kunwei2005

To view blogger.com is fine in China, but to create new post is another story. I want to post more blogs, but the sign-in is almost unusable in China. The most talked about topics in Shanghai are - investment fund, stock, house. If you got nothing to talk about, these topics are good start. Of course, there are many other gossip - such as automobiles, big screens. The most played social game is Mafia or killing people game. Everyone is playing it. It is fun.

I have met twice in both Singapore and Shanghai. Both are from airport. One is the travel distance is too short. Another is too far! Sound strange? In Singapore Changi airport, there are some luxury Benz cars. The fare is fixed 35SGD for whole island. I need go from airport (east) all the way to NTU (west), the longest distance in Singapore. The driver keeps complaining on the car, very annoying. He think I am taking advantage of this fixed price. Frankly, I don't know. This is my first time taking this fixed price taxi. When arrived, I gave him 5SGD more. He is happy then. I will not take this cab anymore. In Shanghai Pudong airport, I took one back to where I sleep. The fare was 130 RMB. The driver was not satisfied too. He said he waited for 5 hours in airport. I understood. Every taxi driver on airport wants to pick up someone go back Puxi. I share the feeling with them, but I need go back sleep no matter they are happy or not.

I have installed VMware-player-1.0.3-34682 on Windows XP, grabbed a Ubuntu 6.10 vmware image from http://isv-image.ubuntu.com/vmware/ . The monitor is Dell 20" LCD with 1600x1200 resolution, but the Ubuntu guest inside VMware can only have 800x600 resolution. I tried to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart X. It didn't work. The Scree Resolution Preferences still has only 800x600 and 640x480. I tried to modify the .vmx setting, no luck. Finally, find the solution. Run sudo vmware-config-tools.pl, it will ask if you want to change resolution. Now Ubuntu is in 1280x960 resolution, and there are plenty other options shown up in Screen Resolution Prefs.

After I bought a bottle of Hugo Boss perfume at a Shanghai's mall, I was thinking next time I should buy it at airport duty free shop. The price should be at least 30-50% cheaper. Yesterday I was in Singapore Changi airport. I checked the price. Surprisingly, the price is almost the same as I paid in local stores. Is it real duty free?

To call international or domestic long distance, it is nice to buy a IP phone card for newcomer. There are plenty of places, especially around Metro stations, selling all kinds of IP cards. When I just arrived in Shanghai, I bought one with face value 100 CNY at 100 CNY. Several weeks later, I bought another one with face value 100 CNY at 28 CNY. Now I know I was ripped off on the first card. Doh! That mtoherfcuker!

The outside temperature is around zero degree these couple of days. Inside the house, it is around 12 degree. The feeling is about the same if you don't turn on the heater, air-con. Everything is cold, including your body. The feeling of watching TV on the coach? It is just like sitting on the street. It reminds me one word - penetrating, yes, the cold can really penetrate anything.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) website got a special new year gift. The website portal is hacked at the beginning of 2007. The backend technology is exposure of cross site scripting (XSS). As ICBC claimed, the hack is more like a prank than deep finacial breakin. For the sake of bank industry, it is not good in any sense to see this page for customers.