About Me
The Products/Services I am using or have used:  (Believe me, you can tell a lot about a person from the products he/she uses)
My Cars
  • 1986 Ford Tempo GL/2Dr, a company car, I drove it from 01/95 - 06/95.
  • 1995 Acura Integra LS Coupe, 5 speed, 1.8L engine, 140hp, very practical hatchback, one time I even put all my entertainment center electronics in the car.  black/beige, bought new on 06/30/95, sold 06/98, putting 32K miles on it.
  • 1998 Acura 3.5 RL sedan special edition, the car I am driving now.
  • Yes, as you can probably tell, I do like Acura very much, because they make solid cars, keep good value, and not so feminine.
    My 'pocket'
    Telebank
    One of a few banks (another one is Compubank), that are solely operated on the internet (supposedly save a lot of costs for maintaining lots of local offices, but on the other hand, may lack the exposure to the public), it has very good interest checking (3.10+% APR on $2500 minimum daily balance) and savings account (4.88+% APR on $2500 minimum daily balance). Also I like their online payment service very much, after I started using that service, I have never missed my bills anymore.
    Before that, I have used Coastal Federal Bank, which is bought by HomeSavings America, after being bought, I received poorer service, in such, my ATM card cannot link all my accounts anymore, from time to time, I would receive bank charges, for various 'reasons'.  So, Bye now!
    My Computers
    My Trans-
    portation
    BART
    It may be one of the best public transportations available in the SF Bay Area, but it's still too expensive, comparing $1.50 everywhere in New York, it took me $5.90/rt from El Cerrito to SF downtown (of course, the parking in SF is $17/day)
    My Third Eye
    • First camera : Minolta Dynax 7000i, second generation of the world's first autofocusing 35mm SLR.  It's called Maxxum in the US.  Very unfortunately, I lost the whole set of camera along with 2 Sigma lens (one 24-70mm f3.5-5.6 Aspherical, the other 100-300mm) in 1995.
    • Second camera (the one I am using now): Nikon N70. It's one level down from Nikon's most prestige AE,AF SLR N90.  Also 2 Sigma lens (24-70mm f3.5-5.6 Aspherical, 70-300mm f4-5.6 DL Macro)
    • See some of my works in my online gallery. Most of them are done with my Nikon.
    My Fax
    eFax
    It is so cool and fast, that the first day I have this service, I went ahead send me a fax, by the time I came back to my desk, I have already received it in my email inbox.  How long does it take you to go to a store, compare all the brands and features, costs, etc, and set it up?  Let alone some fax machines would have conflict with answering machines, that you have to define which one will take over first. 
    And above all, it's FREE, like many other internet services.
    BTW, my fax number is (708) 575-8470.
    My Dictionary
    Dictionary.com
    You have it all the time, and you don't need a pocket to take it with you.
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    Expedia

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