As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I am looking for a new web hosting service to keep my files and host this blog. My current web hosting service provider isn’t up to the standard.
Well, who can expect much from an extremely cheap web hosting service?
I think these months are the right time to make a move to a better web hosting service which is still under Budget Web Hosting category. I found Web Hosting Buzz after googling for a while and compared a dozen of web hosting services out there. I narrowed down my choices with several criteria such as price, reliability, and technical support. There were still a few in my list until I decided the final one because of this unique reason: Carbon Neutral Hosting.
So… yeah, i have decided to take that. 
I’ll post the announcement when I get my new web hosting+domain. Hehe…
I’ve been (and still) very busy recently since a couple of months ago.
I’ll post photo, article clipping, quote, song clip, or something else whenever I have some spare time. Take care~ I hope you’ve been (and are still) having great days as I do.
Oh, anyway… Something went wrong with this web hosting service; my uploaded files are gone (for the third time). Links to my files and some pictures in this blog might not show up because the file are GONE! 
I’m thinking of switching to other web hosting service.
ps: if you’re looking for web hosting service and planning to upload important files, please… for your own sake… don’t use cheap-o web hosting service like mine: prolinkhosting[dot]com
In the fourth week of my OITP, I bought several greeting cards from China Post to be sent to some friends in Singapore. With my broken mandarin, freezing cold weather, and chilly wind, it wasn’t easy at all to get the greeting cards, enquiry the postal fee, and understand their instruction about mailing those greeting cards. Not to mention sheets of paper I used to practice writing my name and address in characters I’ve never learnt before.
One and a half week after I posted those greeting cards, one of the recipients notified me that he received the card in his letter box. I thought the other cards would had already delivered to each of them by that time; but the reality doesn’t always obvious. He was the only one who received the card. The rest didn’t receive anything from me!
I felt sad when I knew this… Only recently that my friends called me, bringing good news that my card has finally arrived! 
Case closed; I withdraw my previous negative opinion about China Post.
I hope to see red lanterns, lion dance, family dinner, more ManadoPop, and all-sort-of-red-ornaments in this coming Chinese New Year. This might probably be the best Chinese New Year celebration I’ve ever had.Just in case you don’t know what was going on in my country a decade ago:
SOLO, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese communities, repressed and persecuted for many years, are enjoying a cultural revival even in the heart of the predominantly Muslim island of Java.
The royal city of Solo, in central Java, suffered some of the worst anti-Chinese attacks during the 1997-98 crisis, when shops and businesses owned by ethnic Chinese were smashed and looted, and many Chinese Indonesians were killed, raped or injured.
The crisis eventually led to the ousting of Suharto, the long-ruling autocratic president who now, at 86, lies critically ill in hospital. His New Order regime was instrumental in suppressing Chinese culture.
But in the decade since Suharto was forced from power, the Chinese Indonesians have experienced greater cultural freedom. “Nowadays we feel very happy. We can perform lion dances and conserve it (our culture). Not like in the past, in the New Order era we couldn’t do it,” Adjie Chandra, who heads a lion dance group in Solo, told Reuters.
Despite their suffering under Suharto, many of the ethnic Chinese are praying for his recovery, he said. “No matter what he has done and what his sins, the important thing is our existence. We pray for his recovery,” Adjie added.
I’m glad that the country is moving forward. The ‘villain’, who used to put huge pressure on Indonesian Chinese, is now ill.
Update: The entry above was written last week. The main subject, Suharto, passed away a few days ago…
Looking back at previous blog entry several weeks ago, there’s a blog entry promising interestingness story and photos on this blog during my trip, but then…
Something happened to my blog and the entire web hosting service I’m subscribing. It was a system crash I guess… I lose some files, blog entries with its comments, photos, and a lot more.
Blog entry titled Interestingness02 is still there, but Interestingness01 has gone. Pictures and comments have also gone.
I’m now busy with many many many things–ask my close friends to see what’s going on in my life these days. I’ll update the blog again after mid-February; after I’m done with all these big-and-small things.
In the mean time, enjoy photos from my PhotoBooth.
I miss Jinan, I miss the friends, I miss the moments, I miss many things…
Last Friday is our last day in the office here; and here’s our last big lunch:
I like the satay and prata a lot! I was sitting with Gary, Steph, and Fish.
Dinner: best Japanese fried rice and miso soup ever:
It snowed pretty heavily on cold Sunday, 13 January ’08, and I…
Cold. Very cold.
