Sunday, July 5, 2015

The outsider

I had nothing to do and so came to classes one hour’s early on Saturday. The studio seems almost always to be open and Phandeluys and her partner were already there on the floor dancing the Quickstep that transitioned into and out of the Foxtrot that were briefly introduced and demonstrated earlier in the week. Man, I envy them: him, his ability to lead; her, her ability to follow; them, their connection—there is just something in each of them that spoke to the other, echoing thoughts each has had or feelings each has known; a mellow timbre, a haunted resonance, a lilt of vulnerability that I barely sense yet there deep inside them. It makes me want to capture it, reproduce it, touch more, see more … 

I left the studio knowing I had inadvertently stepped into the middle of their intimacy.

Found out Phandeluys’ partner is employed as an InfoSec Specialist at FEMA. He also owns and manages a business analysis firm. 

So what is he doing co-teaching dancesport classes with Phandeluys at a dance studio of which he is an investor? An investment in their long-term relationship, curiosity, and a need to master an engaging hobby, other than cooking, traveling, and collecting paintings ... A part of me thinks he and I are compatible as friends, however, I cannot help feeling somewhat competitive towards him.

He wants to legalize their union by the end of next year at the latest; she insists that he stays out of her legal and financial troubles. Secretly, I am rooting for her and hoping that they cannot reach a decision, not because I do not wish for her to have the courage to follow her heart; there is a line I do not cross in lusting after another man's woman: when she becomes his legal partner, companion, and wife.

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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