Greed Is Good? ;p

Watched "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" with a group of frenz juz now...i was practically crying throughout the movie...quite glad tt i was sitting right at the back n not many ppl saw me ;p

Although i haven't seen the original Wall Street 1980s movie...but this one was based on the recent financial crisis...some of the scenes reminded me of the pain tt silly leechie went thru...ouchie :'( i can still rem the nite when DJ dropped >500pts!!! i was online when i received this msn from a fren who informed me abt the huge drop n asked me to go check on the mkts...gosh, tt actually tiggered my urticaria rashes to recur...crapz...soon, hives started appearing all over my back! -.-" but this was nothing compared to the emotional turmoil tt i went thru! Mkts were free-falling in what appeared to b a bottomless pit then...how low is low when almost everything was dropping day after day???!!! n many big names started to announce really, really bad news...those names tt we all thought were "too big to fail" went under -.-" "merrily leech" was considered to be a powderful broke-age house ya @.@" my former trader fren told me tt "bear s" was one of the most powderful houses around...along with a few other illustrious names...reminded me of those toxic products tt were so cleverly engineered...i bet many ppl were studying those acronyms during the crisis...n lou's suicide reminded me of how many ppl muz had harbored suicidal thoughts then...haiz =.=" but Gordon Gekko's so damn stylo in this movie!

Check out Gordon Gekko's famous saying ;p


Some interesting lines from the movie:

"Insanity...which is doing the same things over n over again in the same manner n expecting different results!"

"Bulls n bears make money, only pigs get slaughtered!"

"Idealist vs capitalist vs realist"???

N my v.own leechie line --->
"Dont call me materialistic...i'm purely capitalistic!!!" ;p

Updates:

I called up DontBullShit bank n the silly phone operator couldnt answer my questions n put me on hold for so damn long...n she still couldnt answer my questions after tt -.-" but when i posted my same questions on the forum, i got a reply almost immediately!!! =.=" internet rocks!

High IQ kid chose a normal life...the media denounced him as a “failed genius” but he has no idea why his life, which he considers a success, had to be called a failure. “People expected me to become a high-ranking official in the government or a big company, but I don’t think just because I chose not to become the expected it gives anyone a right to call anyone’s life a failure,” he said.

Btw, saw this interesting quote:
"U just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they will notice & will be bothered. If they don't, move on."
Sad but how true...som ppl juz aint worth it...not now...n not in the future! =.=" Move on...n make space for som others who r worth it!!!

Leechie attended a great talk by a MIT alumni who covered "acquisition for start-ups"...juz wanna share a related discussion with a fb fren here --->

A: "So, the main question: what good acquisition can bring to startup? Investments from parent company, distribution channels (of parent company), legal cover (again from parent company). Negative: loosing independence, total control from paren...t company, at the end all innovation made by startup can be even killed as a project, and start-up employees can be fired. So, is it worth for startup to be acquired? Depends on situation. If your startup has a successful product or idea, which already have customer demand - then there's no point for startup to be acquired."

A: "Tono, I'd also like to add that the best startups are the startups created by Family (Husband and Wife): Husband is a CTO and Wife is a CEO (Husband reports to his Wife ;) ). It also makes their Love and Family stronger."

Leechie: "hmmm...tt's ideal in the perfect world...but there r lotsa complications once divorce sets in...u once shared common vision...common goals...working for the common good of ur family...but everythg becomes complicated once there is a divorce......lol...happened to know ppl who r in this situation...n i always wonder...r they still able to face each other professionally after divorce?can they work together as well as a team after the divorce?or would they hate each other to the core?hmmm,i'm thinking abt this scenario...2 good frenz start a biz together...they could b really good platonic frenz...then along the way...they fell in love with other ppl...it would b really great if they remain as great partners...but would their respective partners complicate the biz? o.O there is this case here (one of the famous brands here...think it made it into the international scene) whereby the 2 lovers closed down the biz after they broke up...i guess tt won't b the last..."

Leechie: "lol...i guess fidelity aint a criteria for owning a biz together for their case n divorce would b the perfect ending? ;p
but the brand example tt i quoted was a couple tt broke up...think they were not married then...i guess tt happens pretty often...guess most ppl wouldnt wanna work together so closely with their ex-es after the relationship had ended...o.O""

A: "Tono, see what majority of economists can't realize till now is that morale and economy are very connected with each other. Do you know what is the REAL reason of the current economic crysis? Immorality. If the couple wants to break up and destroy their startup instead of growing it together - then whose fault is that? Just couple's fault."

Leechie: "hmmm...there r 2 isolated examples here...for the brand case...i guess they fell in love n built up their brand together...but then along the way, they fell out of love with each other...then found it impossible to work together with each o...ther anymore?which is y they closed down the brand n went separate directions?but cant really blame them for tt...cos many ppl find it hard to work closely with their ex-es after the relationship had ended...cos "working together for their common good" doesnt seem to b tt applicable anymore ya? o.O" the love is no longer there...only the biz...if tt's the case, wouldnt it b better tt everythg is more biz-oriented in the v.first place?n tt breakup scenario might b somthg tt all potential couples wanting to start their biz together b somthg tt they might wanna consider first even before starting? o.O"

A: "Tono, they didn't get together/married in order to build startup. But they build startup afterwards because they want to do something together - as a couple."

Leechie: "yup...but the thg is...they fell outta love subsquently n the brand juz fell apart...the brand is not complete without either of them..."

Leechie: "there could b hundreds of reasons y they fell outta love...the stress from building a successful international brand could b one of them...i'm juz speculating...so what i'm saying is...love is love...biz is biz...wouldnt it b better for these 2 entirely different things not to b mixed together?or tt certain exit strategy b planned right from the start?juz my leechie opinion only...o.O"

Leechie: "well, most ppl dont get married in the v.first place to think of divorce as a possible ending...do they? o.O
but divorce is getting more n more common these days...n i was juz telling my leechie mum tt the kind of love between our MM Lee n his recently deceased wife is really rare n almost extinct in today's society...sad but how true...of course, we hope tt the kind of love tt we experience will b eternal...but the divorce statistics r obviously telling us a different thing...no offence..."

A: "Again - that "common" divorce thing means that the immorality is at full power now which sooner or later bring the end to human society. Innovation, technologies, economy can't grow or be developed in the society where divorce is a "common" thing."

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Btw, to keep u amused ->
Yest, the security guard saw me walking around the barriers n shouted at me...i quickly went up the com bus...he then ran up the bus n shouted at me at the top of his voice juz like a madman...everyone on the bus could hear his verbal abuse...the guys at the back were all laughing...pity tt i didnt film it down to share on u-tube...he reminded me of the recent clip of tt woman on MRT! he claimed tt i went under the barriers...excuse me...i'm not so stupid to walk below the barriers so i corrected him tt i went around the barriers...he got angry n ranted on n on abt how if some car were to knock me down n if i kenna killed, he doesnt want to b held responsible for it...i told him tt i already checked tt there was no traffic before crossing...he got even angrier n barked at me like a madman...n said tt he's going to complain to this n tt...then all the guys at the back were laughing o.O"

I really feel threatened tt we have such security ppl who is not the least bit concerned abt our welfare n who is only worried abt being held responsible if we kenna killed n who goes around verbally abusing ppl when he is pissed! who knows if he's mentally stable? so scarry manz! o.O" I bet it would turn out differently if i were not a short gal but a tall n huge n muscular man flashing my biceps at him! -.-" kenna bullied cos i ignored him n walked on...then he ran all the way up the bus to verbally abuse me over a trivial matter! =.="

Guess what? tt yaya security guard was holding a camera while he walked past me twice...i could even see the lens of his camera!!!think he's secretly trying to film me!!!i feel damn threatened by his antics!!! -.-" n he's behaving so damn yaya as if he owns the entire place...strange tt his office is the guard house n not some CEO office eh? -.-"

Some security guard bully only lurves to bully ppl...n bullies r usually some pathetic souls who suffer fr lotsa insecurity issues...really pathetic...letting others win in silly argument aint a sign of weakness...it's sympathy on our part...such ppl r in need of psychiatric help. btw, halloween is coming...mayb these pathetic souls juz wanna make their presence felt...but i'll juz treat it as background noise...lol...btw, do u see the oxymoron here? security having insecurity issues? lol ;p

Gosh...this yaya security guard's attitude was totally 180 degree different when another senior male muscular colleague committed the same offence the following week!!! he went up the com bus n talked to him nicely n even said pls...crapz!!! gender discrimination? but another colleague commented tt the sample size is too small to conclude his actions as gender discrimination! but what i'm damn sure is this yaya security guard is picking on me!!! -.-"

"The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest brains. Think big Anyway- Kent Keith"

My leechie idol, Joe DiNapoli!!!


Look what you've done o.O


Amusing clip on Quantitative Easing ;p


Anthony Robbins!!! =)