2/24/2008

愛我別走

愛我別走 - 張震嶽

我到了這個時候還是一樣
夜裡的寂寞容易叫人悲傷
我不敢想的太多 因為我一個人

迎面而來的月光拉長身影
漫無目地的走在冷冷的街
我沒有妳的消息 因為我在想妳

愛我別走 如果妳說 妳不愛我
不要聽見妳真的說出口
再給我一點溫柔


有位朋友在結婚前一日,被我們幾個朋友逼在美術館後,robson街上公眾唱給準新娘聽.還真的不錯聽,而且非常張震嶽,歌詞少又一直重複.

2/17/2008

Quick review of 2007 Nissan Altima

It has been a year since I leased the new Nissan. My last ride was a German made, BMW 3 series. It was funny how I have never dreamt of having a bmw for a daily ride. Maybe I have always had modest goals or dreams. My dream car back in high school was the 1993 Civic Si.

Although the Nissan has new frame when compare to the pre-2007 version, it is relatively similar. While BMW had lots of goodies, leather seat, heated mirror, heated seats... The 2007 Nissan has it all and about 25k cheaper. However, BMW had all the goodies in 1999, and Nissan had just implemented them on the new car.

The overall feeling is pretty solid, the car itself is pretty big, designed in California, it feels more American than Japanese. Reliability is good, no problems so far, knock on wood.

There are two cool things about the Nissan, it has a CVT, continuous variable transmission, basically it is an automatic transmission without any gears, so you don't feel it change gear when accelerate, and it saves more gas than the regular automatic.

Another cool thing is with its keyless entry and push button ignition system. I don't need to take out my key to enter to exit the car, I only had to bring the key with me, and push the button to go. I admit it is more of a marketing thing. But it is so convenient, sometimes I forgot to turn off my engine when leaving my car.

Overall, it is a good solid car, a little boring actually, although it has accumulated a fair share of scratches, but it should serve me well in the next 2 years.

2/12/2008

横批?

春来也鸟语花香
秋去也山明水秀

what the heck do they mean? To perserve mother nature?

2/10/2008

新年猜燈謎-台語版

四角兩面,六齒七面 (猜家裡用的東西)

請用台語發音

2/05/2008

How Stock Market Works

Once upon a time in a village, a
man appeared
and announced to the villagers
that
he would buy monkeys for $10
each.

The villagers seeing that there
were many monkeys around,
went out to the forest, and
started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10
and as supply
started to diminish, the
villagers stopped their effort.
He further announced that he
would now buy at $20.
This renewed the efforts of the
villagers and
they started catching monkeys
again.

Soon the supply diminished even
further and people
started going back to their
farms. The offer increased
to $25 each and the supply of
monkeys
became so little that it was an
effort to even see
a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he
would buy monkeys at $50 !

However, since he had to go to
the city on some business,
his assistant would now buy on
behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the
assistant told the villagers.
'Look at all these monkeys in the
big cage that
the man has collected. I will
sell them to you at $35
and when the man returns from
the city,
you can sell them to him for $50
each.'

The villagers rounded up with
all their savings
and bought all the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor
his assistant,
only monkeys everywhere!

Now you have a better
understanding
of how the stock market works.