《Kizuna》

《Kizuna》 Orange Range
Translated by Alvis Chan

いま何してるかな　君も見ているかな
What are you doing now? Maybe you're looking at it too?
オレンジ色に染まる空を　朝日に変わる夕陽を
Looking at the orange sky, Looking at the rising sun turns to be setting sun
ナミダこぼし合って泣いた夜も　くだらない話で朝まで笑った日々も
At nights wept in spilling tears and days with endless talks till morning
忘れない今のボクをささえる宝物だから　離れていても感じるあなたの優しさ
All these are unforgettable treasures which support me now
Even we are apart, I can feel your kindness
だからどこにいたってもう一人じゃない　どんな事あってもくじけない
Therefore, no matter till when, I am not alone; no matter what, I am undaunted
空と海が重なった　あの島のような
Like that island, where sky and sea come together
離れても同じ色に優しく混ざり合う
Even they are apart, they gently blended into the same color
ほら寄り添うキズナ
See, it's the knot nestled

何々を知ったり　何々を知らなかったり
Knowing something, or knowing nothing
止まったり　前に進んだり　後ろに下がったり
Stop, proceed, or step back
自らコロガル時もあれば　手を借りてコロガル時もある
Sometimes we may fall by ourselves, or fall because we give a hand
カラン　コロン　また広がる　カラン　コロン　またコロガル
Dilate again, fall again
そっと胸に手をあてて　眠れない夜は　
Tenderly touch your heart with your hand at the sleepless night
夢の中でまた会える聞こえる子守唄
We can meet again in dream, we can hear the lullaby
背中を押すキズナ
The knot that pressed into our backs
ほら寄り添うキズナ
See, it's the knot nestled

友の声が胸に響いた　涙で滲みんじゃ道は見えないんだ
Friend's voice is echoing in my heart, tears soak and I can't see the road
今GET UP！見上げんだ　ほら同じ空　決して孤独じゃねえんだ
Now, Get Up! Look up! Under the same sky I'd never be alone
全て背負い込むことはないさいーか皆居んだ　今信じるんだキズナ
There's nothing to be born by oneself, as we are here! The knot that we believe in
潰れない　消えないさ　これだけは　さぁ行くんだ！
It won't be crushed, It won't disappeared; only with this, go!

一歩一歩　ただ前へ　一歩一歩　歩幅合わせ
Step by step, just forward; step by step, match our steps
転びそうなら　そう　手をつかめ　Say Wo! Wo! 皆で歌え
If we're going to fall, hold our hands, say Wo! Wo! Let's sing

いま何してるかな　君も見ているかな
What are you doing now? Maybe you are looking at it too?
雨は止みそらに架かるアーチ 虹でつながる君とボク
By the rainbow arched over after rain, you and I are connected

尖沙咀郵局

按著給旅客的指示，在尖沙咀尋覓郵局的所在地。

走了一大圈，最終找到了，卻發現郵局原來近在眼前。

真可惡，指示弄得那麼差，被戲弄了吖 -_-"

Crossroads

Everybody in my team looked tired, and it became everybody's wish to leave before 8pm tonight. Should be able to accomplish it IF there's NO BOND PRICE REPORTING again!!! >_< Really found it disgusting to have something bothering my off time every night!!!

Simon suddenly asked me to go for a chat when I've packed all my stuffs and was about to leave. Thought it's just a leisure one, that's why I was quite surprised when he said we had to talk about that in conference room. He said Trevor and him considered I got the ability to take up duties on top of credit derivatives, and asked if I'm interested to spare some of my time to learn about work of the Regional team, especially at this moment when they still couldn't get a suitable new recruits to handle that.

Arha, every time when I was about to think of the direction of my career path, something would pop up. Though I've agreed to take that up (indeed, they did expect me to do so) and though I've declared in advance that they shouldn't blame me if I couldn't handle both sides well in future, I guess it's really the time I gotta think seriously what I wanna do in future. Anyway, not for tonight, since I gotta rush for dinner with my dear ex-PwCers at the Germany Restaurant at TST Holiday Inn; not for tonight, since my brain wasn't functioning anymore.

Conference meeting

Managed to complete all stuffs by 8.30pm and headed to L16 meeting room with others for the conference meeting. They are still dealing with the set-up by the time we arrived, the HK IT guy kept talking to the IT guy in US, telling him to move the screen a bit left, then right, left again and right, but it never fitted in the proper position. The meeting was delayed to 8.50pm something due to the stupid set-up work.

The part discussing about TRS could still be described as "fine", but then it turned into an irrational argument among IT arrangements. To be honest, it's NONE OF MY BUSINESS!!! Why I had to forgo my rest time for such non-sense quarrel >_< It's 10.15pm already. Seemed that Simon and Yaqub also notified that the fore-coming topics would be totally irrelevant to us, so they made a sign that we could leave. I, Reynold and Kelvin rushed out of the room at once.

A waste of time! That's what I hate most!

Deli and Wine with Florence

Yesterday was Florence's first day of work, so we deferred our weekly lunch to today, at the middle point of our offices --- the City Hall. It's the first time for Florence to visit Deli and Wine, seemed that she liked the Spaghettis Carbonara served there =)

Talked a bit of our work. Florence suggested that I might start looking up for another before the end of the probation. Maybe ... I gotta think about it ...

Busy as 'usual'

Another busy day. Had extra tasks on calculating MTM values of some TRS, but was able to complete Joyce's work by early evening. Anyway, Wed used to be my peak day of the week for chasing up confirmations from counterparties; so it turned out that I gotta leave by 10 something, again after sending out tones of e-mails. So poor =(

Got a bad news, a very bad news. HK will have to participate in a conference meeting with New York and London tomorrow night, starting from NY Time 8.30am / HK Time 8.30pm. Crazy! Gotta leave late again tomorrow night >_<

The Interview with God

I've actually watched this presentation --- "The Interview with God" --- for more than once previously. Anyway, did feel impressed every time seeing it again.

Pending for trips

Let's go to eastern Africa together next year! Before that, could we pay a visit to Mount Kinabalu near the end of the year? *o*

星期一，新開始

同事 Joyce 放假回來了，自今天起可以重過「正常」生活。有三件開心的事：

1. 比上星期遲了一個小時起牀，「大搖大擺」地在九時半踏入辦公室。
2. 突然發現辦公桌上的傳統螢光幕變成十七吋的 LCD monitor 。
3. 比上星期早了一個小時下班，興奮莫明。

在一個星期前，我絕不會為這些而雀躍；只因經過了上星期的「刻苦」生活，一切忽然變得珍貴。

其實我是一個很容易滿足的人吖 ...

Extremely busy

I've said that, all sorts of sophisticated stuffs would pop up once I backed up Joyce's function when she's on leave. It's being validated again! Delayed confirmations of payments. Numerous held-over trades backed from London and New York. Traders input 7 deals by the last minute before cut-off. Got something named as 4-way novation transaction, I, Reynold, Yaqub and Simon discussed about it for quite a period of time. London helped nothing at all and only kept pushing all complicated work to Hong Kong, though they should be handling this indeed. Kept dealing with traders, legal adviser and counterparties. Very busy @_@ Could only spare some time to work on my own duties by late evening. Left by 10.20pm, the third last on the floor to leave. Gosh, and it's just Monday, start of the week! >_<" So lucky that it'd be public holiday tomorrow; but still, I had no doubt that I couldn't survive through this week *_*

Tea Buffet

和何曉珊及梁善儀到 Excelsior 吃 Tea buffet ，吃得很飽吖 *,*

終於知道了，那家在 IFC 吃 High tea 的餐廳叫 Harlan's ... 不過看了食評，好像那家餐廳服務生的態度不太好 ... @_@

《童夢奇緣》

和蘇海明看了《童夢奇緣》。比想象中好嘞，比《阿嫂》好得多，起碼故事有教育意義。

太想去旅行，到旅行社跑了一圈。或許，可以來一個三天的元旦小旅行?

Umbrella from Japan

Number of trades bloomed all of a sudden again --- 29 trades! How could it be?! Joyce used to leave office by 6.30pm, but gotta work until 8.30pm to complete all her jobs. So crazy!

Joyce would be on leave next week, I'd be taking up all her work on top of my daily duties. Please please please, please have as few trades as possible next week, or I would be certified death for sure X_X

Had dinner with ex-PwC girls at TST SushiTei, I could only arrive by 9 something >_< We're crazily noisy ... haha =P Got my souvenir from Monitress Shum and Kathy, it's a super light umbrella, thank you so much *,* They said that they chose it with Alvis, who picked a bloody red one and thus being ignored ... haha

I wanna go travelling so much ...

幻聽? @_@

照常上班，如常九時半坐進自己的座位，接著開電腦，開始看 e-mails 。忽然聽到老細的聲音 --- 不會罷，他該還在放假，怎會在公司嘞? 一定是幻聽。

然後，老細拿著水杯在我身旁的通過走過 --- 他真的回來了?! 他應該星期一才回來上班，怎麼突然出現?!

為了證實我沒有「見鬼」，我向坐在旁邊的同事 Joyce 求證。「係吖，今朝返工見到 Trevor 番左嚟都嚇左一跳。不過算嘞，佢就算响屋企，咪又係遙遠控制睇實公司 d 嘢，同返工無咩分別 ...」

是麼? 好像很慘吖 ...

LN training

Suddenly being nominated as the representative of the Credit Derivatives team to attend the LN training. Didn't learn much from the training indeed, since all those being mentioned were basic functions which I've known for long already; it's good to have some trainings anyway, for CPD hours.

Training started by 1pm sharp, so I, Cecilia and Rick went up to L28 for buffet lunch before the training started. Jeffrey came joining us, but he's late. He didn't show any sign of leaving when it approached 1 pm, and so I left by myself, claiming that I was representing my team and so couldn't be late. Cecilia went with me finally but Rick stayed, telling us secretly that Jeffrey the manager was with him, it shouldn't have great problem going late. "Stupid!" that's what popped on my mind at once. Yup, Jeffrey was the manager, but you're not. People talked of his bad behaviour on his back, though seemed to respect him apparently simply becuase he's a manager. There's no way for a freshman of non-manager grade just merely following what manager did, or at least, I won't bind that, not to mention whether the manger was doing the right thing. Well, it's a personal choice after all. Just wonder if Rick would see this point in future.

The outcome was that Jeffrey and Rick was late for 20 minutes and joined in mid of the session. Another manager teased Jeffrey.

Deli and Wine

Didn't go to City Hall for lunch for long, since the fire over there early this year. FK proposed to go there for lunch today. It's a brand new experience for Emily and Christina; they even mixed the restaurant up with 'Maxim Express' ... haha =P

So surprised to get the e-mail from Trevor this afternoon. Shouldn't he be on leave right now? Why he still took such a close look at progress of work during holidays? Didn't he need to take rest?

Still very busy to catch up with back-logs. Left by 9 something again, but all stuffs cleared. Wish for a better tomorrow *_*

Terrible day

Heard a bad news once upon arriving office --- Joyce took sick leave for the day! That meant I'd have to take up her duties as well. It won't be a problem at all if trade volume stayed as usual; but the worst happened ... 22 trades for the day excluding held-over trades >_< that doubled the normal trading volume!

Finally left by 9.30pm, with some of my daily work deferred to tomorrow. What's wrong today @_@

《青蔥小札》Paulinian Anthology 2005

回到家，如常地開電腦，計畫先 check e-mail 後睡覺。不過，看了余寶雯的 e-mail attachment，精神立即為之一振，睡意全消!

(一) 麥少敏同學點解未經全班同意，就 send 了一封 「1998年度理科班同學 BBQ 邀請函」給各大老師? 而且老師名單不齊全，被人刊登全校，沒提名的老師可真傷心嘞 ...
(二) 吳建港老師的回應真不可思異 ... 似「爆料」...
(三) 沒有「班內派系鬥爭」那麼厲害嘛 ...
(四) 突然很想知道是誰說了「與其由『她們』做本班代表而得勝，寧願選他人做代表 --- 即使結果是輸」這麼駭人的言論，「她們」又是誰?
(五) 很好奇那些「鐵証」是甚麼呢?
(六) 那次 BBQ 我早就說不去了，我的名字也沒出現在「出席名單」之內，怎麼又會在回應中提到我嘞 @_@
(七) 「嬌小但卻熱衷於排球運動」，皆因全班只有我一人是排球校隊，何奇?
(八) 可不可以解釋一下甚麼是「以短攻長的精神」~,~
(九) 去長洲宿營都叫「非法赴會」?!
(十) 點解吳老師會遇上趙藹殷執行海關掃蕩翻版的行動? 莫非 ... 他正要去買翻版? =P

一事無成的周日下午

沒有去「遊船河」，於是可以遲起牀 =P 膊頭和右手食指很痛，痛得讓我胡思亂想，想我會就此死去嗎 ... (睬睬睬!)

打算去員工會所做運動，到達後才知道要另外登記和上 training 學用器械 (好不認真吖!) ，所以無功而退。想想不如隨便去跑個步算了，怎料又遇上天下大雨 @_@

運動做不成，結果跑到書店去。很久沒有看書、沒有逛書店了，更沒試過在德福這家新書店駐足過。看到張愛玲的《傾城之戀》，很想看，可突然受睡魔來襲，不得不把書放下。走到另一個書架，隨手拿來一本開始看，可惜十分鐘後又發覺睡意打不消，只好把書放下，回家去 ...

國慶煙花

要試用蘇海明的新相機，於是我們去看國慶煙花。很多人擁到海濱旁，我們站的卻是碼頭和半島酒店前這些非最佳位置，所以也不算可太擠嘞。

今次的煙花加入了新圖案，卻不是特別吸引。可能是看多了的緣故罷。