Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s not pleasant to have power outage, but it’s cool to check the power status from the web. Not to mention that the power is back. Now go Cardinals (against NY Mets in NLCS)! ============================== Recent Outage (Restored in the last 48 hours.) Outage start date/time: Wednesday Oct 11, 2006 5:28 PM Outage status: Power
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s that time again. Note from Jan 1, 2007 the Chinese consulate or embassy no longer take the renewal (due to the new passport laws taking effect). Here is a link for the Chicago Consulate. Note you need the Adobe reader Simplified Chinese Patch to read the PDF form. BTW, the Nov. 2006 visa bulletin is out, and
Reading Time: < 1 minute Drove along the “Great River Road” from Alton to Grafton yesterday, the Missisipi River and the changing colors on the mountains looks great. No wonder there are so many people in the bars and grills at the town of Grafton. I also saw people with boats enjoying the water before the winter chill – this is probally
Reading Time: < 1 minute The following are some of the proposed new direct flights from US to China. AA is applying for the new direct flight from Dallas (DFW) to Beijing (PEK). Here is the link to sign up for the petition. Northwest is working on the Detroit (DTW) to Shanghai (PVG) route. Here is the link. Last but not least,
Reading Time: < 1 minute OK, I will take a break from the stock lesson today. I am going to talk about the TV media here. I bet president Bush doesn’t like what he sees on TV these days, not just daily casualties in Iraq and Afganistan, and the conspiracy theory of lower gas price. Being a president, the president can not be a winner on this gasoline
Reading Time: 3 minutes I started this “stock lesson” series because I want to write down some of the mistakes I made on the stock market in the past few years. I hope I can avoid making the same mistakes in the future; I also hope others can learn from my mistakes. OK, back to the subject. I have talked about
Reading Time: 2 minutes Set a realistic goal, e.g., 20% return in one year. Don’t get too carried away from other people’s success and try to emualte it without learning its risk. I have some hefty goals in the past two years. To be more exact, although I don’t have a number (for percentage gain), I know I have some wild expectations from time to
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bring the green backs and exchange it at Bank of China or other banks is the common way. They do require the passport though. And sometimes the wait time could be long (I found out Friday is usually bad). But it is not very safe if you have large amount of cash. So I tried
Reading Time: < 1 minute That’s 3 years in a row. Quite impressive, isn’t it? Interestingly, it seems they are not the favorites (for world series) among commentators. Some even said they are a two men team (Carpenter, Pujos). Let’s see how they do. The series with San Diego Padres starts on Tuesday Oct 3rd. I tried to put a
Reading Time: < 1 minute Went to Creve Coeur Lake Park today. This is my roller blading (skating) place. The trees are changing colors these days and the view is very beautiful. Sometimes we travel long ways to famous places like Yosemite (in California), but in my mind we can enjoy similar things (in smaller scales) near our home: Creve Coeur
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