The idea for this post was triggered by a question from a reader, who asked me on my impressions and thoughts of my visit to Phandeluys and her partner’s abode for the party he had hosted.
Below are some of my recollections of that evening.
The massive sun-soaked, two-leveled library that houses the complete works of Shakespeare, Baudelaire, de Maupassant, Wilde, Akhmatova, and too many authors I do not recognize … Boy, talk about having a case of book envy! and I am not including their other collections in art, architecture, fashion, food, gardening, health and nutrition, history, business, information technology, programming, and data analytics … Against the backdrop of an atmospheric feel—the library is layered in blue, starting with chalky blue to jewel-like turquoise, all balanced out with light contrasts in ivories, oysters, pale grays, like-minded textiles and rich materials—I spied Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris’ Competing on Analytics, which talks about the challenges of moving an organization from basic guess work to more advanced predictive analytics, WSJ, U.S. and Asia editions of Barron’s, British Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Nutrition, and other notable subscriptions to alternative and integrative medicine.
The backyard is their private getaway with a dining patio, a lounging area, and a hideaway. Their custom gas fire table and bubbler [water music to accompany a cup of green tea or a watermelon and thyme lemonade] had me at hello.
The storybook greenhouse is charming yet functional, not surprisingly. It is where Phandeluys can easily nurture her favorite flowers and herbs that they use in their cooking, green juicing, and in her skincare concoctions.
My partner rarely pampers herself. She deserves it, and the library and the greenhouse are the result of my desire to indulge her—space to dream and to think creatively about our future. I wanted this home to be the place where she longs to be when she’s anywhere else.
Unlike her partner’s home office, Phandeluys’ office has nothing to remind her of her family. I need everything to fade away when I am working—whether researching, writing, editing, and/or coding. I’m a recovering perfectionist with a decorating style that is peaceful and energy-optimizing. The two-hues, one-variety hydrangeas and occasional cut peonies are a great way to lower my blood pressure and sparks originality.
We cook a lot at home. I’m experimental; she’s not and we’re both seafood lovers so most of our ingredients are sourced through subscriptions. Right now, she’s cooking her way through Michael Anthony’s V is for Vegetables.
Our conversations ran the gamut from Phandeluys’ fascination with graveyards when she was younger [there is something so invigorating about being so close to death], cybersecurity [cybersecurity is a perpetual arms race among the hackers; intention matters], Chrome Dev Tools that allow live HTML and CSS editing, learning as a corporate strategy to the coworking movement, self-driving cars, the freelance economy, to the economics of fame …
This is one woman I will not be easily bored with.
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.
Below are some of my recollections of that evening.
The massive sun-soaked, two-leveled library that houses the complete works of Shakespeare, Baudelaire, de Maupassant, Wilde, Akhmatova, and too many authors I do not recognize … Boy, talk about having a case of book envy! and I am not including their other collections in art, architecture, fashion, food, gardening, health and nutrition, history, business, information technology, programming, and data analytics … Against the backdrop of an atmospheric feel—the library is layered in blue, starting with chalky blue to jewel-like turquoise, all balanced out with light contrasts in ivories, oysters, pale grays, like-minded textiles and rich materials—I spied Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris’ Competing on Analytics, which talks about the challenges of moving an organization from basic guess work to more advanced predictive analytics, WSJ, U.S. and Asia editions of Barron’s, British Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Nutrition, and other notable subscriptions to alternative and integrative medicine.
The backyard is their private getaway with a dining patio, a lounging area, and a hideaway. Their custom gas fire table and bubbler [water music to accompany a cup of green tea or a watermelon and thyme lemonade] had me at hello.
The storybook greenhouse is charming yet functional, not surprisingly. It is where Phandeluys can easily nurture her favorite flowers and herbs that they use in their cooking, green juicing, and in her skincare concoctions.
My partner rarely pampers herself. She deserves it, and the library and the greenhouse are the result of my desire to indulge her—space to dream and to think creatively about our future. I wanted this home to be the place where she longs to be when she’s anywhere else.
Unlike her partner’s home office, Phandeluys’ office has nothing to remind her of her family. I need everything to fade away when I am working—whether researching, writing, editing, and/or coding. I’m a recovering perfectionist with a decorating style that is peaceful and energy-optimizing. The two-hues, one-variety hydrangeas and occasional cut peonies are a great way to lower my blood pressure and sparks originality.
We cook a lot at home. I’m experimental; she’s not and we’re both seafood lovers so most of our ingredients are sourced through subscriptions. Right now, she’s cooking her way through Michael Anthony’s V is for Vegetables.
Our conversations ran the gamut from Phandeluys’ fascination with graveyards when she was younger [there is something so invigorating about being so close to death], cybersecurity [cybersecurity is a perpetual arms race among the hackers; intention matters], Chrome Dev Tools that allow live HTML and CSS editing, learning as a corporate strategy to the coworking movement, self-driving cars, the freelance economy, to the economics of fame …
This is one woman I will not be easily bored with.
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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