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This
little boy's performance of "How Great Thou Art" will leave you in
awe
This small fellow sings from his heart.
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Monday, May 26, 2014
Capitalist thinking.
email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai.
This Pretty Girl Was Seeking A Rich
Husband. The Reply She Got From A Banker Was Priceless!
The
following is what a woman posted on a dating forum seeking a rich husband:
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.
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 are only average-looking? I’ve met a few girls who don’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
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I’ve met a few girls who don’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
A
philosophical reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan below:
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 analyse 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.
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 analyse 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.
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
depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 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”.
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.
signed,
J.P. Morgan CEO
J.P. Morgan CEO
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Obituary of Dr. Victor Benjamin.
Some recollecti
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I wish to share some recollections regarding Dr. Victor Benjamin, who passed away on 10th May, 2014.
He performed great service to our community, while working in Jaffna in the late Sixties or so.
Later he worked at Kandy Hospital too as a successful Surgeon before coming over to Australia.
As a former Senior House Officer (which corresponds to a Registrar, now) of Dr.Anthonis in Colombo, he learnt his Surgery from him and became a successful surgeon. He also carried out many operations, following in the footsteps of his mentor. While he was a Surgeon in Jaffna, he became very popular and patients used to flock to his ward, as recalled by my brother, Dr. S. Sivaloganathan (Presently in Connecticut, USA), who worked with him at the Jaffna Hospital.
I came across much of this information through my correspondence with my brother, named above, partly as a Radiographer in Sri Lanka, and lately as a member of the Senior Citizens' Association here.
Pon
He performed great service to our community, while working in Jaffna in the late Sixties or so.
Later he worked at Kandy Hospital too as a successful Surgeon before coming over to Australia.
As a former Senior House Officer (which corresponds to a Registrar, now) of Dr.Anthonis in Colombo, he learnt his Surgery from him and became a successful surgeon. He also carried out many operations, following in the footsteps of his mentor. While he was a Surgeon in Jaffna, he became very popular and patients used to flock to his ward, as recalled by my brother, Dr. S. Sivaloganathan (Presently in Connecticut, USA), who worked with him at the Jaffna Hospital.
I came across much of this information through my correspondence with my brother, named above, partly as a Radiographer in Sri Lanka, and lately as a member of the Senior Citizens' Association here.
Pon
A Photo taken on 15. 06. 2013 in Carrington Church Hall in Strathfield,Sydney, where I met him.
P.S.
I was Resident Surgeon at the General Hospital Kandy when Dr.Victor Benjamin was Consultant Surgeon there in the early 1970s. He lived along with Dr. Purvey Lawrence and Dr. MH De Zoysa Surgeons and Prof. Jayaweera of the Obs and Gyn Department of the University of Peradeniya.
Dr. Benjamin was very particular about the arrangement of sentences and placement of punctuation marks. He was an excellent surgeon and I learnt many tricks from him.
May his soul rest in peace.
Philip G Veerasingam.
Quotes on Teacher's Day
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· Friedrich Nietzsche
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
· Ignacio Estrada
If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
· Colleen Wilcox
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
· Alice Wellington Rollins
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
· Bertrand Russell
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.
· Confucius
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
· Dr. Haim Ginott
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
· Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Carl Rogers
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Some Good News For All Men !
email from "J. K. S. Weerasekera"
A man and his wife were getting a divorce at a local court, but the custody
of their children posed a problem.
The mother jumped to her feet and protested to the judge that since she had brought the children into this world, she should retain custody of them.
The man also wanted custody of his children, so the judge asked for his side
of the story.
After a long moment of silence, the man rose from his chair and
replied:
Your Honour, when I put a dollar into a vending machine, and a Coke comes out, does the Coke belong to me or to the machine?
Don't laugh --- he won !
of their children posed a problem.
The mother jumped to her feet and protested to the judge that since she had brought the children into this world, she should retain custody of them.
The man also wanted custody of his children, so the judge asked for his side
of the story.
After a long moment of silence, the man rose from his chair and
replied:
Your Honour, when I put a dollar into a vending machine, and a Coke comes out, does the Coke belong to me or to the machine?
Don't laugh --- he won !
. Quotes Of The Day ...
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Why
did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on
how to do it. - Anonymous
I
lived in Miami for a while, in a section with a lot of really old people. The
average age in my apartment house was dead. - Gabe Kaplan
Everybody
should believe in something;
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