Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2009
This year is Germany’s election year. I cannot vote on Sep. 27th, but this fact does not stop me from having fun from this small online game: Wahl O Mat.
Here is my result:
I’m glad enough that in Germany there are still some parties trying to defend the market economy and defend individual freedom, especially [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2009
Recently German media often discusses about the pension system. People from different parties debated heavily. Many people want so-called retirement-pension-guarantee. In my opinion, the retirement pension system in Germany, which was designed in 1950’s, is totally out of the reality of the current highly dynamic, highly competitive, and globalized economic. In Germany, young people pay [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2009
Actually I wanted to write this entry a while ago, because of my laziness and online-shopping impulses it’s postponed till now.
June 15th to June 19th was German students’ “protest week” this year. Many students from all over the Germany, from primary pupils to university students, went to streets and protested against bad hardware conditions [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2009
Recently in Germany and other European countries there have been milk farmers protesting against the low milk price.
IMHO, protest and demostration brings nothing. The price is largely decided by the relationship of demand and supply. If the price stays steadily low, that means the supply is too large. The milk farmers can see a price [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 23rd, 2008
Ost Trifft West by Yang Liu on amazon.de
It’s a small book with warmth of daily life, humour, and sophistication. It however does not require the concentration that is usually needed for reading a book on a subject that is as heavy as this. The compositions in the pictures are concise and powerful. I admire Liu [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 28th, 2008
This topic has been boring in my blog, I know. Dear readers, please bear with me, this is my last entry for the mainstream German media this year. After this entry, I’ll focus on interesting stuff such as software programming, investment, and animes.
Yesterday, in the subway station in Hannover, the projectors there kept broadcasting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2008
It was not long ago. Dirk and I moved to Hildesheim and I started to seek job. Soon there was an interview invitation from Hannover. I printed off the “how to reach us” map from the company website and went to Hannover alone for the job interview.
At that time, the only subway station in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2008
When I was studying in UAS Kaiserslautern campus Zweibrücken, I was too lazy to cook for myself and counted on the student restaurant for daily lunch and evening snack. Usually I ate a very heavy lunch and fetch a small salmon burger for dinner.
Before long, all employees in the student restaurant knew me. When [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2008
Last Friday I went home four hours earlier to watch the 29th Olympic opening ceremony live on ARD ( the main German TV channel. It is publicly funded ).
I cried from the beginning to the end while I was watching the ceremony. The selfless contribution of tens of thousands actors and volunteers touched me [...]
Posted in Germany, finance, investment on Jul 29th, 2008
I watch ARD’s Börse report (equity market report) at around 19:55 almost everyday. Today a gentleman in the program said, in countries like Sweden and the Netherlands, 30+% citizens hold stocks. In Germany, only around 5% citizens are shareholders. The gentleman said this is not a good sign, the Abgeltungssteuer (capital gain tax) for long-term [...]
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