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The movie is a Hollywood remake of HK movie Infernal Affairs. I didn't have any interests to watch the same story until the movie blockbustered Oscar. The heck, CNY 5 for a piracy DVD. The scene is bloody, with tons of slang. The cast is full house of top actors, good guys Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, bad guys Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson - directed by Martin Scorsese. Won 4 Oscars - Best movie, best director, best screenplay and best editing. Especially for best director, Scorsese can finally smile on the Oscar stage. Personal take, this movie is no better than HK original Infernal Affairs.

To enable the Chinese input on Ubuntu 6.10 (installed on vmware player), run the following sudo touch /etc/X11/Xsession.d/74custom-scim_startup sudo chmod 646 /etc/X11/Xsession.d/74custom-scim_startup echo 'export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"' >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/74custom-scim_startup echo 'export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"' >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/74custom-scim_startup echo 'export XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d"' >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/74custom-scim_startup echo 'export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"' >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/74custom-scim_startup sudo chmod 644 /etc/X11/Xsession.d/74custom-scim_startup Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to reload x session. In the new X session, trigger the input with Ctrl-Space, and use Shift to switch.

The most convenient way from where I live to where I work is bus. I seldom take it though. This morning I waited for the bus, 2 stops, right in front of the office. The ticket is CNY 2 for air-conditioned bus, 1 for not air-coned. The passengers in bus are really packed during the rush hour, hard to board, hard to alight. I was able to board until the third bus came. Usually I take subway for just one stop, which costs CNY 3. If using a refillable board pass, I can get 10% discount after CNY 90 each month. Take a cab is the best, for about CNY 14, you are delivered within 5 minutes.

It is a known fact that internet contents are censored in China. The sensitive political and adultery related from outside China are filtered. The search engine (Google) and network hardware vendor (Cisco) were in top news related to this, as we all know. Because the limited gateways in between and SPs, it is not that difficult to monitor the flowing bits. Still it needs some intelligent to censor rich media bits, maybe there are some unpublished advanced technology used. Besides the technology, the mass of wise can also contribute by reporting to http://net.china.cn/

No matter you are smokers or not, you are smoking. You can smoke at almost anywhere. Even drama actors on TV are smoking. Recently someone suggests more strict smoking ban on National Congress currently holding in Beijing. The answer from a State Tobacco Monopoly Administration official is eyepoping - smoking ban is not a good move for social stability.

On TV commercials, you will notice one type of ads are so common - the drugs for cold and flu. Because people get cold and flu more easily and seriously in China, market is there. When I was at US, for the first couple of years, I never has a single cold. The American flu virus is nothing to Chinese body immune system. In Singapore, I had cold but usually just one or two days rest, it was gone. Now back to China, for the first 3 months, I had cold every months. The last one was over a week.