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Dongjiao State Guest Hotel - The Most Under Valued Arrgh, nooooo...now visitors will start flocking to my favorite hotel and they will raise their rates;) |
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Pass-by the Cornfield in Sunnyvale Jianshuo, nice pics. :) |
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Going Back to Shanghai My flight next monday to Beijing will take........ 22 hours. Unbelievable, right? First leg SFO->Portland, Oregan, stay for one hour, then second one Portland->Tokyo, stay for about 2 hours, then Tokyo->Beijing. Well, it is hard to a good deal in a short lead time and i am fine with the extra time (10 hours) i have to pay. Good time to do some quality reading. :) |
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Chat with Tina and Jin You are definitely a night owl, if that is not because of the jet lag. :) Have to say thank you again for the thought-provoking conversation. I enjoyed it and very much look forward to your write-up. Meantime, let me quote what Carly Fiorina (in her recent book, "tough Choice") said about Stanford and MIT, regarding how hard people were working in these two places, as she is an alum of both. "At Stanford people are plenty smart, but when I was there, the atmosphere was quite relaxed. I, and many others, worked extremely hard, but you didn't have to. At MIT everyone did- and you had to." This might lead to another interesting topic, regarding the working culture/people's mentality at east coast and west coast. It might add some insights to the comparison the two most regarded entrepreneurship communities in US, Silicon Vallay and Boston. Anyway, lots of interesting topics we can talk about later. btw, Highway 66, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66 Enjoy your stay at Bay Area. |
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Stanford Dream Great article. I like it. To add some data points in terms of MIT contribution to Internet, if not the 'Internet industry'. MIT hosts WWW consortium, http://www.w3.org/, where the 'father' of HTML, Tim Berners-Lee, directs. He is also a faculty member at MIT EECS department. RSA algorithm was described in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, at MIT. It was patented in 1983 by MIT. MIT was the leading one among the institutions who worked together and brought forth the ARPANET in the late 60's and early 70's. ...... The three 'words' to describe MIT are "Innovation", "Learning by action" and "Impact". BTW, "The world's first university-based executive education program — the Sloan Fellows — was created in 1931 at MIT under the sponsorship of Sloan." "A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, one of the world's premier business schools. " "A second grant established a Sloan Fellows Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1957. The program became the Stanford Sloan Master's Program in 1976, awarding the degree of Master of Science in Management." |
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New York - Day 2 Hi Jian Shuo Wang, I've reading your blogs ever since I found out I might be going to Shanghai on a business trip soon. Your blogs provide useful and interesting information about Shanghai that travel guides often miss - observations from the perspective of someone who lives there. But the thing that impresses me the most is that you've been blogging almost everyday for the past 2+ years! I love your optimistic attitude. Anyway, I wanted to be a silent reader... but couldn't help but chime in here cuz I lived in NYC for 10+ years and wanted to offer some suggestions if you'll take them! 1. As Jean suggested, visit Rockefeller center.. check out Saks' famous x'mas window displays and get in touch with your childhood (and wallet) at FAO Schwarz. There's a great Szechuan resturant nearby (47th street or 48th) called Wu Liang Ye. 2. You want to taste NYC? Visit Gray's Papaya for the best tasting hot dog ever, it's cheap and open 24 hrs and has great great smoothies to go along with those crispy snappy hot dogs. There's Sylvia's for some soul food. Soup Kitchen International a.k.a. the Soup Nazi made famous from Seinfeld - I have not been there myself but hear the soups are hmm hmm good! Want some dessert? Try Junior's famous cheesecake. Indian food? Try Jackson Diner in Jackson Heights Queens (7, R, V, G, F, E trains get off at Roosevelt Ave.)... ahh too many to list! If you want to try 'em all a good place to go is Grand Central's food court on the lower level (the station's not half bad neither). I think the E train has a stop there. 3. Try ice skating at Wollman rink in central park! 4. MoMA just had its grand re-opening in Manhattan - it's near Rockefeller, I think 53rd street, off 5th ave. Go through the museum from top to bottom. 5. Watch an indie film at Soho's Angelica Theater. While you're there, check out Canal Jean -great clothes and fascinating clientele. 6. Wanna see the statue of liberty? Take the Staten Island ferry instead, it passes by the statue and costs like $1. 7. Brought your gym clothes? Try rock climbing (indoors) at Chelsea Piers - not too expensive and very exhilarating. Have you observed those dark circular spots everywhere in the subway? Those are gum... just in case you were wondering. Heh think I wrote too much?!?! I love the city! I hope I will love Shanghai just as much! Jin :) |