PAth of groWING

Next week's gonna be my last stay here at FORTUNE.

Wanna know the reason why I didn't come to VOX for so long? Coz I keep logging with my user name elenwu and it won't get through.. I thought it might be some tech problems with the site and complaint a lot. Just now I tried again and finally saw the word "EMAIL" at logging page... Man I'm soooooo stupid!!!

We always take things for granted. Too lazy to doubt and dig deep.

Anyway, back to work. Gonna do sth interesting about leading indicators. I'll try hard to gain a happy ending.

Casino Royal is said to be pretty good, though still got narrowly beaten by talented tap-dancing penguins.

North American Box Office:

Dunno if you guys would know anything about this pretty-looking (if not too pretty) hong kong boy, with a never-fading wicked smile - said to be young girls' favorite - on his face. And which does give me an impression of flamboyant.. I just can't say I like this young actor, and moreover, his songs suck.

edison chen

But weird things just keep going on and on. He made PEOPLE's list of new comers.. Read:

... ... One of Asia's biggest stars (you gotta tell me how you define the word biggest here!) - an actor (no comment), a clothing designer (really?), store owner (never heard of that..) and rapper (say that..but def a bad one) - Chen is now taking on America, acting in the horror film The Grudge 2 and collaborating with Kanye West. ... ...

He's not gonna win the market here. But PEOPLE would win the asian market somehow by keeping doing this kind of things, I guess.

Nice strategy. Make the old George and the young Matt top of list, then adding some Latino, African and Asian faces. Wow they target at everybody!

Tricky PEOPLE.

Man the new video one is really nice.. It's even nicer to get this at price of regular one, coz we have the huge discount! Cooool.. Working does have advantages, at some time, I guess.

Heading for Boston. Damn the online ticket-booking system. It's even worse than stupid.

Hope the "STORM" would not exist any more. I wanna see the BIG game!!

George Cloony...
Hmm...what a weird choice this year.

Well, ask me, it'd def be Jason Dohring!!!!!   HAHA~~~
Yep I just love this "high-school" guy, so what!

Don't talk to a dog in the raining days.

He must have his own sorrow.

Let it be..

He'll see the rainbow hue,

after all these chilly rain,

after all these delusive fog.

rainy sorrow

Finally. Even George Bush claimed to want him stay till the end of second term. Guess he eventually can't stand being at center of storm - the evil architect of Iraq War. And Democatic's winning must bump him out.

Robert Gates, former head of CIA, is said to be the successor.

The $600 million, already big and still fast growing Chinese stock market catches more and more attention not only internationally but also domestically. A few months ago, Xinhua News Agency announced its exclusive right to disseminate Chinese market information. Foreign data-providers like Bloomberg and Reuters were told to stop colleting such data.

And a few days ago Shanghai Stock Exchange won the lawsuit against Xinhua FTSE over the use of its instant data. A penalty of $20,000 imposed on XFI and the contract stopped. Some say it shows China's growing concious to protect Intellectual Property, while many believe it a competition over the control of information integral to making them work.

To improve the free information flow in public domain following the global trend as what the premier had promised, or keep concentrating on profits, is kind of a dilemma for China's policy maker.