Category: advice and tips

Reading Time: 5 minutes Or, put it bluntly, to combat my iPhone addiction 🙁 Why What do you do the 1st thing after you wake up? Hopefully you are not like me “yes you guessed it right, look at my iPhone and check the WeChat blah blah blah” 🙂 Sometimes I wonder if “I own the iPhone; or the

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January 6, 2025

Reading Time: 3 minutes Travel Mishaps One of the most memorable moments in 2024, for me at least, we already checked out the hotel in HK and got on the taxi to the airport, then our 14-year-old said, “I left my hoodie in the closet”. We already checked out thus cannot go back to the room directly. Had to

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January 5, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes Came across this article Opinion | No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort – The New York Times by Adam Grant. The NYT article is behind the paywall: here is his LinkedIn post. My 1st thought: Actually, once I did receive an “A” mostly due to my effort – please don’t try to extrapolate

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December 26, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m talking about the unlocked iPhones. Because I don’t think the carrier promotions are “cheap” in the sense they usually make the money back from the monthly fees, and then more. I can think of a few places, some are probably cheaper, but I am not 100% sure about the quality (especially the battery life

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December 24, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes And personally, I am not happy with Mercy Go Health First some background. There are 3 urgent care places near where we live. In the order of opening: St. Luke’s urgent care (next to a CVS). Total Access Urgent Care (TAUC): an independent chain that has no affiliation with a hospital; they have X-ray and

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December 22, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes First a few tips (not the tip as in the money) I learned since I drove Uber. One is you can setup a secured code like 2 factor authentication: I have one passenger used this feature. This may be faster than looking at license plate/exchange names etc. The driver can only “start the trip” after

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December 20, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes 还有再加上保险里面的一些坑。 Must buy 必须买的保险 Healthcare insurance, better include dental and vision too. Without healthcare insurance, it’s much harder to get needed medical care, should you or your family need it. This actually happened to one of my friends. And I believe the friend probably died from the disease because of that: lack of insurance, and

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December 6, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update Dec-16-2024) The fintech company that collapsed and took $90 million of people’s life savings with it: The collapse and bankruptcy of fintech middleman Synapse in May has left more than 100,000 Americans locked out of a collective $90 million of their own money, prompting a class action lawsuit. (I don’t know how much money

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November 22, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes My thoughts on #RFKJr nomination of the department of HHS. First I would say nobody or very few people would know him if not for his last name and family connections. He is a #VaccineDenier which may have negative impact on the health of the babies, the toddlers, the younger kids in the US. I

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November 14, 2024

Reading Time: 7 minutes 中文翻译(主要是谷歌翻译的,我做了一点修改)在这里。 This is probably the 3rd time we stayed in a hospital in America – if we count the time we spent in the Mercy for our 2 babies delivery (baby number 1 and number 2). Last week in my blog I talked about our little baby got sick. As she didn’t get better, we

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September 17, 2024
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