Career Break

Posted in | at 5/27/2009 03:14:00 PM

Wikipedia is rather amazing, you can pretty much Wiki everything including the term "Career Break",


"The career break is sometimes referred to as an 'adult gap year', which reflects the commitment towards developing skills and gaining experience while out of the workforce." 

And,

" A career break is usually between one month and two years long. Six months to 2 years is the most common period of time for a career break."

It's been six months since I'd been on a break. Nothing wrong with it, expect the pressure to do something with it. People are rather predictable, by something called Statistics isn't.

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Parental Conflicts

Posted in | at 5/27/2009 02:57:00 PM

Think about it. In nature, how would birds prevent their chicks from living in their nest forever? Do they stop feeding them? Or simply just push them over the edge and out of the nest? Off you go.


In our term. I think it's called Parental Conflicts. That's when kids should just get out of home.

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Free Persuasive Tips

Posted in | at 5/27/2009 02:53:00 PM


Free, if you care enough to read through all that - 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive.


I bet you'll read it if you paid $30 for the book otherwise.

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Best, Worst Nightmares

Posted in | at 5/27/2009 02:24:00 PM

This blog must felt like it'd been abandoned for a while - I have been occupied. Amongst all the great things.. including Day Trading. A dream, a message that has been hammered home and again - "Would you like to retire early, afford your dreams, travel the world; it's now finally possible!!!" My ass.


Well. In short, it's not easy, and not everyone can do it.

Day Trading is probably the best and the worst emotional encounter you can ever experience. It's like having lived the 10 years, except all the emotions are being squashed into a day, a week, okay maybe a month. Ecstatic emotions battered by devastation, success crumbled by mistakes after mistakes. At the end of it, even if it did "click", you'll be struggling to find that confidence back. Exactly, confidence, one of the vital element of "getting there". Game Over.

Well. I guess the learnings? You'll learn a lot - about reality, about yourself (including things that you DO, and DON'T like about yourself), your fears and your limits. You discover what is, and what isn't you. And the funny thing that you may realise is that - you can only be yourself. 

Driving says a lot of things about you, similarly with parking. I am someone who would be at my car probably 5 mins before the parking time is up, you know, just to be sure. And now, I think I have an issue with it. 

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Investment Seminars

Posted in | at 5/13/2009 02:51:00 PM

I attend share investment seminars a lot - shares, options, CFDs, you name it. Free ones though. 

You know what I notice over time? 

Most of the hit rate centers around 50%. Hit rate is the number of times you get it right versus the time you get it wrong. So in this instant half-half, half the time you buy the right shares and make money, and half the time you get it wrong and loss money.

There's a flaw in that logic right? 
Because really, shares can either go UP, or DOWN. So, you bound to be right half the time right? 

Thus I only attend free seminars. I am yet to attend one that am happy to pay to find out more.

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Such is Life.

Posted in | at 5/09/2009 08:20:00 PM

A FW email I received today.

If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A -R -D-W-O -R -K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

and

K -N -O -W-L -E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But ,

A-T -T -I -T -U -D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B -U -L -L -S -H-I -T
2+21+12+12 +19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S -S -K -I -S-S -I -N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty, that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, its the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.

'REMEMBER SOME PEOPLE ARE ALIVE SIMPLY BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL TO SHOOT THEM'

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Timberland

Posted in | at 5/07/2009 10:11:00 PM

Opportunity in change, and capitalising on it. 

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Where did the money go?

Posted in | at 5/07/2009 09:07:00 AM

With the recent financial crisis, you have many people writing/asking, "where's the money?" 


I wouldn't go through the long, windy version on how the greedy bastards have been creating money out of thin air, besides it can't possibly be their fault right? Money is an idea, and if they can expand that idea, then fair enough if they can do it. But my point is exactly that, many people have been deluded. Money does not grow on trees. The Russian Scientists who'd been lured by money to work on Wallstreet as traders should know that, the numbers work, but it's much more than just numbers.

When it comes crashing down in the current financial crisis, we wonder where the money went? Well, if I tell you that my old surf bag is worth $100, and by the time you put it on ebay and only managed to fetch $1? Come on, don't blame me!

But through this crisis. I have so much more respect for people who actually generate real value in our economy, by that I mean people who actually dig soil and plant real tomatoes that I can put into my sandwiches. 

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More on chances, luck

Posted in | at 5/07/2009 09:01:00 AM


Speaking of chances, luck; Paris Hilton has no idea who pays for her bills, wow, this is as good as it can get I reckon! The bill pays for itself *two thumbs up* 

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Next in line..

Posted in | at 5/07/2009 08:46:00 AM

Is it true that life's a matter of luck, chances?

The curtain goes up, and you're next in line.. your time has come.
Sometimes you wonder if the success of your performance will depend on.. 

1) How well you have prepared for up to this point, 

2) If your audiences are plain as*holes,

3) If you might trip over while walking to centre stage

4) Or maybe, most of the above are actually unnecessary worries, it's your life, you be the judge even if you fall flat on your face.

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New Market Lingo

Posted in | at 5/07/2009 07:58:00 AM

The bull comes up the stairs, the bear goes out the window; there's a white pig sitting in the room!

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Amusing Facts

Posted in | at 5/04/2009 07:27:00 PM

Because of the downturn, I think the Suze Oramn show must have been popular as ever, considering she's now invading your itunes, and being named as one of the most influential people on Times Magazine second year in a row.


As for the most amusing bit: seeing her screaming at people say if your savings only allow you to survive for less than 8 months.

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Persistent

Posted in | at 5/04/2009 07:12:00 PM

Persistence is great. But how much is enough though, where's that fine line between "stupidity" and being "smart" about getting ahead in life? 


I guess, there's a tendency to classified your efforts as plain "stupid" if it doesn't work, and if it does, well you'll be considering yourself the next hot entrepreneur on earth wouldn't you? You smart thing. Well, and at times, rather than risk calling yourself anything, you do nothing.

If history and statistics are of any comfort,

Apparently, 9 out of 10 business will fail within the first 5 years, and for the one that survives, it could become the 9 out of the 10 business that may fail within the next 10 years before it even make it's mark.

As for Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC. He, apparently at age 65, used the $105 from his social security pay check to fund visits to potential franchises, 1009 rejections later, KFC was born. 

When do, and will you stop trying?

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