Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Well, given these destinations, “Travel & Leisure” has their 500 top hotels as well as “Conde Naste Traveler Gold List”:http://www.cntraveller.com/GoldList/2008/, so what’s in these areas. In “Anzac and the South Pacific”:http://www.travelandleisure.com/tl500/2008/region/australia-newzealand-southpacific, we have some obvious ones: In Australia, * “Langham Hotel”:http://www.travelandleisure.com/tl500/2008/hotel/langham-hotel-melbourne in Melbourne. It is normally a high A$500, which is now US$300. Try the…

Well, another way to think about travel occurred to me while I was in Australia. Where an incredible hotel room that costs A$500 is not more like A$300 because of the Exchange rate shifts, so how about going to XE.com and finding out what countries have dropped the most compared with the USD or Euro…

A buddy of mine, said, hey, I don’t want to get stuck in a trip by myself, but I want to see the world a weekend at a time when I’m stuck somewhere far from home. So what am I going to do. Well, another 15 minutes and I found that the “London Times”:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/your_say/article421779.ece covers…

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They said it was coming in November, but no one seems to have it. “PC Magazine”:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335490,00.asp claims shipments started Tuesday November 25th. We’ll see 🙂 I’ve got my Canon EOS 350D and it has faithfully taken over 18,000 photos in the last three years (!!!), but now the lenses are ready for the 21 megapixel…

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My buddy John says hanging with me is like living with Neo in The Matrix. Oh my goodness, this crash looks like the next depression. Ok buy ever book about the Great Depression and read them in a week. Need to understand electricity trading. Buy all the books. Read over the weekend. Need to be…

This WordPress for the iPhone is so amazing. You can blog from your iPhone so now I can take hours to compose a long note. Or I can share the amazing things I see in ordinary life. While a 2mp camera is truly lousy. Remember the first Leicas were designed with 1 megapixel resolution in…

One confused friend once asked over and over why have a blog. Who is going to read it? Another dear friend said it like talking to me, isn’t it?. One colleague said it is like looking into Rich’s mind and it is *scary!?*. On this day after Thanksgiving Day, I think the answer is. Who…

My good friend, Richard told me a great story: If u can’t see light at the end of the tunnel. Remember there is a Buddhist exercise. Stand in a large totally dark room and start walking. U will learn that eventually u will take small steps and it doesn’t matter if u can’t see and…