Happy Niu Year

新年快樂

Happy Chinese New Year

牛年大吉

CTU ringtone

the ringtone from CTU in 24 hours

the Oath of Office

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

and I recorded one myself just for fun

courses for next semester

Applied Econometrics
Banking and International Finance
Critical Urban Studies
Industrial Organization and Regulations

and FIND A JOB

new desktop

Wall E + RocketDock
give amazing desktop view

Google Maps on Blackberry

Blackberry and PC in the back are displaying the same street view(somewhere outside Google's headquarter at Mountain View, CA). To enable this, you need to have some data plan(GPRS) with the service provider and download the app. to your blackberry, and also configure your APN to "cmnet"(not cmwap, but cmnet!) if China Mobile is providing the service, leave it blank if it's China Unicom. For a typical satellite image on blackberry, google maps would eat about 500kb to 1mb data flows. So large data plan is always better!

first day of 2009 in Guangzhou

7am, 1/1/2009
Guangzhou MTR


I WAS THERE

tips on making international calls in Mainland with HK SIM card

** the following tips only apply to PEOPLES customers.

when roaming in mainland China, and you need to call back to Hong Kong or foreign countries with HK SIM card (most SIM cards issued in mainland China cannot make international calls), follow these steps:

Calls to Hong Kong:

1. dial *138* (Hong Kong phone number) #
2. Wait for a return call. Upon receiving the call, you will be connected to the number you have dialed.

Calls to other countries:

1. dial *138*001 (country code) (area code) (phone number) #
2. Wait for a return call. Upon receiving the call, you will be connected to the number you have dialed.

some 5 dollars will be charged per minute for the services no matter the recipient answers it or not.


another tip: try avoid receiving incoming calls when roaming, because the service charge is a total RIP-OFF. Answering incoming call in Shenzhen, 6.48 HKD/min; in cities of Guangdong other than Shenzhen, 7.78 HKD/min; in provinces other than Guangdong, 12.78 HKD/min

Hong Kong New Year Fireworks 2009

I wasn't there that night, the fireworks is awesome!

terrible mistake

made such a terrible mistake last night,

Dear Sir/Madamn,

My name is ****, I'm writing to apply to waive my TOEFL score....

if weren't highlighted in red, that mistake is almost unnoticeable, but still it's a mistake, a mistake that I've already sent to four recipients, who I request to waive my TOEFL score. So ironic...

Merry X'mas

Merry Christmas

Happy New Year

Central at dusk

taken yesterday around 18:00. the camera sucks, the view's much better than this.

promotional skill

the Edison thing has been almost a year, remember all the craziness of digging all these ** photos during lunar new year's eve. As I was wandering in Golden Computer Center yesterday, so much better than the last time I was there, which was a total disaster, the PC sales men were playing Edison's apology video again and again and again as a selling point to attract tourists and consumers. And it's not just one retailer who's playing the video, most of the shops as long as they sell display or computer, it's like they've reached some kind of consensus, they all played it, shame on those who didn't. So it's like wherever you go, you see Edison's poor little face like some kind of criminal. Turn left, he's apologizing, turn right, wow, he's still apologizing. Such a relief they were not showcasing the photos on every display. I just wonder how much real extra revenue they do earn by doing so, probably not so much, since everybody is enacting such a strategy.

all about LUXURY

on SALE's time, you've gotta queue in line to get to see these luxuries, and it's not even weekend or Christmas day. damn, so many rich guys in this world, why am I not one!

X'mas time

it's so f*king cool around Christmas time, things' getting cheap and malls decorated in such wonderful festival atmosphere, this Christmas ROCKS!