Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I decided to pull the plug on Robonhood Gold. I joined the Gold last year to take advantage of the 3% match of Roth IRA, which is $240 for $8,000 worth of IRA. But in last few years, I am increasingly tired of their gimmicky, and I started to appreciate what Charlie Munger said

Reading Time: 2 minutes Or drug pandemic. Now I am a strong believer of “ultimately it’s an America’s own problem”. Not Mexico’s problem, not China’s problem, not Colombia’s problem, neither Afghanistan’s problem either. George Yeo on China’s Century of Humiliation : I first saw this one from RedNote. I understand no US president will ever admit this fact. But

Reading Time: < 1 minute 第一次听这首歌，是因为我最近开始听Ayen阿昕的歌。S.H.E【你曾是少年】吉他彈唱 Acoustic guitar cover 畢業季｜Ayen何璟昕: btw, 我同意Ayen阿昕唱完歌后说的那一段鼓励毕业生的话。很多年之前，我应该还是大学低年级，有一次系里让我们全年级去一个大的阶梯教室开会，有一个日本留学生（研究生）给我们讲话：他用中文写了两个字，初衷 (Original Intention)。他说的也是类似的意思：就是提醒我们不要忘记出发前，我们最初的想法。 这里有official video – S.H.E [ 你曾是少年 Wings of my words ] Official Music Video (｢少年班｣電影主題曲). KKBox 有歌词。

Reading Time: 3 minutes Music playlist is quite common nowadays. For me personally I was a bit late to the party. I did use playlist on my iPhone Apple Music app, and on my YT: both desktop and iPhone. But recently since I started to participate the group exercise class at the J, I realized playlist and music in

Reading Time: 2 minutes Originally written on Feb 15, 2005 (this a bit more than 20 years ago 🙂 Monday is not my favorite day. When I first started to working (on Oct. 2000), I was still taking 2 evening classes in my university. And one class (Computer Graphics using Java) was hold on Monday evening. At that time

Reading Time: < 1 minute Mainly double check PC and mac to see if there are any personal info left behind Delete chrome/safari/IE browser history Chrome=>setting, clear browsing data, check saved password/forms, delete user, delete cookies/Content settings Safari=>delete history, privacy=>delete website data; reset safari IE=>Internet options=>Browsing history Delete files and folders check myDocuments/my pictures on PC check Downloads/Documents/Key Chain folder

Reading Time: 4 minutes For music streaming nowadays I mainly use YouTube Music, because I have YouTube Premium subscription. It’s not perfect, but YT Music has a decent collection, and functionality. YouTube and YouTube Music When I was listening to Ayen 何璟昕 music both via YT and YT Music, as I switch between them as I was trying to

Reading Time: 2 minutes AirPods 3 about to die now? It seems like it, as I noticed it started to drop connections a few times last few days (need to observe more to make sure). I recall my old 1st Gen AirPods does this a lot when it was near the end of its life. AirPods usually has 2

Reading Time: 2 minutes My generation (so called Gen X in the USA, people born between from 1965 to 1980) was usually told to “work hard” when we grew up – I found this is true both in the China and in the USA. I think in addition to parents, quite a few teachers emphasized this too – for

Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was in college in Wuhan (1989 to 1993), some of the most popular songs were in Cantonese, and were sung by Hong Kong based singers. This was because at the time, the mainland just opened up, and culture wise it was way behind both Hong Kong and Taiwan, thus the Mandarin pop were