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I’ve just had a check of my order history of the last few years on Amazon.co.uk. The earliest I can trace back was an purchase I made on 17th Sep 2003, I bought a textbook on that day. Im not so sure if that was actually the first purchase I made on Amazon, I’ve always […]

I thought this is a futuristic concept hotel when I first saw it on Shanghaiist, but it is not. In fact, this five-star resort hotel will be built within a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China. It’s also said this cool hotel will integrate lots of green features ranging […]

Recently Channel Five showed an documentary about this conjoined twins. Unfortunately, I missed the documentary, but was struck by their incredible story after I read about it.
According to Wikipedia, each of the twins manages one side of their conjoined body, controlling her own arm and leg, and receives no sensation from the other side. […]

Here is an interesting article titled ‘Not all successful CEOs are extroverts’. As you probably have guessed from the title, it says lots of nice things about introverts. Yes, I am an introvert so I liked it. Below are some parts I found particularly interesting:
“It seems counter-intuitive, but introverts and closet introverts populate the highest […]

A funny picture I found today. A US baseball player instead of hitting the ball had probably threw out his bat. I just love the facial expressions of the people in the photo.

Now people in the west are becoming increasingly aware of the Chinese new year, tomorrow is the new year’s day, so I will expect some people saying ‘happy new year’ to me, and asking how Im going to celebrate. In fact, I rarely celebrate for any festivals, I have not given much thought for this […]

I found this design of Thinkpad from a recent post on DesignMatters weblog (a Lenovo blog on its product designs). As you can see this design combines both the portability of a laptop and the advantage of a desktop user interface. The author of the post made a poll to gather votes from its audience […]

I have for a very long time wanted to register online banking. In fact, I did try to do it about three years ago, I cannot remember now why I didn’t complete the whole registration prosess at the time. It was then my pure laziness that I’d never bothered to register again over the subsequent […]

Today, I bought a good book and it was quite unexpected. I went to the Waterstones bookstore located very close to London’s Piccadilly Circus (it’s the biggest commercial bookstore in the UK) during my lunch break. Although I don’t normally visit to bookstores on a Sunday’s lunch break as it’s very short (only 30 minutes), […]