However, put all the jokes aside, what would it mean for Obama, a Democrat to hold the office with a senate that is clearly working in his favor?

Clearly, the Americans have put in a lot of hope, either from the inspirational speeches given by Obama, or the track record from the Bush administration, in hoping that the change of government will offer them a better economy, and more peaceful lives.

Unfortunately, the young (and somewhat inexperienced) president-to-be has some serious challenges to face:

First of all, the economical crisis that started off by no one else but the greedy investors seeking to maximize their returns in Wall Street. From the oversight of the previous administrations (either purposely or otherwise), the practice of leveraged trading has become a norm among the investment companies. When times are good, of course, leveraged trading will generate a lot more profit than the fully-funded ones, but when things gets bad, the corresponding downside risk is magnified with the borrowing as well.

The next big issue is the war in Iraq. After spending trillions of dollars (hence making the executives in companies like Lockheed Martin and Boeing wealthier than ever), the Bush administration did nothing else but killed Saddam Hussein, someone who attempted to kill his father and someone that was supposedly to have weapons of mass destruction that were never found. Yet, the Americans seems to have made very minor progress every day with huge cost, and the sinking oil price recently has made commercial profit that could be reaped from the war, diminished even more than expected. Therefore, it basically makes both economical sense as well as political sense, for Americans to be out of Iraq.

The question is: how?

No one would like to confess a defeat, especially when the mainstream media are depicting the so-called “winning” in the war (like what they did in Vietnam as well). Therefore, no one could simply say: Let’s get the hell out of here because we are wasting too much of our taxpayers’ cash and we are not making any sense with the war. Instead, finding a “glorious” to withdraw the troops (and hopefully not leaving Iraq in the mess that they are in right now) would be an issue that the new administration have to face.

The next issue is, inevitably, China.

Obama has a half-brother in China, if in case you do not know that, and Democrats are, in general, more open towards international trade. However, there is always a “but”. Obama is also a firm supporter of the protection of the domestic manufacturers, and anything that is “Made in China” would mean losses of American jobs to him. Unfortunately, the fact is that Americans are so dependent on importing primary goods from China, that many people of realized that it is impossible to say no to the goods from China. Therefore, there is another issue that Obama has to decide on balance between the votes from workers in manufacturing industry and the fact that Americans are already fairly dependent on the cheap import from China.

The landslide victory for Obama means that most of the Americans are placing their hope on this man, but the road ahead is very thorny. Although his powerful speeches have inspired millions of people, but the ability to manage the country is something he’ll have to learn down the road, perhaps in a very painful manner.

当然，还有一点就是近期生活基本处于平淡，没有很多的快乐，也没有很多的悲伤。看到一些人，想到一些事情的时候还是会痛，可是一觉睡过去第二天醒来就又是美好的一天。

或许真的是自己对一些事情麻木了吧，有的时候，想到命中不是我的，就不是我的，很多事情就会好很多。

很悲观的人生，希望各位小弟弟小妹妹们别重蹈我的覆辙，青春整个就被功课耽误了，弄到最后学习也没学出什么结果，其他的事情也一样没有什么结果。

可是很多事情，不是我想怎么样就怎么样的啊。我只能让自己做到最好，剩下的就只有看天命了。

就比方说这次Manulife的面试吧，我可以很夸张的说自己几乎在undergraduate career中拿过所有在加拿大，而且还找人的insurance的公司的面试，可是唯独manu我年年申请，年年拒我。好不容易今年没有拒我了，最后因为一点小小的插曲，弄到变成几乎是今年最失败的interview。当然，second round也就没戏了。

所以谢谢诸位的关心，我msn上的那句话不是私人问题，是工作的问题。

Amy说我太没有定力了，想想也是，小屁孩一个，定力哪里讲去啊。什么东西都是三分钟热度，学的好的话在三分钟之内掌握了就掌握了，要不然可能要等上20年我才会去碰那些东西。

就像摄影来说吧，钱花了，镜头买了，可是学习一忙就没时间出去拍照了。偶尔有的时候看到别人拍的，哇，好漂亮，再看看自己的，哇，好烂。

然后就开始给自己找理由，比方说钱砸的不够多了啦，镜头不够好了啦，body也要换成全幅的啦，可是就是没说自己没技术。

最后的结果就是，我羡慕别人的技术，然后感叹自己的穷困潦倒，虽然那不是更本的原因。

这个周末很无聊的玩了两天的Call of Duty 4，老实说我一般school term的时候是禁止自己玩游戏的。可是这次从SOA的考场走出来，整个人都像被掏空了一样，连走路都不稳了。

然后还要强迫自己看书，因为礼拜五有midterm。

然后礼拜五的时候又看见了她，然后又不知道自己考试在想些什么。

晕死，拿不起，放不下，鄙视一下自己。

Anyway，所以礼拜五考完试以后就几乎没学习，除了玩COD和看电影以外就是吃吃喝喝。

人生啊，就这样堕落了。

不过想堕落也没多少时间了，下个礼拜三个作业要交。还好只有四门课，要不然我非疯了不可。

毕竟没有我妹妹的智商，也就不会做她这种高智商的人做的事情。

好了，算是勉强一篇流水帐吧，本人上次文思泉涌的时代已经过去，下次还没来呢。。。

“为什么delta-hedge的portfolio的delta是0？”

我晕倒，然后又花了5分钟吐沫横飞+手舞足蹈的解释了delta-hedge的含义。

然后这个帅哥问了一个更经典的：

“你的股票的delta不是1么？为什么在portfolio里面是负的？”

这回我彻底崩溃了。。。。

Waterloo果然是强人辈出。

当然，必须得说这位帅哥是绝对的强人，今天真的是做题做昏头了。

唉，祝各位考SOA的兄弟姐妹们加油吧。

This picture is not PSed by any means and is from the original test server from SpeedTest.net

And it seems that UW has the fastest network around!

I did the test again just now to make sure, and here is what I see:

Thanks for those IST guys, you people rock!

忘记，让我不再痛苦

忘记，让我不再活在回忆的世界里

忘记，让我重新站起来，继续我的责任

也许，在很久以后的某一天，我们还会擦肩而过

而或许那时，我们的心会跳快一秒

有的，只是模糊的回忆

自从前晚和Claire学姐讨论了一些文学内容之后，发了一天的文学骚，然后又结合了村上春树的“四月一个晴朗的早晨，遇见一个百分之百的女孩”（可是学姐要我看的第一篇文章哦），憋了这么一片小文章出来，不知道可不可以入学姐的法眼？

顺便在加一篇学姐说的词，惭愧我才疏学浅，竟然连辛弃疾的词也不知道，不过还是和大家分享一下吧：

丑奴儿①
书博山道中壁②
【宋】辛弃疾
少年不识愁滋味，
爱上层楼。
爱上层楼，
为赋新词强说愁。③
而今识尽愁滋味，
欲说还休。④
欲说还休，
却道新凉好个秋。
【注释】
①又名《采桑子》，四十四字，平韵。

②博山在今江西广丰县西南。因状如庐山香炉峰，故名。淳熙八年（1181）辛弃疾罢职退居上饶，常过博山。
③强说愁：无愁而勉强说愁。

④李清照《凤凰台上忆吹箫》：“多少事，欲说还休。”
【品评】
这首词以“少年”与“而今”对比，表达了一种深刻的人生感受。上片说少年时登高望远，气壮如山，不识愁为何物。无愁说愁，是诗词中常见的文人 习气。下片转入“而今”，转折有力，不仅显示时间跨度，而且反映了不同的 人生经历。在涉世既深又饱经忧患之余，进入“识尽愁滋味”的阶段。所谓 “识尽”，一是愁多，二是愁深。这些多而且深的愁，有的不能说，有的不便 说，而且“识尽”而说不尽， 说之亦复何益？ 只能“却道新凉好个秋”了。 比之少时的幼稚，这或许是老练成熟多了。其实“却道”也是一种“强说”。故意说得轻松洒脱，实际上也是难以摆脱心头的沉重抑塞。周济说辛词“变温婉，成悲凉”。读此词者，当能辨之。

However, the collapse of Wachovia, the bank that could be saved if the loan programs have approved earlier, as well as the plunge of the major index around the world, clearly indicated that this is an issue that can not be waited…

How long will the politicians in Parliament Hill figure out that Americans do need to save Wall Street?

I am not saying the traders in Wall Street have done the right thing to use the money that they are not prepared to pay back, however, what is right and what is wrong no longer matters, because Wall Street is not only a financial hub of the world, it is, more importantly, the dominant factor of the US economy. If Wall Street fails, every ordinary American citizens would be affected, not just the traders or the investment bank executives.

Sometimes, I am wondering if democracy is really a great idea in time of crisis, because it is difficult to explain to every single individual (or even the majority) of the impact of certain things, not because general public are ignorant by any means, but rather we are specialize in different things.

For example, it is difficult to convince a farmer whose sole interest is to be able to sell the cattle he has raised that 2000 dollars from his tax money has to be given to the financial market.

He is probably really good with raising cattle, far better than the investment bankers could do, but that does not mean he could be educated enough to see the entire economy.

On the other hand, we can see that in the current milk-poisoning crisis, the Chinese government is spending taxpayers money to compensate the lose of the diary farmers.

This may be a somewhat authoritarian in the eyes of Americans, since every single Chinese citizen (or those who pay tax to the Chinese government at least) is basically paying for something that they have nothing to do with.

However, in this case, by ensuring the survival of the Chinese diary farmers, China has shown to the world that it is acting more responsibly, as well as more maturely, in time of crisis.

Which is very different from the irresponsible manner that the congressmen and congresswomen is showing ahead of the elections.

I am not sure how much the collapse of Washington Mutual would have made those senators feel that they finally need to do some work rather than arguing all over the place to maximize their political profit, but the fact that the agreement was reached on Saturday midnight is really an assuring fact to know.

However, what we have seen so far is a really disappointing picture in the Asian market, with the financial stocks continue to decline.

Why is that so?

Because people no longer have any confidence in the US economy.

Sadly speaking, the financial market in US would not stop to deteriorate just  because of the 700 billion. In fact, some analysts claimed that the market needs as much as 5 trillion dollars in order to go through the current mess without getting hurt too much. Unfortunately, the fact that the rest of the world is reluctant in joining the US in saving the financial market means that it is very unlikely the government will be able to raise the fund.

On the other hand, even within the US government, as election approaches, no one seems to have that much interest in asking each US citizen to pay more than 2000 dollars to save the mistakes made by the Wall Street traders. Instead, they have promised tax reduction, which would means that the government would not be able to provide too much to save Wall Street.

However, what should we expect when the market opens tomorrow morning?

First, I think Wachovia is saved for now, after being treated as the next victim after Washington Mutual, therefore, we should see some good news for WB to bring the highly undervalued stock back a little.

Second news should be from the currency market, where we should see some advance in the US dollars as people are now confident that the wound would not be as large. On the other hand, the LIBOR and treasury should be a little lower as the financial institutions (even those non-US companies with large business presence in US) find themselves a little easier to borrow money to solve their liquidity headaches.

Let’s hope that this 700 billion dollars would really be able to give the investors some confidence, because…well, hope is all we have.

后宫三千粉黛，可是皇上却只有一个，当一个男人的心需要分成了几十份以后，这份心还可以谓之爱情么？

而对于那些妃子来说，一道砖墙阻挡了她们本可以拥有的爱情和完整的人生，也让她们背负了整个家族的希望。对于她们的家人来说，妃子受宠则全家鸡犬皆升，反之亦然。

于是乎，君不见这十几岁的小女子们各个在后宫中斗个你死我活，甚至于牺牲了自己的友情和良心也在所不惜。

可是从另外一个角度来说，我还是很同情顺治帝的，虽然贵为一国之君，他却连选择自己所爱的人都没有。他的皇后不是他喜欢的人，而是因为皇后是太后的孙侄女。他宠信贞妃，而贞妃却不断的出卖和陷害其他的妃子。当他宠信董鄂氏的时候，董鄂氏却连自己的孩子也无法保全。

而朝廷的尔虞我诈却无法让这个少年天子信任任何人，他很没有安全感，很害怕周围任何一个人对他的好，即使在接受任何一个人的感情的时候都是带着怀疑。

于是，他错过了一段又一段属于他的爱情，最后到了去五台山出家的境地。

爱情对于这些人来说都是不幸的，他们总是在错误的时间遇到了一些人，这些人可能是正确的，也可能是错误的，但是那个时间决定了他们的命运，决定了他们他们一生都不可能平凡的度过。

普通人看到的只是他们享受自己所有的权利的时间，却不知道他们为了这些权利付出了多少眼泪和心酸。甚至于把自己的人性进行扭曲也在所不惜。

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