HitHat - Billy Qiu's Blog

I arrived at the Pudong Airport of Shanghai (PVG) yesterday night. I took the flight from Korean Airlines once again and got transferred from Ichoen Airport (ICN) Seoul.

My two and a half months business travel to the United States drew to an end. However, I’m glad that I can spend some more time with my families and friends in Shanghai.

The replacement of the Logitech defective mouse will be arriving today via UPS. Hope this time it is a-okay.

I’ve subscribed to Skype-In for three months for a test. I got a good number (915) 440-0XXX. So it looks like a Clint, TX number which begins also as 915-440-XXXX. I tried the bundled voicemail function, when I’m offline and someone call this number, they’ll be automatically forwarded to voicemail. And it works pretty good.

BTW, a little information about the number.
“915″ sounds very much like my chinese name Qiu Yinghua in Chinese or Shanghainese. and 4400 is a very famous US Television Show aired during the season 2004 through 2005. XXX is a good number I like. hehe

Tonight Anderson Cooper from CNN reported a lady had a serious AIWS (Alice in Wonderland Syndrome), who sees object smaller then those in reality.

Quote from Wikipedia.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), or micropsia, is a disorienting neurological condition which affects human visual perception.

Small children, usually between the ages of five and ten, form a large proportion of those afflicted by spontaneous temporary micropsia. Micropsia tends to occur during darkness, when the brain lacks visual size references.

I used to often had that when I was young till high school. Now they never come back. CNN also reported that Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll may had suffered from the symdrome as well. And researches also indicate that this syndrome may have something to do with artistic creativities. It is believed that the famous painter Van Gogh may also have had this syndrome.

Well, you know what? That might be a good explanation of my talent in creativity of arts and musics. Oh. I’m just kidding, hehe!

Touchin’ NYC part I
You may think that I should use the title “revisiting new york” or something, since I’ve already been to to the city for more than several times. Well, I’d never felt like I’ve really touched the cities spirit or culture, until today. I planned this two-day touching NYC tour for myself at this weekend. I’m currently in the Kintting Factory music club at 74 Leonardo St (bt. Church St & Broadway). Today is the Saturday. There’s a show at 8pm by a band called … Around 100 people had bought the tickets, which was $15. We are now waiting for the performance to begin. It’s already 20:46 now. There is a delay for no reason. Anyway, hope when they get ready we can enjoy the show.

Knitting Factory is a very nice place, we are now at the main hall, which is at level 3. There two floors underground and another one at the upper level. Don’t know why this place is kinda very familiar. Oh… I remembered it’s much like the Ark Music Bar in Shanghai Xintiandi, but seems 100 ppl is a little crowded here. All other folks are talking loudly since I can’t hear them talking about a specific topic, it’s kinda very noisy. Only me, are standing at a corner near the w ll using the stylus tapping the screen. Anyway, it’s still full of fun.

This morning I eventually been to the real times square and took lots of pictures on the spot.
You can find them all from my flickr photo album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/billyqiu

ABC showed a complete old episode of LOST yesterday night which has been shown in season one. That was really disappointing. Anyway, I won’t miss the next one which seems to be exciting anyway. Something bad happened to the folks with Jack.

In the office of Rodale an eyecatching yellow towel titled big “Terrible Towel” hung on Devon’s cubicle aroused my interest.

I searched web for its story. It is a gimmick created by Myron Cope, a broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers (an American football team). Needing a way to excite the fans during a 1975 playoff football game against the Baltimore Colts, Cope urged fans to take yellow dish towels to the game and wave them throughout. The stands were filled with yellow towels that day, and the Steelers always seemed to complete terrific plays when the towels were waving. The Steelers won that game 28-10.

So Devon must be a super fan of Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Today I returned the defective Logitech mouse via the FedEx services just right here in the Rodale office. Two kind ladies helped me pack it up and also print the RMA# on the box and insert the invoice of the shipment in the box for refund later. Total cost only four dollars for FedEx ground, 2 days delivery from PA to OH. Glad that I finally made it done inhouse, thanks to Appu for providing this information to me. I had been planning to use USPS (Postal Services) whose service could be slower and it was located at the N 5th St in Emmaus plus it was 20 mins walk from here.
FedEx Tracking number: 0406816 10248723