The demise of Henry Heimlicht

Saving a life is enough to redeem all past failures made in life.   If we could save lives based on my experience this past week all would be fair.  Henry Heimlicht died most recently of whom he had taught how to save lives due to people choking  to death by food obstructing the air passages

My Slideshow

I t's been over a month since I posted anything and I hope my readers have a better ideal of what I look like now that I have posted a video of me playing a synthesizer with the sound of a violin and playing the theme song from The Godfather.  I would like to reiterate  that I am not a  musician but that I am simply a  man who can hit the keys on piano keyboard and begin a   tune.  In my own words I'd have to say a  true musician is a human who    can  use  two hands to play a  good  tune.   But excuse me please as it is 4:39 in the morning and soon my head could be pounding this keyboard due to lack of sleep.  Until we meet again God bless you.

Webcam video from January 25, 2015 11:46 PM (UTC)

A Game of Chess or To Death Do We Part?

An illustration would do to give this posting the glamour but my question is will we go to war or not to go to war among  the superpowers?  What would I  say if the final solution for humanity is the unthinkable or not merely like a game of chess;  we went with this scenario way before the Chinese rose to   power and maybe just maybe China's rise to  power is just an imagination for never in a blink of an eye when I was mingling with American veterans of war would I believe China a superpower of any sorts.  Excuse me you don't have a clue what I mean because this is just a diary of my confusion when China was a third world power or is it still a third world power.  War and Peace for me as a young boy was beyond my comprehension and I was lucky if I could pick up a huge book entitled War And Peace and give any intelligent comment on such a book. Wasn't it Toystoy who wrote that book?  I would not know I never read the book and  chances I will never read the whole book from cover to cover.  Besides the book is very old by now and  outdated.  Times have drastically changed.  Fast forward to today to find out the truth.  I just consulted an old buddy of mine by the name of Ralph Smith graduate of Annapolis Naval Academy his name is changed to protect him or myself from giving out military secrets but come  on this is no military secret.  In short he says we the United States of America....oh how should I with eloquence put it down....China my buddy says will not to to war with America because it would suffer economically in other words the lost of trade would cripple China greatly.  It never  takes a genius to figure this one out.  And I'm not pretending to be a writer I'm just an ex former talk show caller with certain ideals in my  mind like the ones my many readers have who happens to write blogs.  And besides I  talked to Edward Teller the father of the H bomb on a major radio talk show and no I will not advertise who they are;  I concluded there would be nothing left of  the  two countries if ever....no no I won't give the story or conclusion away and spoil the movie.  No brag honestly but I also met Clint Eastwood on the air and he taught me how to make movies and I plan to make one my first movie.  Oh this will be so easy and fun.  I will call it War and Peace.   But I won't spoil it for you.  Just go see the movie!  Go ask the former physics professor of UC Berkeley Dr. Bill Wattenburg he had Clint Eastwood on his show they both were club tennis players and I knew a little about tennis spent decades at it and played for three years for Oakland Technical High School when I was a young teen age lad.  Bill and I would talk and laugh based on our experiences at tennis players and make informal reviews on the world of tennis.  Clint
Eastwood wasn't a bad club player either.  My suggestion is that we all play tennis and not to go to war.  In tennis you get to play again even if you lose.  In war like the last two major wars we have had you die when or if the big one hits and both sides loses.  No more second chances to get up and play another?  Say....Wally?  How do you suppose I know so much about the Chinese and what they will do and not do?  Well I don't know.  Maybe because I am Chinese.  Now do you see what Parkinson's can do to a   poor soul like me?  All I can do is simplify.  I notice mostly Americans read this blog but  I want the whole world to read this.  Please oh please don't let people of color be targeted and shot down like animals.  That San Francisco quarterback is saying the very same thing and honest to God we do not want to be trouble makers.  I  haven't given up hope however that  the Forty Niners will see another dynasty just as China will see another dynasty as well.  But they will try.  Just don't give up.

Playing The Synthesizer

Not many of my friends have commented on my performance in playing the synthesizer favorably which includes my wife. One song I thought was my best was the playing of the tune The Godfather the theme song. A high level attorney did not think it would be copyright infringement being that I play for fun and never made a dime at it. It is a hobby and I even went as far as posting a video. Most of the time I practice behind close doors with maybe a few family members around but there is no excitement in my music which has brought down the house. There is nothing extraordinary in the numbers of views I have received as we see the superstars churning out videos with numbers in the millions. I never even considered myself a musician because playing a synthesizer with one hand is like a recreational baseball player using one arm to hit a baseball with. And no one does that. One cannot be good if they do it that way. But for the first time I took the synthesizer outdoors with an attached loud speaker I had from my fail attempts at the electric guitar and I could feel the music. For years I would close my eyes and imagine performing down at pier 39 in San Francisco or the area in or around the piers of San Francisco. It was my fantasy that I could play because I can carry a tune listen for yourself on you tube but when it comes right down to the core I would be nerves galore. I figured playing in my own backyard with the sound up enough to blast away could be heard from my place to several houses away. Unfortunately most of the four or five videos were of poor quality due to my lack of experience in posting such videos

The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Dynasty

A good  pageview can make me smile and why not it is just a  goal and pleasure in my small life  and not asking for the moon I only want to capture the hearts and minds of my readers and for them to like me so it is probably a blessing that I am too dumb too follow directions and have this blog set up show to me the comments directed at me.  And yes I don't like rotten fruit thrown at me when I'm up here on stage bleeping out my very heart and soul.  I do have feelings and the information you may or may not gain from me is far different than a professional's work such as Wikipedia a web site  which makes my web site look like a little girl's diary namely Ann Frank.  Don't you laugh at her work.  In my mind Ann Frank was  one of the important writers in all the world.  She wrote her story not for money but she wrote a great  book and her soul was perpetuated into a human torch for freedom and liberty.  She is my inspiration.  Do you think by chance she sparked the first movement toward the woman's liberation? Was it  because she was too mild manner to be a woman's liberation fighter?  Again I disagree after all she took on the whole Nazi Regime and showed the world just how wrong they were.  I will begin to explain the rise and fall of the Chinese army and no I am not the world authority on this matter but just one man among the masses. It is with all seriousness that I think this one out without candor for there is serious business at stake when the world economy is concerned.  And yet I am told by my neurologist that I cannot be qualified for a brain operation because I cannot win the candidate position due to my lack of cognitive ability as proven in the tests they gave me.  Yes it is true I am but a little man among very powerful people but I will not give up.   Have you not ever heard of a mouse that roared?

Landscaping isn't Rocket Scientry

When I get older and lose my mind many years from now will you still be reading me lighting birthday candles and break open a bottle of wine?  Well probably some of you speculate about me and wonder how one lone man without a four year college degree could possibly accomplish such a goal after all Parkinson's is said to have characteristics of delusional illusions brought on by the side effects of the medicines.  And if indeed I am demented there  would be little chance of receiving real credit for the discovery and eradication of Parkinson's.  Well I will not find a cure for Parkinson's but perhaps just maybe I can shed a few clues  as to what Parkinson's is and how and why we as a civilization should join forces and stamp out  this horrible disease.  Even though I lack a four year college degree and have not achieved significant heights in terms of accomplishment I believe even at this stage in my life I can.

I have never seen a miracle in my lifetime which would lead me to believe Christianity as a religion which can bring me into salvation and save my soul.  Miracles simply don't exist never has and never will.  Oh but there is one miracle I do believe in.  And I have many witnesses to back me up more witnesses than anyone cares to shake a stick at.  We are seeing it now but will this be a real miracle
or just another economical boom only to turn into a real estate bust  and everything the Chinese have gained will simply turn into rust and bust like we have seen in the real estate market.  But wait a minute!  Isn't the real estate  market robust and healthy it never stays in the doom and gloom forever now does it?  Contrary to popular belief that the Chinese economy will take a nosedive and crash I desist from such belief and this is indeed a real miracle never before achieved by a nation in modern times as this modern time.  Now I may be dead wrong and the Chinese economy may indeed be headed into a doom and gloom not the miracle economy we have    been hearing about.  But       come on I know the American people and some people accuse me of being an American I  just don't know how to take this but I am Chinese I look Chinese but when I  open my mouth I sound like  an American.  I get confused just as much as you do.  But I do confess Americans are getting smarter than they ever use to be by   showing little tolerance toward racism.  Oh by the way landscaping is what is on my mind and what I am doing it allows me to enjoy the miracles of life in other spectrums.  Stay tuned.

Don't Write Me Out

I may have writer's  block but then again who said anything about me being a real writer?  I confess I am not as I know I am not listed as a writer while there are others like my father Howard Ah-Tye who is listed as a writer being published by or associated by an Oakland Chinese Church of which I have not visited for many of years and cannot be specific about.  But my dad's publisher had a position of power and authority having been an officer of rank like a colonel who I met only a few times briefly but my father would speak of him as someone who could get him published.  Anyone can look up his book and buy one but be it known I do not advertise for my father or myself and if I am I am not aware of it.  His book or my father's book is called "Resourceful Chinese" and the more important review of this book was made by my brother-in-law John Davidson a man with a college degree and law degree a well read man.  We are all aware that financial  gain is very important toward just being able to survive but what to me is more important is having soul for  without a good soul all the money in the world would be worthless.  I need all the good soul I can get.

Webcam video from April 18, 2015 06:29 AM (UTC)

The Surgery I Could Not Speak About

As far as I am concerned surgery for me has been an unspeakable subject for good reasons. But when I was young and daring I had elected to have a nose job with some of my first earnings from one of my first hard earned job starting out as a young adult. I was never pleased with the way I looked my nose did look normal but looked out of shape as if something was obviously wrong with the way it looked and so I had Dr.Robert Brandfield a surgeon perform a nose job on me. I specified I wanted a western style look with a bridge like Caucasians usually sport and he agreed. I wanted the David Duke look and so I told him to make me look like David Duke. I told the surgeon to make my eyes more round rather than the slant eye look which Orientals are born with. In essence I told him I wanted the white look after all I spoke and still speak perfect English having lived in America for three or four generations I was expert in impersonating white men so why not go all the way and have the total white look? I had already read the book Black Like Me and so I was ready for a race change or a transracial operation. There was no such word back then as a transracial or any operation which was a transracial operation but that was the word I formulated for my own personal use. This was the liberal city of Berkeley mind you so I felt the liberty to choose the look I wanted was fair game. Dr. Robert Brandfield refused to do as I specified with my cheekbones and my eyes so that I could look white or more like David Duke. I didn't care if I looked white because it had always been fashioned to be white. I was ready to be anything but an Oriental or Chinese. The Chinese had been living in humiliation long enough and I just wanted out! I even had visions of white women who would change their racial look by having their eyes surgically designed to look Oriental or Asian but no one but no one not even myself would dare to mention such an ideal. I was already compelled by the dean of men Jack Lemon at the University of Berkeley to see the chief psychiatrist in 1971 by the name of Harvey Powelson. I was to be disciplined and suspended for a act of radical display when I was probably one of the first Asians to have dated a white woman and by then some complaint about me had been lodged against me. It was only in or around 1965 that John F. Kennedy had lifted the ban on interracial relationships and I had already violated the social etiquette or rules of social conduct by making myself known or conducting a relationship of friendly acknowledgement with this white woman, Jane Lomax but her friends knew this was wrong and I was wrong for her. The issue came to the authorities in charge of student conduct and I was out. My love for her I could not dismiss and let go but I was compelled to tell the chief psychiatrist the story and what went down. Her final last two words she said to me the one I loved was related to Harvey Powelson; the hurt words I cannot repeat in print. There are only a few mixed marriages between the Asian male and that of white women. Bruce Lee was one and the only one of celebrity status I can think of and then I was there once upon a time but that will never come around for me.

A Better Understanding Through Translators

Voice recorders are simple enough and have been around for some time. We cannot afford to lose our memories and have diseases which cause us to lose our memories and so with all due respect we seek out cures for diseases such as Parkinson's. The hope for these cures remain on our minds and even on my mind yet the reality as spoken by those who are expert on this subject say or think that only a miracle can achieve this and miracles as we know it seldom happen. My father Howard Ah-Tye had it and his best friend Al Yee knew it too as I had revealed it to him when my father's physician informed me. But Al Yee told me not to tell my father as my father was ill with other medical problems and additional information as to his medical condition would only compound his problems and I knew Al Yee was making a wise decision for my father although I had reservations about this secret. My mind is still good I believe but my body and certain mechanics of my mind is aided by machinery such as the electric scooter and by this common voice recorder which is an excellent reminder of the things I need to do. It is an absolute must for journalists. Those who maintain diaries of their own personal life interested in the news and world affairs keep these voice recorders as a must have possession. Watch and observe the cell phones which have translating capacity I have witnessed them and have seen the broad smiles on those users when they can understand one another and overcome language barriers. There is no end to technology and the wonderful achievement with which they can achieve.

Trying To Remember

The memory may be the first to go according to my neurologist in fact this is sure thing to happen according to his opinion. >I'd say my doctor is competent enough to make this evaluation. So what do I do to compensate for this very weakness should I have it? Not too many people use this device as I have been doing but the voice recorder is one of my favorite tools. It was my strong hope to make good use of this device back in the young days of school but they were simply not good enough but I did try and use them. Journalist use them like a minister uses the bible as his favorite tool. The voice recorder for me is indeed a cool tool for it measures my ability to perform and keep up with the rest of the world. It is an aid. As we grow older many of us if not all of us tend to forget things easier. Let us face it the older we get the more things we have to remember! Give us poor old folks a break...please. But my neurologist would not laugh if I told him this. I think the hologist have it right when they see the medical science as dictators with absolute power over all others who look for relief if not a cure. But medical science as good as it gets decree that there is no ot her better treatment than the drugs they supply namely carbidopa/levodopa. As we see the other economy of China making miracle gains in the economy we might look at the progress it has made and the break throughs China could possibly make in the effort to concor Parkinson. If we could just clean up the air and take a hard look at pollution.Do miracles really happen and can a nation endure the process of a period of time when an industrial revolution and ride it out to a new high or is China just going through a minor phase in the economy which is said to crash and be doomed? Has the history of China been so long that most of us aren't even cognizant that there were long periods of time when China did enjoy greatness and can it do it again?

The Need To Move Faster

I only know the basics from what I read off the Internet as far as what Parkinson's is and there is nothing to say that it makes a chess player play better chess or an athlete a better athlete in fact quite the contrary. It has slowed me down so much that it is only recently that I learned of the death of grandmaster Walter Browne who I did meet in person on the tennis courts in Berkeley a long time from now in 1971. I am not saying that I quit playing chess forever but I do believe I am in a state of rest from chess until the feel for the game returns and when that may be is anyone's guess. But in order to keep mentally fit for the game of chess a form of physical exercise is recommended as I had witnessed when I practiced out with Walter Browne who by the way was the same age as myself. He died not too long ago as I had only learned a few weeks ago but it was in 2015 when he died in his sleep. A very smart man known for his ability for history who I came to know though listening to on the radio of KGO radio 810 and calling in as a caller commented on the death of Bobby Fischer the chess champion who had beaten the chess champion of Russia a very big showdown of the best players of chess. Walter Browne was a runner up not too shabby in rankings and I had the pleasure in working out with Walter Browne in preparation for chess. We were very close in scores when testing one another in tennis.

The Miracle Economy In China

We have all accepted the news reports pretty much I say that China is going through a miracle economic experience never before witnessed by the mass audience of the world I did not expect it nor did anyone else to my knowledge. Oh sure I'm sure there were those who predicted that this was to come about. To me and let me explore and call it for what I think is happening. This isn't the first time a nation began an industrial revolution there is no media so far in my mind calling what is media acceptance of the term the economical miracle in China. My own personal belief is that China is experiencing a new industrial revolution in the last many period of time beginning with the European industrial powers. Although no one ethnic group can dominate indefinitely in having economical powers a nation of huge numbers with a staggering population of over a billion plus just may be seen as one who has entered the arena. If China had the same population as say the United States there would not be the economical miracle or in this case what I call China's industrial revolution early 21st century.

Oh Lord A New Mercedes Benz!

I dreamed of winning the lottery and woke up from such a dream feeling that no this just isn't a good nights dream but a dream that I would not let go. You cannot fault a person for living out his dream and imagining for just a little while that he can dream the near impossible. To cut to the chase I got scammed and lost some money an alleged filing fee which in essence a non existing practice for those who do win a lottery you can look this up as I have done after the fact I got scammed. And all afternoon this man on my cell phone was promising me the moon including a new white Mercedes Benz. The reason why I fell for this scam is that I never so far have gotten telemarketers on my cell phone before and when I did I wanted to check this out with a buddy but I could not find his number fast enough. These scammers target the elderly but I should be so elderly and easily fooled? I admit that I do not know the exact procedures for claiming a lottery prize but I do know I was feeling like a complete fool for believing this scam when I called the cops only for them to tell me to leave the scene of the drop off point. This is an old Jamaica lottery scam that has been working so well for the scammers that it has been going on for ten years and law enforcement as good and expert as they are have not halted such practices it is consumer beware the con artist are out there in force and many of them are skilled and quite good at it. They call from Jamaica but the number shows up as a local call this is part of the arsenal of tricks they have up their sleeves. Yes they the scammers tricked me for personal gain and this is criminal and for anyone else who can be prey to this scam I say don't do as I did and pay a questionable amount of money to get money. There are taxes which is paid for a lottery winning yes this true but if you are interested in playing the lottery would it not be worth my while to learn of the procedure necessary to claim such a prize of a million dollars? Maybe I can feel the lesser of the fool if can just save those who might fall prey to these criminals. Yes this blog is my main blog and I have two other blogs one called It Never Takes A Genius and the other Journalism Reports. I never have made any money writing but my father had his book entitled Resourceful Chinese one of the first Chinese Americans I know of to have his works published. I know my father is proud of me now knowing that I am writing but by circumstances I am not a paid writer. Writing is good for the soul. Look at Ann Frank the Jewish writer she always wanted to be a writer and she is now one of the most prolific writers of all time. If only she knew that indeed she would make it as a writer and not just any writer but a writer of human worth which speaks out a voice in the distance which stands for the dignity of all ethnicity for a greater humanitarian purpose.

When I Get Older Losing My Hair

When I get older losing my hair will you be sending me birthdays greetings bottle of wine. I know that line from the song by the Beatles. I am sixty six now wondering when God will turn out the lights and I will ascend to heaven or descend to hell or as my late night talk show host now retired I presumed tells me to go to hell publicly which doesn't embarrass me the least. I must therefore think I have the talent for taking it on the chin and still stand. Talent or no talent just show me the next game and I don't mean having the battle of fighting Parkinson's for that is not a game. All the health care workers and experts tell me that it is progressive and that it always gets worst. Oh wait...the last health care worker told me there is a cure. It is true I believe in a good science fiction story and do write some pretty good science fiction stories like the one about ejection seats in commercial airline planes. But I think they want to strap me in a straight jacket more than being entertained by my science fiction stories. Later on I will discuss drones and how those thousand dollars crafts can crunch your pocket book in a hurry. Of course they will crash and some may even burn. OH LORd why don't you get me a Mercedes Benz instead and then I can still be riding in it rather than having it fly off somewhere to never never land and say goodbye. I concede no one wants to know about my kite flying a grown man at that. And if you are going to refer to me by color don't call me a yellow man just call me the golden man. Gold is always worth something no man wants to be called yellow. And what irks me is that every time I google for a picture of God the vast majority of pictures depict God as a white man! How are we going to get away from racism if we hold this to be true? Humanism will certainly need modifications if we are to achieve progress in human relationships. Is a particular color of man in charge to rule? America got smart when they put a man of color namely Barrack Obama as President of The United States. Don't laugh at me some of my best friends are Caucasians. Respect one another I say.