After leading the 1st round of 2007 NBA playoff series by 2-0 against the Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets LOST the series in the 7th game in their HOME court.
I think this is the biggest joke ever - both Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady were Super Stars of the NBA, yet they could not win the 1st series against bunch of young players who are more desperate to win than they are.
Put it simply, Yao and TM Suck!
Tags: NBA, Utah, Jazz, Houston, Rocket, Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Thursday, May 03, 2007
How many tourist is too many?
The 1st week of May is the "Golden Week" in China. Many tourists travel to different cities for vocation, and Beijing is one of the most popular ones.
On May 2nd, 2007, close to 115 thousands people visited Forbidden City of Beijing. Forbidden City is now a museum in Beijing that once was the Imperial Palace.
I'm sure the Emperor never thought there would be so many people come to his Palace in one day...
Tags: Forbidden City, Beijing, China, Emperor, 故宫, 北京, 中国, 皇帝
On May 2nd, 2007, close to 115 thousands people visited Forbidden City of Beijing. Forbidden City is now a museum in Beijing that once was the Imperial Palace.
I'm sure the Emperor never thought there would be so many people come to his Palace in one day...
Tags: Forbidden City, Beijing, China, Emperor, 故宫, 北京, 中国, 皇帝
Top 10 millionaire counties
CNN Money has a list of Top 10 millionaire counties in the U.S.
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TNS Financial Services, a market research and polling firm, ranks the nation's top ten counties with the highest number of millionaire residents. How does your county measure up? 
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Transform your Chevy Autobots
Chevrolet is taking full advantage of the upcoming Transformers movie. They launched a new site that allows visits to build their Autobots using pre-selected Chevy vehicles...A good idea to attract young buyers, a good marketing strategy, a potential boost of their sales...
Damn! Can't wait to see the movie!
Tags: Chevy, Chevrolet, Transformers, Autobot
Damn! Can't wait to see the movie!
Tags: Chevy, Chevrolet, Transformers, Autobot
Monday, April 23, 2007
COPY - Is that all Chinese can do?
I know the girl in the picture looks really nice, but that "Crossover/SUV" in the picture is a total shame. Shanghai Auto Show takes place in China this week, and I saw these pictures from AutoBlog. While the front fender of this vehicle copied Pontiac's Torrent, the back is an exact duplicate of Lexus'RX350.
I just don't understand (in general) why Chinese have to always copy someone else's designs instead of being creative and revolutionary. Everyone laughs at Hyundai for coping Germany (Mercedes) and Japanese (Toyota and Honda), but at least they twists the designs - unlike Chinese, who think Cloning is better.
HuangHai Auto - Shame on you!!
Tags: Auto Show, Shanghai, Pontiac, Torrent, Lexus, RX350, Huanghai, 上海, 车展, 黄海, 法萨特
Cheap Chinese
The last 30-ish days have been crazy for me.
I went to Beijing and Taipei with my manager between 3/19 and 3/24 last month. Right after I came back, I went to San Diego for two days on 3/29 and 3/30 for another business trip. The week of 3/26 to 3/30 was a little hectic just because of the tiredness and the load of trip report and emails to close on. But it was just the beginning. My family was moving to a new apartment on 3/31, so that weekend was miserable. I got up early in the morning on Saturday (went to bed around 2AM on both Thursday and Friday night), rented a U-haul, loaded the truck, drove to the new apartment, unloaded all the stuff, and drove to IKEA to buy a bed frame and a computer desk, all in one day. Every weekend since then was spent on house cleaning and shopping.
The weird thing is that everything we bought since we moved to the new apartment had some defects in one way or another.
First, it was the bed frame from IKEA. Everything looked well, but one corner of the frame end was poorly Casted, so I couldn’t fit into the socket of the bed end very well. It was taken care of by some brute force with a hammer.
When the mattress set was delivered, we noticed a small hump at one corner of the mattress, which looked like it was overly pressed. Ok, not a big deal.
Then the computer desk from IKEA had some wood chips on the front plate of the top shelf. Well, it looks alright if one does not pay attention to the details.
We also bought four sets of chairs and chair mats from IKEA and one office chair form Costco last weekend. One of the chair top boards was poorly cut – it’s about 1cm shorter than others on the left side and ~0.5cm shorter than others on the right side. Not a big deal if someone sits on it, but it’s not symmetrically made for sure.
One of the dining chair mats was also different from others. All four mats have the same patterns, but one of them was sewed differently.
Finally, the office chair was a total disaster. The seat plate has three holes used for attaching the back support with three screws. The three holes were somehow drilled too big that the screws of the back support simply could not lock up. So we had to drive to Home Depot and buy three sets of screws with nuts. To tight up the nut, I used a cheap wrench from Dollar-Store that kept getting loose, and it took me forever!
And that’s only what happened so far. Life is not always perfect. I guess I will just have to learn to deal with it. We also need to buy a coffee table, a TV table, and we have a brand new Plasma/LCD TV on the quarterly budget list. I certainly hope/wish that no more defect to be found when I buy more furniture. Besides the imperfections, fixing them one by one is simply annoying.
One thing worth to mention is that besides the mattress damage, which was probably due to an accidental abuse, everything else with defects were “Made in China”. The cheap Chinese never had any concept about “Quality Control”, so I don’t know if IKEA and Costco should take the blame for buying products from bad suppliers, or if the “shitty” qualities of Chinese vendors are too widely spread to prevent in the first place.
Well, at least everything is pretty much in place now…until one day the office chair’s back support breaks and kills my back!
Tags: life, Blog, IKEA, Costco
I went to Beijing and Taipei with my manager between 3/19 and 3/24 last month. Right after I came back, I went to San Diego for two days on 3/29 and 3/30 for another business trip. The week of 3/26 to 3/30 was a little hectic just because of the tiredness and the load of trip report and emails to close on. But it was just the beginning. My family was moving to a new apartment on 3/31, so that weekend was miserable. I got up early in the morning on Saturday (went to bed around 2AM on both Thursday and Friday night), rented a U-haul, loaded the truck, drove to the new apartment, unloaded all the stuff, and drove to IKEA to buy a bed frame and a computer desk, all in one day. Every weekend since then was spent on house cleaning and shopping.
The weird thing is that everything we bought since we moved to the new apartment had some defects in one way or another.
First, it was the bed frame from IKEA. Everything looked well, but one corner of the frame end was poorly Casted, so I couldn’t fit into the socket of the bed end very well. It was taken care of by some brute force with a hammer.
When the mattress set was delivered, we noticed a small hump at one corner of the mattress, which looked like it was overly pressed. Ok, not a big deal.
Then the computer desk from IKEA had some wood chips on the front plate of the top shelf. Well, it looks alright if one does not pay attention to the details.
We also bought four sets of chairs and chair mats from IKEA and one office chair form Costco last weekend. One of the chair top boards was poorly cut – it’s about 1cm shorter than others on the left side and ~0.5cm shorter than others on the right side. Not a big deal if someone sits on it, but it’s not symmetrically made for sure.
One of the dining chair mats was also different from others. All four mats have the same patterns, but one of them was sewed differently.
Finally, the office chair was a total disaster. The seat plate has three holes used for attaching the back support with three screws. The three holes were somehow drilled too big that the screws of the back support simply could not lock up. So we had to drive to Home Depot and buy three sets of screws with nuts. To tight up the nut, I used a cheap wrench from Dollar-Store that kept getting loose, and it took me forever!
And that’s only what happened so far. Life is not always perfect. I guess I will just have to learn to deal with it. We also need to buy a coffee table, a TV table, and we have a brand new Plasma/LCD TV on the quarterly budget list. I certainly hope/wish that no more defect to be found when I buy more furniture. Besides the imperfections, fixing them one by one is simply annoying.
One thing worth to mention is that besides the mattress damage, which was probably due to an accidental abuse, everything else with defects were “Made in China”. The cheap Chinese never had any concept about “Quality Control”, so I don’t know if IKEA and Costco should take the blame for buying products from bad suppliers, or if the “shitty” qualities of Chinese vendors are too widely spread to prevent in the first place.
Well, at least everything is pretty much in place now…until one day the office chair’s back support breaks and kills my back!
Tags: life, Blog, IKEA, Costco
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Video - Robot Flights
Speaking of Robot, they look cool even if they cannot transform into cars...
Here is an amazing video - Robots fight at Pearl Harbor in WWII.
Tags: Video, robot
Here is an amazing video - Robots fight at Pearl Harbor in WWII.
Tags: Video, robot
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