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
Reading Time: 2 minutes Follow the crowd; follow the stock picker or gurus such as Jim Crammer without doing own research; follow the friends. Following the crowd is dangerous because statistically majority of small investors lose money in the stock market (I know I am since got into market in late 2003). I think one reason for doing this is the “herd”
Reading Time: < 1 minute I heard it first from Bill Bishop’s blog. Home Inns (如家), China’s leading budget hotel chain, filed for an IPO about a month ago and is expecting to hit the NASDAQ sometime in September, assuming market conditions hold. A few day ago I got more info From Pacific Epoch Shanghai based hotel chain Home Inn
Reading Time: 2 minutes Grass is always greener on the other side. I first heard this from a coworker and I found it describes human nature very well. Remember when we were kids, some of us felt the meals at our neighbours or relatives’ home taste better the our own home? I made this mistake when I first started trading into stock markets a few years ago. It
Reading Time: < 1 minute I understand search is very important functions for blog. There are three ways to search this blog; they are all at the right Side Bar. 1) WordPress Search: available at side bar (top right), a “word search” on all the posts, matched results will be shown on one page. 2) Google search: available at side bar, footer, and each post,
Reading Time: < 1 minute On the plane I met an old guy from Washington DC, he told me his 2 weeks China trip is wonderful (he and his wife went to Beijing, Xi’an, Congqing and Yangze River). To light up the conversation, I asked him if he is a politician. He said “No” seriously, then he said: I am not
Reading Time: 2 minutes 1) If you decide to stay at home inn (Rujia), book early (2 to 3 weeks in advance), here is the web site and their phone No. 800-820-3333. I booked through their web site. Note their web site is designed slightly different from some of the US travel web sites. Couple times I thought I already booked
Reading Time: 2 minutes Just got back from a 3 weeks China trip and it was fantastic, except now I have to recover from the jet lag. I received an email from a new friend titled “给最真诚的人敬礼“. To be honest, this email made me feel real good. While in Shanghai I had similar experience when a friend gave the comment that I
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