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.
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.
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