We went for quite a long walk this afternoon. Afterwards, I stopped off at the local hypermarket to buy a few things, including Susan Boyle’s CD. To my horror, Carrefour only stocked about a dozen different CDs in total. It looks like the download market in Taiwan has ended most of the CD sales in…
A lot of homeowners have found themselves in really bad trouble by taking out excessive home loans in the United States. And this is part of the problem which led up to the financial crisis. Why? Because lenders forgot the basic principals of lending when they could write off risky loans by passing them off…
This is the holiday calendar for 2010. Sorry, I couldn’t find the Chinese one yet. Get your 2010 Calendar
It’s quite simple actually. So let’s calculate it. 1. Find your height in meters (not centimeters). Convert your height to centimeters by multiplying by 2.54 if you measure in imperial inches. 2. Find your weight in kilograms. Convert your weight to Kgs by dividing the number of pounds by 2.205 (approx.) 3. Multiply your height…
My students keep trying to sing this song… unfortunately none of them actually know any Korean, so they don’t have a clue about the lyrics … I haven’t been able to find an English translation that seems reliable. Yet.
If you live in our area in Tamsui, you will wonder at the construction. In the nine years we’ve lived here, more than a dozen huge multi-storey communities have been erected between our huge community and the NEXT subway station. But the funny thing about the communities in Tamsui: they all have grandiose names. For…
If you are in the market for one of the hot new netbooks, then you’re probably thinking ASUS, Acer or any of a dozen other companies, there’s one company that’s been quitely making netbooks for a while, Sony. Yes, Sony made the famous Sony Vaio series of notebooks, but now they also make the W…
We’ve been with Aetna for my personal life insurance for almost 15 years, in fact, it’s how I pretty much ended up dating my wife who tried unsuccessfully to sell me a life insurance policy. She did, in the end. But she had to pay the first premium herself! She wasn’t a good sales agent…
I just wrote two short posts for this blog, and they’ve both disappeared. Wow! I can’t find them anywhere.