Thursday, February 28, 2008

US recession - is it coming?

From Wikipedia:
A recession is a decline in a country's GDP for two or more successive quarters of a year.


From cnn.money

GDP. A revised reading of gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economic activity, showed fourth-quarter growth remained at the same tepid 0.6% rate initially reported. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com thought growth would be revised up to 0.8% in the quarter.


So it means it's really a slow down... not recession... just yet... but probably, it is headed into one... scary... stock has been dropping dramatically... will it continue to drop more and more???

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Hong Kong scandal with the rumours of the divorce of Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung

Well... Let's hear the whole story

Hong Kong News Agency: ...

When Nicholas Tse touched down at the Beijing airport, he was accompanied by 4 assistants and did not reply to any questions asked by the Chinese reporters who were awaiting his arrival at the airport. However, the very prominent missing wedding ring on Nicholas’ left hand did not escape the notice of the reporters who were present at the scene. The missing wedding ring was in itself, more telling than any words about rift between Nicholas and Cecilia.

Nicholas Tse‘ original plan was to arrive in Beijing the day before yesterday. However, he suddenly changed his schedule and only travelled to Beijing yesterday. Clad in a white jacket and sporting a cap on his head, Nicholas and his 4 assistants arrived at the airport in Beijing at a very early 7.30 a.m in the morning. Upon arrival, Nicholas spotted the estimated 20 reporters who were awaiting his arrival but did not quicken his footsteps. Walking slowly and calmly towards the exit of the airport, he was asked by the reporters interviewing him if he had seen the sex scandal pictures of Cecilia and whether he had indeed divorced with Cecilia as heavily speculated and rumored but he did not answer any of the questions posed to him.

The corners of his mouth did however turn up in a smile that seemed like he was sneering at the questions posed to him and waved at the reporters before leaving the airport. From the time of his arrival at the airport to his departure from the airport, Nicholas was observed to have originally had both his hands placed in his pockets but when he used his hands to block off the wave of reporters who were pressing in too closely for comfort for him, it was immediately noticed that the wedding ring he always wore on his left hand was prominently missing.

The missing ring was a dead give-away that the marriage of Nicholas and Cecilia was most probably facing some sort of a crisis. Upon leaving the airport in the car that was arranged for him, Nicholas’ driver violated several traffic regulations and even beat the red light 5 times in his attempts to lose the reporters who had gave chase in their own vehicles.

Oh... come on... I myself these recent days forgot to wear back my wedding rings many times. I took it off for taking a shower or washing dishes... It's no big deal...