回味

今天去食日本料理"丼喀滋(台北忠孝店)". 我吃的是浦燒鰻漁定食,很有日本風味,口味適中,很適合大人小孩,白飯很好不知道是哪家白米說,吃過鰻魚後,真的有ㄧ分錢一分貨的感覺.

定食中,還有一味"蒸蛋".這味"蒸蛋"令我回憶起亞嫲的"蒸水蛋"和"真羅白榚".想到即刻加白飯吃到飽.

不過"蒸水蛋"和"真羅白榚"就真係不能忘記,只能回味!

經濟災難十二步

魯賓尼並非占卜師，手中沒有水晶球；他的悲觀預言，不過建基於對金融業和經濟的長期觀察（其論點可於www.rgemonitor.com下載）。

「溫故」有助「知新」，先在這裏回顧魯賓尼年初提出的金融災難十二步。

一、美國陷入有史以來最嚴重的樓市衰退，樓價將從高位下滑二至三成，蒸發掉美國家庭4000億至6000億美元財富；

二、金融機構損失遠遠超逾次按相關的2500億至3000億美元，因為在2005年後批核的按揭貸款，約六成透過包裝轉售，不斷散播「病毒」，形成虧損「黑洞」；

三、無擔保消費貸款將出現巨額虧損；

四、債券保險商信貸評級遭下調；

五、商業房地產市場崩盤；

六、大型地區或全國銀行破產；

七、濫用財務槓桿進行收購的私募基金集團面對巨額虧損；

八、企業掀起債務違約浪潮；

九、「影子金融體系」分崩離析；

十、股市進一步下瀉；

十一、金融市場流動資金乾涸，銀行同業及貨幣市場無一幸免；

十二、投資虧損、資本萎縮、信貸收縮、非自願性清盤及以「出血價」沽清資產的惡性循環勢難避免。

至少有八項（一、二、四、六、九、十、十一和十二）已一一應驗。

信報2008.9.29

A very big lizard

This weekend I visited my colleague home near xinchong, which is a rural area of Taipei city. The house is big and there are many pets including one dog, two mouses like creature, three birds, and surprisingly, one lizard.

The lizard is real big and it is more than 1.5m long. When you look at it closer, it likes Gorzilla in the Movie. My two other colleagues were very frigthened with it. They kept away from it by standing as far away as they can in the living room. I tried to take picture of it with my digital camera. And surprisingly, it liked my camera and it kept follow it, and tried to touch it with its tougue. This is why I can take so many photos but most of them is out focused. 

Later, one of my colleagues was brave enough to touch its tail and it suddently jumped to me. Gee... This is really funny, they jumped far away too. His owner told me that it likes me so to jump to me. Frankly, that lizard's outlook is so so but it is very calm and nice.

From 薔蜜來襲到宜蘭

1914-2008

My Grand Mom passed away peacefully on this Monday in the hospital. She was borned in 1914 September in lunar calendar in Boa On. Her life is tough. She brought up two children, one is a girl and one is a boy. At 2008, she had been 93, and the family tree has been developed to more than 10 branches in three generations. At the same time, her body was so tried to support her life.

The day before Monday, Berlina, wing and I were visited her. She was so conscious and the Nurse told us she can leave the hospital on Monday. Berlina also prepared some soup to Grand Mom. This was also my first time to try her masterpiece. GM was so kind to taste it and she was satisfied with that I guess. This happened in Sunday.

One day after, I received a call from dad calling to hospital urgently. When I went to the hospital on Monday morning, she had been collected to a monitoring machine showing heart beat, respiratory response, a pleth that I don't know what it is. The Nurse said the situation got worse this morning. I recalled, I slept very hard that night as well.

Some relatives came and wait for her leaving. She breathed very difficultly. Just like climbing a very steep mountain, you need to wait to take each step. We thought she can still hear what we said. We kept telling her to relax and leave all the thing, no worry about us, nothing to remember and don't be afraid. In fact, I thought she had been waiting this time for long long time after she lost her ability to walk, to talk and to serve food herself one by one.

The Nurse was very kind to tell us that our Grand Mom was leaving us. She also asked us to call all relatives to come for three times.

Very slowly, RR dropped from twenty to ten, pleth turned from some readings to a question mark, heart beat counter started to drop from sixty something to forty, then twenty. Slowly, very slowly, RR almost dropped to zero and you can difficulty notice there was any more breathing. It had been stopped. The monitor started to make alarm and all the signal dropped to zero. Everybody was very sorrowed about this. However, it is also a relax to Grand Mom that she can leave her mal-function body and fly.

I would say it is better for her to leave. She did it and she did it very peacefully and silently. She is smart and brave.

Lastly, I wishes my Grand Mon to start new life on the other side of the door.