"Why I love my mother"

Midnight finds me browsing through one of many childhood and teenage abuse websites and forums where my friend’s son journals and sometimes posts his writing for members’ viewing. Below is an essay that he wrote for Mother’s Day. 

Much thanks to C.J. for the essay's link and access.

Why I love my mother

Because she is strong and brave yet polite and gracious. Because she is honest and decent, and expects others to be the same—one of the character traits that gets her into trouble. Because she always follow through with what she says to me. Because she is beautiful—on the inside and outside. Because she makes me laugh when I am pushing to stay mad and angry. Because she always believes in me—the me that wants to be better than the me who just misbehaved and took a shortcut when I should have not.

My mother frequently comes up behind me and puts her arms around me. “You know,” she says every morning as I get ready to brush my teeth and wash my face, “I love you and I always will no matter what you do. You do know that I love and respect you, and that I am here to help you to succeed, right? Now hurry up and go get your breakfast and vitamins.”

My mother has been doing that since I was little; I am almost 17 now yet I still crave those words made meaningful by the intimate act of her hugging me.

Most of my friends say they “know” their parents love them but they do not always feel it. They have to read between the lines. I am lucky in that way: my mother not only tells me she loves me every day, but she demonstrates that love by working hard and is devoted to me in countless ways that matter to me.

[He goes on to describe at length some of the simple yet significant ways his mother shows him she loves him, but from respect for their privacy, I am leaving this portion off.]

There are days when I find myself depressed—days when I am forced to face the person whose DNA I inherited. Days where I am haunted by this other person’s vicious words and violent acts. Days where I am forced to disabuse others of his carefully crafted scenes of authentic caring in order to expose his manipulative behavior and constant dramatics. On these morosely stressful days, just having my mother in my life and being around her makes life worth living.

Her presence enlivens and rejuvenates me.

There is another essay he wrote, too, about The Jerk whose DNA he shares, and I will post that here after my friend’s hearing on a motion for enforcement, scheduled for Thursday, July 2.

Stay tune, and until next post, 

We dream | We believe | And we will succeed 

About this blog 

Excepting this introduction and what are—and will be—posted after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong. 

The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author. 

This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law: 

as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying; 

as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh; 

he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own applications for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States. 

And those are just the tip of the iceberg. Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper, speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing and fronting for him]. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.

Placated? Hardly

My friend still looks nakedly and vulnerably happy, post-Dubai; traveling seems to be her balancing aphrodisiac.

We are now in the middle of an advanced open level routine in the International and American Tango for those couples looking to prepare for their next dancesport event. There is a lot of background I have been missing out on yet I am neither alarmed nor surprised [maybe faintly] at the routine as Phandeluys and her partner always make the movement easy and pleasurable, and my back and legs feel unusually strong tonight. Definitely from all those Cha-Cha-Cha and Hip-Hop steps I had been drilling.

Now that Phandeluys’ partner is assured of her commitment to him and their relationship, he is more open about answering some of the inquisitive questions from the class about their liaison. That is how I found out about his first encounter with her at a gun range where she was on a date with another prospective suitor.

It was her eyes that caught his attention but her smile, energy, drive, and integrity that decided for him. He will not cite specific details but stated only that in addition to her enterprising nature, she is naturally pretty, without cosmetic surgery, and if they combine their genes, he can imagine how attractive their son and daughter will be … He was furtively looking at her in the hope of reassurance while I was more interested in her reaction to his statement but my friend seemed busied correcting a female student’s posture in preparation for the international Tango.

From what I can gather, all Phandeluys wanted, after escaping from a duplicitous marriage to a psychopath, was a non-complicated relationship based on "skinship" and intellectual camaraderie. Something both party can passionately pursue and engage in and when the time for one or the other to exit, they can do so cleanly and courteously without leaving a messy aftermath. Surprisingly, her partner was against it, told her his beliefs, and set about wooing her the old-fashioned way.

He was certainly not being old-fashion when he presented her his complete background check, including credit score and fingerprinting on their first get-together. And when she offered the same in the spirit of quid pro quo, he told her he had already run a backgrounder on her. He further told her that she was welcome to conduct another independent check on him if she suspects the files he handed her are doctored. She did. And that started an important phase of their relationship in which they work on enjoying “magical moments” as a couple, yet not pushed for the “happily ever after."

These minor chit-chats among the students and her partner give me pleasure as I let my thoughts range across the possibilities while outwardly seeming subdued by the monotony of their talks … much like playing a children’s game.

I am well aware it is a trick of my mind that makes me think this way, safe from a distance in my observational tower; yet the elation is passing.

Time to get back to the evidence at hand before my friend’s hearing for a new trial on September 1.

Stay tune, and until next post, 

We dream | We believe | And we will succeed 

About this blog 

Excepting this introduction and what are—and will be—posted after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong. 

The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author. 

This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law: 

as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying; 

as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh; 

he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own applications for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States. 

And those are just the tip of the iceberg. Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper, speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing and fronting for him]. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.

Sleuthing

Caught a glimpse of my friend dashing through her favorite Starbucks for her shaken iced coffee. She is a definite uniform dresser whose style is somewhat influenced by the seasons: her summery uniform consists of white dress pants, white oxfords, and brightly-hued silk blouses for work-related activity; tailored white silk shirt dresses and nude sandals for post-work recreation. Dangling pearl earrings, a silver-and-gold toned wristwatch, and a two-row linked sterling silver emerald-green jade bracelet complete the outfits. Minimalistic, effortlessly sophisticated, and subtly complementary to her salt-and-pepper hair … I like it.

There will not be any classes this weekend and part of the next week; Phandeluys and her partner are on a plane to Dubai this evening, which may account for the strangely energetic—more so than the usual coolly energetic air—and suppressed exciting vibe coming from her. I am already missing their classes and being around her even though my body can use the break to heal itself from all those dancesport and hip-hop moves.

In the meantime, I am wading through the piles of information Phandeluys had gathered about psychopath Ya-Chang Robert Lin and his activities spanning the period before they met and through late 2012 via both public and private means of investigation. She documented everything, including her feelings of anger, panic, sorrow, numbness, and the horrible clarity waiting to be claimed—one that would allow her to walk into the flame and begin anew.

Of the private investigations Phandeluys personally assumed were correspondences to psychopath Ya-Chang Robert Lin’s network of acquaintances to ascertain things she had been told and/or "assignments" she undertook on the psychopath’s behalf. The letter below is one.

Stay tune, and until next post, 

We dream | We believe | And we will succeed 

About this blog 

Excepting this introduction and what are—and will be—posted after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong. 

The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author. 

This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law: 

as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying; 

as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh; 

he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own applications for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States. 

And those are just the tip of the iceberg. Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper, speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing and fronting for him]. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.

Knowingness

After being on the waiting list for more than three months, space became available for me to join my friend and her partner’s semi-private dancesport classes. I arrived at the studio unreasonably early and saw their practice session through windows that are tinted in a way that makes it more difficult for dancers to see out from the inside … Yes, that is what I wrote. And there is a reason for this, which Phandeluys mentioned in her digital diary and that is quoted here: One of the lingering traces of having lived through a fake marriage with this psychopath full of blustering, self-justifying thoughts and actions, and for whom constant dog-and-pony-showing is an engrossing profession, even a vocation, is the lurking awareness of the expectations of an unseen audience leading to self-consciousness, awkwardness, and that theatrical quality that can hinder true creativity … Having to be “always on to perform” whites out all my energies for true living, loving, and creating … .

Sensitive to her emotional discomfort and mental constriction, Phandeluys’ partner had the studio modified to lessen her snowstorm of mounting anxiety, allowing them to learn, master, create and flourish together. And that was the beginning of his love and their collaboration.

Tonight, I had a ringside seat for their practice session. I can tell that they are lovers; their practice ran smoothly, like an explosion of relief and delight in the meeting of minds, bodies, and souls. I could not help but stared with undisguised interest bordering on obsession. But why trouble you, readers, with details of my observations and thoughts when Phandeluys described in her Empower by Dance! blog posts how partnering and dancing with a near stranger [when she and her partner first took up partnering and dancing together] is like an unobtrusive form of mutual exploration and mild seduction … , along with all the technical aspects of competitive ballroom dancing.

I do not know how long I will last in their semi-private classes: just when I am feeling more confident in being able to lead Phandeluys into executing the foot lunge that preceded the Throwaway Oversway in the American Waltz routine they had put together, she and her partner introduced the Fan Development with Guapacha Timing and Advanced Hip Twist of the International Cha Cha Cha in combination with a K-Pop Hip Hop routine that are choreographed to their remix of Russian Radio and a South Korean hip-hop track … In their dancing I can see the seeds of their binding: to have that kind of synergistic interaction and mirroring, one has to become the other and understand the other, and in doing that, well, the inevitable happened.

I am going to stop here. It is late Thursday night and there is still so much for me to internalize and process. Surely and after what feels like a lifetime of dancing in companionable silence with Phandeluys, this weekend will be a restless one for me sans my friend.

Stay tune, and until next post, 

We dream | We believe | And we will succeed 

About this blog 

Excepting this introduction and what are—and will be—posted after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong. 

The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author. 

This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law: 

as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying; 

as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh; 

he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own applications for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States. 

And those are just the tip of the iceberg. Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper, speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing and fronting for him]. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.

Misrepresentation and its manifestations

As promised, below is a portion of Phandeluys’ digital journal about the various forms of misrepresentation psychopath Ya-Chang Robert Lin used to deceive my friend into a fraudulent marriage and in creating illusions to sustain it.

It begins on a day after she began cleaning up the garage and accidentally uncovered paper trails centering on the international students recruiting business, leading to correspondence between psychopath Ya-Chang Robert Lin and his then attorney about his residency application, along with the facts and documents needed to prove his marriage was bona fide.

He is not in a courtroom, he is not on trial, and he is not presumed innocent. Neither am I a judge nor a debating partner, and the worst thing he can do to make the situation worse is by continuing to deny and lie and divert from the subject. I was not plagued by self-doubt, agonizing over whether he really harbored those thoughts, nurtured those plans, and committed those acts or not. Right or wrong, I had already made up my mind. If it weren’t the case, I would not have broached him on the subject in the first place. So him pulling an attitude and accusing me of magnifying my suspicion in my mission to right a perceived wrong made me dig in even more and not back down. Thus, began my tentative steps into the world of private investigation and public records research.

What I slowly learned is that Ya-Chang Robert Lin didn’t just openly lie or speak falsehoods; he used all sorts of techniques to paint a false picture about his status, family, personal history, and circumstances and lifestyle.

At the heart of his deception is misrepresentation. To be sure, he told straight-out lies, but he also engaged in overstatement and understatement. And sometimes, he lied through his silence, and oftentimes, with the help—intentional or inadvertent—of his acquaintances, colleagues, and friends.

Among the various forms of misrepresentation available to this psychopath are the following:

Falsification: deliberate statements of false information. For example, telling me that both his parents were born in Taiwan when they were actually born in Szechuan Province of China. From the first moment we met, I had been explicit—to the point of being redundant and blunt—about not wanting to enter into a long-term and serious relationship with any person who was or whose parents were born in mainland China.

Concealment: withholding important information in an effort to promote or sustain a false impression. For example, having me quit my job as a researcher/writer to work full-time in his international students recruiting business without letting me know that he did not have a work permit and was not authorized by the United States immigration services to set up, own, and run a business while under the F1 academic student status.

Diversion: redirection of a conversation, particularly when it involves direct questions. For example, I ask straightforward questions about his international students recruiting business, and he changes the subject. Or I ask to see the original paperwork and certified translations on the loan he said he had borrowed from his parents for the down payment on the house in Flower Mound, and he says he wants to talk about how much he misses me.

Exaggeration: embellishment and inflation of story elements to enhance a personal position or create a false impression. For example, telling me his mother’s side of the family owns a bank in Taiwan, when it’s actually one of his aunts who works as a branch manager at one bank. Or that his mother has a Master’s degree in English when she can barely greeted me in English. Ms. Chang’s Master’s degree turns out to be a Certificate of Mastery in English for the six weeks she spent at the Language Institute.

Understatement: minimizing or downplaying significant events in his personal history. For example, telling me and my mother he shares rooms and boards with three other international male roommates while actually cohabiting with his girlfriend of four years in a university apartment they leased together.

... 

One of the lessons I learned is that suspicion is a psychological mechanism that protects us from real or imagined threats. When properly channeled it can save us embarrassment, heartache, or pain. What I had failed to do was to take suspicion to a healthy level.
 
Stay tune, and until next post, 

We dream | We believe | And we will succeed 

About this blog 

Excepting this introduction and what are—and will be—posted after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong. 

The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author. 

This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law: 

as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying; 

as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh; 

he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own applications for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States. 

And those are just the tip of the iceberg. Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper, speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing and fronting for him]. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.

Excuse this very emotional week

This past weekend was a very emotional—and yes, geeky—time for me.

On Friday, I found out Phandeluys is studying for her exams in A+, Network+, and Security+. At last, I feel like I have a common ground, other than competitive ballroom, on which to construct an enduring bridge for approaching her on a social and personal basis.

But come Saturday and Sunday classes, I spotted my friend and her partner sporting a matching pair of sterling silver two-row linked bracelets of marquise-cut, emerald-green jadeite cabochon that look to be custom-made. One on his right and the other one on her left wrist. When I asked to see hers up close, he told me it was his version of a promise ring since Phandeluys did not like the diamond and sterling silver lover’s knot rings he had had in mind. She favors jadeite and marcasite to diamonds. And here I were, thinking women love and prefer the latter.

Makes me wonder what their commitment rings might look like. But I am getting ahead of myself … After all, she did say that she savors her independence and freedom, despite how good they are together.

In the next post, I will publish part of Phandeluys’ journal about the various forms of misrepresentation psychopath Ya-Chang Robert Lin used to dupe my friend into and to sustain a fraudulent marriage.

Now and before the next dancesport class, I need to review, practice, and master the Throwaway Oversway before my friend and her partner leave for Dubai on another business trip.

Stay tune, and until next post, 

We dream | We believe | And we will succeed 

About this blog 

Excepting this introduction and what are—and will be—posted after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong. 

The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author. 

This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law: 

as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying; 

as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh; 

he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own applications for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States. 

And those are just the tip of the iceberg. Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper, speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing and fronting for him]. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.