Pretty Girl's Dilemma

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:

Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here:
I'm 25 this year.
I'm very pretty, have style and good taste.
I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above.
You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York.
My requirement is not high:
Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary?
Are you all married?
I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?
Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden, $250k annual income is not enough.
I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out?
(Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking?
I've met a few girls who doesn't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys.
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty

Awesome reply:

Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest.
Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours.
Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor.
My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here.
From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you.
The answer is very simple, so let me explain.

Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of "beauty" and "money":
Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square.
However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason.
The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year.
Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset.
It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation.
If that is your only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a "trading position".
If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted.
It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or "leased".
Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you.
I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy.
And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool.
Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in "leasing" services, do contact me...

Bank CEO

Hercules

Just a candid photo to brighten up your day!


Chris lifting a truck!

Note: Chris is spotting a near-bald haircut now. Some even said he looks like the great French maestro Zinedine Zidane.

Imagination

Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses. (definition from Wikipedia)

So what do you see when you look at this photo?

I love Facebook

snapshot courtesy of Tracy whose FB account has seize to exist

Thank you very much... cuz now we all know.

So dear friends, make sure you check what you post because the internet/FB does not know what and what not to be posted. Damn sia suei wei~~~!

Blog Traffic

I bet you guys still remember not too long ago, my blog (yes this very blog you are reading right now) was featured in kennysia's blog. Well if not, click here to find out.

Just wanna share in this post what can that simple gesture by Kenny do to my blog's traffic.

This was the traffic on that very day:


And this was the effect for the month:


The traffic on 11 July 2009 itself easily surpassed the total visitors to my blog in 2008. So my tips to you bloggers out there, if you wanna boost your blog's traffic, try to blog about famous bloggers and hope that one day, they do come across your blog and feature it in theirs.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Lebron is King

The King, Lebron James has been named MVP for the first time 2008-09 NBA regular season game.



During this season NBA regular season, Lebron led the NBA in triple doubles (7) and free throws made (594), second in points per game (28.4), total points (2,304) and free throws made (594), third in field goals made (789) and attempted (1,613), free throws attempted (762), fourth in free throws attempted per game (9.4), tied for sixth in total steals (137), tied for seventh in steals per game (1.69), eighth in total assists (587), ninth in assists per game (7.2), tied for 13th in defensive rebounds per game (6.3), tied for 14th in double-doubles (29), 23rd in blocks per game (1.15) and 25th total rebounds (613). In addition, he was only the fourth player in NBA history to lead his team in all five major statistical categories (total points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks) in one season.

Can you imagine all these stats are achieved in his 6th season at the "tender" age of 24???

Hats of to the KING!

Gotta Be Somebody

I personally find this song by Nickelback very meaningful. Love it...

lyrics for this song can be found HERE

Angel

This is a photo of my best buddy, Steven and his lovely daughter Chloe.


You close your eyes and I have to check to make sure your still breathing.
You open your eyes and look at me and I feel the innocence and love radiate from your very being.
You are the purest of all souls, the untouched, the ultimately loved.
You are free from pain, from hardships, from lie, from anger.
You are a free soul.
Unchecked by greed, by wrongdoing, by sin.
You are everything good.
You are the smallest part of me, but the biggest part of my heart.
You are.
You are mine.
You are.
You are a tiny, just born baby.

Poem by By Michelle Aspinall

Me & 2009

Without even realizing it, 2008 just whizzed us by...

I would sum up 2008 as a year of ups and downs for me.

1. Relationship wise, I failed very badly... (don't ask) :(
2. Work wise, nothing much to shout about except the part where I was sent to Taiwan for 3 months to look at girls and party work, which was a FANTASTIC experience.
3. Fortune wise, no much luck either. Sien.... Was pinning my hopes on Sports Toto 6/52 Mega Jackpot. :( But the winner wasn't me.
   
4. Fitness wise, I think my fitness has dropped since I went to Taiwan. The good food and lack of fitness motivation leads to a sever drop in my fitness level.
   

So in 2009, I hope I can...

1. Find someone who is willing to share my life with...
2. Excel in my work, get a better paid job (I am really underpaid, can?)
3. I don't ask for much, as long as I can do some investment, I am happy dy...
4. I wanna get back my biceps, triceps, chest, back... and also build the muscles of my legs. (my legs are underdeveloped because I never pay much attention to them)
   

I do hope that 2009 will be a good year not only for me, but for everyone as well.

What is happiness if you can't share it with others?


thanks to allen for this cool photo.... ushering 2009

Move It Move It

I just like this song taken from Madagascar


I like to move move it - Madagascar

Hope y'all will enjoy it as much as I do!

A Place I Call Home For The Next 3 Months

As promised, I will post some photos of where I stay in 台中, 台湾.

This is the road leading to my house.


清泉路，福祥巷6弄


Road leading to my house

From the outside, it looks like any other house.


3-storey house


Brick house


Neighbours

But on the inside, it looks something like this. I know I know, it's a little messy, but what's a little mess by 8 bachelor engineers staying under one roof, right?



I am staying with Lau, Ray, Mason, Leo, Tony, Todt and Robin. Except for Lau (who is from Sarawak) the others are Taiwanese. They are a fun and friendly bunch to be with, so for those of you back home, please don't worry kay? I am good here.

Note: Oh yeah, a typhoon is subject to hit Taiwan tomorrow. Call me crazy but I am actually looking forward to my first typhoon experience. YAY!!!

Sick

Yesterday, I was not feeling too well after lunch time. Despite putting on a very warm and fuzzy jacket, I never felt any colder. Asked my boss if he could excuse me for the afternoon, but he just smirked and thought I was just kidding him. So I soldiered on till 6pm.


My fingers were turning purple


Palm was white as a sheet

Geez... Upon reaching home, I went to bed straightaway.

I woke up at 830pm and my head was spinning like I have spent the past 2 hours in a whirlpool. My whole body was aching and felt like all the joints are going to give way soon. So I asked my dad to bring me to my panel doctor.



Doc: Whoa! Your temperature's 38.9°C leh!

Me: Really? I thought a normal person's body temperature is 36.9°C?

Doc:Ya la... You are having high fever. Are you having sore throat or flu?

Me: Only sore throat. No flu...

Doc: Let me see your throat. Say aaaaahhhhh...(while sticking an ice-cream stick into my mouth). Wa... you throat is inflamed too!

Me: Yeah lo... Can hardly swallow my own saliva.

Doc: Let me check your blood pressure... after applying all the apparatus on my left arm... hmmm...looks normal.


Doctor's table

Me: OK...

Doc: So you go home and take enough rest and dont forget to drink more water.

Me: Doc, can you grant me a Sick Leave for tomorrow? (with the kolien doggie eyes expression)

Doc: Hmmm.... Seems like your condition is pretty bad and I dont think you will recover overnight. OK la... I'll give you a day's sick leave.

Me: Thank you doc! (Yaaaaahooooooo! Don't have to go to work tomorrow)


Dispensary

Got my medicine and MC and went home.

Woke up this morning feeling much better, but not in tip-top condition.

Green Fingers

My dad loves gardening. But not me... I just love to take photos.

A photo a day keeps the shutter bug away

Just thought of posting this photo I took this morning under the blazing sun.

I have been snapping photos almost everyday but I still feel that my photos lack of "power". I know there's much to learn in photography. Some say you need talent to be good. But talen or no talent, I believe the only way to excellence is through sheer determination and hard work.

An afternoon at UNIMAS

Two Saturdays ago, I accompanied my brother/fren/colleague to his alma mater UNIMAS to attend a function.

I took the opportunity to roam the new uni campus.


UNIMAS on chrome

As it was a weekend, we could hardly find anyone in the campus area. So the two of us just lepak around the campus checking out the "new" structures which my fren claimed "which is a thousand times better than his old campus".


Red is the color


Fully-equipped gym... lucky students


Pardon the weird WB setting... i was standing in the water while taking this shot


bougainvilea

I am slowly turning this blog into a photoblog... so any comments on the shots are very much welcomed.


The alumni

A couple of people actually thought I was the photographer for the function, so they all passed their cameras asking me to help them snap this group photo. Funny... Do i look like a pro?

Note: all the photos posted here are uneditted and are published here as how they are being taken.

i am alive

For all of you who happen to follow my blog and have been wondering if I have been killed by some mafia mobster, sorry to disappoint y'all. I AM STILL ALIVE!

I came across this very interesting "badge" while reading through Helen's blog today, so I have decided to take the test myself too.

And here's the result:



Am-I-Dumb.com - Are you dumb?

Conclusion: I still have 29.1% of intelligence to improve on