During my vacation last April 06, I was having my early barako coffee while waiting for my friend to pick me up for a tennis game. One of my sons (BS-Music student) was reading a newspaper. I heard him say, “What the heck are these Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, over-the-counter, etc.” He was at the business section of that newspaper. — myepinoy
Let me share to you important things today. The title of this post might mean something bad. On the contrary, everything is okay. I feel great today and I came up with a poem (if you may call it.)
I promise, you will learn something.
I have one request though, please read the poem slowly, pay special attention to the words and terms I used.
Later, you will be surprised that this poem is not meaningless at all.
Friday
“The saucer is in” says the crowd
News spread on the street
Sandwich generation in boutique
Bogey with Bo Derek.
Godfather offer is too sweet to resist
The Crown Jewels taken on a Saturday night special
Chinese Wall fails
Dogs of the Dow miss
War Babies cry
Rocket Scientist sulks
Santa Claus Rally stops
Cash cow, Big blue turn Big Uglies
Zombies on a Daisy Chain
Dead cat bounce no more,
Alligator spread
Fun money gone
Aspirin abound
Gnomes of Zurich celebrate
Black Monday comes
Today — myepinoy
I have not written much about my work and something or anything related to it. It is not that there is not much to write about but perhaps, writing them makes me sick somehow (Just kidding! I still have three kids in the university.)
Anyhow, I supposed you’ve met and spoken to a person who works in the stock market or perhaps you’ve seen a TV broadcast about the market. Listen carefully to the terms they used. You will hear words like P/E, 4Q, GNP, GDP, NYSE, Nasdaq and many other initial letters or shortcut words. They are used to communicate (similar in purpose) like the BTW, GTG, LOL, cyber and what have you of your cutie friend. — myepinoy
When I was young and still a struggling banker, I learned some kind of principle in life, which I always follow in almost everything I do. It somehow shaped me into what I am today. myepinoy
Last week, we had a conversation with the building architect and building administrator of one of the towering buildings in Makati City. The main topic of the conversation was the current technologies in the solar energy conversion to electricity but the course of the discussion shifted on the power industry and the effect of the establishment of electricity market to them, bulk consumers. Read the entire entry …
As I have mentioned days ago, I am currently involved in dealing with high risk internet investment.
Then it happened, one of my programs scammed me for my money. It was only $2, but then again, the feeling of being a fool is not easy to bear. That happened this morning.
Latest update to the original Philippine Online Games lists.
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Amidst the rising cost of fuel in the world market and the implementation of EVAT that resulted to a tremendous increase of oil products such as gasoline, (http://philippineenergynews.blogspot.com/2006/05/oil-prices-up-by-p050.html), Energy Companies still have the opportunity to gain profit that is even more higher than the previous quarter of the year and getting higher and higher every year, while in contrast, the oil prices is also getting higher almost every less than a month. Shell Philippines, for example, declared last April that their net income for the first quarter of 2006 is greater that their record in 2005. They declared this during the time when the oil prices rose almost every week and while the price of oil in the world market was trending upward. read more..
This morning I went to the supermarket here in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to buy rice. And what did I find? “100% Thai jasmine rice.” With microwaving instructions. There was no sign of “Philippine pandan rice.” I don’t think I’d find that anywhere in the world. More…