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Reading Time: 7 minutes 谷歌翻译的中文版在这里。下面是英文原文(偶尔会有更新;中文版一般情况下不更新)。 WeChat app is a time sucker My better half (my wife) thinks I spent too much time on WeChat app aka 微信 wei’xin, and I agree after using WeChat for about 10 years. One of my new year’s resolutions is to use less iPhone, social media in general including WeChat. I mentioned a few

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January 7, 2025

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 A Chinese version (google translated) is here. First some background. Time: 6 Reasons Why Joe Biden Pardoned Hunter Biden MSNBC (Opinion): The unfair prosecution of Hunter Biden is over — finally The View cohosts react to Joe Biden pardoning Hunter Biden: ‘This is why people don’t trust Washington’ Personally, I agree with all the above.

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December 3, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute I watched a bit of “Growing Pains” on Apple TV last night: the 2nd show that has the Bruce Springsteen show tickets. I purchase the series from Apple, probably in year 2016, when Alan Thicke, who acted as the dad in the screen, Dr. Jason Seave, died. I recall I watched most of the series

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November 30, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute Below moment is likely not isolated to summer. Sometime between March and July this year (year 2024). One day I took MacBook on sofa, and sit about 6 ft from my 14 year old. We were at the two ends of the sofa (couch). Her response: dad, you are not going to sitting here for

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November 29, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute Rudy Giuliani is in the news again because he said he doesn’t have cash to pay the two election workers in Georgia. BI: Rudy Giuliani’s mother-daughter defamation victims still haven’t received millions of dollars of his assets. BI has a good summary of Rudy Giuliani over the years in 2018 – Rudy Giuliani’s Went From

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November 27, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the life lessons I learned over the years is – avoid toxic people at all cost. Charlie Munger mentioned it a few times. This is the latest example as to why: Man arrested, charged in woman’s St. Louis death after Clayton abduction: “Investigators believe that Mosby and the victim, identified as 37-year-old Michelle

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November 24, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday afternoon, I attended the visitation of a former colleague. Although my boss and colleague didn’t say explicitly, it’s quite apparent to me, that the former colleague took his own life. This is the charity the family suggest donation in lieu of flowers. I googled “PTSD for veterans”, and this resource website by va.gov pops

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November 19, 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
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