It’s the year of the tiger and 2010 will be an excellent year… Get out your 99 Red Balloons and have a living room dance party
Nena – 99 Luftballons
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Tao Te Ching
Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame.
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Act without doing;
work without effort.
Think of the small as large
and the few as many.
Confront the difficult
while it is still easy;
accomplish the great task
by a series of small acts.
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Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
The Tao Te Ching, roughly translatable as The Book of the Way and its Virtue, is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 600 BCE by the Taoist sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, “Old Master”), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court. A careful reading of the text, however, suggests that it is a compilation of maxims sharing similar themes. The text’s authenticity, authorship, and date of composition or compilation are still debated. [More at Wikipedia]
What I find in chinatown
My hood is right next to the largest Chinatown in the states as well as the highest concentration of Chinese (Click for more history and stats about NY Chinatown). I tend to spend some time down there to get cheep eats ($2.00 noodles on canal and center), grocery shopping and picking up accessories (belts, buckles, knockoff brand name gear, etc.)
I usually hit Dynasty supermarket on Elizabeth St. for stocking up on my chili sauce, rooster sauce, instant noodles, and all other dry goods. There are several spots on Mott I hit for seafood and cheap vegies and then I snapped this pic from my camera phone of the clerk smoking and ashing all over the apples…. mmmm yum!
You can get 6 for $20 dvds of movies still in the theater and cheep pirated CDs but I never buy in for I just don’t want to contribute to that scene – just copy it myself…
I don’t think I leave Chinatown with out having a pork bun or two… another cheep staple but of course you head to flushing or any other Chinatown (Boston-SF) still you’ll pay less, but this is New York and you have to pay the NY tax. I’ve found several other great finds – a few karaoke clubs, basement bars and and great mix of restaurants… more to be updates.