将近七月，想来应该是，栀子花浸溢着光华园，梧桐树蓊郁着光华道，欢声笑语涟漪着柳林苑。

曾经，无数日饱餐过的一食堂已听不见我的刀叉声，无数天学习过的育才园已闻不到我的翻书声，无数次徜徉过的阳光广场已响不起我的脚步声。只叹时间匆匆，而记忆却萦绕不断。那样的记忆留在了偶而翻看的同学录中，封存在已经废弃的电脑硬盘中，压缩在被平日工作占据的大脑中，唤醒在兴致浓厚的老同学闲谈中。那是欢乐？是遗憾？还是一段应该永远回忆的回忆？那是夏日扎啤的苦涩，还是冬日小角楼的甘洌？是红河的呛口，还是中南海的廉价？是火锅的麻辣，还是铁板烧的油腻？是平时上课的随意放鸽子，还是期终考试的挑灯夜战？是歌城的一夜尽兴，还是寝室的一夜无眠？是对人生道路选择的迷茫，还是对未来工作的憧憬？是身立一堆光胳膊男人漫无目的龙门阵，还是手持一钵一毛钱硬币纯属娱乐的炸金花？是挂彩负伤的篮球场，还是呛水抽痉的游泳池？是玩到通宵达旦的CS，还是按到键盘破碎的KOF？是梦游庄周，还是神交萨默尔森？是想升级为海龟，还是要修炼成土鳖？是想朝圣斗士迈进，还是早日加入打工仔的行列？俱往矣！

时间姑娘羞涩地在毕业一周年友善得提醒我，你已经毕业一年了。是的，整整一年！

电影《纳尼亚传奇之凯斯宾王子》画面优美宜人，场面壮观，情节简单，特技精湛，奇思妙想。虽然个人感觉，第二部和第一部联系不大，好像也没有第一部有感觉（第一部有浓厚兄妹感情），作为饭后茶余的娱乐还是可以的。女生可以看帅哥，男生可以看看帅哥的女生。

我们有这样的印象，如果一个人向着黑暗的夜空打开手电筒，光线与空气中的微小尘埃接触，尘埃反射了光线，我们就可以看到，手电筒的光线在空中的形状是一个圆锥体，手电筒就是这个巨大无比圆锥的顶点。再假设，如果手电筒的另一端也可以发光，将手电筒与地面平行，我们将可以看到，两个顶点相重合的圆锥体在空中发光。我们生活的空间有长度，有宽度，有高度，还有方向，那就是时间，是一个时空连续体。在这个连续体中的某一个地方，发生了一个事件，那么这个事件将会像那个两端发光的手电筒一样沿着时间这条线无限发散出去。时间的方向是单一的，如果把他放在二维平面里的XY 坐标轴中，它可能沿着X轴方向移动，或者Y轴方向移动，也可能处于它们的某一个象限之中，与两根相互垂直的轴呈一个角度移动。在这里，事件发生的那一个时刻便是手电筒（将手电筒视为一个点），它会同时顺着和逆着时间的方向朝着两端发散，就像与地面平行的那个两端发光的手电筒一样，呈现出两个顶点重合的圆锥体。事件发生的那一点是现在，逆着时间方向的那个圆锥体是过去，顺着时间方向的那个圆锥体是未来。如果我们处于圆锥体之中，那个事件的发生就会被我们感知到；如果在圆锥体的外面，我们就不会感知到。“光年”在天文学里面的确切含义不是距离，而是时间的概念。公元1054年，据中国《宋史》记载，有一颗超新星爆发，该超新星的残骸形成了现在所见的蟹状星云。超星星不是在公元1054年那个时点爆炸的，而是在地球上的公元1054年，人类进入了超星星爆炸产生的时间光锥，从而看到了它的美丽变身。现在地球上见到的，只是残骸形成的蟹状星云。假设，在宇宙中的某个点上，这颗超星星爆炸形成的时间光锥刚好到达，那么在那个点上就可以看见到它爆炸的全过程。从这个意义上讲，同一个事件是可以被重复观察的，也就是说，我们是有可能回到过去的。如果光锥被严重扭曲（如在黑洞的周围，空间和时间被彻底改变，就像是柔软的席梦思上放了一个重铅球，席梦思被压进去一个凹洞，这个凹洞就是被扭曲的空间），使得我们非正常地进入时间光锥的过去或者未来部分，我们就可以重温过去，体验未来。动画片《海尔兄弟》中有一集讲的就是，两兄弟突然遇到了存在于几百年前的贩卖黑人的船只，从而演绎了一段英雄救人的美妙故事。美国影片《Butterfly Effect》讲述了一个有特异功能，可以使自己回到过去的学生，充满了奇妙的故事。不过，在这个男主角在回到过去的时候，估计空间和时间已经被他扭曲得不成样子了。

如果魔幻世界确实存在，纳尼亚传奇之凯斯宾王子吹响具有神奇魔力的号角的时候，时间光锥被严重扭曲，彼得兄妹进行了魔幻的光锥，给我们献上了一部视听大片。我期待着魔幻的光锥被再次扭曲，再次欣赏纳尼亚的魔幻世界。

其实，父亲节没有母亲节这样广为人知晓和重视。

2008年6月15号的那天，陪我妹妹从南京西路恒隆广场经过，无意间透过玻璃橱窗，瞥见旁边ZARA店铺里的告示上写着：父亲节，减价30％。猛然间，发现，今天是父亲节。

历史上歌颂父亲的诗歌、文章好像不多，我唯一有印象的是朱自清先生的散文《背影》。散文中有段很感人、细腻和真实的描写：

我说道：“爸爸，你走吧。”他往车外看了看说：“我买几个桔子去。你就在此地，不要走动。”我看那边月台的栅栏外有几个卖东西的等着顾客。走到那边月台， 须穿过铁道，须跳下去又爬上去。父亲是一个胖子，走过去自然要费事些。我本来要去的，他不肯，只好让他去。我看见他戴着黑布小帽，穿着黑布大马褂，深青布棉袍，蹒跚地走到铁道边，慢慢探身下去，尚不大难。可是他穿过铁道，要爬上那边月台，就不容易了。他用两手攀着上面，两脚再向上缩；他肥胖的身子向左微倾，显出努力的样子，这时我看见他的背影，我的泪很快地流下来了。我赶紧拭干了泪。怕他看见，也怕别人看见。我再向外看时，他已抱了朱红的桔子往回走了。 过铁道时，他先将桔子散放在地上，自己慢慢爬下，再抱起桔子走。到这边时，我赶紧去搀他。他和我走到车上，将桔子一股脑儿放在我的皮大衣上。于是扑扑衣上的泥土，心里很轻松似的。过一会说：“我走了，到那边来信！”我望着他走出去。他走了几步，回过头看见我，说：“进去吧，里边没人。”等他的背影混入来来往往的人里，再找不着了，我便进来坐下，我的眼泪又来了。

在我的印象中，父亲不像母亲那样无微不至的、细腻入微的和温柔和缓的关心、爱护和照顾孩子，他们粗犷中蕴藏着对子女深深的爱，他们爱的方式比较直接，比较理性，比较含蓄。继承了父亲的性别，慢慢长大，独立，上学，工作，发现处于一个在客观上由男性主导的社会里，男性要比女性承担更多，他们会更多地遭遇压力、不顺和忧愁。多与父亲保持兄弟般的感情，坐下来静静地谈谈话，诉说彼此对生活，对人生的理解、领悟和追求。有时会想起，小时候和父亲打乒乓球的情景，带我骑自行车的情景，把我放在他肩膀上的情景，眼下分居两地，父亲身体也不好了，很少或者没有机会了。现在，自己也长大成人了，是我们给予父亲，还有母亲，爱的时候了。我已不在是个小孩子，其实我知道在父母心中一直是孩子。想想自己真是惭愧，父亲十六岁就自己养活自己，而我却要到二十几岁，养我这么多年。《圣经》上记着，上帝对他儿女的爱和救恩是无条件的。在人世间，父爱和母爱也是这样的。让我也无条件地爱我的父亲和母亲吧，因为我一直这样被爱着。

余翁诗三首，过端午，吊屈子！

一、飘给屈原

有水的地方就有龙舟
有龙舟的竞渡就有人击鼓
你恒在鼓声的前方引路
哀丽的水鬼啊你的漂魂
从上游追你到下游那鼓声
从上个端午到下个端午
湘水悠悠无数的水鬼
冤缠荇藻怎洗涤得清
千年的水鬼惟你成江神
非湘水净你，是你净湘水
你奋身一跃，所有的波涛
汀芷浦兰流芳到现今
亦何须招魂招亡魂归去
你流浪的诗族诗裔
涉沅济湘，渡更远的海峡
有水的地方就有人想家
有岸的地方楚歌就四起
你就在歌里，风里，水里

二、汨罗江神

烈士的终站就是诗人的起点？ 
昔日你问天， 
今日我问河 
而河不答， 
只悲风吹来水面， 
悠悠西去依然是汨罗。 
所有的河水，滔滔，都向东 
你的清波却反向而行 
举世皆合流，唯你患了洁癖； 
众人皆酣睡，唯你独醒。 
逆风而飞是高昂的令旗， 
逆流而泳是矫健的龙舟。 
急鼓齐催，千桨竞发， 
两千年后，你仍然待救吗？ 
不，你已成江神，不再是水鬼， 
待救的是岸上沦落的我们； 
百舸争渡，追踪你的英烈， 
要找回失传已久的清芬， 
旗号纷纷，追你的不仅是 
三湘的子弟，九洲的选手， 
不仅李白与苏轼的后人， 
更有惠特曼与雪莱的子孙。 
投江的烈士，抱恨的诗人， 
长发飘风的渺渺背影， 
回一回头吧，挥一挥手， 
在浪间等一等我们。

三、淡水河边吊屈原

青史上留下你一片洁白，
朝朝暮暮你行吟在楚泽。
江鱼吞食了两千多年，  
吞不下你的一根傲骨。  
 
太史公为你的投水太息，
怪你为什么不游宦他国？
他怎知你若是做了张仪，
你不过为先秦一说客。  
 
但丁荷马和魏吉的史诗，
怎撼动你那悲壮的楚辞？
你的死就是你的不死，  
你一直活到千秋万世！  
 
悲苦时高歌一节离骚，  
千古的志士泪涌如潮；  
那浅浅的一弯汨罗江水，
灌溉着天下诗人的骄傲！
 
子兰的衣冠已化作尘土，
郑袖的舞袖在何处飘舞？
听！                
急鼓！              
可爱的三闾大夫！     
浅浅的龙湾在为你竞渡！
 
我遥立在春晚的淡水河上，
我仿佛嗅到芳草的芬芳；  
我怅然俯吻那悠悠的碧水，
它依然流着楚泽的寒凉。

Bear Stearns, a piece of news said, would have been profitable in 1Q 2008, and yet they were about to be bankrupt mere days before reporting that profit. It is clear that Bear Stearns would have been able to continue operating, had they been able to remain liquid, the news added.

To be liquid, or liquidity, I think, is just one of the factors, which prevent a company from going out of business.  In this specific case, Bear Stearns, liquidity plays a critical and decisive role, as Bear Stearns has no enough cash, and no a great number of fixtures and fittings.  It, based on my subjective judgment, might even rent its offices for business.  All in its acquisition are the financial vehicles.  As a result, liquidity is emerging as a harsh problem when it failed to be bailed out by raising adequate money from the market either in the form of issuing bonds or shares, and, equally, when it was unable to cash its financial vehicles.  Finally, it is surely on the brink of going out of business.  Unlike, say, a manufacturing company, whose liquidity may be not as important as a financial intermediary, it has no fixed assets, intangibles, or lands-as mentioned above-to sell to grasp cashes to bail itself out in the short run.  In the long run, however, selling assets is desperately useless.

As for profit, a sound understanding is absolutely required.  Profit sometimes is just a numerical conception, and means nothing in the worst cases.  A manufacturing company, for instance, may report a big profit, but book no cash, as it sells its product in credit-no down cashes.  The account receivable will really become noncollectable as the customers’ financial position is deteriorating horribly.  All the profit will turn to nothing for big write-downs undermine it.  Profit is affected by the accounting policy, too.  As far as I know, the Japanese firms have higher ratio of price/ earning per share.  Why, you may wonder?  It is because the Japanese firms adopt more conservative accounting rules, under-reporting revenues, and over-reporting costs and expenditures.  Profit is a notional number.

One thing, in my humble opinion, is important-how to hold a sweeping view of the financial position of a company? Gather the three financial statements-balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement, and take it as a whole.  Huh, this is not enough, since the off-statement items appear increasingly significant.  As an outsider, all we know about is just a small fraction of the whole story.  Who can unfold the whole story?  God knows, perhaps.

A good article from Economist

When nationalism rears its head in China, the country's neighbours tremble. They have been trembling especially hard this year. In the wake of unrest in Tibet in March, a virulently xenophobic mood swept the country. Westerners were the main target, but East Asian governments still fear that China may start throwing its weight around and settling old scores.

The earthquake in Sichuan last month, and the West's sympathetic response to it, has helped to defuse the tension, but anxieties remain. At a recent conference in Singapore on regional security, organised by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, said that how China and the West handled problems caused by “narrow interest groups” (apparently referring to the pro-Tibet lobby and its ilk), would “strongly influence whether China's emergence will unsettle the international order, or whether China succeeds in its path of peaceful integration with the rest of the world.”

Mr. Lee warned of “unexpected incidents” arising before or during the Beijing Olympics in August. One recent episode, which shocked many Chinese, involved Sharon Stone, an American actress, suggested that the Sichuan earthquake could have been a result of bad “karma” in China caused by its crackdown in Tibet.

Chinese cinemas have responded by refusing to show her films and Christian Dior, a French fashion company, has stopped using her in its advertising campaign in China. The French have been especially nervous of public sentiment in China since April, when protests in Paris against the Olympic torch relay triggered demands in China for a boycott of French goods.

The Communist Party, fearful of being accused of selling out Chinese interests, has been reluctant to come down hard on nationalist protesters. But it too is clearly nervous. Police have been keeping a close watch on public displays of patriotism, even those involving nothing more than small groups of young Chinese shouting “Come on, China!” to show their sympathy with the earthquake victims.

China does not want the West or its neighbours to get alarmed. It fears that anti-China sentiment abroad could fuel nationalism at home, which in turn could pressure on policymakers to engage in a vicious cycle of tit-for-tat responses.

So even as Chinese nationalists have been seething over perceived insults by foreigners, their leaders have been reaching out to traditional rivals. President Hu Jintao flew to Tokyo in May for the first visit by a Chinese head of state in a decade and a far friendlier one than his predecessor's trip in 1998.

China has been offering olive branches to Taiwan's new president, Ma Ying-jeou. In late May Mr Hu held talks in Beijing with Wu Poh-hsiung, who leads Mr Ma's party, the Kuomintang. They agreed to resume dialogue between the two sides, which has been suspended for a decade. When Vietnam's Communist Party chief, Nong Duc Manh, visited, the two sides agreed to set up a hotline between their leaders.

In the earthquake zone, at least some foreign journalists have found the Chinese military—which normally shuns contact with the media—unusually chatty and willing to help. American military planes have been allowed to fly in with relief supplies. China even agreed to allow Japanese military planes to do the same, but quickly decided against the idea after Chinese nationalists (who resent the Japanese more than the Americans) began protesting on the internet. It would have been the first action in China by Japanese military aircraft since the second world war.

Singapore's Mr Lee said the international community needed to understand “the strength of these gut emotions in Chinese society and in the collective psyche”. Chinese leaders know it all too well and are struggling to contain it.

We may remain less sympathetic at the time when the planes hijacked by terrorists hit the twin towers which were then standing firmly there, but on fire soon, and, finally, collapsed into dreadful pieces during Nine-eleven Incident, for, in part, it happened in U.S., a quite geographically distant nation on which many of us may never set foot.  In 2005, the fierce bombing, killing dozens and wounding hundreds, in metro station of London has exerted limited influence over the unrestful emotion of the domestics of China.  As reported, these two blasts and the turmoil therefore caused were the result of a series of fine stages of the foreign terrorists.  However, the 8.0 magnitude earthquake on 12^th May, 2008, which gave Sichuan Province an unprecedented hit, spread its devastating power over the neighboring provinces and made half the Asia shake as well, is undoubtedly a horribly fierce natural disaster.  The official death toll rose to 69,016, state-run Xinhua reported Sunday.  Another 368,545 people were injured and 18,830 are missing, Xinhua said.  How fragile a human being is in face of the natural disaster! And how priceless a human being’s life is!  A man, however poor or rich, big or humble, and old or young, will receive the same catastrophe when the big trouble descends on them, and one thing becomes certain-survive it.  We will really feel the true value of life and appreciate the love, caring and help, no matter in term of spirit or financing, from friends, relatives, and strangers whom we may never come across.  We really now-always actually-live in an uncertain world, and to predict the future is never an easy task.  Treasure our invaluable life, make every day a big one, get willing to give, feel grateful of what we have, grumble less about what we desire, love your Mom, Dad, friends, and rivals, as anyway it is celebrateable that we can now be alive here, and we are sharing the one-off experience of life.  Life comes first and is supreme over all.  Make our life an extraordinary one.