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16 Back from Chongming Island

reading this reminds me one phrase, 崇明人的阿爹. i guess i'm really homesick now :-)
Posted by rangew at 2008-07-01 05:45:12. More

15 Kong Fu Panda Hits Shanghai Tomorrow

yes, the movie is great, typical heroic American movie. and i like to learn "WuJi finger pick", it's pretty powerful. :-)
Posted by rangew at 2008-06-21 02:18:17. More

14 Labor Day (May Holiday) Canceled

so everyone still goes to work at 1st of May this year?
Posted by rangew at 2008-01-25 01:04:15. More

13 Shanghai Looks Like a Modern City

i never had to worry about those things while i was living in Shanghai. Come on, not get pushed on the metro station, not get snatched while using mobile, or not take a seat on the train? You will be surprised that people in Shanghai can do much better than this :-).
Posted by rangew at 2007-09-21 14:12:41. More

12 Take Taxi or Buy a Car?

public transportation combined with on-demand car rental , plus occasional taxi is the way to go. only when you go camping, outing for few days far away from the city, would you need a rental car.
Posted by rangew at 2007-05-22 02:13:18. More

11 Jiading is Not As Far as I Thought

When i was a student, i used to take buses from Jiading to Shanghai downtown every week. it was a luxury treat to take the buses going through freeway, since it's about 2RMB per ticket ( it went up to 10RMB last time i took the bus). the normal ticket price for local way only bus would be about 50cents ( or free if it's the bus provided by the school).

it's pretty amazing that i now drives average 80 miles a day back and forth from home to work, and it average takes me 3 hours on the road every day. i always tell my wife that if i'm asked to work in Jiading and live in Shanghai downtown now, I will be pleased by the time i can save. but when i was a student, the trip from Jiading to downtown seems to be endless, even through the freeway :-)
Posted by rangew at 2007-03-20 09:23:07. More

10 New Phone - Dopod D600

if the phone number on the first picture is the real one, prepare to change your phone number :-)
Posted by rangew at 2007-03-16 02:22:31. More

9 Going to Movie (Cinema) in Shanghai

yeah, i had my first date with my wife at the peace cinema ( the old one) way before it was torn down.
Posted by rangew at 2006-08-16 04:51:22. More

8 New Jersey Government Shutdown?

IMHO, it's the vivid reflection of captalism. No money, no business, even true for government. UN was almost closed down due to lack of money, and another sample is that congress has to lift the credit limit of US federal government so that the Administration can borrow more money to run the country. otherwise...

don't get me wrong, it's not a bad thing, and i believe every business should have a finite budget to run with ( and as a side note, i think everything is a business :-))
Posted by rangew at 2006-07-04 03:06:35. More

7 Diversity, Consistency, and Efficiency

I think there're different local regulations for businesses in each state of USA too, though you may mean way more than local regulartions when you talked about "rules". basically, local ( local to a country, a region .etc) businesses need to play by the play everywhere.
Posted by rangew at 2006-02-23 04:50:39. More

6 Old Shanghai vs Current Shanghai

I didn't even have a decent camera in early 1980's. good to see the old places, especially the buses running on East NanJin Road :-)
Posted by rangew at 2006-01-13 01:54:08. More

5 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Look at the bright side, this tragedy is the step stone for the return of the Jedi, and the final peace ( final defeat of the sith).
Posted by rangew at 2005-06-11 14:06:22. More

4 Five Years in Microsoft

Congrats, JianShuo. I'm going to join the 5-year-service club in the coming Auguest. I'll meet you there :-)
Posted by rangew at 2004-07-08 14:45:26. More

3 March 14 Activities

is this so serious? terrible.
Posted by rangew at 2004-03-15 13:42:50. More

2 Just Few Steps Away from My New Car

I second Lars that the gas consumption would be a very important fact you may need to consider. Typical acceptable mile/gal would be 20-30 mile/gal for a highway/local way combination usage. US cars are known to be super gas consumption, but very safe, and Japanese/Korean cars are relatively good in gas consumption, but less safty.
Posted by rangew at 2004-03-09 01:44:32. More

1 Pudong or Puxi

Puxi for sure. IMHO: puxi=decent life, pudong=investment.
Posted by rangew at 2004-02-29 13:15:42. More