Category: Fun

Reading Time: < 1 minute The apartment we rent has experienced ownership change. The current owner can not resist the offer given by new owner (more than 15,000 Yuan per sqr meter), and she sold it. The apartment is about 20 years old, and near Zhongshan park. From my observations newer apartments (5 or 6 years old) in the area

stlplace
September 17, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I added some Chinese financial blog under “blogroll”. Two notables are Dan Bin (CEO of a private equity in Shenzhen), and Zhu Ping (Guangfa Fund manager, a graduate from Shanghai Univ. of Finance and Economics). Both are disciples of Buffett. Dan Bin bought a share of Berkshire so that he could attend the Berkshire annual

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September 11, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute That’s the new services to be offered by two great companies: Apple and Starbucks. According Seattle Post Intelligence: Apple’s new wireless iPod music player, iPhone or any laptop computer running iTunes will automatically recognize the iTunes store without a connection fee when customers enter a Starbucks shop that has Wi-Fi access.

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September 5, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute is very nice. Here is the picture taken from “view lounge”. We are looking at world famous Yang Long Bay. I have not been to many beaches in China; but from what I heard Yang Long Bay has the best beach in China. The service of Marriott is 5 star. This tripAdvisor review confirmed my

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September 5, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Found the following video clip at Tudou, the China’s very own YouTube. The content pushed the envelop a little so don’t play it before your boss, coworker or kids. I haven’t verified whether this is indeed from a class break of New Oriental. This (in a very small way) reflects the entertainment of China generation

stlplace
August 22, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I found my blog was listed as “200 most influential personal finance bloggers“, No. 182, at Hustler $$$ Blog. Thanks, Hustler. I have added a link for your Hustler $$$ blog (under “finance”).

stlplace
August 14, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I found this knock off iPod Nano at Taobao, Mr. Ma Yun’s company. Note his big baby Alibaba is preparing for the IPO in Hongkong later this year. It appears to me this “grey market iPod” looks very much like the real one; and it has its own market, because fashion-chasing teenagers in China want

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August 7, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute 1) Traders, including the grannies sitting in China stock brokage houses. 2) Hedging fund: people who have short positions, options…all these are closely related to the general market, and can have a wider swing than common stocks. 3) Mutual fund: because they have a large portifolio, they are exposed to the general market condition (weak,

stlplace
August 6, 2007
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