kunwei2005

I bought a new water bottle for my 3.5-year-old daughter yesterday. She saw it during the dinner, and wanted to go back the daycare with the new cup right away. This morning she woke up so early by herself, not her style at all. Now I know why. She insisted on carrying the new bottle on her own. Once arriving school, she showed it off to her teachers, without saying a word. The teachers said, "Wow, you got a new bottle". She seems very happy about it. What a simple life the small kid has!

I am in a small-group training session. In my group, there are 3 ladies--one from Singapore, one from Korea, and one from Japan. Surprisingly, before their self-introduction, I can tell their race and my guess is 100% correct. Each of them has very typical facial structure of her own race. Once they speak English, their accent makes distinguishing easier. Lots of factors determine or effect how people look in a very subtle slow way. One example, after Asian people migrate to US, it usually becomes harder, generation by generation, to tell which country she/he is originally from. Become fused all stature, color and texture of skin/hair, makeup mode, and language.

© http://www.tintin.com/ This weekend I went to Popular bookstore. I was so happy when I saw Tintin series on the bookshelf. They are just imported from UK. Tintin used to be quite popular figure in China (10 years ago?). I bought 7 stories. They costs SGD75. Nice!

Less and less ideal places to smoke. It is so windy recently. To light a piece becomes hard. And smokers have to share with wind. Well, on the good side, at least it is not cold in Singapore. I remember during the winter at Chicago, it is freaking cold to stand outside, hiding between building corners, and smoking like a guilty person. Not anymore, now there are many pretty Singapore girls smoking.

A couple days ago, a sex video clip about a female Chinese graduate student Wang Ting Ting (王婷婷) was posted on the internet. Just as it is about to cool down, another sex video clip pops. It is a sex clip of a Singapore Nanyang Polytechnic student . The video clip was stored on her cell phone. Someone stole it and posted the video clip on the Internet. This is a breaking news. It is even reported on major Singapore and Malaysia newspapers. Now we have so many cool gadgets. It is a breeze to shoot photos/videos, and share them on the internet. Everyone, even dog, is on the internet waiting for breaking news. Be careful when you do something secret or stupid. It may appear all over the world, live!

© http://www.slingmedia.com/slingbox/ It seems that watching TV is getting more and more important for us. It becomes so important that we can't afford to miss a single episode. Many buzz words are around this - IPTV, TiVo, Media Center, Video on demand, ... One of the recent innovative products is Slingbox. A small gadget sits on TV sets, and can stream and record the TV to PC over the network, wired or wirelessly. I don't buy this. I'd rather to read some books or discuss in BBS.

Hisys (Han Xin) DSP was developed by an abroad-trained scholar Chen Jin in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Han means China. From the name of these chips, you can image how proud China is about their development. Now an anonymous post on the BBS told a quite different and shocking story about Hisys DSP. The chips were actually MOTO-freescale 56800. Labels on MOTO chips were scratched off and reprinted with Hisys. About Hisys DSP from http://ic.sjtu.edu.cn/kyxs/kyssb.asp "汉芯一号"是国内第一款自主研发、速度达到200MHz并采用0.18微米工艺流片的16位定点数字信号处理器。2002年2月26日，"汉芯一号"高性能（16位）DSP芯片项目得到王阳元、邹世昌、许居衍等院士和863计划IC专家组组长严晓浪教授的权威鉴定："汉芯一号"及其设计、应用开发平台属于国内首创，达到了国际先进水平，是中国的芯片发展史上一个重要的里程碑。 "汉芯一号"全部由国内设计（汉芯半导体）、国内生产（中芯国际上海公司）、国内封装（威宇科技上海公司）、国内测试（上海集成电路设计研究中心）、国内提供标准单元库服务（芯原微电子上海公司）的高端集成电路，改写了国内集成电路领域缺乏高端DSP芯片的历史。它的诞生，是上海集成电路产业的一次整体性、标志性的突破，预示着我国在DSP核心芯片技术领域登上国际竞争舞台。