December 2007
40 posts
Spending the last day of 2007 in airplane and airports. Wish you all a very happy new year.
The sky was (sort of) blue today and it’s the real sunshine we’ve had in the past 11 days, outdoor temperature was around 0℃.
@DavidFeng: Daolang is an original singer songwriter, I like that guy.
@DavidFeng: Well, you have the passion, the network and the job. What are you waiting for? Start scouting for a spot…;)
@DavidFeng, sounds interesting, will definitely check it out this weekend. www.zurigo.cn
Found a new good restaurant, New Age Veggie @ Superbrand Mall. Funny thing is most of their customers are not vegetarian.
Shanghai weather sucked recently, almost no sunshine since Dec 20th.
Just found out that Mozilla has an office in Beijing and they call themselves “谋智网络 Mouzhi Wangluo”. Download 火狐Huohu from mozillaonline.com
Those who’re interested in filmmaking should definitely buy Transformers 2-disc DVD and watch the extras.
Geek question of the day: What application (other than Quicken) do you use for managing your financial?
Costa @ Grand Gateway - Free wi-fi and great coffee.
B. Franklin once said: “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” Let the joy, love and felicitations of Christmas enlighten us all
Finally reached Shanghai after 6 hours delay caused by bad weather in Shanghai PVG. Aircraft forced to land in Fuzhou FOC for refueling.
The rain on holiday eve made the traffic really bad. It took me 2.5 hours to get to Soekarno-Hatta airport from downtown.
Thanks @DavidFeng
Today will be my last day @ work for 2007 and amazingly many problems will be solved with a new structure and initiatives from management.
Had an awesome dinner @ Shanghai Blue; also had good wine -Tatachilla Cabernet Sauvignon 2004. Packing for trip to Shanghai now.
Thoughts for Sunday: It’s a pity for a big consumer market such as Indonesia not to have FlyBuys (www.flybuys.com.au).
@avianto: Better way to view it is to see Aqua or Perrier as a service provider (instead of manufacturer) who delivers potable water. :)
Interesting fact: Actual cost of water in each bottled mineral water sold is only about 5% out of the total cost.
WotD: Mutatis mutandis: (used when comparing two situations) making necessary alterations while not affecting the main point at issue.
@satya: Because rich people lives a much more complicated life compared to poor people, thus the rich have more problems than the poor
Got my replacement HD from Seagate yesterday. It’s a refurbished drive and they gave me 300GB one instead of the 250GB I sent back.
It is not easy to do the right thing; it should have been otherwise.
I guess that’s the price that you have to pay for doing the right thing.
Wii rules
According to Google Zeitgeist 2007
It took EMS only 11 days to deliver and additional IDR 81,450 + IDR 7,000 for custom duties and administration charges. WTF!
Yahoo! I finally received my new Wii games today; Big Brain Academy, Super Mario Party and Super Mario Galaxy.
BBC reports that Nintendo is pulling Wii TV ads because it is battling to meet demand. Isn’t it a great reason to do so? And to save money?
Never seen Bali this crowded before. This global warming fever really warms up the island.
A human being spends half the life to complicate his life, and the other half to solve the complications he has created.
Current time: 4:16 PM, Inbox unread mail counts: 0, remaining to-do list items: 5, today’s productivity index: 9 out of 10.
American Express just updated their web based credit card account app, and I’m liking it.
It’s been a few days since my last twit. I spent my Saturday @ Soundgallery to fix my car doors vibration noise caused by the speakers