Expo is Nearer Mar 31, 2010 Expo is officially 31 days away. I saw the expo site from the Inner Ring Elevated Highway tonight. They are testing the Expo light effect today. At night, the...
Bye Bye Goudaner Mar 30, 2010 Tonight, Goudaner left his sweet home in the last 6 years in the night rain. Man is a kind of animal that loves cars. A good car is part...
Yifan Fell Asleep by Himself Mar 30, 2010 Wendy posted this in her Buzz: I left my boy in his small bedroom alone and he fell into sleep ten minutes later after he sang and played his...
I Sold Out my Google Nexus One Mar 29, 2010 One month after I bought Google Nexus One (I Should Not Open Nexus One at Night), I finally sold it out in Baixing.com Second-hand Phone category at a little...
Metro Line #11 Extension Opens Mar 29, 2010 Metro Line #11 from Jiading 嘉定 to Shanghai opened for a while. Now, one month to Shanghai Expo 2010, the extension of the line opened. To give you some...
GM EN-V Unveild in Shanghai Mar 29, 2010 General Motor unveiled a new concept car - EN-V. That car is expected to hit market in 2030, 20 years from today. EN-V is electronic driven, and there will...
More Hongqiao Airport T2 Photos Mar 28, 2010 I took the photo of T2 two weeks ago. Let me share the rest of the photos in this blog. Below is the arrival hall of Hongqiao Airport T2....
Travel is Life Intensified Mar 28, 2010 Elliot Ng has many great thoughts. He does not talk too much, but from time to time, I think of something that often turned out to be from Elliot....
Forward Hindsight Mar 28, 2010 Forward Hindsight is the name of my friend Ashish's company in Minneapolis, MN. It was because of this company name did I learn the English world: Hindsight. Hindsight: recognition...
Experienced Security Guard Mar 26, 2010 Let me record the experienced I had in Pudong airport before I forgot. At the X-ray security check machine, a female security guard is supervising people to put their...
Complicated Roads to Hongqiao T2 Mar 26, 2010 The new Hongqiao Transportation Hub (including Hongqiao Airport T2) is a big project, with Airport, Maglev, and train station integrated in the same structure. There are many roads to...
Jian Shuo Got His New Car Mar 25, 2010 About 6 years ago, I posted this entry: Jian Shuo Got His Car. The little car (I gave it the name Goudaner) has been with me and my family...
HTHT IPO Mar 25, 2010 Hanting, the chain hotel group will go IPO tomorrow (March 26, 2010). The ticker will be HTHT - China Lodging Group. I am a frequent Hanting customer. I know...
I Love the Garage in Hongqiao T2 Mar 24, 2010 The highlight of the new Hongqiao Airport T2 is the garage. There are plenty of them - not worried about parking any more. Where is the Garage - P7...
Global Village Mar 24, 2010 This morning, I am very happy to host two talented students - Chengyi from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Echo from Stanford University. It brought me back to the days...
Long Taxi Lines in Hongqiao T2 Too Mar 23, 2010 The biggest hope for Hongqiao Airport T2 was to solve the long taxi line in Hongqiao Airport T1. I complained about it many times. 40 Minutes for a Taxi...
The New Home of Google in China Mar 23, 2010 After the Google official announcement of quitting China (not Google China, but google.cn, the site), I opened Google China homepage (google.com). It has already been redirected to google.com.hk. The...
Sand Storm Hits Shanghai Mar 21, 2010 I am happy that the sand storm is over. Yesterday, Wendy and I planned to go out for a walk at around 5:00 PM. It was windy, but the...
G60 Shanghai-Kunming National Expressway Mar 20, 2010 Wendy and I drove to Jiaxing via the formal A8 Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway, and found out that the signs of the expressway have changed to its new name: G60 -...
7 Year Anniversary of Wedding Mar 16, 2010 Today is the 7 year anniversary of wedding for Wendy and me. In 2003, I was admiring Kayne for 4 year wedding anniversary, one week after Wendy and I...
Yifan's Second Day in Kindergarten Mar 16, 2010 Yifan's second day is not as sweet as the first one. The day started with Yifan's cry. The teacher called in the middle, and told Wendy that Yifan kept...
Hongqiao Airport T2 Opens Mar 15, 2010 Tomorrow, the Hongqiao Airport T2 is going to open. I really want to go there and take a look myself, maybe this Saturday. I hope I can get some...
Yifan Started His Kindergarten Life Mar 15, 2010 March 15 is not a normal Monday. Yifan started his first day in kindergarten today. It is not the official kindergarten yet - that will start from this September,...
Happy Birthday to Goudaner (6th Year) Mar 15, 2010 Today is the 6th year anniversary of my little car - Goudaner. I cannot believe it that I used the car for 6 years. I didn't use it very...
Yifan's Parking Lots - Part II Mar 14, 2010 After Yifan built Parking Lots with his glass balls, he started to add eyes to all the cars. Look at this: Photograph by Jian Shuo Wang Photograph by Jian...
Electronic Power Towers Mar 13, 2010 I have a mixed feeling toward the electronic power towers. It is obviously not pleasant to get close to it, but it is not completely lack of artistic feeling....
Look up! The World Above! Mar 13, 2010 In busy days, we rush to metro, anxiously wait for trains, and leave trains without looking back. That is our life. From time to time, we may want to...
Yifan's Parking Lots Mar 13, 2010 Yifan started to build parking lots for his cars with glass balls. Look at this, it is getting big! Photo taken by Jian Shuo Wang P.S. When Yifan was...
People Started to Wait at Red Lights Mar 13, 2010 Taken at Guangyuan Road, and Gongcheng Road Taken at Guangyuan Road, and Gongcheng Road, at 8:50 AM, rush hours Look at this photo. That is a normal day...
Baggage Check in Shanghai Metro Mar 13, 2010 The expo is coming. Everything is tighten up. About few months ago, Shanghai started to check baggage at the entrance of major metro stations. The rule of whether a...
This Moment, in Shanghai Mar 10, 2010 I took metro to attend an important dinner tonight. I walked over the pedestrian viaduct at the Chengdu Elevated Highway, and the Yan'an Elevated highway - the theoretically central...
In Market We Trust - Part II Mar 10, 2010 xge made a very good point under my entry In Market We Trust. That is exactly what I am trying to say about the market - the difference is,...
ROBOCOPY D:\my Z:\ /E /Z Mar 10, 2010 I have a new computer and I am moving files to it. Let me just keep a record of the command I use. ROBOCOPY D:\my Z:\ /E /Z /E...
Shanghai Snows - Heavily, Shortly Mar 10, 2010 Yesterday, the weather of Shanghai is strange - in the afternoon, it snows when the Sun is hanging in the sky, and at night, it snows heavily and everything...
In Market We Trust Mar 9, 2010 The main take away from my Silicon Valley trip is the understanding of "market". I know, the recent financial crisis can be used as a way to argue the...
Lining up for Metro - Part II Mar 9, 2010 This is the second post about lining up in Shanghai metro after I posted the first entry about it (Lining up for Metro?) three and half years ago. These...
Metro Line 7 and 9 Became Full Time Mar 8, 2010 After I am back to Shanghai, the Metro Line #7 became operating in full time - from 5:30 to 22:31. Before, it only operate between 9:00 - 16:00. That...
Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2 to Open Mar 8, 2010 Before we are aware of, the city of Shanghai expanded beyond the speed of thinking. 2 years ago, Pudong Airport Terminal 2 just opened. In just 2 years, another...
Photo in Google, 2010 Mar 8, 2010 Everytime I am in the bay area, if I don't visit Google, I feel the trip is not complete. So, I was in Google on Monday of my last...
ThinkPad to Dell Latitude E4300 Mar 8, 2010 After using IBM ThinkPad X60 for three years, I finally switched back to Dell. The reason I am using "Back" is, my first laptop is a very big Dell...
I am a Hotel Tester Mar 6, 2010 During this trip, I used a strategy to change to a different hotel every one or two days depending on the price, and my meeting location, to optimize for...
Yifan's Stories Mar 6, 2010 I don't know why, when I am back, Yifan put all his toys into two big boxes, and asked his mom: "Would you please hide them so dad cannot...
Breakfast Meeting in Shanghai Mar 6, 2010 Are you serious to have breakfast meeting in Shanghai? Think twice before you make the appointment. I never really understand why people would think of the crazy idea of...
Jet Lag Builds Early Raiser Mar 6, 2010 Jet lag is good thing for me. Whenever in US, or back to Shanghai, jet lag drives me wake up earlier and then I became an early raiser for...
My Passion to Second Tier Cities Mar 6, 2010 In a private dinner at Goldman Sachs Internet and Technology Conference, I was asked to share a great idea with the accomplished investors, CEOs, and journalists. This is my...
Wind Blows West to East Mar 6, 2010 This trip helped me to understand some basic weather phenomenon - the wind at the surface of the earth. West to East along 31-37 degree in Latitude In this...
The Scare of Shanghai Heals Mar 6, 2010 One part of travel is to see the other side of the world (like my recent two travels), and the other interesting part is to leave Shanghai for 10...
Travelogue of Tahoe Mar 4, 2010 On Sunday, we were back from Tahoe with just 3 hours and a half on the road - comparing to the 9 hours on snowy Friday night, it is...
Wrapping up 2010 Winter Trip Mar 4, 2010 I am back to the comfortable bed in my home in Shanghai. The 10 days trip, as every previous trips, is wonderful for me - just like Alice's Adventure...