澳洲央行把利率减到了60年代以来的最低，美国失业率昨天也创了34年来的新高。有孩子的朋友们在我生日的那天都收到了来自澳洲政府的950块一次性补助，没有孩子的我孤零零的什么生日礼物都没收到。2月份这边的上市公司陆陆续续开始出财报，澳洲股市的底估计也差不多到了。个人还是偏向能源矿产这类股票，毕竟他们是澳洲经济的支柱，整个世界发展的源动力所在。BHP和RIO的价格现在都开始走高，因为中国的铁矿石需求开始回暖。其它的资源股可以留意下MGX和ORI。能源方面个人力推ORG，虽然目前油价和汇率还是很低，一旦经济在09年底10年初复苏，ORG相信会成为2010年收益率最高的股票之一。其它方面看好的有ASX和CSL。ASX凭借垄断，相信估价在大盘成交量变大之后会大幅回升，不过在3月份Short Ban解除之前，还是有继续下探的空间。CSL是出了名的防弹股，金融危机这次也没怎么把它的估价压低，所以价格还是有点高。想拿高红利的朋友估计不会有兴趣。银行方面风险还是比较大的，4大银行都还在继续跌。2月中旬就知道这些分红大户今年能不能保证至少7%的Div Yield。投行方面就更别说了，BNB在破产边缘徘徊，MQG的利润今年预计要将近50%缩水，不过MQG一旦跌破20块阻力位，从中长期来说，还是有的一搏的。 2月份是做短线的好时机，乱七八糟的消息很集中，当然会有好有坏，大家把握机会，恭喜发财！

人们都说09年是水瓶年，希望我这个瓶子09年能够摆脱08年整整1年的霉运。健康，事业和感情上都大丰收。

大家牛年好运！

几天去Gym的路上收到一个miss call。一看是个陌生的号码，心里就估计可能是中介打来关于找工作的事。之前陆陆续续发了将近60-70份的简历，现在也该有回应了。不过没有马上打回给他，想可能是个Phone interview。回家打回去，对方也没怎么问，确定我的身份以后，直接就让我周五去他们公司面试。我也一下觉得蛮突然的，因为说实话，哪家公司打来的我都没搞清楚，对方报了一下地址就挂了。夹杂着兴奋和紧张的情绪，一阵Google，还好，被我找到了。

对方是一家CA的注册会计师楼。全澳有2个办公室，差不多21个人，中等规模。广告上写得很笼统，没有对要求有特别的说明。我粗略预计可能要被问到的问题，做了个准备。说实话自己没什么信心，因为对方一旦问起我的身份问题，没有绿卡将是我的致命伤。周五准时赴约，办公环境简单，不过很舒服。在楼下等了差不多10分钟，一男一女下楼来招呼我了。寒暄一下后，直接开始了。整个面试过程和我之前想的有点不一样，没有很多例如strength和weakness之类很抽象的问题，直接就是问问之前的工作经验，对CA和CPA的看法。之后那个男的就开始聊他们的公司，上班的时间和内容之类，仿佛明天就要上班了一样。最重要的是，他们对我的身份没有兴趣。不过听完之后觉得这家公司要求蛮高的，公司很有生机，95%的员工都是30岁以下的并且都是CA qualified或者在读CA。公司也很数字化。不但所有工作都在电脑上完成，而且电脑都是一机双屏，让员工可以一边做事一边做Research。在会计师楼里拥有这样的数字化程度，大大超出了我想象范围。

不知道我是第几个面试的，也不知道竞争者有多少，总估计着凶多吉少。觉得自己大学成绩真的很差。当初电话里让我带成绩单过去，我心里就有点慌了。不过同时也带了一堆这里高中里拿的一些奖状和全A的成绩单以及UAI过去，希望冲淡他们对我大学成绩的看法。公司整体感觉让我非常满意，就是不知道他们对我满意不满意了。如果有幸能成为他们一员，对我的职业生涯将有举足轻重的改变。

看了这则报道，眼泪默默地打转...
这才是男人的榜样，一个父亲的榜样...

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[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.

But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.

Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in Marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a Wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and Pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.

Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back Mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes Taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.''

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes Followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the Engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was Anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.''

"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a Lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed Him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his Head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the School organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want To do that.''

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran More than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he Tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore For two weeks.''

That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, It felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''

And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly Shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.

``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a Single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few Years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then They found a way to get into the race Officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the Qualifying time for Boston the following year.

Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''

How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he Was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick Tried.

Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii . It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud Getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you Think?

Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with A cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best Time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world Record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to Be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the Time.

``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.''

And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a Mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries Was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' One doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.'' So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass. , always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day.

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.

``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.''

And the video is below....

下面的水晶球能够读出你的心里在想什么？有兴趣的网友可以按照以下规则尝试：任意选择一个两位数(或者说，从10~99之间任意选择一个数)，把这个数的十位与个位相加，再把任意选择的数减去这个和。例如：你选的数是23，然后2+3=5，然后23-5=18。3.在图表中找出与最后得出的数所相应的图形，并把这个图形牢记心中，然后点击水晶球。你会发现，水晶球所显示出来的图形就是你刚刚心里记下的那个图形。

水晶球地址：

http://image2.sina.com.cn/IT/images/2006-06-15/U1418P2T78D6707F1070DT20060615085850.swf

灵验了的记得回来回帖！小心被水晶球诅咒~哈哈哈

正值情人佳节好时分，本人无意间在新浪上发现了一个有趣的调查：

情人节特别调查：没有房子的爱情会幸福吗？ 调查结果如下：（截至悉尼时间2月14日22:38，参与人数21584）

 Q1：你认为是房子重要还是爱情重要? 1 爱情比房子重要 45.78% 2 不好说 28.73% 3 房子比爱情重要 25.49%

Q2：如果一个男人没有能力独立买房子，你愿意同他结婚吗？  1 不愿意 42.15% 2 愿意 35.66% 3 不知道 22.19%

Q3：当你和你的男(女)朋友买房时，你认为应该：  1 共同出钱 68.18% 2 男方出钱 28.41% 3 没想好 2.94% 4 女方出钱 0.47%

Q4：如果你有房产，你会进行婚前财产公证吗？  1 会 43.27% 2 不会 40.83% 3 没想过 15.9%

Q5：结婚前，你的另一半要求公证他（她）的私有房产，你怎么想？  1 重新考虑和他(她)的关系 38.27% 2 无所谓 33.18% 3 完全接受 20.66% 4 坚决不同意 7.89%

Q6：买房后，每月房贷月供谁出？  1 共同承担 76.77% 2 男方出 18.08% 3 无所谓 4.73% 4 女方出 0.42%

Q7： 你和你的（男女）朋友共同买房时，房产证写谁的名字？  1 无所谓 45.91% 2 女方 31.74% 3 男方 22.35%

本人凭正常人的思维逻辑，做出如下分析：

数据：如果没有能力“独立”买房，有42.15%的女性同胞不愿意结婚。
推断：面包与爱情，广大妇女群众愿意选择了面包。
疑问：那前面45.78%回答“爱情比房子重要”的人，脑子里在想什么？
结论：爱情的温度，容易烧坏女人的大脑。

数据：当要买房时，有将近68.10%的人愿意共同出钱。
推断：有福共享，有难同当！
疑问：那前面42.15%回答男人没能力买房，坚决不嫁的人，你们到底还嫁不嫁？
结论：势道昏暗，娶谁嫁谁，摸不见方向。

数据：有将近43.27%的人提出有必要进行婚前财产公证。
推断：世风如下，防不胜防，公证比你没公证好。
疑问：我一旦公证，就有28.27%的可能对方要重新考虑和我的关系。那还让人公证不？这婚还到底要结不？
结论：婚是要结的，房是要买的，但公证却是万万不可的。

数据：将近31.74%的人认为房子名字要写女方。
推断：妇女同胞的女权意识和自我保护意识正逐步增强。
疑问：房子要男方买，公证又不让公证，名字又要写你的，你这不是分明在抢嘛！
结论：妈的烦死了，老娘就是明抢你了你能怎么样，你还TMD想不想结婚了？

 “结，结... ...算你狠。妈的，老子下辈子做女人！"
我仿佛听到了一个柔弱的声音。