Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Harlem and Police

Well I live in Harlem during the summer to save money, and today I took a walk to the Apollo theatre. It's an interesting neighborhood. I always wipe my usual smile off my face, to try not to stand out so much. Still, everybody still seems surprised to see me, and always ask what race I am.

So while I was walking, i came across this huge crowd of black guys yelling at the cops. The cops arrested this one black guy, and we're a little bit extra rough with him. So everybody in the neighborhood was yelling and getting mad, throwing bottles, throwing signs, pylons, and whatever at the police. I thought they were going to break out into a brawl. I kinda hate the cops also, I always think people with power abuse their power.

I ended up eating dinner at Pizza Hut where the cashier tried speaking Chinese with me.

Alternative Energy and Comedy Club

It's amazing how much all the controversy surrounding Tibet has calmed down. Although it's probably in good taste, 70,000 people were killed by the recent earthquake, with millions more homeless due to the earthquake and floods. A crazy time for China right now.

I went to a comedy club the other day in Times Square. It was so lame, i was really disapointed. First off, there were 6 comedians. 4 of them asked me if I am a ninja. Now, i realize i'm Asian........but I don't see how that is remotely funny. So those guys were idiots.

But even worse, there were a couple Pakistani guys to my left, and one of the comedian was really offensive. First he kept joking that they are terrorists, which is old, overdone, and not funny anymore. Then, he said like "wouldn't it suck if you spent your whole life doing whatever crap you have to do, then one day find out that allah doesn't exist. You'd be screwed, wasted your life. aren't you worried about that?"

I thought that was really low class.

I'm really enjoying my work. I'm covering some alternative energy companies. The one that really caught my attention is a company called Energy Conversion Devices, ENER. They make solar energy panels to generate renewable clean energy. I'm really high on this company. When it was trading at $62, I thought it was BUY. So i recommended it to my manager, just in the past few days, it's been up 5 days in a row, culminating today with a 15% single day gain. it's up to $77 now!

So if you looking for a stock with great potential, you can't go wrong with this one. I honestly think solar energy is the future. Thinking about a clean solar powered world gets me excited. It's great that i get to learn about such emerging technologies at work.