Wednesday, May 24, 2006

 

So you wanna see what the ugly Injun looks like? Are you ready for this? Okay, here it comes! Don't laugh. Now you can see why I call Frosty the Beauty and myself the Beast.

Yep, that's an AIM T-shirt I'm wearing and yep, I climbed all 84 floors of the World's Tallest Building in Taipei, Taiwan on Sunday, May 21, 2006 in exactly 48 minutes. Sure, I could have gone faster but I was too busy fiddling with my cell phone and taking pictures.

In the end, we climbers raised more than NT$1,600,000 for charity. Most of the dough went to the Garden of Hope Foundation, a charity to help "empower" women and girls --which makes me wonder: howcum there ain't any organizations to help empower men and boys? And don't gimme that crap about this being a male-dominated planet. Maybe in some countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in Europe and America.

What, you don't believe me? Then I've got 2 books for you, required reading for Dr. Wei's class: (1) The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex by Warren Farrell and (2) The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

Both of these books are quite polarizing, especially Dr. Laura's, but I don't want to get into all that right now. I gotta get ready for class.

posted by Dr. Wei 10:38 PM