Friday, June 13, 2008

An interesting article...

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/13/steve-jobs-life-after-the-whipple/

Now I know the structure in the digestive system and pancreas...(and bile and intestine)

Are you worried? I am always in a worrying mode... I wish he live a long and healthy
life... for whatever reason...

EURO 2008

http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2008/05/espn-releases-euro-2008-schedule.html

All games are on ESPN2/ESPN, only 2 games on ABC:
Quater-Final Saturday 6/21 2:30 p.m.- 1st Group C vs. 2nd Group D (ABC)
Final Sunday 6/29 2:30 p.m. - Euro 2008 Title Match from Vienna (ABC)

CRY... for us basic-cable-only-free-cable-disappeared people...
...

(cry for 5 minutes, later:)
Actually to be able to watch final is good, in any case.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Anyone wants to grow an avocado tree from a glass?

Here is how http://www.avocado.org/about/growing-avocado
From avocado association ( http://www.avocado.org/)

An example: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/how-to/how-to-grow-an-avocado-tree-053348




bloomingdale's sale last day

did u see this one yet:
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/expired-deals/837107

bloomingdale is expensive to me though...

Wow!

WOW! Is that video in fast-forward mode, or is that how fast 昙花 (Epiphyllum) blossoms?
Interesting and beautiful.
We have a lot to expect then for our 昙花 (Epiphyllum) to blossom. And it's EATABLE.

Keep up with postings. Feel free to invite more people for posting or comments.

BTW, Fang, I think your 昙花 leaf deserve the second chance, just wait and see if it can recover from the sunburn...

try to link a youtube video of 昙花 (Epiphyllum)

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

you may want to watch China stock market diving tonight

http://finance.sina.com.cn/

大丽菊







挺漂亮的大丽菊,唯一遗憾的就是只有一个品种. :-(
等另一个疑是其他颜色的开了也贴上了比一比.
加了一个新的黄色大丽菊, 箱子照的, 比我的手艺好多了 :-(

现在就开始拉广告,"等到今年冬天,如果对这种大丽菊感兴趣,想要的话,不但免费提供,还主动送货上门, 赫赫"

Is this a flower bud?

Ask you two a question :

Is this a flower bud? Or a regular new leaf? This is one of the
leaves you gave me on Feb/March. Not the recent one. The recent
one is still alive :-)

Sorry about the fuzziness of the picture

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

test

Magnolias

Remembering those pretty magnolia trees:


Merrill Magnolia


Black Tulip Magnolia


Yellow Bird Magnolia


Leopard Magnolia


Star Magnolia

Viewnamese Stock market Crash -- interesting article

An interesting comment from finance.yahoo.com.cn

越南经济恶化并非泰国翻版

无论是经常账赤字、外汇储备,还是通胀情况,越南的经济指标都显示一场货币危机已在酝酿中。今年以来,越南股市跌幅达60%以上,外资银行甚至担心越南盾有可能像1997年亚洲金融危机时的泰国铢一样一年贬值30%多。而胡志明市等越南大中城市的房地产价格平均下跌达50%以上。一度被视为“制造工厂”接班人的越南,其经济前景突然阴云密布。

作为国内研究 CPI问题的权威专家,中国社科院欠发达地区研究中心主任袁钢明表示,“越南对资本进出有严格控制,与泰国资本过度开放导致热钱大进大出有根本不同,将越南的经济恶化理解为泰国金融危机的翻版过于简单。越南经济恶化的根源在于CPI。”越南国内经济形势的恶化首先表现在通货膨胀上。今年5月,越南CPI涨幅达到25.2%,创下1992年以来最高水平。“一旦CPI涨幅超出民众承受能力,高物价必然引发居民恐慌心理。为了抵御高通胀,民众会尽快将手中的越南盾换成黄金、美元,这就导致越南盾贬值,并导致其他一系列危机。”袁钢明分析称.

Just Wiki-ed, CPI = Consumer Price Index

What it means is that China is also aware of the inflation and the hot money is flowing from Vietnam to China. Is this why China is tightening the money flow and control inflation?

must-have puppy and panda pics

Worth note it here