Vain

每次回港的頭幾天都很overwhelming。
經過一個學期的delay,
第一次到香港的apple store
第一次到電影院看“那些年”(btw,除了男主角真的好正,內容甚麼的都吸引不到我)
第一次參與香港的拉麵熱潮(哥哥說要吃 一風堂,魂,豚王)
第一次跟non-投行面試
還有很多要補做的事情!例如學VBA,讀fluid mechanics (天音:*doubt*)

無聊記趣:
1)一風堂侍應:“駛唔駛加d水吖,先生?”…what….我d頭髮已經長咗好多架啦喎 

2) 離開地鐵,習慣了在boston T subway出口可以直行直過,
於是我就intuitively很型地唔doot八達通 直衝出去。。撞死。orz

飛機

Hong Kong = McWings!!

JFK -> HKG 飛機候機室,
兩位BU潮童大學生的對話。(咳)
女:"好彩今次都係坐business啫"
男:"坐econ就陰公lor,要我坐econ真係無-可-能-訓到lor~~”
說罷,上飛機經過商務客位,巧遇高中同學在跟美女空姐搭訕,
我笑笑,"哈哈咁啱嘅,不過我坐後面。。byebye ^^* ”

雖然沒有靚仔在旁,但有以下幾位老中青的男歌手專輯陪伴。
德永英明
方大同
Rubberband
平井堅(其中一首歌叫R&B, 歌詞不同重複”R and B, I’m Japanese, but I love it.”
….但我一直聽左做RMB…同份明報頭條"人民幣創新高"match :p )
Btw,
I wonder Studio CX要加唱片入去個system,
唔知個selection criteria 係點?唱片公司又點收版權錢?

movies!!
Crazy, Stupid, Love.– very messed up but damn funny! LOL literally when everyone was asleep on the plane..-_-

Captain America – can’t wait for the Avengers in 2012!!

The Tourist (i just suddenly rmb-ed i watched it ..)

Too Big To Fail 

“In 2010, compensation on wall street rose to a record of $135 billion.
Ten banks now hold 77 percent of all US bank assets.
They have been declared too big to fail. “

-Based on the book’too big to fail’ (that many people have already
recommended, like my bro and my profs) it’s even better than inside
job/ money never sleeps (right, 3rd movie on 2008 financial
crisis)…extremely well made with a much more 人性化 illustration &
dramatic approach.

important asset as a leader = crisis management skills. Everyone can
do the routine work but when it comes to unprecedented situations, a
leader should really stay calm and come up with immediate solutions
that the public and media would accept , no matter in fact It works or
not.

If Im Paulson, I really won’t know how to handle all the stress in
this global domino-like catastrophe. Too extreme and too big a
scenario to imagine – too much money, so many countries, banks,
companies..basically everyone is involved in this. Debunking bad news
one after another in such a short time frame was worse than a
nightmare. The market free fall was too fast to stop.

Lucky that I was just an innocent kid back in 2008. ^^ and best of
luck to the Euro crisis stakeholders now! When ‘running out of
solutions’ is not really an option….

Done!!

  • 只可以說,塔羅牌的r-squared很低。
    可能它可以解釋一下underlying阻力,
    但最後outcome如何都係靠自己控制。
  • Done!聽日番香港:)
    Youtube真係好偉大,教識左我點knit a scarf,
    仲教識左我How to fold a suit and shirt to go in a suitcase without wrinkling ^^
  • 當你以為自己Final有95分好開心,睇下個distribution :o)
    Even 大大隻 note左係*Undergraduate* 都係無用。
    皮已收

    呢個學期係出席率最高的學期,
    兩課係communications intensive所以take attendance,
    另外兩課係grad level 所以要聽下書。
    但每一課都係extremely right-skewed的時候,
    好難鬥,天道酬勤 ?哈哈。
    Let’s see….-_- otherwise就金翅xx鳥。

無心恋戦

The last few slides of lectures are always about how models or textbook examples taught in the beginning are no longer applicable in the 21st century. Traditional airline RM model failed coz of fare structure simplification by low-cost carriers. Swap spread turns negative first time in history after Lehman collapse. Treasury rate is no longer ‘risk-free’. Professors’ trading strategies through speculative hedge funds always failed miserably at last…etc..etc….assumptions are even more vulnerable now given how quick the world is moving forward.

どうにかまだ 僕は僕を
辭めないで 生きている
たった一度 笑えるなら
何度でも 泣いたっていいや

精一杯 運命に抵抗
正解·不正解の判斷
自分だけに許された權利

精一杯 存在の証明
敗北も 後悔も
自分だけに意味のある財寶

そうだよ まだ 僕は僕の 魂を持ってる
たった一秒 生きる為に
いつだって 命懸け 當たり前だ!

 

Amen.

窩心時刻:

  • “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”- Bruce Lee
  • canteen老闆:“比多d牛啊靚女啦~”  (嘩btw原來個“靚”字普通話係讀 jìng! )
    一開個飯盒,d牛仲多過d飯……heheehe
  • Shopping mall 內播著Frank Sinatra 的Let It Snow 和 White Christmas,
    意境就像坐在熱烘烘的壁爐旁 取暖一樣 。
    再加上燒著木頭的啪滋啪滋聲就perfect了。
  • 離開課室準備穿上大衣時,左手掛著書包,右手拿著notes,
    英國同學竟然快速走上前attempt幫我穿上。(拍戲咩?!)
    我驚訝地反應”wahh~nono!!! it’s fine thanks”  下一秒他就一手幫我拿著書包了。
    耶~~ 紳士風度啊~~(nwfb不要打我)~
    ff
    如果他再很紳士地伸出手示意請我先行,
    再加上一輛馬車在門外等候,
    那就可成為經典的電影橋段了。(逃)