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By Ophelia Chong
February 4, 2010

How many times have you seen that same link about the iPad? Or about the latest cute box loving kitten youtube?

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is based on the concept of the small world phenomenon and that you can tie any actor to Kevin Bacon within six degrees. With the world moving at the pace that it is, we can narrow that down to almost zero for our relationships.

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Those Sounds
Come & Gone

By Ophelia Chong
January 25, 2010

On my Facebook page this past Saturday, I posed the question: "What are the once iconic sounds you no longer hear? Typewriters, rotary dial tones, film cameras, analog cash registers... what else comes to mind?

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Apple Tablet: Just a Thought?

By Ophelia Chong
January 21, 2010

A few years back I was at a restaurant with friends having dinner, all of sudden in the middle of my main entree, I looked up and said "there was just a landslide outside my house". Everyone looked at me and asked "how do you know that?", one person laughed at me and said "you're weird".

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Backwards and Forwards

By Ophelia Chong
January 15, 2010

I left Hong Kong at 11:40PM Wednesday and arrived at LAX at 8:15 PM Wednesday. I had a chance to relive the last 21 hours.

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Smoke and Wishes

By Ophelia Chong
January 8, 2010

What do you wish for everyday? What did you wish for in 2010? There is a moment in each day where we need the impossible and hope for the best.

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Tread Lightly

By Ophelia Chong
January 1, 2010

Nothing makes you pine for LA traffic more than being in a city that has traffic jams on the sidewalks. Traffic? Hanoi laughs at your LA traffic.

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A New Day, A New Year

By Ophelia Chong
December 29, 2009

As I sat with 200 other world travelers by the lily pond in front of the west gates of Angkor Wat, I let the year slide by me. The sun was due to rise at 6:30am.

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The Olds Move
to Facebook

By Ophelia Chong
December 21, 2009

"DAD! GET OFF MY FACEBOOK!" "AWWWW MOM! WHY THAT PHOTO???!!!'

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Would You Pay
for Facebook?

By Ophelia Chong
December 16, 2009

Its been a long week for Facebook users, with all the privacy settings changed willy-nilly that allowed strangers to access your Wall, photos and profile information.

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Rachel commented on Apple Tablet: Just a Thought?:
I HOPE an Apple tablet is in the future. The other thing I hope for in the ...
don frederick commented on Those Sounds
Come & Gone:
The tick-tock of large wall clocks ... Indulge me to also recollect how the...
larry gassan commented on Those Sounds
Come & Gone:
I worked at a publishing house several years ago. I was banging out a pile ...
KCET Yoli commented on Those Sounds
Come & Gone:
The sound of dial up internet....
Danh Hoang commented on Apple Tablet: Just a Thought?:
Apple is the king of trends. I see an e-reader on everybody's coffee table...
Ophelia Chong commented on Tread Lightly:
Hi Maxwell, It won't happen here in LA, like Saigon or Hanoi. Unless we go ...
Ophelia Chong commented on Smoke and Wishes:
Dearest Ada, Thank you so much for the kind words, you are so sweet. XOXO o...
Ada Szeto commented on Smoke and Wishes:
Ophelia, You did it again. This is so poignant and beautifully written th...
KCET Maxwell commented on Tread Lightly:
Is it possible that Los Angeles will ever transform into the traffic free-f...
Ophelia Chong commented on The Olds Move
to Facebook
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Ada, Maybe there's just some things you don't want to know, and things you ...