“She wasn’t about to sit around. So she said, ‘We’re gonna hike.’ And it was almost the death of me, but I somehow managed to sort of keep up,” the 72-year-old said. The pair racked up hundreds of miles in trips to the Grand Canyon, Mount Elbert and around New Mexico. Honstein said there aren’t enough good adjectives to describe his friend. “She was exceptional in every way. And I think the reason she was so beautiful on the outside was because she was so beautiful on the inside,” he said. Sihui Fang at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas (Courtesy of Rod Honstein)
More recently, he said Fang talked about getting out of the massage business. Honstein said he was helping her sharpen her English reading skills and financial savvy. He was excited to watch her blossom. “We talked about strategies for aging, gracefully and healthily. This lady was just getting started,” he said. “I was excited just to see, in the short time I’ve got left, where she went.”
RedCrayon姐是俺的朋友，你不注意RedCrayon姐的发言， 俺注意。RedCrayon姐早就说过，她退休最想把整个中国都好好走一遍。你说，她退休后最大几率去哪个国家？再说，按照俺的理解，RedCrayon姐这辈子只和两个国家有过生活连结，一个是中国，一个是美国。从现实考虑出发，她不留美国，她最大几率去哪个国家？（Correct me if I am wrong please, RedCrayon姐) RedCrayon姐不想和你们纠缠而已，她知道，她一说回国，肯定有人就跳脚。这不，她都还没说回国，前面就有人叫她滚了。 不管回哪个国，你既然都做好两手准备了，人家做另外一手准备的时候，你叫别人不要走，要羊变狼的理论，就有点奇怪了。 以是论事而已，大家坦诚交换意见嘛，不要放心里啊，你也是我的朋友，哈
Upon hearing of several armed robberies at local massage businesses, Rod Honstein and Sihui Fang sat down and strategized what to do if her shop was targeted. First, Fang – at 5 feet, 5 inches and 105 pounds – would try to run. If that didn’t work, she would give the robbers cash, electronics, whatever they wanted.
“And if that didn’t work, we had a gun in the shop and she would only use that gun if she was 100% sure they would kill her,” Honstein, Fang’s closest friend, told the Journal. In the end, it appears the 45-year-old fought like hell.
Fang, who grew up in an impoverished Chinese village and became a successful entrepreneur in Albuquerque, died Monday night in a shootout with an 18-year-old armed robber inside her Northeast Albuquerque massage spa, police say. The alleged shooter, Jorge Rivera-Ramirez, is recovering in the hospital from multiple gunshot wounds. His accomplice is still on the loose.
Surveillance video showed Rivera-Ramirez paid Fang for a massage to get inside before forcing her, at gunpoint, to open the door for an accomplice, according to police. Fang tried to run but Rivera-Ramirez is seen dragging her by the hair to the back office.
The video cut out, but detectives believe Fang gave the men $500 before she retrieved a gun and fired at Rivera-Ramirez. They say evidence showed Rivera-Ramirez ran into another room before shooting back at Fang, killing her.
Honstein said he was the first one in the Wonderful Massage spa after police left.
“You can’t believe what you would have seen inside this shop. I mean, it was total devastation,” he said. “And this lady fought with every ounce of her strength to survive.”
Honstein said Fang had a recent close call of an attempted rape and, soon after, videos of armed robberies at other spas made the rounds among Asian business owners.
Honstein said Police Chief Harold Medina spoke with him at length and “was very supportive” as Honstein explained the current danger posed to the Asian-run businesses and their reluctance to speak with police.
The Albuquerque Police Department says the homicide may be tied to a string of two-man robberies at Asian massage businesses around the city due to similarities in the case, particularly the disabling of security cameras.
APD spokesman Gilbert Gallegos declined to answer questions about that investigation.
The owner of another Asian-owned massage spa told the Journal she knew of more than 20 robberies of such businesses in Albuquerque and Santa Fe in recent months, although it’s unclear whether they’re all connected. The woman, who spoke broken English, said she hears of the incidents through other business owners and she tells them to call police.
A woman who worked at Asian Spa Massage on East Central said she had been robbed four times, twice since July. She said in July she was robbed by two men with a gun. They took her phone, license, bank cards and what little money she had. The second time, a few months ago, she said it was one man with a gun and she was able to run away.
“Too much, massage shops, a robber comes inside to rob them two times, three times,” the woman said. “It’s very, very dangerous right now.”
Honstein said Fang, whose name is pronounced Sue-Way Fong, had a remarkable life with “the toughest beginning one person could have.”
He said she was raised by subsistence farmers in a small village in China’s Hubei province. The home had a dirt floor with no electricity or running water.
Honstein said Fang moved to Shanghai after eighth grade and then to the United States by her early 30s, becoming “perfectly conversational” in English with no formal teaching.
Honstein, who is almost 30 years older, said he met Fang in 2017 when she offered to help him learn Mandarin for a planned trip to Asia. By that time she owned her own home, car and a thriving business, one that boasts numerous Yelp reviews of people thanking her for curing their sciatica and sports injuries.
Honstein said the pair found a bond he wouldn’t expect “in a million years.”
“We were just on the same page,” Honstein said. “… I mean, our cultures are so different, our backgrounds are so different. But it was really an amazing, amazing friendship.”
He said Fang had a beautiful, if untrained, singing voice, was an excellent photographer and one of the smartest people he ever met “with a thirst for knowledge.” When the pandemic closed down her business, she took up hiking, to Honstein’s detriment.
“She wasn’t about to sit around. So she said, ‘We’re gonna hike.’ And it was almost the death of me, but I somehow managed to sort of keep up,” the 72-year-old said. The pair racked up hundreds of miles in trips to the Grand Canyon, Mount Elbert and around New Mexico.
Honstein said there aren’t enough good adjectives to describe his friend.
“She was exceptional in every way. And I think the reason she was so beautiful on the outside was because she was so beautiful on the inside,” he said.
More recently, he said Fang talked about getting out of the massage business.
Honstein said he was helping her sharpen her English reading skills and financial savvy. He was excited to watch her blossom.
“We talked about strategies for aging, gracefully and healthily. This lady was just getting started,” he said. “I was excited just to see, in the short time I’ve got left, where she went.”
不敢去这种地方
保命要紧
我对这个无所谓，我两边想呆哪里都可以，我两边的身份房子社保医保都有，买张机票十几个小时的事。不像论坛名人嘴上说了很久我要回国，准备回国了，孩子上了大学我就回国，我记得就看到有一个实际行动去欧洲的，忘了网名了。我周围投资移民陪读孩子上了大学就回国的多了，这么多小留被迫回国的也多了，各有各的情况和环境。
有机会我倒想去欧洲转转，歪哥说了很久葡萄牙，也没下文了
既然是这样，人家说要回国，你应该说，嗯，我国内医保社保房子都有，我啥时候想回去的时候，我也回去。而不是说一堆什么羊要变狼的奇怪道理。人家要是真的听你的，在这扎根变狼了，走不了啦，各种猛兽一来被咬死了。而你呢，拍拍屁股十几小时飞机溜了。幸好咱RedCrayon姐也是生活经验丰富的人了，阅人无数，不会上你的当，LOL。
其实RedCrayon没说回国，她只说要换国家。倒是你一直引导她是回国，你这ID够新的
RedCrayon姐是俺的朋友，你不注意RedCrayon姐的发言， 俺注意。RedCrayon姐早就说过，她退休最想把整个中国都好好走一遍。你说，她退休后最大几率去哪个国家？再说，按照俺的理解，RedCrayon姐这辈子只和两个国家有过生活连结，一个是中国，一个是美国。从现实考虑出发，她不留美国，她最大几率去哪个国家？（Correct me if I am wrong please, RedCrayon姐)
RedCrayon姐不想和你们纠缠而已，她知道，她一说回国，肯定有人就跳脚。这不，她都还没说回国，前面就有人叫她滚了。
不管回哪个国，你既然都做好两手准备了，人家做另外一手准备的时候，你叫别人不要走，要羊变狼的理论，就有点奇怪了。
以是论事而已，大家坦诚交换意见嘛，不要放心里啊，你也是我的朋友，哈
看到微信上她姐姐说当时歹徒抢到了500美元，但是还是抓着她的头发不知道要做什么。她好像是拿男朋友的枪反击，有可能平时训练不足，没有当初击中歹徒要害。她是头部被歹徒击中了。
国内没有枪战，黑恶势力可是不少哦
就说说公开知道的： 谷开来把英国人情夫杀了 王立军重庆公安局长连夜叛逃美国领事馆 东北的乔四？ 俞敏洪被人抢劫巨款差点死了的事情
这么多人口拐卖。。。中国怎么可能就是世外桃源呢？