Alan’s Blog

There was a book 7 habits of highly effective people, this post is NOT about that.

The article I read when I am at work today (sorry, boss) is quite interesting. Here to share with you. The article is in Chinese. So can’t share with those who can’t read Chinese, I apologize. Here is the link:
http://www.psytopic.com/mag/post/918.html

Why I did this post is because I want to remind myself the last habit mentioned. Roughly translated as following.

Job itself doesn’t bring you financial security. we can only win by independent thinking, creativity, learning ability, and flexibility; Being rich, doesn’t mean you can be rich forever, what you can rely on is your abilities to build your fortune.

Saturday, home made spaghetti dinnerRecipe (everything minced)
Meat, Tomato, Onion, Carrot, Red pepper, Mushroom, Garlic, Shallot, Ginger. All bought from local market



And of course CHEESE! (from local Carrefour)

Extremely low budget trip to a old town. 140 KM to the west of Shanghai

Motivation: a TV soup (似水年华) was shot there.

Schedule:
S at, Jan 13th 14:50 Shanghai->Jiaxing (1h Train) 16:50 Jiaxing->Wuzhen(1 1/2 h Bus)
Sun, Jan 14th 12:50 Wuzhen-> Shanghai(3 h Bus)

Highs:

• Buildings & Old looking streets on the sides of the river (canal).
• Friendly local folks.
• Free sample of local distilled liquor.

Lows:

• Packed with tourists from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m most times of the year.
• Expensive entrance tickets.
• Most buildings and streets are (re)built in year 2000 with the old looking according to a local lady:(.
• “official” lodging and food inside the “scenic” area way to expensive
• The rest of the town is just as plain as other un-developed area in China.

Rating & Conclusion:
2 of 5. I would recommend you to take the day return trip from Shanghai, Hangzhou or other close-by city, if you insist to go there.

Online album.

Got my HP Deskjet F388 all-in-one from www.newegg.com.cn this weekend. Reasonable price, reasonable performance. SOHO made just easier

I will get a Nikon P3 digital camera next week. Main buying factors are

• Mainstream DC, does 8 Mega pixels, 2.5″ LCD. 1/1.8″ CCD which enables better picture quality since most mainstream DC’s use 1/2.5″ CCD.
• Vibration Reduction, WiFi(though limited only for photo transfer to PC)
• Use SD card which is dirt cheap now. (around $12 for 1GB here)