All Posts by ‘George Chen’

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Beautiful pictures of Hong Kong

March 17, 2004

This is actually from my old blog. Want to blog it here so it won’t get lost…

I ran into this interesting photo essay book at the local Kinokuniya Book Store. You can say, this is the portrait of Hong Kong in the “alternative” sort of way. What’s interesting is that, the photographer’s image of Hong Kong is exactly how my impression of Hong Kong is like in the artiz-fratiz saturated style… All night shots too.

The name of the book is SHADOWS by Japanese photographer Masataka Nakano ISBN4-89815-079-0. It’s 3,000 Yen and you shouldn’t have any problem finding it… Larger image of the cover can be found here. Some details of the book can be found here.

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Final Fantasy XI and I

March 16, 2004

So my online avatar on Final Fantasy XI is Lopezxl on Cerberus Server/World. No specific reason for the name. As some of you might know, it’s also my Yahoo! Messenger ID… Once in a while, people would ask me what it means… well, Lopez is actually an 808 State song, XL just looks cool rounding out the typepography… so there really is no mean to it… Anyhoo…, some screens of me being the Samurai in the game. 1 2 3

I just acquired the job as Bard. That should be fun starting at lvl 1 again. Instead of being the warrior type, Bard, play music in the game… I know it sounds weird, but it’s actually a lot of fun.

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What scares me?

March 12, 2004

I was driving home Monday night and was listening to Market Place on NPR. They covered the story about two people at UCLA were arrested in connection with the theft of body parts…. don’t know why, I got really grossed out and almost sicken by the story… to a point that I have to turn off the radio… Listen to it yourself…

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I am….

March 9, 2004

Extroverted (E) 51.61% Introverted (I) 48.39%
Imaginative (N) 61.76% Realistic (S) 38.24%
Intellectual (T) 54.05% Emotional (F) 45.95%
Easygoing (P) 52.78% Organized (J) 47.22%
Your type is: ENTP
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Sony Ericsson K700/S700

March 9, 2004

Just when I am comfatable with my T630, Sony Ericsson announced pretty much the replacement camera phone K700 and S700. Clearly, this phone is focus more on camera than a phone. Franky, after I have seen the 3G phones in Hong Kong, I’ll wait for 3G phone to come to the US.

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iPod Mini

March 5, 2004

Alison’s older sister’s birthday present is the green Mini iPod… since I get a 10% discount from the Apple Online Store so I ordered that for them. I’ll probably show Alison’s sis on how to use it on her PC… and I will give a give some thoughts on the device as I see it… I still haven’t been to the San Francisco Apple Store yet.

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Why bats hang upside down?

March 4, 2004

According to my doctor’s nature tour guide, the bats hang upside down because they develop their wings so well as mammal, and their feet became so weak that… hanging upside down is the only way they can support their weight…

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The Doctor knows its…

March 4, 2004

My Doc. is a pretty cool guy, today’s visit he told me about his trip to Australia… Interesting tidbits like, the crock’s brain is only about the size of a walnut – that’s why you get to see the TV nature shows people get so up close to them… haha. Also, he explained to me why bats hang upside down (as he was told by his Nature Guide).

I’ll post the answer in the next post. Comment if you know the answer already.

Why bats hang upside down?

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Snappleton

March 3, 2004

Great stuff at Snappleton. The e-Boy 3 quarter view pixel style design… It’s interesting to see a Corporation that has a pretty strong Brand Identity to take on a style that is so strong and unique… Well, I guess because it is Snapple, doubt Charles Schwab or United Airline can pull something like this though.