After watching the movie Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2 with my son, leo who is madly in love with wildcats esp. leopards and jaguars. he asked me to buy one of his favorite characters in the movie, tai lung. he thinks it’s a leopard. oh, is it really a leopard? anyway. so, i went online and started to look for stores to buy some of those action figures. guess what. they’re sold out dated products being sold in 2007 or 2008 when the 1st movie came out. no one seem to sell any in korea. so, i tried ebay.com. oh, there’re not many of them. as a matter of fact, looks like Kung Fu Panda figures are all rare items even on ebay world. except those Kung Fu Panda 2 items came with McDonald happy meal set in other countries.

But, then, i was lucky enough to find a chinese seller who has a variety of kung fu panda 1 figures in stock. better yet, her price was mighty low too. hooray for my wallet. hey… china is closer than u.s. or canada. that’s a good thing too. so i placed a bid on like 10 of them. of course all different sort of action figures including my own favorite spiderman and batman. hehe. i had no plan to buy other characters but, what the hell. each of them is as low as $0.99. you can’t beat the price anywhere else. `my son’s gonna love all of them.` i thought. i pictured myself my son playing with his new toys. made me big smile on my face. cool.

After won 10 of them, i was contacted by the seller called herself jaycee. surprise! she asked me a very steep shipping/handling fee to make up her initial low start bid price. `damn! i should’ve expected this.` was i too naive? so i emailed her to see if there’s any chance to make it low. but, her answer was not quite agreeable at the time i read it. she said she’s gonna give me an extra discount on one condition though. a positive feedback. what??? felt like she’s trying to control me with her own scam. i was upset. i simply thought i was very lucky to find incredible deals at the first time. but, there’s something i didn’t expect with her business strategy. (not scam. after all.) though i knew her price was still good. i chose not to do business with her. cause i was disappointed. disappointed than what i should. so i sent another email and told her i’ll find another seller. please cancel my orders.

here’s the best part. she’s a full of patience. she wrote a long email telling me about her business, the products she’s dealing and her marginal profit. she even offered me a lot better price after exchanging more emails. her patience and kindness made me think logically. hey, we don’t usually go shopping to get a chance to make friends. but, whenever we see very positive and friendly people we want to keep them in a circle of our social networks. right??? after all, facebook and twitter aren’t the only tools you can expand your social circle. you could do it even through ebay! only if you’re lucky enough to stumble upon such nice people.

here’s her store on ebay. feels like i’d be one of her patrons. lol. i like those tiny figures. check out her store anytime soon you won’t be disappointed!

http://myworld.ebay.com/yaksanagezhou

Shortly after finishing a private project called http://teeshot.co.kr I had to find a new place for another refreshing moment followed by a new attempt and try. Yes, I’m still hungry and busy looking for better chances. 2 lessons learned from the previous 2+ months exp.

• 1st, don’t even consider collaboration with anyone demonstrated questionable performance.
• 2nd, stop feeling over sympathetic for people and move on.

After all, that was me pushing me to the corner. Gotta cut ‘em loose… Suckerz!!!

been there for 3 days to relax. the weather was too cold outside but, my 2 children seemed to enjoy every moment in the hotel we stayed. esp., my son. he’s a bit out of control these days.

This little spoiled boy called himeself `Z-Ranger #1` keeps me busy on the weekend all the time. Sadly the bad cold keeps him from any out-door activities this weekend.

if you found some people careerly, financially, socially retarded and still in your circle of friends would you still embrace ‘em as friends or exclude ‘em to keep things simple, safe, and as drama free as possible. i’ve always thought friends should be someone competitive and someone i can learn something from. yet, i feel much comfortable when i’m with sympathetic people.

with a hexa-core processor named AMD Phenom II X6 1055T and 16GB DDR3 memories, it’s going to be the fastest server I’ve ever built. I’m getting closer to the hanlingo v2.

to resume work on my own project called http://hanlingo.com finally. the 2nd version will be built on a more solid framework with a lot of cool features.

I’d like to focus on face to face language exchange in Korea, So, it will definitely be a hub to schedule such in-person meet-up events for LE while others are busy typing their keyboards.

the 2nd version won’t be a free web-site though. It’d be better to use a cool Web-site or Web-app by paying a small amount of money than to watch it die and disappear.