micro-facebook?
i read today that microsoft bought a 1.6% stake in facebook for a 'nominal' sum of US$240 million (HK$1.87 BILLION).... this values facebook at a whopping US$15 BILLION dollars!
i now wonder what's going to happen with the company. obviously, 1.6% does not make too much of a diff to a company - but now i would imagine some pressure would be on to actually make something of the company. it's still hard for me to believe that a website could be worth so much. maybe the 49 million users is it? i mean - at $15billion bux, that makes my eyeballs worth about 300 to facebook!
well - i just hope that microsoft don't ruin the thing that is facebook. it already has enough of these dumb plug in stuff. i don't think i could deal with microsoft ads and stuff!
off to play some golf tom'w. best thing about golf on fridays - no work. and golf. and free eats. hopefully i get lots of birds :P
Oct 3, 2007
way past the bed time
it's 11:30pm... and i just wanted to say i'm sitting home and writing a quick note while my wife is at her friends eating shanghai hairy crabs... eeks... yah - sounds like it's straight out of a horror flick, of the b-variety.
tonite, i had a revelation in my life that i'm not much of a cook. i used to love to cook stuff, but i find that i'm now just doing a lot of instant stuff. instant noodles - i'm real good at. tonite was instant pasta wheels, upon which i dumped a load of left over japanese curry (SO GOOD!). i baked instant choco chip oatmeal cookies yesterday (betty crocker is HOT!). so nuke that for 10 secs the nite after, slop on a scoop of haagan daaz vanilla ice cream, and you have man-made heaven right there! my personal fave lately has been: get leftover rice and nuke for like 45 secs (sometimes need to do it twice if it's too cold). cut up some spam and fry it to near crisp (i like the spicy chinese brand). fry an egg, over easy. put the spam and egg on the rice. sprinkle some black pepper. pour on a bit of light soy sauce. pop a can of coke zero. most importantly, get a glass of ice. sit in front of tv. put in either the matrix or lord of the rings.
bed time. almost 12. gotta wake up in 6 1/2 hours. time to get some instant sleep... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
it's 11:30pm... and i just wanted to say i'm sitting home and writing a quick note while my wife is at her friends eating shanghai hairy crabs... eeks... yah - sounds like it's straight out of a horror flick, of the b-variety.
tonite, i had a revelation in my life that i'm not much of a cook. i used to love to cook stuff, but i find that i'm now just doing a lot of instant stuff. instant noodles - i'm real good at. tonite was instant pasta wheels, upon which i dumped a load of left over japanese curry (SO GOOD!). i baked instant choco chip oatmeal cookies yesterday (betty crocker is HOT!). so nuke that for 10 secs the nite after, slop on a scoop of haagan daaz vanilla ice cream, and you have man-made heaven right there! my personal fave lately has been: get leftover rice and nuke for like 45 secs (sometimes need to do it twice if it's too cold). cut up some spam and fry it to near crisp (i like the spicy chinese brand). fry an egg, over easy. put the spam and egg on the rice. sprinkle some black pepper. pour on a bit of light soy sauce. pop a can of coke zero. most importantly, get a glass of ice. sit in front of tv. put in either the matrix or lord of the rings.
bed time. almost 12. gotta wake up in 6 1/2 hours. time to get some instant sleep... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Oct 1, 2007
..::last day of vacation :( ::..
i actually post here now... web.mac.com/cliffma
wat a nice week off. without sounding overly pompous, i really do think i deserved a week off with absolutely nothing to do - no responsibility, no plans, no engagements, no nuthin’. i slept in (to like 9am on avg!!!), relaxed and watched tv, read a book, walked the streets... taking a break in HK is so different from traveling abroad. after a long trip abroad, i’m often more tired than when i left, and with the way we travel, we get back at 10 or 11pm the nite before i need to get back to work... so essentially, i’m exhausted and then have to put on my brain again. that’s pretty stressful sometimes.
however, this past week was just wat i needed. i feel like it’s been pretty much 4 years of stress - working and traveling and no real time for rest. it puts things in perspective for me, i guess. after working this hard for 10+ years, i feel like i’m in the very fortunate position of reaping some of the ‘seeds’ that i’ve sown. it’s been a tuff road - doing the 9-9 thing every day, including 9-1pm thing on saturdays (in some jobs), and working my butt off in skool and stuff. i’ve never been one for suits and stuff - so when i see people around me that gets to have casual/semi-casual days, it makes me yearn for a different kind of job - one that is less stressful, less intense... but then again, god has equipped me for just the place i’m in - so no whining... no biatching... no complaints! i have to say - aside from the everyday suits - i love my job! :)
the picture at the top is my parents - almost 40 years ago (dec 23 is their anniversary), they married and 4 years later, i popped out! i love the pic. i wonder when i look back at our wedding pics, would we be saying things like - ‘nice hair. nice shirt. nice tie. nice shades. nice pants. hehe i think it’s funny. i look at some of my kiddy pics and cringe... brrrr....
anyway - i’m home relaxing now. my last nite of nothing in particular. however, i’m about to bake my wife some oatmeal choco chip cookies, which she will devour w/haagen daaz vanilla ice cream. i’m such a good husband!
(so boring... but wat do you expect when i been braindead for the past 10 days?)
i actually post here now... web.mac.com/cliffma
wat a nice week off. without sounding overly pompous, i really do think i deserved a week off with absolutely nothing to do - no responsibility, no plans, no engagements, no nuthin’. i slept in (to like 9am on avg!!!), relaxed and watched tv, read a book, walked the streets... taking a break in HK is so different from traveling abroad. after a long trip abroad, i’m often more tired than when i left, and with the way we travel, we get back at 10 or 11pm the nite before i need to get back to work... so essentially, i’m exhausted and then have to put on my brain again. that’s pretty stressful sometimes.
however, this past week was just wat i needed. i feel like it’s been pretty much 4 years of stress - working and traveling and no real time for rest. it puts things in perspective for me, i guess. after working this hard for 10+ years, i feel like i’m in the very fortunate position of reaping some of the ‘seeds’ that i’ve sown. it’s been a tuff road - doing the 9-9 thing every day, including 9-1pm thing on saturdays (in some jobs), and working my butt off in skool and stuff. i’ve never been one for suits and stuff - so when i see people around me that gets to have casual/semi-casual days, it makes me yearn for a different kind of job - one that is less stressful, less intense... but then again, god has equipped me for just the place i’m in - so no whining... no biatching... no complaints! i have to say - aside from the everyday suits - i love my job! :)
the picture at the top is my parents - almost 40 years ago (dec 23 is their anniversary), they married and 4 years later, i popped out! i love the pic. i wonder when i look back at our wedding pics, would we be saying things like - ‘nice hair. nice shirt. nice tie. nice shades. nice pants. hehe i think it’s funny. i look at some of my kiddy pics and cringe... brrrr....
anyway - i’m home relaxing now. my last nite of nothing in particular. however, i’m about to bake my wife some oatmeal choco chip cookies, which she will devour w/haagen daaz vanilla ice cream. i’m such a good husband!
(so boring... but wat do you expect when i been braindead for the past 10 days?)
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