Lyric:

Màn đêm níu thời gian cùng trăng soi muôn ngàn lá
Ngàn sao với gần đây để màn đêm thêm lung linh
Mình ngồi vai sát vai với ân cần và môi nồng ấm
Cùng nguyện xin ước mơ chung mang đôi cánh ta bay khắp giữa trời
Anh mơ được hái muôn vì sao bằng đôi tay với tim mình
Riêng tặng em xin riêng tặng em dù đôi tay anh khó với tới sao kia
Anh xin được mãi sẽ luôn bên em dù cho sao kia vụt tắt
Riêng cho mình em riêng mình em niềm tin yêu và lòng chân thành với em

Check out some of the add-on that are on the Bailout bill for the Auto industry.  They know these bills have to pass or else, that's why they took advantage and add these junks on there.

Just by judging these types of corruptions, is it really better to be democratic country or communist country?  It's just the same great ideas and campaign.  But it's the corrupted politicians that run for them and deceiving us.  So don't tell me that we're a better country.

Read about the pork: http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/12/11/auto-industry-bailout-includes-blessing-for-shady-tax-shelters/

Recently, there're radio ad around the country that encourage people to buy broken American car to support and be American/patriotic.  And it's cooler, nicer, better, and whatever they might say.  They're so wrong about most of non-American car.  Most of them are manufactured here, in America.  And ofcourse they're reliable and just money saving car in the long run - maintainence and gas.  So what are those idiots talking about???  Could someone tell me why these ad are on the radio?  And why people listen to them and if believe in them?

What are the sign of being an undeveloped country?

- Your people buy imported made more than domestic

- Corruptions

- Socialist government

- Unemployment (we're not there yet, not 40% yet, so no worry there)

- Crime rate and petty crimes

- and the list is coming...

I'm 1 1/2 wk away from my 3 wks vacation, and I think I need it.

But why home prices in LA is still expensive?

I wonder how long is this recession going to last? 3 years????

I'm tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The "This will work in the next version." The "It's in our roadmap." The "Buy now and upgrade later." The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn't tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash a year later, still half-baked, to make room for the next hardware revision. I'm tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system around. We need a change.

Take the iPhone, for example, one of the most successful products in the history of consumer electronics. We like it, I love mine, but the fact is that the first generation was rushed out, lacking basic features that were added in later releases or are not here yet. Worse: The iPhone 3G was really broken. For real. Bad signal, dropped calls, frozen apps. This would have been unthinkable in cellphones just five years ago. They were simpler, for sure, but they were failure proof. Today's engineering and testing is a lot more sophisticated. In theory, products can't go out into distribution with such glaring problems undetected.

Another recent example is my iMac 24, which had the infamous video card problem out of the box. How can a machine with such an obvious problem—instantly detected by the user base—be sold like that? The same happened recently with Nvidia video boards. In fact, graphic cards—being always in the cutting edge of technology—are perfect examples of beta hardware being sold as final hardware, with many released with beta-quality drivers and requiring firmware patches.

From that to the now-universally-accepted Blue Screen of Death, from buggy Blu-ray players to the Xbox 360's red ring of death and PS3's bugs, even from kitchen ovens to faulty DSLR cameras, the list of troubled products is endless. Just this week, the eagerly anticipated BlackBerry Storm launched to mixed reviews, in part because of its crashy, apparently unfinished software.

On the other side, my parents have a Telefunken CRT TV and a Braun radio from the '70s which are still in working condition. They were first generation. They never failed. Compare that to my first plasma TV from Philips, which broke after less than a year of use. Mine wasn't the only one. The technology was too young to be released; it was still in beta state. Philips wanted to be the first in the world with a flat TV and beat the competition, so they released it. This probably wasn't a good move: Today, Philips' TV business is struggling, and is nonexistent in the US. Meanwhile, my Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Apple IIe from the 1980s still work like they did from day one, perfectly.

For sure, today's products are far more complex than those of 20 or 30 years ago. But back then, the manufacturing was also a lot worse. It was less automated, often purely manual, and imperfect. Today, in a world where automated factories run 24/7, there's less chance of error. Yet still, there are countless problems in the final products, and those problems affect every unit in an entire model line. In the age of manufacturing perfection, there are still major recalls concerning products that burn or break.

Clearly, the problem is the development process and the time to market, with product cycles shortened and corners cut to keep a continuous stream of cash flowing in. The rush to feed these cycles with increasingly more complex engineering seems to be at odds with shortened development and quality assurance processes, resulting in beta-state first-generation products. This beta culture, the same one that already plagues the web, breeds people who are willing to accept bugs in the name of cutting-edge gear.

Who's to blame? Google and their web apps? Apple and their iPhone 3G problems? Microsoft and their countless buggy versions of operating systems and the Xbox 360's RROD? Philips? Sony? Samsung? LG? We all are. The manufacturers, who are driven by a thirst to expand and satisfy their shareholders at all costs. The consumers, who are so thirsty to drink in the shiniest, newest technology that they are willing to sacrifice stability. And the press too, who pours more gasoline onto the consumerism bonfire by writing glowing reviews and often minimizing things that are simply not acceptable.

Personally, I'm tired of all this. But I'm mostly tired about the fact that it seems that we all have given up. Tired because now we see "upgrades" as an opportunity to protect our investment, but in reality, it's laziness and a poor job on the manufacturer part that we have accepted without questioning. Instead of calling foul play and refusing to participate, we keep buying.

That's the key: We have surrendered in the name of progress and marketing and product cycles and consumerism. Maybe those are good reasons, I don't know, but looking at the past, it feels like we are being conned. Deceived because the manufacturers of electronic products have taken our desire to progress faster and even embrace the web beta culture as an excuse to rush things to market, to blatantly admit bugs and the rushed features sets and sell the patches as upgrades.

Maybe the recession will put some order in this thirst of new stuff and change the product cycles. As the economy slows down, people will think twice before buying the latest and greatest; they'll keep older hardware for longer. Then, manufacturers will have to rethink their product lines, and lift their feet from the accelerator, which will result on slower cycles and better products. Maybe that's our ticket for better electronics that actually make sense.

Or maybe... maybe that will be another excuse for the manufacturer to cut even more corners and keep lowering prices so that consumers keep spending and ending up with worse products than we have now.

Five days ago, the DJIA traded at 8,980. Yesterday, it hit 9,625. A 7% improvement. At that rate, the index will be back to its all-time high within six weeks.

When Obama got elected, my buddy even told me that it's only gonna goes up from here. He's gonna be our savior! I was almost convinced, but in the back of my head, I was like what happen to all those issues we faced 2 weeks ago? Did Paulson and Ben solved them? They're good. Obama is god, he's going to wave the wand and the world is gonna be perfect and will get better. How is that possible, right? Better than perfect?

Either Obama is setup to a huge failure and best of luck to him, because I don't think he could make that much of a change to our government. It's just too corrupted. And it's not yet in the big hole yet. We're sinking, but not down to the bottom as of yet. We have couple more inches to go (1000 - 3000 points).

Well, credit is still tight between banks to small businesses and consumers. Layoff news is coming out everyday, LBO and consumer credit debt write down is not starting yet. How much money is the government going print to help bailing out these banks and greedy CEOs? People are going to feel the crunch will spend even less than what they are now, and you thought the mall is still crowded? It will be empty empty soon, especially this Christmas. It's a ghost town, unless retails are sending out 70% off for holidays shopping season, not end of the year sale. I wonder what the discount would be? 90% off? Get rid of the inventory and put up "Out of business" sign? Why stress out? The economy is not going anywhere anyway? Wouldn't rather spend those specious time with family?

I think I'm very American to vote for someone that could have the ability to run this country, you know????

Or if you like to meet up and hang out.