Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Oh Huskies

Friday, April 25, 2014

17 Mouthwatering Photos From The Legendary Sushi Restaurant Where Obama Just Ate Dinner
A Biography Of Your Cubicle: How This Became The Modern Workplace
Hong Kong Howls, But 88% of Mainland Chinese Don’t Mind Public Urination
Hedge Fund Guy Amplifies China's Hong Kong Crisis
Vogue Won’t Work with Terry Richardson, Vogue, you better stick to it.
Book News: Happiness Study Says Library Trips Are As Good As A Pay Raise
Bad news: you probably have herpes and don't know it
Normcore Made Portland the Center of the Fashion Universe.
NYT Poll Blows Up The GOP's Obamacare Narrative
President Obama goes to Sukiyabashi Jiro in Tokyo
Volkswagen’s New 300 MPG Car Is Not Allowed In America Because It’s Too Efficient
Weekly Innovation: An Inflatable Car Seat That Comes In A Backpack, too cool, I hope the development will goes to production soon if it passes all the regulation requirment.
Multigenerational homes: Room for grandparents and grown grandchildren

Game 3, go blazers!

Stewart Tears Apart ‘Professor of Negro Studies’ Bundy, CNN’s MH370 Obsession

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

Kristina Wong wants reparations for Yellow Fever

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When 2 Women On Fox News Are Faced With Bill O’Reilly's Sexism, Stephen Colbert Strikes Comedy Gold.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Becoming truly great

1st -->CUT 75 Millions cost in SG & A !

Oh boy.. Tina Fey!

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Yes & No

Michael Vick's Former Dogfighting Pups Will Make You Believe In Happily Ever After
Americans Are Having Dogs Instead of Babies
National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It's Beautiful
The Story Flips: Burger King Says It Isn't Moving Into Crimea, you are not trustworthy, BK.
Is Everything More Delicious When You Eat With Your Hands?
Truth-Seeking In The Age Of Speculation
Why Do 202,586 People Want To Leave Our Planet For Mars? Being a Martian is cool?
Burger King Looks To Rule In Crimea After McDonald's Abdicates, BK is not ethical, no business from me
Have U.S. Light Rail Systems Been Worth the Investment?
Tree Hugger cloth pads an alternative to disposables
Golden Retriever Festival In Scotland Looks Like The Cutest Party Ever
Future Vietnamese Foods: Artisanal Pho Pizza and Big Mac Banh Mi?
The loaded meaning behind 'What do you do?'
Hillary Clinton tells Portland crowd that no-compromise political culture is hurting U.S.
This Packing Tape Innovation Takes The Hassle Out Of Unboxing
The Two Words That Will Lead You To Success and Happiness
China angered by latest U.S. arms sale plan for Taiwan
What are these giant concrete rings built by the Nazis?
The Forgotten Childhood: Why Early Memories Fade
On Heels Of GM, Toyota Recalls More Than 6 Million Vehicles

O Reilly, Hannity & Limbaugh, no logic, should stay in landfill.

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Who is America's strangest city?

The Importance of Being Kind in an Unkind World
5 Reasons My Dog Is a Lazy, Worthless Millennial
Eating Out: 12 favorite places on 82nd Avenue
In Turnaround, More Moms Are Staying Home, Study Says
A San Franciscan's Coachella Checklist
8 Beers That You Should Stop Drinking Immediately
Banfield Pet Hospital pocketed a subsidy and got favorable treatment from local governments—then bolted to Vancouver.
This Pie Chart Is Delicious And Statistically Sound
31 reasons we should all be living in Hong Kong
Protecting Hong Kong’s Autonomy
Rehab counselor? Some jobs stand out in Wash. city statistics
Life With a Dog: You Meet People
Infographic: Portland vs. Austin — Which One Is the Weirdest?
Weird War III: Portland Rising
WSJ Editors To Conservatives: Stop Acting Crazy Over Obamacare
Everybody Panic: Nong's Khao Man Gai Restaurant Is Open Now
SF, I Love You, But I've Been Talking Shit

10 Most Fattening Foods in the World
The True Origins of 13 Classic American Foods
The 10 Best Beers You've Probably Never Heard Of
A Rational Conversation: A European's View On Coachella And U.S. Festivals
If Jesus Never Called Himself God, How Did He Become One?
How Do You Survive an Interview on The Colbert Report?
Joe is leaving.. strangely, I don't give a damn.

Monday, April 07, 2014

Note to self, avoid SELFIE!

Sizing Up Your Children Is A Tricky Business
15 Foods From Childhood We Can't Believe Are Still Around
17 Decidedly Phallic Images Of Japan's Annual Penis Festival Kanamara Matsuri
申領綜援毋須住滿7年 料有6至7千人申請, this is aweful.
Popular Wristbands Could Record Chemical Exposure
Readout of the Vice President’s Meeting with Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Advocates
Alphabet Sandwich Includes One Ingredient Per Letter, from Krispy Kreme to Mac & Cheese
Two-legged Vancouver dog charms millions with beach video
How I Survived My One Night as a Prep Cook in Chef David Chang’s Momofuku Noodle Bar
Affirmative action debate create rifts in California's ethnic communities
Opposition to affirmative action: California Asian Americans have forgotten civil rights history
#CancelColbert Let Asian-Americans Call Out The Real Ding-Dongs
How One App Might Be A Step Toward Internet Everywhere
Scientists Link Selfies To Narcissism, Addiction & Mental Illness
Stunning Photo Series Highlights The Beauty Of Black Dogs That Are Often Overlooked In Adoption
They're big softies! Sumo wrestlers (and proud dads) go ga-ga for their adorable babies... before stepping into the battle ring
Why the Chinese chase the bus?
US: SIX-SECOND SINGING SENSATIONS GET A RECORD DEAL

What's It Actually Like In North Korea? A Million Times Worse Than You Imagine.

http://www.upworthy.com/whats-it-actually-like-in-north-korea-a-million-times-worse-than-you-imagine?c=ufb1
Does Money Make You Mean?

Giant Container Ship Collides With Hong Kong Park

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/07/300290289/watch-giant-container-ship-collides-with-hong-kong-park
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Why I must come out

Bill Maher's excellent commentary on America's disappearing middle class

Sunday, April 06, 2014

Transcendence

Friday, April 04, 2014

Up to you.

Eat. dream. laugh. dog, travel. fun, work hard, play hard.

Boycotting UPS

Chinese Student’s Essay on Ramen Got Him Into College
'Wow, George Bush is a painter', not impressed, he is still a terrible person!
Rents expected to rise for a fifth consecutive year as demand surges
Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO, Leaves Foundation Board
The Joys And Ethics Of Insect Eating
Good Day Sunshine: Could Morning Light Help Keep Us Lean?
Weekly Innovation: Turn A 3-D Printer Into A Tattoo Machine
UPS fires 250 employees for staging a 90-minute protest to defend co-worker
China Maoming environmental protest violence condemned
Japan whaling ban welcomed in Australia and New Zealand
Ever Heard Of Benzene Poisoning? Me Neither. But Samsung And Apple Have. People get sick so that you have use your smart phones.
The Old And Mysterious Practice Of Eating Dirt, Revealed
Should We Close Part Of The Ocean To Keep Fish On The Plate?
More House, Less Booze: How Spending Changes From Age 25 To 75
While Warning Of Chinese Cyberthreat, U.S. Launches Its Own Attack

G.E.M.鄧紫棋與Jason Mraz深情對唱中文版「Lucky」

Oh Puppy..

Hanshi Festival (寒食節) I heard of this festival 1st time today..

Arcane Chinese Holiday Honors Integrity Before Personal Gain
Cold Food Festival

Thursday, April 03, 2014

The top 11 things you will never hear a real Portlander say
Portlandia At Cartlandia
Are millennials complacent and unfocused, or civic-minded and entrepreneurial? (poll)
A Bigger Portland is On Its Way—And Here's What It Will Look Like
Map Of The Developing Human Brain Shows Where Problems Begin
The April Fool's Joke That Changed Tech History
What are the 51 things you'll never hear a Portlander say?
Contrarian repents: 30 things I love about Seattle
Rise of the robots
Hobby Lobby Invests In Abortion Pill Manufacturers
Essie Davis: On Playing A Sexually Liberated 'Superhero' Without Apology
All Charged Up: Engineers Create A Battery Made Of Wood
Why Burning Wood To Stay Warm Is Back In Vogue
Vladimir Putin Is Right Out Of A Russian Novel

Cheers to Crony-Capitalism, HK.

Why Hong Kong’s latest No 1 ranking was greeted with silence
You know how it is when Hong Kong tops a world comparison table: first comes a flurry of self-congratulatory articles, and then there will be a smug government statement to the effect that this confirms whatever it is supposed to confirm. However, total silence followed the publication of a recent international survey by The Economist, drawing on material from the IMF, World Economic Forum and Forbes magazine. Hong Kong has not only topped a world comparison league but did so by a mile. The simple reason for the silence that followed this news is explained by the table's title: the crony-capitalism index. Hong Kong ranks No1 by a long shot, followed by Russia and Malaysia. Even Indonesia, much criticised for excessive crony capitalism, is ranked in 10th place, making Hong's Kong's reigning position that bit more "impressive". The Economist league table is designed to identify economies that are dominated by "rent seekers". In other words, it looks at the fortunes of business leaders who have been able to secure a larger share of the business pie not by helping to expand the size of their local economies but by grabbing a larger share of the pie itself. The Economist defines economic rent as being "the difference between what people are paid and what they would have to be paid for their labour, capital, land [or any other inputs into production] to remain in current use". As ever, an index of this kind is open to challenges, because there are lapses in data, especially from places such as China. Also, economic rent often emerges from the existence of cartels that both create wealth and distort the market in which this wealth is being produced. Thirdly, the index focuses solely on the wealth of billionaires, while a great deal of economic rent is extracted below the billionaire watermark. However, none of these caveats need apply to Hong Kong where the complex of government-abetted cartels and monopolistic practices are not hard to identify. Thus everyone doing business in Hong Kong knows they tend to pay extortionate amounts in rent because the property market is so dominated by a small clutch of players that make the market more or less whatever they determine it to be. Moreover, the concentration of power is aided and abetted by the government's monopoly over land ownership and the way it distributes land at auctions that - because of the size of the lots on offer - effectively ensure that only the very largest companies, alone or in combination, have any chance of securing land for development. Other sectors in which Hong Kong's small clutch of tycoons have made their fortunes demonstrate that government regulation and control not only produced the tight system of cartel domination but allowed it to flourish. The examples that come readily to mind, aside from property development, are: banking, ports, energy supply, transportation and, as Ricky Wong is finding out much to his cost, communications. The common thread running through all these sectors is government regulation. Look at the same question from another angle, and it becomes equally clear why Hong Kong reigns supreme in the crony capitalism league. Not one of Hong Kong's biggest companies has developed substantial businesses outside its cartel comfort zone. In the United States, which now ranks 17th in the league, much of the new wealth creation comes from corporations that have developed world-beating products in the technology sphere. Meanwhile, Japan, despite its exquisite network of crony-type business arrangements, still manages to find itself at the bottom of the league table (in 21st place) because so many of its richest people are making world-beating products that are sold in a truly competitive marketplace. Companies and consumers shoulder real costs arising from this web of monopolies The disquiet over cartel operations in Hong Kong led to the enacting of a competition law two years ago, but it has proved to be so toothless as to have had more or less zero impact. If this were merely a matter of abstract ideology, it really would not matter where Hong Kong stood in this iniquitous league, but companies and consumers shoulder real costs arising from this web of monopolies, and it adds considerably to the price of doing business here. Moreover, Hong Kong's cartel-dominated economy runs contrary to the international trend, where this kind of dominance is being reduced. According to The Economist, the proportion of billionaire wealth derived from rent-seeking industries declined from 76 per cent in 2008 to 58 per cent this year. As for the people at the lower end of the economic tree, in case anyone cares, this is very bad news indeed, because there is a direct correlation between the poverty gap and the degree of crony capitalism. Every global survey of the gap between rich and poor has Hong Kong, infamously, near the top of the league. None of this is new information, but seeing it starkly reported in the way that it has been should, at the very least, stir some feeling of discomfort and demonstrates why "the world's freest economy" remains firmly headed in the wrong direction.

陳奕迅-一生中最愛

The Onions Tips For Nailing A Job Interview


The Onions Tips For Nailing A Job Interview

Jimmy Fallon (as Vladimir Putin) and Sarah Palin (as Sarah Palin)

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Stephen Colbert Responds to #CancelColbert as Only He Can
When The Twit Hit The Fan: 'I'm Still Here,' Colbert Says
Stephen Colbert was making fun of Dan Snyder, not Asians and Asian-Americans
In #CancelColbert, A Firestorm And A Lost Opportunity
For Native Americans, Losing Tribal Membership Tests Identity
Online marketplaces may encourage bias
How To Wean Yourself From Your Smartphone, At Least Temporarily
Girls Are Taught To 'Think Pink,' But That Wasn't Always So
Thyroid Symptoms in Women are Hard to Catch, But They Sure Messed Up My Life
A Recent History of Campaigns to Get Couples to Do the Nasty
15 Fashion DIYs
Jessica Dutro, Oregon Mom, Allegedly Killed Son Because She Thought He Was Gay
Of Me I Sing: Americans Construct An Opt-Out Society
'What I Eat: Around The World In 80 Diets' Shows Stunning Portraits Of Daily Meals
Asian-American Rabbi Changes The Face Of Judaism
How Your Face Shows Happy Disgust

AAAwwww

Skipping PM this year! :)

PM in April

Be yourself on the plane..not sure if that is ok everytime when you travel.

Happy april's fool!