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The art of gift giving
虞左俊 2013-12-26 17:29
The art of gift giving by June If you ever make enough money to consider buying gifts for friends and families on a big holiday, say Christmas in the US, there is a long way to go before you become really good at it. It takes thoughts as well as money. Say mone ...
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Retirement investment 101: annual rebalance
虞左俊 2013-11-12 04:52
I knew in theory that one should rebalance one's portfolio every year, but I was too busy to do so until the market went down three years in a roll during 2000-2002. I am not so sure if my rebalancing act has worked or not, but I am doing it again, after my account sum went up USD40+k last yea ...
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When will the market come down again, and by how much?
虞左俊 2013-10-26 17:39
不是我乌鸦嘴。 It's the gravity: What goes up has to come down.
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Solution for cleaner air confirmed
热度 1 虞左俊 2013-10-4 08:49
No work, which means less traffic (and less factory productions of pollutants), and you have blue sky and white clouds day after day, at least in autumn.
个人分类: Thoughts of Mine|2207 次阅读|1 个评论 热度 1
他为什么面带微笑?
热度 3 虞左俊 2013-9-24 10:11
昨晚,备完课,改完文章,决定看看官方对薄的判决。花了半小时,总的印象是 薄依然“很潇洒”。他象是一部电影的主角,而且是 在扮演the good guy。尤其是他的微笑。你知道他为什么面带微笑吗?
个人分类: Thoughts of Mine|3071 次阅读|6 个评论 热度 3
小芳, how are you?
热度 2 虞左俊 2013-9-2 08:54
Everyone has a Xiao Fang, or two. For Chinese, it's more common to bury the past. For a western, it's part of dinner party converstation. I remember chatting with a staff at the research center where I was a student after Hurrican Andrew (1992) passed by. We were supposed to evacuat ...
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yahoo email, enough is enough
虞左俊 2013-8-28 07:52
I was sick of seeing university IT warning about what I can and cannot say in my university email. So, when I had trouble logged in from China, I opened a yahoo email account. I am not sure since when, it started to show ads along the right hand side of the screen when I work on my email. Ok ...
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中国好声音第二季,我来了
热度 2 虞左俊 2013-8-26 16:02
我不喜欢等待。所以,上星期才开始看中国好声音第二季。今天看 第二期,一开始有点担心: OMG, 21-year-old young man was treated by his mom as if he were 12 years old. 可是,后来的歌手都挺感人的。尤其是 花甲大叔钟伟强。 You are great! 我在想。中国有这么多“玩”音乐的。什么时候, ...
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