Why does this book feel like a history book when it predicted the crash six years ago! I picked up my copy on the cheap at a bookstore in Tienmou. It is well worth reading. Perhaps a tad negative! But then look at what’s happened.
Having just purchased a new mobile phone before Chinese New Year and still waiting for the credit card bill to come in before I pay it, I wasn’t in the mood to check out any more items on sale until I saw this! The Nokia N82 on sale with 15% off! Ouch! But I guess…
This is the first Sakura (Cherry Blossom) we saw this year. It’s almost fully out by now as we’ve had some pretty hot days. Apologies: Last picture was already posted a few weeks ago.
When we lived in Tienmou many years ago, our neighbours upstairs were broken into just before Chinese New Year. Turns out they had stashed a lot of cash at home and then gone out. They didn’t have any kind of home alarm, there was no security in the building, and it was mid-afternoon. I wasn’t…
I don’t think so. I keep having permissions issues with it. Perhaps it’s another reason why I’m now downsizing my blogs… It’s just too much to handle all this stuff! I want to blog, not manage Unix permissions on a level like that!
The two containers on the bottom have some pretty nice peanut butter from HsinChu. We’ve been eating it slowly. The store itself was pretty ordinary, but we were able to find these jars. And the butter is good! It seems that there used to be quite a few stores making and selling it.
It’s been quite a few years since I left the UK. In fact, it was in the middle of another recession, the mild recession of 1992 when I finally left the UK for greener and more Asian pastures. I’ve been back quite a few times since then, but I still remember that fateful January day,…
Thought I’d give you a quick reprise of one of my favorite Genesis tracks.! I’m quite a big fan of this group, but when I was in college, I had no money to buy CDs or LPs… 🙁 Still, my appreciation for them is unaffected! Perhaps now I’ll buy the entire collection! Turn It on…
With everyone facing more difficult economic times than in the past decade or so, retailers are suffering, closing branches, slashing staff, cutting costs… But some retailers are expanding their business in these difficult times: large discount stores, and online stores with competitive policies for looking after their customers. And it’s a great time to be…