Reading Time: < 1 minute Ruth’s Chris Steak House is opening a store in St. Louis (Clayton) on March 20. I happened to see the store sign today when I drove by. While I am not a big fan of steak, I got to know the restaurant because I bought/sold its stock last year. It’s a premium steak house, and
Reading Time: < 1 minute Missouri, the show me state where I live, had a pretty wild weather last weekend. We had Tornato (twister) both on Saturday and Sunday. I stayed whole day at home on Sunday, and I never saw so many Tornato warnings on the TV. On Sunday night the weather guy basically told the viewer to stay
Reading Time: < 1 minute It took me a year to figure out the difference between these two. Unfortunately one year ago when I bought my condo, I used the latter one, which means when Fed raises the rate, my rate goes up too. Today I found the following definition at GMAC mortgage (click on Home Equity). Home Equity Loan
Reading Time: < 1 minute My work is not easy these days. I have to solve some problems and the deadline is approaching quickly. I feel sitting before the computer all the day (don’t we all do that?) is not helpful for my health. So I tried to find some time for exercises after I came back from China. I
Reading Time: < 1 minute To the river city after 20 hours travel. I fell into sleep before the small airplane (RJ-85) landed in St. Louis, at 3:15 PM local time. There was some delay in Shanghai airport but things worked out OK because the flight NW20 from Tokyo to Minneapolis was waiting for us. It’s 16 degree F (about
Reading Time: 2 minutes I am not going to do a comparison between Shanghai and St. Louis here. I don’t think it’s fair to compare these two great cities. Here I’m going to put down a few observations I made in past few days. Hospital I went to see doctor today for my sleep problem. I went to Shanghai
Reading Time: 2 minutes I happened to visit some of the high-end shopping malls in Shanghai yesterday. One is CITIC square (中信泰富广场), which host many world top brands such as Amanni, Bailey, Mont Blanc, etc. The price tag of some of the items amazed me quite a bit, e.g., I saw a ladies’ coat for RMB 9500, a sweat
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today is a sad day for St. Louis, especially the Hazelwood city in the north county. As expected Ford Motor Company announced the closing of Hazelwood assembly plant, see an article from stltoday here. This will eliminate 1900 mostly well paid blue collar jobs. I think the workers there should earn USD 60,000 a year
Reading Time: < 1 minute I went to see the Ladies Free Skate program this evening, by myself. Yes, I understand this is not common for a guy go there alone. But due to unusual circumstances – my friends forgot to put me on the mailing list when they planned to buy the tickets; and I forgot to notify another
Reading Time: < 1 minute I went to P. F. Chang this evening with my coworkers. Before today I heard from one (American) coworker that it has great food; I also heard from my Chinese friends that it’s all American Chinese food. I got chance to see the real thing today. It was not as expensive as I thought. The
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