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I received an email from Eugene the other day, I think this is the first time I actually received 1 of his email and I must say the contents are really very interesting and funny at the same time. Whether or not this is a true event, I do not know but it should get you laughing anyway. So here goes...


Subject: FW: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

* I thought it is interesting to share with you what I read from a blogging / forum website
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*****************************************

Here's a reply from a Wall Street Financial guy:

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 analyze 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 depre ciation. 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.

Signed, J.P. Morgan

Peeping Tom

Today I saw one, at least I think I saw one. This is what happened...

I was going home via Buena Vista today, where I had to take the escalator which is like 2-3 storeys high. So there was this guy leaning beside the escalator(ok, he could be waiting for someone) but he was a little suspicious. He was looking at the legs(maybe thigh or i dunno where) of the 2 gals in front of me as they stepped onto the escalator cos 1 of them was wearing shorts. At first I didn't realise anything until i finally realise how high this escalator goes up to, when I looked back, true enough I saw that guy looking up the escalator. Tsk Tsk... so those of you who goes by Buena Vista be careful now.

Well, sometimes I dun understand wad gals are thinking abt. At times when I'm at Central Lib(everyone knows how cold it can get), even I need to wear my jacket in there while I'm wearing jeans. But I can see many gals wearing tubes, shorts, mini skirts and wadever they wear. Don't they feel cold? Maybe its just me being weak huh... I'm not against gals wearing less anyway since I'm one of those benefiting anyway, haha!

A nice german exchange student wished me gd luck on the train when he alighted today, think we met in lecture before, can't remember. How nice of him to think of poor undergrads like me as he alighted at Bugis, probably enjoying his last few days of stay in sunny Singapore.

Relax, have a break!

Since everyone is so stressful with exam preparations, I ought to entertain u since u, yes YOU who still took time off to read this blog. This is a joke I came up with some time ago, but before u read this, u shld put on that jacket hung on your chair/door/cupboard/wherever u left it. Here goes....


Beware of Lameness and extreme coldness that might spread through your whole mind and body!


You've been warned....



You sure u gonna read this? U can still close this browser now....


Qn: Which Superhero is most environmentally friendly?
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Answer: The Hulk. Because he's GREEN!!!!

Stupid CX was wondering where he misplaced his ME 2121-Thermodynamics Part I Chapter 4 notes only to realise he didn't print them since they were self study materials. Talk about being absent minded and plain stupidity.

Keeping fit

Now that CX has been made OC support of 483SAR, that means responsibility to keeping fit. Becoz as a Tank officer last time, I hardly dismount, my trusty SM1 brings me to everywhere I want. OC support does all the shitty job like flanking, where bashing through thick forest is required. Sounds like I'm back to the shitty days of being a cadet.

Anyway now that CX has no CCA, no 3 times a week hardcore 2hrs each swimming training or sadistic land trainings by either Erwin or Jon, I'm keeping myself healthy through my weekly gym session at Tampines Clubfitt Gym. Its the one at the swimming pool so I get nice views of people swimming below yet in a spacious gym(clubfitt tampines is ridiculously spacious). It has become a weekly routine for me to meet Colin there every Sat at 4pm. Sometimes we see the fit siao Jingsheng there, sometimes I look at him do his weights, I tot he's preparing for some gang fight or smth. Let's pump some iron.

Central Library

I dun always study in librarys when I was studying in JC or secondary. But I'm starting the appreciate the benefits of doing so. Since sem 1 I have occasionally join Colin at Central Lib and I find it more productive sometimes. Staying at home or rather my room have many distractions, that 21'' TV beside this laptop and that bed are top 3 killers. Being in lib prevents me from doing so while being among those hardworking muggers just prevents me from straying away. As per last 2 semesters, i'll be at Central Lib level 6 with Colin and Co.

TUM

I just checked my SEP application and it says that I've been offered a place for SEP to TUM - Technical University of Munich. My first choice. Yeah!

You are so beautiful!

You know who you are, yeah that's you I'm talking about.

I finally understand what is it that attracts me. Its gotta be that sweet smile that never fails to brighten anyone's day. I love it.

Top 10 reasons to date an ENGINEER

10. The world does revolve around us... we choose the coordinate system. 9. No "couple" enjoy a better "moment". 8. We know how to handle stress and strain in a relationship. 7. We have significant figures. 6. We understand the motion of rigid bodies. 5. Projectile motion: Do we need to say more? 4. Engineers do it to specification. 3. According to Newton, if two bodies interact, their forces are equal and opposite. 2. We know it's not the length of the vector that counts, but how you apply the force. 1. WE KNOW THE RIGHT HAND RULE!

I've just been acquitted from charges of murder. Yes I'm really innocent, but no this is NOT a real case. I'm just playing the accused for Colin(law undergrad) in his mock trial assessment. The 'Judge' is actually a qualified lawyer who also serve as tutors for law students like Colin. This is the first time I've stepped into a law firm, nothing fanciful, pretty much like a standard office u see in Raffles Place. It was fun to see how Colin and his opponent(another Seow) questioning the witness(someone else) with Colin trying to discredit the witness(I like the hearing loss part). But it wasn't all that fun when its my turn man. Its okay when Colin was questioning me, since we already gone through the whole procedure a few times but the 'prosecutor' was actually smart to use yes/no questions on me, trying to confuse me with double negation questions and the likes. But apparently she prepares everything she has to say in a 'speech' form and kinda thrown off tracked when I did not gave the answers she wants. So Brad Peat(read Brad Pitt) is cleared of all charges yet score a night with Valda the nurse. Yeah! It was a good experience for me to get a glimpse of court proceedings. Anyway both of them passed so no harm done.

Yesterday as I was on the train(yes, i still take public transport once in a while) to NUS, I noticed how popular PSP has become. In one carriage alone, from what I could see, I saw 3 people indulging in some PSP fun. Looking at them just makes me wanna buy one man. That day I saw someone reading comics from her PSP, how cool is that man.

The Greatest Invention

What is the greatest invention of all time?

From paper to flying aircrafts to automobiles to television or even the World Wide Web, one invention has stood against all others in the face of time. Even as science advances by leaps and bounds, there is one invention that is still very much in existence despites more advanced models appearing in the market. What is it?

Its the INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB! at least in my opinion.

Invented in 1879 by US renowned scientist Thomas Elva Edison after over 100 failures, the incandescent light bulb is still very much in use today without much modification from the first successful prototype developed by Edison. You can hardly find a place on Earth inhabited by Man yet find no signs of the incandescent light bulb. Even in developed Singapore with many people using the more economical fluorescent light bulbs in homes, you can still find the incandescent light bulbs somewhere, be it the bulb in your storeroom, toilet, your car's front headlights or even that very tablelamp you bought from IKEA could well be using incandescent light bulbs. You must praise the brilliance of Edison to come up with such invention that stood against time, against the advances of technology, after more than a century, the incandescent light bulbs we have are still very much similar to the original ones he made. It could well be because of his more than 100 failures that made his invention survive until now.

As I was searching for some info on the Incandescent light bulb by Edison, I stumbled upon something interesting. The invention of Jeans was actually by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis back in 1873.

Anyway could anyone tell me the difference between the normal Levi's shops and the Levi's Strauss shops?

Ich spreche Deutsch!

Today we shall learn some simple german phrases which u may find it useful next time. The title means I speak german.

Hello = Hallo, Hi is okay

Excuse me = Entschuldigung - An~shoe~d~gong( nice ar)

Thank You = Danke - Dunk~ke

Yes = Ja - Ya (J is pronounced as Y in german)

No = Nein - Nine ( close enough)

Please = Bitte - Bitter

That's it for today! Auf Wiedersehen(good-bye )

So exactly how can 1+1 be = 1? This is how!

If u're reading this post with no idea why the title is abt 1+1=1, read two posts down....

Get the question now? Ok, so now let me explain to you the theory behind 1+1=1, it may sounds boring to some(u can change channel now, come back 5 mins later), or it may sounds awfully familiar to others. So everyone knows computers work in 1s and 0s, but have u considered how the millions, billions or even trillionsss of 1s never add up to form a 2 or smth bigger? (Come on, computer uses maths too, u dun expect them to form words with 1s and 0s rite?)

In order to simplify operations and stamp out distortions in signals, computers are designed to read only 1s and 0s, think of it as a yes or no thing. So the 1+1 here is no exactly your numerical 1. In order to ensure the smooth operation of computers, laws and guidelines are drawn up, just like how we keep ourselves from self-destructing.

So Boolean came up with a set of 'laws' which governs how these digital signals are read, in his 'laws', he said that 1+1 should rather be read as 1 AND 1 and the answer will still be 1 since there's no 2 in digital code. Think of it as a yes and yes answer, since it can only be yes or no, yes and yes is still yes. This set of 'laws' he calls them the Boolean algebra or Boolean Logic. Thus the word in the blank should actually be the word Logic. Lame right? After writing all these, I also find myself at the extreme end of lameness.

For those who up to now have no idea wad mi previous was all about, a general translation means 'Engineers are boring ppl, because we only study, I'm an engineer, that's why i'm so boring. I write here now becoz i know no one understands wad i write.'

Something interesting to share about wad happened in NUS, today they were giving out condoms in Arts to advocate prevention of AIDS(not advocating liberal sex!). They put up some survey results which I happened to read abt, it says 49% of NUS students are sexually active, but 40% of NUS students do not practice safe sex. By some simple math, that makes 20% of NUS students are in danger of contracting AIDS or any other sexually transmitted disease. It could jolly well mean the person sitting next to u in tutorial class or lecture could be in this danger zone, or worst the person sitting on that exact toilet bowl u just sat on. AIDS dun spread like that, but some STDs do spread from toilet bowls, i think. So to all those *ahem* ppl out there, all the Greenpeace and Co. ppl will not complain abt too many condoms destroying the Earth, pls feel free to use them.