My Awful Birthday This Year

February 23rd, 2009 by Charles Peng 1 comment »

Feb 19th is my birthday this year, as all of you know in China, we have two calendars, one is Chinese Lunar Calendar, and another one is the Gregorian Calendar, we uses Gregorian calendar in newspapers, TVs, computers, and even paying us salary in a Gregorian Calendar one month time cycle. But most rural people uses Lunar Calendar to arrange farming. I’m from a rural area in Hanzhong, China’s northwest Shaanxi Province, I always spent my birthday on Chinease Lunar Calendar customarily.

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Happy Valentine’s Day

February 14th, 2009 by Charles Peng No comments »

Happy Valentine's Day

Today is a western festival, the Valentine’s Day, I wish all my blog readers a romantic day.

Nowadays, Valentine’s Day is more and more popular in China too, especially for those young people. And lots and lots of shops, supermarkets,  merchants promote their products this day. And many Chinese well-known websites placed their Valentine’s special logos, here are some of my favorite.

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Valentine’s Day Wallpaper

February 12th, 2009 by Charles Peng No comments »

Valentine’s Day is coming in 2 days, here’s some nice wallpapers that I found on my friend’s blog, and I saved it as my desktop wallpaper, it looks good(click here for the large screenshot).

Valentine’s Day is a great traditional holiday for your western people, a day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine’s cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery.

Want to show your love to your other-half? Just decorate his/her desktop :-D

Are You Addicted to a Website?

February 10th, 2009 by Charles Peng No comments »

Are you addicted to a website?

Have you ever been addicted to a certain website? You visit this website again and again for times a day, and this habit makes you very hard to concentrat on your work? If so, try KeepMeOut, KeepMeOut is a very simple online severice which is, I think, very helpful for you to break the habit of visiting a certain or any other websites.

KeepMeOut is very easy to use, just input the URL of the website that you’re addicted to, and, bookmark the new KeepMeOut alias in your broswer, when you want to visit that site, you visit the bookmarked URL, KeepMeOut will not allow you to visit that site again if the time not expired as you told it…

Happy Lantern Festival

February 9th, 2009 by Charles Peng No comments »

Happy Lantern Festival

Today is our Chinese Lantern Festival, January 15 on the lunar calendar (15 days later after the Spring Festival). It marks the end of the celebrations of the Chinese New Year. We eat dumplings this day on the Lantern Festival which are made from glutinous rice.

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