Meeting Steven Chu

這兩個月見了第三位Nobel Prize Winner -美國能源部長Dr. Steven Chu。跟朋友在回宿舍路上,經過kresge,見到還有free lunchbox,就walk-in進去了。

短短一個小時內aggressively cover了clean energy sector裡面的幾十個小部分-solar energy, transportation, building efficiency, biomass harvesting,  blahblah…可能是學者出身的關係,內容都針著”Invented in America” 的研究突破。他還真的耐心地把一個又一個零零碎碎的research概要和charts推出來講兩句。(當中還用一個slide來解釋DC to AC conversion…well Dr. Chu here is not Harvard. Electromagnetism is a compulsory course in MIT!!)

Technical了一小時後,朱先生以Michael Spence最新發的paper作結。
“Invented in America” is not enough, to win the clean energy race, 要
“Made in America, Sold Worldwide”才可以說是完全勝利。

因為整個演講途中非常zzzz,沒有甚麼特別的感受。
唯獨他提到幾家中國太陽能企業的名字,甚麼wafer ASP,
都是我暑期工research過的,就勾起了我暑假的段段回憶了。(誤)

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You are all I long for, all I worship and adore.

  • 當我經過報紙檔,如果見到份本地報紙幾吸引,
    我會買一份。
    當Warren Buffett 經過報紙檔,如果見到份本地報紙幾吸引,
    他會把整間報社買下來。orz
  • Wowww we are just talking about airline revenue management in our transportation class and we are just talking about corporate senior unsecured debt and credit default risk in investment class and I just watched the movie The Aviator 2 weeks ago…(?) and here it comes American Airlines Chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning!!!!!!!~~LOVE IT !!!!!! soo jeng when a single news is so relevant to more than 1 of your classes!!!
    Lectures are extra intriguing and professors are extra cool when they can comment on these things immediately before news commentaries are out !! High jor!!
    這個故事教訓我們,不要用奶茶送藥,如果唔係會有feeling of ecstasy..no kidding.
    就連一家航空公司破產,都可以令我興奮得心跳加速睡不著(誤)。

Loans School of Management

I need to pick one more humanity class to graduate with the following criteria:
1. No morning class
2. Easy to get A
3. Interesting and useful for a lifetime
4. Don’t take Chinese 4 though its very tempting..dignity problem.
After 1 full day of contemplation ….finally came up with my final semester combination.

Modern Japan: Back in Freshman Fall, my blog said “Gonna take ‘History of Modern Japan’ in Sophomore Spring!” ..which never happened.

Spanish I :  By elimination. –>I want to take French I ..but time conflict. Don’t want to take Chinese, 浪費青春. Want to take Japanese in Harvard but they start Spring on Jan 23, too early. German is too difficult and I don’t see why I would want to learn German. At least I can roll the Spanish r..haaa.

This concludes my four-year college life sparkling with sweat and tears…T_T

~~byebye M1T!!!

New York New York

每個學年都會踏足紐約好幾次。
當是a breath of fresh air也好,當是escape from reality也好,乘4個小時的Chinatown旅遊巴一心想把憂慮暫時拋諸腦後,在紐約街頭呼一口混濁卻somehow refreshing的空氣。

好友到Columbia修讀碩土,這次旅程終於不用誤打誤撞。遊覽第五間Ivy League大學,品味極佳的午餐晚餐,Black Friday凌晨到Macy’s下午到SoHo購物,總之來了7次仍然不乏新鮮事。比較特別的是,這幾天結伴同遊不只是兩位舊同學,而是一行十人,十位fairly loosely connected的香港人。他們各有各理由出現在這個random combination裡面,副有幾個共通點 :同年齡,香港傳統名校出身,well off,一半都是Ivy Leaguers。如果要畫一個social network graph還真不得了。

對我而言,是難度不低的social experience。話題內容不是一般的八卦,而是一支古巴雪茄要在甚麼濕度放多久才最香醇,混過甚麼甚麼shots,誰和誰喝得爛醉被iPhone拍下來互相依偎好搞笑。吃完晚飯不是吃糖水,而是圍個圈煲煙。可能你會很驚訝,你唔係依家先知外國d college係咁架下話? Well I know,但我習慣的social interactions比較清純,玩玩大富翁,唱下k就可以了。Anyway as 920 said, it’s a good change of scenery to hang out with fun people who lead different lifestyles for once in a while.

最後我隨便問問這頭髮gel到行的雪茄男近況,他喝一口Corona傻笑:
“我失業,上個月都唔係,唔知點解比人炒左哈哈哈。”

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no update till Sunday! Happy Thanksgiving everyone :)

感恩節想特別鳴謝閒來有來看看我blog的朋友們
雖然最近留言來來去去都是爸媽哥和新世界第一巴士(有人話comment好睇過本文@@)
雖然沒有留言的你(echo。。有冇人吖。。)可能暗地笑我寫埋d野好天真好傻
但真的好多謝~由2008年開學前開這個blog,就是想完整紀錄這4年發生的點滴
謝謝大家一起見證~

本來一開始想private的,漸漸會知道這個blog的人只有3個途徑:

(1)有時會無聊係fb/status 放條link出來,放60秒,有緣人click進來。
(2)我信任的朋友們,2008年一開始就send條link比你。
(3)google/twitter到。

無論你是讀者,留言者,or 甚至無辜成為內容題材者,
衷心感謝 m(_   _)m
賦予我能量去continue這唯一能夠堅持至今(2002-  )的興趣。