2/18/2004

a late night view from my study

— nSigma @ 10:13 pm


i had to work late last night, and even the construction fields were quiet by then. i stood outside on the balcony for some fresh air and it was cold, cold but clean. the entire city was still very bright but peaceful, even probably just for a short while.

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2/11/2004

smart words

— nSigma @ 10:54 pm

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?Answer: "I would not live forever! , because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"–Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest."Whenever […]

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2/9/2004

Starbucks vs. 陆两伍八四只零

— nSigma @ 2:39 am

Starbucks Store on Huihai Road near Shanxi Road

Qiang-Sheng cab used to run lots of TV commercials to promote their phone number when I was still a college boy. It was a loud female voice reading the number 62580000 in Shanghai dialect. Her lubricant and rhythmic voice was so impressive and resonating that I did not actually remember what the number was for but the number itself. I guess that was either the failure of the ads not to tie closely the phone number and the cab service, or the failure of me as a customer not to capture the essential of the ads.

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