至少走得比你早

你沒有想過　我會說分手
也許太習慣　我在你左右
雖然離開你有很多理由
可看見你這樣驚訝　也足夠

＊我想得　比你多　
陪你一起更寂寞
我性格　比你強　
怎樣做你的綿羊
我年紀　比你小　
不信快樂找不到
抬起頭　開了口

＃最後我比你驕傲　從此不坐你的牢
想不到你的好　記得和你的爭吵
想到老可到老　可是和你做不到
如果你愛得比我少　至少我走得比你早

你沒有想過　我會說分手
除非以為我　甚麼都忍受
就算你這時候　努力挽留
不過是你不能接受　我先走

重唱　＊
最後我比你驕傲　從此不坐你的牢
想不到你的好　記得和你的爭吵
想到老可到老　可是和你做不到
如果你愛得比我少　幸好我走得還早

轟轟烈烈地開口 重唱　＃

A Lover's Concerto

How gentle is the rain
That falls softly on the meadow
Birds high up on the trees
Serenade the clouds with their melodies

Oh, oh!How gentle is the rain
That falls softly on the meadow
Birds high up on the trees
Serenade the clouds with their melody

Oh, oh! See there beyond the hill
The bright colors of the rainbow
Some magic from above
Made this day for us, just to fall in love

You'll hold me in your arms
And say once again you'll love me
And that your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful

Now, I belong to you
From this day until forever
Just love me tenderly
And I'll give to you every part of me

Oh,oh! Don't ever make me cry
Through long lonely nights without love
Be always true to me
Keep this day in your heart eternally

You hold me in your arms
And say once again you love me
And that your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful

Living in a world with less credit

Leverage was the mother's milk of Wall Street — and of Main Street — for the
past 20 years. Leverage meant debt, specifically the number of dollars you could
borrow for every dollar of wealth you had. It meant borrowing other people's
money to invest in something you wanted to invest in, or to buy something you
wanted to buy. On Wall Street, debt funded investments in pretty much everything
a financial firm could bet on, including the toxic mortgage-backed securities
that led the way into this crisis. On Main Street, it meant borrowing to buy a
house or a condo — maybe two — then perhaps borrowing again off the increasing
value of that property to pay for something else: a flat-screen TV, a new set of
golf clubs, your daughter's braces.

The debt binge was fueled by easy money and the belief that prices of assets —
those of houses in particular — never went down; only interest rates did. That
era is over. It will be replaced by what will be one of the more painful, and
consequential, economic chapters in our history: the great deleveraging of
America. On Wall Street, the largest financial institutions on the planet are
reducing their debt and trying to build up capital, which once upon a time was
the seed corn of their business, and now must be again. Retail banks like
Wachovia and investment banks like Morgan Stanley have been so burned by their
own reckless use of debt that only recently — and after unprecedented government
intervention — have they been willing to once again make the most basic
short-term loans to one another. The gradual thawing of the overnight-lending
market, which seemed to begin on Monday, Oct. 20, was the first sign that Wall
Street's credit markets were, however haltingly, regaining some sense of
equilibrium after the previous, harrowing month.

from TIME: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1853129,00.html

dun really understand what all this means, but it sounds pretty scary. i'm taking econs now, find it quite interesting and hopefully it will help me make sense of what is happening now.

Every man is a moon, with a dark side he doesn't show anybody.
~Mark Twain

hard times ahead

Rough Seas

The sculpture of a sinking boat which sits in London's Thames river in front of the city's business center, seemed an apt metaphor for state of the global financial market on Tuesday.

taken from http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1845923_1774401,00.html

Busy busy

Think I must have had another entry with the same title somewhere… but it's really busy. Lab report every week, test, so much reading to do after lessons, esp analytical chem. The lecture is totally unenlightening. I always walk out wanting to throw up. Argh. Econs is quite interesting, I must say, but without any background and with the pace I can't follow.

I'm worried about next semester. Inorganic plus organic, PLUS physical chemistry which I'm really poor at.

Not to mention the all-too-horrible Singapore studies. Bleh.

luck

The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

~Chris Wilton, "Match Point"