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snow in Shanghai

It was snowing in Shanghai! I was so excited to see the landscape of snow yesterday when I woke up. It wasn't that common now to see snow in winter. In the past 20 years, the winter in China usually is not cold but dry and foggy. Now the snow comes, in an overwhelming way.

subscribe utilities

After moving to new apartment, I opened the following utilities: - Gas, one time service setup fee around 900RMB. This one is the most unreasonable expensive one. I thought it should be free as water and electricity. You pay only what you used, but the whole system buildup cost is government's business. - Landed phone provided by China Telecom, a couple of hundreds yuans. - Cable TV, one time service setup fee around 400 yuans. - Network, there are several providers - China Telecom, China Netcom, and Cable. I use cable modem. 1200 yuans for one year contract.

so long, apple powerbook

After 3 years, my 12" powerbook's battery is totally drained out. the combo drive has a small mechanical problem. To fix this small problem by certified Apple service, the cost is over what I am gonna sold for. I listed it on taobao.com ( http://auction1.taobao.com/auction/0/item_detail-0db2-750253ea4d26af50dd7296286a42802c.jhtml ). Taobao is the most popular online auction site in China. Eachnet or eBay China fall far behind. The secrets of Taobao's success? Move fast for new features. Free service.

Two sci-fi movies

Recently I watched two movies, one is Invasion, and another is I am legend. Both happen to be very similar plotted sci- fi movies. The plot is about by human's own over-developed technological advances, virus conquers human being. Human becomes zombie of virus with sticky and gross appearance and vicious habit. Interesting point is Invasion is failed financially and critically. I am legend is favorited by critics and on top of box office chart. I agree. Nicole has no chemistry with new 007 in the Invasion at all even they two are in love. Will's relationship with dog is better than that.

很黄很暴力

“上次我上网查资料,突然弹出来一个网页,很黄很暴力,我赶紧把它给关了。”这是13岁的北京小学生张殊凡,在去年12月27日19时新闻联播一则关于净化网络视听的新闻里接受采访时说的话。 笑倒!查什么资料查出个很黄很暴力。