Friday, October 2, 2015

Bringing fresh eyes to the game


Ever since enrolling in their semi-private group classes for dancesport training, I have been wondering what it is that inspires my friend and her partner in coming up with such uniquely creative visions for their two-dance combination choreography. Tonight, a student finally gave voice to my wonderment.

Somewhat hesitantly was how they responded to our questions; below are partial listings of some of their current inspirations in their own words: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG3cUNZvfbo, sweeping, energetic, harmonic, dramatic … a visual adventure. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8gqh39otSQ, after seeing it, we had never been so excited afterward to discuss how we can incorporate some of their ice skating elements into our own dance choreography. 

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, a film of startling beauty with majestic images. 

Vertigo, a piece of fast and furious musical offering, with its aggressive rhythmic drive and spiraling melodies; the calm contrasting section lasts just enough for you to catch your breath before you are off again to a whirling finish. 

The ongoing story about our brain … 

What Mad Pursuit, The 1988 memoir of Francis Crick, the man who defines the structure of DNA. 

The scents of jasmine, gardenia, and honeysuckle in the early morning or late at night. 

Terms of endearments in spoken Korean or Hangul … 

His rum and ginger beer drink, with lychees stuffed with brandied cherries. 

Her steamed mussels with tarragon and white wine … Almost anything she cooks, really. 

Do not go gentle into that good night, the title of a poem by Welshman Dylan Thomas, who attained fame for the beauty of his poetry and for the exuberance and pathos in his prose. 

The paintings of Gustave Klimt. 

Offering and being offered the gifts of affection, understanding and stability to those we love and who shares our values, beliefs and direction. 



They were not fibbing when they said they draw inspirations for their dancesport choreography from almost everything and anything, including their daily living and happiness.

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 [AAFES or The Exchange, USCIS, ICE, and DHS], higher education [Fort Hays State University and Navarro College], and information technology auditing and security [ISACA and ACFE]. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.

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