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yesss難得一見的superrr loooong weekend 終於來臨啦~~
學生跟上班族不同的是，holiday真的是100% holiday，不用帶工作回家/讀書，無需憂心。
(well at least applicable to me XD yeah~)

害人的廣告

財務借貸的電視廣告最叫人咋舌。光明正大鼓吹年輕人為名牌奢侈借錢，歪理。
今晚團年飯，打散工的表弟竟然宣佈他成為了車主，剛買了部Mazda房車，
還送上Ritz-Carlton的賀年糕點。大家都非常驚訝，原來他先斬後奏先借錢後想解決辦法。
唉，無話可說。

另外，最近留意以下地鐵廣告：“夫妻緣不再，親子情永在。” 又一歪理。
我不認同”婚姻緣不再“應被示為一般的正常訊息去普及化。你們覺得呢？

Candy Crush的魔力

不可一，不可再。
由窮追不捨的fb game requests，到地鐵上被一部一部七彩顏色的糖果陣圖smartphone包圍，我屈服了。
A: 試下啦，怕咩姐~
F: 下，但好似同Diamond Dash一樣咁嘅?
A: 下，梗係唔同啦，呢個遊戲要用腦架，每一關都要施展唔同既策略先過到架。
Wow..really~strategy? 就這樣，我上癮了。

沉迷Candy Crush，有如倒時間落海。意識到禍害深遠，過了兩個星期就狠狠戒掉。雖然咬牙切齒抑制著，但CNY連放五日假，我…

蛇年願望
人生第三個蛇年。
希望到了第四個蛇年時，大家依然保留著今天的童真和大志，簡簡單單開開心心。

鐵路的魔力
T, JR, MTR
最能緊緊黏著地方回憶的原來是鐵路。

 

• Responsibility: Response-ability. Proactive people do not blame circumstances or conditions. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, rather than a product of their conditions. Between stimulus and response is our greatest power – the freedom to choose.
  We can always choose how we respond to the environment. We can choose not to empower those external stimuli to control us. Nothing can hurt you without your consent. What matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.
  

• When you look out of the window..identifying the beautiful buildings under your reign one by one..it’s so cool to be a landlord!!

 

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[Pardon my english]

(Wah, my solution really works!! Coz my blog 靈感 usually sparkles in MTR. No more iPhone games, yay.)

4 things that I have vented about N times here already. Guys, bear with me.

(1) I miss the rigorous intellectual challenges back in school. Absolutely daunting yet enjoyable.

(2) Back to 1pc this Sun and got to meet quite a few 2nd years. The first question I asked was: “wow nice, know which uni are you going to yet?” Surprisingly, everyone answered the same thing: “gap year”. Feel quite ashamed of myself instantly…I just presumed that ‘getting into a great uni‘ is the natural aspiration for students here.

In a “macro” view, the same thing is happening in HK. Why everyone in the alum drinks just came forward and asked:” Which house? Which bank?”. 星期日檔案 was talking about it on Sun (obviously on Sun..–.-) , why can’t it be something else? Something different?

(3) In the same occasion, some canteen staff asked if I have graduated yet. I said yes and they all just burst into laughter: “Well you are xxx’s daughter wor. Must be working for radio too la!!!’ I have a legitimate name and career ga….You see, I have been dealing with such xyz conversation for years already. Back in US, I could really get rid of this extra identity (? can’t say it’s ‘extra’ as it’s part of who I am..) entirely and just be myself. No matter achievements or failures, it wouldn’t be related to my fam background at all.

(4) Of course I miss the time when there was much more freedom. esp. What to wear!! No more hoodies, hea pants and flip flops. Every single night I have to pick wht to wear for work the next day…I don’t care but I just have to…@.@ anyway this is mo liu haha

 

 “Wealth is the ability to experience life fully”

上班以來，生活好像都被工作+拍拖dominate了，現在腦袋visualize未來跟我的google calendar一模一樣。
**[Mon-Fri]–>[Sat-Sun]. Repeat **
未來就structure成這樣，weeklong的routine，短視得離譜。
給自己種種excuses不去set一點long-term vision，well就連下下個星期要幹嘛都懶得去想，何妨長遠的目標？大概每年定下的所謂new year’s resolution都太空泛抽象了，不夠實際。或許應該要像Thomas Heatherwick所講，”when you start a project, think negatively.” 現在有什麼出錯了？有什麼需要立刻改善的地方？有什麼自己也看不過眼的缺點？

Long-term goals 

TBC

To-do list to solve short-term problems 

• Problem: Even隔日發blog post，duno wht to write about…
  Solutions: Uninstalled candy crush in all devices to keep my mind running…haha = =

• Problem: 身體虛弱，令我miss了很多其實想參加的活動，不情願地as if 好摺 (摺上加摺)
  Solutions: 每星期去3次gym去增強cardiovascular capacity（進行中），一個月只可以食一次mcdonalds (弊，2月已經食左添！)，一個月hiking/biking/dragon boat一次，一日at least 一果…(running out of solutions soon…)

• Problem: 一年一書計劃擱置
  Solution: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People as a starter

• Problem: 日本語擱置了一年
  Solution: 3月報考7月報考JLPT，每天熟讀3頁日本語Word Smart（進行中）

• Problem: 太passive，too big inertia 去initiate，不夠投入和interactive
  Solution: ummm…這個是性格問題，suggestions?

• Problem: 寒背多年
  Solution: 提醒自己站直點… (well most direct solution la?)

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生活習慣重整的她，她9時多就準備睡覺。
連續忙碌工作多天後，只有週末才能還睡眠債的他，他3時多才會起床。
他抱怨：「唯一的星期六，卻只能共渡數小時。」
她笑說：「經歷了一年的time difference，回港後時差還在呢。」

上星期出席大學alum drink，當every single person紛紛介紹自己work in finance/ibank/PE的時候，卻彈出一個”property developer”. 下一句就被考起,”Wow landlord, so how’s the property market recently?”

在office leasing market 打滾了一段時間，其實來來去去只有三個factor：(1) supply (2) demand (3) macro condition. (天音：嘩講晒啦小姐). At the end of the day, absolute rent means (almost) everything to the prospects. 有別於retail/residential, 他們牽涉更多dynamics – tenant mix, trend, consumer sentiment, affluent/community shoppers mix 等等，多元化多了。