响应观众（其实就是我家太后）要求出来吱一声。最近人气下滑搏客长草更新了也不知道给谁看。

 

其实不更新是好事，大家都知道。最近过的状态有点像training那会儿，周末巨累然后周一到周五休息……过去的周末累的老娘我快爬不起来了：周五晚上先在满江红大吃一顿，然后在朋友家玩一个伤害无数脑细胞的游戏三国杀；周六爬起来说去奥海城吃饭，走在路上就变成又一城了，逛了一会觉得反正都来到这里了，不如去大围骑车吧，后来再一想既然都到了大埔了，不如去深圳吧……于是乎就一群人非常莫名的去了深圳，吃了大闸蟹，看了画皮，做了按摩， 折腾到半夜才回来；周日起来居然还动得了，继续和朋友去跳健美操，买了点花花草草，回来以后摆弄了一会新买的照片打印机，又亲自煮了一顿6个人的晚饭……我整个就一个钢铁战士啊我！

 

周末生活的总结如下：

- 画皮还是挺好看的，至少在两个字中国古装大片中算是比较靠铺的。教训是以后看这种悲情电影千万不能和V同学去看……此人从头笑到尾，害得我差点搬个牌子出来澄清我不认识这个丢人的家伙……

- 李锦记真是妇女之友！在李同学的帮助下本人的厨艺飞速见长，让V同学大为惊叹。唉我真是向着marriable woman的方向大步迈进阿~强烈推荐李氏的卤水鸡汁，蒸鱼酱油和麻婆豆腐酱~

- 老娘我还是挺年轻的，尤其是在进行了骑车这项运动之后简直觉得自己就是一个十几岁的小姑娘，不过这种幻觉很快在第二天跳操的时候被我们那未满16的教练彻底粉碎

- 照片打印机那是相当的好玩！大闸蟹也是相当的好吃啊~

 

番外：最近莫名的脸上身上发疹子，跑去看了个蒙古大夫花了我1000多银子结果还是没查出来什么毛病，幸好我英明神武换了个医生人家一眼就看出来了……气得我真想放把火烧了那个赤脚庸医的铺子！不过这个病还真是相当令我哭笑不得，上网查了一下病因说是“多因内有血热,复感风邪,热毒凝结,郁于肌肤,闭塞腠理而发病”，治疗方法除了吃药擦药还要“忌食辛辣鱼腥食物，调情志，避风寒”……我要怎么调情志啊我！！！疯了~

 

 

病名：台剧中毒

 

症状：头痛，眼花，反胃

 

患者：Nana和我

 

病因：连续两天窝在沙发上看命中注定我爱你超过十个小时……

 

治疗方案：没治

 

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不得不说和水母同学还是很有点默契的，居然在互不知情的情况下周末同时在家煲台剧。用水母同学的话说是很久没有看过这么好看的连续剧了，看得眼泪鼻涕汗水直流（据说她家空调坏了）。本姑娘情况稍微好一点，最多就是把空调看得足足的然后抱着被子缩在沙发上……看到激动的时候没地发泄就只能打电话过去狂喷一通，然后再分享一下没日没夜看得快要病倒的心得。真不愧是这么多年的姐妹啊……（听说夏莲同学也痛哭流涕了一周末……姐妹啊姐妹）

 

台剧比起韩剧的优点就是在扯蛋和悲情之余还有一些搞笑的元素，也算是在这种惨淡的时世之下逗自己开心了。可恶的是这连续剧实在太长了，24集还要每集1个半小时，相当于一套48集的韩剧啊……拼了老命还是没法在周末看完，害得今天连上班的心思都没有了，期待着赶紧下班直接冲回家继续！

 

P.S.1.新浪上的专题写的还是蛮搞笑的，尤其是这句：“为什么电视里草根灰姑娘在街上走着走着就可以撞到闪闪发光的钻石王老五，而我们走在街上基本上撞到的都是电线杆？”，相当精辟。其他的请见http://ent.sina.com.cn/v/2008-07-09/11592094096.shtml

 

P.S.2.剧中的主题曲还都蛮好听的，这个元若蓝到底是哪里冒出来的？背景音乐更新为《半情歌》。顺便鄙视一下对于大中午就跑去K歌的SLA同学！

 

P.S.3.有一句对白还算蛮有智慧的：幸福，如履薄冰。

 

P.S.4.上海的Hytte on the bund太赞了！无论如何也要住一次！现在开始攒Hytte积分！

 

 

 

 

 

十年了，我还记得。祝你生日快乐。

 

 

 

 

一觉起来地球又变了。地球是圆的这东西很奇妙，这边睡得像死猪一样那边在翻天覆地的救世。可怜的雷曼兄弟这次就成了美国人祭刀的牺牲品了，谁让你是个小银行呢？这个故事教育我们，一定要做大做强。

 

葛老说得好，it's probably a once in a century event. 再加上之前大地震，911之类的百年不遇事件，我们真是赶上了黄金时代。

 

 

一夜之间，世界都变了…… A day to be remembered in history

 

Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman Totters, Merrill Seeks Buyer, AIG Hunts for Cash, U.S. Opts to Avoid Lehman Rescue, Stirring a Momentous Weekend for American Finance; Traders Brace for a Chaotic Monday

By CARRICK MOLLENKAMP, SUSANNE CRAIG and SERENA NG
September 15, 2008

The American financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. faced the prospect of liquidation, and Merrill Lynch & Co. was close to a deal to sell itself to Bank of America Corp.
The U.S. government, which bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a week ago and orchestrated the sale of Bear Stearns Cos. to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in March, played much tougher with Lehman. It refused to provide a financial backstop to potential buyers.
Without such support, Barclays PLC and Bank of America, the two most interested buyers, walked away. On Sunday night, Bank of America was close to striking a deal to buy Merrill Lynch for about $44 billion, or $29 a share. Lehman was working on a possible bankruptcy filing that would allow most of its subsidiaries to continue operating as the firm is wound down.
A sense of foreboding gripped Wall Street as top executives feared collateral damage from a Lehman liquidation. Attention turned to Merrill Lynch, which boasts the largest force of retail brokers, and to American International Group Inc., the insurance giant. Both firms have seen their stocks get hammered, and their managements spent the weekend trying to come up with plans to reassure the markets.
"Monday will be a day of reckoning for the financial markets," said Carlos Mendez, senior managing director of ICP Capital, a boutique investment firm in New York. On Sunday, he said, "it was like a fire alarm went off and people ran in all directions."
AIG executives spent the weekend trying to raise cash, either from asset sales or a capital infusion from private-equity firms, or both. AIG executives were meeting with regulators to see if they could transfer capital from some of its subsidiaries to the holding company.
As worries spread across Wall Street that Lehman wouldn't survive, brokerage firms, hedge funds and other traders moved to disentangle themselves from trades with Lehman. When hopes of a potential sale dimmed, a quiet Sunday on Wall Street turned into a mad rush. Executives and traders hurried to their offices or worked their phones to unwind outstanding contracts with Lehman and to gauge their overall exposure.
Merrill, whose brokerage force is known as the "thundering herd," quietly engaged in discussions with Bank of America, which has retail bank branches stretching from coast to coast and has long coveted Merrill. Wall Street executives said the Federal Reserve may be involved in orchestrating the sale, figuring that it was "better to save the relatively healthy patient instead of the dying one," said a lawyer involved in the discussions.
"We are in uncharted waters here," said a top executive of a big bank. "If Merrill can pull off a deal this weekend, that would certainly help."
The U.S. dollar, which had strengthened in the past few weeks, fell against all four of its major rivals on Sunday -- the euro, the Swiss franc, the U.K. pound and the Japanese yen.
Some executives involved in the Lehman discussions held out hope that an 11th-hour reprieve would materialize. Under one scenario aimed at limiting the ripple effects of Lehman's demise, a group of about 15 banks were in discussions Sunday to pool about $100 billion, which would be used to buy assets of the battered securities firm, according to one person familiar with the situation. Details were being finalized Sunday night. One possibility is that the Federal Reserve will support the move by opening its wholesale-borrowing window and relaxing collateral requirements for borrowers.
How long will it be before the financial sector is stabilized, and what will it take to help bring that about? How should investors respond in the meantime? Share your thoughts.Lehman, a 158-year-old firm that started as an Alabama cotton brokerage, and Merrill, with its trademark bull logo, have been pillars of Wall Street for much of the past century. With the demise of Bear Stearns, three of the Street's five major independent brokers could end up disappearing, leaving only Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley.
"We have never seen anything like this," said analyst Glenn Schorr, who covers the investment banks for UBS AG. "There have been tough situations like Long-Term Capital Management and the crash of 1987, but the problem here is there is leverage in the securities under the microscope and in the banks that own them. And to try and unwind it all at once creates a one-way market where there are only sellers, and no buyers."
The convulsions could lead to even tighter credit, higher borrowing costs and moribund capital markets, as securities firms and commercial banks try to further limit risk and preserve capital. Those moves could cause the U.S. economy to slow further.
The future of about 25,000 employees at Lehman and an additional 60,000 at Merrill is up in the air. Lehman's work force already has shrunk by about 3,000 in the past year. If the firm essentially goes out of business, most of the remaining employees are likely to lose their jobs. That would deal another blow to New York City's economy, resulting in lower tax revenues on personal income, real-estate transactions and corporate income.
The damage on Wall Street is the latest consequence of a storm that began last year with the sharp decline in American housing prices and losses on loans and other assets tied to home values. Massive capital infusions have failed to stem write-offs and losses, and financial firms are running out of options to escape the damage.
Regulators and others were preparing for a hectic Monday. The New York Stock Exchange prepared contingency plans over the weekend to reassign the approximately 200 blue-chip stocks that Lehman's specialist unit trades, according to people familiar with the matter. If Lehman is forced into liquidation, the exchange will likely transfer the stocks to one or more of the remaining specialist firms, most likely using the same technology and staff that currently trade the stocks.
Dozens of Wall Street desks have trades with Lehman. As word spread that the Barclays deal was falling apart, worries that the company could be thrown into bankruptcy mounted, and traders labored to get out of those over-the-counter contracts.
At approximately 2:30 p.m., government officials hosted a call, and a trading session was opened to ease fears. One trader said it was agreed that other brokers would pick up contracts that trading desks have with Lehman. If Lehman does open on Monday, the deals struck on Sunday, often at a worse price, would be void. "It is utter chaos here," the trader said.
Credit-derivative traders at many Wall Street firms were told to come to work immediately. With many trading desks open, investors rushed to buy credit-default swaps tied to other brokerages and corporations, sending the cost of protection on investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and others sharply higher.
In a statement Sunday, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, a trade group whose members include many large dealers, said a "netting trading session" which took place between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday to allow Lehman's counterparties to offset their derivatives positions against each other.
"The purpose of this session is to reduce risk associated with a potential Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy filing," it said. It added that trades conducted during this period "are contingent on a bankruptcy filing on or before 11:59 p.m. New York time" on Sunday. If no filing takes place, the trades will be canceled, ISDA said.
Many Wall Street firms concluded that a liquidation of Lehman's assets likely would proceed in an orderly fashion, people familiar with the situation said. That means other firms could quickly buy real estate, securities and other investments, preventing the assets from flooding the market. Because of that, these people said, some participants in the New York Fed talks decided that liquidation was no worse an option than selling Lehman to a buyer such as Barclays PLC.
"There will be an orderly wind down," said one banker involved in the matter. "This was the default option. It happens when you have no buyer."
The outside firms decided that instead of making guarantees for Barclays or some purchaser of Lehman, they would prefer to pool their resources and buy the assets themselves, taking on the risks and carrying costs, along with the possibility of profiting down the road.
Those firms would likely then buy assets such as mortgage-backed securities, leveraged loans, private-equity positions and investments in real estate or hedge funds.

 

午间新闻听了20分钟全是各地的灾难新闻，摘选新浪标题如下：

 

俄一架波音客机坠毁88人遇难 死者包括21名外国人

 

 

艾克飓风过境 美国得州展开最大规模搜救

 

三鹿承认700吨婴幼儿奶粉遭污染 召回8月6日前产品

 

 

严重鄙视光偷窥不留言的人！

 

回家闭关去了~希望不要被海啸冲走~

 

 

 

不知道从什么时候开始就觉得自己老了，然后就开始老的一发不可收拾。

 

上周末和几个姑娘学年轻人去夜店，欢快的蹦了一晚上。结果第二天一整天就在双腿发软头痛欲裂的宿醉状态中度过，再加上运动过度导致的肌肉酸痛，差点就直接废了。

 

在printer熬了三天外加一个all nighter，完全就是要了我老人家的小命。看来自己真得差不多是到了该退休养老的时候了，这种不是人的日子真不是人过的啊。

 

趁着turn new draft的时候溜出去做按摩，那个按摩的叔叔一个劲的念叨说干了这么多年，很少看到你这么肩颈劳损的啊……我容易么我！

 

问：如何辨别一个third year analyst和一个first year analyst?

答：比较bitchy的那个当然是third year lah~

 

虚弱的带着一颗bitchy的心飘走……

 

 

 

在Printer耗了一天。好久没有这么忙过，一整天下来腰都快折了。人就像一部机器，太久没用就生锈了，再加上加速折旧，用多少maintainance capex都没用。

 

最近花钱太多，基本上可以用鲜血淋漓来形容。这个月开始要缩衣节食了，自己挣点血汗钱不容易，没人养活的人就是惨。

 

公司来的新同事，在电梯口撞上，第一眼就看见左手中指上的钻石戒指闪闪发光。最近越发觉得自己没有希望了，看人老是第一眼就往左手的那两个手指上望……

 

周四开始演Mama Mia，很想看可是找了一圈发现似乎想找个人一块看都找不到。这日子过得，唉……

 

明天还要早起，@$%@#^$#@^&&%#$%^

 

 

 

 

原来，幸福，真的只是过眼云烟。

 

 

 

第二天算是相当精彩的一天。

 

早上起来吃了个早饭就奔向了Royal Palace和Silver Pagoda。原计划是第一天就去这两个地方的，但懒惰的柬埔寨人民午休时间居然要比祖国还长，从上午11点到下午两点半都歇着，害得我们只能第二天去。幸运的是赶上了一个无比晴朗的好天，蓝天白云加上金碧辉煌的宫殿和满地郁郁葱葱的绿树，不用构图都是一副美丽绝伦的画，辛苦了我们的相机。给各位性感美女的忠告是不要穿太短的裤子或裙子，不然就要被迫围上一块破布才能进去了。

 

从皇宫出来直奔机场。程搭暹粒航空的FT994飞向暹粒（1225/1315）。飞机是一排只有4个座的螺旋桨小飞机，建议有心脏病的朋友可以考虑选择陆路和水路。到达暹粒机场后就见到了金边司机大哥的朋友，举着个牌子来迎接我们，搞得像个贵宾似的。

 

在暹粒住的是Le Meridien酒店，据说是战略性的占据了最靠近Angkor Wat景区的地理位置。除了Le Meridien之外暹粒还是有很多非常不错的酒店的，比如同属Raffles旗下的Raffles Grand Hotel d' Angkor, 隶属Small luxury hotel旗下据说非常不错的Hotel De La Paix，比较boutique一点的就有Shinta Mani（只有18个房间），我深爱的FCC旗下的FCC Angkor以及同属Hotel De La Paix集团管理的The One Hotel Angkor（只有4个房间）。个人最喜欢的当然就是Hotel De La Paix和The One Hotel Angkor了，冲着这两个酒店都值得再来一次。

 

放下行李就直冲Shinta Mani酒店的餐厅吃饭。行前就听朋友强烈推荐了这家餐厅，果然名不虚传，号称是暹粒最好的餐厅也不为过。由于我们吃饭的时间比较晚，整个餐厅又一次被我们整个包下来了。点了个号称柬埔寨国菜的amok，其实就是椰青装的青咖喱鱼。不过味道还是相当不错的，再配上一杯冰冻的Angkor beer那简直是相当的享受。

 

酒足饭饱之后就开始了下午的旅程。吴哥的景点很分散，买一张通票可以去逛所有的景点。通票分为1天，3天和7天的，如果不是疯狂的考古爱好者，建议买个3天的就够了。卖票的地方距离吴哥窟比较近，搞得导游经验丰富司机叔叔一个劲的后悔说应该先买票再吃饭……

 

根据Leona小朋友的行程安排我们下午先去了位于东南方向的Roluos group，包括Pheah Ko，Bakong和Lolei。这几个庙比较小，但是最早修建的寺庙之一，号称标志着高棉古典艺术时代的开始……这三个庙基本上1个小时就逛完了，然后我们就一路南下到了Tonle Sap Lake。这个湖是柬埔寨最大的湖，从金边一直连到暹粒，所以如果走水路的话应该就是从这个湖上过来。在暹粒这边有个floating village，就是一群比较穷苦的人民生活在船屋里，然后莫名的就成为了一个旅游景点，很多人弄条船就带着游客们参观。个人对这种东西并不是特别感冒，只能说日落的景色还是挺不错的。夕阳洒在湖面上有一种鳞光闪闪的效果，再落下去整个天就成了红色的，兴奋得两位团友疯狂的照相……

 

从湖边回到市里已经天黑了，正好就可以去逛逛night market。尽管卖的东西也是大同小异，和泰国越南之类的差不多，但这个night market应该我见过的最well-organized的night market，特别开辟出来的一块地方，整齐而不脏乱，中间还有一个open area是个小酒吧，颇有点意思。在night market里看到一个小店在卖照片，黑白的寺庙背景中有穿着橙色僧服的僧人，漂亮得让人窒息。这些照片是一个来自澳洲的女摄影师照的，据说是2004年第一次来柬埔寨后，就决定放弃自己在澳洲的婚纱摄影工作，来到柬埔寨帮助一些当地穷苦的人。这个女人设立了一个叫做Helping Hands Cambodia的组织，然后把卖照片的钱用在这个组织上。看到这个女人突然就觉得很感动，发现这个世界上还是有很多人并不只是为自己而活着，而是本着一颗单纯而善良的心去帮助别人。自问肤浅如我应该是做不到这一点的，不过还是很冲动的把她所有的照片都买了一套，算是略表一下心意了。建议有心人士可以上她的网站看看：www.grovesphotography.com or www.helpinghandscambodia.com

 

从night market疯狂扫货出来就到了觅食的时候。在车上的时候Leona小朋友与司机叔叔用半生不熟的英语费劲的交流了半天，据说一家叫Red piano的餐厅不错，曾经是2004年最好的餐厅，于是就决定去考察一下。事实证明2004年最好的餐厅到了2008年就很不行了，基本上就是一个骗鬼佬的地方。叫了杯号称signiture的cocktail "tomb raider"，结果就是一杯柠檬水；叫了一份spaghetti "red piano"，结果就是一盘spaghetti carbonara，不过凭心而论还是一盘水平相当高的spaghetti carbonara，害得我很肥胖的把一盘全吃了……肥婆就是这样养成的。

 

饭后顺着bar street往下走，发现整条街基本上就是一个柬埔寨版的三里屯，不过档次和格调明显要高很多，看着每一家都想进去。考虑到时间有点早，做为捏脚爱好者的我就率领大家就先去了Islands Traditional Khmer massage（这可是一家全国连锁店呢，在金边和暹粒都有分舵）享受一下8美元的脚底按摩，完了以后就钻进了一家叫Temple的酒吧，点了一大扎奇便宜无比的成分类似long island ice tea的饮品（貌似也就几美金），然后醉醺醺的结束了第二天的旅程。