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"旅行的意义"就是离开 May 31 A reality TV you will loveHave you ever wondered... there are TV shows on lives of doctors, lawyers, detectives and team of detectives, the very mystified professions of our time have all been glorified in more than one show. People simply have insatiable curiosity in their lives. I have found yet another documentary / reality show following the lives of a group of men and women making a living in a very cruel yet real market, 'Wall Street Warriors'. Maybe because of what I do, I love the show, hope you will too.
The first season follows the lives of a few very successful Wall Streeters: a hedgie, a day trader, a sales and an analyst. I think to start off the show for everyone to enjoy, the producers picked all equity guys, easier to understand, plain vanilla. The second season moves on to the slightly more interesting perspective: a rookie who just graduated from NYU, a commodity trader trading concentrated orange juice (There is a prize if you know the ticker for this... ), a private equity fund manager and a couple of brokers. Many other interesting characters are intermittently woven into the show, we see specialists on the floor, financial astrologer, and Tim Sykes (He claims to grow his portfolio from $12k to $2 mio by taking short biased positions in penny stocks...) For those of you not in the industry, the show is not that hard to understand, all the technical jargons are explained for, from short selling to leveraged buy-out. Besides you get to see them playing polo in the Hamptons, driving roaring Ferraris and dating models. But if you do live your life by the greeks, be it alpha or vega, or are glued to your blackberry at dinner on a Friday night waiting for non-farm payroll, it will not be 'this is what money looks like' factor that will draw you to the show. You will love it, because you will know them, what they are thinking, their trouble, their joy... Yeah, true, they have a lot more zeros on their paycheck, but they must have all been there, on the trading floor, once just like us, trying to make it and yet showing others you already have it. So here are some quotes from the show for you to have a taste... 'You keep hearing 'buy side', 'sell side' and always wonder the difference, here it is: if you are on the sell side, you hang up and say 'F*ck you', but if you are on the buy side, you say 'F*ck you' and then you hang up.' 'The two most high IQ jobs are Wall Street and priests, and you can see how they both can use some prayers.' 'Here on Wall Street the bottom line is very simple, it's how much money you can make.' And my personal favorite, 'If you don't love what you do, you don't deserve to be here' Hope you will enjoy the show as much as I do.
April 12 I let the job get bigger than me...Drinking the poison everyday, I have seen and was told... But for the first time, I lost my temper. I let the job get bigger than who I am, above who I am. It's easy to find excuses, easier to seek absolution from others, but I knew from that moment, I allowed it to happen... It bothers me more than the fact I failed to handle the pressure. Is this the point of no return? March 11 In case of emergencyAfter the incident of locking myself outside my bedroom door, i had to think of some contigency plan, just in case...
So here is the thing, for those 3 ppl (it used to be a handful) who come across this blog, if you don't hear from me, see me online or receive any sign of me being alive, please try to give me a call... just to make sure that you call the police before my boss...
Suddenly realise, i have no one to put on the emergency contact, and no one to hold my spare key...
Also, on the cautious note, i should absolutely stay away from ghost movies... May 15 Stressed...Ignore the title, i'm stressed over something very trivial... well, it can be trivial...
When one works for the french, do they have to dress french? and how does one do that? April 09 On the Olympic torch relayAfter reading a friend's blog, I had a powerful realisation.
All those criticism targetted at Tibet and the numerous assaults on the Olympic torch relay, means that we have something to lose, and thus a lot more to protect.
我们高喊‘保卫圣火’，因为我们要捍卫尊严。 TibetWhy is everybody criticising the Chinese governement for suppressing the Tibetans and human right violation? Don't they see how the Tibetan activist trying to disrupt the Olympic torch relay? I don't see peace in that. the Olympics is a chance for China to finally engage the world, the politicians choose to use Tibet as an excuse to boycott the game. This is not at all in the spirit of the Game.
I think the truth is, they are really scared. with the social development in china, there is a shift of focus from the traditional developed nations to emerging countries like China, undoubtedly, there is a greater focus economically in China. the lead nations are losing their prime status. Believe it or not, the westerners can be very stubborn in their ways, it's hard for them to change, and most disheartenly, they refuse to accept any such drastic change in status. it's human nature to be scared and anxious about the uncertainty to come. it's also human nature to stop by all means such a change, out of self defense. Befriend or be foe.
Mr Hu has always been an advocate of Taoism and Confucious in the moral education of Chinese. In this, I hope he can be strong and firm in his stand in view of the western pressure. Tibet is a souvereign state of the People's Republic of China, it's undisputable to deploy military forces into the region under critical circumstances, it is also not upto any media/nation to criticise the actions of a souvereign state in handling it's own domestic conflict.
Last i checked, China has a legitimate and rational government in its full functionality. There is no reason for any country to blow whistle as if the next moment this gigantic country may suddenly fall apart, due to some problems they themselves have had when they were trying to develop and some are still suffering this day, like inflation and human rights. Until this government stands no longer, we will be strong, we will be firm, in what we believe. Now we need to believe that Tibet is a state of China.
Don't you tread on us!
November 20 Tomb of coralsTomb of corals
Back from my last trip to Dayand this year, against the current of the monsoon season... suddenly, i realise reality is just unavoidable, even in the happy world of Nemos...
With decreased visibility, and sandy suspensions in the water, the dive sites we went to this time, seem much less lively... the broken corals line the bottom of the sea, in its greyish colour, occasional specs of colour with a remote sign of life. Nemos r gone now, it makes the place really depressing.
there's hazard too, like anywhere. we have our first encounter with triggerfish, the visibility was bad, so i didn't have a very good at the notoriuos fish. but there was fear, even in the happy place, every corner i turn, every rock that i approach, there was the fear that the fish may suddenly appear to attack.
back to my real world now, where there's work to be done, disappointment to be received. life goes on, as one always says... |
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