Bleeding

2009.03.28
@New Balance Shop in Times Square

出血事件

下午在时代广场走走，原没有打算购物的，但有些货品减价，最后又出了血，买了东西。

售货员提出，一、我要的码缺货，有女装同款同码的，分别是盒子外有女装的代码，我觉得没问题，试过没问就买了。二、这款有两年历史，所以折扣很深，我当然对旧款没问题。三、我还想试另一对鞋，试后想买，问他会否在暑假前减价，他不肯定，只说有可能，于是我决定先不买。英明神武！

食

时间：2008.03.28 八时
地点：九龙城乐口福（潮菜）
人物：我、酒肉朋友2号、第一夫人、千金

大茶飯和其後

2008.03.28

據説虎太今晚（星期五）在百樂擺壽筵，阿虎說在他們的社群是由壽星人請客，有點特別。無論如何，祝虎太生日快樂... :)

在同一時間，我約了酒肉朋友2號、第一夫人和千金到九龍城樂口福食晚飯。原來九龍城離公司不算很遠，從 QB 乘地鐵到黃大仙，轉紅巴到九龍城只花3元和15分鐘就到。

三大一小點了：

鵝片
蠔餅
白鱔
上湯莧菜
肉碎粥
四個甜品

非常豐富，有點 over config。照片後附。

事後從九龍城漫步到太子，第一夫人和千金看來有點累，先打道回府，我和酒肉朋友2號到差舘對面酒吧喝酒吹水，我回家時已經是十二時半以後。

然後，剛收到羅四海的 st 信息，問是否 sleepless，還有一點點公事。其實我很羡慕他，經常有我在身旁放錢進他口袋，我花了不到2分鐘的時間解釋了什麽是和不是 training，跟 product update 或 enablement 的分別，和跟同事溝通時要分辨 training 和 learning ，重點是 learning 而非 training 等等。可能是我講得太深，有點 overflow 了他的小腦袋，他連忙叫 give me a break。

嘩！真厲害！我是說我...

溫馨提示：大家要好好先學會自己照顧自己，我不能永遠在大家身邊幫忙和提點... :)

又來了：知我心者為我心憂，不知我者謂我何求。

The Economist

I am writing this while I am waiting for Tiger for lunch. It's 12:15am
when I polled him and he asked for 15 min. Let's see when he will show up.

Since then, I went back and cleaned my inbox and come across the weekly
newsletter from The Economist.
_____

I miss the newspaper.

I started the subscription in 1993-1994 for academic reason. My
lecturer of International Political Economy recommended 2 to us: The
Economist and The Far East Economic Journal. I picked the former
because (a) it's more international, and (b) it's less American.

I have been a regular subscriber and reader since then, and I dropped
the subscription around 2 years ago for (1) it's quite heavy in content
and I didn't have time, and (2) I came across better offer for new
subscription. I was very upset about #2 given that I had been a long
time subscriber. I decided not to renew. And at one time, one of the
staff in Asia office did call me, reminded me of the expiry and asked me
for reason of non-renewal. I gave my reason #2 and he said there's
nothing he could do. But indeed, I didn't need him to do anything.

I am still on his weekly newsletter. I will click and read those get my
attention. Not a lot, nor too frequent though.

And this time I saw the article on Heathrow Airport =>

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=10923778

I don't know the airport enough but I must say that I enjoy reading it
in terms of writing style, facts, logic etc. I am not sure if one will
agree with everything (and there's no need) but it's a real pleasure,
particularly when you are hungry and have no other urgent/important
enough matters to attend... :) Or in a more exaggerated way, 15 minutes
of solitude... :P

It's not the end of this post because (i) I haven't finished, and (ii)
Tiger hasn't showed up yet... smile...

Out of curiosity, I clicked and tried to find out comments (5) on the
articles =>

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=10923778&mode=comment

Well... they are very different from the comments we typically see in
forums, newsgroups, blogs, etc. I am not sure if they have been
filtered and edited (I believe not, as I think I can add one). The
quality of the comments is very high, in terms of writing, and points of
views.

_____

It's now 12:44pm and Tiger hasn't showed up yet. Will give him 10 more
minutes.