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Can you guess what this is? For those who can't read Chinese, the three characters with TM on the box on the left reads "Kuh lin dwun" and those on the right "Lai wun shih gee." The Clinton condoms are to be marketed to a higher end user base, while the Lewinsky ones are for the masses!! Only in Hong Kong! I have to admit it, Asians know how to do business.

Had a very fun event last night at the Nasher Museum of Duke. The museum officially opens this Sunday, but last night was the Director's reception in honor of Ray Nasher who funded the museum. I was invited to go as I'm on the Duke Council for the Arts. The museum is still pretty empty in terms of art pieces, but hopefully Duke will make the effort to fill that up. There's already a lot of good going for the museum; the building was designed by architect Rafael Vinoly, who is a rising star. Another interesting piece of news lately---Japanese scientists have finally videotaped a giant squid live! This long hidden in the deeps mysterious creature has always evaded capture and has only ever been found dead floating onto shorelines. The scientists were very clever in following sperm whales, the main predators of giant squid. You know my first reaction when I heard the news? I was thinking what the Japanese were probably thinking---SUSHI! I mean, just look at the tentacle! Poten

New picture story posted--- Camp Out 2005 . Our star pitcher Wang Chien Ming got another win under his skirt. Literally I mean skirt!

I'm having trouble uploading pics onto the site...I guess I'll have to put them on my personal web page. here's the car: 1 2 3 Addendum: So I probably hit my picture limit. So I'll be posting pics elsewhere and linking to them from now on.

Actually not this guy, but his likeness. He basically treated Taiwan like the dough he's mucking up. Ok, that was a bit too vehement, but CKS really only thought of Taiwan as a temporary home. Still one cannot deny his greatness. His legacy still affects Taiwan today, some for better and some for worse. Moon Festival just went by, and I had a great weekend. Lots of mooncake leftover though, so I'll probably bring them in to the lab to share. Can't possibly eat all that stuff and not feel good about myself afterwards. So a couple jokes...told by a friend during the party this Friday. A guy is engaged to this girl. Several weeks before the wedding, the girl runs off with a doctor. From that day on, the guy started eating apples. Da da dum! Ok, this one's requires Chinese. 那個cartoon最黑暗? Ans: 小叮噹. Why? Because...daa daa dum...伸出圓手不見五子. Hah. This one is actually rather funny. For those who don't know, its Doraemon! This joke doesn't stop there, but somehow I've f

Nature reports that aerobics is good for you, not just physically but mentally! Comparing two groups of over 50s, one that did only stretching and others that walked actively, the second group faired better with mental tasks. Exercise helps create brain derived neurotrophic factor, and also helps the growth of new capillaries. So I think it's pretty clear that breaking a sweat daily is important for keeping both mind and body in shape. The researchers also stressed healthy lifestyle, good nutrition, thinking positively such as replacing words like "grey" and "old" with "healthy" and "active." Needless to say, these words of wisdom should be applicable to all age groups, perhaps besides the newborn to 3 month old babies, who obviously have trouble even walking...

This is pretty sweet. I need to get myself one. From a CNN article, "Humping along just under 85 pounds (38 kg) of weight in the backpack can produce up to 7 watts of electricity, Lawrence Rome and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania report. This is more than enough electricity to simultaneously power an MP3 music player, a personal digital assistant, night vision goggles, a handheld global positioning satellite navigation device, and a mobile telephone." I also learned that the human hip rises roughly 2 inches when we walk as we pivot about one foot while swinging the other one. This is actually how the backpack generates energy, as it is essentially moving up and down with the hip. This idea is really good cause it utilizes biological energy to generate electricity. Nature always has the most efficient way of doing things; only by tapping into that will we truly benefit and progress.

This weekend I was in California for my high school classmate's wedding. Actually he's not just a high school classmate, but elementary school and middle school too! So needless to say I've known this guy for a very long time. It's fun to see how far our class has gone. I still remember the first day at school, and it wasn't entirely the most pleasant one. I was kind of on the more than chubby side, and was immediately told so by several members of the class (fingers pointing, "He's fat!"). Actually, quite a number of them weren't that skinny either, Ron being one of them. Quite obviously, it took me some time to get to know people in the class. I think it's universal, perhaps from our survival instincts, that chubbier kids are not the most immediately popular. Usually having extra meat signals wealthier conditions which might be envied; this of course is just a theory. But I think I was also very used to having my way with things, and slightly