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818 days ago
Too busy these days, as the two new German words can prove that: 1. Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung - Environmental Impact Assessment 2. Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften - legal protection insurance companies Enjoy...
920 days ago
UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERS - TAKE ONE Two engineering students were walking across campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a > beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want." The second engineer nodded approvingly, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit." UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERS - TAKE TWO To the optimist, the glass is half full. > To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. > To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERS - TAKE THREE A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!" ...
948 days ago
Climate change, the current hottest topic, appears every day in all kinds of media all over the world. After the scientific consensus has been made that global warming is real, and, to a large extent, is man-made, a wide range of interest people are in progress to integrate climate related issues into their daily work and decision making processes. Of course, financial sector, like always, smelled out the economic potential of the infant carbon market forged by the framework of the UNFCCC, and its main treaty of Kyoto Protocol. That is why now we see very often that the bankers, insurers, fund managers, venture capitalists etc. who were putting their money crazily on the carbon-intensive businesses, e.g. coal-fired power plants, petroleum companies, automotive companies, steel industry, cement industry… seriously talking about the risks and impacts of rising temperatures, climbing sea levels, vanishing icebergs, intensified and more frequent natural disasters, high risk exposures ...
1033 days ago
从一开始一头雾水,到最后和同事的告别晚餐,六个月的BANKER生活暂告一段落。一下不适应每天想怎么穿就怎么穿的生活,但是无论如何应该好好享受一下。在这个短短的旅程中,经历了很多事情,认识很多朋友,发现很多有趣的事情,有过很多有意思的对话。。。 同时也让我拥有了一个时时都心存感激的心。 人生的路途真像是一趟全新的长途旅行的交通连接一样,一站接着一站,每个地方都会很新鲜的人,的事。其实不用时刻急着赶路,休息一下,看看风景,喝杯咖啡,或者和素昧平生的等车的老人闲聊一番,然后乘下一班车也不错。现在就是right time让绷紧的大脑放松下来,为接下来的工作准备体力。
1066 days ago



