Bump of Chickenとの絆

(宅女+癡癡地 mode 開動)

今年的年度漢字為「絆」,意思即是聯繫,bonding。
朋友問我去日本看誰的演唱會,我說他們叫bump of chicken,看他們的live show 是我的bucket list之一。他們會笑名字古怪,但這隊治癒系組合對我的意義非常重大。我不是甚麼J-pop fans,除了bump,基本上其他都不聽。我喜歡他們,是在於歌詞的意義和藤原基央的歌聲,因為他們可以療傷。

2007年第一次聽到天体観測、18歲收到車輪の唄的mp3為生日禮物,2007年末Princeton Common App 裡問的”favorite album” 我填了”Jupiter – Bump of Chicken”,留學前買了涙のふるさと的single,ロストマン一首歌成為了我sophomore year的救命恩物。2008年寄了一張fan letter 到日本 (圖),在fb開了一個fan page,開始翻譯他們的歌詞和官方新聞,3年多後,現在fan page已經有七千多人了。(所以他們唱片公司好應該sponsor我的門票 as their unofficial overseas PR?!)

還記得第一篇翻譯的新聞,就是他們2008日本巡迴演唱會的消息。想不到要隔了三年半後才有第二次!(that’s why 就算我2008 2009 2010 在日本的時候都沒有機會去看他們的公演 ><)實在不敢想像終於可以看live的時候,會是甚麼的情形。我會不會暈過去?因為可以達成夢寐而求/朝思夢想的事情,的確難免會心情激動和感動。

可能過了幾年我就唔記得點解我會咁 hyper for this …….
(就好像我已經忘了為甚麼當年我會這麼瘋狂“鋼の錬金術師”….
仲online bid左隻cosplay陀錶番來..orz..仲放左係屋企)

Anyway thanks everyone who makes this trip possible!  :) It means a lot to me!
藤君 〜~2012年1月9日見!
この微妙な絆をずっとずっと大切にしているから。

ここが出発点 踏み出す足は
いつだって 始めの一歩
間違った 旅路の果てに
正しさを 祈りながら

君のために翼になる

VERY LAST Exam with Sloan in my life~!
(unless coming back for MBA la..with a probability close to zero..)
Byeee~~~~^_______^!

Last day of class tomorrow!
其實這個學期真的學到不少,而且attendance一定是史上最高。就這樣course 15的requirement就讀完了,剩下course 1的兩課就畢業了!
investment給了我很多非常有用的insight,我不明白為甚麼我可以不懂這些就去interview/做internship,很像把一切謎底解開一樣。還有professor很有型。高度推介!
managerial psycho遇上了一位非常嚴厲/一絲不苟的writing advisor,發現了自己很多英文上的不足+學到了很多presentation skills。
communications 要所有written assignment/oral presentation 都要達90%以上,每一分小功課都要做到完美。又一考consistency in effort 的課。
transportation 是to date考得最好的課,最開心學到了有關airline revenue management的事情,所以拜託final一定要盡力加油!
連續第三次做microecon的grader,其實真的不錯,一邊賺錢錢,一邊refresh這些基本常識。

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wow random random~純粹巧合!
原來建築師貝聿銘 I.M. Pei 是爹爹+哥哥+我的三重師兄!

“貝氏在香港度過他的童年,入讀聖保羅書院。貝聿銘18歲負笈美國,先在賓州大學攻讀建築學,後轉往麻省理工學院,1940年取得建築學士學位。”

-完-

Ivory Tower of Babel

Coming Up Soon: 2011大事瑣事回顧。Stay tuned!
(天音:Who cares?)

  • 4 years in college..in terms of happiness~
    As volatile as the stock market within the same period haha
  • 超級感激上一世的我,(1)讓我可以在有生之年看到phoenix 和bump of chicken的演唱會,(2) 我部ipad個display跌壞左,再跌多次竟然back to normal !!(誤)
  • Always hear complaints from friends from other universities..”my professor..who graduated from MIT… is @#$@#$@”. haahaaha sadly I am trained this way too….obeying models/theory/assumptions/principles strictly even for things that are meant to be intuitive and dynamic. Following models with blind faith is dangerous or even useless at times.
    “Well, you can always run a regression or try Lagrangian to see if its true when you have time!”
  • Senior Fall:Final report x 1, Final Exams x 2 left !!!!
  • 2012..these 3 are the must-take classes…probably need to do some “class-shopping” next year:
  • Submitted minor proposal..continue to exploit the system wahaha..

Freedom from Desire

My professor (who has 2 PhDs from NYU and Stanford in Physics and Finance)
just gave us a 5-minute 1-slide lecture on happiness
It is by far one of the most inspiring lectures I have ever had

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What is happiness?
You may say, only if I hv enough money,then I can travel around the world, then I am happy.
Only if I get this job offer…only If I get into this PhD program…only if I become tenure..then I am happy.

But then, such desires are never ending,
And we will never be fully satisfied as new level of desires will just continue to emerge

These have guided our actions.
Desires have become our master, we become the slaves.
And this seems to go on forever until we die.

If now God could grant me with 3 wishes…
There is only 1 ultimate wish – to be truly content with everything I have now.
Free me from these 俗世 gains and losses then this is true happiness.
處之泰然

(this slide came right after the slides on index options..treasury bond and IRS..that’s why it’s extra-striking hahaha)