Well, I bought some Oxy Oil Control Gel (as below but Chinese one not Japanese - I grabbed this photo from the Internet)

I bought it in one of the many Watson’s in Beijing.( like the shop below)

Well, I’m cautiously optimistic that this stuff is doing my skin good. My skin overproduces oil which causes my nasty sebaceous spots particularly on the back of my neck and the front of my torso). This stuff is good though. It gets to work fast. It’s like an acid. It really burns into those spots. It quickly soaks into the skin, burning away the moist, maddening red spots and leaving, in short order, a scab where the moist live spot was. Great stuff. Western medicine, I think. Often I like western medicine. It gets to work fast, gets the job done fast. Chinese medicine is good in theory. For example, the idea that Chinese medicine can remedy spots on the skin by killing bacteria in the intestines.. Ingenious!! I’m sure it works but it takes more time and patience. I’m just not a very patient guy sometimes. Anyway, I’m not saying that this stuff has resolutely solved this problem forever but I think I’ve made a good selection. It really burns into the skin and attacks the problem. I like this. I’m not looking for some slow-coach medicine, that’ll take an eternity.
So, I give this cream a cautious but encouraging 6/10..

EliteChoice is being witnessed as a den for concepts offering luxurious stay to prospective manufacturers. And exemplifying this stands high–the Ply concept phone designed by Hideo Kanbara all set to rock the KDDI Designing Studio. Befiiting the needs of your demanding job, the conceptual phone enables you stay close to office while comuniting. Derived from the design of multilayered plywood, the proactiveness of the Ply concept is purely dependent upon the distinct functionality attached to its various layers ranging from a photo printer to game controller and also mini digital projector.

‘Donning the appeal of a concept, the Ply phone has potential to attain its possible realistic features. Considering the crazy gaming culture of Japan and evolving handsets, the regulator layer is an explicit plus, albeit it is suggestible to access the wireless version while using the incorporated projector. If curious to know more about the ply used for the development of the concept, kindly visit the KDDI Designing Studio in Harajuku.

And you have to control your senses before they go wild with a thought to hold the handset as it is till eyeing an elite manufacturer, who can do justice to the personality of the concept.

CARS IN EMERGING MARKETS
A global love affairEmerging markets are the car industry’s big hope. But it won’t be an easy ride, says Matthew Symonds (interviewed here)
AFP
THERE has rarely been a tougher time to be a carmaker. Squeezed by the credit crunch, rocked by the seesawing price of oil and now faced with a nasty recession as the banking crisis infects the real economy, the traditional markets of North America, western Europe and Japan, already sluggish for several years, have all but packed up. In America car sales are running at about 16% below last year’s level. Detroit’s struggling big three—General Motors, Ford and Chrysler—are in dire straits. They have wrung a $25 billion bail-out from Congress and are now looking for much more. In Europe the market is also collapsing. Sales in Japan this year are expected to be the lowest since 1974.
However, not all is doom and gloom. Mature vehicle markets may be close to saturation, but there is huge unsatisfied demand in the big emerging car markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China (the so-called BRICs). Although not immune from the rich countries’ troubles, they are likely to suffer much less. For one thing, levels of personal debt are far lower and a smaller proportion of cars are bought on credit. For another, the BRIC economies have been expanding so fast that even a slowdown should still leave them with growth rates that look respectable to Western eyes.

One measure of the BRIC countries’ new importance to the car industry is that, recession or not, global car sales in 2008 may still hit an all-time record of about 59m. For the first time passenger-vehicle sales in the BRICs, at around 14m, are likely to overtake those in America, which are expected to be the worst since 1992. As recently as 2005 America outsold them by over 10m. By the end of this decade China, already the world’s second-biggest market, will probably overtake America’s sales of 16m-17m in a “normal” year. In Brazil sales have increased by nearly 30% in each of the past two years. Russia is likely to overtake Germany as Europe’s biggest market within the next two years, with sales of around 3.5m. Meanwhile, Tata’s $2,500 Nano, due to be launched in early 2009, is designed to do for India what the Model T Ford did for America 90 years ago.
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What is meant by “One Drink”?Knowing how to count standard drinks is necessary to calculating your blood alcohol concentrations. People usually underestimate how much they have had to drink because they aren’t using standard measurements. “One Drink” means 1/2 ounce of pure 100% alcohol. This is the definition used to calculate BAC levels, establish metabolism times, and so forth.
BeerOne drink = one 12-ounce beer. This is normal-strength regular beer (4.5% alcohol). Micro-brews, ice beer, and malt liquor have a higher percentage of alcohol (look at the label).

- Examples (assuming a 12 ounce beer)
For beer, here is a fast way to know the number of drinks:
Read the label
Find the percent of alcohol
Divide that by 4.5
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Wow,I cannot believe that.The whole year passed just like nothing important happened.It’s the last day of the the year 2008.I just feel like saying something,but really I am not sure what I will say.I think it’s no problem and it’s ok. (more…)