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I enjoy reading year-in-review lists – what can I say, I am a list kinda guy. I make lists for everything – actually I think it borders dangerously close to a disorder. haha

Anyway, I was watching a CNN year-in-review program last week and I realized since moving out here these lists have taken on a new meaning for me. Instead of a ‘review,’ it’s more like a cliff’s notes of 2007 since 90% of it is new to me! I joke with my US friends that if they ever make a Trivial Pursuit 2007….err….let’s just say you wouldn’t want me on your team.

So in the spirit of lists and this blog here is a fun list of the Top 10 ‘what is’ and ‘how to’ search queries from and Baidu in 2007.

Top 10 ‘what is’ queries in 2007 – note the translations are mine
Baidu
1) 什么是基金 – What are mutual funds
2) 什么是权证 – What are options
3) 什么是股指期货 – What are futures
4) 什么是股票 – What are stocks
5) 什么是电子商务 – What is e-commerce
6) 什么是爱 – What is love
7) 什么是3g – What is 3g
8) 什么是企业文化 – What is company culture
9) 什么是科学发展观 – What is “scientific growth viewpoint” – I know I butchered this one – as you can see sometimes I feel like I speak english like a chinese person now. haha Anyway, it’s basically a mission statement/framework for how the government would like to see the growth and development of China and its people
10) 什么是oem – What is oem

1) what is love
2) what is autism
3) what is rss
4) what is lupus
5) what is sap
6) what is bluetooth
7) what is emo
8) what is java
9) what is hpv
10) what is gout

Top 10 ‘how to’ queries in 2007
Baidu
1) 如何减肥 – How to diet
2) 如何炒股 – how to trade stocks
3) 如何打开注册表 – How to open the registration form windows registry
4) 如何美白 – How to make my skin whiter (in the context of beautification)
5) 如何化妆 – How to apply makeup
6) 如何购买基金 – How to purchase mutual funds
7) 如何赚钱 – How to make money
8) 如何创业 – How to be an entrepreneur
9) 如何接吻 – How to kiss
10) 如何理财 – How to handle my personal finances

1) how to kiss
2) how to draw
3) how to knit
4) how to hack
5) how to dance
6) how to crochet
7) how to meditate
8) how to flirt
9) how to levitate
10) how to skateboard

Of course, it’s always dangerous to make generalizations based on anecdotal bits of data like this, but alas, I’ll do it anyway.

Based on the above list some Chinese netizens believe that it’s indicative of how Chinese people care more about money than Americans. I disagree – I think it’s just more indicative of the fact that everyone and their mothers are piling into the red-hot stockmarket in 2007, literally. To dig into this deeper I took a gander at the archives but unfortunately only Baidu had the same categories going back to 2006 while this was the first year for Zeitgeist to have these 2 categories. As I guessed, in the 2006 Baidu list, there are way fewer finance related terms.

Lastly, I think these lists are more interesting if you pretend that the Chinese list was compiled from the US population and vice versa. What would your reaction be then?

I personally think the “how to make my skin whiter” one sticks out like a sore thumb

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As I mentioned last year, it’s not that festive here for Christmas, but the tradeoff is that we get to have a good ol’ time in February during Chinese New Years when all you chumps are working!

It would’ve been nice to go home for the holidays but as a consolation prize I had a virtual Christmas Eve dinner via webcam with my folks back home. Santa had already made his rounds in China since it was already 7am here while my family back home were still waiting for Santa to come down their chimney.

On a related note, like many of you procrastinators out there I too spent my Christmas Eve shopping. Except it was to buy computer servers for my business. Try fitting THAT in your stocking! Well, all of this doesn’t sound that exciting, that is until you realize that with every purchase comes with a free ride on a motor scooter.

Check it out! In case you’re wondering, that’s not me.

So here was the deal, I bought the server from a local dealer to save some bucks and I originally planned to have them deliver it to my apt, but while I was double-checking the final product at the store they said, “do you want to take it home now?”

I said, “Sure, but how?”

She nonchalantly replied, “My husband can take both you and the server on his motor scooter.”

To be honest, I was highly doubtful this would have a pleasant ending plus comical thoughts of whacking pedestrians in the back of the knees with the server kept cropping up in my head, but apparently this is par for the course.

Luckily, my fear was unfounded and the dude was a pro so it went off without a hitch. Though it brings back memories of when my mom, brother, sister and I would all pile onto our scooter in Taiwan when I was little. Now THAT would be a good picture!

去年我说过了在中国圣诞节的气氛一点都不浓。 顶多有些地方会有意思意思的布置。不过没什么好抱怨的，我春节玩的很痛快的时候就会替你们郁闷了。

其实我一直以来已经习惯了自己四处跑但今年不知道为什么特别想家。 本来有抱着希望回家但现在脱不开身所以只能用webcam来跟我家人吃一顿虚拟巨餐。

另外， 像你们迟误者（可以这样说吗？） 我在christmas eve 也在购物，但我估计我买的电脑服务器不是典型的圣诞礼物吧。 其实也没什么大不了的，但没想到还配送一乘蛮有趣的scooter ride.

观赏以上的照片！说明一下，那个人是送我回家的，如果要我自己开的话这会就惨了！

所以这个有什么搞笑的？ 其实这种东西我在路上看了n遍了，但旁观者和参与者总是有区别吧！所以我买完服务器之后，那个老板娘就说“我先生送你回去吧。“ 随此就搭上了。 在回家的路上突然让我想起小时候我妈妈骑着一辆灰色的小摩托车带者我哥哥，姐姐，和我兜来兜去。 虽然这个节日不能跟我家人聚聚会但偶尔在中国可以让我回顾到这些美好的记忆也应该知足了。

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