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    November 26

    有良心 冇發達

    舊年班Fund佬「忽然」發現雷曼就嚟唔掂, 幾日內由唔知幾多個A++變成負面評級; 今年班Fund佬又「忽然」發現杜拜唔掂。你信唔信嗰班才高八斗、機關算盡, 日日開公數飲香檳食魚子醬「social」嘅Fund佬真係咁後知後覺? 我就唔信喇。
     
    好彩我冇興趣賭, 所以呢幾年冇賺亦冇蝕, 只係我啲港紙saving拍住美金不斷貶值。看倌可能話: 「嘩! 我買匯豐收息咋喎! 咁都算賭?」, 兄台, 0005.HK嗰間係叫匯豐「控股」, 就並不是街頭街尾見到嗰間匯豐「銀行」, 咁匯豐「控股」以往年年派四厘幾息, 嗰四厘幾息啲錢點嚟你又知唔知? 靠嗰間匯豐「銀行」同你做按揭賺番嚟? 咁你都唔知嗰間匯豐「控股」其實係做咩生意, 你買佢股票, 唔係賭又係咩呢?
     
    個市會點, 我又唔識經濟學嗰啲principles (經濟學又會有principle嘅? 唔係話「兩點之間最短距離係直線」、「三角形內角和等於180度」先叫principle架咩? 我果然並不認識經濟學), 又冇水晶球, 我點Q知, 我純綷喺我個冇人睇嘅blog吹吹水嗟。不過我知一樣嘢, 個市升, 啲Fund佬有花紅; 個市跌, 啲Fund佬起碼都有手續費收下。咁花紅梗係多過手續費啦, 所以個市, 應該會收十一個月花紅, 然後收一個月手續費。純屬虛構, 如有雷同, 實屬巧合。
     
    至於標題, 乃吾之已故生物科老師周某, 有日授課期間吹水說道: 「我呢啲有良心嘅人, 係唔會發達嘅」。
    November 09

    巨變20年

    今天是柏林圍牆被推翻的二十週年紀念。實在佩服德國人的勇氣, 義無反顧地把柏林圍牆砸個稀巴爛, 義無反顧地西柏林人由衷地擁抱從東柏林跑過來的同胞, 雖然往後好一段日子前東德的貧困經濟成為了前西德的負擔。
     
    想起了Billy Joel那一年出版的《Storm Front》大碟裡的《Leningrad》, 裡面好一句的 "To meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced", 大概是經歷過那個風起雲湧年代的人的心聲吧。慶幸當年我已經是個初中生, 慶幸我親眼目睹東歐共產陣形一下子全被瓦解這個歷史巨變。
      

     
    "Leningrad"
     
    Viktor was born in the spring of '44
    And never saw his father anymore
    A child of sacrifice, a child of war
    Another son who never had a father after Leningrad

    Went off to school and learned to serve the state
    Followed the rules and drank his vodka straight
    The only way to live was drown the hate
    A Russian life was very sad
    And such was life in Leningrad

    I was born in '49
    A cold war kid in McCarthy time
    Stop 'em at the 38th Parallel
    Blast those yellow reds to hell

    And cold war kids were hard to kill
    Under their desk in an air raid drill
    Haven't they heard we won the war
    What do they keep on fighting for?

    Viktor was sent to some Red Army town
    Served out his time, became a circus clown
    The greatest happiness he'd ever found
    Was making Russian children glad
    And children lived in Leningrad

    But children lived in Levittown
    And hid in the shelters underground
    Until the Soviets turned their ships around
    And tore the Cuban missiles down

    And in that bright October sun
    We knew our childhood days were done
    And I watched my friends go off to war
    What do they keep on fighting for?

    And so my child and I came to this place
    To meet him eye to eye and face to face
    He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced
    We never knew what friends we had
    Until we came to Leningrad