Mad funny monkey

forwarded by Magpie

改板換面

把部落換了個招牌
願自己的人生
像花
認真的綻放盛開
黃蕾願綻

Corcoran

After one week worth of interviews.... I have landed 5 job offers. I guess it's kind of easy to get into the real estate market. The challenge is yet to come! I took a job with Corcoran's west side office, and will be starting in a few days! As I was typing this, just realized that Lincoln Center's mid summer night swing is officially here! From the loud speaker, I can hear a Spanish gay voice shouting out "five, six, seven, eight". Riceman and Leigo love going to those things, but we never pay to get into the sardine packed dance floor.

心痛

心痛。四維
最近的台灣政壇實在是亂，弊案，罷免，澄清，倒閣...
種種新聞聽了都... 讓人很煩，心痛,
我們怎麼會把自己的家搞成這樣？
我是姚師伯的忠實讀者，我想他也是有感而發。

All I have to do is dream

http://www.elliman.com/Listing.aspx?ListingID=783073

Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
When I want you in my arms
When I want you and all your charms
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream

ah... dream house!

Real Estate

Real estate has been good to Leigo and Riceman in the past few years.... With all the buying and selling, it seems natural that Leigo should get a real estate license... well, so she did. (Why am I speaking on a third person's tone? Hmm... ) Anyway, I took the 45 hour course at Hunter (what a pain), and passed the state test recently. Just had an interview with Bellmarc and Elliman today. And will be seeing Corcoran Downtown, Corcoran Westside and Citihabitat later this week. Bellmarc has an attractive training program. Elliman is very close to home. Corcoran has good name. Hm... choice, choice, choice. Anyway, so I will be starting very soon.... if you guys need help in buying, selling, renting, or you have friends or co-workers who need help. Let me know, I am really good at this!

News clippings

Read this story today in New York Magazine. Next time, when I go to East Broadway and see the Fujianeses on street, I think I will feel differently about them.

Branding and education.... HBS?! Got to admit, I have a complex of wanting to be an Ivy League. Not for the pursuit of knowledge but for the shallow reason of branding. Oh.. well... maybe next lifetime.

這幾天.....

好快，禪十回來有ㄧ個禮拜！本來打算要寫一篇禪十感言，但隨著ㄧ些體會越飄越遠，文章開了頭，可是怎麼也接不下去了。“老師說：打鐵要趁熱！有沒有聽.....? 沒有嗎！.... 要趁熱！要趁熱！要趁熱！“

前幾天，和姍姍師姑到一個中文學校三年級的小朋友家關懷，台灣家庭，在美國待了數十年，沒身分，沒保險，爸爸身體不舒服，檢查後居然是癌症末期，醫生也不開刀也不化療，樂觀的可也說是採用自然療法，事實上也可以說是醫生束手無策。幾次和師姑看個案的心情都很無助，面對無常，人真的很渺小。

禮拜五，和大米哥去吃馬來菜，點了印度麵包，想起以前在新加坡的學校(TKGS)，餐廳有個印度老爹，整天在空中甩大餅，中午一到，一群群穿著綠制服的小女生嘰嘰咂咂的排隊買大餅，哇，想起來那時後好幸福。言歸正傳，離開餐廳之後，突然下了場大雨，大米小米沒傘，拼了命的跑，之後看了Da Vinci Code，但娛樂效果還沒在雨中跑步來的快樂!

禮拜六中午去了米爸米媽家，姊姊和小鬼也在。米媽神通廣大，不知道去哪裡弄來了八十年代悲到不行的八點檔“星星知我心“，就是講那個身重病的媽媽把五個小孩送走的故事，大米在旁邊睡到不醒人世，米媽和小米是哭到不能自拔。晚上到小朋友家跟慈濟幫的眾兄弟姊妹們鬼混。

今天去找 B&C 和他們家的豆豆玩，豆豆是一個很可愛很可愛的一歲小男孩，不哭不鬧，眼睛又大又亮，超可愛的（到底要講幾次可愛！不過實在是太可愛了。）本來以為可以看到 G&M 和小小（另一個北鼻），可惜不巧的他們ㄧ家老小都在發燒生病。這兩個年輕的家庭都住在 New Port，是個很適合小孩很 sterile 的高級住宅區（又想起新加坡）。之後大米到 Chinatown 找他那個萬能的理髮師父，街道整潔的對比還真強烈，但，解釋不出來，對太整齊, overly designed 的地方會有點不習慣，覺得沒人味（難道是習慣髒亂嗎？有可能！）。如果有選擇，如果經濟不是問題，如果有ㄧ天.... if we started a family one day, I hope we can continue to be Manhattanites. 還有，下午在 City Hall 前，看到電影公司勞師動眾的在拍 Spiderman II. They used three cranes, had a rigid cable hanging from the top of an adjacent building, and have a surveyer making marks around the site. All these hassels so that they can insert the animation in the right angle, matching precisely with the site. Hm... very high tech.

好，報告完畢，就醬！

謝天謝地！

康康安全迫降，
好險沒事。