上班以后第一次真正的旅行，公事还是有一大堆。一下飞机后马上打开Blackberry, 通常情况下刚开机需要十几秒钟才会收到所有的邮件。我看着屏幕闪啊闪啊，“未读邮件”的数字不断地往上窜，3封，5封，10封，20封…看得我血压也不断上爬. 在加拿大海关排队的时候，我手忙脚乱地拎着我的滑雪板和行李，左手拿着护照，右手一边拿着Blackberry听着我们的电话会议。

 

在温哥华走来走去的第一个感觉就是在这里生活太好了! 我本来就喜欢海滨城市,酒店在市中心,港口就在旁边.早上起来听着海鸥的声音特别舒服. 温哥华的魅力在于它一面是海,一面是山. 走在哪里都可以看到北面的落基山脉白雪皑皑. 有人说过, 住在海滨城市的人,性格温和,生活追求舒适而不是喜欢拼命的那种. 曼哈顿虽然是个海岛, 但是四周高楼林立, 走到哪里都逃不出水泥森林, 在里面生活的人, 更逃不出这个纸醉金迷. 住在温哥华的人,冬天滑雪,夏天在海上玩滑浪风帆,沙滩上晒太阳,真是太羡慕了.

 

如果说纽约是世界各种文化的熔炉,我觉得温哥华把熔炉的概念提升到了另一个层次. 纽约虽说人种繁多, 但是还是以白人为主流,上流社会的圈子里是很少很少有亚洲人的.但是这里,中国人,尤其是香港人的地位,并不亚于白人,而且据说加拿大的有钱人都是亚洲人,这就形成了不同的社会观念. 而且走在路上感觉混种族情侣好像比纽约还多.

 

签证的事情办得很顺利,明天就可以拿到,希望星期三公司没有什么事情我就能去滑雪了,哈哈!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Currently practicing this one (the one that's playing), really like it

 

 

 

 

Well...while there really isn't much to update, I still feel bad about not writing for such a long time. First semester of senior year went by in a flash and I didn't even have time to reflect. I was terribly home-sick for a while before end of the semester, I missed everything about home, the food, the family, the shops, anything, but once i got here, there really isn't much to do around Shenzhen, now I am officially bored, BORED...went to the nice spa for a treatment today, the same type experience [See Women and Self-Conscious Monkeys], shopped for three days straight, eating out for EVERY MEAL! ...

 

I need some time for myself. I had one truly relaxing day since I got back. I woke up at 9 am, browsed online, read novels, snacked on fruits all day, played the piano for the entire afternoon. It felt refreshing. Sometimes it is frustrating that everytime when I come back, there are endless people to meet, endless dinners with my Mom's friends, endless conversations to have...

 

Oh well...this is part of HOME, the chaos, the massive people, the noise, and I am sure as hell that I will miss all these again soon when I get back.

 

大四的第一个学期就在慌乱中匆匆过去了，有时候总是想总结总结，写点比较有深度的话，但是还没想出来就要开始考虑其它的事情了。好像总是有忙不完操心不完的东西，不知道什么时候才能过上真正的腐朽糜烂的生活。。。

 

在波多黎各的一个很美丽的海岛上，有一天晚上我们躺在海滩上。没有人烟没有城市的海岛，天是伸手不见五指的漆黑。那是真叫满天繁星啊，躺在那里，突然觉得自己很渺小。以前孙辉和我讲外星人的事情，我从来没有怎么多想过。但是就在那一刻，突然就得我们只是这个宇宙的趋近于零的单位，地球的几亿年，可能就是别人眨眼的一瞬间。

 

而我的那些自认为让人十分烦恼的屁事儿，更是微不足道了。

Tall Boots! Riding Boots style! Jimmy Choo $895...我无语

 

 

 

我宿舍冰箱里有10个鸡蛋，刚好一天一个，等把鸡蛋吃完了，也就到了回家的日子了。

I have 10 eggs in my fridge, just enough for one each day, when I finish all the eggs, I will be leaving for my sweet home.

 

It was the most exciting vacation ever! Spending the first three days getting drunk and the next three days lying on the most beautiful beach. Skydiving on the last day was definitely the highlight of the trip.

 

 

Sweet, this makes me want to do my third year in London even more.

 

London Bonuses May Be 8.8 Billion Pounds, CEBR Says (Bloomberg)

By Julia Werdigier

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- London's investment bankers and hedge-fund managers may earn a record 8.8 billion pounds ($16.7 billion) in bonuses this year, more than Iceland's gross domestic product, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research Ltd.

Bonuses in London's financial district, known as the City, are increasing as mergers and acquisitions reached a record this year and buyout firms are raising bigger funds than ever. The payments may climb 18 percent from 7.4 billion pounds in 2005, CEBR said.

``Looking forward, City bonuses are likely'' to rise, though at a slower growth rate, as private-equity firms and hedge funds ``find their U.S. home markets saturated and are increasingly looking for opportunities on this side of the pond,'' Jonathan Said, senior economist at CEBR in London, said in an interview.

Man Group Plc, the world's largest hedge-fund company, more than tripled inflows in the first quarter and buyout firms have raised more than $160 billion for new funds this year, according to Private Equity Intelligence Ltd. Total earnings for the top five U.S. securities firms, including Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch & Co., through the first nine months was $21.4 billion, surpassing the full-year record of $20.4 billion in 2005.

Million-Pound Bonuses

About 4,200 people working for financial services and law firms in London may each receive a bonus of more than 1 million pounds, up from about 3,000 people a year earlier, CEBR said.

``This shows the extent to which big banks and fund companies are trying to win talent over,'' Said said.

Investment bankers have advised on a record $2.82 trillion of takeovers worldwide this year, with 49 percent of those acquisitions involving a European company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The 12-member AMEX Broker/Dealer Index, which includes Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., has gained 19 percent this year.

The number of hedge-fund managers, corporate lawyers, bankers, accountants and others working in the financial industry in London may have increased to a record 335,000 this year from 324,000 in 2005, CEBR said. Accounting firms and other non-financial services companies in the City are adding the most employees, according to the group.

CEBR said it uses mergers and acquisitions data and the value of transactions on the stock exchange as a basis for the bonus forecast.

 

I have been feeling homesick lately...despite my busy schedule and fulfilling life at school.

 

Just read an article Trying Hard to Like India on Slate.com, some of the description of India reminds me a lot of Shenzhen. Although there are parts of the city that are extremely filthy and dangerous, it still feels like home. Whenever I went back, I did need some time to adjust to the very different living environment, but once I pass the period, my initial uneasiness is all melted in that humid and dirty air of Shenzhen.

 

At the end of the article, it describes how some Indians who have been abroad choose to go back:

 

"Terrifying? Yes. But also invigorating. On the train ride up from Goa, I perused a women's magazine (sort of an Indian Cosmo) that we'd bought at a newsstand. The cover story was about women who'd lived abroad—mostly in the United States and Britain—but moved back because they liked India better. All these former NRIs (Non-Resident Indians) had gotten homesick ... for the chaos! Yes, the West was clean and orderly. But that was sort of boring. They missed the hubbub, the craziness, the randomness of India."

 

That's exactly how I feel.

A fun weekend, watched Disney on Ice on Friday night, went shopping at the Leesburg premium outlet two hours away, and hiking on Sunday. The fall foliage is beautiful, had a blast...Pictures coming soon.

 

I love my life.

 

最近很喜欢的一首歌，起初只是喜欢旋律（反正周杰伦的歌一般我也听不懂）看了歌词以后觉得更有共鸣。觉得这么多年来，有许多事情是长大以后才体会到妈妈的用心良苦。把我这样一把屎一把尿拉扯成个人样，想象实在不简单。虽然妈妈不会看我Blog,我只是想在这里表达表达

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