Reading Time: 2 minutes We went to MUNY last night, Meeting Me in St. Louis is on. It’s 4th season I went to MUNY, I still remember in year 2001/2, I did not even know what MUNY is when a colleague wanted to give away MUNY tickets. Long words short, MUNY is the largest outdoor musical in the US.

Reading Time: < 1 minute A while ago I wrote about Internet Safety. Last year MySpace/Facebook, Barack Obama (this is probably the bright side, if you believe Barack is a good guy) This year Twitter revolution, Iran; SMS (text message) + online BBS, Urumqi incident (what I call a terrorist attack/organized killing against innocent civilians); Cyber attacks, notice the recent

Reading Time: 2 minutes Well, yes or no. As with many things in life, there are honest (at least try to be honest) western media outlets, such as NPR and PBS; and there are some biased ones, mostly for profit media, such as CNN, and even WSJ which is a business newspaper. Why is that? The simple reason is

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update July 9) A personal story written by NY Times reporter Edward Wong. (Original) This is Sept. 11 for China. July 5, Urumqi (Capital city of Xinjiang, China), 9-11 style attack happened to innocent people walking on the street, students/workers on the way to home, shop owners attending their customers,… were beaten and some are

Reading Time: 2 minutes I would like to list some of the Chinese restaurants I visited in this trip (and in the past). I will also list some web sites which I think will be helpful to plan Chicago trip. Chinese restaurant Lao Sze Chuan (web site here): this is the first Chinese restaurant I visisted in Chicago (2001?).

Reading Time: 3 minutes We are back from Chicago. Visited the Premium mall (near Aurora) yesterday, and was quite impressed. This was my first trip to the Aurora mall, and I was surprised to see so many premium brands and shoppers (esp. the crowds at Coach store). Judging by the size of crowds in the mall, it seems the

Reading Time: 2 minutes We came to the windy city yesterday, and today we visited quite a few places: Michigan Ave. (magnificent mile), Millennium Park, Art Institute (outside, no inside tour yet), Navy Pier, China Town. All with the 3 day CTA pass and CTA train/bus. I did not totally forget about stock market yet. This noon when I

Reading Time: < 1 minute I was in Detroit last Wed and Thur. When I was leaving the client site, I heard famous actress Fawcett died from cancer. Shortly after I came back, I heard from NPR that Michael Jackson passed away. That was a shocker. I remember watching a lot Michael Jackson’s MTV back in early 1990s, when I

Reading Time: < 1 minute This Is It, the offiical Ad/Promo video of the scheduled London concert (YouTube link) Beat it (YouTube). More videos (powered by YouTube, complied by Trader1688). Pictures: Michael Jackson Life and Times by Life Magazine.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Some signs of the stock market is cracking: 1) The leaders such as Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) are retreating. 2) CIC is thinking about buying equities again, Renaissance Technologies is one option (last time CIC pulled trigger, it bought Blackstone pre-IPO at top). 3) Goldman Sach is selling.