Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
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 [...]
In the National Geographic German version issue July 2008, there is a story about China. I bought this issue and read the complete story. Very well written. The authors had lived in China for many years, what they described is quite fact-oriented. The critiques are quite to the point. The story was written with [...]
Posted in Germany, finance, investment on Jul 13th, 2008
Disclaimer: this entry is only my personal opinion, it should not be taken as investing guide. Please do your own research for your investing choice.
This entry tries to study the possibilities of protecting personal income in a period of high inflation. This topic actually can be discussed in a thick book if we really go [...]
Posted in Germany, entertainment, life on Jul 12th, 2008
This afternoon Dirk dragged me to the Univ. of Hildesheim to attend the Steinerei 2008 brick film festival. It was a contest of films made with Lego-built elements. This year’s theme is “remake”. Today the host presented totally 13 short Lego films in the final.
The first film “Imitation” tells a story of a man [...]
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Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
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