Choosing my new optional courses

The new academic year is coming, and i have several plans this year. One of them is the choice of my optional courses.

I have chose two optional courses for the Fall Semester: Development Economics and Money, Banking and Financial Markets. They are both compulsory course for International Economics and Finance students. Although I am an International Business student, I believe these course would be beneficial for me when considering my Master thesis. The connection between business and economics cannot be avoided within the current international atmosphere.

In fact i would expect to chose some courses in Law faculty or other faculties, but unfortunately most of them are only taught in Dutch or the schedule is not proper...

Planning a trip to Prague

Recently planning a trip to Prague, the capital of Czech Republic. Leaving from Eindhoven Airport on 21st August and back on 23rd.

So, where is Czech actually? i thought would be near Italy or Turkey. But in fact Czech is between Germany and Poland, and above Austria. The flight will about two hours from Eindhoven to Prague.

Departure will be in the afternoon on 21st and on 23rd will depart at about 14.00 hour, so actually i will have only one day to look at the city. To feel how Prague people lives, one day is enough: see what they see and eat what they eat! I just want to see what is the difference between western Europe and eastern Europe.

I booked a hotel in the Old Town and near the Charles Bridge. I intend to take half day for the Prague Castle, and the rest of the day will be shopping.

My friends told me people in Prague can't speak English very well...since Germany is next to Czech, perhaps they could understand a little bit of German? Unfortunately I picked French, Spanish, but not German as my second language...

Looking forward to this trip! Hope the weather will be nice!

jailbreak & unlock iphone

seems not difficult to jailbreak and unlock iphone 3G

for the latest version iphone 3.0.1, using Redsn0w and firmware 3.1 would be enough, and just follow the steps provided by iCarified.com and iphone-hacks.com

easier than i expected...

bad luck

went to Paris last weekend, for three days.

bad luck 1. i miss the earliest train to Paris.
bad luck 2. i prepared a map of paris but forgot to put it into my bag.
bad luck 3. i brought my camera to paris but forgot the battery. (luckily i still brought my mobile-phone)
bad luck 4. i went to the opposite way to my hotel. (at the end i called a taxi)
bad luck 5. so the first meal in Paris was pizza hut...
bad luck 6. saw a really good handbag, but too expensive.
bad luck 7. saw a really good sunglasses but it's not the one i wanted.
bad luck 8. on the way back, lost my bag (include phone and thing i've just bought in Paris) in Brussels.
bad luck 9. i thought i don't have a travel insurance, but actually i do. (before i realized, i throw away my receipts...)
bad luck 10. saw a husky in Antwerp, but cannot buy it. (i always wanted to have a husky)
bad luck 11. i just receive my new sim card yesterday, and just bought a new phone this morning. but Vodafone suspended my phone...because...
bad luck 12. Vodafone called, said i made an extremely high costs of phone calls in Belgium to Algeria, UK, Germany and other countries...i need to pay the money. (but actually i only used my phone to take photos...)

so, what can i say?
@#!$#%+*^%$%^&*

and
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and
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Too much English in China

i started learning english when i was first grade in elementary school. but four years later when i arrived at Los Angles, i could only say maximum 10 sentences to my teacher, and the most difficult one is 'thank you very much' because this has only four words...

nowadays more and more chinese people learning english. some of them start learning even in kindergarden, and keep learning till high school, or even in the university. but still, not much people could really speak a real english accent*. they could write, read, but not listen and speak english. terrible. so what have we been doing in the past 20 years?

i have always blame the ministry of education on such issue, and as well as other issues... it's time for the chinese reconsider the education system.

we are living in our own country and there are still many kids need education, why spend so much money to learn english? where most of these people just don't even want to learn it at all!

French people, even they are able to speak english they still talk to you in french. in China, even they don't understand english at all, some of them still use some simple easy english words to show off.

it's time for us to use more and more time to learn chinese, to write chinese. we lost many of our traditions already... and we should learn from our neighbors.

*real english accent means english speaking countries' accent only. chinese, indian, vietnamese, and other asian countries, european countries, and latin countries also have their own accent while speaking english...