The Blog of Dannie Gao

Too long for twitter, too scattered for professional blogging. This is the short lists about personal thoughts, findings & inspirations ...


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I feel like I'm blocked from the rest of the world, now let's see whatelse is not working.

First of all, I'm so glad that Gmail is not blocked! Phew otherwise I will have a nervous break down.

Flash update, thanks to my cousin's awesomeness he manages to find me an Apple laptop charge wire (prob got so annoyed by my whining, sorry!), now I am happily charging and emailing from my own laptop, and had returned Windows back... yay!

Now, that I had snooped around my bookmark a bit (other than just checking emails), I never realize that hulu can't be viewed outside of the U.S, and a lot of other sites including my blog and twitter are just simply blocked (how the heck they selective block sites like that, I wonder). Not that I'm not saying it's good or bad to block, like I mentioned before every country has it's laws, if you want your business here then you have to adjust to this law ... That said, I really don't see any harm of personal blogging (maybe twitter should be blocked, eh?! heehee)... sigh, guess i'll just get off some steam in the Hot-springs (oh yes, spelling check are also back)

     

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Posted 1 day ago

OMG can't access my posterous blog?

NiHao, from mainland China. Finally got settled in the hotel, The hotel is great every room are armed with cable (internet) -- funny, ever since I got here, internet and toilet paper are the only things I care about. 
 
One small problem ... I forgot to bring my Apple travel adopter so you guessed it my laptop is useless + it just ran out of battery power (wish there's such thing as paddle power), in a panic I asked if there's an Apple store near by and everyone just laughed and called me silly... :'( tears .... Anyhow, finally got one of my cousin's buddy to fork over his laptop for me to use during my stay here (I bet he's counting the days till I leave haha), heehee now i'm happy. tho upon a closeer look, all of the languages on the laptop are in Chinese and it's a windows, took me a while to figure everything out  -- never puzzled when it comes to computer stuffs, thow me any language any connection, I'll find my ways online :)
 
oh yes before I forget, my cousin will drive us to a near by city's hotspring hotel in a day or two. sadly no photos can be blogged for now, I've forgotten to bring my camera cable with me, besides, it's kind of weird to upload a bunch of images of myself onto some guy's laptop, so all the photos will have to hold till prob. I get back to my backpack of cables and wires.
 
As for the blog, sigh, I have no idea how it looks or if any of my gmail posts made to Posterous (good thing gmail still works), loong story short, (recent law) big bro blocks all unregistered blogs, even my posterous blog got caught in the fish net. oh men, I guess different country has different rules, if i'm visting here then I shall adjust to their rules, and If I want to see my blog then I shall register it, tho I'm not looking into doing so, Will be back to Boston soon anyways. so right now i'll just blog blind ... "您指定的网页无法访问!" -- " We can not visit your web address" ... I hope it's just the big bro blocking, not that Posterous went down over night.
 
PS: I heard it's going to snow today and tomorrow, and the hotspring is outdoors, oh my I really hope it's hot enough.

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Posted 1 day ago

two Japanese films watched

Alright since none of my cable wires can be found (sans photos to show), I'll talk about two japanese films I watched.

Boys over Flowers and K20 -- extremely weird names if it wasn't for the free + subtitle factor I wouldn't picked it up in the video store, maybe I'm used to hollywood blockbusters these two films (plus many other recent titles which I've long forgotten their names) are a change of faces and culture, if you like humor mixed with a bit of romance and mystery these two done their jobs pretty good. 

Boys over flowers, the film follows a young japanese girl who used to like this one guy, now marries his friend, but in order to get married they need to get back her stolen tiara (go figure), the crew travels from Tokyo to Vegas and Hong kong to solve the jewel thief mystery. I find the American truck driver scene utterly unreal -- the truck driver wears puma shoes ontop of that, he reads Japanese magazine, eh, which American truck driver does that? Anyhow, if not anything else, the film will certainly deliver some good laughs. Tho just be prepared, I find the mystery ending very very weird ... certainly not what I've expected, maybe it's the Japanese culture. 

K20 the legend of the mask?! title goes something like that (got lost in all the characters)... what it is -- it's a mesh up of  jacky chan action comedy + batman beyond (i think most people would agree), tho not too much of a mystery, the first few scene I had already it all figured out -- maybe that's just me, I had watched too many similar movies, anyhow the main character is extremely hot and plot are not that bad either.

All in all if you want some change of tempo these two Japanese films (I think they are a bit dated, no wonder I watched it free), are pretty exciting to watch.

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Posted 2 days ago

much appreciated or muchie peachie (according to Urban Dictionary)

Thank you for your delicious email and support! They brighten my day and make hard work worthwhile!

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Posted 8 days ago

Are you Left brain or right?

Was playing DoodleJump today and noticed that I can only play the game straight with left hand, so thought I might take a brain test (suspect I might be a right brain person) Took a brain test on about.com turns out i'm right (might as well be the poster child), no wonder i'm lack all all things rational, and maybe I should join the cast of Survivor (woah can't believe these answers stays pretty current, ha at least they didn't say Lost ...) anyone also right brained here? check out ways to cope.

 

you are a right brain dominant student!    

You probably get bored during long lectures and prefer to take classes with a lot of freedom of movement and thought. You like to write stories and even tell stories about your funny experiences. You might be a little suspicious of other people's motives sometimes, but that's only because you can usually tell whenever someone is lying or when they're up to no good. You are a little on the dreamy side--or a lot. You plan books or movie plots but you don't always follow through on things you think about. You should work on that. You are fun and spontaneous. Your feelings run deep, and it shows. You have strong instincts, and you solve problems on hunches and feelings. You are artistic. You can believe in things based on experience, without seeing scientific proof. You might be a finalist onSurvivor some day, since you know how to read people so well, and you have great survival instincts.

 

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Posted 8 days ago

We are what we repeatedly do

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Posted 8 days ago

18261 days till I die, less if things don't go my way, more if i'm lucky

Our lives becomes so familiar, we do things to seek approval, to get a check mark, each day just to fill in the hours so we can come back the next. What if someone tells you that there are only 10 days left in your calendar, what kind of life would you live then?

After reading this blog post, I decided to do a calculation of my own death date, Thursday, Feb. 26 2060 (I picked 26 cause it's my fav. number) -- which means I only have 18,261 days to live on this earth, that is if i'm lucky enough to live that long. Now having my iphone and desktop reminding me everyday the days that ticked away. Next time when I'm narrowing my mind on small conflicts, getting jealous about someone or BSing about the meaningless, I need to remind myself to let these thoughts and actions go away, I really don't have enough days in my life to waste. 

Work towards a goal, live, love, laugh, make this life time count!

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Posted 9 days ago

Be Ok

sometimes i hate waking up and working from home, a girl can get lazy this way ... le sigh, all beauty routine down grouped to just an eyeliner and some face lotion, arg I don't even recall washing my face this morning (did i just apply lotion on an unwashed face? heart attack!), and my day sweater became the stable of everyday fashion at home, this has to change a bit, need to get back on the beauty routine -- "A girl would age greatly if she doesn't take care of herself" -- Lao-Tsu?! i'm sure some great minds at one time said something like that. 

Also i'm flying out on Tue, please pray for our plane to take off and land safely (remember pray twice, since we are taking connections :o) ... with all the talk of snow and high wind i'm a bit nervous, but then again, life is life, all we can do is our very best, the rest are pretty much out of our control. 

Project wise i'm really working till the last min. prob even at the airport ... right now I need to get everything finished, and with me been me -- i can't let go of designs if they are less than my standards -- that can create a problem ... will talk less and work faster then. 

otherwise i'm just happy to be indoors and stocked up on Trader Joe's snacks for all three days, the weather wind condition was so bad last night, I was thinking half of our stuff on the balcony might be gone off to the streets, was planning to throw all my unwanted stuffs to the balcony and let the wind blow it away ... glad my reasonable part of the brain restricted me from doing so. 

Have an excellent day,
Dannie

   

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Posted 10 days ago

I spot a lady gaga outfit, bottom 4th, I knew her fashion cue had to come from somewhere

although very cute but i'm still not certain where the raccoon outfit showed up (in any of the games?). Anyways, great work, wish it were in prints ... tshirts can be find here

   

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Posted 11 days ago

Skype Outside

Skype is at it again, taking from their  successful Nomads campaign in 2009, the Skype Outside campaign involves getting artists from around the world to cerate new art from Skype calls. Five artists from across the globe are on call to help transform people’s personal messages into outdoor art.

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Posted 12 days ago