24小時之旅

  • 又一個door-to-door 24 hours的旅程！叫taxi去logan是7：40am US time on Fri，上爹爹車係7：40pm HK time on Sat.
  • Cathay is the best!! 超強entertainment system，雖然已經搭了這麼多遍都係gum話。同埋special request了要特別照顧，調了去aisle seat！下了飛機後還有空中先生拿著我的名牌，問我要不要幫我拿行李。哈哈 如果leng jai d 我應該會應承 :p
  • 看了No Strings Attached, I am Number 4, 婚前試愛 and how I met your mother. thing is, 好多電影我都已經看過了。連big bang theory整個season我都看過了。orz …my favorite quote from No Strings Attached XD
    Adam: Wow, you go to MIT. You turned out to be a lot smarter than me.
    Emma: Yeah, sometimes my neck gets sore.
    Adam: Oh, why?
    Emma: Cause my brain is so big!
  • 讀了蘋果，WSJ同埋 Reader’s Digest. the gold market caught my attention this time..coz it is extensively covered in WSJ and 蘋果財經. dun know much about the gold/commodities market..beside those ABC-level definitions when I was preparing for FICC interview hahha. good to learn!
    1.  In 2011 Q1, China surpasses India as the top buyer of gold/metals in the world. China and India now each accounts for around a quarter of global gold demand.
    2. jewelery/industrial demand — apetite for gold: inflation x soaring RMB –> growing middle class and wealthy individuals in China –> want luxury goods that symbolize power and wealth (not just gold..brand products, jewelery, antiques, collectors items, real estates..etc)
    3. Investment demand — valuable portfolio diversification/hedge:  historically, physical gold holding is one of the safest long-term hedge against inflation given its low beta. Its even more attractive with its stable upward momentum –gold price rose by fourfold in the past decade, outpacing all other major US stock indexes.
    4. Government reserve demand: China central bank is incorporating more gold holdings into its reserve. For US.. came across another opinion column on whether US should sell assets like gold to cope with the recent budget crisis. When dollar is weak, ppl shift to gold.
      (yes..that’s what I do when i have nothing to do on the plane -__-)
  • 高度推介Rubberband 的 CD 《Connected》!!! 好難得一隻大碟12隻歌竟然隻隻歌都這麼有新意and高水準。特別喜歡Hello，3字頭， 阿藍的故事， 一轉身卻天亮了， SimpleLoveSong and 海．地。
  • 次次番香港都有新野，有新500蚊紙！

Don Corleone

又要跟你道別了，查理斯河！
離開再回歸，回歸再離開
離開跟回歸意思明明相反
對於有兩塊根據地的留學生來說，卻是同義詞

離開／回歸的流程

獨力把一箱又一箱裝滿書本衣服的紙皮箱搬到storage
把喜歡的夏季衣服鞋子手袋留下來，細心挑選到行李箱內
把ipod的歌曲列表整理一下，把一兩本小說放進書包裡
待到晨光熹微，開始調到香港的時間帶中
交還鑰匙，背著書包拉著行李出發logan airport
行裝輕便為主，hoodies，hea褲，薄頸巾，一對容易脫的鞋子
買一期不常閱讀的economist或者newsweek，大概連廣告也細讀一遍
買口香糖，支撐著我24小時的旅程。
期待，身邊有緣的搭客到底是誰？
期待，推著行李車走出香港機場禁區，
找到了－那幾張熟悉的臉！

潮濕天熱的世界，又來了！

Second Opinion

My Last Fall ! （其實已經夠晒credit＋satisfy all requirements to 畢業with single major了? 好tempting喔。但我唔可以刺激我年歲已高的advisor。。還是安安分分讀完四年吧@_@）

1.201 Transportation Systems Analysis: Demand and Economics  (grad class)
15.433 Investments (Sloan class)
15.301 Managerial Psychology Lab (communication requirement)
15.279 Business Communications (communication requirement)
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水落石出並不代表案件這樣就完結。
還有五天就回香港，下一步要如何走，還是要聽聽專家的second opinion。

突然多了一隊“醫生顧問團”，真佩服爸媽人脈之廣。
所以各位，不要得罪妳們身邊正在讀醫的朋友們，
萬一有甚麼頭暈身㷫就靠他們了！！
（天音：你真係放心比佢地醫你？！）

然後我在想，如果未來朋友有難時，我可以發揮到甚麼實際用處？
我又不是甚麼醫生律師藥劑師等等的專業人士><
大概只可以精神上支持了－＿－

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這個學期的讀的5門課都讀得7788了，我最期待的semester就這樣完了！

  1. project evaluation與groupmate寫了一篇7000字33頁的final report。主題是連接Siberia-Alaska的underwater rail tunnel。因為是hypothetical 的project，所以甚麼data都沒有。用了各種方法，怎樣evaluate都是個negative NPV project。可以justify到這個negative NPV的，就是箇中non-monetary的geopolitical benefit了。Russia會願意投資這樣大的megaproject for 3 reasons:  (1) glory factor (2) increase US reliance and demand on Russia’s oil , natural gas and electricity (3) development of territory
  2. Japanese 6 寫了一篇1800 characters的三頁講稿。主題是為甚麼日本首相會轉怎麼快。的確由小泉開始，一年就轉一次。始終不是甚麼political science major，原因大概有三個：(1) 傳媒只會報導首相的私生活＋放大問題 (2) 政治家不能兌現承諾，國民咬定通通都是政府的錯。（3）引疚辭職在日本政治歷史上甚為普遍
  3. Options & Futures可說是自修課。不錯的課，但只怪小女天資有限，與一眾mba鬥curve，敵不過，敵不過。但開心的是take-home exam竟然做對了~yeah! ↓
  4. Optimizations 罕有可以穩拿A+的課。但還要用clicker真是太煩了！
  5. Corporate Finance  唯一一課要考final的，我覺得這一課最有用！market signaling 吖，capital structure的implications喔等等，對所有行業都有幫助。

一切的謎底都已經解開了！

both MRI and EEG result showed that there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_matter_heterotopia (腦灰質異位症) on my right brain

  • thanks God that its not brain tumor..first thing came in mind is…jay chou’s 黑色幽默’s “我想是你的腦袋有問題”…hahaha
  • 水落石出，謎底終於解開っていう感じ。
  • one of the patients shared that: “My seizures feel like concussions more than anything else. Kind of like I’m not quite right, fully awake and aware just “out of it”.” this is so far the most accurate description.
  • anyway~~ problem solved~~free brain checks~yeah ^^

”向來詩文上秋的含義，並不是這樣的，使人聯想的是蕭殺，是淒涼，是秋扇，是紅葉，是荒林，是萋草。然而秋確有另一意味，沒有春天的陽氣勃勃，也沒有夏天的炎烈迫人、也不像冬天之全入於枯槁凋零。我所愛的是秋林古氣磅礴氣象。“