Table

Today my boss said to me "Do you know how to put a table in a table?" I was about to say "No, but I know how to put a dream in a dream," then I realized she was talking about Microsoft Word. No fun already.

Debit and Credit

A few months ago on another project, after my team leader had gave us a long explanation, my colleague turned to me and quietly asked me a question.

"What's debit and credit?"

On my current project, another colleague asked me again:

"What's debit and credit?"

I must admit I was slightly shocked. How can anyone get through high school and college without knowing what is debit and credit? Granted, one of them was a computer science graduate and the other was a statistics graduate, so it's normal that they don't know it, but I think knowing it would help them a huge amount. Basically if you are doing a business-related job and you don't know what is debit and credit it's similar to driving a car without knowing where the clutch is. Of course, I am not blaming them, they are smart girls. I'm blaming the education system.

Now you are going to shout at me "Neither do you know what are Fourier series/endocrine glands/quadrotrionic transformations," but let me remind you, there are tons of science students going for business jobs and hardly any business students going for science jobs.

So, I think that people in university taking a science major should take an accounting class too. Maybe another business class at that. I think the time spent would be very worth it. To think of it, business students should take a couple of useful science classes as well. Some basic computer skills like HTML or networks would be very useful for a lot of jobs, or even for starting your own business. It certainly would be better than a ton of management or marketing classes which we now have to sit through. Tell me, who manages people right after graduating? You get to manage people quite a while later, and by that time it's from experience, not the fat textbook. Marketing classes are even worse in my opinion. Who cares about why Starbucks opens one store on each side of the street in America, they don't do that here. Maybe if there was a marketing class that actually taught things like how to get people to come eat at your mamak store which is located in a dark corner or how to promote your blog which sells cheap ornaments then I would actually not sleep in class. But I digress.

So what I want to say is, university studies should diversify a little because according to my observation, the majority of people don't do what they originally studied to do anyway. In fact if you ask me, dividing students into Arts and Science doesn't make sense as well because who the hell knows what they want to do at the age of fifteen? Even Taylor Swift can see that logic.

Note: Debit/Credit explanation

My dear girl, if you forget what is it you can just open my blog anytime. You know who you are.

An Analysis of Relative Market Value

Many girls complain that the value of the fair sex on the dating market declines rapidly with age after 30 or so. This is one reason why if you ask a woman her age you may find yourself in the intensive care unit not long afterward.

I admit that it is, generally speaking, true that the market value of females go down faster than males as age advances. However, there is a flip side to this that we do not often pay attention to.

Because of this, women have much higher dating value than men early on. Why is this so? Due to the law of supply and demand.

Think of it this way:

A woman's peak period on the dating market is, let's say, 20 to 30. A man's may be from, let's say, 20 to 40.

If we analyze this situation carefully, we will find that due to this disparity in lengths of peak periods, there will be twice the number of men than women on the peak dating market. By the law of supply and demand, the dating value for women during this period will be twice as high as men on average.

Of course, this analysis is oversimplified. Marriage takes both sides out of the dating market as time goes on. However, men tend to marry a few years later than women on average.

So let us make a simple model.

Say there are 100 men and 100 women in society from the age of 20-30, and another 100 men and 100 women from the age of 30-40.

If no one is married, there will be 200 guys chasing after 100 women, as the 100 women over 30 are out. (In real life this is of course not the case, but this is a simplified model.)

(NOTE: OF COURSE PEOPLE STILL WANT TO MARRY WOMEN OVER 30 DAMMIT, I JUST MEAN MORE MEN FOCUS ON THOSE YOUNGER GIRLS. I AM LAZY TO USE RELATIVE WEIGHTAGE MODELLING TECHNIQUES ON SOMETHING THAT WILL NOT MAKE ME MONEY.)

At this point, the value of a woman on the dating market is exactly twice that of a man.

Let us factor in the effect of marriage now.

Since women get married earlier then men on average, let us assume that 40 percent of the women between 20-30 are married, while 20 percent of the men between 20-30 are married.

This leaves us 60 women and 80 men between 20-30.

For the men between 30-40, a higher proportion will be married, say 50 percent. This leaves 50 men in that age group.

So, there will be 60 women to 80+50 = 130 men on the dating market. If we divide 130 by 60, it gives an average woman 2.16 times the dating value of an average man.

See! It's not all that bad for ladies right?

Don't do something you love

I work long hours, yes. This weekend I was working. Fortunately, I get paid fairly well for my age. Of course, there are people who earn far more than me (yada yada insert humble statements), but compared to the average curve in Malaysia, I think I'm doing fine.

However there are people who work longer hours than me for far less. My sister used to intern in an advertising company, and she rarely came back before midnight. Sometimes she would come back at 3 or 4 am, and rush off to work at 8 in the morning the next day. Her colleagues did this too, and their pay was pretty low according to what she heard.

My friend does animation artwork in a studio, and she works just as much as me if not more. She says the pay is bad and the bosses are unreasonable.

Another of my friend is a radio DJ and has even appeared on TV programs and what not. She is paid less than RM 2K a month. And we thought people in the entertainment line made tons of money.

So, what do these things (advertising, art, entertainment) have in common?

People do them because they have a passion for the field. That's why bosses can pay them poorly and demand long hours, because if they leave, other applicants rush in despite the rather substandard treatment. A far cry from the typical money-minded investment bankers and consultants, who fly to wherever pays the best. Typical mercenary mindset, like me.

I AM A GREEDY LITTLE BASTARD.

Which is why I don't do what I love.

Pink nipples

I was surfing a forum lately when I stumbled across an interesting thread. Basically, a guy dumped his gf for a very peculiar reason:

Her nipples were not pink.

Instead of being a scrumptious pink color like a boiled egg, they had the audacity to be a dull brown in color. For this crime, he dumped her immediately.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAA!

Despite my pity for the poor girl, I find the situation very hilarious. My guess is that the guy watched too much porn, making him unable to accept any lesser color.

So, is it a must to have in your partner the colors you see in movies?

I sure hope my gf doesn't watch Avatar then.

This reminds me of another story I read about.

There was this dude in Thailand who met a nice pretty girl there. They got together, but the girl just refused to have sex with him, claiming she was a virgin and wanted to save herself for marriage. He was curious as to how such a pretty and wild girl would have remained a virgin for so long, so he hired this private investigator to check up on her past.

When the private investigator inquired a bit, he found that the girl was in fact, a guy. That was why she/he never wanted to take her pants off.

I guess the lesson from this is, if your nipples are not pink, wear nipple stickers when you do it.

My principles

For a long time I wanted to write a blog. Today I have finally overcome my laziness and put finger to keyboard, so let me start off by saying what I am not going to blog about (at least not 90 percent of the time).

1. Sexy photos.

Due to not being a pretty girl, or a girl at all, I cannot take webcam photos of myself in various alluring poses and post them here. I am also rather lazy to scour the Internet for photos of various celebrities or models. Sorry about that.

If I pose like this all of you will vomit immediately.

2. Food

I do like to talk about food, but due to the huge numbers of bloggers posting their breakfast, lunch and dinner on the Internet, I won't talk about it unless I have something out of the ordinary to say.


I won't post pictures like this. If there is a cockroach inside then I will post.

3. Song Lyrics

I never quite understood why people like to post song lyrics on their blog. If the song is not well known then I can understand, but why post a popular song? It's not like there is no Google.

This applies especially if the song posted is from Justine Bieber.

I promise to uphold conditions 1, 2 and 3 most of the time.

Thank you!