A Crazy Experiment

E accidentally spilled orange juice on her AT&T LG cell phone. The phone was not happy after that: basically it refused to turn on. Thinking that they have nothing more to lose, C and E decided to soak the phone in the purest water they can find, Milli Q water. Their reason: water might be able to remove the juice from the phone and thus fix it. However, M was critical about that reasoning. He thought the acidity of the OJ had already killed the circuit. I am curious and doubtful as whether this would work at all. After all, my friend X lost her phone after it had a brief accidental bath in water.

Do you think C and E's experiment will work or not?

I will provide an answer if I get enough feedback on this post.

Now to prove that THE phone was really soaked in water:

E retrieving the phone from water as C, M, and A look on:

The serial number on the phone (notice water drops on the phone):
C and E are smart as they only soaked the phone but not the battery or the SIM card.

His Royal Highness

Radar in his self-fashioned poncho.

A really long train.

"I chewed this hole myself, and put my head through it."

The cat walk.

《色，戒》

我那热爱娱乐八卦的脑袋今天晚上拜读了张爱玲的短篇小说《色，戒》，很为作家的功力所折服。短短的篇幅力透纸背，人物刻画和心理描写都恰到好处，还有这故事，非常的惊骇。张爱玲在我的心中，已然不再是个chick lit的作家了。

我准备要赶这不过时的时髦，做一个张迷。

另外，不知道李安能把这故事拍成啥样的片子。期待。

Donkey Tail in Bloom

My 7-year-old Donkey Tail surprised me this summer. This plant can actually bloom!

Read more about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedum_morganianum

Stargazing Last Week

It was confirmed today that the shining, fast-moving celestial object I saw last Wednesday or Thursday night was a Perseid meteor. The criteria:

1) It was heading south from north by north-east.
2) It was too fast to be an airplane.
3) It was too bright to be International Space Station (I don't even know where its orbit is).

So even though I was too tired to gaze last night (its peak time), I still saw the meteor shower, just in that 30 seconds I happened to be looking :) With this luck, I should go and buy lottery.

Last Saturday, I also saw the Milky Way with naked eyes, and many many more stars than any star chart could show. I remember that I was more than once told the story of Vega (织女) and Altair (牛郎), and Deneb (鹊桥). The thing was, I never really learned those stars until recently. But they are really prominent in the sky. They make a great Summer Triangle.