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GEORGE WU, A.I.A.

GEORGE WU, A.I.A.

My Comments (113 so far…)

How do you feel about being left alone for a few days? What do you do with the time?

My wife left me six years before she served me with the divorce paper. let me see—- that is 30 years, I lived alone for thirty years, not a few days! I survived very well. What do I do with the time? At the beginning I was very lonely, every day when I went back to the same empty house. Before the divorce, I was hoping that she would come back to me one day….. But the day we were in the court room for the last time, we embraced each other in front of the judge and I found myself crying. All I said to her when she suggested our last lunch together,” I hope you can improve yourself.” It took me all the years until only recently, I begin to have different perspective about the divorce—- I found myself finally accepting my divorce. These days I worked on the computer every day on my ten books of Ten International Ballroom Dances,since 1992, which are almost finished; I Design prototype housing over the highways, provided that I could solve the objection of the noise, the fume, and the vibration problems. If I have some authority appreciating what I have been trying to do, I will be building ” GREAT WALL VILLAGE” all over the railroads, expressways in China. And no need to take farm lands to build housing anymore. And I am also doing my GRAPHIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY. All these have been keeping me very busy.—-no time to pity myself.———dancewu(dot)net

What is the biggest lie you have ever believed?

Tammy—- Do I have to believe that there were signs in the parks of the French quarters in Shanghai in 1920s that read “No dogs and Chinese allowed in this park.”—— dancewu(dot)net

'Trust Your Gut, It’s the Only Thing That Separates You From Everybody Else'

Dr. Klein—- I still do not understand why so many women disagreed with you. I have to confess that I understand most people’s writing here in wOw. But I seemed to have a very hard time to understand what you had to say, never mind that I agreed or disagreed with you. Please do me a big favor —- write simple sentences and ideas, for me ?, one at a time, and please do not try to impress me—- I am only a foreign born person, my native language is Chinese. Try to help me to understand why people shoud not attack you, because you are a valuable professional, and I want to know you and your opinion better. Please write simple ideas in simple sentences, just for me?.—-dancewu(dot)net

It's been 19 years since the protests in Tiananmen Square. What do you think about China today?

Mugsy—- I never had a religion in my life, and never liked hunting as a sport, and I stopped eating red meats over two years now( believed or not, it was the movie” misfit” that triggered me ). That was why I was attracted to Dalai Lama before, I thought his religion is close to my all time belief, —-NOT TO KILL. My high school friend, a Christian, asked me once before, ” How can you believe in a human being as GOD?” Until now, Dalai Lama disappointed me very much.—- the leader behind the riot in Tibet. The man who proclaimed non-violence approved and planned to bring back the slavery system to Tibet, and wanted to separated from China to be independent, and becomes to be a RELIGIOUS-POLITICAL DICTATOR of Tibet again!—-dancewu(dot)net

Mary Wells Is Dizzied by the Beauty That Is Vancouver

I just sent three paintings I did through E-mail to WOWOWOW. They were all from memory of this beautiful city. One from the top floor of Hotel Vancouver, another two were from the world famous Stanley Park.—-dancewu(dot)net

How to Become A Millionaire ... If You Aren't Born Rich

M’s Evans—- I have spent 14 years to write ten books, “International Ballroom Dancing- World Champions Methods” all graphics, almost finished. But I have no idea how to take the next step: to publish them …. To make a big profit was never my primary concern, because I do not need that money to live on. Doing the dance books was basically for myself at the beginning to learn the beautiful dancing from the world champions. Now I want to spread their art to particularly China, where I believe the Chinese should learn some of the best in the western culture which is the International Ballroom Standard and Latin Dancing!—-www.dancewu.net

Mary Wells Takes You on a Virtual Trip to Vancouver

Olive—- It is sad that you did not go to other parts of Vancouver when you were there.—- the experience I had with Chicago and Boston in 1956. I was there only in the poorest sections of the cities, the slums. Of course I was also very disappointed like you are with Vancouver. Similarly, China is another example. If the tourists ever visited China, and saw only the slum areas, certainly, the impression of China could not be more disappointing! Just remember that every thing in life has more than one facet of it!—-dancewu(dot)net

Mary Wells Is Dizzied by the Beauty That Is Vancouver

Mary Wells—-whenever the word Vancouver pops up in front of my eyes, I became breathless. Right at this moment I could not find words to describe what I want to say.—- about all the beautiful memories I have in there from January 1990 to December 1991, for 23 months in as Mary described it,” The most beautiful city in the world!” I was fortunate to live next to Stanley Park, in an one-bedroom apartment with two balconies on the 9th floor of a building with an indoor swimming pool, I took many walks around the Sea Wall…. I was invited from New York to go there to design housing and nursing homes, which were built exactly as I designed them. And I danced with many ladies there and dated a few and one time I was engaged to one beautiful lady and we wanted to be married to each other…..” This is my happiest year in my life!”—— I said that to the camcorder once in my High school reunion party when I was in Vancouver……………..dancewu(dot)net

It's been 19 years since the protests in Tiananmen Square. What do you think about China today?

Frau—- The native American Indians don’t look like the Europeans. So, why should America belong to the Europeans? dancewu(dot)net

Forty years ago, students shut down Columbia University protesting the Vietnam War. Have you ever marched in a protest?

Frank Peterson—- You are a lucky guy. I envy you. You are lucky because you have found your match—— A match I believed in the book “The birth Order book —-by Dr. Kevin Leman” ( by the way, I recommend this interesting book to Dr. klein with sincerity, for him to find his love of his life!) ———- Not every one is so lucky in this world. Why do I say it that way. Let me explain with my own experience.—- My mother who was a first born( an intelligent, progressive, good-looking young woman of the age 21), was arranged married to my father who was also a first born.( a man lied about his age ten years younger to propose.) Before I was born( I am also a first born) they already fighting each other from the beginning. I witnessed them having verbal and physical fighting all the time growing up, I could say that I did not know what a good marriage was like. And then in college, I fell in love with a girl who shared my background, but she was also a first born. We started fighting even when we were in the around the world honey-moon trip……we fought and we fought, giving very bad example to our only daughter who now is married to an Irish-man who is also a first born. My parents, being Chinese or what, although mother hated father all her life, but never had a divorce. As for me, my wife finally divorced me after 21 years. I remembered she said to me at the end of our marriage,” I do you a favor by divorcing you!” ——— You see,Frank, I bet you and your wife are made for each other—- if you don’t mind too much, please tell me you and your dear wife’s birth order. I appreciate in anticipation. Thank You.—— I am sorry that I am off the topic. But when the marches in the past one way or another are related to marriages, women’s rights, etc. Therefore when my mother(in Canton, 1947 )came to school to pick me up to a cheap hotel to avoid my violent father, three days later, when she ran out of money, still took us three back to the violent husband). There was no Woman’s lib, there was no equal right marches…. Women in those days do not have the skill to make money………dancewu(dot)net

Forty years ago, students shut down Columbia University protesting the Vietnam War. Have you ever marched in a protest?

No, I was never interested in politics in 1968……………………. That is a very stupid statement!……………………Perhaps I was too busy to make a living , and I had a daughter of four years old, and busy thinking how to save money to downpayment a house to live in………. and I am a person who is plain apolitical all my life!…………………until now, 2008, at the age of 71………………………dancewu(dot)net

It's been 19 years since the protests in Tiananmen Square. What do you think about China today?

Ms—- It is interesting to study human nature. My neigbor from Hartsdale days secretly took some of my property away from me until I raised hell! I only owned 88’ x 100’—- a small lot! And then he diverted the stream to flood my house…. Just give you an example!—- dancewu(dot)net

It's been 19 years since the protests in Tiananmen Square. What do you think about China today?

Mugsy—- the dropping of the Atomic Bombs to end the WWII and ended the Japanese Invasion, as the Japanese soldiers were only one day’s trip away from my family in 1945( my father was with the U.S. army in Guiyang), that was the first time my life was saved….dancewu(dot)net

It's been 19 years since the protests in Tiananmen Square. What do you think about China today?

lin si—-“….Ok, China is a LARGE country, but if every nation breaks away from China, China would become the little country that named BEIJING….” ————- That precisely explained what many countries in the world would want to see—- a weak country they could take advantage of from the year 1820 till 1949 - the establishment of The People’s Republic of China. Even China is on the way up every day, China still had Taiwan, Tiananmen, Hong Kong, Tibet, in that order………..to contemplate with.——dancewu(dot)net

It's been 19 years since the protests in Tiananmen Square. What do you think about China today?

Lin si—- Glad to see that you mentioned my name. I am so used to no one ever cared to bother to pay attention what I had to say, whether architecturally, or politically. Since you mentioned the railroad built recently to connect from Lhasa to Beijing, I had a prototype housing design over the railroad to cover the noise, similar to the GREAT WALL OF CHINA, from Tibet to Beijing. If you want, please go to my web-site, to see the sketches I did many years ago. ( the ones that my Irish son-in-law liked very much), hopefully it will get built before I died. I am already 71 years old, China will need good people like you to be built into a strong country, one that NO ONE EVER TRIED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ANY MORE!————-www.dancewu.net