Scandal

Thanks cchw for the delicious macaroons!!! These are absolutely heavenly..I always love pierre herme's creation of sweets, he can always turn sometime normal into something magnificent, and mixing combination of absurd ingredients into completely different flavor profiles. If I live in paris, I probably would go to the shop everyday until my taste buds turn obsolete. Sorry.. no sharing this time, I am finishing all of them myself and saving the truffle flavor as the last piece to rekindle my crush on him.

It was absolutely hilarious to learn about a rumor floating around in the market, and I am quite surprised that it even deem any value. There are BQ and TR in business relationship for the recent years, and a rumor has it that they were in talks of a M&A which has not been known to the market...later on the deal heated up and became apparent to some given the possibilities of synergies and the merger seemed strategically sound. Yet those who were familiar with the history of TR believed their merger will more likely to destroy value and started writing negative notes about TR, trying to shoot down the deal...two parties were aware that the merger has come out of the shadow and decided to bring it back to underground again.. nonetheless the merger continues while negative commentary persists. I must applaud the fantastic creativity involved with how they came up with the story with no basis at all...well the street loves juicy scandals and this one does score some points if you know the two parties well enough...

My big boss already told us that no matter how good your score is the bonus for 2009 is going to be "0". He knows better than anybody else that we are not going to slack on the back of this comment because this is the year that one should be working hard to keep the job. I am only going to report fair weather going forward, proud to announce that I rank #1 in performance since the start of the fiscal year. Although I wouldn't get compensated for the ranking this year.. it just feels good for being right.