First day of spring

Wednesday, 21st, March, 2007. The official first day of spring.
This time, the official calendar finally "predicts" the reality. It's 7 celcus outside. Just 3 days ago, I was digging my car out of the snow. The spring comes JIT, as the winter blue is slowly drowning me. Strange that I never had such kind of depression when I was in the country that has the longest and the darkest winter, plus the highest suicide rate.
The kids at CMU are back from their spring break. Their young vigor is contagious. I should come to the school more.

Singaporean Waiting in line

Guess what they are waiting in line for--猪肉干(pork jerky). What you see is only the second half of the line that twisted at the front.

Trip to Singapore

Another delayed post of a picture taken in The Santosa island in Singapore. See the lion statue at the back.

Employed at Last

This is a delayed record of a major step toward my graduation. I accepted the job offer from the Board on Feb 28 (Wednesday), the last day of Feb. The decision was made 1 hour after CD made me an offer from BGI. By turning them down, I turned away from higher salary, comfortable living in SF close to the in-laws. Yet there is something irreplacable about the Board that attracts me--the ability to observe the financial world from 1000 miles above, rather than being in it. Ed laughed about my using of the word "altruistic", in refering to the difference between the public and private sector. Yet, that was really helping me make the decision.

I'd say that I'm really a typical irrational economic agent. I place a high value in the "optionality" provided by a Board career, and my utility function obvioulsy included both monetary value and social value.