Saturday, March 7, 2009
Moshi moshi
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Is there anyone still using this blog
This is the spirit of our class: minimalist, no blog, no facaulty, no outing, no this no that. better no school, no exam, no homework. remove everything unnecessary from our world only after that we realise the world can actually be so quiet.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
The June Mugidays is coming
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
We Won 7E ...
Sunday, April 22, 2007
SYF
I know this is late but i want to wish all those who have SYF good luck, all the best and 加油!
KM
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Declaring War on 7C?
Saturday, April 14, 2007
keep up with the good work!
In the meantime...
congratulations to the whole class for getting As for PW!
If only we didnt have lessons, we would be able to have a class outing...
3 cheers for 6K!
after the class bench episode, some residents of 6K have declared war with 7C
we shall wish those bravados a happy and successful war campaign.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Pizza buffet?
Found a pizza joint at serene centre that has pizza buffet at $9.90
eh wanna go there? maybe after the movie?
will go and check out the T&C
Thursday, March 22, 2007
BT (wad else)
Really wanted to watch 300, but the age limit thing is a real bummer.
one of the few times i feel downcast abt born in december
Note: the above is the ramblings of a person with too much time on his hands right after chem exam and 3.5 days away from the next bt, ie physics. can be ignored if one wishes to
Friday, March 16, 2007
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
more cows
Socialism you have two cows. The goverment takes them and puts them with everyone elses cows. Then give you as much as it thinks you need.
Bureacratic you have two cows. The gov. takes them in and put them in a barn with everyone elses cows. They are cared for by chicken farmers. then you have to take care of the chickens that the gov. took from the chicken farmers
Communism you have two cows. your neighbors help you take care of them and everyone shares the milk
Russian Communism you have two cows. you have to take care of the cows. then the gov. takes all the milk.
Democracy you have two cows. your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
Represenative democracy You have two cows. you elect someone with the best face for TV to tell you how to take care of your cows.
Bureaucracy you have two cows. the gov. regulates when you can fed them and when you can milk them. Then pays you not to. then it takes the cows, shoots one, milks the other dry, and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms concerning the missing cows.
Facism you have two cows. the gov. takes them both and shoots you.
Capitalism you have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Two cows as applied to Financial Markets
Originally by Mark Gilbert, columnist, Bloomberg
Leveraged Buyouts
You have two cows. You come home from the fields one day to find Henry Kravis chatting to your spouse at the dining-room table. Two days later, you have no spouse, no farm, and no table. Two guys the size of sumo wrestlers have saddled up the cows and are riding them around the farmyard.
Currency Market
You have two cows. China has 1 trillion cows. Guess who sets the price of milk?
Bond Market
You have two cows. One is Brazilian, one is Australian. They yield 25 quarts of milk per day. That's half as much as three years ago, when you traded your less-lactiferous German and U.S. cows for them. You are thinking of swapping for a pair of Namibian cows. They only have three legs but, hey, they produce 26 quarts per day.
Derivatives
You have two cows. You repackage five of them into a Collateralized Lactating Obligation, pay for a AAA credit rating, slice the CLO into 10 pieces and sell it to investors, skimming the cream from the milk for yourself. Three of the cows fall ill, and the credit rating plummets. You get to keep the cream.
Hedge Funds
You have two cows. A guy in an open-necked shirt drives up in his Bentley and offers to take care of them for you in return for a year's supply of steak and 50 percent of their milk. They won't be allowed to leave his compound for two years. Six months later, you have half a cow, producing sour milk. ``You have to be willing to lose rump today to get rib-eye tomorrow,'' the hedge-fund guy mumbles through a mouthful of sirloin and champagne.
Economics
Assume two cows.
Carbon-Emissions Trading
You have two cows. They produce 1.2 tons of methane gas per day. After a hefty donation to the re-election campaign of your local representative, the government gives you enough emission permits for six cows. You sell three permits, buy another cow, and apply for a European Commission grant to build a methane-gas power station.
Microsoft Corp.
You have one old, tired cow. A recent heart transplant may have come too late to save the beast.
Google Inc.
You have no cows. You slap advertisements on everyone else's cows. The milk floods in. You use the proceeds to reinvent the cow.
Apple Inc.
Nobody wants your cows. You design the cutest little milk bottle. Now, everybody wants your cows.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
You have 26,467 cows. They are strapped into the milking machines 24/7. Some of them have more hay than they could ever hope to eat. Others aspire to one day having more hay than they could ever hope to eat. The cows with the most hay end up with big government jobs.
Pension-Fund Management
You have two cows. How boring is that? You pay a month's supply of milk to a consultant, who advises you to sell one cow and buy two aardvarks instead. The aardvarks die. The consultant charges you four months of your (now reduced) milk supply and advises you to sell half of your remaining cow and buy a wombat. The wombat dies. The consultant charges eight months of milk for a copy of his new report, ``Two-Cow Strategies for Alleviating the Impending Pensions Crisis.''
Russian Energy
You have two cows. Comrade, those cows are an environmental hazard. We suggest you hand one of them over to us.
Credit-Default Swaps
You have two cows. You buy insurance against them dying, and tuck the contracts into the middle of that tottering pile of documentation on your desk. One dark night, Henry Kravis sneaks off with your cows. By the time you track down the paperwork, your now worthless contracts have expired.
Interest-Rate Swaps
You have two cows. You pledge one of them to me as collateral in a swap for some of my pigs. I pledge the cow to my neighbor as collateral in a swap for some of his sheep. He pledges the cow to his cousin as collateral in a swap for some of his cousin's goats. Better pray the livestock market doesn't crash and we have to try and round up that cow.
Commodities
You have lots of stocks and bonds, but no cows. Are you crazy? Cows are the hot new market. Here, buy this exchange- traded cow futures contract. It can't lose. It gained 40 percent in the past six months.
Gold
You have two cows. You wear a cap you made out of tin foil so that the tiny black helicopters can't read your thoughts. You spend your days blogging about how the government's decision to abandon the cattle standard in 1933 was part of a global conspiracy by the world's central banks to destroy the value of your herd.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
V Day
Thursday, February 8, 2007
ICE CREAM!
Come and eat some ice-cream to cool down. =P O>