Luo the Elder turned 67.

Xiao Luo turned 29.

Sha boshi (a.k.a. Baobeir) and Xiao Luo are happily married for 7 years.

Xiao Luo got a message from UN with an application number. Kindly note that this is not intended to serve as a convocation to the examination. After your application has been reviewed by the Board of Examiners, you will receive a letter or an e-mail informing you of their decision. Bottom line: wait until March.

Aque writes her name and some other words in English.

Also: I am tutoring the African neighbour's nine years-old in French for a symbolic price. Preparing a party for the new Ukrainian immigrants @ St. Vladimir (an act of my goodwill for our priest who insisted on taking me to the school as a real teacher, so since January I get a medium per hour salary). Made best friends with the lady pointing out my Ukrainian component. It is useful to be a bitch (sometimes). I just wonder why my neighbour L is avoiding me. I didn't exercise my bitchism on our Chinese neighbours, but it looks like there are some rumors behind my back. Watch your husbands, ladies, not me. Стервозность как последняя степень блядовитости?

But all that is not real. Real are Ali Al-Baghdadi, an old Mandean stargazer, a secret fighter-fidai from the order of Ismailits, courtesans, an African king, a Slavonic slave perfect in carpenting, horses and drinking, doctor Zhang helping a head of the Basrian custom house and his Turkish guard to question prisoners. As people familiar with these characters may see, I finish the editing of "The Secret of One Diamond" and I'll upload it to Max Moshkov's online library. A bientot!