The next station is, Hang On.

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今早是李寶寶家長日,約好一起回校捧場。
多年沒回校,竟然沒有湧上心頭的感觸,
好歹都六年了,
只浮著一種既熟悉又陌生的感覺。
反而跟舊同學聊天更為親切。
死物無情,友誼確是活的。

可能心態已經不同了?記憶淡了?屏風樓令附近面目全非了?奇怪。
回去舊校,竟沒有重踏日本工場的震撼。

– 寫於馬鐵車廂內

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去了Hysan Place food court 跟大學同學見面,原來學妹明天就回美國了,有點點不捨。

然後food expo 來了個即興的triple date XD 衣服還有team pattern 哈哈。太迫人啦,香港經濟真好。最後把抽獎得來的公仔送給了路人小妹妹,小妹妹抱著公仔好開心,我都好開心(^_^)

Breaking free from expectations

本來一片空白的9月,一瞬間every single day都填滿了節目
要些時間去消化一下我這個full-time-to-be的身份。

– 宅女字

From Aug 2009:

凌晨四點二十五分。
student center 的電梯。
前額草草地夾了一根香檳色的髮夾。
雙手懶懶的插在lpc hoodies的前袋。
也沒多餘的手去整理滑下了一點的眼镜鼻托。
肩膀負著macbook 2.36 kg 的重量。

由五樓讀書室到達1/f。
電梯的叮叮響把我從半睡壯態叫醒。
平時熱鬧的sc 空無一人,
只剩下我,疊起來的椅子,
跟不知道那裡傳來吸塵機轟轟隆隆的聲響。

flip-flop 在flip flop,
跟晚風角力,依然懶得把手跋出來,
索性側身 把體重聚在門前開門。

走在vassar street,
在冷白色的街燈光下 逆風而踱,
突然看到小灰兔,覺得好可愛。
耳機正播著’死了都要愛‘
心理卻沒有想太多,只是打算
回到房間還是先洗一個澡才睡吧。

The $5 Challenge in Stanford

A very interesting article I came across in a bookstore, each team in the class was given $5 USD and 2 hours to generate money as much as possible. at the end of the semester, they have to give a 3-min presentation on what they did. Very creative and smart team!

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The $5 Challenge! What would you do with $5 and 2 hours?

What would you do to earn money if all you had was 5 dollars and 2 hours? This is the assignment I gave students in one of my classes at Stanford University, as part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Each of 14 teams received an envelope with 5 dollars of “seed funding” and was told they could spend as much time as they wanted planning. However, once they cracked open the envelope, they had 2 hours to generate as much money as possible. I gave them from Wednesday afternoon until Sunday evening to complete the assignment. Then, on Sunday evening, each team had to send me one slide describing what they had done, and on Monday afternoon each team had 3 minutes to present their project to the class.

When I ask this question to most groups, someone usually shouts out, “Go to Las Vegas,” or “Buy a lottery ticket.” This gets a big laugh. These folks would take a significant risk in return for a small chance at earning a big reward. The next most common suggestion is to set up a car wash or lemonade stand, using the 5 dollars to purchase the starting materials. This is a fine option for those interested in earning a few extra dollars of spending money in two hours. But most of my students eventually found a way to move far beyond the standard responses.

The team that generated the greatest profit looked at the resources at their disposal through completely different lenses, and made $650. These students determined that the most valuable asset they had was neither the 5 dollars nor the 2 hours. Instead, their insight was that their most precious resource was their three-minute presentation time on Monday. They decided to sell it to a company that wanted to recruit the students in the class. The team created a three-minute “commercial” for that company and showed it to the students during the time they would have presented what they had done the prior week. This was brilliant. They recognized that they had a fabulously valuable asset—that others didn’t even notice—just waiting to be mined! 

Full article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creativityrulz/200908/the-5-challenge

Of course

my xanga banner back then…haha :P 有無人記得!?

懷舊的週末。
一共跟6位高中同學/師兄/師妹飯聚(唔係犯罪..hahaha…orz)
again really happy for my friends 可以繼續為自己的夢想奮鬥

1)在fb找到4歲時的鄰居好友!以前常常到她家玩。她變了一個sexy lady 了@_@,變化真令人難以想象。最近在電梯還碰見了幾個在這裡住了10多年的鄰居,本來矮矮的大家都suit up出來做工了,時間過得很快。。。

2)熱愛電影的學妹成為了導演助理,真心為她高興。好enjoy 1對1的暢所欲談,bilibala就三個鐘。其實越少overlap的朋友可以傾談的內容可以越多,河水井水,少點conflict。還有可能她是scriptwriter的關係,用字特別精闢,聽她講話好投入 :P

3)又跟日本回來的同學見面。這次終於有個econ的師兄可以招架他的econ理論。他喔,總是有許多令我無言的習慣,but算啦,這麼多年朋友。心底還是祝福他的。

P.S. Rubberband & Eason new CDs are awesome, go buy !!

Can you give us some color on…

(1) 今天我心情有一點怪怪的,心情有一些莫名的焦躁
可是說不出來到底為什麼。。(對,係黑色柳丁的歌詞哈哈)
和舊同學吃飯聚舊後心情立刻好轉,謝謝!m(_ _)m

(2) 有史以來第一次真心motivated去讀一份interim report和聽analyst briefing!

(3) loop到了jay chou 的三年二班 (song of 2009) ,以前走路回simmons hall時的必聽歌,明明hea行回家,都立刻變成戰鬥格 XD:

這第一名到底要多強 不用問 一定有人向你挑戰
到底還要過多少關 不用怕 告訴他們誰是男子漢
走鄉下 尋找哪有花香 坐車廂 朝著南下方向
鳥飛翔 穿過這條小巷 仔細想 這種生活安詳