From Xinjiang Riots to China’s Outbound Marketing

After the 3 days riots in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, China clamped down on the Internet, in the hope of stemming the flow of information about ethnic unrest which left more than 150 people dead and more than thousand arrests — the deadliest unrest Read the rest of this entry »

A Not-So-Accidental Tourist in New York – Part IV

Day 4 of my New York trip — The 1lb hot pastrami sandwich and 3” thick cheesecake had me in food coma last night, I was so fed and so heavy to move after dinner, so I had gone to bed early last night. This morning I woke up at 7:30am and was glad Read the rest of this entry »

From Traveling to Resting

I was at Borders on Friday morning continuing on a James Patterson fiction that I had started at Barnes & Noble the prior weekend. The characters have travelled to Maui, Paris and Santa Barbara…etc, and I guess that had stuck in my head somehow. A thought came into my mind Read the rest of this entry »

A Not-So-Accidental Tourist in New York – Part III

Continue on my trip to New York and hope memory is still fresh; time to boost my memory capacity? SSD should be lighter :-p

So it was the 3^rd day in New York City and no signs of this summer shower would come to a stop today. I did not like this cold and rainy day at all, and the original plan Read the rest of this entry »

From Paper Printing to Digital Printing — Kindle

I was reading Brian Dipert’s “A Bewitching E-Book Tote-Along” tonight, and just so happened that I have been looking at that Sony Reader more than five times this weekend. Not that I wanted to buy one or Read the rest of this entry »

A Not-So-Accidental Tourist in New York – Part II

Day two (6/17/2009) of this New York trip and I wanted to revisit the Empire State Building since thismorning the weather seemed to be more outdoor friendly than yesterday. I had been to Read the rest of this entry »

A Not-So-Accidental Tourist in New York – Part I

Last week (6/15/2009) I went to New York for a full week to be a tourist. Though I have been to the Big Apple or The City That Never Sleeps many times because of work, but never had the chance to Read the rest of this entry »

Choose your workouts and burn calories!

My sister has started her battle with weight again recently, since summer is obviously here already. Her plan is a combination of diet and exercise, at my recommendation, and she is doing this slowly – no more than 1kg each week. I am sure many women (or some men) have been struggling with their weights, and for some Read the rest of this entry »

Dazzling music from MacBook and iPod Touch

Last night I went to a very unique concert, Stanford Laptop Orchestra 2009 Spring Concert, and frankly even I knew it would be performed with laptop computers, but that did not prepare for Read the rest of this entry »

Emotions and dilemmas are universal – Ocean of Words

Ocean of Words is not the first Ha Jin book that I have read, but it is the first collection of short stories from him. I like it just as much as his Waitingand War Trash, and again his works seem to have the power to weight my heart down and cloud my emotion. I have never experienced the life described in his book, but was totally taken Read the rest of this entry »