Month: August 2004

Chu/Zhu1 (mom’s surname) is the 16th most common Chinese surname, and Tuan/Duan4 (dad’s) is the 118th most common Chinese surname, according to http://zhongwen.com/xingshi.htm which I found from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_family_name i like this part of the wiktionary: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Chinese_Pinyin_index though i haven’t found a good way to go from english to chinese? it seems that some of the… Continue reading Untitled

Help me get a free ipod. Click this. http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=8286107 You will have to sign up and I think you have to do one of the promotions. There are a lot to choose from. You don’t have to pay anything. I did the free 4-week trial of stamps.com because I like the idea of printing postage… Continue reading Untitled

I’m home in San Jose! I’m moving into new apartment in Berkeley tomorrow! Play with me!

The following section is copy/pasted from an email I sent to my family. It says what I did on the three-day boat tour I took down the Yangtze River to see the 3 Gorges and the big dam and a bunch of temples.

(this pasted from an email i just wrote to my high school students from taiwan) Right now I’m in Chongching–I finished the three weeks of teaching in Guangzhou, and now we all have one week off. Ryan and I are going on a boat cruise (we’re going to get on the boat in a few… Continue reading whee