Monthly Archives for December 2006

由荔景到良景

廿三號晚,應邀到荔景某酒家跟十多位小學同學吃飯,席上有已貴為校長的伍老師(班主任),以及剛退休的潘主任(英文教師),煞是難得,可惜想見的人沒來。

聚會散場,與錢兄回到良景村。六、七年來沒有踏足這個地方,感慨良多。半夜三更高呼別人的名字,可惜沒有回應。如果有,可以一起吃糖水罷。原來輕鐵站附近的小販還在做生意。

忽德在Xanga說:

「係良景四圍行
沿仲返學放學o個條路兜左幾個圈
雖然隔左8年幾無去過o個頭附近
但周圍都無咩大改變
只係o個幾個危險滑梯被KO左
仲起左個欄欄住
路上面好平靜
想當年返學放學時都有好多小販
有d賣零食有d賣玩具
o個時買左唔少機械人返屋企發夢」

感慨更多。

憎人富貴

今年環球股市牛氣衝天,投資銀行高盛賺大錢,派一百六十五億美元花紅(平均每人四百多萬港元),令中外傳媒一致鳴炮驚呼:勁!

外國財經博客cityboy出名夠mean,他撰文批評傳媒大驚小怪,當中不乏風涼話,但對記者心態的描述,非常精準。其文章節錄如下:

The media backlash about bonus envy happens every year. That’s understandable from journalists, they tend be poorly paid hacks who have chosen a career of gossip mongering. Nobody put a gun to their head and told them to write for a newspaper. What must really irk financial journalists is when they interview ‘rainmakers’ and dealmakers, and realise that those being interviewed are no smarter or harder working than they, but for an accident of fate they could easily be picking up a few million dollars.

Then come the unwholesome moanings of career politicans, about the unfairness and inequity of it all.The whole protestant work ethic, fair days pay for a fair days work nonsense is peddled out. Everyone suddenly turns into a socialist in the face of what is regarded as unwarranted largesse.The truth is that if everyone was paid a fair wage for a fair days work, then capitalism wouldn’t work. Its a zero sum game.There would be no one to exploit and therefore no margin to mark up. We would all be poor.

Contrary to popular thinking,bonuses do not need to be defended.There is nothing to defend.The general rule is the closer you work with money the more you get paid.It’s not fair, but neither is being struck by lightning. So why all the envy.

全文:http://randombanker.blogspot.com/2006/12/bonus-envy-is-it-worth-it.html

打機解困

這幾天,就算很晚才收工,就算家裡也有電腦也可以打Dota,我也會到旺角網吧打上一、兩小時。

打Warcraft五年有多,一直抗拒Dota,總覺得不是正統;想不到好奇一試,竟然著了魔。

這個遊戲,十位玩家分兩隊對戰,每場競賽動輒花費一個小時。如果雙方都是好player,分分鐘打兩小時。它的吸引之處,正是勝負難料,不到最後一秒,不會揭曉。只要認真的打,就可反敗為勝,甚或以少勝多,總之非常過癮。而且,玩家需要高度集中,渾然忘我,心情不佳的時候,簡直是紓解良藥。

我已經過了鍾情電玩的年齡了,無法重拾追game的感覺,看著一代又一的新款遊戲,一點試玩意欲也沒有。如今打機只為逃避,不為娛樂。就算買了PS2,都是服務A小姐居多,即將推出的Wii,就算買了,動機也是一樣。假若有天Warcraft沒有人玩了,我的打機生涯也許就此完結。阿彌陀佛。 

可喜可賀

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接連拍了三張照片,Vincent兄的面部肌肉依然紋風不動,憂憂郁郁的,可能有大筆學費尚未還款。

無論如何,這位行家半工讀多年,如今學有所成,當真恭喜哂!至於我,工作一年有多,日子渾渾噩噩地過,就算書到用時恨太少,還是懶懶閒的,沒有進修的決心。

本想攻讀法律,聽聞課程艱澀,有工作在身者,難以兼顧。而更麻煩的是,工作時間太飄忽,如何上堂?

或者是借口罷。

假如讓我幹下去

做記者,除了虛榮,最緊要還是現場感。不貪戀現場感,不如不幹。