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Focus

Amongst a whole lot of other things, i am addicted to finance.

I would rather spend my entire night working on fundamental and technical analysis of equities than watching prison break or top gear. I want to master financial modeling, FA/TA; i want to learn economics and understand better how countries’ economies link up and affect each other. I’m hungry for knowledge and my appetite is insatiable.

Xinhong once said, our output is only as good as our input. What wise words! We have to constantly expand our knowledge. We need to make sure we digest and master the material we read, and perfect through practice our skills and talent. Karen Gan (my Financial Instruments, Institutions and Markets prof, whom i love to bits) says the best way to learn is to put in our own words the concepts we read in the textbook. In that way, we will be able to better understand the stuff we read.

I love Tiger Woods. His success was founded on his mantra of turning his weaknesses into strengths.

I am 6 weeks into my school term and I am taking only 4 classes this term. I suck at all of my classes because i haven’t been able to focus at all in classes.It’s been hard because I miss my dad all the time. He passed away on 4th January this year from pancreatic cancer. I remember sitting by his side as I held his hand and watched him take his last breath in his sleep. It was about 5am that morning, and it was the longest night of my life. Rest in peace, dad.

Anyhow, I really have to start catching up on my work. I need to start from week 1’s material and bring myself up to speed. I give myself 3 weeks to do this. By the end of my mid term break, I will be at the top of my game again. I need to focus on being the best I can be so that I can add value to the lives of the people around me. God help me.

Pray.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Honesty

Of all the sins that hurt God’s feelings, lying is the worst of all.

In big ways and small ways, lying eats away the heart God gave us and leaves us empty and sad.

If we are going to be happy and go to heaven, we have to tell the truth.

Sometimes we convince ourselves that we have no choice but to lie. First we lie to ourselves, and then to people.

Sometimes all we really have to do is ask ourselves: Is that what God would have done?

James Blunt - All The Lost Souls

Editorial Review

In 2005, James Blunt was everybody’s favorite overnight success story.

In 2007, he’s the guy who’s making rock meaningful again.

All the Lost Souls, the sophomore effort from the Brit responsible for restoring the seriousness of “beautiful” as a compliment, brims with big build-ups, epic-sounding ballads, and lyrics to lose yourself in. The vibe, laid out neatly on first single and opening track “1973,” is clear-eyed and heavy-hearted; in anybody over 35, it’ll produce nostalgia tempered by hopefulness–here’s a set that suggests rock has got its head screwed on straight again, that the path to real feelings need not necessarily be led by Norah Jones. In anybody younger, it’ll cause the unsinkable suspicion that a lot of modern balladeers should be digging deeper. But in both cases it will satisfy.

Compared with David Gray and Damien Rice last time out, this time Blunt seems to owe a debt to Barry Gibb–his voice quavers as sweetly and with the same delicate reach. Stand-outs on a brief but dud-less set include “I Really Want You,” in which the sound of Blunt’s breaking heart is set sparely and elegantly to something approximating the chirp of a cricket, the poignant and desperate “Give Me Some Love”, and the VH-1 ready “Same Mistakes.” -Tammy La Gorce

source: amazon.com

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Quotes

“Sometimes, after we’ve been hurt, we fear being hurt again. It’s all too easy to set up a barrier that can unconsciously push a new person away. Give new love a fair chance and don’t jump to conclusions.” -Susan Miller.

“Points Of Authority / 99 Problems / One Step Closer”

If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

Got Mike
He’s got the rap patrol on the gat patrol
Foes that wanna make sure his casket’s closed
Rap critics that say he’s “Money Cash Hoes”
He’s from the hood stupid what type of facts are those
If you grew up with holes in your zapitos
You’d celebrate the minute you was having doe
So fuck critics you can kiss our whole asshole
If you don’t like my lyrics you can press fast forward
Got beef with radio if we don’t play they show
They don’t play out hits well we don’t give a shit SO
All these mags try and use our ass
So advertisers can give ‘em more cash for ads… fuckers
I don’t know what you take us as
or understand the intelligence that Jay-Z has
I’m from rags to ritches nigga we ain’t dumb
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

99 Problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one

The year is ‘94 and in my trunk is raw
In my rear view mirror is the motherfucking law
I got two choices you’ll pull over the car or
Bounce on the devil put the pedal to the floor
Now I ain’t trying to see no highway chase with Jake
Plus I got a few dollars I can fight the case
So I… pull over to the side of the road
And I heard “Son, do you know why I’m stopping you for?”
‘Cause I’m young and I’m black and my hat’s real low
“Do I look like a mind reader sir, I don’t know
Am I under arrest or should I guess some more?”
“Well you was doing fifty five in a fifty four”
“License and registration and step out of the car”
“Are you carrying a weapon on you — I know a lot of you are”
I ain’t stepping out of shit all my papers legit
“Do you mind if I look round the car a little bit?”
Well my glove compartment is locked so is the trunk and the back
And I know my rights so you gon’ need a warrant for that
“Aren’t you sharp as a tack are some type of lawyer or something?”
“Or somebody important or something?”
Nah I ain’t pass the bar but I know a little bit
Enough that you won’t illegally search my shit
“Well see how smart you are when the K-9’s come”
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

99 Problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me 99 Problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me
99 Problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Now once upon a time not too long ago
A nigga like myself had to strong arm a hoe
This is not a hoe in the sense of having a pussy
But a pussy having no god damn sense, try and push me
I tried to ignore him and talk to the Lord
Pray for him, ’cause some fool’s just love to perform
You know the type loud as a motor bike
But wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight
The only thing that’s gonna happen is I’mma get to clapping
He and his boys gon’ be yapping to the captain
And there I go trapped in the kit kat again
Back through the system with the riff raff again
Fiends on the floor scratching again
Paparazzis with theie cameras snapping them
D.A. tried to give the nigga the shaft again
Half-a-mil for bail ’cause I’m African
All because this fool was harassing them
Trying to play the boy like he’s scaring
But ain’t nothing sweet ’bout how I hold my gun
I got 99 problems but this bitch ain’t one

99 Problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me
99 Problems but a bitch ain’t one
If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me

Shut up when I’m talking to you
Shut up, shut up, shut up
Shut up when I’m talking to you
Shut up, shut up, shut up

I’m about to BREAK

Everything you say to me
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me
I need a little room to breathe
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me
Everything you say to me
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Hit me
I need a little room to breathe
I got 99 problems
And I’m about to
Break

Matchbox 20

“Hang”

She grabs her magazines
She packs her things and she goes
She leaves the pictures hanging on the wall, she burns all
Her notes and she knows, she’s been here too few years
To feel this old

He smokes his cigarette, he stays outside ’till it’s gone
If anybody ever had a heart, he wouldn’t be alone
He knows, she’s been here too few years, to be gone

And we always say, it would be good to go away, someday
But if there’s nothing there to make things change
If it’s the same for you I’ll just hang

The trouble understand, is she got reasons he don’t
Funny how he couldn’t see at all, ’til she grabbed up her coat
And she goes, she’s been here too few years to take it all in stride
But still it’s much too long, to let hurt go (you let her go)
And we always say, it would be good to go away, someday
But if there’s nothing there to make things change
If it’s the same for you I’ll just hang
The same for you
I’ll always hang
Well I always say, it would be good to go away
But if things don’t work out like we think
And there’s nothing there to ease this ache
But if there’s nothing there to make things change

If it’s the same for you, I’ll just hang

Commissioning Ceremony

Ice-Cold Beer - SMU! FINALLY OPEN!!

30% off for SMU students. power.
The second bar in SMU.

This bar rocks. You can get an MBA from Ice Cold Beer (ICB).

ICB has ice tank chillers and around 50 beers from around the world.

http://www.emerald-hill.com
Their website rocks. Amazing flash-built website.

Beer Pong @ Früjch

Wish I could attend this.
Stupid tmw got econs mid term.
他妈的…

Alex is a funnyfunny man..

i find this extremely cute.