I saw this interesting article on Yahoo news. Essentially, it tells the tale of most people my age/Caroline’s age as well as those of the tail end of “Generation Y”. College debt is at an all time high, housing rates are the highest in the last 50 years, credit card interest rates are insanely high (for those that carry balances), and the job market is borderline and bouncing back and forth from prosperity and downsizing. Doesn’t look good for us my friends. While I’ve been lucky thus far, I have to be careful. Press MORE for my cache of the article (since yahoo articles tend to disappear after a few days).
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I just stumbled upon a great cheese pairing with the most unusual beverage… I was eating some gouda that Caroline cut, and cracked open a bottle of Virgil’s Root Beer. Man that tasted so good and really complemented each other. Even stranger since no alcohol was there to react with the cheese. The gouda tasted smooth and buttery, and the root beer tasted smooth, and semisweet. The end taste is very clean and leaves a smooth marshmallow-like taste. Try this. Let me know your thoughts. It’s probably the most unusual, but very satisfying and smooth cheese pairing!

One of the reasons I keep a blog is to remember what happened in my life, as well as those that we’ve lost. One year ago from this month, I had 2 friends die. Hannah Shi died Dec. 26th in the tsunami that devastated Phuket, Thailand in the morning. Coworkers who were staying in the area said she died sleeping in her room at the time. Also a very close co-worker of mine who was much like a 2nd father to me, especially on advising me how the more “American” tradition of the process of engagement was, and what was involved passed away just after new years day 2005. His name was Mike Regina, and will be greatly missed. I received an email from his wife about how her life has been and how tough it was for here the few months following his death. It breaks my heart to hear about her and her 2 sons go through that pain and void.

Two my friends Mike and Hannah, on this day I remember, and will remember always.

Best Wishes,
-Eddie

I got the email last night. I got accepted to CUNY (City University of New York) Baruch School of Business’ Zicklin MBA program for part time (flex-time). It’s the only other part time MBA available in the city other than NYU Stern. Stern seems to not like taking their own undergrads, and besides, getting a diversified education from another institution is a good thing. Orientation for me is next Saturday.

I think I’m getting a good balance of both sides of an education.

NYU Stern Undergrad:

Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business at CUNY:

Wish me luck. Now I gotta get in my immunization and residency forms in since they sent me my acceptance letter late in the game.

Saw this article posted on Yahoo regarding US News & World Report’s list of best jobs for 2006. Now we know how arbitrary they can be, and I took this article with a grain of salt. For example the whole idea of engineers as a good job might be flawed. I remember a statistic from ABC News World News Tonight on a special regarding China. With their population and education system, China puts over 300,000 new engineers to the workforce a year, vs. the US’s 3,700 a year. We simply can’t compete with numbers like that in the long run. While the US, Japan, and Europe may still lead in terms of innovation, China will succeed in reverse engineering, “process-refinement,” and still have the economies of scale (and the fixed Yuan foreign exchange) to produce it equivalently or cheaper (and sometimes better). Global market forces changes in magical ways. LOL Press more for my cache of the article.
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