Opinion

Movie Review: Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol

December 15, 2011 Opinion

My Rating: This evening I saw the movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol at AMC Cinemas, Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong. One of the movies from my Must See Movies list, and the following is my movie review.

Read More →

CBS’ 60 Minutes Special on Steve Jobs

October 24, 2011 Opinion

On Sunday, October 23, 2011, the CBS show “60 Minutes” aired a special report on Steve Jobs and the author Walter Isaacson who wrote Jobs official biography. The book became available worldwide 19 days after his death (October 5th).

Read More →

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

October 6, 2011 Opinion

We will miss you, may you rest in peace. You had given us so much, changed our lives by your products and innovations. Allowed us to create amazing movies, music and work of arts with the products you created. The first computer that I owned was an Apple IIc and I felt in love with [...]

Read More →

CSL LTE/DC-HSPA+ USB Modem

May 16, 2011 Opinion

In technology we are use to dealing with the chicken and egg scenario. Where one technology break through cannot happen until another happens. With LTE (4G), many carriers are waiting for consumer hardware manufactures to catch up before they invest in LTE infrastructures. Consumer hardware manufactures are waiting for mass consumer acceptance of LTE before [...]

Read More →

Breakups

May 3, 2011 Opinion

I was trying to work while at the Starbucks but this “kid” next to my table is telling his female friend about his forth and final break up with his CX flight attendant girlfriend. On one hand he say she is totally crazy and not suitable for him but on the other hand he keeps [...]

Read More →

Facebook and Renren in China

January 20, 2011 Opinion

Late last year Mark Zuckerberg, founder and owner of Facebook, paid a visit to several companies in China. In particularly Zuckerberg visited Sina and met with CEO Charles Chao, had discussion with Alibaba and Taobao. He also had lunch with Baidu’s CEO Robin Li, of whom Zuckerberg have known for a long time. The one [...]

Read More →

100 Mbps Broadband Upgrade [Updated]

November 18, 2010 Opinion

My broadband service provider, Netvigator (by PCCW), throw the switch of my broadband connection this morning to upgrade it from 30 Mbps to 100 Mbps. Although Netvigator has fiber services to homes unfortunately this is not available for my home. Instead what Netvigator offers at my address is DSL at 100 Mbps. Since my DSL [...]

Read More →

Drug Addiction Problem in Wanchai, Hong Kong

July 10, 2010 Opinion

View Larger Map For many years the sidewalk near O’Brien Road and Thomson Road has had a problem with the drug addicts hanging out around the clock in the area. The exact spot is the area in front of the Wanchai pedestrian walkway stair case. This is because a drug addiction center is situated right next [...]

Read More →

Internet Deprived in Shanghai

April 30, 2010 Opinion

As I stay in Shanghai on my 6th day I am staring to get Internet withdraws. It is not that I do not have access to the Internet. I do have access to my online store, my emails, my blog and some of my favorite sites. Although this is possible the mainland Chinese government has [...]

Read More →

When is Nudity Becomes a Taboo

July 16, 2009 Opinion

Just read the article, When Do They Need a Fig Leaf?, on New York Times. This brought up an issue that I see fairly frequently. That is the presence of kids of opposite gender in washrooms. The article asks at what age should kids be prevented from running around in public or private home naked? [...]

Read More →

Should Carriers Have Exclusivity on Handsets

June 20, 2009 iPhone

Jarrett Rush of The Dallas Morning News posted the short post in the Opinion Blog of the newspaper web site titled, Should AT&T be allowed to be the iPhone’s exclusive carrier?. This sparked 65 comments on the newspaper web site, several hours ago it made it to the front page on Digg, which collected 191 more [...]

Read More →
 
On FacebookOn TwitterOn YouTubeRSS feed