Ok, I'll admit it, I like the new S.H.E. CD. They've got quite a few good songs on it. I'm actually willing to buy the real CD to support them :)

It's got a good mix of upbeat and slow songs. I think they're a little cooler than before, they're not all so cuty and teenage oriented anymore.
Although I do have to say that I don't  like Selina's new haircut. Ya, I know, supposedly the short hair is in these days with girls. That's what my two korean female friends said when they cut their hair short.

I'm still prefer long hair, but I suppose short hair is a good change of pace.

These days it feels like there's a lot of needy people in SZ. So there's two incidents I can talk about. I'm not sure whether or not I was tricked but it did seem real.

Incident #1:
I was walk around the more foreigner part of ShenZhen (shekou) and these three girls approached me. They looked really young, maybe about 14 or 15. There was nothing peculiar about them. They had normal clothes on and didn't speak english. So they came up to me and asked if I could buy them some food because they supposedly came to Shenzhen looking for work (in a factory) but were not able to find anything. I believed them and decided to buy them some food from the 7-11. After I had bought them food, they then continued to ask for more money because they needed a place to stay. I was actually kinda not happy about this, I already gave them money for food and now they wanted more? Trying to milk my genorsity? well, I guess its understandable because I don't think anyone else gave them anything, so no harm in trying to get more. Anyways, I gave them a little more money and took off. They wanted my number so they could repay me later, but i declined on that.

Incident #2:
A teenager approximately 16 or 17? (he looked older, but I'm not sure exact age), he sits in front of a restaurant that we were eating at and writes this big long message on the sidewalk about how he came to shenzhen to look for his friend but ended up not being able to find him and then he got his wallet stolen or lost. So he wanted money to help get back home. So he sits on the sidewalk, covering his face is shame hoping that people would give him money. I actually felt sorry for the kid and felt that he was telling the truth because he said he only wanted 23 RMB. That really isn't that much.  So ya, I decided to give him the money. So I was with a bunch of friends, they escorted him to the bus to make sure that he in fact was going home.

Anyways, I don't think I've come across these kinds of things yet in China. I do remember a few other similar incidents but it's always been begging and asking for large amounts of money (to help pay medical bills and stuff like this).

So ya, back to what I was thinking. I've decided to try and be more nice, give compliments to people and help encourage the people around me. I think people here just don't hear enough encouraging words.  It's always nice to get a pat on the back :)

Man, after watching this video, I'm just kinda disappointed with the world we live in.

  
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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4586903n

So this video is about electronics waste. What exactly happens to all the electronics when people don't want them anymore. I just really hate how all this hazardous waste is disposed of. There has to be a better way to deal with this. It's not fair, nor right, that a country such as USA can go and dump its garbage in China. I know they say there are laws against doing this but how does it still happen? There has to be numerous checkpoints for this garbage to get transported internationally. Are there that many people getting paid off? I find it incredible.

I know I'm probably also guilty of just throwing out my used electronic stuff too, so it would be difficult to blame western countries without blaming myself.

I just feel there has to be some way of dealing with this. Some way we can dispose of all this electronic garbage in a humane way? How do we educate people about proper ways of disposing of this garbage and how do we prevent companies from producing and selling crappy electronics in the first place?

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wow.. I was just reading my last blog entry and I don't even remember writing. It's been almost exactly one year since I've bothered to write in my blog.

Well I think it's about time to get started again. I think I'll write about some entrepreneurship stuff and news about my foray into the startup world.

so this the dictionary definition of what a entrepreneur is:
en·tre·pre·neur (ŏn'trə-prə-nûr', -nŏŏr')
n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.

so this is somewhat similar to what I had thought before too. I've always thought a entrepreneur was about starting a company and being your own boss. That was basically the motive, to be able to start your own business and enjoy the glory of being your own boss. But these days my mindset has changed. I've been listening to some podcasts from Stanford and they've got some really good speakers that come in to talk about entrepreneurship. So anyways, after listening to a few of them already, I've started to think that an entrepreneur is more defined as "a person who starts a business venture in order to pursue a goal (which he is passionate about)". So this assumes that the entrepreneur would not be able to pursue this goal if they did not start the business venture himself. I think pursuing entrepreneurship for the sake of pursuing it, is just foolish. I don't think I could ever start a company if I wasn't passionate about the purpose of the company. This is why I'll never have a company where we design cheap crappy products just because we can do it cheaper than other companies. I'll never start a company that just copies someone else. Anyways, entrepreneurship in my mind is a channel in which you can pursue your own ideas where you have the ability to control its outcome.

enuf said about this. let's talk about something more casual.
So, I've been trying to localize myself here in China. I have been trying to buy local branded clothes when I can. So a few months ago I bought some chinese underwear. For some reason I've realized that Chinese made underwear doesn't "breath" quite well. Every time I wear them, it makes my butt sweat! The fit is nice but I just don't like this sweaty feeling. I thought the pair I just bought was cotton, it wasn't that cheap, I'm not sure what happened. Anyways, should I give up on Chinese underwear? Sweat inducing underwear in ShenZhen just won't do. Maybe the underwear was made for Beijing type weather?

hmmmm...
ok..well..this is my first entry in a year but also my first entry using a Macbook!