My girls are born, the world transforms.

Vancouver HDR

2011-08-08T01:26:00.004+08:00

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecstaticist/3268286347/

15种杀虫剂高污染蔬果中，苹果最严重，即使清洗削皮也没用

2011-08-03T01:59:00.000+08:00

Subject: FW: USA Today: Apples top most pesticide-contaminated list (15种杀虫剂含量最高蔬果中，苹果最严重)‏
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:58:43 -0700

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/fitness-food/safety/story/2011/06/Apples-top-list-of-produce-contaminated-with-pesticides/48332000/1

Apples top most pesticide-contaminated list!(15种杀虫剂高污染蔬果中，苹果最严重，即使清洗削皮也没用)!

By Janice Lloyd, USA TODAY

Apples are at the top of the list of produce most contaminated with pesticides in a report published today by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a public health advocacy group.

Evem after the fruits were washed and peeled, apples were found to have a high amount of pesticide residue(杀虫剂高污染蔬果中，苹果最严重，即使清洗削皮也没用).

Even after the fruits were washed and peeled, apples were found to have a high amount of pesticide residue.

Its seventh annual report analyzed government data on 53 fruits and vegetables, identifying which have the most and least pesticides after washing and peeling. For produce found to be highest in pesticides, the group recommends buying organic.
Apples moved up three spots from last year, replacing celery at the top of the most-contaminated list; 92% of apples contained two or more pesticides.
"We think what's happening to apples is more pesticides and fungicides are being applied after the harvest so the fruit can have a longer shelf life," says EWG analyst Sonya Lunder. "Pesticides might be in small amounts, but we don't know what the subtle, long-term effects of many of these pesticides are yet."
The worst offenders also include strawberries (No. 3) and imported grapes (No. 7). Onions top the "clean" list, found to be lowest in pesticides.
By choosing five servings of fruit and vegetables a day from the clean list, most people can lower the volume of pesticides they consume daily by 92%, the report says.

The Dirty Dozen(15种杀虫剂含量最多的水果蔬菜)

1. Apples
2. Celery
3. Strawberries
4. Peaches
5. Spinach
6. Nectarines (imported)
7. Grapes (imported)
8. Sweet bell peppers
9. Potatoes
10. Blueberries
11. Lettuce
12. Kale/collard greens

"Consumers don't want pesticides on their foods," says EWG president Ken Cook. "We eat plenty of apples in our house, but we buy organic when we can."
Rankings reflect the amounts of chemicals present on food when it is eaten. Most samples were washed and peeled before testing. Washing with a "produce wash" is unlikely to help remove pesticides because they're taken up by the entire plant and reside on more than just the skin, the report says.
For shoppers who cannot afford organic food, which often is more expensive, Cook says the lists offer alternatives. Can't find organic apples? Buy pineapples, the top fruit on the clean list, or avocados or mangoes.
Fewer than 10% of pineapple, mango and avocado samples showed pesticides. For vegetables, asparagus, corn and onions had no detectable residue on 90% or more of samples.

The Clean 15(15种杀虫剂含量最少的水果蔬菜)

1. Onions
2. Corn
3. Pineapples
4. Avocado
5. Asparagus
6. Sweet peas
7. Mangoes
8. Eggplant
9. Cantaloupe (domestic)
10. Kiwi
11. Cabbage
12. Watermelon
13. Sweet potatoes
14. Grapefruit
15. Mushrooms

Pesticides are known to be toxic to the nervous system, cause cancer, disrupt hormones and cause brain damage in children. Pregnant women are advised to avoid foods containing pesticides.

A study by Harvard School of Public Health found children exposed to pesticides had a higher risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Lunder says pesticides were measured in six different ways to calculate overall scores:
•percentage of samples tested with detectable pesticides.
•percentage of samples with two or more pesticides.
•Average number of pesticides found on a single sample.
•Average amount (level in parts per million) of all pesticides found.
•Maximum number of pesticides found on a single sample.
•Total number of pesticides found on the commodity.

Eating five servings of fruits and vegetables from the "dirty dozen" list would mean you'd get an average of 14 different pesticides. By choosing five from the clean list, you'd consumer fewer than two pesticides.

"With the increased emphasis on eating more fruits and vegetables, we need to be vigilant about the food we're producing and serving," Lunder says.

What Do You Want? A Better Question, First of All - from "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss

2011-08-02T01:57:00.000+08:00

Most people will never know what they want. I don’t know what I want. If you ask me what I want to do in the next five months for language learning, on the other hand, I do know. It’s a matter of specificity. “What do you want?” is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer. Forget about it.

“What are your goals?” is similarly fated for confusion and guesswork. To rephrase the question, we need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture.

Let’s assume we have 10 goals and we achieve them—what is the desired outcome that makes all the effort worthwhile? The most common response is what I also would have suggested five years ago: happiness. I no longer believe this is a good answer. Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse. There is a more precise alternative that reflects what I believe the actual objective is.

Bear with me. What is the opposite of happiness? Sadness? No. Just as love and hate are two sides of the same coin, so are happiness and sadness. Crying out of happiness is a perfect illustration of this. The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is—here’s the clincher—boredom.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your “passion” or your “bliss,” I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement.

This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?”

推荐：戳穿“心灵鸡汤”式的励志谎言：59秒心理学

2011-07-03T01:59:00.000+08:00

英文原版听书，在 filetube 可以找到下载包，搜 59 Seconds 可以找到。我刚刚听完了三分之一，尤其喜欢《24：幻想的骗局》戳穿近年特别流行的 "The Secret" 《秘密》的实验研究报告！

Parenting 书 —— NurtureShock 书评

2011-06-03T01:58:00.000+08:00

介绍大家看 PO Bronson 写的书 NurtureShock 的书评，总结了书中内容，节省大家学习时间。书评讲内容总结得很不错！

NurtureShock 是 Amazon 育儿书中排行挺高的，引用了近年的育儿科学研究，指出很多流行育儿方针的问题，例如赞扬 vs 批评。

文章作者张谦的博客转载：http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_65246fc00100hlit.html

张谦写的原文韩登出处：http://book.douban.com/review/2959662/

Here's a link to download the audio version of the book (316.65 MB):

http://www.filesonic.com/file/576244844

儿童癌病治疗

2011-04-10T01:57:00.000+08:00

美国西雅图医院，对儿童癌症，有创新疗法。有需要知道更多，参考:

http://www.seattlechildrens.org/about/stories/new-hope-for-pediatric-cancer-treatment/

http://www.seattlechildrens.org/research/childhood-cancer/jensen-lab/

如何预防孩子近视？

2010-09-03T01:56:00.000+08:00

今晚帮自己的孩子看了一堆网上关于近视的读物，做出一些总结，和你们都有小孩子的和尚在发育阶段的朋友分享一下。大家多注意！

———— 总结 ————

每天带小孩子出外见阳光，户外活动
心里压力导致内分泌失调，影响营养吸收，导致近视（忘记哪里看到，但记得多处提及），所以，小学读书，不宜有压力，得不偿失。
补充钙和硒食物（近期帮女儿补钙，检验结果依然发觉无效，打算多种维生素补充，再尝试。可能每个人的体质在不同综合环境底下，对营养吸收都不太一样。）
补充坚果类食物；戒糖、精麦、面
小孩子看电视，最好看高清电视

———— 阅读资料 ————

http://www.agingeye.net/myopia/3.1.php
研究美国小孩子，影响产生近视眼的统计出来的影响因素
- less sunshine, 缺阳光
- less calcium, 缺钙
- less fluoride, （这个有疑问....看不懂...）
- less selenium 缺硒
- closer to a seacoast （这也不太明白，为什么靠近海，容易近视？）

http://www.agingeye.net/myopia/3.2.php
看书容易导致近视。看荧光屏和看电视，不导致近视。近距离看电视，会导致近视。研究认为，近距离看电视，因为解像度不够高，其影像，比较容易导致错觉认为是模糊，导致眼部肌肉失调，错以为未能聚焦得当。（换句话说，现代的高清电视，应该好多了。）

http://www.agingeye.net/myopia/3.3.php
不清晰的影像，导致动物实验中，导致错觉，产生近视。

http://www.sunilreddy.com/?p=1429
精细的碳水化合物含量食物间接导致近视加深。

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/12/05/2110197.htm
百分之90的新加波男性征兵都有近视，问题严重。
新加波和澳洲比较，中国人的小孩子在澳洲悉尼虽然读书时间在比新加波小孩子要长两倍，但，室外玩的时间，却多4倍。澳洲长大的中国小孩子，近视机会，被新加波的中国小孩子低10倍。
多去室外玩，是关键。
相信是因为阳光鼓励多巴胺释放，多巴胺抑制眼部肌肉增生，减低近视几率。

http://www.preventmyopia.org/
有近视，不要如一般人一样，去佩戴用普通近视校正眼镜；应该只用读书用眼镜，在长期读书的时候才戴上，只用作校正近距离看东西时候能够清晰的眼镜，其他时间，不要佩戴。

http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BX2r1F-GQREC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=selenium+myopia&source=bl&ots=cq9A3Aw1Rw&sig=8tq82V_7smY4VuW4AQfN8skMYaU&hl=en&ei=5P6MTLbGApPcvQPowaHdBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=selenium%20myopia&f=false
钙质不够均衡在体内发展，导致近视。补偿 Vitamin B6 有帮助。
B6 和 B3 对眼压调节有帮助。

http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BX2r1F-GQREC&lpg=PA99&ots=cq9A3Aw1Rw&dq=selenium%20myopia&hl=en&pg=PA169#v=onepage&q=selenium%20myopia&f=false
Selenium 硒影响很多方面的眼睛的健康。动物中有高视力的，体内含硒高。

http://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000127000000000000000.html
含高 Selenium 食物排行榜
坚果：巴西坚果
炖熟的,焖熟的牛肝
甲鱼肉硒元素的含量非常丰富, 硒含量是普通动物鲜肉中的1.2～9.4倍
炖牛肝

30" 2560x1600

2010-07-06T01:55:00.000+08:00

Samsung SM305T -30" WS (2560 x 1600) 6ms Samsung S-PVA panel (LTM300M1)

DIY新屏到手了。

Gmail 50 封不需要下拉条。
Google Finance 无需下拉条。
163.com 首页无需下拉，看完体育快讯。

10000 CNY 的新机价格，淘宝 DIY 版本，昨日深入广州不毛之龙洞森林公园侧之某夫妻档电脑维修点购得。

辟除3块有瑕疵的屏之后，喜获无暇珍品！

屏: 3300
360 + 90 旋转支架: 300
来回出租车护驾: 120

满足对 2560x1600 的阅读空间的虚荣 = 无价！

http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail-db2-952c2a4d2dab4bda97e4d42ed9e4eff8.htm

书中自有咸鱼肉

2010-05-20T11:14:00.002+08:00

书呀书。

书是人写的。

一般在坊间发行的书，我们普片人能指染的书，都是书商发行的。写书者的最大驱动力，就是畅销和读者群广。

书的包装、书的口碑，无一不是和销路挂钩。书的销路和文字的质量相关吗？我们买书的动机，我们自己清楚吗？是因为学习需求？是因为口碑？

书的口碑，往往也只能代表了一群羊的主观思维。而看书，则成为了入群入党的途径。你阅读一本书，则代表你思想上把自己圈进一群羊、入党归队（至少在你阅读那段时间空间内是）。

到底看书能否带来有意义的知识，到了我这个阶段，我慢慢倾向于回答：无，开始觉得无任何意义。

知识是经过沉淀而产生的。知识沉淀是需要时间的。时间的流逝使得知识变得不合时宜。书往往就是一些不合时宜的知识印刷在无法修改的死树制作成的纸张上面。

要生活得有意义，我们应该活在当下。

看书，就无法活在当下，因为看书就等于缅怀过去，还是别人感官世界中的过去。看书比缅怀自己的过去更无聊、更倒退。

人为了生存，或者是更有价值地生存，是不应该看书的。看书都是喜欢缅怀别人过去的光辉的失败者的行为。

希望更有竞争力地生存，如果靠看过去的书，倒不如靠失败中总结经验。别人书中述说的，是别人的经历，多看十遍都无法变为自己的经历。

小学生学加减乘除，看完了数学书，不做题，都还是无法把握得到真理论、真知识。

书说 1+1 等于 2，是真的吗？

真？什么是真的？

我们人都惯用10进制的体系。

人有10个手指、10个脚趾。所以我们用了10进制；学算数，都是在自己手脚里面做的运算。所以，难怪学会计的、长期面对数字的人，天生都爱"做手脚"：咱看看 enron scandal 的幕后功臣！

普遍人算数，就是在10进制的假设、这个大前提下进行。这些都属于基础知识：前提、假设。然而，到了高等数学程度的时候，甚至是量子物理数学的时候，就发现很多 "前提" 和 "假设" 都可能面临挑战。

那么，1+1=2 还让他继续成立吗？

如果你喜欢，尽管让他成为你做事思考的"前提"。但是，我们必须要谨记着我们所有做的事情和思考的模式，都是在我们积累的知识中的前提所驱使前进的。所有你和我看过的书，读过的报，都是过去了的事情。

为了与时并进，看最新的消息才有用吧？！那么，看来看报、看新闻是必须的啦。

我从小就听到一些长辈说，每天晚上看看新闻报道，与时并进。然而，什么是新闻呢？最近则越发感到新闻只不过就是当权者觉得你应该知道的、能让他们更方便去控制你的信息而已。

看书能获取基础知识。然而，什么是基础知识呢？如何定义基础知识？我们往往说的基础知识，都是说生活上的基础知识。人为了生活，都需要的知识。这些知识，我们姑且称为基础知识。我们为下一代定义的众多基础知识范围中，有哪些是值得去认真学习的呢？是数学吗？是语文吗？还是时下都流行学的外语呢？

一个野人在一个荒岛需要这些知识吗？甚至.... 需要书吗？

Cast Away 电影中 Tom Hanks 饰演的 Chuck Noland 能一个人在孤岛上生存下来，看不出和书，和数学、甚至和语言有任何关系。

The Day After Tomorrow 电影中，人为了在冰天雪地中生存下来，不得不烧书取暖。

在科学取证中，往往都用极端案例去证明一些立论的真理、真确性。书这个东西，在上述两个极端案例中，似乎是非常奢侈的高级玩物，并非我们真正需要的基础物资。

如果我突然快死，只剩下一口气；如果我要交待遗言、训话给我女儿，基于上述立论，肯定就不应该叫她们去好好读书，免得过分抬举了书的重要性，误了她们一生！

我可能会告诉她们，书中自有咸鱼肉：多吃无益。

Earth

2010-05-04T08:51:00.003+08:00

The most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth created to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of our planet. Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. Flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

Just got some new sites up

2010-05-04T08:33:00.001+08:00

Clickbank CSV

CB FAY Clickbank Marketplace Product Search

Bear Market Rally of the Great Depression

2010-01-23T12:48:00.002+08:00

One of the above charts shows the 1929-1930 Dow. The other shows the current Dow. Can you tell which is from which?

The current chart:

The chart during the Great Depression:

This is what happen after April 1930 bear market rally peak...

The World's Most Profitable Companies

2009-12-23T14:32:00.001+08:00

Ref: http://www.billshrink.com/blog/the-worlds-most-profitable-companies/

USD is gaining strength?

2009-12-20T22:58:00.002+08:00

S&P 500 Range Bound

2009-12-15T23:37:00.001+08:00

Don't eat peanut butter unless your mom made it

2009-11-22T10:51:00.006+08:00

I've been reading a popular health book, The China Study, published in 2005. In case you have yet heard some of the startling content in it, I'm sending you this piece of info. for your reference.

On page 34 of The China Study, researcher says, 'Considerable evidence had been emerging, first from England later from MIT (the same lab that I had worked in) 10, 11 to show that peanuts often were contaminated with a fungus-produced toxin called aflatoxin (AF). It was an alarming problem because AF was being shown to cause liver cancer in rats. It was said to be the most potent chemical carcinogen ever discovered.'

On page 35, he continues, 'We learned that peanuts and corn were the foods most contaminated. All twenty-nine jars of peanut butter we had purchased in the local groceries, for example, were contaminated, with levels of AF as much as 300 times the amount judged to be acceptable in U.S. food. Whole peanuts were much less contaminated; none exceeded the AF amounts allowed in U.S. commodities. This disparity between peanut butter and whole peanuts originated at the peanut factory. The best peanuts, which filled "cocktail" jars, were hand selected from a moving conveyor belt, leaving the worst, moldiest nuts to be delivered to the end of the belt to make peanut butter.'

Google "peanut butter aflatoxin"

If you don't eat Chicken McNuggets due to its controversy, then you probably don't want to eat jarred peanut butter neither...

Atkin and The China Study

2009-11-22T00:57:00.004+08:00

Although the author of The China Study might not have much good to say about Atkin, which inspired my research and practice of healthy diet, he actually offers some more insights and evidence to my current dietary routines that I'm enjoying with my family.

I'd just skin the arguments and just post the "HOW TO EAT" chart for you to see.

The "Avoid" part of the section is what I'm interested to know more. I'd say I've been practicing mostly everything above the "Avoid" part of the chart.

Restaurant Performance Index correlates S&P 500 (Update 1)

2009-10-01T07:15:00.007+08:00

Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) – a monthly composite index that tracks the health of and outlook for the U.S. restaurant industry. The RPI is based on the responses to the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Industry Tracking Survey, which is fielded monthly among restaurant operators nationwide on a variety of indicators including sales, traffic, labor and capital expenditures.

I can't help myself but draw a correlation between the RPI and S&P 500. The S&P came out of the 2002-2003 triple bottom during the PRI crossover from contraction to expansion. The S&P peaked during the crossover from expansion to contraction in 2007. Is the RPI becoming the new leading indicator of the US stock market?

edited on 10 Dec 2010: the link of the restaurant.org is updated. And I'm going to check out the recent trend and see if we see something more interesting coming out of this. :>

The Webby Awards 宣传广告片

2009-10-01T05:43:00.001+08:00

Qlock

2009-10-01T04:59:00.002+08:00

Qlock is awesome. The world's major Forex market hours are horizontally displayed on the top of the screen without hindering other normal mouse movements.

The FREE version is already good enough. Two thumbs up! I like it a lot.

Celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1st

2009-09-30T22:04:00.004+08:00

一个职位六个人抢

2009-09-29T06:48:00.003+08:00

Test Blog using Google Sidewiki

2009-09-28T21:25:00.005+08:00

I cannot access Blogger.com cuz the Chinese government blocks the access to Blogger.com, Twitter.com and Facebook.com, etc. But here it seems to be a great solution available to cure the predicament. It is by using Google Sidewiki.

However, the price that comes with it is to have a "in reference to" and a link to whatever I'm reading on the bottom of each blog entry.

The heck with it since the spark to inspiration often comes when I was reading some webpages anyway. Let the "in reference to" becomes the reference of the spark then.

Notable epidemics

2009-05-04T13:55:00.001+08:00

Facebook vs MySpace

2009-05-02T18:46:00.001+08:00

美国新基建项目

2009-04-19T17:57:00.003+08:00

奥巴马为了洗钱，搞什么都是大条道理，无人够佢『拗』，中文应该改姓『拗』！之不过，high-speed railway向来都是我非常支持的基建服务。上海、京津的300km/hr试过之后，我已经觉得无任何理由不去大力推广这种舒适快捷的交通方法。我看过一些资料说，high-speed railway 的磁浮科技，如果认真发展，不会慢过现在的民航飞机的！

广告界花费大缩水

2009-04-19T11:30:00.000+08:00

Walmart field trip 和 Matrix

2009-04-18T18:19:00.006+08:00

看Walmart的企业成长故事看了不少，听说深圳有Walmart，我今日带一家大小去了一次field trip！

据我老婆『最抵精明眼』分析报告指出，深圳华侨城的Walmart是比我们现在居住的南山缤纷超市贵！

去Walmart那一程的出租车司机搭讪，他发现我们是深圳盲，说超市有啥好逛的，介绍我们去益田假日广场逛。我费事『口水多过茶』向他解释field trip的本意，只知道那个什么益田假日是名店mall，我就说那个商场的东西看了买不起，无啥意思。

我非常后悔作出如上回应。

坐在后座位抱住两个女的老婆听到了。

现在，几时去假日广场逛成为了她下一个休闲目标！

幸好两个女是BB，我已经可以想象，以后就三巴嘴游说我去逛名店啦！

为了纠正这些对物质无谓虚幻的憧憬，我晚上赶紧接上个烂鬼DVD player（一直太忙，上周末又加班），插入 Matrix 第一集当 TV dinner 重播，希望潜移默化能影响一下她们啦。

原来 Walmart 已经在中国开了145间啦。时间过得真快，距离我第一次在读书时候听Walmart入中国，好似才不久之前！

孩子天生是不会说谎的

2009-04-12T15:42:00.004+08:00

某儿童教育家说孩子天生是不会说谎的。

错！

我的一岁半女儿前天的撒谎行为则为明证。

August不喜欢『坐』婴儿车，她更喜欢『推』婴儿车。我老婆带她出外，为了安全和快捷，一般都不让她自己推自己的婴儿车，宁可她坐在里面。

August为了下车，用尿尿作为借口。下车后，还蹲下装模作样。一滴都出不来，无尿。

她站起来后，急步推车走了。

老婆报称August刚刚几分钟前才把尿，马上又要尿尿，摆明撒谎，借尿下车！

做仔猫做仔狗不做情人

2009-04-11T15:55:00.002+08:00

深圳 pk 广州

2009-04-11T15:19:00.000+08:00

在深圳过了几天，发觉和广州最大对比之一，就是深圳无蚊，不用挂蚊帐。另外一个最大的对比，就是生活非常『斋』。我问了一下朋友，除了和朋友腐败之外，深圳还可以有什么工余活动，基本上每个人都只会本能地说欢乐谷。

每次我对朋友谈起欢乐谷的机动游戏，我都很激动！那鬼地方我很久之前去过一次。结论就是欢乐谷很欢乐，我却很郁闷；入场费收得这么贵，每个机动游戏，我还要顶着个大太阳底下排队排老半天，实在太过分了。

广州有很多公园，有白云山，有历史名胜。深圳虽然也有几个公园，但是去过一个最近的南山公园，却发觉不咋样，对比广州的公园的人文氛围也差远了。

A New Earth、『唐山大兄』和『白髮魔女傳』

2009-04-04T23:59:00.011+08:00

愚人節當天，舊同事 PP 用 QQ Email 發了 Eckhart Tolle 的 A New Earth 聽書 (audio book) 給我。（QQ Mail 做得好！它將幾百 Mb 的附件用 download 的形式去幫收件者接受。這種做法，我很早以前就想到，多謝 QQ 實現了我的夢想！）我下載完了聽書后，馬上聽了兩章。Eckhart Tolle 這個『神棍』集合各大宗教的經典教義和 spiritual 的注釋方法，去佐證他的 spirituality 的觀點，聽起來很過癮。

晚上在某時鐘賓館逗留了兩小時，洗澡后，看了兩部電影尾段：『唐山大兄』和『白髪魔女傳』。

我只知道周星馳和梁朝偉都很崇拜李小龍，卻重來都未看過李小龍的電影。我今天有幸看到他的作品『唐山大兄』在電視播出，聚精會神欣賞了一會兒。相比現在的武打電影，前戲打斗，李小龍打壞人小嘍羅的場面只能用一個字形容：假，或兩個字：好假！不過，尾段打大佬，動作則較為精彩，對期望值有個交待，不致失望。

『唐山大兄』播放的同時，『白髪魔女傳』也在另外一個臺播出。

我雖然看過很多影評贊揚林青霞在『白』中的演出，但是，一直都未真正觀看此電影。這次，算是看到了林青霞的頭髪在影片中是為什么 (why) 和如何 (how) 黑變白的了。林青霞飾演的狼女對感情投入太大，期望值過高，稍微失望，盛悲變盛怒，狂性大發。好像吃了 fing 頭丸的狼女，慢鏡頭中，頭髮隨著頭左右使勁擰而飄搖，變成了白色。

狼女如果是像我一樣也是一個電影迷，看到李小龍打小嘍羅的片段，肯定會一邊 fing 頭，一邊舉起電視機，將它上下搖呀搖，一邊講：『假！好假！』

MetaTrader (MT4) 自动系统交易

2009-03-28T13:17:00.016+08:00

MetaTrader (MT4) 有可能是历史最悠久和发展得最全面的的外汇看图及系统交易软件平台。MT4 现今的经营模式是伙拍中小型的外汇经纪行去推广自己的平台，网上一般昵称用 MT4 的经纪行做 MetaTrader brokers. 换句话说，这些经纪行很多时候都是缺乏实力开发一套自己的交易下单软件，而租用 MetaTrader 去给客户做下单用。MetaTrader 的 MQL4 语言是非常受欢迎的交易系统语言。而该语言的语法特征是像 C\Java 。很多人声称该语言让有编程背景的人会容易上路；但是，相对没有编程经验的人来说，很多人都宁可转向去学 EasyLanguage ( Tradestation.com 的编程语言 ) 去了。

一般系统交易开发者学习系统交易历程

开始入门可能是用 TradeStation.com 的 EasyLanguage，感觉容易上手但是最后发觉缺乏可控性，更比较容易发现无法 debug 的 bug；
系统交易者希望更深化控制交易逻辑，发现 EasyLanguage 缺乏弹性的时候，会发现 MetaTrader 的 MQL4 更得心应手；
对于不懂得编程的人，他们会改为应用费用比较高昂的 NeoTicker；
最尖端的系统交易方案，大概就是系统交易者直连经纪行接口，用 Java/C/C++ 写的、富有弹性的语言来控制交易逻辑和下单。

有程序开发经验的人可以先试用 MT4，熟悉一下技术分析 (Technical Analysis) 的一些基础概念，在 MT4 上面尝试造几个 Expert Advisors (EA) — 能在 MT4 运行的系统交易代码。MT4 文档丰富，坊间论坛同业好友的技术支持也多。

这里下载 MetaTrader 4 软件 (是伙拍一家叫做 Alpari 的英国经纪行的) 帐号是可以下载后在软件平台上面免费申请获得的，该软件有中英文界面选择。( 701785 / myj5olh )

这里下载颇为久远的历史数据
http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/dc/databank.html

关于 MQL4 语言的简单介绍
http://www.metaquotes.net/experts/mql4/

MQL4 入门书
http://book.mql4.com/

MQL4 文档
http://docs.mql4.com/

MQL4 程序代码范例分享
http://codebase.mql4.com/

MQL4 开发论坛
http://codebase.mql4.com/

过去几年 MQL4 都有举行比赛，得奖了的，都是这个社区混了一段时间的人，或者赢得奖后，就把代码封存，不开源，或者离开这个社区了。挖到金就走人。呵呵。这里免费出来看的代码，纯属编程范例的观赏，不可能有赚钱价值的。

这一篇是论述自动交易软件的自欺欺人的行径, 以后做系统开发之前, 应该先阅读.
http://articles.mql4.com/cn/570 (
这里有一个 MetaTrader 翻译成中文的文章列表 )

MT4编程及自动交易系统完全手册 - 中文版 ( 论坛登入: usalchemist 密码: freetone12 )

另外一份教程下载

把 ex4 转成 MQL4 的交易逻辑反向工程
http://www.scriptlance.com/projects/1217266321.shtml
有一位计算机研究生招揽交易逻辑
http://forum.mql4.com/12736

FOMC 最不可能發出的消息 —— 印更多鈔票

2009-03-19T12:35:00.006+08:00

所謂劏得豬多就有神庇佑，歐羅有望見底！靚女 Forex 評論員 Kathy 之前貼 FOMC 最不可能發生的那個結果發生了—— Feb 會買入更多債劵。

Least Likely Outcome: Fed Decides to Start Buying U.S. Treasuries – Dollar Negative
Investors are anxiously waiting for the Fed to announce that they will start buying U.S. Treasuries, but we do not expect it to happen this time around. They have flirted with the idea but are not ready to commitment quite yet because they want to save their last bullets for another rainy day in case the slowdown in the U.S. economy exacerbates. If they do announce a concrete plan to buy longer term Treasuries, yields would fall, stocks would probably rise and the U.S. dollar would be driven lower.

The bottom line is that the Federal Reserve is in this for the long haul and having cut interest rates aggressively over the past few months, they need to slow down and back off to see how the economy responds to all of their stimulus programs. If and only if the credit markets remain frozen and the U.S. economy refuses to improve, should they pull out their final bullets.

EURUSD 狂飆！我是否應該現在脫手手頭的 EURO ，所謂趁好就收？

Buy EURUSD

2009-03-18T03:50:00.005+08:00

上個月轉曬手頭滴美金做歐羅搏歐羅見底，現在能保持 1.3000 以上，生生性性，維持多幾日，就應該可以有個穩鎮既底部啦，應該系一個穩鎮既雙底添啵！

究竟 EURO 會唔會做好呢？睇尼又系時候劏豬拜神，訴諸宗教信仰既時候啦。

How To Destroy the World with Nanotechnology

2009-03-18T02:39:00.001+08:00

PREFACE of The 48 Laws of Power

2009-03-16T01:43:00.008+08:00

中學時代讀過李宗吾的厚黑學。近年發現原來西方都出了一本暢銷的官場厚黑學48招——The 48 Laws of Power。學 classical studies 的作者 Robert Greene 文筆很好，我經常翻閱他這本著作，當學英文。這里用 ABBYY FineReader 9.0 OCR 了 Preface 出來。

The feeling of having no power over people and events is generally unbearable to us—when we feel helpless we feel miserable. No one wants less power; everyone wants more. In the world today, however, it is dangerous to seem too power hungry, to be overt with your power moves. We have to seem fair and decent. So we need to be subtle—congenial yet cunning, democratic yet devious.
This game of constant duplicity most resembles the power dynamic that existed in the scheming world of the old aristocratic court. Throughout history, a court has always formed itself around the person in power—king, queen, emperor, leader. The courtiers who filled this court were in an especially delicate position: They had to serve their masters, but if they seemed to fawn, if they curried favor too obviously, the other courtiers around them would notice and would act against them. Attempts to win the master's favor, then, had to be subtle. And even skilled courtiers capable of such subtlety still had to protect themselves from their fellow courtiers, who at all moments were scheming to push them aside.
Meanwhile the court was supposed to represent the height of civilization and refinement. Violent or overt power moves were frowned upon; courtiers would work silently and secretly against any among them who used force. This was the courtier's dilemma: While appearing the very paragon of elegance, they had to outwit and thwart their own opponents in the subtlest of ways. The successful courtier learned over time to make all of his moves indirect; if he stabbed an opponent in the back, it was with a velvet glove on his hand and the sweetest of smiles on his face. Instead of using coercion or outright treachery, the perfect courtier got his way through seduction, charm, deception, and subtle strategy, always planning several moves ahead. Life in the court was a never-ending game that required constant vigilance and tactical thinking. It was civilized war.
Today we face a peculiarly similar paradox to that of the courtier: Everything must appear civilized, decent, democratic, and fair. But if we play by those rules too strictly, if we take them too literally, we are crushed by those around us who are not so foolish. As the great Renaissance diplomat and courtier Niccolo Machiavelli wrote, "Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good." The court imagined itself the pinnacle of refinement, but underneath its glittering surface a cauldron of dark emotions—greed, envy, lust, hatred—boiled and simmered. Our world today similarly imagines itself the pinnacle of fairness, yet the same ugly emotions still stir within us, as they have forever. The game is the same. Outwardly, you must seem to respect the niceties, but inwardly, unless you are a fool, you learn quickly to be prudent, and to do as Napoleon advised: Place your iron hand inside a velvet glove. If, like the courtier of times gone by, you can master the arts of indirection, learning to seduce, charm, deceive, and subtly outmaneuver your opponents, you will attain the heights of power. You will be able to make people bend to your will without their realizing what you have done. And if they do not realize what you have done, they will neither resent nor resist you.

To some people the notion of consciously playing power games—no matter how indirect—seems evil, asocial, a relic of the past. They believe they can opt out of the game by behaving in ways that have nothing to do with power. You must beware of such people, for while they express such opinions outwardly, they are often among the most adept players at power. They utilize strategies that cleverly disguise the nature of the manipulation involved. These types, for example, will often display their weakness and lack of power as a kind of moral virtue. But true powerlessness, without any motive of self-interest, would not publicize its weakness to gain sympathy or respect. Making a show of one's weakness is actually a very effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power (see Law 22, the Surrender Tactic).
Another strategy of the supposed nonplayer is to demand equality in every area of life. Everyone must be treated alike, whatever their status and strength. But if, to avoid the taint of power, you attempt to treat everyone equally and fairly, you will confront the problem that some people do certain things better than others. Treating everyone equally means ignoring their differences, elevating the less skillful and suppressing those who excel. Again, many of those who behave this way are actually deploying another power strategy, redistributing people's rewards in a way that they determine.
Yet another way of avoiding the game would be perfect honesty and straightforwardness, since one of the main techniques of those who seek power is deceit and secrecy. But being perfectly honest will inevitably hurt and insult a great many people, some of whom will choose to injure you in return. No one will see your honest statement as completely objective and free of some personal motivation. And they will be right: In truth, the use of honesty is indeed a power strategy, intended to convince people of one's noble, good-hearted, selfless character. It is a form of persuasion, even a subtle form of coercion.
Finally, those who claim to be nonplayers may affect an air of naivete, to protect them from the accusation that they are after power. Beware again, however, for the appearance of naivete can be an effective means of deceit (see Law 21, Seem Dumber Than Your Mark). And even genuine naivete is not free of the snares of power. Children may be naive in many ways, but they often act from an elemental need to gain control over those around them. Children suffer greatly from feeling powerless in the adult world, and they use any means available to get their way. Genuinely innocent people may still be playing for power, and are often horribly effective at the game, since they are not hindered by reflection. Once again, those who make a show or display of innocence are the least innocent of all.
You can recognize these supposed nonplayers by the way they flaunt their moral qualities, their piety, their exquisite sense of justice. But since all of us hunger for power, and almost all of our actions are aimed at gaining it, the nonplayers are merely throwing dust in our eyes, distracting us from their power plays with their air of moral superiority. If you observe them closely, you will see in fact that they are often the ones most skillful at indirect manipulation, even if some of them practice it unconsciously. And they greatly resent any publicizing of the tactics they use every day.
If the world is like a giant scheming court and we are trapped inside it, there is no use in trying to opt out of the game. That will only render you powerless, and powerlessness will make you miserable. Instead of struggling against the inevitable, instead of arguing and whining and feeling guilty, it is far better to excel at power. In fact, the better you are at dealing with power, the better friend, lover, husband, wife, and person you become. By following the route of the perfect courtier (see Law 24) you learn to make others feel better about themselves, becoming a source of pleasure to them. They will grow dependent on your abilities and desirous of your presence. By mastering the 48 laws in this book, you spare others the pain that comes from bungling with power—by playing with fire without knowing its properties. If the game of power is inescapable, better to be an artist than a denier or a bungler.

Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective. It takes effort and years of practice, for much of the game may not come naturally. Certain basic skills are required, and once you master these skills you will be able to apply the laws of power more easily.
The most important of these skills, and power's crucial foundation, is the ability to master your emotions. An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings. Emotions cloud reason, and if you cannot see the situation clearly, you cannot prepare for and respond to it with any degree of control.
Anger is the most destructive of emotional responses, for it clouds your vision the most. It also has a ripple effect that invariably makes situations less controllable and heightens your enemy's resolve. If you are trying to destroy an enemy who has hurt you, far better to keep him off-guard by feigning friendliness than showing your anger.

Love and affection are also potentially destructive, in that they blind you to the often self-serving interests of those whom you least suspect of playing a power game. You cannot repress anger or love, or avoid feeling them, and you should not try. But you should be careful about how you express them, and most important, they should never influence your plans and strategies in any way.
Related to mastering your emotions is the ability to distance yourself from the present moment and think objectively about the past and future. Like Janus, the double-faced Roman deity and guardian of all gates and doorways, you must be able to look in both directions at once, the better to handle danger from wherever it comes. Such is the face you must create for yourself—one face looking continuously to the future and the other to the past.
For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert." Nothing should catch you by surprise because you are constantly imagining problems before they arise. Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan's happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that might emerge in it. The further you see, the more steps ahead you plan, the more powerful you become.
The other face of Janus looks constantly to the past—though not to remember past hurts or bear grudges. That would only curb your power. Half of the game is learning how to forget those events in the past that eat away at you and cloud your reason. The real purpose of the backward-glancing eye is to educate yourself constantly—you look at the past to learn from those who came before you. (The many historical examples in this book will greatly help that process.) Then, having looked to the past, you look closer at hand, to your own actions and those of your friends. This is the most vital school you can learn from, because it comes from personal experience.
You begin by examining the mistakes you have made in the past, the ones that have most grievously held you back. You analyze them in terms of the 48 laws of power, and you extract from them a lesson and an oath: "I shall never repeat such a mistake; I shall never fall into such a trap again." If you can evaluate and observe yourself in this way, you can learn to break the patterns of the past—an immensely valuable skill.
Power requires the ability to play with appearances. To this end you must learn to wear many masks and keep a bag full of deceptive tricks. Deception and masquerade should not be seen as ugly or immoral. All human interaction requires deception on many levels, and in some ways what separates humans from animals is our ability to lie and deceive. In Greek myths, in India's Mahabharata cycle, in the Middle Eastern epic of Gilga-mesh, it is the privilege of the gods to use deceptive arts; a great man, Odysseus for instance, was judged by his ability to rival the craftiness of the gods, stealing some of their divine power by matching them in wits and deception. Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power.

You cannot succeed at deception unless you take a somewhat distanced approach to yourself—unless you can be many different people, wearing the mask that the day and the moment require. With such a flexible approach to all appearances, including your own, you lose a lot of the inward heaviness that holds people down. Make your face as malleable as the actor's, work to conceal your intentions from others, practice luring people into traps. Playing with appearances and mastering arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.
If deception is the most potent weapon in your arsenal, then patience in all things is your crucial shield. Patience will protect you from making moronic blunders. Like mastering your emotions, patience is a skill—it does not come naturally. But nothing about power is natural; power is more godlike than anything in the natural world. And patience is the supreme virtue of the gods, who have nothing but time. Everything good will happen—the grass will grow again, if you give it time and see several steps into the future. Impatience, on the other hand, only makes you look weak. It is a principal impediment to power.
Power is essentially amoral and one of the most important skills to acquire is the ability to see circumstances rather than good or evil. Power is a game—this cannot be repeated too often—and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effect of their actions. You measure their strategy and their power by what you can see and feel. How often are someone's intentions made the issue only to cloud and deceive! What does it matter if another player, your friend or rival, intended good things and had only your interests at heart, if the effects of his action lead to so much ruin and confusion? It is only natural for people to cover up their actions with all kinds of justifications, always assuming that they have acted out of goodness. You must learn to inwardly laugh each time you hear this and never get caught up in gauging someone's intentions and actions through a set of moral judgments that are really an excuse for the accumulation of power.
It is a game. Your opponent sits opposite you. Both of you behave as gentlemen or ladies, observing the rules of the game and taking nothing personally. You play with a strategy and you observe your opponent's moves with as much calmness as you can muster. In the end, you will appreciate the politeness of those you are playing with more than their good and sweet intentions. Train your eye to follow the results of their moves, the outward circumstances, and do not be distracted by anything else.
Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do not do, what you do not allow yourself to get dragged into. For this skill you must learn to judge all things by what they cost you. As Nietzsche wrote, "The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it—what it costs us." Perhaps you will attain your goal, and a worthy goal at that, but at what price? Apply this standard to everything, including whether to collaborate with other people or come to their aid. In the end, life is short, opportunities are few, and you have only so much energy to draw on. And in this sense time is as important a consideration as any other. Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.
Power is a social game. To learn and master it, you must develop the ability to study and understand people. As the great seventeenth-century thinker and courtier Baltasar Gracian wrote: "Many people spend time studying the properties of animals or herbs; how much more important it would be to study those of people, with whom we must live or die!" To be a master player you must also be a master psychologist. You must recognize motivations and see through the cloud of dust with which people surround their actions. An understanding of people's hidden motives is the single greatest piece of knowledge you can have in acquiring power. It opens up endless possibilities of deception, seduction, and manipulation.
People are of infinite complexity and you can spend a lifetime watching them without ever fully understanding them. So it is all the more important, then, to begin your education now. In doing so you must also keep one principle in mind: Never discriminate as to whom you study and whom you trust. Never trust anyone completely and study everyone, including friends and loved ones.
Finally, you must learn always to take the indirect route to power. Disguise your cunning. Like a billiard ball that caroms several times before it hits its target, your moves must be planned and developed in the least obvious way. By training yourself to be indirect, you can thrive in the modern court, appearing the paragon of decency while being the consummate manipulator.
Consider The 48 Laws of Power a kind of handbook on the arts of indirection. The laws are based on the writings of men and women who have studied and mastered the game of power. These writings span a period of more than three thousand years and were created in civilizations as disparate as ancient China and Renaissance Italy; yet they share common threads and themes, together hinting at an essence of power that has yet to be fully articulated. The 48 laws of power are the distillation of this accumulated wisdom, gathered from the writings of the most illustrious strategists (Sun-tzu, Clausewitz), statesmen (Bismarck, Talleyrand), courtiers (Castiglione, Gracian), seducers (Ninon de Lenclos, Casanova), and con artists ("Yellow Kid" Weil) in history.
The laws have a simple premise: Certain actions almost always increase one's power (the observance of the law), while others decrease it and even ruin us (the transgression of the law). These transgressions and observances are illustrated by historical examples. The laws are timeless and definitive.
The 48 Laws of Power can be used in several ways. By reading the book straight through you can learn about power in general. Although several of the laws may seem not to pertain directly to your life, in time you will probably find that all of them have some application, and that in fact they are interrelated. By getting an overview of the entire subject you will best be able to evaluate your own past actions and gain a greater degree of control over your immediate affairs. A thorough reading of the book will inspire thinking and reevaluation long after you finish it.
The book has also been designed for browsing and for examining the law that seems at that particular moment most pertinent to you. Say you are experiencing problems with a superior and cannot understand why your efforts have not lead to more gratitude or a promotion. Several laws specifically address the master-underling relationship, and you are almost certainly transgressing one of them. By browsing the initial paragraphs for the 48 laws in the table of contents, you can identify the pertinent law.
Finally, the book can be browsed through and picked apart for entertainment, for an enjoyable ride through the foibles and great deeds of our predecessors in power. A warning, however, to those who use the book for this purpose: It might be better to turn back. Power is endlessly seductive and deceptive in its own way. It is a labyrinth—your mind becomes consumed with solving its infinite problems, and you soon realize how pleasantly lost you have become. In other words, it becomes most amusing by taking it seriously. Do not be frivolous with such a critical matter. The gods of power frown on the frivolous; they give ultimate satisfaction only to those who study and reflect, and punish those who skim the surfaces looking for a good time.

Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose....
Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, ''These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good?" there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument—though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, "We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes belter than a tender lamb."
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900

The only means to gain one's ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say; but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment.
Johann von Goethe, 1749-1832

The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by a wise man can kill even babes in the womb.
Kautilya, Indian philosopher, third century b.c.

I thought to myself with what means, with what deceptions, with how many varied arts, with what industry a man sharpens his wits to deceive another, and through these variations the world is made more beautiful.
Francesco Vettori, contemporary and friend of Machiavelli, early sixteenth century

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were principles and fixed laws, nations would not change them as we change our shirts and a man can not be expected to be wiser than an entire nation.
Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.
The Prince, Niccold Machiavelli, 1469-1527

安特卫普(比利时北部港市)鉆石大劫案

2009-03-13T10:04:00.010+08:00

Ken Fisher 的發財吹水書 10 Ways to Riches 說發財有10道。

1. Start a successful business—the richest road! 創業
2. Become the CEO of an existing firm and juice it—a very mechanical function. 做CEO
3. Hitch to a successful visionary’s wagon and ride along—it’s high value-added. 找個有『錢』途的工作
4. Turn celebrity into wealth—or wealth into celebrity and then more wealth! 出名
5. Marry well—really, really well. 嫁得好（或娶得好）
6. Steal it, legally—no guns necessary! 合法地偷
7. Capitalize on other people’s money (OPM)—where most of the mega-rich are. 借別人財力
8. Invent an endless future revenue stream—even if you’re not an inventor! 重復性收入
9. Trump the land barons by monetizing unrealized real estate wealth! 地產
10. Go down the Road More Traveled—save hard, invest well—forever! 存錢、投資

當中第六條，其實可以引申出來第6.5條——Steal it, illegally.

很多發達的西方國家，對偷盜判刑都相對東方國家松。偷盜、商業犯罪等罪名，只要無傷害任何人身體，一般判刑都不過10年。一般人10年能賺多少錢？如果不幸失去了自由，自由值多少錢？很多人屈指一算，就能理解（雖然不能原諒）那些吃『大茶飯』、干大案的罪犯。

Wired 雜志的專題報道向來精彩，剛剛發表了一篇劫案專題，訪問了一個發生在2003年2月16日的大案主犯 Leonardo Notarbartolo. 他被判了10年有期徒刑。

以下，讓我們來為他做一個做最壞情況下的風險回報分析。

他們有最多6個合謀者，共盜得了最低限度兩千萬歐羅的鉆石。假如6人瓜分，每人得約等值六千七百萬人民幣價值的鉆石。10年的通貨膨脹能使現金的消費力減產一半，但是因為理論上鉆石能保值，所以，這個六千七百萬人民幣的消費力，倒是可以用現在的眼光來衡量。六千七百萬人民幣除以十年等于平均每年賺得的；換句話說，Notarbartolo 每年失去的人身自由，都能換得六白七十萬元人民幣。歐美講人權，案件不牽涉到國家機密，無所謂逼供招認。Notarbartolo 把鉆石藏在了什么地方，只有他自己才知道，10年后出來，又是一條好漢，有這一筆可觀的鉆石財富讓他去安享晚年。

但是，每年六白七十萬元人民幣的收入，值得冒這么大的險嗎？

失去10年的自由，屬于一種風險嗎？

這些問題，可能對不同的人都會有不同的定義，而我則認為非常不值得。單單是失去的和子女共聚的光陰，就是多少財富都無法補償的風險。

案件發生在 Antwerp (安特卫普).

安特卫普是世界上最重要的钻石交易地点，这里有举世闻名的钻石交易所、1500多家钻石企业 ...... 安德卫普是钻石加工中心，世界第一。世界百分之八十的原钻石被运往这儿进行加工，百分之六十的钻石交易在这儿进行，每年的交易额达到400亿美元。虽然最早发明钻石打磨技术切割技术是在布鲁塞尔，后来随着发明者搬到这儿，安德卫普也就成了名副其实的钻石之都。 -- Wikipedia

Wired 專題記者 Joshua Davis 現身說法寫作背景。

我有壓力,你有壓力,你做乜唔瞓覺？

2009-03-12T06:02:00.005+08:00

公司游戲準備出臺收費版，工作好鬼緊湊。最近我逼人幫手做嘢逼到癲，搞到一個同事。。。(下面看 Skype 聊天對話記錄)

當陣時差滴笑死我！

最近開始都看看佛理入門的書，不期然想起了報應。

今晚我都算有報應了！

剛剛3am發惡夢醒，然后肚餓到死，瞓唔翻，索性就走翻公司上網做下嘢。

Bank Stock Crash Surpasses Dot-Com Collapse

2009-03-11T02:14:00.002+08:00

年輕男人和老女人生的小孩 IQ 最高

2009-03-10T20:31:00.006+08:00

看科學新聞報告研究指出，男人越年輕生育，孩子 IQ 越高，因為優良精子數量多。女人越老生育，孩子 IQ 越高，因為較為懂得教導下一代。

可惜霆鋒和王菲無留個種。

Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472-1553). The Odd Couple: Young Man and Old Woman with Girl, ca. 1545/50.

In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

2009-03-10T01:46:00.002+08:00

In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

收市競價交易時段匯豐控股大插水

2009-03-09T20:15:00.004+08:00

匯豐又再次插水，而且是插得甘深甘快，相信很多人都跌破了眼鏡。據 Bloomberg 的 Kelvin Wong 文章 HSBC Plunges Record 24% in Hong Kong on Late Trades 介紹，是匯控是在 Closing Auction Session 『收市競價交易時段』的最后一刻落至收市得番33蚊。

『按照香港交易所的一貫做法，若參與者輸入的任何買賣盤大幅偏離當時的成交價，香港交易所將會通知證券及期貨事務監察委員會作進一步調查。價格操控是刑事罪行，法定監管機構必定會提出檢控。』

這次插水，不知道是否有人惡意搗亂呢？

無論如何都好，又是時候出動到處瀏覽一下事后諸葛亮們的評論了。

[大手成交]匯豐控股(00005)在下午04:10出現大手賣出，成交量為 1.19千萬，成交價為港幣$33.0，涉資3.927億。至目前為止，股價跌24.138%，今日最高價為$41.55，而最低價為$33.0，總成交量為1.219億股，總成交金額港幣$47.119億。

劉兆祥: 匯控<00005.HK>有七宗罪
2009年3月9日 05:33:50 p.m. HKT, AAFN

信誠證券投資部經理劉兆祥表示，匯控<00005.HK>大跌$10.50，其實匯控股價本身於$37.50之上，但收市競價時段，在最後數秒，突然有4M沽盤推低匯控股價至33元收市，而成交達到12M，究竟這些沽盤目的是甚麼？倫敦匯控最低報310便士，折合港元仍處於34元之上，究竟反映甚麼呢？

其實除了匯控大跌外，本地金融股也有10%跌幅，只是匯控較受矚目。筆者也低估匯控跌勢，以為大戶要在一個較安定的環境來供股，其實分析匯控近期表現，可得出匯控7宗罪：

第一：最初說不用供股，由內部資源可處理問題，結果仍要供股

第二：盈利大跌卻沒有發出盈利警告訊號

第三：以超出投資者預期的大比例供股，12供5股，供股價28元

第四：12供5，使大部份人士的股份手數變為碎股，而12供5後，以400股來說，究竟投資者可供的數目是多少，連中央過戶處與匯控本身也出現分歧，這種不清晰情況使投資者感覺混亂，中央過戶處說是165股，而匯控則說是166股呢？(以12股計，投資者持有一手，得出33.33，究竟小數點的數字應否計入作供股之用，其實匯控本身的計算有錯誤，理論上12供5的話，供股權的尾數一定是5或零，因此未來有頗多的爭吵)

第五：匯控在3月12日除供股權，但在3月18日則除息(每股$0.78)，但匯控宣布新供股的投資者沒有股息收入，問題是匯控股價除淨時要將股價調整，假設除息時是33元，除息日股價便是$32.22，使匯控市值變相減少39億元，即供股部份便會帶來損失

第六：匯控預期09年首三季都會派發8美仙股息($0.624港元，三季合供需1.872)，但大家都問一個問題，是匯控今年會否見紅，如果確保有這樣高的股息收入呢？

第七：也是匯控股價大跌的原因，就是之前外資大行不斷看淡股價及前景，不排除這些大外之前已經大手沽空，但今次匯控仍然由他們做包銷，使他們可輕易回補空倉盤，更重要是他們有更多的彈藥來大手拋空匯控，慢慢才補回，使股價跌完可以再跌，如果今次匯控能事前與中央溝通，讓中資機構取得一半的包銷數量(到時供股比例可能較目前優勝，例如3供1，每股30元)，除了得到中國祝福外，最重要是早前拋空的大戶，知道不可能透過供股來取得股份，便只能在市場買貨，恐怕單是這些補倉盤，已經可以將匯控股價推上60元之上。

可惜匯控管理層一連串的錯誤，使投資者損失慘重，而最重要是反映目前匯控處於當黑期，如果是好運期，這些事一定不會發生，但當行衰運時，便會頭頭踫著黑。

加州省府城外露宿者

2009-03-08T02:17:00.005+08:00

美國大蕭條時代大規模出現的露宿景象在 Sacramento 恍惚有苗頭開始重演。怪不得我老豆老母以前笑我去野外行山露營是『作賤』的活動，十足他們當年『上山下鄉』，被迫的行山露營。

『非農』乃唯一『非典』般傳染力強的經濟數據

2009-03-07T12:20:00.010+08:00

黑暗中也會有光明，而那里有光明，那里就能找到真理。

像『黑社會』中，古天樂扮演的 Jimmy 仔，雖然一邊在缽蘭街靠扯皮條搵食，也一邊會去大學修讀經濟，尋找混沌中的真理。

黑暗如聯邦儲備局這種邪惡勢力，有時候仔細看看，都能找到絲絲真理。皆因他們的人也會去講一些對他們既得利益無影響的真理。

紐約聯儲，2008年出了一篇良心调研: How Economic News Moves Markets ，論述美國經濟數據發布對不同證劵的影響。而剛剛過去這個周五，也再次證實了每月非農 Nonfarm payroll 的數據發布，是巨有能力撥動各個證劵市場的動態，尤其是歐羅對美元匯價 —— NFP 數據在早上 8:30 美國東部時間發布后，歐元對美元隨即 rally 向上飆了一陣。

此報告中最大的真理，就是推翻那些財經新聞中的吹水佬的廢話 —— NFP 數據，無論升降，在歷史數據看來，都對證劵波動的方向性無 correlated 的影響。那些最喜歡事后諸葛亮的電視財經新聞分析師所謂的分析所謂升或跌的因果關系，當笑話聽下就算了，別太認真！

此調研中的一個數據表格，也能說明，其實眾多經濟數據中，也只有NFP對證劵波動幅度具有 consistent 的殺傷力，其他的，則往往會失準。

保人者难自保 —— AIA 意外医疗保险

2009-03-04T00:26:00.010+08:00

刚刚想搵 AIA 买份保险。今天又爆新闻 AIG 搵 AIA 过桥，让 AIA 给美国政府。AIA 身为 AIG 母公司的赚钱奶牛，原本以为无死，点知现在搞到甘样呢。我份保险单仲应唔应该搵 AIA 买呢？

To further ease A.I.G.'s debt burden, instead of paying back $38 billion in cash with interest that it has used from a federal credit line, government will convert that into equity in two of the insurer’s subsidiaries in Asia — American International Assurance and the American Life Insurance Company.

Both units are performing well. This would give the government direct ownership in those subsidiaries and provide saleable assets to American taxpayers even if the A.I.G. holding company were to default on its loans.

The government stake in American International Assurance will probably be controversial. The unit had been put up for sale recently, without success. That suggests that the government is giving A.I.G. better terms than private investors were willing to give, exposing the government to further accusations that it is providing a handout to A.I.G.

S&P 500 hit 700. $INDU:$GOLD closed at 7.19

2009-03-03T20:57:00.007+08:00

Would the 700 marks the short-term turning point of S&P? The decline has been too much in too short a time. Should a correction should be in place this week?

Dow and gold has been declining since the beginning of 2009 with no significant correction. When's it due?

大笨象跳水

2009-03-03T13:32:00.000+08:00

昨天剛剛看到匯控底背離和突破了下降趨勢線，所謂純技術分析，無非就是將基本面暫時剝離。今天，供股消息落實，馬上插水。再回頭看看，原來也有不少新聞預兆了。

昨日 Aastocks 上面的新聞 —— 信誠證券投資部經理劉兆祥表示，今天匯控<00005.HK>停牌，而期指大幅低水達三百點，究竟反映甚麼呢？其實期指大幅低水，只是反映匯控明天復牌後股價大幅回落，以目前倫敦匯控折合港元計48元，即匯控明天大跌超過7元，因此期指便要反映匯控大跌的因素。

至於期指反映匯控除權，提出這個說法的人士，根本不知道恆指的計算方法，如果匯控派息便不會調整，但送紅股或除權的話，指數便會作出調整。

因為期指大炒低水，引致一眾衍生工具發行商在開價時出現技術上問題，究竟應根據期指還是根據恆指呢？如果在正常情況，當然是以期指為開價的基準(因為明天恆指會反映匯控大跌的實際情況)，但一些接近死亡的牛證，發行商如何開價便不一樣，例如61805，回收價是12500點，當恆指跌至12550點，期指處於12250點，因此發行商開價時便以$0.06開出，但如果以恆指計，應該值$0.08，因此能夠把握這些錯價機會，便有不俗的利潤。

至於今次匯控供股，較早前流傳的4供1，每股33元更低(如果是集資1400億元，供股價應該是46元)，實際情況是12供5，每股約28港元，對於投資者來說，未必能分別出問題所在(因為4供1，每股46.66元，以一手400股計，供股一百股，供股金額4666元，而12供5的話，每手便是166股，集資金額也是4666元)。

對於匯控來說，是啞子吃黃蓮，因為兩者發行股數完全不一樣，4供1的話，匯控新發行股份是30億股，12供5的話，發行股份便是50億股，當中的差異是甚麼呢？如果匯控有能力的話，根本不可能接受這個條款。簽訂城下盟約，而今次包銷商是看淡匯控的高盛，如果早前高盛看淡匯控而身體力行，目前又能以極低價供股作包銷商，究竟反映甚麼大家心知肚明------匯控已經處於沒有選擇餘地，任由這些大戶宰割。

你看嘛，個股如果炒短線，實在太多變數要考慮了，實在難炒。我還是回去研究 Macroeconomics，炒 Commodities 和 Index ETF 算了！最近工作太忙，停了看 Forex。要找時間回去重新開一個 FXCM Microlot 玩模擬了。

香港個股投資，都最好看看內幕交易先，因為無乜可能我們外圍散戶比內部高層更清楚自己業務的具體情況到底是向好還是向壞走。

匯豐銀行底背離脫離突破下降軌道

2009-03-02T20:42:00.000+08:00

0005.hk 剛剛做了底背離，看多。加上上周四五突破了下降軌道，給多了一個看多的理由。雖然上周是道指創新低的一周，但是，因為再創新低的時候，NYSE 同時創新低的股票數目已經不及去年11月和前一周數目多，所以，我們有理由相信本周美市都有技術性反彈，有機會帶動港股做好。

另一方面，看看 insider trades, 就好似無動靜，始終無明顯內部抄底現象出現。

美国房产顶多只能用来保值抗通胀

2009-03-02T15:34:00.000+08:00

Mr Buffett tends to write allegorically when in defensive mode

2009-03-02T14:12:00.000+08:00

Mr Buffett tends to write allegorically when in defensive mode. The allegorical phrases are in red. Interesting read.

Buffett admits Berkshire battered but stays bullish -- In typical fashion, Mr Buffett told investors that 2008 "was devastating ... for corporate and municipal bonds, real estate and commodities. By year end, investors of all stripes were bloodied and confused, much as if they were small birds that had strayed into a badminton game". Mr Buffett also warned that the greater reliance on government aid was likely to lead to unwelcome and lasting consequences for the wider economy: "In poker terms, the [US] Treasury and the Fed have gone 'all in'. Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once-unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation."
While conceding there was little reason to expect a quick improvement in the global economy, Mr Buffett stressed Berkshire Hathaway would remain "Gibraltar-like" in its financial strength and invited investors to consider that its insurance arm, Berkshire Hathaway's biggest business along with the group utilities investment division, "delivered outstanding results in 2008" and has "excellent prospects".

Gibraltar 定义是 An invincible fortress or stronghold; an impregnable stronghold.

军用四脚负重 Big Dog

2009-03-02T12:15:00.000+08:00

Boston Dynamics 研制中的军用四脚负重 Big Dog。

开会时候涂鸦混时间有助记忆

2009-03-02T05:32:00.000+08:00

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/doodlerecall.html

你那儿够长吗?

2009-03-02T05:01:00.001+08:00

男人又多一样东西担心够不够长了. 无名指比食指长出愈多, 证明产前雄激素旺盛, 影响将来一个男人长大了之后的睾丸素的 "排量"; 排量越多, 越喜欢承担风险, 视觉眼肌运动和其他身体肌肉的反应速度都会越快.

科学家做了调查, 发现在超短线职业外汇股票期货炒卖中, 无名指比食指长出愈多的交易员, 赚越多钱.

Neuroeconomics - Digitally enhanced - Successful financial traders are born as well as made

Testosterone and traders - Goldfingers - How traders' testosterone levels affect their income

Glenn Beck 讥讽 Obama 无能力 "arrest" 房市跌势

2009-03-02T04:52:00.000+08:00

Fox News commentator Glenn Beck makes a pretty straightforward case about the folly of trying to "stabilize" home prices at current levels in the following YouTube video segment from his show, "Glenn Beck":

自我催眠密码

2009-02-26T02:27:00.000+08:00

NLP 或成功学导师教学员默想和对自己讲一些自我肯定或激励的话去培养自信。这种技巧，在很多行为心理学实验里面是被证实是奏效的。但是，我们有什么方法持之以恒呢？

我这里分享一个我从朋友那里学的小技巧。

我们在互联网中生活一代人，天天都要输入众多的登入信息和密码。

创制的密码，一般来说，都是越复杂越好。但是，复杂的密码，一般都非常难去记忆。如何去记忆着一个既复杂又容易记的密码呢？

这里举例说明。

先想一个激励人心培养自信的句子，不妨狂妄自大一些。我来一句：『林川是宇宙最强。』其拼音就是 Lin Chuan Shi Yu Zhou Zui Qiang. 然后，抽出拼音中的头一个单词，化成 lcsyzzq。完成！lcsyzzq 成了我的复杂而又难以被猜到的新密码了！

试想一下，我们天天都要在不同的地方输入登入信息和密码，我们为了记忆密码，必须默想催眠『咒语』来回忆密码，这么一来，就一箭双雕，密码能回忆起来，更也能自我催眠了！

长『揸』股票足以致贫

2009-02-25T04:19:00.000+08:00

有无人告诉过你，股市长线持有，是致富的必然途径？

别被蒙骗！

美国很多财经媒体都宣称美国股市回报率，自从 1900 年起，每年平均有 6% 的回报。然而，据 London Business School and Credit Suisse Group AG 综合了通胀之后的数据显示，撇除 dividends 和 annual gain 之后，年均升幅只剩下 1.7%. 如果你是美国人，买国债都起码有 2.1% 的稳妥回报率。如果在中国，就更不要说了，长期以来，中国内地银行的定期存款是傲视同群，世界各地银行都无法匹敌的！

几个月前，一个理财异常保守的广州亲戚提醒我，我才发现国内银行定期存款的金矿；赶紧砸了为女儿读书准备的，和老婆勾手指『不许动』存款存进去五年定期，稳稳当当在5年后收超过百分之二十五的利息回报！

制作精美的美国次贷风暴动画解说

2009-02-23T04:43:00.000+08:00

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

道指幾時穿破7400?

2009-02-20T04:45:00.000+08:00

道指貼近 11 月 7400 的支持。密切注意能否穿底！

保证金借贷投资水平下降证实投机者在陆续退场

2009-02-16T05:08:00.000+08:00

风险胃口越减越瘦到 2008 年底的 186.71 Billion USD。密切注视2009年开年第一个月的保证金借贷水平！

道指尝试探11月份的底

2009-02-16T04:57:00.000+08:00

道指和NYSE的过去30年的历史数据指出，当道指做了52周新低的时候，如果NYSE有少于400个股票创52周新低，则道指会造成一个 V 型底部，然而，如果NYSE有多过400个股票创52周新低，则道指会造成一个 W 型底部（1990 年是例外，创了不止1个W的底部，探底了不止两次）

道指在10月10日创了新低，当时 NYSE 有 2901 个股票创新低，是刷新了同时创新低的记录！

道指在11月20日再创新低的时候，NYSE则有1894个新低，也算很多了！

周五收市时候离20日当时价位3.9%，如果再次探底的时候无太多 NYSE 的新低创出，这次将会是一个中期的底部。

台湾烹饪节目爆笑 (真人真事)

2009-02-03T05:00:00.000+08:00

今天偶然扭开看到了某台湾非常正式的烹调节目 (肯定不是 "乜太"). 两个女主持人(非常严肃地) 教弄微波炉鸡蛋.

甲负责烹调, 在打鸡蛋; 乙旁边学习和评述.

乙: 我就知道你喜欢这样.
甲: 喜欢怎样?
乙: 喜欢打蛋.

我笑傻了一会儿. 平复之后, 紧接又听到甲乙继续说.......

甲: 我装碗吧.
乙: 我比较传统, 喜欢这样硬硬的.
甲: (尴尬) 啊?
乙: 我说你用这个碗看起来硬硬的.

甲用的那种日式方形碗, 乙女士竟然用 "硬硬的" 去形容.

你那儿够长吗?

2009-01-31T05:01:00.000+08:00

灰尘勿扰

2009-01-04T05:04:00.000+08:00

我和太太去看了灰尘勿扰 (湖南话发音讲"非诚勿扰") . 讲舒淇和做有妇之夫的方中信搞婚外情. 舒淇算是剧中的主角吧.

做别人第三者的女人, 我倒是认识过几个. 不知道是不是我运气特别好, 老是结识到那些做过别人第三者或甚至正在做别人第三者的女人. 当我认识到第四个的时候, 我已经按奈不住我的情绪了, 我劈头就骂了过去, 告诉她是我之前认识那些做别人第三者的女人的翻版. 他们的心理状态全部都是一个实验室样本复制 Clone 出来的.

我当时恨不得一巴掌打过去. 希望骂她实在太傻了. 可惜只是通过电话中听到倾诉, 那巴掌打不过去.

记得我第一次听做人第三者的女人的倾诉, 倒是挺新鲜的; 第二次, 感到了同情; 遇到了第三个的时候, 已经麻木了. 只是感觉很叹息, 想帮她一把, 拉她一下, 但是爱莫能助.

我太太问我, 会不会做方中信, 外面搞个情人来玩. 我告诉她, 我做方中信的时候, 大概也是灰尘勿扰电影中的方中信, 出入飞机都坐头等舱的时候了, 到时候, 妳也应该富足, 满心欢喜. 我外面搞个空姐舒淇, 也是完全背着妳. 在妳毫不知情的情况下, 我又尽足了做老公的本分, 大概无什么问题了吧, 是吗? 顶多都是我这个方中信为了感情挣扎而辛苦, 而完全不影响妳呢! 哇哈哈哈!

算了吧.

还是不要背着女人干坏事. 要干, 就要摆明的. 讲明自己博爱, 也有条件博爱, 要去纳妾就好了. 旧社会好, 合理: 当财富和资源集中在某一些人群中的时候, 优生优养, 就是要多房, 多太, 纳妾, 多娶, 天公地道!

现代略有身份地位的富裕的男人都很无奈, 因为他们都无法享受得到旧社会甚至是古文明的人力资源分配道德观. 现代男女关系和世界上的资源分配一样地不合理! 大部分的人都在挨饿, 少数人能富裕和吃饱饭. 可恨的就是资源并非不足, 而只是分配不恰当! 在这种情况下, 当下弱势群体只是要求成为富裕男人的二房妾士都成为违法违章遭人冷眼, 灰尘勿扰的故事, 就真是满街都是. 感觉就是像资源分配不恰当的地球村一样, 烽火战争连绵不绝, 壤成无谓的斗争, 无谓的牺牲.

现代人类几时才醒觉, 懂得恢复我们多个原始和旧社会都认同的先祖智慧, 再次把一夫(妻)多妻(夫) 重新编订入道德和法典的正轨呢?

2008-12-29T03:20:00.000+08:00

我看过人事招聘研究指出, 应聘面试结果, 在应聘者和招聘方负责人见面时候头十秒钟已经得出了 Yes or No 的结论的了!

换句话说, 应聘者可能未坐稳, 招聘方潜意识中已经得出了结论; 之后林林种种的对话问答, 都是招聘方的考官在找理据去支持自己的潜意识早已建立了的偏见而已!

另外, 我年初看了几本 Oxford 的 Very Short Introduction (VSI) 系列书. 其中一本 (具体题目我忘记) 里面介绍了一则心理学上著名的实验, 证明人的思想行为, 是人的脑子某潜意识部分 (百分之几秒前) 预先做了决定, 甚至触发了肌肉神经去开始行动, 然后再通知脑子中的意识中枢的! 换句话说, 人, 可能只是以为自己有 free will, 其实却是受制于自己的潜意识所 "控制" 而茫然不知. 当中, 作者安慰读者, 虽然这种研究结论 ( 无 free will ) 非常悲哀, 但是, 因为意识总会 "到站", 而 "行动" 却在那时往往未完全构成, 我们如果时常保持警惕, 是可以 "反控" 和 "阻止" 潜意识已经发出了出来的命令的.

这一期的 The Economist (经济学人) 圣诞专辑中 ( The way the brain buys, The science of shopping: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12792420 ), 也有提及到了科学家研究 shoppers 的感性的 (潜意识) 和意识判断. 文中除了提及了上述的概念之外, 更提及了两个欧美超级市场的营销手段. 当作提及的两个手段, categorised selection 和 irrelevant alternatives, 我们可以参考, 建议阅读论述这两个概念的内文看看!

categorised selection, 我们也某个程度上在使用, 例如新加入的笑脸, 属于一种买量上的分类.

irrelevant alternatives, 我们也某个程度上试过或好像是在使用, 例如超高价格几万金币套餐.

多拜另外一本 Oxford VSI 系列书 Emotion 介绍了一个美国心理学博士 Diane Mackie 做的心理学实验, 此实验证明了心情好的人, 做的判断是最容易出错的! 这一点, 对于我们研究市场营销来说, 是一个值得记住的小窍门. 事实上, Yes! 书中, 也三番四次的用实例说明了对顾客先礼后兵的异常突出的果效. 从旁印证说明了先让顾客心情好起来, 然后, 他们做出非理性购物的机会就更大了!

在其他谈论 Emotion 的书中, 这个 Diane Mackie 做的实验也经常被引述, 在我们工作的时候, 值得记住一句话, 那句话是另外一本书 Emotion and Social Judgements 编辑 Joseph Forgas 说的: "You can be feeling good, but you're probably not thinking straight."

中国古语也有云, "哀兵必胜".

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广告也喜欢让人心情好, 这里分享一则有趣的美国电视广告
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTbDAs9D8wk&fmt=18

2008-12-26T23:17:00.000+08:00

Customizing my Digg account. Sport seems to be the kind of topics to be practiced instead of read so that check them all off!

2008-10-06T03:10:00.000+08:00

I'm reviewing the rainbow scalping method. I did a Google search and found some scalpers intended to use it as a way to trade to their financial freedom.

http://shaolinscalper.blogspot.com/

2008-08-10T14:36:00.000+08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b41dy3_sb0U

I me try to summarize what made out of this lesson. The core idea of this lesson is to identify a potential continuation of a trend in a higher time frame (day) using trend break and Fibonacci level.

Identify a counter trend break. Access it. Look for its stall (/\) at 38.2% Fibonacci level. Potentially, the stall (/\) can become the start of the continuation of the trend.

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How do we evaluate the potential?

Zoom to the lower time frame (hour) of the potential continuation of the trend.

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Assess the stall (/\): if the stall qualifies a trend break in the lower time frame, we enter a trade. The target price is 68.3% level of the counter trend*.

* counter trend:

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2008-07-19T01:37:00.000+08:00

China Joy still gets two more days to go. However, I'm going to leave for Guangzhou on Saturday. The Friday China Joy has been a happy day. I met the prettiest girl in the it. I'm going to post it here. Unfortunately, I'm married. That's why I just got a nice photo of her and even went back to take a picture with her. She's at W2 Gate 6.

SribeFire Post

2008-07-15T10:11:00.001+08:00

This is the first ScribeFire post. ScribeFire is an Addon of Firefox. I'm using the new FireFox 3 now, by the way. It's faster than its predecessor but it crashed a few times already.

I worked on the translation of Mel's counter statement last night.

The 8-inch thick Sinomax mattress was folded and shuffled under the IKEA Antonius wall mount workbench. I slept on it. My arms had a hard time moving around.

2008-03-30T23:00:00.000+08:00

The Kite Runner is a really great movie. I love it. Highly recommended. It's the atonement and redemption kind of movies.

2008-03-08T10:37:00.000+08:00

Amazingly catchy shop banner. It really makes me laugh when I see it.

2008-03-01T09:59:00.001+08:00

Very minor nasal congestion still exists. I feel great about it, in a way.

I tried to head back to Hunan yesterday night but failed. I figured it wasn't gonna be enough time to get the ticket and to board the train. I'd rather leave today and board the train at leisure.

English Phrase

I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go[come] along for the ride (凑热闹).
The journalists gave the Prime Minister a pretty rough ride (给某人出难题、是某人难受).
Thatcher's visceral (【文】（信仰态度）出自内心的、发自肺腑的) dislike of the European Monetary System.
"Have a nice time, darling," she trilled. (“玩得开心点，亲爱的。”她欢快递高声道。)
trill: 用颤音唱；发出颤音：birds trilling in the trees (在树上鸣啭的鸟)

2008-02-22T00:31:00.000+08:00

In Shanghai on a business trip to talk to LYF's friend who created a fairly successful game that's currently doing well in China. DG, LYF and I are living in the Purple Mountain Hotel.

Met Jasmine and Thomas and their friends tonight at Barbarossa Lounge Shanghai. One is black from Nigeria and his girlfriend from Mongolia. Fascinating foreigners. Aren't they all are? I meant foreigners. There is so much to talk about and so many interesting life stories to hear when you meet foreigners.

Jasmine talked about how womanly (女人味, literally mean "woman odor") the Nigeria friend might have found his Mongolia girlfriend would have had. I said to them that any woman could be womanly without showering for a couple of days. They found this comment funny. I'm glad I contributed some laughter to the gathering tonight.

DG is talking about not showering for tonight. I guess he's going to become manly by tomorrow night.

2008-02-15T02:28:00.000+08:00

Valentine's Day is today. My blithe unconcern to XH's call from Hunan was a mistake. I was not in the mood to chit-chat at the moment she called. I was in the office where it was quite and others can hear what I say.

I tried to call her back later after work and she told me she had to go to shower and no time to chat.

Moody. Sign.

I had these kind of mood swing, too. I don't blame her. Mood swing sounds like an overstatement, seriously.

I made a purchase. I bought a Logitech V470 Bluetooth wireless mouse. I searched it on Taobao and physically travel to the store to pay for it. 355 RMB it was. I was thinking if I should give it as a gift to IT for she said she's gonna take me to Hongkong as her tour guide to pick up the Apple Macbook Air.

Recovering from the cold, I still got minor symptom of nasal congestion.

I created a new label called "expense." I guess the V470 deserves an inauguration of a new label. Talking about expense, yesterday, I gave XM (my wife's brother) 400 RMB to recharge his phone call to make call to his family in Hunan. XH has been telling me for a couple of days how she was unable to reach her brother through phone. XH is young. I don't know how's going to develop into a man. He's still much a kid.

He reminds me of XSS. I wonder how he's going to cope with the society once he got out four years later. I would really hope if there is anything that I can do to help. On the other hand, helping is not a nice way to put it somehow. Who I am to help anyway. I'm just a 30 something man still having trouble cooking a decent meal for myself. I'm not talking about being officious. I'm talking about offering the silly advice that more mature man, such as XSS, may laugh at.

Exactly.

Who am I to advice anyway!

2008-02-14T04:28:00.000+08:00

There exist a certain pattern with catching a cold. The cold that I got isn't really over when I thought it should have been over during the night in Hong kong sleeping at Stanley's place. Today, in the office, my head and body is so heavy that I told DG that I got to leave for home to get some sleep. DG told me to try sleep on his bed. I tried, but I got up after an hour for the flimsy quilt could hardly keep me warm. Nonetheless, the hour of sleep recharged me. I got back to work. I kept myself sober and sane till 5pm and the cold symptom strike again.

castigate
verb [T] FORMAL
to criticize someone or something severely:
Health inspectors castigated the kitchen staff for poor standards of cleanliness.
Martina castigated her boyfriend for not remembering her birthday.

eyrie
noun [C]
1 (MAINLY US aerie) the nest of an eagle or other large bird which eats meat, usually built in a high, distant place
2 a room or apartment that is high up in a building:
I interviewed the chairman of the company in his seventh-floor eyrie.

chicanery
noun [U] FORMAL
clever, dishonest talk or behaviour which is used to deceive people:
The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.

2008-02-12T00:55:00.000+08:00

I went to Hong Kong for grandmother's 97th birthday dinner gathering. Cousin Stanley announced his plan for the weddings which may take place on July 2008. Dad and I slept in their Kornhill apartment living room. It faces the mountain side of the Tai Tam Country Park. Cousin Stanley's fiancée, interesting, opined the gift of expensive flower boutique during Valentine's Day, which is imminent. If cousin Stanley were planning to send her the flowers, she'd rather get the equivalent cash amount instead of getting the gift of flowers.

I slept on my back with the head tilted backward and sometimes slept sideway to palliate the buildup of mucus inside the nasal passages. The nasal congestion symptom reached its peak during the beginning of the night.

2008-02-09T22:02:00.000+08:00

Runny nose. The recent days were freezing cold. I googled and found people are actually practicing a so-called nasal irrigation (Youtube video)! It's fascinating! I'd have to try it sometimes once I get a hand on that pot!

I hanged out with IT these couple of days. We talked a lot. The vibe is good. However, I sense that we've lost touch with most of our local peer friends. I started my own family. She got promoted and was given more responsibilities. She said that the mind seemed to start to think differently when one is in the position of a manager. Positioning is the key to define one's duty; and in turn, the duty defines what and how she thinks and reacts to things around her. I think one may perform a manager's duty once he or she is given proper training on how to become one. Even those whom didn't have the privilege to be trained by professionals, practice makes perfect once he or she is in the managerial position for a certain period of time.

2008-02-08T12:03:00.001+08:00

Blogger's labeling seems useful, but having all the key phrase and keywords adding into the labels for this post seems a bit tedious and the right column looks awful after a few editions of the keywords and after they pile up. Perhaps I'd have to treat the label as topics instead.

Waked up 11:30am this morning. The word that I'm going to learn today is beset and at the coalface.

beset
adjective [after verb]
troubled (by); full (of):
With the amount of traffic nowadays, even a trip across town is beset by/with dangers.

at the coalface UK
doing the work involved in a job, in real working conditions, rather than planning or talking about it:
At the coalface with a deadline looming, you sometimes feel under a lot of pressure.
The new methods will help teachers working at the coalface.
If you work at the coalface, you deal with the real problems and issues, rather than sitting in a office discussing things in a detached way.

2008-02-08T02:22:00.000+08:00

It is the Chinese New Year. Mandy and August is in Hunan. I miss them very much. I watch August's photos on Smugmug almost daily. Mandy told me on the phone that August is getting fatter. The weather in Hunan is freezing cold. I wonder how they can survive without a heater.

2007-11-28T13:40:00.000+08:00

This is the continuation of the blog. I have become a husband and a father. I got married and sired a girl. The baby's name is August.

2006-07-09T14:07:00.000+08:00

Mandy and I went to a ice carving exibition in Guangzhou. I remembered I went to one in Vancouver with SL once. Or was it carol?

2005-12-13T14:30:00.000+08:00

Rump of Freetone, including myself, went to Guangzhou UE Digital Technology Limited.

2005-09-06T23:05:00.000+08:00

The past 2 days I spent time with Ray going to different places in Guangzhou. He's a California man born and raised in Missouri. Now in his sixty. One more meeting to go with him tomorrow morning to South China Normal University (华南师范大学). Today, we've already visited South China University of Technology (华南理工大学). Jasmine Yao 姚昊 lead us to meet Professor Luo Xuechao 骆雪超 (Dean of School of Network Education 网络教育学院).

2005-09-05T11:44:00.000+08:00

SL finally found out my sinister act. She found out yesterday by reading this webpage.
I went to 開平 yesterday with 李燁 and her friends. It was fun.

2005-07-24T17:01:00.000+08:00

我今天和父亲本来约好了去漂流，但是，我们的团临时取消了。后来和他去探望叔叔、婶婶、莉莉姐姐了。莉莉姐姐给了我两张今晚古典音乐的门票，曲目如下，并做了一些调研：

瓦格纳，《纽伦堡的名歌手》序曲

　　《纽伦堡的名歌手》序曲，又名《纽伦堡的名歌手前奏曲》。三幕歌剧《纽伦堡的名歌手》完成于1867年，但其序曲早在1862年便已创作。歌剧的脚本为瓦格纳本人所作，取材于十六世纪德国纽伦堡的一个民间故事。这部作品不仅在瓦格纳的歌剧创作中具有非常特殊的地位，也是歌剧史上最著名的杰作之一。这部歌剧构思的时间很长，所要体现的中心思想几经更迭，在这一过程中它的形象和情节不断深化。

　　因此在瓦格纳后期创作中，这部歌剧显得十分突出。歌剧讲述了青年武士瓦尔特与金饰匠的女儿叶娃相爱，但金饰匠已宣布叶娃只能嫁给圣约翰节歌咏比赛的获胜者。在鞋匠萨科斯的帮助下，瓦尔特战胜了一直垂涎于叶娃而使出卑鄙伎俩的市镇小吏贝克梅塞尔，赢得了叶娃做他的新娘。这部现实主义杰作通过进步的民间艺术同墨守成规的腐朽保守艺术间的斗争，来赞颂民族和人民的理想。它不但鲜明地描绘出十六世纪纽伦堡那些手工业者的习俗和风尚，表明他们对祖国生趣盎然和真诚朴实的艺术的热爱，而且对阻碍艺术发展的那些眼光狭碍、成见很深的批评家进行了强烈抗议和辛辣的嘲讽。瓦格纳在这部歌剧中倾注了自己全部感情和心血，正如他自己所说的那样，他写作这部作品"有时高兴得发笑，有时则失声痛哭。"

　　歌剧的序曲实际上是第一幕的前奏曲，它那宽广的复调发展和铜管乐器占优势的音响，辉煌灿烂的气势，给人留下了洋溢着生命力的欢跃、雄伟的印象，充满了"瓦格纳风格"。

　　乐曲采用了奏鸣曲式，C大调，中速，4/4拍。首先由整个乐队奏出英武庄重的"名歌手主题动机"，表现了以萨科斯等十二位名歌手为代表的、尊严自恃的德国的市民形象（片段1）。随后，长笛和双簧管依次在高音区奏出流丽抒情的旋律，表现了瓦尔特与叶娃的纯洁而真挚的爱情（片段2）。以铜管乐器为主奏的辉煌的进行曲随后而至，描绘了名歌手们精神焕发的行进队列（片段3）。后面还引用了许多歌剧中的动机，音乐极为丰富。最后在充满乐观情绪的高潮中结束。

柴科夫斯基，D大调小提琴协奏曲

　　作于1878年。是柴科夫斯基最著名的作品之一，与贝多芬的D大调、门德尔松的e小调、勃拉姆斯的D大调小提琴协奏曲并称为世界四大小提琴协奏曲。这首乐曲的特色不但充分发挥了主奏小提琴绚烂的近代演奏技巧，展开了色彩丰富的管弦乐，造出了比以往的小提琴协奏曲更新鲜的韵味，而且用他含有俄国民谣的地方色彩，独特的充满哀愁的优美旋律，作成了格调新颖、独特的作品。

　　由于这首乐曲是柴科夫斯基受到了拉罗作曲的《西班牙交响曲》的激发而作的，所以我们可以很容易地看出，两者之间有着共通的构想。这部小提琴协奏曲是一部欢快、活泼、充满青春气息的作品，它歌唱青春，歌唱生命，表现了俄罗斯人民的乐观主义精神。这首乐曲当初相当不受世人欢迎，然而历史最终证明这是一首绝无仅有的音乐杰作，在音乐舞台上久演不衰，成为许多著名小提琴家的保留曲目。

　　全曲共分三个乐章：

　　第一乐章，中庸的快板，D大调，4/4拍子，奏鸣曲形式。规模宏大的第一乐章表现了生活的乐趣。具有俄罗斯民间音乐的宽广气息和明朗悠扬的诗意。其主部主题具有动人的歌唱性，体现了俄罗斯歌曲宽广动人的气息，仿佛在歌唱青春、生命和大自然（片段1）。

　　第二乐章，短歌，行板，g小调，3/4拍，三段体。其沉思般的抒情，被称为“小抒情曲”。主要旋律真挚动人，略带伤感。仿佛从远处传来一阵悠扬的歌声，使人嗅到了大自然清新的气息（片段2）。

　　第三乐章，终曲，活泼的快板，D大调，2/4拍子，回旋奏鸣曲形式。主题令人有俄国风激烈地敲击之感，是属于俄国民俗舞曲特雷巴克的一种。以很强的节奏，快活地进行，宛如一幅人民欢庆节日的图画（片段3）。

勃拉姆斯，c小调第一交响曲
　　
　　c小调《第一号交响曲》，勃拉姆斯虽然只写了四首交响曲，但仍被称为是贝多芬以后最伟大的交响曲作曲家之一。他的《第一号交响曲》被世人称为《第十号交响曲》。所谓“第十号”乃是指本曲续接于贝多芬“不朽的九大交响曲”之后，成为第十首著名交响曲之意。乐曲中充满了斗争、烦恼、苦闷、失意、喜悦等人间七情六欲的交织，是遍历人世沧桑者最伟大的精神安慰，也是勃拉姆斯留给世人的精神至宝。有趣的是，勃拉姆斯故意在本交响曲的最后一个乐章中引用了贝多芬《第九交响曲》中“欢乐颂”的曲调，不负其《第十号交响曲》之美名。

　　本曲的作曲一共花了二十一年的时间（1855－1876），完成时，勃拉姆斯已经四十三岁。本交响曲的写作之所以耗时长久，并不是因为作曲者忙于其他作曲工作，而是他态度十分慎重。勃拉姆斯本来就很严谨，在交响曲创作方面更是如此。他立志：要写便写出能和“不朽的九大交响曲”并驾齐驱的作品，以不辱前人风范。所以他不惜半生的推敲、琢磨，才写出了这首能和贝多芬交响曲相提并论的，登峰造极、光芒万丈的巨作。

　　全曲共分四个乐章：

　　第一乐章近似如歌的行板，快板，c小调，6/8拍子。序奏以强音开始，表现出恐怖紧张的气氛。给人以悲剧序幕的感觉。其主题贯穿于整个乐章。而主部主题始终以一种胜利昂扬的姿态凌驾于乐队阴沉的背景之上（片段1）。

　　第二乐章持续的行板，E大调，3/4拍子，带有类似第一乐章的寂寥阴暗的悲剧色彩（片段 2）。但它并不流于感伤，反而给人以高雅、与众不同的脱俗之感。

　　第三乐章温雅而略快的快板，降A大调，2/4拍子。根据贝多芬以来的传统，一般交响曲的第三乐章都是活泼的诙谐曲，而勃拉姆斯却不采用此种手法，并且避免袭用古老而传统的小步舞曲，自创新风格写成了典雅的乐曲（片段3）。在本乐章中，可以深深体会到勃拉姆斯那淳朴心灵的寄托所在，然而旋律间同样荡漾着淡逸的寂寞感。

　　第四乐章不快而灿烂的快板，C大调，4/4拍子。勃拉姆斯在最后的乐章中，终于唱出了胜利的凯歌。但它不像贝多芬第五号交响曲"英雄性"的终乐章那样，直率地表现出沸腾的欢呼，而是在欣喜之余，还沉湎于回顾与冥想之中。（片段4）。

2005-07-10T17:32:00.000+08:00

生存大挑战的人和我在聊天。呵呵！看到？

At the same moment, I was reading Friendster's message left by carol, in respond to a message I had left her earlier to greet her happy birthday on 7th of July. Her message goes as follows:

Hey Eric,Thank you, and belated Happy Birthday to you too! My number has
changed, to xxx-xxx-xxxx. The number you quoted is cancelled. I'm actually
writing this message at the Korean Incheon airport, since I'm waiting for my
next flight back to Vancouver. Hope things are well with you.
I spent my birthday in China this year with a whole bunch of people I first met. We went as a group for World Vision to visit sponsored children, and they were soooo adorable! It's by far the most meaningful birthday I've ever had. And yes, I am officially 30....aaaarrrggghhhh!
Oh, some news, I'm getting married next year in May. Finally settling down, even me.....heeeheee. Anyhow, take care, and we'll talk again!

Well, as you can see, I am not exactly thrilled for her as I would have for any of my other friends. She's not just a friend but a special someone who's still occupying a hidden corner of my heart. This message makes me think about my relationship with SL. I talked to her on the phone, confessed my confused feeling. My confession surely didn't make her happy. No. She was devastated but calm. I am always hurting someone somewhere sometimes. That's bad. That's really bad. I am not only hurting others but myself, too. That's why it is not cool. And this should rather be stopped soon.

2005-06-19T05:24:00.000+08:00

最近实在很复杂。

things have been really complicated lately. I don't know if I should talk about them now but here it goes. I have been dating serveral girls at the same time without them knowing. I felt like as if I was sinning at first. But I somehow got used to it. That's it for now. Hopefully things may get better. Hopefully, eventually, I may commit to only one girl. I don't like cheating in general. I used to despite people who cheat. But now, here I am... cheating on those whom I claim to love. Am I a sick person or what?! Ohm...

2004-11-02T17:29:00.000+08:00

I've been in MyIM for the 3rd months. Things are happening fast here. I would like to suggest to the management that perhaps we should setup a blogger page for MyIM for me to babble some words on it. carol is coming back to work in Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong the end of October or the the end of November?! I don't really remember. I simply remember that she told me that she was coming back. I thought to myself then that it was really interesting since SL and carol would be both working in Shatin. What's so interesting about this is perhaps I may date carol for lunch and SL for dinner or vise versa.

2004-09-29T11:22:00.000+08:00

今天，I finally get a proxy server configured to allow me to Blog again. So here I am blogging.
I am in 广州. Yesterday, it was Mid-Autumn Festival night. 婶婶叔叔堂姐堂姐夫和来旅游的婶的妈在一起吃了顿晚饭。

2004-09-27T15:00:00.000+08:00

A test again.

2004-09-27T14:54:00.000+08:00

This is a test.

2004-02-28T05:46:00.000+08:00

Make Yourself Invaluable to Your Company and Reap the Monetary Rewards

One key to success in business is to make yourself not just valuable but invaluable (see "Word to the Wise," below) to your boss and your company. To do that, you have to understand the fundamental needs of the business. Leadership consultant Brian Tracy offers a few good tips:

Make a list of your output responsibilities, the things you do that represent accomplishments, not merely activities. Examine the list and prioritize each one based on its value to your company.

Make a list of all your regular daily tasks. Take this list to your boss and ask him to rank each one in terms of how valuable he considers it to be.

Resolve to focus on the responsibilities and tasks that are most important to your boss and your company. Maximize the usefulness of every second of your time, and you'll get more done. It won't go unnoticed.

Word to the Wise: Valuable vs. Invaluable

Something that is "valuable" has significant worth. Something that is "invaluable" has incalculable worth and is therefore priceless -- at least, that's what the dictionary says.

However, we seldom use "invaluable" in exactly that sense. Most often, we use it to mean "so valuable that you cannot do without it."

Today's "Make Yourself Invaluable" brief, above, provides an example: "One key to success in business is to make yourself not just valuable but invaluable to your boss and your company."

Michael Masterson
Copyright ETR, LLC, 2004

2004-02-19T05:08:00.000+08:00

Is Seafood Safe During Pregnancy?

Fish To avoid Freshwater fish:

Yellow perch
White perch
Brook trout
Rainbow trout
Catfish
Carp
Whitefish

Fish To avoid Tropical fish:
barracuda
red snapper

Relatively safe fish are:

Pink salmon
Chum salmon
Sockeye salmon
Flounder
Sole

The fish regarded as most safe are:
Cod 鱈
Haddock 黑線鱈
Pollock 狹鱈

2004-02-12T01:55:00.000+08:00

單身多面睇：見聞篇
井夫（香港性文化學會）
第 2007 期 (2003 年 2 月 9 日) ◎ 真情真性

為難的團契
有一個團契，成員都是單身的青年人，但隨著時日增長，差不多半數的團友都已結婚生子。團契多年來為避免使單身一族有「陪太子讀書」的感覺，刻意在聚會中避開婚姻生活的題目。後來，有已婚團友表示團契未能照顧他們的需要，所以職員會考慮將團契小組分成已婚組別與未婚組別，讓大家各適其適。結果，建議遭否決，原因是如果未婚男女同組，會易生尷尬；但男女分組，又嫌太單調。最後亦只好維持原判，正是左右做人難！

"未婚男女同組，會易生尷尬" is hypocrisy in my French teacher's eyes when I studied in Montreal, Canada. In my first class the first day of school, he criticized that he had never understood why we Chinese male students tended to sit together while the female students sit on the other side of the room when we're given the chance to freely choose our own seats in the classroom, and that when he had been our age, he and his fellow male classmates, in contrast, would have had competed to sit beside female classmates just to get close and to count them. In conclusion, he thought of Chinese youngsters hypocritical... He asked if we have any comment. Some of us tried to defend by saying that the more conservative thinking of Chinese drove us to sit separately... more natural per se....

On the back of my mind, I had since agreed with the French teacher that the self-labelled "conservative thinking" was simply a glamorous alibi for that kind of hypocritical behaviour.

And you know what, perhaps I may find a proof-text to backup my stand: Paul said in Roman Chapter twelve verse nine, "Let love be without hypocrisy."

2004-02-03T14:24:00.000+08:00

TL told me that the selling off of our company is at hand. It makes me think that we may run our separate ways. It should be an exciting moment to finally come to this end -- the materialize, to cash out... whatever you want to call it. But somehow, I just don't feel the rush. The future is unknown. And I'd have to recuperate my creative and adventurous spirit to deal with my next move. I feel that I am a lot less entrepreneurial nowadays. I want to play safe although I must admit that I don't really know how to... And I fear that I don't have the kind of ability to... The very thought of settling down attracts me much though. I don't know what to think, really.

2004-01-28T04:50:00.000+08:00

EL is a contrarian who disdain egoistic hedonism. EL is a movie aficionado. CEO who practices charlatanism to win investors' trust has only a 50/50 percent chance of winning the game.

W.D. Gann's letter to clients from 1928:

"When the time cycle is up, neither Republican, Democrat, nor our good President Hoover can stem the tide. It is natural law. Action equals reaction in the opposite direction."

2004-01-17T07:40:00.000+08:00

Relationship with SL is generally fine. She left for Hong Kong after the Christmas holiday. She seemed to have enjoyed her stay in Vancouver. I wish she may immigrate here so that I may see her a lot more. I really love her. She is a perfect woman for the time of my life now. carol is dating someone in her workplace. I sometimes wonder if her kind of dating style would ever go anywhere in the long run. But since I also believe there is market for any type of personalities, she'd eventually meet her match that may accept and love the real her.
I thought of the many incidences that happened during the dotcom hype period during the last couple of days because I have basically little or nothing to do at work. I remembered the many faces that I met then. I wonder if they might remember me, and if any, how they have remembered me.
Raymond from McNair called me this morning from Hong Kong telling me his desire to have his own business set up. I was not sure if I wanted to encourage him or not. He is not a persistent guy as far as I know. But who am I to judge anyone? I encouraged him and wished him good luck. Entrepreneurship is a very vague term which entails too many factors that I don’t think any self-proclaimed entrepreneur may be able to concisely and accurately defines.
SL and I met Phoebe and Sampson during her stay here in Vancouver. We had lunch together. Phoebe looked great. Sampson looked older for his head is covered with 10-20% white hairs. SL commented him as being a very easy-going and friendly person. I thought so, too. I used to admire Phoebe as a pretty exceptional girl. She was attractive in her own way. She was quite a special girl. I still think so. It is just that I met too many special girls after her that she became special in her own way instead of being uniquely special, if you know what I mean. Or, perhaps I just hate to strip away her specialness for I had truly thought of her as someone special. In other words, I don't want to revoke my verdict. Instead, she became "special in her own way." My seemingly logical bullshit is perhaps a sign of my reluctance to let go of her as being forever my high school sweet friend whom I admire and adore. She was one of a few that fascinated me in my adolescence years.

2003-12-08T06:36:00.000+08:00

I saw 無間道II Infernal Affairs II in a Hongkong style cafe called "Hollywood Steak House" at 8080 Leslie Road 110, Richmond, BC V6X4A8. They have 2 small TVs and a large projection TV. Very boring today. I'd really like to get a car. The freedom of being in control of the destiny is the joy of owning a car. But this physical locale kind of destiny is not something that can really satisfy me. Therefore, I know I cannot really justify the cost of owning a car. The cost of owning a car in a 7-year term would cost me around CAN$800/month. It is not the right thing to own at the moment. I don't really need a car, in other words. What I need is money making opportunity to create residual income for my retirement. There is no way that I am going to retire comfortably with my current monthly income and saving trend. What I also need is investment opportunity to secure my current saving against future inflation.

My girls are born, the world transforms.

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