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Monday, January 19, 2009

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:47:33 GMT

Multi-tasking...............
遲d 要三隻mon 先夠用
唔知做乜放假仲多野做過返學
o 咀....................

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:36:03 GMT

入職投行數月被裁高薪畢業生﹕如夢初醒

(明報)12月19日星期五 05:05

【明報專訊】任職投資銀行曾幾何時是不少大學生的終極夢想﹕月薪5萬，每年花紅抵上數十個月糧，3年後買車仔屋仔娶老婆仔，搏殺十多年後便可退休環遊世界。雷曼兄弟「玩完」，投資銀行神話如流星殞落。美夢驚醒的，除了雷曼事主們，還有今年一畢業就投身i-Bank的John（化名）﹕「好似發咗場夢咁。」

投資銀行出名工時長，訪問當天John下午5時致電記者說可以提早放工﹕「你知唔知點解我今日咁早放工？因為我啱啱畀公司炒咗！」

John今年畢業於某本地大學財務管理學系，8月加入投資銀行企業融資部門。「點解想入i-Bank？首先，我對finance有興趣；第二，只有叻人先入到去；第三係exposure，做落去我會處理幾十億；第四係夠international；最後就梗係reward。我唔敢講幾多錢人工，幾萬啦，出面傳有幾十個月糧嘅bonus係真，做幾年就會有。」

「過五關斬六將才入到」

「……過五關斬六將先入到。我知i-Bank鍾意畢業生有經驗，頭幾年我喺其他銀行做intern（實習），year 3暑假先入到i-Bank做，連intern都要過4關。做完intern我立刻有offer，畢業後8月就返工。」

「當時知道自己有offer都真係幾開心，證明自己屬於叻人一族，努力終有回報。我為咗每一份工都會度身訂做CV同申請信，會搵專家改申請信。由細到大讀名校，風氣好『競爭』，想做嘅嘢就一定要做到。你話i-Banker貪錢？佢哋係幾現實，要知道有利益先會做一件事。錢係重要嘅，我鍾意食嘢，唔一定餐餐高級餐廳，但我會有得揀今日大牌檔，聽日食法國餐。」

聞說行業高風險「聽唔入耳」

「其實舊年已覺得個市唔好，但無諗過會咁差……曾經有一刻閃過自己會被裁，但好快會諗，要裁到應屆畢業生就真係好差，無人會估得到海嘯會咁急咁勁。個部門呢排一路裁緊人，點知今日到我喇。不過又唔會覺得世界末日，人工咁高，一直都有儲蓄嘅，不過都開始煩搵工，想試返finance啦，大公司的 MT（見習經理）係底線，無可能搵細公司。」

「好似發咗場夢咁，但係好夢定噩夢要幾十年後先知。之前我都有掙扎過，究竟份工啱唔啱我？點知未掙扎完已畀人炒咗。其實一直都有人話我知，呢行係高風險高回報，好容易裁員，但聽唔入耳……」明報記者何雪瑩

海嘯浮世繪系列十一

姓名：John

學歷：應屆大學畢業生

工作背景：8月加入投資銀行，訪問當天被裁

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:04:12 GMT

22 June 2008

Thanks so much for cerebrating my birthday. Ami, Clara and Anne.....really thank you guys so much

I am so happy that there is still someone who will remember my birthday and think it is worthwhile to cerebrate it. Although this year I lost the only one person who cerebrated it for me in the past few years, after traveling so much and meeting so many people, I know I am so lucky to live here and have so much experience and exposure of the world. I have to learn how to treasure those people who care about me and stop repeating the same mistake. Now, I understand it is so difficult to find a person who care about me so much, while I think she is the one who can accompany me to face different challengers. Before, I never felt lonely when I traveled and worked alone. I thought I am capable to deal with any situations independently. Now, I really feel the loneness around me. I can’t believe I will miss someone so much.

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Sat, 24 May 2008 10:00:34 GMT

Being busy in traveling around west coast, I have abandoned my blog for nearly a month. I just came back to Hong Kong for nearly a week. As I don't have internet connection in my home, I can only use the free wifi in the public library, which blocks all connections for those messaging software. If you want to contact me for any reasons, simply give me a call.

I had too much memorable time in the State, but too little time to record it down. So I have to start it a month ago.

080428
Finishing my 5 exams in a week, I only had 3 days in UF. There were thousands of farewell parties. The first one was having dinner with others exchange students on Friday.

Our MBA student, Martin, was being troubled by the restaurant manager, because he wanted to get a beer without an ID.

Do you think he is below 21? haha
The law in America is really straight
Then we go to karaoke. It was so amazing that the latest Chinese song in the list in 玉蝴蝶.......

Friday, April 04, 2008

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:32:30 GMT

Today, Sebastian had his little concert in Orange and Blue.
The music played by them was so great.

Only one month left.......I will miss you guys......
I wish you have a nice trip in China

It is what I have got in these months..

Special technique of having hair cut by myself.
I think it is not too bad. At least better those done by the local barber here.

MLS ( Multiple Lightening System) developed by my roommate, Chris, who is from navy and me.
It is the lamp I used every night................
The living style of him and mind is totally different. He wakes up at 5 am and I sleep at 5.
So, it is the solution

Friday, March 28, 2008

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:08:57 GMT

A strong sense of loneness is surrounding me.
It is not about how often do I hang out with friends and how many friends do I have.
This feeling just always with me.
Watching the pictures I have taken in this year, I realize I know so many interesting people and traveled so much.
While thinking what I have learned from those experiences, I also realize what I have sacrificed.
Sometimes I will think of the memorable moment in high school......
Be tough.......

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:36:36 GMT

After I have been the state, many people discussed politics with me.
They asked if the China government captured people with different opinions and brain washed them. My answer is "I don't know". What I know is capturing people can not change what they are thinking in their mind. However, there are many ways to achieve that instead. Let's see................

See, good presentation skill. Everyone in the world throught the man had been killed by the indifferent tank, so as thousands of bare-handed protestors.
See another latest news. Solders entering Tibet to combat against the the riots.
See the picture used by CNN, the solders are pretty horrible. They are scaring away those protestors.

Actually, no one is fear of them.
Prison or violence don't brain wash people effectively. If you want to brain wash someone, you should learn from CNN. You have to learn how to do a great show.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:16:58 GMT

Today, after going shopping in Macys

Karuna, Helen and Desiree invited me to Mike's b'day party

Eating time
I miss Hong Kong's food so much
I was so full after the big dinner, but it is really nice
Then we had the karaoke

I haven't sung k for a long time.
The last time I went Karaoke was in secondary 5. Just too busy in work after it....
Miss the secondary school life so much.......

Haha
She is so stuipd
People there were crazy

Many thx for the enjoyable time

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:13:04 GMT

Too busy (or lazy) this couple of days.
Just come back from Emory University, Atlanta, for the Undergraduate Business School Leadership Conference (UBSLC).

It was crazy busy for those three days. Meeting people and attending the conference from 9 to 12. Although it was tiring, but the people in the conference were from the top notch professionals, including the ex-president of Security and Exchange Comission, William Donaldson, students from UPen, NYU, UCLA etc. As I expected, it was so difficult to join the conversation dominated by a group of native English speaker, not to mention coming out a nice idea in the case competition. But it was still an invaluable learning opportunities to work with them.

To solve this problem, what I tried to do was to lead the conversation such that I can control the topic of discussion and sometimes, “kidnapped” one of them for a one to one conversation. The strategy is quite successful. I successfully got some friends. Have fun!!!

The food there is really gorgeous.

After the conference, I traveled around Atlanta. I went to the aquarium and CNN. Claiming the biggest aquarium in the world, the aquarium was not as big as I thought actually. I love Ocean Park’s more.

But the CNN tour was so nice. A lot of behind the scene technologies were demonstrated in it. What a pity. Photography was prohibited. So I just have the picture outside it.

In fact, I don’t really like Atlanta. There were people asking you for money on every street. They were not beggars as they were mostly tall and strong blacks (I am not discriminating them. It is just a fact). Some people say public transport in US is for the poorly only. That’s true. Only black, not even one white, and I were using the subway and sometimes all of them were staring at me. My friend told me not going out after 6. It is really scary there.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:25:29 GMT

25 Dec
It was the date I left from Hong Kong to NYC for my one semester advanture. It took me 13hr to travel from HKG to San Francisco and 6 more hours to NYC. Luckily, the flight leaving HKG was delayed due to technical problems and the airline upgrade my ticket to business class for the trip from San Francisco to NYC. After tasting the wine and delicious food, I was drunk and slept on the big chair till I arrived NYC.............. Thanks for Pan picking me up at the airport. Otherwise, it would be a big challenge for a drunk man to move the 100+ pound luaguage to hotel.