Zirca

Recently I had quite a low tolerance for boredom. I was probably going to die of boredom at home on a Wednesday evening. However, Erika is just starting her leave and it's a rare chance to meet her out again. So we just hang out as it's ladies night. Initially we stopped at Butter factory, but decided to go Clarke Quay as the crowd seemed to be too young for her picking. Tried Zirca, which I haven't got to chance to visit. But it was quite disappointing as it was not as big as I thought. But at least that night we had spaces to dance rather than being a sandwich. Sigh, after years of not clubbing, I'm just like a little boy tasting his first taste of night life........

Shit, I still look younger than my present age.



P.s I'm still having problems with blogger! Can't upload photos yet.

Update: Finally got the photos, it's Singnet's problem!

How to Be Rich

Something's wrong with Blogger these days. I can't format my style of words and can't even upload any photos through blogger cause the buttons just went missing!

Anyway, I attended Joey Yap's Bazi for Wealth seminar. What is it about? It is actually a seminar about knowing your personality, strengths and weakness using an ancient chinese chart called Bazi (八字). What is Bazi? It is a chart based on your birth date which can reveal everything about your life and destiny since the day you were born. Well this may sound superstitious like those fortune telling stuffs, but hey it depends on whether you believe it or not. However, I found it to be the most accurate and least bull shit unlike other astrology methods. The greatest men and kings all used it, why not learn it too?

It was the full day seminar spanning from 10 am to 5 pm, but it was worth the time and money. The seminar emphasized on identifying your strengths and weaknesses, and what kind of person you are. And by knowing these, we can concentrate on our strengths to develop ourselves. Reading personality using Bazi is just barely skimming the surface cause as you go further into it, there are more to reveal like luck cycles. But that's for the professionals to decipher.

Talking about destiny, what everyone wanted to know was,

WILL I BECOME RICH?

The answer is.......................it depends.

Not everyone is born rich nor is going to be rich. It's just fated. From the day you were born, your destiny is fixed. Some were born to be winners and some, losers. But how you lived your life is another thing. Cause though destiny is fixed but there is a slight chance it can be altered. So it's how you live your life.

Nowadays you see many emphasis on entrepreneurship. Even the government is trying to encourage everyone to start their own business. Please don't blindly listen to them. Some of us are successful in running businesses, but many, no matter how hard you tried, just cannot do it. Why? Cause most just do not have the destiny of a businessman.

Even if one is not destined to be a businessman, don't fret. There are other ways of making money. I'm going to reveal one way to be rich:

MARRY TO A RICH GUY OR GIRL LOR

I'm not lying. It's possible! Hahaha!

Of course, the most important thing is to invest in yourself. I'm sure many of the world's richest person has mentioned it many many times.

Love Is Over Rated

A talk with a friend yesterday reminded me of my own past relationship. It made me realized that one should not be care or love your girlfriend too much. Yes, girls always said they wanted nice guys, and when you become that perfect nice guy, they just leave you. How ironic isn't it? Well it could be they feel bored by all the love and care you showered her. In this situation, the result is sudden. It is all lovey dovey until BAM! she wants a breakup. You will never see it coming. L O S E R.

Frankly, I never regretted my love life. It was the happiest part of my life that there was someone who can be intimate with, laugh, talk, play, eat and travel with me. Maybe my only regret was being so far away from you, only to lose you. Or maybe I regretted that I love you too much?

I talked to many girls and discovered an interesting secret. They have fear of marriage. When a couple is in a relationship and the guy starts talking about marriage, BAM! The girl leaves you. Marriage isn't on their minds. What they wanted first? Career? Or just having as much fun as possible? There are many different reasons for every girl. Of course there are girls out there who are just dying to get married!

A friend told me getting a girl is easy. Just have a sense of security and make them laugh. 2 Conditions only! How hard it gets? You will just have to figure it out on your own.

However, a possessive boyfriend deserves to be dumped.

Colour Quiz

Try this kind of accurate!

http://www.ColorQuiz.com/

Asian Investment Fair

Went to the Asian Investment Fair at Suntec today, cause they are holding a series of seminars educating about investment and talking about the current economy and what to expect about the upcoming future. Well, there's quite a few companies like Capitaland and Wilmar which you can talk to the people and find out more about their companies. Then there are a number of investment companies and trading account companies which you can approach to open a trading account. Went there about 3 pm jumping from seminar to seminar. There's quite a huge number of people in the seminar rooms that there is not enough space for people to squeeze in. People were spilling out in some seminars! Most of the people there were middle aged couples, grey haired, balding old men, aunties and spinsters, though there were some young people around. I think we still need to be financially educated no matter how young we are. I guess young guys and girls rather spend their money on material things rather than learn about investment and making money. Or is it we are just too poor to start buying stocks? I had to agree stocks are expensive, imagine just having to starve and save for a few months (which I did) just to buy a single cheap stock. Anyway, I like the free gifts! Got a notebook and this GOLD bag! I love the gold bag, it's so...........GOLD!!!

Fragile Hearts

A relationship is like a mirror, once broken, it can never be mended......... When you try picking up the pieces, you'll just cut yourself and get hurt again. Even if one manages to fix it, it will never be the same as before, leaving cracks and lines.

It hurts, it hurts.

People say time will heal all wounds, but they forgot there will always be scars.

How?

Get a new mirror then.

Changi Village

Been to Changi Village for supper last night which I had an experience of looking at Bapoks. Sitting in my friend's car, we drove past those bapoks who are advertising their business along the carpark. I've seen bapoks before, usually you can tell by their broad shoulders and adam's apple. Most would be very ugly, but some of the bapoks are like SUPER Chio. OMG it's so sick. One had like plastic boobs almost spilling out of his clothes! One of my friend went high looking at those chio bapoks. I really wonder about his orientation now. Then as we drove for a second round to pick up other friends, we saw this uncle driving to a bapok, chatted awhile (probably asking for price) and the bapok hopped on! OMGGGGGG. Was that man so desperate that he opted for a bapok rather than those prostitutes from geylang? This is so sick!

Obvious Scam

When any PRC approached you on the streets asking if you speak Chinese, then promoting their stuff, 100% it is a scam. It's just so obvious. I was walking in Orchard MRT station today when there was this lady approached me asking if I am Singaporean and can speak Mandarin. After I said yes, she showed me her name card saying that they do advertising (probably a modeling agency called iModel). I asked her again what does her company does, she repeated that they do advertising for KFC, Macdonlds, etc and pestered me to give her my number and name. DUH! It's so fake that I could tell it right away that it is a scam! So I told her I'm not interested and walked away. Girls, beware of such model agency scams.

The story of Cupid and Psyche

I never knew there is a story of cupid until now.....

Envious and jealous of the beauty of a mortal girl named Psyche, Venus asks her son Cupid (known to the Greeks as Eros) to use his golden arrows to cause Psyche to fall in love with the vilest creature on earth. Cupid agrees, but then falls in love with Psyche on his own. When he leans over from a distance to kiss her, he causes one of his own arrows to fall forward, piercing him.

When all continue to admire and praise Psyche's beauty, but none desire her as a wife, Psyche's parents consult an oracle, which tells them to leave Psyche on the nearest mountain, for her beauty is so great that she is not meant for (mortal) man. Terrified, they have no choice but to follow the oracle's instructions. But then Zephyrus, the west wind, carries Psyche away to a fair valley and a magnificent palace where she is attended by invisible servants until night falls and in the darkness of night the promised bridegroom arrives and the marriage is consummated. Cupid visits her every night to sleep with her, but demands that she never lights any lamps, since he does not want her to know who he is.

Cupid allows Zephyrus to take Psyche back to her sisters and bring all three down to the palace during the day, but warns that Psyche should not listen to any argument that she should try to discover his true form. The two jealous sisters tell Psyche, then pregnant with Cupid's child, that rumor is that she had married a great and terrible serpent who would devour her and her unborn child when the time came for it to be fed. They urge Psyche to conceal a knife and oil lamp in the bedchamber, to wait till her husband was asleep, and then to light the lamp and slay him at once if it is as they said. Psyche sadly follows their advice. In the light of the lamp Psyche recognizes the fair form on the bed as the god Cupid himself. However, she accidentally pricks herself with an arrow, and is consumed with desire for her husband. She begins to kiss him, but as she does, a drop of oil falls from her lamp onto Cupid's shoulder and wakes him. He flies away, and she falls from the window to the ground, sick at heart.

Psyche then finds herself in the city where one of her jealous elder sisters lives. She tells her what had happened, then tricks her sister into believing that Cupid has chosen her as a wife instead. She later meets her other sister and deceives her likewise. Each returns to the top of the peak and jumps down eagerly, but Zephyrus does not bear them and they fall to their deaths at the base of the mountain.

Psyche searches far and wide for her lover, finally stumbling into a temple where everything is in slovenly disarray. As Psyche is sorting and clearing, Ceres appears, but refuses any help beyond advising Psyche that she must call directly on Venus, the jealous shrew who caused all the problems in the first place. Psyche next calls on Juno in her temple, but Juno, superior as always, gives her the same advice. So Psyche finds a temple to Venus and enters it. Venus orders Psyche to separate all the grains in a large basket of mixed kinds before nightfall. An ant takes pity on Psyche and with its ant companions separates the grains for her.

Venus is outraged at her success and tells her to go to a field where golden sheep graze and get some golden wool. A river-god tells Psyche that the sheep are vicious and strong and will kill her, but if she waits until noontime, the sheep will go to the shade on the other side of the field and sleep; she can then pick the wool that sticks to the branches and bark of the trees. Venus next asks for water flowing from a cleft that is impossible for a mortal to attain and is also guarded by great serpents. This time an eagle performs the task for Psyche. Venus, outraged at Psyche's survival, claims that the stress of caring for her son, made depressed and ill as a result of Psyche's lack of faith, has caused her to lose some of her beauty. Psyche is to go to the Underworld and ask the queen of the Underworld to place a bit of her beauty in a box that Venus had given to Psyche. Psyche decides that the quickest way to the Underworld is to throw herself off some high place and die and so she climbs to the top of a tower. But the tower itself speaks to her and tells her the route that will allow her to enter the Underworld alive and return again, as well as telling her how to get past Cerberus by giving the three-headed dog a small cake; how to avoid other dangers on the way there and back; and most importantly, to eat nothing but coarse bread in the underworld, as eating anything else would trap her there forever. Psyche follows the orders precisely, rejecting all but bread while beneath the Earth.

However when Psyche has left the Underworld, she decides to open the box and take a little bit of the beauty for herself. Inside, she can see no beauty; instead an infernal sleep arises from the box and overcomes her. Cupid (Eros), who had forgiven Psyche, flies to her, wipes the sleep from her face, puts it back in the box, and sends her back on her way. Then Cupid flies to Mount Olympus and begs Jupiter (Zeus), to aid them. Jupiter calls a full and formal council of the gods and declares that it is his will that Cupid marry Psyche. Jupiter then has Psyche fetched to Mount Olympus, and gives her a drink made from Ambrosia, granting her immortality. Begrudgingly, Venus and Psyche forgive each other.

Psyche and Cupid's daughter was Voluptas or Delight, the goddess of "sensual pleasures", whose Latin name means "pleasure" or "bliss".

-taken from Wikipedia

Dreams

Had a strange dream, dreamt of auntie, you and your sisters. Ah those happy times.....

What's the market rate for Wedding Ang Pow?

This is funny.....

Writing Songs

I was going through my old recordings yesterday and I realised that I haven't been writing any new songs for a long, long time. I guess when the love is gone, the heart died along with it. Probably I didn't have anymore inspirations in my head to write anymore. Maybe someday........ when I find back the love that I lost.

Bulls seem running out of steam

Oil didn't rise above US$72. Today there's a sell off of oil. Geithner's plan seem like a total fucked up plan. America seems to be going into bigger financial trouble with all the debts that it created. Good news is we might see a small recovery. Bad news is it's small. Not sure about a bigger hole of trouble for the world.

Oil Futures going up

Oil prices are increasing again breaking US$72 per barrel. Will it again create the super high oil prices again? Damn air ticket prices will gonna increase if oil hits US$90.

Have we reached the bottom?

Just came back from a trading workshop by Conrad. Always learnt alot of trading stuffs from him. And when you thought everyone is saying that we have reached a bottom and the economy is starting to improve...... think again. This rally might be the biggest sucker rally. The scary picture hasn't been painted yet. Now people have been speculating whether it will be a "W" shaped recovery or a "U" shaped recovery. But now most probably it is going to be a "L" shaped recovery. Just imagine what L shape looks like. We are going to be stagnant for about 10 - 20 more years. Inflation is going to kill us, we are in a state of DEPRESSION. Every country in the world is now in recession, but the governments are just hiding the truth. Although the Sub-prime crisis is solved (or I assumed to be), there are still other crisis waiting to surface. What's next? Probably financial crisis again. More jobs lost. Thanks to those greedy banks.

Interestingly when we read the news, Singaporeans are still spending as if there is no recession. Just look at the number of people and their purchases at the computer fair (coming soon). Well, spending is a good thing as it stimulates the economy. But I wonder are we spending too much like the US? I think we are getting too complacent with our government.

US is not going to recover anytime soon. The worse scenario I painted that, US will go bankrupt. And this will lead to chaos in the world. Well a tiny piece of good news is that Asia is gonna be the next big player. And I'm sure everyone knows who will it be. (Hint: It's not Singapore).

Judging from the pesky trouble that North Korea is giving, or Pakistan. I can probably say that WAR is coming. But I don't know will it lead to World War 3. Neil will love it.

So are we still painting a beautiful picture?


*Disclaimer: I am not responsible whatsoever happens in the future or now from what I wrote. It is not an advise to trade.

Ice cream cake flowers

How to make potted ice cream cake flowers. It looks pretty!

Click on this link.

How stores get you to buy

From Straits Times today,

The magic number ‘9’
Studies show that we perceive a product priced at $19.99 to be much cheaper than one priced at $20, according to Iris Hung, consumer behaviour expert at the National University of Singapore. To save time and memory space, our brains are naturally programmed to round-up numbers based on the first two digits.

Conditional discount
The more you buy the more money you save! For example, buy three and get one free; or get 20 per cent off if you spend over $200. “This works most effectively with people who are very price-sensitive”, says Iris. “It gives people the reason to buy, to justify their buying behaviour.”

Time-constrained discount
If you don’t buy it right now, the price will go up! Retailers who use this tactic hope to provoke panic and urgency in the consumer and hopefully a hasty purchase! If an offer ends tomorrow, you might imagine losing it, and this fear is what drives you to buy it immediately.

Escalator detour
Some escalators in malls are so far apart that you have to walk the whole level before you can progress upwards. This gives you the chance to take in the bargains the stores have to offer.

Magic mirrors
You know your legs aren’t long enough for those hot pants, yet you bought them because you looked positively willowy in the fitting room mirror! Truth: if a mirror is placed up against a wall on a slant – this always makes your legs look longer than they are.

The never-ending closing down sale
A closing-down sale plays on consumer instincts to catch those last-minute bargains before they are gone forever – this strategy works on our fear of missing out and appeals to our sense of urgency.

Thinking of You - Katy Perry

I kinda like this song. It's really sad but touching.



Comparisons are easily done
Once you've had a taste of perfection
Like an apple hanging from a tree
I picked the ripest one
I still got the seed

You said move on
Where do I go
I guess second best
Is all I will know

Cause when I'm with him
I am thinking of you
Thinking of you
What you would do if
You were the one
Who was spending the night
Oh I wish that I
Was looking into your eyes

You're like an Indian summer
In the middle of winter
Like a hard candy
With a surprise center
How do I get better
Once I've had the best
You said there's
Tons of fish in the water
So the waters I will test

He kissed my lips
I taste your mouth
He pulled me in
I was disgusted with myself

Cause when I'm with him
I am thinking of you
Thinking of you
What you would do if
You were the one
Who was spending the night
Oh I wish that I
Was looking into...

You're the best
And yes I do regret
How I could let myself
Let you go
Now the lesson's learned
I touched it I was burned
Oh I think you should know

Cause when I'm with him
I am thinking of you
Thinking of you
What you would do if
You were the one
Who was spending the night
Oh I wish that I
Was looking into your eyes
Looking into your eyes
Looking into your eyes
Oh won't you walk through
And bust in the door
And take me away
Oh no more mistakes
Cause in your eyes I'd like to stay...
stay....

A Yacht

When I consistently earn $10,000 a month, I'll probably go buy a yacht. I'll call it "The League".

Women want 5Cs but men want 5Ms

Had a very silly thought today. Long long ago we always heard what every woman wants in a men, the 5Cs: Cash, car, condo, credit card and country club membership. Interestingly (or Boh liao) I thought of what men wants in 5Ms: Money, Millionaire, Mansion, Mercedes and MISTRESS.