Ching's Weblog 敬.網.誌 (2004~2005)

Beat It

I tapped this re-make of Michael Jackson's classic hit "Beat It" in a record store near Westbahnhof Vienna weeks ago. Did not get the chance to ask about who did this funny-Jazz version. Anyone knows about it?

Listen to:Beat_it.wav

Logogle

A fun tool to make Google-like logo. Try yourself :-)

I don't go to the games...

(via Tom Chang) See this really funny ads by AJINOMOTO stadium, homecourt for F.C. Tokyo.

手機吊飾 + 螢幕擦擦

見圖. 我那韓國美形俊男好友辛晟宇(Shin Sungwoo)送了我幾個''.kr"宣傳用的手機吊飾. 除了有裝飾功能, 吊飾背面設計成為擦布, 像我們這種出油型膚質人士, 每次講完電話, 那個螢幕就油汗不分, 也不敢用手或是衣服給他抹一下, 現在使用這個可愛小擦擦, 螢幕隨時可以保持100%清澈明亮, 閃閃動人~~這股風潮聽說是韓國Starbucks引領而生, 台灣呢, 不知道有沒有這樣的東東, 還是我後知後覺.....

update: 3M精密擦拭布與Hello Kitty吊飾合而為一！ (thanks to Joe)

Cat & SIM Card

By Plod (via Just Blog). Story about a guy (in China) contacted his mobile operator because his cat swallowed the SIM card and dying. A must see. Two thumbs up! I was laughing like crazy....

Good Husband's Blog

Thanks to the invitation from Mr. Lin, Chairman of GBC, tonight I had a wonderful dinner w/ Reed and Josh, THE key men from www.matchbin.com. We chatted mostly about Internet / Ecommerce stuff in Taiwan, as they are planning to launch a new auction service in Taiwanese market soon. My best wishes to them!

One funny idea I came up with at the dinner, is to ask the gents to post some comments on my blog. By doing so my wife would know (through the public domain--Internet) whom I was with and what I was doing.

Obviously the comments they made shall be positive ones or those comments will be treated as spam :-)

So, "Good Husband's Blog" could be an idea for blog business. Purely male community driven, always a back-up plan available, neutral third party observation for husband's social behavior. There will be "positive comment template" for people who don't know how to write good comment, as paid service. Who's paying it? Of course the person who needs positive comments will be on the list of account receivables.

$1.99 for "John and I were having good times in the poker gathering, wish you were here...", $5.99 for "Bob and I took John's kid to the violin class and we've enjoyed so much". :-P

The World's Longest Domain Name

The World's Longest Domain Name by Harold Davis -- What is the longest domain name? Like many trivial pursuits on the web, there are several claimants for this record.

www.pencilmation.com

www.pencilmation.com. Simple, cute, and cool. Two thumbs up!

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© 2004 Ross Bollinger

Winning in a Realistic Way

A friend of mine who was a high school swimming champion in Taipei once told me his theory of winning the game. In the beginning he tried his best to swim, out-beat his competitors in a significant spread, and get the reward / scholarship / a.k.a. money for breaking the community or even city record.

He knew he would get the reward anyway no matter its 0.01 second or 1 second faster than the old record. So in his 4 year (not 3 for him) high school life, he earned his 4-year colleage tuition and a BMW. He stayed in colleage for 5 years (not 4 for him) and earned a nice apartment in Taipei.

As for the city record, only 1 or 2 seconds increasing during those years. My friend never made it in the larger national games and he didn't even want to.

Winning at the right moment, in a realistic way, that's about business, not sportsmanship. What's your goal?

Making Differences

This post is a hearty advice, extracted from an email that I received this morning, for those of us who are in our 30 and building our little "molehill"...

The author is Ms. Khoo Siew Bee, one of the most respectful and successful investment bankers in the industry, and a mentor to Ange and myself...

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....I thought I would share with you both a reflection I had recently as a result of an opportunity to make a business trip to Los Angeles a week ago.  I think you would understand what I mean when I say that we never fail to know when we have arrived at our destination whatever our transportation mode.  There is that heightened awareness, a slight feeling of disorientation and keenness to get to our final destination when we arrive at our destination regradless of how often we might have been to a place.  It was the same for me when I arrived in Los Angeles.  Yet, there was that comfortable feeling that I knew the place.  The highways were like highways anywhere in the US.  There were cars and cars everywhere, and the ubiquitous road signs telling the drivers which lane to stick to in order to get to their respective destination.  My final destination on the day of my arrival, The Marriot, was like another Marriot in another American city.  As I went around the city on work, the office and factory buildings were no different from same in other American cities.  Visit to mall was not a strange event as it was occupied by shops/brands which I remembered in other malls elsewhere in the US.  As in other big American cities, there were the Chinese areas in Los Angeles city where I did not even have to use any other language save Mandarin/Cantonese.  That is, Los Angeles appears to be no different from any other cities in America.   

Is it really however?  If every city in America is the same (since each contains almost everything one could find in another city), why is Seattle still Seattle and not New York, and Washington, Washington and not Boston?  It's the people, weather, history, geography, ongoing activities, cumulation of knowledge and experiences in each city which have made them stand out in their own way.  As I reflected on this in between meetings in Los Angeles, I could not help but feel that each of us is the same as the American cities since we get similar inputs but we all make ourselves different as each of us has different aspirations.  And the level of our achievement is subject to only one thing, how strong is our will to make a difference.  Giving in to our situation is never a challenge.  Confidence always comes when we feel we have achieved our little "molehill" and from this will spring new frontier to be broken and made...