Losing money for nothing

How much money am I losing for nothing?

Well, that’s the question I have asked myself today upon reading the local newspaper. Please do not think that I am just wasting my money for nothing. That I am spending left and right and so now, I am questioning my spending activities.

NOPE! The answer is a definite No. As a matter of fact, both you and me are losing money for nothing. And that is all because of the bastard called “Inflation.”

There is no need for me to define what inflation means but I can assure you, it is a phenomenon that eats something out of your earnings and it does nothing but just eat part of your earnings for nothing. LOL

we should

if i could
then i would

if you could
then you would

if we could
then we would

if i could
if you could
if we could
then we should

wala lang. ha ha ha

Sometimes it happens this way

One morning during rush hour, a guy stands in a street corner, holds a placard that reads:

Most people who passed by, seeing his clean appearance thought (???) he snapped, lost it and gone nuts. Some even dared to tell him “Man, you are crazy!” He shouted back, “No Way!”

Some people took pity on him, others presumed he is hungry, gave him food. He refused and said, “I am not hungry! Can’t you see, I am not begging for food!”

Be crazy: It’s easy!

Yes, I wrote them right after the smokes of New Year 2008 cleared allowing the fresh and cool wind of Cavite to touch my happy face while I stared at those marvelous stars painted all over that great and wide canvass over our heads. It was a great feeling, knowing and being in a place you called home.

Yes, it feels good because I still do not need that much amount of zinc to help my brain remember those words and non-sense I scribbled on that piece of bond paper which I titled The List. It was a long list that contained everything that I said I would finish all at one time in the first two months of the year. It was my attempt of sort to set a world record. LOL

Here are some (or few) of them.

Finish writing that book! (i’ve got the balls you know…)

. . . not knowing that in the absence of these other colors, there wouldn’t be a profound beauty called rainbow.

Complete my sketch book and the Kartoon series.
Make a lot of money from stock investment!!!
Play tennis everyday.
Vacation, three times a year.
Work less.
Sleep more.
Be irresponsible.
Be crazy.
And the long list goes on.

I am like this sometimes

I have noticed that lately,  many readers are going to my post titled Stock Trading Terms and your Doctor.

I am surprised so I checked. but as far as I am concerned, there is no extra-ordinary thing there. The post as always, just contained crazy thoughts of mine.

But then, when I was almost at the bottom, I  wondered why I wrote a long response to a simple question made by a commenter who simply asked where I am based right now? and he wants to join my blogroll (san ka ba based ngayon? gusto ko ring sumali sa blogroll mo ah).

What’s peculiar about this is that most of the time I do not comment on most comments here (sorry for that) but this one, na-engaged ako. lol

Here:

myepinoy says, I am based in the land of oil, camel and the desert.

Firefox 3: Now on my machine

After waiting for four hours and 15 minutes (from launch time) for Mozilla server to respond then this and this ,  I finally got  The Best Firefox Yet, Mozilla Firefox 3, installed and running on my machine.

Be a part of this record breaking Download Day 2008 that will set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours for Firefox 3.

Download Firefox 3!

With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before. – Mozilla

as of this posting time, 2,129,605 worldwide downloads have been recorded.

TODAY: Firefox 3 Download Day 2008

Few hours from now, Mozilla-Firefox and its followers are all set for an attempt to get the Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours for Firefox 3.

The launch is scheduled at approximately 10:00 a.m. PDT (17:00 UTC) today, Tuesday, June 17th, 2008.

If you are interested to participate, please check out the official Download Day site to download Firefox at that time.

Are they or rather, are we going to get that Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours for Firefox 3 today?

Note: 10:00 a.m. PDT is approximately Wednesday, June 18, 1:00 A.M. in Manila, Philippines.

Mr. Holiday

Once in our working life, we encounter people of extraordinary kind (hindi ET ha). It is extra-ordinary in a sense that they do something peculiar or very different from most of the people with 100 % degree of consistency. Me, I have one extra-ordinary customer who I named Mr. Holiday.

Many years ago, during the early days of the dot.com boom, one customer came in and opened an investment management account with me to trade in U.S. stock market . Like most investors then, he had a good stride and made a lot of money. Trading in U.S. stock market was just like picking money every night where amateurs become instant pro.

And again, just like the rest of them, he continued to add more securities to his portfolio despite the fact that Allan Greenspan had been warning everyone that the U.S. stock market was inflated or overvalued and sooner or later the bubble would burst.

Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint

Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose of your breath
places on my cheek at night.

I am afraid of being, on this shore,
a branchless trunk, and what I most regret
is having no flower, pulp, or clay
for the worm of my despair.

If you are my hidden treasure,
if you are my cross, my dampened pain,
if I am a dog, and you alone my master,

never let me lose what I have gained,
and adorn the branches of your river
with leaves of my estranged Autumn.

– Federico Garcia Lorca

Who is you?

Early today, I received a call from a prospective customer inquiring about how he can waste este invest his money. At the end of our conversation he asked, “by the way, who is you again?” which basically meant “what is my name?”

For those people with great command and knowledge of English, they would say that it must be “Who Are you?.” Well then fine.

What got me thinking after I put down the phone was the question “Who is you?” or rather “Who are you?” Why is it that “You” always uses “are” as the verb?

Here is my absurd analysis. only if you care to know my incongruous idea of things.