Reading Time: 2 minutes This morning I went to 3 local Best Buy stores. I knew my chance of getting a Xbox 360 would be as same as winning a lottery. But I went anyway because I was already awake at 7:15 AM. There was a little flurry but I made it to the Best Buy Bridgeton location at

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December 18, 2005

Reading Time: 2 minutes Working in the software development these days also means working with people all over the world. Most notablly, Indian software engineers. I have great respect with my Indian colleagues. I know some of them from my graduate school. But I have to admit I don’t like Indian food. I have been to Indian restaurants in

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December 16, 2005

Reading Time: 2 minutes As software developer finding and fixing the bugs (defects in software) is just a way of life. I have been debugging (find the cause) a tough problem lately. During debugging sometimes I wished I would have another job. But when I solved a real problem, the satisfaction can not be easily described by words. I

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December 16, 2005

Reading Time: < 1 minute The link ends with * means you can not get access to it inside China, thanks to the GFW. Note all my links are non-political. blogroll: individual blogs; Kunwei is a good blog about things in Singapore and China, written by a “Haigui”.u WangJianshuo is a blog mostly about Shanghai, written by Wang Jian Shuo. He is busy now

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December 14, 2005

Reading Time: < 1 minute I went to ice skating at Creve Coeur Ice Arena today. This is my second time skating on the real ice and this year’s first. Last year I did it at Forest Park. As I said in my another article I did more roller blade skating in recent years. But ice is more fun I

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December 11, 2005

Reading Time: < 1 minute Went to the Giovanni’s on the hill last night, with a friend from Shanghai. This is the second time I visited the restraunts on the hill, and I almost got lost on Kingshighway. We arrived at the Giovanni’s a bit late because of other errands. My first impression is it’s a fairly formal restraunt, from

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December 11, 2005

Reading Time: < 1 minute I added more pictures at my gallery. They are taken at some of my 2005 trips: Grand Canyon, Jiu Zhai Gou (and Shen Xian Chi), and Yosemite. There are also a few pictures I took on an afternoon trip along Missisipi River (near Alton, IL). I will also add some “Christmas lights” pictures at St.

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December 10, 2005

Reading Time: < 1 minute Just as I was laughing at people put all the ice melt in the parking lots (thought they were wasting their time), St. Louis got her first snow this Winter. I will put up a picture very soon. Stay tuned. I took a drive in my lunch break. It’s fun to drive in the snow

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December 8, 2005

Reading Time: < 1 minute I thought about going to Financial Field recently. More accurately, I am going to apply for Financial Engineering programs in the US and Canada starting next Fall. I already took the GRE (the last time I took before this one was Fall 1996) and was working on my “Statement of Purpose”. It turns out more

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December 7, 2005
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