Random: Marketplace Prediction

Just few random thoughts...
* The economy won't recover to the height of 2007 within the next president's serving time (so not within 4 or 8 years). Obama and McCain just lack economic insight.
* The economy will recover when people forget financial responsibility, and pushing for unrealistic political ideal on the government. Basically, greedy and ignorant.
* The gap between the rich and the poor in US will widen. Too many shady people, too many complex rules and laws, and too many people put too much trust in so called professional.
* Monopoly on a global scale will become more prominent whether you are conscious of it or not.
* India will lead the global economy before China, but China will be the slow-and-steady from-the-behind player. However, America will be the wild card as long as EU remains as socialism nations, and Asia remains politically corrupted. Japan just lacks resources to be competitive in warfare.

Random: Programmers' Prayer

Serenity for a Programmer:

God grant me the serenity to accept the buggy code I cannot change,
courage to change the poorly written code I inherited,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Random: Prediction of Tomorrow's Adults

My prediction of the US economy and adults 20 years from now:
- Invest more money than now.
- More saving than the current generation.
- Complain a lot more about high tax.
- Less likely to take risk in entrepreneurship.

Random: Wake Up

Normally, I wake up around 6:30 AM for work, but recently, I would randomly wake up around 5:30 AM. It is bothersome. It is difficult to sleep because there are dreams... often reflecting on my own hopeless desire, and the past mistakes. At time, it was pointless to sleep any further, and I would simply lay there pondering. Occasionally, I would just get up.

Is it worth it to sleep anymore?

I feel tire mentally and physically. But at least when I am up, I can do something. I am tire of waiting for good things to happened. Regret. Regretting not doing what I should sooner. Regret of just waiting. And absolutely, tire of regretting. I rather walk for hours on a hot sunny day until my legs are about to collapse. I rather run until the senses are numb.

Won't ever achieve that desire. Somethings are impossible.
Can't stop dreaming either. Then there would be nothing to live for.

Random: Who I saw and What I have seen

Today I went to Sunnyvale on a business purpose with my coworker, and by luck I saw someone I recognized walking across the street next to me. Or at least someone I believed to recognized. I look at him for quite a while as he sped up pass both of us. The man looked rush with a vibe of frustration. My coworker continued the conversation, and I paid no more attention.

Then at 5 PM, I saw him again, walking passed the lobby of Yahoo. Again, no one seemed to notice this person but me. Again, he quickly walk passed the door and reached for the cell phone. At the end of the day, my curiosity got the better of me, and I talked to my coworker about this man.

You know, this morning, I thought I saw Jerry.

Yeah, that is him.

Oh, really? You know I am surprise that nobody say a word to him. He walk passed twenty employees, and no one say hello or goodbye.

My coworker went on to explain the lack of fascination for the man, which I still could not understand. Is it normal for the employees to not say a thing to the CEO? Is it a good thing when the CEO said nothing to his employees? So people do not matter anymore?

Should a CEO be ignored for his mistake, or does he has to be a innovative genius in order to be recognized? Even as a stranger, sometimes unknown people on the street say hello to me. But as an employee not saying anything to your employer, who you recognized, that is weird to me.