Tuesday, September 25, 2007
欠我十塊
Lyrics included hahaha.
欠我十塊
推你落懸崖，沉尸落大海
等你變鬼來。
時間被安排，造一場意外
你身手分開。
地點在城外，濃霧散不開
屍體誰在擡？
我聼不出來，救命不純在
是你被活埋。
夢醒來是誰在門外，鐵鏈打不開？
那包如長椅的火柴
全家葬身火海~!
我送你投胎，欠我十塊
你死了活該~!
投資失敗，或許不該
還要借高利貸。
我送你投胎，欠我十塊
你尸剖還在。
利息和來，大卸八塊
用一刀去頂債。
我追數又淋紅油附帶
表演非常精彩
聽説你還有漂亮太太
我幫你安排
我追數又淋紅油附帶
表演非常精彩
聽説你還有漂亮太太
怡紅園賣
醫生讓你DIE，警察將你害
我一早收買
你女兒可愛，認試了拐帶
我弄溼現在。
骨頭廚房拆，帶雪衣猶在
你卻不回來。
被新聞覆蓋，我說的追債
越辯太越帥~!
夢醒來是誰在門外，鐵鏈打不開？
那包如長椅的火柴
全家葬身火海~!
我送你投胎，欠我十塊
你死了活該
投資失敗，或許不該
還要借高利貸。
我送你投胎，欠我十塊
你尸剖還在。
利息和來，大卸八塊
用一刀。。。
我送你投胎，欠我十塊
你死了活該
投資失敗，或許不該
還要借高利貸。
我送你投胎，欠我十塊
你尸剖還在。
利息和來，大卸八塊
用一刀去頂債。
Monday, September 17, 2007
basically i'm home thanks to the most productive excess i have - excess of teeth. went to remove stitches today, and since my off pass said "170907 to 170907" i shall take full advantage of that and have dinner, clean up my teeth and THEN return to camp. no, i'm not skiving. i'm taking care of my teeth and the surgical wound. there is a huge hole behind my last right molar, just in case anyone's wondering, and it needs to be flushed 3 times a day for the next 7-10 days. literally.
in any case, in 7 days i'll pull the OTHER tooth. heh yes we can all see the general direction this is heading. shall be implicit about this :)
Picked up a few CDs from Paragon just now: The very best of Carole King, Love changes everything - Sarah Brightman, Astrud Gilberto's finest hour and a compilation of Andrew Lloyd Webber songs. Always good to remember to diversify music haha. In compensation for the heavy weightage of what i'd term conservative music, wednesday will have to happen. Check out the "True Faith" MTV by New Order, esp the slapping (literally) and the fighting lol. and sign language as mambo moves is totally... extraordinary? :S
I feel so extraordinary; something's got a hold on me
I get this feeling I'm in motion - a sudden sense of liberty.
I don't care cos I'm not there, and I don't care if I'm here tomorrow;
Again and again I've taken too much of the things that cost you too much.
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun.
My morning sun is the drug that brings me here:
to the childhood I lost - replaced by fear.
I used to think that the day would never come;
That my life would depend on the morning sun.
When I was a very small boy, very small boys talked to me.
Now that we've grown old together, they're afraid of what they see;
That's the price that we all pay: our valued destiny comes to nothing.
I can't tell you where we're going - I guess there's just no way of knowing.
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun.
My morning sun is the drug that brings me here:
to the childhood I lost - replaced by fear.
I used to think that the day would never come;
That my life would depend on the morning sun.
I feel so extraordinary; something's got a hold on me.
I get this feeling I'm in motion - a sudden sense of liberty.
The chances are we've gone too far: you took my time and you took my money.
Now I feel you've left me standing in a world that's so demanding.
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun.
My morning sun is the drug that brings me here:
to the childhood I lost - replaced by fear.
I used to think that the day would never come;
That my life would depend on the morning sun.
in any case, in 7 days i'll pull the OTHER tooth. heh yes we can all see the general direction this is heading. shall be implicit about this :)
Picked up a few CDs from Paragon just now: The very best of Carole King, Love changes everything - Sarah Brightman, Astrud Gilberto's finest hour and a compilation of Andrew Lloyd Webber songs. Always good to remember to diversify music haha. In compensation for the heavy weightage of what i'd term conservative music, wednesday will have to happen. Check out the "True Faith" MTV by New Order, esp the slapping (literally) and the fighting lol. and sign language as mambo moves is totally... extraordinary? :S
I feel so extraordinary; something's got a hold on me
I get this feeling I'm in motion - a sudden sense of liberty.
I don't care cos I'm not there, and I don't care if I'm here tomorrow;
Again and again I've taken too much of the things that cost you too much.
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun.
My morning sun is the drug that brings me here:
to the childhood I lost - replaced by fear.
I used to think that the day would never come;
That my life would depend on the morning sun.
When I was a very small boy, very small boys talked to me.
Now that we've grown old together, they're afraid of what they see;
That's the price that we all pay: our valued destiny comes to nothing.
I can't tell you where we're going - I guess there's just no way of knowing.
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun.
My morning sun is the drug that brings me here:
to the childhood I lost - replaced by fear.
I used to think that the day would never come;
That my life would depend on the morning sun.
I feel so extraordinary; something's got a hold on me.
I get this feeling I'm in motion - a sudden sense of liberty.
The chances are we've gone too far: you took my time and you took my money.
Now I feel you've left me standing in a world that's so demanding.
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun.
My morning sun is the drug that brings me here:
to the childhood I lost - replaced by fear.
I used to think that the day would never come;
That my life would depend on the morning sun.
Monday, September 10, 2007
okay all of you, paiseh la
sia la i thought no one reads anymore so like.. ya the last two were supposed to be for keng to try and dissuade him from his little mlm frenzy.. but apparently i'm getting the wrong audience :s k la zl and xh, my fault.. and it's not a freaking intellect thingy can.. it's just a.. ok nvm this only goes to invite flaming..
the english's gotten ostensibly worse, and it's gonna remain that way for awhile i suppose. even mrs chiang po lin said so. blame it on SAF, seriously. no one spoke, or wrote, this way in jc. 53 days ya?
okay, so my status quo revolves around one thing: MC. heh. lower right wisdom tooth went out this morning, and it's MC all the way till saturday, guard 2ic on sunday, gotta remove stitches monday, 3pm. why the strange time? cos guard rest lets me sleep for awhile, then i book out, then i come back again. hopefully, by that time i'll have the AH referral in hand. In any case, first wk of oct or sometime like that i'll have the lower left tooth removed so that's another week. so BLAH to you, saf.
preview of post ord: er basically, france - the nightmare that is voyages-sncf.com is the main thing pissing me off. sncf, as educated by png zhiheng, is the french railway company. and being french, the english version of the website simply doesn't work. for some reason or another. so i resort to copying entire pages, sticking them in a translator page, and thereafter slowly filling stuff in. one thing i learnt, though: nom = surname, prenom (with the tick on the e which i can't be bothered to find) = name. so ya. i guess if you don't have a surname, you'll be nameless, so to speak.
so basically it's a low budget trip, just me and my dad, and it'll be to frankfurt, germany, and back from paris, france. Frankfurt, Champagne, Alsace, Burgundy, Normandy (png zhiheng take note, i'll be hunting you down 16th nov), then paris, then back. ya. okay that's it for post ord activities. oh yes, zouli, the countdown. will try to go. TRY.
next, uni. okay for the most part of this year i'd resigned myself (slightly demeaning, the use of this..) to NUS, free with the undergrad scholarship. but resignation isn't stopping me from giving it one last shot - after all, now even better, got safety net. minimally, i'll have somewhere to study heh. So, i'll need some help here. anyone who's made it to the following places, please please be generous and share some pointers? Princeton, Columbia, Nottingham and UCL. Maybe LSE too.. i'm more hoping for the US unis la, but then again, i'll try submitting psc (sell my soul, yes, but at least i hold PINK ic right.. better than selling soul + pink ic), then see can suck some govt money into my bank account or not.. okay maybe not suck - i did sell something :s
IF i stick in NUS, however, the econs/law double's gonna get reduced. econs only. really. nothing against law - it's a nice place, but econs WAS what i started out wanting to study and i think to be fair to myself, just stick to the original plan (stop vacillating), and if at the end of yr 1 i get 3.5 or higher, reapply.. ya..
okay, the two of you.. or rather, three including zishan. normal enough?
the english's gotten ostensibly worse, and it's gonna remain that way for awhile i suppose. even mrs chiang po lin said so. blame it on SAF, seriously. no one spoke, or wrote, this way in jc. 53 days ya?
okay, so my status quo revolves around one thing: MC. heh. lower right wisdom tooth went out this morning, and it's MC all the way till saturday, guard 2ic on sunday, gotta remove stitches monday, 3pm. why the strange time? cos guard rest lets me sleep for awhile, then i book out, then i come back again. hopefully, by that time i'll have the AH referral in hand. In any case, first wk of oct or sometime like that i'll have the lower left tooth removed so that's another week. so BLAH to you, saf.
preview of post ord: er basically, france - the nightmare that is voyages-sncf.com is the main thing pissing me off. sncf, as educated by png zhiheng, is the french railway company. and being french, the english version of the website simply doesn't work. for some reason or another. so i resort to copying entire pages, sticking them in a translator page, and thereafter slowly filling stuff in. one thing i learnt, though: nom = surname, prenom (with the tick on the e which i can't be bothered to find) = name. so ya. i guess if you don't have a surname, you'll be nameless, so to speak.
so basically it's a low budget trip, just me and my dad, and it'll be to frankfurt, germany, and back from paris, france. Frankfurt, Champagne, Alsace, Burgundy, Normandy (png zhiheng take note, i'll be hunting you down 16th nov), then paris, then back. ya. okay that's it for post ord activities. oh yes, zouli, the countdown. will try to go. TRY.
next, uni. okay for the most part of this year i'd resigned myself (slightly demeaning, the use of this..) to NUS, free with the undergrad scholarship. but resignation isn't stopping me from giving it one last shot - after all, now even better, got safety net. minimally, i'll have somewhere to study heh. So, i'll need some help here. anyone who's made it to the following places, please please be generous and share some pointers? Princeton, Columbia, Nottingham and UCL. Maybe LSE too.. i'm more hoping for the US unis la, but then again, i'll try submitting psc (sell my soul, yes, but at least i hold PINK ic right.. better than selling soul + pink ic), then see can suck some govt money into my bank account or not.. okay maybe not suck - i did sell something :s
IF i stick in NUS, however, the econs/law double's gonna get reduced. econs only. really. nothing against law - it's a nice place, but econs WAS what i started out wanting to study and i think to be fair to myself, just stick to the original plan (stop vacillating), and if at the end of yr 1 i get 3.5 or higher, reapply.. ya..
okay, the two of you.. or rather, three including zishan. normal enough?
Thursday, September 6, 2007
It has come to my attention, through my networks (heh) that i have supposedly been misinformed. The clarification on the question "how to generate 10x profits TURNOVERS?" is simply that the massive amounts being shared out are well, sales, and can hence total the insane amounts that people are "receiving".
For 15 minutes after I heard this, it kinda worked: multiplier effect allows a single injection of expenditure to create several times the total income due to spending. And they were happy. The problem, however, lies in leakages.
Assuming a multiplier value of 2.72x, the maginal propensity to consume (proportion of each additional dollar of income, or in this case revenue, consumed - in this case, passed on to another subsidiary) works out to be 0.63. Fair enough. It however leads us to ask several questions:
1. Expenditure by a firm goes into raw materials and labor, generally. A set of firms can only grow on themselves by spending on each other in a manner similar to Firm A -> Firm B, Firm B -> Firm C, Firm C .... Are these firms existing in a sort of vertical integration model of infinite length? The main issue in this point is length: the multiplier assumes a sum to infinity, stopping anywhere before infinity only makes the sum of the GP (geometric progression, mind you) less than its expected sum to infinity.
2. Even if these firms exist in a chain of perfect integration on a production process, which of course, is an extenuating assumption, we recall that in Macroeconomics, the multiplier can exist in its full form only because we are examining the expenditure of a single currency - currency that can only be used in one country and nowhere else. In the case of a set of firms, salaries paid out, in addition to costs like Rent and Utilities Bills, are not recirculated - even if recirculation occurs, it would most definitely not be 63% of expenditure. Imagine a typical employee (by which I mean technical personnel, administration assistants etc) receiving her salary: is it possible that all but 37% of her pay is recirculated into buying services from the company? Certainly, HER OWN bills have to be settled, and that constitutes a leakage. In the macroeconomy it really isn't a problem, since all money circulated is still WITHIN the economy - but in this micro macro-economy we're talking about, this isn't the case. So, LEAKAGES cause the multiplier to NOT be at its ideal level.
3. Therefore, if we assume, quite reasonably, that wages paid out are not recirculated in the figure for corporate expenditure, the expenditure of each company towards the next-in-line in this vertically integrated economy-of-scale, so to speak, is then approximately 63% (based on a net return to the company of base revenue + 1.71x base revenue generated that is shared in sales = 2.72x. 2.72 = 1/(1-mpc), theoretical MPC = 1 - 0.367 = 0.633 = 63.3%), equating to a remainder of approximately 37% of revenue in each company paid out to OTHER expenditure - rent, wages, utilities etc (since these cannot be provided by the firm's fellow subsidiaries) - and profits, making it all not that feasible to be turning humongous profits to share. Almost any average company has an annual profit margin of less than 10%, and we don't see them disbursing profits as rebates, especially if they're in dire need of cash for development.
4. Which brings us to the next point. Fact: the company needs money, hence the sale of GPs. Yet, in the shortest time imaginable, money goes back out. First it was profits, then corrected to be read as "turnover". It makes even less sense this way, as much as it is now more mathematically feasible. Imagine NTUC owning the entire production line all the way from the slaughterhouse to the cashier: your purchase of a spring chicken generates several times in terms of total sales, true enough; but they take all of that sales from every single subsidiary, bundle it up and give it back to you, leaving themselves with profits that can barely pay off their taxes. All I can say is: "wtf???"
For 15 minutes after I heard this, it kinda worked: multiplier effect allows a single injection of expenditure to create several times the total income due to spending. And they were happy. The problem, however, lies in leakages.
Assuming a multiplier value of 2.72x, the maginal propensity to consume (proportion of each additional dollar of income, or in this case revenue, consumed - in this case, passed on to another subsidiary) works out to be 0.63. Fair enough. It however leads us to ask several questions:
1. Expenditure by a firm goes into raw materials and labor, generally. A set of firms can only grow on themselves by spending on each other in a manner similar to Firm A -> Firm B, Firm B -> Firm C, Firm C .... Are these firms existing in a sort of vertical integration model of infinite length? The main issue in this point is length: the multiplier assumes a sum to infinity, stopping anywhere before infinity only makes the sum of the GP (geometric progression, mind you) less than its expected sum to infinity.
2. Even if these firms exist in a chain of perfect integration on a production process, which of course, is an extenuating assumption, we recall that in Macroeconomics, the multiplier can exist in its full form only because we are examining the expenditure of a single currency - currency that can only be used in one country and nowhere else. In the case of a set of firms, salaries paid out, in addition to costs like Rent and Utilities Bills, are not recirculated - even if recirculation occurs, it would most definitely not be 63% of expenditure. Imagine a typical employee (by which I mean technical personnel, administration assistants etc) receiving her salary: is it possible that all but 37% of her pay is recirculated into buying services from the company? Certainly, HER OWN bills have to be settled, and that constitutes a leakage. In the macroeconomy it really isn't a problem, since all money circulated is still WITHIN the economy - but in this micro macro-economy we're talking about, this isn't the case. So, LEAKAGES cause the multiplier to NOT be at its ideal level.
3. Therefore, if we assume, quite reasonably, that wages paid out are not recirculated in the figure for corporate expenditure, the expenditure of each company towards the next-in-line in this vertically integrated economy-of-scale, so to speak, is then approximately 63% (based on a net return to the company of base revenue + 1.71x base revenue generated that is shared in sales = 2.72x. 2.72 = 1/(1-mpc), theoretical MPC = 1 - 0.367 = 0.633 = 63.3%), equating to a remainder of approximately 37% of revenue in each company paid out to OTHER expenditure - rent, wages, utilities etc (since these cannot be provided by the firm's fellow subsidiaries) - and profits, making it all not that feasible to be turning humongous profits to share. Almost any average company has an annual profit margin of less than 10%, and we don't see them disbursing profits as rebates, especially if they're in dire need of cash for development.
4. Which brings us to the next point. Fact: the company needs money, hence the sale of GPs. Yet, in the shortest time imaginable, money goes back out. First it was profits, then corrected to be read as "turnover". It makes even less sense this way, as much as it is now more mathematically feasible. Imagine NTUC owning the entire production line all the way from the slaughterhouse to the cashier: your purchase of a spring chicken generates several times in terms of total sales, true enough; but they take all of that sales from every single subsidiary, bundle it up and give it back to you, leaving themselves with profits that can barely pay off their taxes. All I can say is: "wtf???"
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