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日本2007

又去咗公幹啦,由於今次個trip會連住個block leave,所以都幾有holiday mood,我仲plan咗stay behind兩日.今次的theme係盡情消費,想買便買,想逛便逛!
Photos here!

HKU Notebook Programme 2007

昨日回港大,一心想如果啲Fujitsu實物ok,就會狠下心腸去買部新notebook.
點知七點鐘的陸佑堂已經多人到不堪切想,原來條queue係等緊俾錢.
咁睇機就唔使排隊的,但當我把玩了我想買的model兩秒之後,部機竟然blue screen.
我之後又有另一個男士一拿著部機,它又自己reboot.
我見分期付款條隊無人,就諗,多付400元可以省下很多時間,都ok.
點知,原來要先排另一條隊去對下張form先,嗰條隊又已累積了二三十人.
部機又唔係唔洗錢,都要咁排法,黐線.簡直係對所有港大畢業生的侮辱.

杯葛Fujitsu!抵制日貨!(<--突然轉駄咁愛國?)
(不過下星期又要去日本工幹和多留兩天逛逛,好矛盾的心情啊!)

Monique Pang on board!

Finally she comes! I am upgraded to become "二嬸" and Albert becomes "二叔".

My Happy Birthday

Photo taken @ 唐閣, Langham Hotel

Reaching 100 posts in Blogspot!

Just want to summarize the courses that I have taken during these 2 years:

1. Economics Analysis
2. Financial Statement Analysis
3. Asset Valuation I
4. Asset Valuation II
5. Derivative Securities
6. Spreadsheet Modelling
7. Mathematical Techniques of Finance I
8. Fixed Income Securities
9. Risk Management
10. Trading Workshop
11. Financial Engineering
12. Mathematical Techniques of Finance II

and I have sitted in the Hedge Fund course and attended 4 lectures of the Real Options course.

I personally like: Economics, Asset Valuation, Derivative, Trading workshop and Hedge Fund more!

最後一課

Last night I had my last lecture for the MFin programme. The time passed quickly. Dr. Carverhill could only cover a few concepts in the 3-hour lecture. I originally thought that classmates may exchange contact information or plan some after-exam activities or people who have not spoken to each other would start to have conversation. But the lecture time passed so quickly that none of these happened!
Ame Ame, don't always day dream please.

I expected to see someone, but he didn't show up. But I finally saw him when I was on my way to MTR station. He just managed to get to Admiralty. I smiled to him and he said hello to me. So, this marked the completion of my MFin lecture life! Cheers.

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NB: Pain has not ended. I still need to take the last exam this week and to do the group project next two weeks.

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But I have planned lots of celebration activities after the exam!
8/26 Watch Hello Kitty Musical show
8/27-31 Lots of meetings or outstanding tasks to be completed @ work
8/31 Celebration
9/2 Dinner with Family & Join Church's 160th Anniversary Concert
9/8 Big Big birthday dinner for Dad
9/8 Albert's little niece on board
9/9-15 Tokyo business trip
9/22-10/7 Block Leave!!
11/27 HKU Congregation

What's your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?

I have done this test 3 times.
First time: ENTP (Before 2000), done in an IBM project management leadership course
Second time: ENTJ (June 2006), done in an ABN AMRO leadership course
Third time: ENTJ (Aug 8, 2007), done also in an ABN AMRO leadership course

I like to be an ENTJ. My instructor told us that many CEOs or senior management are of this type or INTJ. I am not a CEO, though.

But ENTJ people may make decision too quickly, without considering alternatives.
According to the booklet, if ENTJs do not find a place where they can use their gifts and be appreciated for their contributions, they usually feel frustrated and may:
- become overly impersonal and critical
- be intrusive and directive -- giving orders without listening
- become abrasive and verbally aggressive

And under great stress, ENTJs can be overwhelmed by self-doubt, feel alone and unappreciated, and be unable to express their distress to others.

I personally agree with the above "weaknesses" or "potential areas for growth". The course helps us to see our own "preferences" and under situations, we may need to do things in our less-preferred way.

黃長興 on <<最緊要進步>>

黃長興, you are so cool! God gave you great eyes!
http://tvcity.tvb.com/special/mrhk2005/profile/13.html

中山澳門兩天遊

很久沒和姊姊去旅行,趁七一有空檔,join了教會的兩天團,尋訪馬禮遜牧師來華傳道的足跡.原來我和馬禮遜牧師都有淵源.他是由倫敦傳道會派到中國的,而我就讀的中學正正就是他在港所創辦的第一間中學(英華書院)的姊妹學校.

本來想帶父母一同參加,但他兩老"扭計"唔肯來.其他教友大部份都很老.

首先到了一個叫詹園的地方.

這陶瓷都幾可愛.

嘩,有很多不同顏色的鯉魚,很有活力!

澳門近貌
Venetian Hotel

很有特色的建築物

漁人碼頭

假布達拉宮

很grand的水晶燈

漁人碼頭的酒店

好威尼斯feel

Me and my sister

讀書是很快樂的

人是有求知欲的.在學習的過程中,如果單靠自己看書,固然可以有很多得著,但是透過上課,做功課和考試,這過程更有趣和有挑戰性.在香港土生土長的我,更竟然有點喜歡考試制度,如果考試成績好,更有無限的滿足感.
快要完成港大Master of Finance的programme,既期待畢業的一刻,又有點不捨得,因為這個programme所學的東西都很有趣又有挑戰性,但又不會太困難.兩年的學習過程是很快樂的.希望還有機會再讀多啲書!

豐天。瘋癲

現代三字頭人的心態

舊公司的大部份同事都己經成家立室,或者起碼都會有個固定的男/女朋友.
現在公司的同事,唔計過咗四十歲嗰班,大部份的年齡是介乎於28-35吧.
出奇地,他們大部份都無拍緊拖,又無主動去識異性朋友,又好似唔覺佢地會心急要嫁/娶.
他們的餘暇生活都好充實,例如睇戲,食飯,玩水,唱K,碌lane,旅行等.
似乎佢地啲friend都係無拍拖或結婚.
好似好奇咁.
我行埋去我都可以算是早婚??
看著他們,我好像比他們多經歷了幾個步驟:有合適對象,拍拖,結婚,組織家庭等.
究竟是他們無遇到合心水的另一半,還是他們跟本無興趣結婚,又或是男女失衡所導致,甚或他們是"孿"的?
我覺得他們會令香港很快出現一些特別的現象或"商機".

人越來越叻,但好像卻越來越孤單,也好像越來越自私,現在的享樂主義都是以滿足自己為先.
回想約十年前,我們反而會更明白,快樂的來源是來自我們對別人的付出.
等我畢業後再做下義工先!
讓我們三字頭的人都為社會貢獻一點吧!用我們的生命去影響生命!

My story...

As an information security officer, I often do google searches of my name (both English and Chinese). A few years ago, I even saw one famous-brand Web site showing my full home address on their Web site! What a sh*t!

Recently, I found this funny story with the female character having the same Chinese name as me:

http://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/news/q798231830/3/1284283700/20070416003349/

十年。拾年

大家都來做十年回顧,我也來湊湊熱鬧.
十年前,剛在I記做了一年trainee,而我的際遇跟另外十六個同期trainee很不同,他們大部份都是做application方面的project work,而我卻亂打亂撞只做了一個e-business的application project,跟著很快便做了infrastructure(當年叫做platform)的工作.做落才知道要搬機抬機,又要攪hardware和network,又要玩大機host communications,又要做db2簡單admin.其他developers收工我才可開工，weekend又要返工，backup & recovery往往又要在公眾假期才可以做，對機多過對人，最慘又要被人認為做infrastructure係差過做application.

咁點解我又變咗做security呢?
記得我參與了一個Dao Heng Bank的e-business project,入面有SET Payment Gateway project & Internet Banking project.我當時又係負責做裝機砌機．不過對Visa SET Payment Gateway ecommerce的PKI theory都要好了解．後來公司有一期無mud project開,於是當時那位女老細便想找人去下寫I記redbook,既有utilization,又可以keep住啲staff.她本想派一位較green的女仔trainee去美國寫書，但那位女同事因為commit了有教會的暑期活動幫手，所以推了這個job.而因為我當時做的嘢和那女同事較接近，所以我便以次選身份參與了這個寫書工作，書的topic也是關於PKI的．
這是我第一次有機會到美國，而且亦是第一次離家這麼久（共七週）．雖然我不懂開車，但我也很珍惜這次機會．那七個禮拜實在是太好玩了，簡直是大開眼界，又認識了來自世界各地的同事（包括瑞士，日本，南非和德國等），又去玩快艇，小型飛機，golf，amusement park,nasa太空總署，我又碰到英華的一個師妹，她已嫁了一個住在austin, texas的華人，夫唱婦隨的在教會的音樂方面事奉．

寫完書返來，原本的e-business team無端端拆了一個security team出來，而我又被classify為security team的member，主持人乃是一位印度人.跟著我又做了最後一個system integration project,之後又有另一班同事在那印度人走了後又再form過security team,而我亦正式加入了他們做full-time的security project.那位新的主持人亦是我後來的security manager.

現在回想起來，雖然頭幾年的platform工作好辛苦，但卻對現在的security工作有極大的幫助．如果當年無做infrastructure,現在可能我在做SA/PM??很難說．．．

Trips in 2007 so far

1. Phuket, Thailand, Feb 2007
-- planned, celebrate 3rd year wedding anniversary

2. Beijing, China, Apr 2007
-- unplanned, visit husband at Beijing during his business trip

3. Seoul, Korea, May 2007
-- planned but also unplanned as husband joined due to golden week in China

So, it seemed to me that I have gone on many trips with my husband just in 4 months' time!!! And don't forget that I am still having full-time job + part-time study. I am proud of my time management and planning. So, although he is on a 2+ month business trip, I have seen him 3 times during this period! We are so far but so near.

He will be back on Saturday. Hope he has a safe trip back home.

沒有XXX的日子第67日 晴

有看溏心風暴的你便知道這標題是什麼.
剛巧老公最近要到外地公幹兩個多月,所以看常在心和程亮這一part特別投入.
其實寫blog的人都像他們一樣,有很多說話想跟別人說,但又不一定想直接對對方講,但又想發表一下意見或抒發一下感情,有時又想一些你渴望他看到你文章的人會剛巧看到你的文章等...
有點神秘,有點浪漫,也有點甜或有點酸.
我本人也很喜歡林峰和鍾嘉欣.林峰唱歌極好聽,聲底可以很厚,很有男人味.樣子有點像我IBM的舊同事加現在的同事的混合體.希望他的星途愉快吧.
記得讀U時也很喜歡寫.plan,差不多日日都有啲update,而同學之間也會互相finger對方,看看別人最近有些什麼感想,或者有無interesting的分享.年輕的你或者不知道我講什麼,唔緊要,我認老.
曾和一個很友好的男同學因為.plan的內容而攪出一些誤會,後來更有點疏遠而繼而變到失去聯絡.這真是有點可惜.不過這也是青春的"激情"吧,大家往往在言論上也不必顧後果,不像現在出了社會做事便要小心慎言,講錯一句說話可以導致嚴重的後果.
後來發覺我老公竟曾和該男同學在某個時期是在同一家中學同一屆讀書呢!世界真細小.
我也聽說過,當年他公司outsource IT給我舊公司,理論上我曾和他做了一段時間的同事,不過當然係完全無聯絡過啦...其實我也不知道他現在用什麼英文名.
Tell u what, my old finger name was: Amejai, 因同學都叫我做Ame仔.
上一份工,很多人叫我Ame姐,現在份工,有較我遲入來的同事叫我A姐!這多年來的變化真大!
唔該pliu不要再叫我A姐,好老!

很多感想

最近可能老公長時間不在港,所以對生活有很多感想.
遇到很多做緊IT但又極不看好IT前景的人.
有些是在公司,有些是在HKU MFin中碰到的.有些是我老公啲friend.
一時間,好像有很多IT人都想像我一般走去讀Finance:
我老公個表弟,我由韓國relocate來港的同事,我office嗰位靚女SecAdmin女同事...
坦白說,有一半人是想,能轉到去I-Bank做工就可以拿高薪水.
但他們究竟對Finance有幾多熱誠便真是很難說.
就算現在讀緊Master的同學,也不是個個都有熱誠.
讀緊最後兩科,我已sense到有很多人在捱日子,一上堂就開始瞓,做project都無晒衝勁.

今日和一位舊placement student食飯,他本是一個怕醜的IT人,但連他也告訴我他除了正職外,現在正在國內攪紅酒和護膚品生意!更和很多人大和什麼什麼要員吃晚宴.這很值得我思考...

不過,我都遇到一些對IT很有熱誠的IT人.也遇到一些對Finance很有熱誠的MFin同學.
舊同學的老公很積極地聯系他人脈內的IT業界朋友,他好像很有心要influence其他人覺得IT是很有商業價值的工業項目,我們也不應自己踐踏自己的行業.不過要知道香港人是習慣了"快",如揾快錢,靠跳槽來升職加薪快,急功近利,見利忘義等.從事IT像要投資很多effort才會有回報,也要付出比別人較多的力量和心血才會得到相同的待遇...很多人都怕做不到四十歲便要被迫轉行,都幾灰呢.

讀Finance都遇多一些很有心學習和研究的同學,更發覺Finance的knowledge不比電腦容易,也不是古老的學問,現在還有很多題目有待研究.如要成功,原來要有很深的數學和統計學根底.為什麼我讀中學的時候從來都無人告訴我原來數學是可以應用在一個這麼practical的科目上呢?以前的老師只令我們知道知識上和理論上的東西,完全局限了我們的潛質...我簡直覺得是有點資源錯配...往往是文科或商科的人才會走去讀Econ或Finance,反而讀理科的人就讀了其他科...難怪外國返來的人在I-Bank會較吃香,起碼人地讀得Finance的就會有較好的Maths/Stat background.

快讀完了,也要開始摸索究竟前路要怎行.也要開始諗如何將所學的知識和閱歷貢獻給教會和社會(這一向是我的心願).求問上帝的心意和計劃是很難的.要有耐性,也要學習等候.現階段我只能說,上帝似乎是要我留在荷銀好好地發展,也要看看這個once-in-a-lifetime 的 M&A project,這應該會是一個汰弱留強和洗牌的大好機會.呃飯食的人很快便會露出馬腳.Smart的人更可考驗自己的信心,和遇強越強.

How is Ame today? Enjoy work, enjoy study, enjoy life!

Michael Scofield

Suddenly I like to know more about the actor playing Michael Scofield in Prison Break. He is Wentworth Miller. His eyes are so so so attractive. In fact, his father is half African American, one quarter English and one quarter Jewish, while his mother is of French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese descent. But his skin color does not reveal his African race. Some people said that his two eyes are of different colors. But I seldom can see his eyes directly. So, I can't tell...

Wentworth Miller was born on June 2, 1972 in Chipping Norton, England. He has acted in Mariah Carey's music videos, "It's Like That" and "We Belong Together".

I think he looked great in the MTV.

When my husband travelled in Seoul, he saw a casualwear shop selling T-shirts modelled by Wentworth. The brand is Bean Pole International.

More photos to share:

And this one is the best!!!

同場加插Prison Break Season 3 Trailer

工作

在職場上,有人力爭上游,有人純粹呃飯食,有人盡力做好呢份工,有人嘻哈渡日.有人一份工做好耐,有人年靚兩年就轉一份工.有人靠不斷轉工來增加薪金/升職,有人默默耕耘在工作上取得成功感.有人常常怨自己份人工是below standard,有人對公司的加薪心存感激.
現在公司的同事來自很不同的背景和國家,各人想在這份工上取得的東西都很不同.不過management完全沒有align各人的personal agenda,人的turnover rate亦很高,但偶爾也有幾個同事是做了二十多年的.

我有三個team-mates,特徵如下:
1. 老但工作年資短,為人無責任感,純粹呃飯食,係人叫佢做嘢都先同人argue點解要做.已經有很多個degree但仍然讀緊書,日日六點(或以前)必走,全靠肯幫啲女同事擔擔抬抬賣人情帳才生存至今,完全係email forwarder.無份工做得長,除了現在這份(this reminds me of the "Monster" cartoon, once the "Monster" finds a good place to stay, it will pretend to be "normal" and hide his identity)成日同人講話現在份工浪費了他的talents<--好嘔心,佢又秘密地安排緊轉team,不過以佢的英文水平和為人,都幾難有其他team接收佢.
2. 加國回流,腦的轉數較慢,好似好知人情世故,但有時佢問的問題仍然令別人感到很奇怪和尷尬.為人圓滑,與高層/老外有傾有講,常常唔係位,coffee break特多,被#1話過很多次仍然無改善,無厘醒目,日日例牌遲放工,但係唔知點解佢要咁遲,似係要揼波鐘,唔講真係以為佢好多嘢做,其實係日頭好少埋位做嘢,眼光咸濕.明明做開network,唔知點解要回流返來做寫report.
3. 為人醒目,沒有太大問題.不過每份工都做唔長.都未做夠一年,已經plan咗去荷蘭總部做另一team.浪費了之前hire和train佢的人的心機.

就我觀察,以上三個人都做唔長.無耐無耐又無耐.

感想

有人成立了反聖經的網站,最近亦因中大學生報事件令這個網站"很受歡迎".
看了一點該網站的layout,網主很像聖經中的使徒保羅,現在正處於"掃羅的階段",在逼迫基督徒.
他其實在大前題上做了一個極錯誤的假設,以致他在整個網站內"挑戰"聖經的內容的立論很弱.
他用了很多方法去令人覺得他是一個很懂聖經的人,令人要信服他其他的批評都是有根有據的.
但是他錯誤地假設了基督教是要導人向善和信耶穌是令人生活無憂和完全不再犯罪.
事實上,只是非基督徒話基督教是一個導人向善的"宗教".但對基督徒來說,我們不是在選擇一個宗教,
而我們其實只是確認上帝就是主宰,聖經就是真理. This is a fact.
No matter God's characters are difficult to understand or sometimes people
feel that He is so mean, it is something that we have to accept. It is a
fact cannot be changed. 所謂"導人向善"其實只是信了耶穌後的一個possible outcome.
信上帝不代表會一切順利,如果係咁,咪等於當上帝是"黃大仙"?基督徒的生活亦會遇到很多試煉和試探.
看看藝人陳敏兒/廖啟智,劉美娟/張崇德,梁藝玲的遭遇都已經夠震撼了."神未曾應許天色常藍"
基督教的信仰建基於世人都犯了罪,要透過耶穌被釘死在十字架上及我們接受這救恩而得救.
從來無人話過信了就不會再有罪.
該網主在聖經中斷章取義,立論只基於某章某節,完全沒上文下理可言,
就等於在法庭上只憶述某些獨立懷疑相關事件,但無法把它們串起來成為有力證供.
我發了電郵給他:
標題:願主祝福你
自始祖開始,世人都犯了罪,但上帝愛我們每一位,只要信祂便得救
願主的愛有一天臨到你,我怕你會像保羅一樣,變成一個比一般基督徒更有能力的使徒呢!
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希望用以德報怨的方式去感動他,而不是去說上帝會懲罰他.

第四次去首爾公幹

Seoul is wonderful for travelling in May. The flowers blossom and the sun shines brightly. I feel so good (even when I have come back). This time, the trip is a bit different, as it may be my last business trip to Seoul under ABN AMRO entity. If merger will be successful, who knows whether I will still support Korea. So, my Korean colleagues and I have the feeling of "saying goodbye" after this encounter.

This time, I have a guest joining me. This is good for both of us. But we missed to do a few things: having the grill eel meal and going to JJ @ Grant Hyatt. Anyway, we experienced many wonderful developments in Seoul and were surprised at how Seoul is trying hard to make itself an international city.

If I don't have the language barrier, maybe I would enjoy working in Seoul. Anyway, I think I am a pure Hong Kong person who loves to breathe the Hong Kong air so much.

Goodbye to my friends in Seoul!