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Designers Will Kill You

Stumbled upon the website of Gallery 1988. The gallery will open on May 20 in LA and ends on June 1. It is a gallery of very interesting art pieces. The most interesting of is The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons Of Mass Designer Show by Peter Gronquist. The show features many crossover pieces of combat weapons and premium designer brands. My favorites of all are the Louis Vuitton chain saw and the Paul Smith missile. All the pieces are for sale and most of them are already sold out! Check it out!

Louis Vuitton chain saw for $3250

Paul Smith missile for $500

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Congratulations To Tzu Chi Foundation Canada

Tzu Chi Foundation had done a great job in raising money for China earthquake relief. I’ve never seen a relief fund set up so quick. On May 13, which was the day after the initial quake, I heard them asking for donations on radio already.

They have partnered up with local Chinese radio station AM1320 and T&T Supermarket to raise money as quick as possible. They have also set up donation booths in all major shopping malls in Vancouver. I am really impressed by their efforts. I’ve checked their website and since May 15 they have raised a total of $700,000 CAD. That is almost 5 million Chinese yuan. Congratulations and keep up the good work!

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Fairchild Radio Open House

Today is Fairchild Radio’s open house day. Fairchild Radio is Canada’s most listened to Chinese radio station. Actually they have more than one stations to target Cantonese and Mandarin listeners in different major cities in Canada. Today’s open house in Vancouver is to promote its radio hosting classes that are coming up in July. Every year they put up classes around summer time to train potential future radio hosts. If you live in Vancouver and wants to get professional training from Canada’s #1 Chinese radio, then visit their website at am1470.com.

Want To Be A DJ?

There’s another session which trains you to becoming a radio news reporter. I am totally not interested in becoming a news person, so I only filled out the radio host training registration form. It costs $10 CAD to register and also need to attach a 4R recent photo. I have no idea what 4R means but I guess a 6×4 is good enough.

My First Radio Commercial

During today’s open house, a professional radio hosts showed us how it is like to talk and mix for radio. It was fun and I got to record a short commercial as demonstration. My first ever radio commercial was very choppy and embarrassing. The demonstrator said it’s very good for the first time. Hopefully the training class will teach me how to record a perfect commercial.

Registration Ends On June 14

The whole courses should last for about 7 weeks. The cost is $265. There is going to be an exam at the end and if you can show good potential, you get to go on to phase 2 of the training and a step closer to becoming a professional radio host.

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Let’s Help China

Let’s put away your political views and bias for a minute and focus on the tragedy that happened in China a few days ago. For those who didn’t know, there was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in southwest Sichuan China. The government had put a great rescue effort but more help is needed. Death toll is almost 15,000 now and most of them are children as a lot of schools collapsed during the quake.

A Picture > A Thousand Words

If you don’t know how bad the situation is, just head to Reuters.com and look at the image gallery of the quake. You will see how bad it is for the victims and their families. Your tears will start to drop as pictures are better than a thousand words.

Donate Now!

Because the quake erupted in a mountainous area and many roads were destroy, rescuers had a hard time reaching the victims. The first rescuers walked for hours to each to the critical areas. You don’t have to do the same to help those victims, all you need to do is contact your local Red Cross now and donate. The latest news from China is that it is badly in need of bottled water. Donate now and help get those water to the victims! If doesn’t matter if you are Chinese, Japanese, or American. Save some lives before it is too late!

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Top Three Ways To Gain 20 Pounds In 6 Months

Since the past 6 months I’ve gained over 20 lbs of weight. You can’t say I am fat boy now because many friends think I look better now than ever.

There are 3 things I’ve done over the past 6 months that encouraged this amazing growth. It may work for you or it may not. However, when you see the methods later on, you will see they should help most people gain some fat. This simple guide is the only thing you’ll need to become fat and look as good as me. If you choose to live a healthier life and want to avoid health problems in the long run, look elsewhere or do the opposite.

Don’t Eat Breakfast

Who has time for breakfast? If you have work at 8:30am, are you going to wake up at 7 and eat breakfast? No way man! You can always stop by to get a coffee and a donut on your way to work.

If you decide to eat your breakfast, your fat gaining result will not be as good because it fills your stomach a little so that you are not as hungry during the rest of the day. As a result you won’t eat as much. This is a big no no.

Eat As Much As You Can Before Going To Bed

Eating before going to sleep isn’t proven a sure fat trapper, but it sure helped me got my 20 lbs. It feels weird trying to sleep with an empty stomach right? Eat as much as you can before you go to bed!! In fact, eat some potato or rice and it will make your sleep a lot better. It will supercharge your weight gaining effort.

Don’t Exercise, It’s For Nerds

Go to the park and see the people who run. They all look like nerds. Do you ever see cool people run? No, right? Stop by the gym and you will see more nerdy people who have nothing better to do. Don’t exercise because cool people don’t care about heart problems or overweight. Cool people like us just need to sit in front of our Mac Book Pros all day.

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Tips On Selling Online

I used to be a very active seller on eBay as I bought things in bulb from China and list them online. That was about 2 years ago and I totally gave up on that business because eBay was totally treating me like crap.

My idea of writing this post came from reading this post called “It’s Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On eBay“. It is about how difficult it was for this guy named Timothy to sell his laptop on eBay. It got my attention as it brought back my angry memories.

Are You a Scammer?

There was nothing wrong with eBay itself but the scammers and eBay’s effort to stop scammers were driving me crazy. It’s nice for eBay to try hard at getting rid of scammers and sellers of fake stuff, but they went way too far.

I used sell silver jewelries. They were no name generic ones but some of their designs were similar to brands like Tiffany & Co and others. eBay suspended my account because they thought I was selling counterfeit items. I tried to contact them but there were simply no way one could reach live real help. If you try to email them they would just reply you with an auto-reply that’s totally unrelated. I opened a new account with my friend’s name and they suspended it again. I totally gave up on selling on eBay and listed my products locally instead. I listed them on Craigslist and they were all sold in less than a month.

Get Paid Instantly With No Fees

If you want to sell something, sell them on local listing sites like Craigslist. You get to meet the person and they pay you instantly. Not to mention you pay no fees what so ever. Here are some tips for a safe and no hassle selling experience:

1) Sell locally because you see the person and you get paid in person. The most popular is Craiglist.

2) If an interested buyer emailed you, ask to communicate via phone. This will ensure he’s actually going to buy it. You will save a lot of time by talking over the phone.

3) Pick a public place to meet. Don’t meet in your house or the buyer’s house. If you can, try to bring along a friend with you. This will greatly protect your safety.

4) When you count the money, try to do it so that not many people can see it. You don’t want a lot of people know you have a pocket full of cash.

5) Try to leave after the buyer after transaction. Tell the person you are going to have another cup of coffee and he should leave first. This will prevent the person from following you and rob you.

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It’s Delivery, and it’s Delissio

Last week I saw a big van dropped off a few teenage girls wearing chef jackets. They were all carrying a big red bag. It seemed like they were delivering Pizza Hut or something. I wasn’t indoors I was actually outside helping a friend move. They knocked on every house door one after another and gave them a box of pizza. The weird thing was they didn’t take any payment.

Is This A Good Way To Promote Pizza?

After a while I realized they were again away a box of Delissio deluxe pizza. It’s a well known brand of frozen pizza which you can heat up and eat when you feel like you need a doze of pizza. Those delivery girls noticed I was watching them for while so they came over to me and asked if I would like to have a box. Of course I said yes! Is this a good promotion campaign? I don’t know.

Pizza Is Just Pizza Ofter All

I personally don’t have a thing for pizza. I think some things you can’t eat too often and pizza is one of them. It makes me feel really full of a really long time. Also, I can’t tell the difference between good pizza and bad pizza. If the crust or the bread part is soft and fresh I think it’s good pizza. I saw the price of a box of Delissio at Superstore the other day and it isn’t that much of a difference between delivery, so I think I will stick with delivery for now when I want pizza.

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Driving In China

Any of you have been to China? If you haven’t, then imagine the whole population of Canada squished into one city. That’s the case of almost anywhere you go. You see people and you see cars. As Chinese people are getting richer and richer everyday, a lot of them can now afford to drive car. More and more cars go on the streets each day and you have a big traffic problem.

Traffic Rules Are Not Rules

If you are used to the traffic style in North America, please don’t drive in China. It takes a lot of practice and confidence in order to drive safely there. You wonder how is that possible. Keep in mind people in China don’t follow traffic rules. Yes, there are 2 way traffic, but often you will see cars driving on the possible side of the street. There are also lanes too, but no one sees them. You will see 4 or 5 cars driving on a 3 lane traffic. Most of the time you are only 10 to 20 millimeters beside the other cars.

The most important tip for driving in China

If you must drive in China, there is one single tip to remember for a safe ride. It is to be more confident and more scary than the others. If you are scared and you follow the rules completely you are in a more dangerous position. Just do what other people do and be even more evil, then they will give you your way.

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Let’s Help Save The World

Did you know April 22 was the official Earth Day? It is basically a special day created to increase the awareness of global warming and the damage we have done to our planet. Yes, global warming is real and very real.

Will There Be A Day After Tomorrow?

I bet most of you have watched the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”. When I watched it I thought it was way too dramatic. Now I think it is kind of real. Just a week ago, we had snow in Vancouver, I mean in the middle of April! Plus all those ice and snow southern China was getting during the past few months. I’ve never heard of ice or snow near my place in China before, but it was actually snowing and no one was prepared. It is very real that the weather is really messed up.

So What Have We Done?

You don’t need to become a scientist to know why the global is warming up. It’s from the things we do everyday. From driving to manufacturing, we are releasing a lot of gases out to the environment. I don’t think we have really figured a way to save the world though.

What Can We Do?

I think what we must do is educate more people about the problems that are approaching us. Sure, we can stop driving and start conserving more energy. But we must fix the problem from the root. Everyone needs to have the correct mindset to keep the world beautiful.

Alternative Fuel Is Stupid

I know lots of US companies are doing their best to save the world by developing alternative fuel for cleaning air and conserving fossil fuels, but they are also killing people. In order to generate bio fuels, oil companies must use tons of corn crops and grain crops, and they are a source of food! They are driving the prices for such food items to the sky and poor people from third world nations are now starving even more! More and more people are dying each day now because the lack of food. So let’s do something else to save the world.

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Smooth Jazz Is Good

These couple days I’ve been sitting in front of the computer and finishing up my websites. Most of the time I don’t listen to anything, but when I’m really bored I turn on some music. My music choices are very limited and most of the time I listen to Chinese pop. Very rarely I listen to music with heavy beats like R&B and Rap.

Digitally Imported Sounds Good

When trance music was popular among teenagers few years back, there was a website called Digitally Imported that plays trance and house all day long. It was the number one choice with you wanted to highlight your day with some trance music.

I was looking for a good free services that plays high quality music while I was working on the sites. The was thing I thought of was Digitally Imported. I quickly typed in www.di.fm and hey, they are still in service after so many years! They have expended their music selections too! You can choose from all kinds of electronic music and the current popular hits. I tried the Smooth Jazz station and fell in love with it.

From my few days of smooth jazz listening experience, I think Paul Taylor is one of my favorites. His music is often mixed with beats and saxophone. It has a kind of R&B feel but very smooth and relaxing. Try it out by playing the Youtube video above!

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