Michele Sun's Thoughts and Blog

From Mencius to Strategic and Economic Dialogue

The U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) is a high-level dialogue for the United States and China to discuss a wide range of bilateral, regional and global political, Read the rest of this entry »

From Coming Home to Going Home

This morning I needed to run some errands, so despise the threat of typhoon I went out in the pouring hard rain. First I went to the nearby Taipei Fubon Bank Read the rest of this entry »

From Little Magnolia Girl to Being Grateful

I was waiting for the light to turn green at  corner of Xinyi Road@Fuxing South Road in Taipei, and suddenly heard a tiny voice “Auntie, do you want to buy some flowers?” I lowered my head to the source of that tiny voice and saw a girl about 5 or 6 years old. She was very dark skinned and got several Read the rest of this entry »

From Homebound Packing to Seize The Day

Finally I have finished packing for my trip to Taiwan, and the sense of anxiety started hitting me that I wasn’t able to sleep well last night. I was planning to take a bus from the airport into Taipei Read the rest of this entry »

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 »