Archive for 'thoughts' Category
book: powered by happy
Reading the book “Powered by Happy” by Beth Thomas. here are some abstracts from the book: • what is happiness? many people has different definitions. having it all vs having what you want, it should reflect your dream but also need to be achievable; Beth further suggested some guidelines: Family life, Relationships, Favorite activities and [...]
chinese tennis players shins in australian open
watched a few australian open games over the weekend, it is very intertaining. two chinese players entered into top 16, na li, and shuai peng. i watched part of the peng’s round 4 game and she was playing really well, the game could go either way, with Peng lost her sets with both 5-7. It [...]
carzy YOKU
youku.com was listed in NYSE on 12/8/2010. it went from 25 to 46 in two days. the crazy thing about this is youku has not made a penny yet and there are still clode amist the future of the company. amazing, wallstreet likes anything that has .com and china in it:-)
amazing grace – to the victims of 11/15 tragedy
a tragedy, a big fire, 58 lost their lifes.. it is said the project was sub-contracted many times and the worker who do the welding do not have clue how to do it. those who have power put the money in their pocket and they dont care a thing about safety and lifes. amazong grace [...]
kids and computer
it is always a challenge for parents to manage kids computer time. kids can be adicted to computers. the level of addiction seems to be in proportion to how good their gaming skill. in our case, chris is a gamer and he likes to play. kevin is more of the hand-on guy and like to [...]
D vs R
politics is boring for the most part. but there is some light side of it. recently listened to a speech by Obama and he mentioned that the economy is getting back on the road and Republican wants to get the key back to drive the car, and Democratic says no since they dont know how [...]
团购
these days 团购 is a super hot topic in China. it all started when Groupon.com received a huge VC investment. in usa, things are more normal that not many groupon-clone are there, but in china all of a sudden there are hundreds of online 团购 sites started to come out and it is quite something. [...]
US Open Tennis
the men’s final was postponed from sunday to monday and the play was stopped midway on monday due to the rain. but it is finally over. Nadal 3-1 def Djokovic to win the champaion. I kinka root for Djokovic as i think his semi final win over Federer is very classic and entertaining. it was [...]
malicious computer virus attacked
my computer was attacked today by a malicious virus that looked like a ligit security software. the name of the virus is “Security Suite” and here is how it worked (or tried to work): – how it get to my server: i am pretty sure it got to my computer when i click ok to [...]
rain-less in seattle
these days the weather in seattle is pretty dry, there is no rain for a few weeks now. summer in seattle is beautiful, my only complain is there is no rain. it might sound surprising to people who know a little bit about seattle, it is viewed as a rainy city, and it was often [...]