Try to explain why PVG-PEK-SFO ticket is CHEAPER than PEK-SFO ticket. Same airline and even same flight code. No, I am so silly to fly back to PVG (Shanghai) only to take a PVG-PEK-SFO cheaper ticket. Anyway, back in SFO yet again. 3rd time this month. The guy at the immigration was puzzled. Me too.
Author: jseng
Wofo Temple – 卧佛寺
RMB 10 each from Wofo Temple…hand-made from leaves. Dragon Phoenix
The End of Wall Street’s Bloom
Stuck with day-to-day fire fighting, I finally got around to read the excellent article by Michael Lewis. It is a wonderful article of how the whole financial sector breakdown, to the world we have today, in simple terms of how CDO and CDS adds to the mess we are in. (I understand CDO, but I […]
Strange Encounters in Bay Area
I am in the Palo Alto, on a transit back to Shanghai, with strange ecounters in the last 24 hours. Like sitting at University Cafe talking to some friends (Nick, David and Andy) yesterday and turning my back to see Loic, who is meeting Benjamin, another new friend I just got to know just 2 […]
ICANN Public Forum – Plea from CJK
This is James Seng. First, I would like to thank the staff who have work very hard for the revised gTLD RFP. The quality of the RFP clearly show the effort the staff have put into the document, despite facing very challenging and sometimes conflicting comments from the community. It is important for me to […]
Obama Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages
One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes , found computers outfitted with […]
Association of Bloggers (Singapore)
Cowboy Caleb message me a few days ago whether I have seen the new Association of Bloggers (Singapore). I have and was one of the things I followed with quite a bit of amusement after the fury. But I hesitated to comment on it because, 1) I could be one of the “foreign blogger” who […]
More like a father…and feeling more guilty
It was a relatively warm weekend (10degree…how fast your expectation of “warm” changes :-). So we spend the weekend with the kids; playing with their scooters and electric automobile in the garden and shopping/dinning in the nearby mall. Out of the blue, my wife said to me that I am beginning to behave “more like […]
Moving to China
I spend most of my time this year in China – My family has made an important decision to move to China. Things has being crazy for the last couple of months with the logistics but we finally have our first Christmas over here. The decision is a combination of my work, but more importantly […]
How to Sell in Economy Downturn
You can’t just lower all the prices in your operation. There are two reasons this doesn’t work. First, you no longer communicate the story of ‘special deal’, instead you communicate ‘we’re in trouble.’ Second, you end up charging everyone a lower price, even the people who were happy to pay more–who wanted to pay more, […]