Poor Chery Automobile doesn’t have a .com domain

February 20th, 2006 Filed under English entries, Opinion

@ 2006-02-20 19:42

I taped www.chery.com into the adress of IE and waiting for the offical website of Chery Automobile to come out. But, what jumpt out is a page filled by several links and it’s like this:

Oops, this is not what I expected. I was plan to see some auto info made by this biggest China car maker. But the incredible thing is that this small giant even doesn’t have a .com domain! It is occupying by some others.

This is aparently the careless of the MK department of the company. They didn’t consider carefully or all-sidelly when they decided to adopt this “Chery” as their name.

I think the naming of Chery Auto is a blunder and this resulted in two problems:

First is that it has been registered by the third parties.
This problem can be very big. Because, nowadays, every international player should have an website for visitors from around the world. A .com domain is of course the best choice, at least should be a .net domain. But Chery has none of them, she only gets a .cn baby. I doubt where she should put the things she want to foreigners to see. www.chery.cn is not a good idea, for it’s as weird as a .gs or .ct domain? Who knows cn/gs/ct stands for?

The second problem is well know by many: it brought GM’s suitment
GM had sued Chery that her name is too much like the Chevrolet’s shortened designation – Chevy. Only a letter difference. Maybe Chery did this delibarated and this similarity did bring her much exposure to the world, but the unchangable thing is that Chery haven’t a international outlet to speak what she want to say.

One humourous thing is that the there’s a sentence on the homepage of www.chery.com reading “If you’re looking for the Chinese automobile company, go to Chery Automotive”. Maybe the owner want to sell the domain to the one it should go to.

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Traval plan to Pinghu

February 17th, 2006 Filed under English entries, Travel

@ 2006-02-17 19:19

As I mentioned in my previous entry “what to do at weekends” that Urecca and I found a small city near Shanghai to go for a visit at weekends. It’s name is Pinghu (平湖). Though Urecca is still OTing in her office now, fortunately that we have free time this weekend. And thus, tomorrow will be Pinghu’s Discovery Day (not Columbus Day but Urecca-Chern Day), ha ha!So what’s our plan? I haven’t clearly thoutht about it yet. Let me just start now to make out a schedule.

Where’s Pinghu?
I have tried both Google Map, Google Eearth and Baidu Map, but can’t found Pinghu there. Finally I found the map on the government’s website and it’s like this:

As you see on the map, Pinghu is just below Shanghai on the map, and in fact, she’s to the South of Shanghai.

How to go there?
I have searched for the answer last weekend. The answer is that, many many trains go there from Shanghai. You don’t have to know the exactly the train to take. Just go to the station and ask and buy a ticket to Pinghu at the ticket office.

So, what’s there in Pinghu?
There are as many as 12 titles on the homepage of Pinghu government. But which can attract me are these:
1.Home of Li Shutong (李叔同)
2.The capital of watermelon (may be this is the most alluring to Urecca for watermelon is her favorite)
3.Famous city of apparel (almost every city near Yangtze Delta can boast themselves as city of apparel :）)

Any more?
I also know that it’s a seaside city (there’s a piece of video on the website but i can’t open it)
Baoben Tower (报本塔)
Mannor of the Mos’ (莫氏庄园)
Workshop of Lu Weizhao (陆维钊书画院. I don’t know why people of Pinghu promote this place as a torrist spot either who Lu is. Do you know?)

And that’s all I know about the city.

What to know more?
Wait me here for one day. I’ll tell you more about our one-day trip and let you know whether this is a place recommended for weekend visit.

Nice wkd & CU.

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Crerivity can be anywehere

February 15th, 2006 Filed under English entries, Opinion

@ 2006-02-15 22:47

Do you think creativity only appear on those fashionable ads or design? No, creativity comes from every common people with muse.

Photo@TheLighthouse

Photo@TheLighthouse
Look at these two piz, they were taken near my BJ home when I’s back during Spring Festival. This is in fact an ad of fishing pool. Simple but lovely.

Photo@TheLighthouse

Photo@TheLighthouse
And these two piz were taken at afternoon of last weekend on the street out of my SH home. Guess what the old man is doing? Do you see what he worn on his head? Long antenna stretching out making he like an ET, right? I’ll tell you the truth. As my observation, the equipment he equiped is a radio DIYed by himself. He tied two radio on the head, each acts like a earphone. But I don’t know what the red ball for and why he integreted two radio into one.

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What to do in Shanghai at weekends?

February 13th, 2006 Filed under English entries, Life

@ 2006-02-13 21:47

The Problem
One of the problems I’m facing is what to do at the weekends. It’s really a headache and I have to rack my brains for, always, a not exciting idea.I always want to go out for some fun at weekends, don’t want to stay at home after a whole week of office work. The trouble with me (or with Shanghai) is that there’s no place for outting within the city and the I’ve been to nearlly all the site nearby the cities.

Our Choices
Last Friday, when Urecca and I were back to home after work, we had a discussion on where to go at the weekend. At beginning, we plan to go to the Jinjiang Amusement Park (http://www.jjlysh.com/). But soon we canceled this idear for there’s not many game attractive to us. Then the idea came to Urecca’s head was to pay a visit to Shanghai Science&Technology Museum (http://www.sstm.org.cn/), for she had heard that there’s much fun and interesting place there. But, it’s not long before we discard this idea, becaue the ticket is too expensive. And then we dicide to go fishing. I like fishing very much. There’re many fish pool near my BJ home and I used to fish for quite a lot times.So we began to search on the internet to see where we could go to fish. There’s not much info on this in the net but finally we found that there’s fishing place in Changfeng Park, not far away. But, just in minuts, we again denied the idea. Our conclusion was that we have to prepare too much for a ishing and it a recreation more for the old people.

The Decision
So we took out the Shanghai map and wanted find somewhere else we can go. The crowed city’s map is waved full by roads with no creativities. My fleeting glance at the outside of Shanghai found me a place right behind Shanghai, named Ping Hu (means calm lake in Chinese, 平湖). It’s just adjacent to Shanghai, but I have never heared of it. This is a very interesting thing, I wondered why? So I ask Urecca “Have you ever heared about Ping Hu?” She said no. So I pointed it on the map to her.She also excited about the idea to go there. So we began to search some related info in the internet. Search results showed that Ping Hu is really a nice and good choice for weekend outting. It’s besides the sea and some of the famous Chinese man was born or lived here, say, Li Shutong, a famous buddiest. So we quikly decided to go there for a visit. We had to take railway to Jiang Xing and change for bus there.

So we went to bed and waited to set off the next morning.

The Rusult
But, we were awake very late. So we decided to put off the visit and stay in Shanghai for the weekend. But, the question arised again: what to do?

What we did instead
Urecca is addicted to one fashion magzine these day. I criticized her and warned her not to become a metro woman. But it seem s difficult to resist the influence of the surrounding.I suddenly want to go Karaok! This was not a idea that would come out from my mouth, but I meant it.I suspected that I’m becoming a metro man. It would be a sad thing.We came to agreement and set off soon after dinner.

How we became members of Your Gym
We didn’t go direct to Karaok. Instead, we first pay a vist to a gym club on the half way. Days before, we also paid a visit to a gym club nearby and the reception woman introduced the club for us. It’s small club, somewhat shabby.The promotional price is RMB160 for 20 times excercise.But today’s Your Gym was a better one. It’s mucn more roomy, new and, of course, more expensive. Urecca and I did little exercise in the past year except some times of playing basketball. And we felt that we must take more sports and exersise more has become a goal of this year(our Benmingnian). The sales man of Your Gym quoted as for RMB30/time. After our bargining, the price had come to very low RMB20/time, which was very low, I thought. So, we make the deal and became two member of the club lah.

So, now you can guss how we spent the last weekend. After a 3hrs Karaok and supper, we go to the club and spended 2.5hrs that night at the gym.

That’s how me manage to spend the weekend. But when another weekend comes, what to do? Do you have any good idea about where to go or what to do within or near Shanghai?

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That Year

February 10th, 2006 Filed under English entries, Thinking

@ 2006-02-10 19:56

I think many of the Beijing style singers’ song have a unspeakable power to touch me. I deeply addict to those rock singer like Zheng Jun, Xu Wei, Pu Shu etc.. Their songs have a power to remind me things about Dream, Youth and Freedom. In this songs, a desire to rebel the value criteria of society or to escape from the current life is being shout out. Like this echoing song That Year (那一年, by Xu Wei), when I listen to it I can image I’m standing lonely in center of a cross, watching the traffic coming and going and the neon lights mixed with the car lights surrounded me.

These songs sing out my dissatisfaction with the society and sometime the feeling in the song also identified with my helpless feeling. These songs are friends to me, for they remind me of those treasurable and can give me power. Together with me, let’s listen to Xu Wei singing That Year… and don’t forget yours ‘that year’.

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Today’s dinner route

February 9th, 2006 Filed under English entries, Life

@ 2006-02-09 16:07

This is not peace route, but dinner route : )

I was invited by my friend, Sun, to dinner tonight.He is going to graduate from Xi’an Jiaotong Univ. soon and now just begins working for my ex-employer in Shanghai. He is a clever and frank guy, we worked together for couple of days.

Since Sun just came to Shanghai. He doesn’t know the city very much. Thus, although dinner is on him, he let me recommend a eating place. I don’t familiar with this city also, but better than Sun. I recommend a Sichuan cuisine restaurant named Shu Tian Ge (蜀天阁) on Fuxing Rd..

In order to make him clear hot to get to the eatery, I used map.baidu.com, for the first time, to mark the route for him to track office to the dinner. And below is it: