Sunday, August 16, 2015

Danse Macabre


Came to class 45 minutes early, hoping to engage Phandeluys in a discussion about a book I saw her reading before she left for Marina del Rey but instead caught my friend and her partner in a seven-minute Viennese Waltz to Camille Saint-SaĆ«ns’s Danse Macabre that was followed by a waltz dance of love to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata … gotta love their sense of wry humor and wit, and repertoire of music.

Almost wished they would teach the Viennese Waltz again … however I doubt any of us would do their choreography justice as the majority of us are still struggling with the advance techniques that were deconstructed, demonstrated and taught in those last several class sessions. To master the footwork and techniques ourselves is one thing, but to communicate them in our lead so that our partners follow and mirror our intentions while incorporating their own visions … well, that takes more than a temporary partnership that is formed for the mere pleasure of learning and practicing ballroom dancing. Ah, I envy my friend and her partner the intricacy of their relationship and that colorful, fascinating chemistry they have with each other while I grow leerier of the female students who come to classes looking for that “perfect man” for their dancing journey. How shallow and boringly egocentric.

As Phandeluys and her partner once said, You are not an extra in someone else’s life, and neither is someone else an extra in yours. Play fairly. Be honest. Dancing is another aspect of life, like making love, laughing, learning, working, exploring—find a partner with whom you can share your essential passions, along with the confidence to initiate, endure and evolve then create and build from there … And if your essential passion is only ballroom dancing and your underlying reason for partnership is to score someone to partner with in dancing, then we wish you good luck [finding someone who] wants to be used in that way ...

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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