence behind and now it is for me to tell in his own words. I do know I have very little interest in what I am now saying but that can be changed. And so what is my point? My point is a very good one. Read on.

Dynasty

Dynasty and the meaning of this word comes to mind. Currently in my world where I live in the San Francisco Bay Area the Forty Niners have had a dynasty where they ruled in the major sport of football. I know nothing about football as I had mentioned to Ronn Owens and Joe Montana on the air but they took my call nevertheless the media wants to know what the average type Joe on the street out there in radio land what he is thinking. They also took my call when Steve Mariucci was on his last days with the Forty Niners as one of the winning coaches but a dynasty at that time would be no more not for a time until possibly now if at all. This is the word for those sporting teams who have more important wins than they do anything else. The big game for this region I have come to know and be born of is right here in river city or San Francisco by the Bay and yes I left my heart in San Francisco where dreams are made possible. After all I lived in this area where this local football team was a nothing or championships were not at all. Even a little common person on the street knows this is to be true or my question presented now must be a good one and true. Will the Forty Niners win the next big game in this case the Superbowl in this case the Ravens I believe. Now I ask you who are the Ravens? My main focus is not to present myself as a football expert but as one of the common persons wandering along the streets nearby and where I knew San Francisco as a place of my haunts as I still do and yes whether this local team wins or loses San Francisco will continue to be a famous city by the Bay. There is also the theory of China becoming the number one super power of the world in a dynasty of which it has known before but hardly recognized by the rest of the world since it was so long ago since China has seen the zenith of its power and bright future of its civilization. Whether China can live in another dynasty is in question in my eyes since it has known poverty and humiliation for too long a time where even dreams of living in a dynasty could not even have been realized. Bill Walsh was and is a remarkable man and guided a team of players on to greatness and set the tone just maybe. He was a genius and yes I met him on the air and spoke to him on his style of coaching a flavor that will never leave me blind. So you see in sports genius can be accomplished not just in physics as Albert Einstein was known for but in many other fields of endeavor. Will China become a great power among nations that no one could ever conceive of not even a dream come true? Is this a story just another ugly duckling story we as children grew up under?

Who We Are

No I am not a reporter on the run looking for the next scoop of the news of the day as I were to live a life from the superman television series which began in the fifties. It's in the month of November the real journalist who race across the continent and that is not including me merely a blogger who looks at what the professional journalist produces on my computer and television screen and I report right here in this journal or blog my findings. It is not every day when I'm consumed by the news but if I am to be legitimate surely I must do what is imagined a journalist should be. Enough of this self justification. I know enough about the news and what makes a successful news media work and that is the concerns of the masses in reaction to the news reporting of those professionally trained journalist.

A Journalist Always Tells The Truth

If this is true then why did I mistakenly blunder and think that the Forty Niners the West Coast Football in the NFL not very known to me and many others are going to be winners and repeat their performance that they so gallantly accomplished under the leadership and coaching of Bill Walsh back in the eighties; I know very little about football yet I was bold enough to think they were in the midst of achieving another dynasty under this new leadership of coach Harbaugh. I do remember our beloved Forty Niners winning the first game of the season thanks to my son a real sports fan of football and the Forty Niners making a successful run in six drives to lead in the game. So impressed was I in that drive I figured they could do at will with their opposition and blow them out the first game of this season. Well they didn't and in their second game of this season they lost! My God did I walk around with my foot in my mouth and I looked pretty stupid. I was so confident they were going to do so well. But let me think this one out. Last week they did blow out what was the team the Buffalo Bills? It might have been them but they did accomplish a blowout. I told you so that I know so little about football. Then you might ask why do I pretend I'm some big shot sports journalist and write as if I'm some sort of authority to the sport of football let alone writing about a nation such as China portraying itself as though China is some sort of superpower? Who do I think I am some kind of politician or economist expert on world affairs? I never said these things. I am neither of these things. In fact none of my contemporaries would waste their time and talk to me about football where I was employed at the Postal Service because I was and still am at a knowledge of this field of football in limited ability. I know nothing. But please no brag here but I did get a hold of Joe Montana, Steve Mariucci, Jerry Rice and the former coach Bill Walsh just before he passed on and they told me all I need to know about our local football team The Forty Niners. For now I will spare you God knows how many times I repeated what I learned from these famous leaders who led a dynasty known as the Forty Niners. So again you might ask as one of my former coworkers asked me what am I a name dropper or someone who associates myself with an important person simply because I happened to reach them on the air and get their views broadcasted? Again I repeat myself I am not a journalist not the kind you may think I am. I do not write for any one person or any newspaper publication nor did any one school train me for any corporate conglomeration as to what I should write. I merely keep a cluster of diaries around but I call them journals because they are concerned with the news of the day and yes I did write them all myself. No one else wrote them for me. I did not copy theses ideals from anyone. Every blog entry is a composition of mine and from no one else. I merely have some ideals I have been promoting in this blog and I do not get paid but I am doing it as Marty Nemko suggested for my soul. The only profit I am making from this blog is from the hope I may be making this world a better place to live when I leave this world. If this local football team can lead their way toward being a dynasty and the nation of China can thrive and be a prosperous nation rather than the embarrassment and the humiliation of this world then we may be seeing China as well as a sports team here in America becoming another dynasty as they both once were. It is time long since overdue that China step up to the plate and lead the way for all nations to share in whatever economical wealth it can produce.