Aug 07 2007
A making-you-feel-good piece: 乌龙, 蒙岔岔 are Cantonese (not sure I wrote correctly; it’s a very cute dialect with its own set of characters) describing someone who’s basically dislocating her brain all the time; or 人头猪脑 to be frank. So I was often reminded to read before I sign and inspect what I buy, yada yada.. .. And of [...]
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Aug 07 2007
“It’s Ok to lose money in certain time periods if, in fact, it gives you an opportunity to make more money.” Declared Mary Callahan Erdoes, the head of the private bank at JP Morgan/Chase since 2005, who’s only 39 51/52 years old. She firmly believes that successful money managers need to feel some pain; for any [...]
Aug 07 2007
Carpenter for today. King wants a bookshelf, so I volunteered. Working with pine is so much easier than oak, .. Learned the lesson that most lumber yards don’t have precision cutting blades, so I generally buy the pre cut if it’s available.
Aug 07 2007
Julie sent me an e-mail yesterday saying that her dad knew my dad, back few decades ago when hers worked at Shanghai Entomology Research Institute and mine at Institute of Zoology. Shhhhishh, it’s a small world after all or what? I called Dad up first thing in the morning, he laughed, asking me how on earth did I meet Mr. [...]