Month: May 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute The discount code is FLAG and it’s 15% off, and here is the link. The code is valid today only. They do have some newer styles besides the good old Cayman (beach) ones. Refer to dealsea for more details and savings.

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May 28, 2007

Reading Time: 2 minutes I used to love new cars and gadgets. Some evidences: I can call out the make and model of most cars on the street; I bought the Dell 1st generation Pocket PC Axim, later returned it because it’s too bulky, bought the Palm Tungsten E instead. These days I was looking for a LCD photo frame. I noticed this

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May 27, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I went to mall again during this weekend. There are many malls in St. Louis, the closest (to my home) also the most expensive one, is the Plaza Frontenac. When I first visited there years ago, I was amazed to see the price tags of stuff there, things such as Boss, Gucci, stores like Saks Fifth

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May 27, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute The following picture was taken at Barbela, a popular Pizza place in Shanghai. One nice feature of Barbela is they offer the same quality food as Pizza Hut, but at half the price. No wonder people will form a long wait line at Barbela during weekends. As you may know, Pizza Hut was (and still is)

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May 26, 2007

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m sorry being a flip-flopper here, because I was bullish on its stock until last Thursday. But like many things in life, I think sometimes it’s worthwhile to have a second look, this is especially true on investment. It’s no good to hold on a stock “no matter what”, or “fall in love with a stock or a company”,

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May 26, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I mean, you can put in the code for Chinese stocks, such as 600000 (Pu Fa Bank), etc. One good feature is they have names for you to choose from (along with the code). Cool stuff, huh?

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May 25, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I heard about this thing first from reading Home Inns’ IPO prospectus. Don’t know how big a deal it is. But it was ineresting to see Home Inns’ (Rujia) being mentioned again in this list. I did not see the Jinjiang (2006.HK) being mentioned here, a bit surprised. Think that as a “best hotel” award, if

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May 25, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute A while ago Amazon launched Endless, its shoes and hand bags division. To promote its web site, Endless is giving away $5 for Overnight shipping. Maybe guys at Amazon learned that from Google Checkout promotion? Zappos, the largest shoe store on the web, is continuing gain momentum. I used their service and was satisfied with them.

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May 25, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute When I was in Shanghai in March, I watched a special program on China-CBN (Di Yi Cai Jing) talking about “school for migrant workers’ kids”. Not surprisringly, the schools’ condition usually are much inferior to same level schools attended by “city kids”. The Shanghai Municipal Goverment gave 60 m Yuan this year for the “migrant kids’ school”. This is

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May 24, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I got some more Home Inns (HMIN) today. Nothing fundamental has changed at Home Inns, as I said in my previous post. Separately, Ma Yun, the big mouth at Alibaba, speaks again. We all know he likes to brag about how great will Alibaba become, but this time he is saying “China does not have a

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May 24, 2007
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