Good and tempting business proposal anyone?

I'm sure many of you have already read and known the story below, it's quite amusing
that's why i took the liberty to reprint it in my blog just to let others who haven't read
it have a giggle reading it.
This was an actual post from the Craigslist website with an actual
response from someone who seems to be an investment banker. The
exchange, which has been forwarded many times through email, was
written about in the New York Times. The guy was discovered to be a
top manager in one of the world's leading investment firms. The
identity of the woman has not been revealed.

THE POSTED LISTING

What am I doing wrong?

Okay, I'm tired of beating around the bush. I'm a beautiful
(spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I'm articulate and
classy. I'm not from New York. I'm looking to get married to a guy
who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but
keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City,
so I don't think I'm overreaching at all.

Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives?
Could you send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average
around 200 - 250. But that's where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000
won't get me to central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class
who was married to an investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and
she's not as pretty as I am, nor is she a great genius. So what is
she doing right? How do I get to her level?

Here are my questions specifically:

- Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars,
restaurants, gyms -What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest
guys, you won't hurt my feelings
- Is there an age range I should be targeting (I'm 25)?
- Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the Upper
East Side so plain? I've seen really `plain jane' boring types who
have nothing to offer married to incredibly wealthy guys. I've seen
drop-dead gorgeous girls in singles bars in the East Village. What's
the story there?
- Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows - lawyer, investment
banker, doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they
hang out? Where do the hedge fund guys hang out?
- How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for
MARRIAGE ONLY

Please hold your insults - I'm putting myself out there in an honest
way. Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I'm being up
front about it. I wouldn't be searching for these kind of guys if I
wasn't able to match them - in looks, culture, sophistication, and
keeping a nice home and hearth.

It's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial
interests.

PostingID: 432279810

THE ANSWER

Dear Pers-431649184:

I read your posting with great interest and have thought meaningfully
about your dilemma. I offer the following analysis Of your
predicament. Firstly, I'm not wasting your time, I qualify as a guy
who fits your bill; that is I make more than $500K per year. That
said, here's how I see it.

Your offer, from the prospective of a guy like me, is plain and
simple a crappy business deal. Here's why. Cutting through all the
B.S., what you suggest is a simple trade: you bring your looks to the
party and I bring my money. Fine, simple. But here's the rub: your
looks will fade and my money will likely continue into perpetuity in
fact, it is very likely that my income increases but it is an
absolute certainty that you won't be getting any more beautiful!

So, in economic terms you are a depreciating asset and I am an
earning asset. Not only are you a depreciating asset, your
depreciation accelerates! Let me explain, you're 25 now and will
likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year.
Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35, stick a fork in you!

So in Wall Street terms, we would call you a trading position, not a
buy and hold , hence the rub, marriage. It doesn't make good business
sense to "buy you" (which is what you're asking) so I'd rather lease.
In case you think I'm being cruel, I would say the following. If my
money were to go away, so would you, so when your beauty fades I need
an out. It's as simple as that. So a deal that makes sense is dating,
not marriage.

Separately, I was taught early in my career about efficient markets.
So, I wonder why a girl as "articulate, classy and spectacularly
beautiful" as you has been unable to find your sugar daddy. I find it
hard to believe that if you are as gorgeous as you say you are that
the $500K hasn't found you, if only for a tryout.

By the way, you could always find a way to make your own money, and
then we wouldn't need to have this difficult conversation. With all
that said, I must say you're going about it the right way, but in
trading terms this is a classic "pump and dump."

I hope this is helpful, and if you want to enter into some sort of
lease, let me know

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my sickening untitled post ever!

Last week I received an email, a forwarded mail from some concerned individual forwarded by a friend of a friend, things like that are common among the virtual world of internet, but not this message. It contains a URL of a post from multiply.com titled suicide@trinoma. Upon clicking the said link, I was appalled and sickened by what I saw. The site contains a post of 9 pictures apparently taken from a cell phone of a sick individual, brandishing a dead man who committed suicide by jumping from a building. Blood splattered all over the place. The picture is obviously in its amateur state, trying to capture the entire angle as possible with its limited depth and scope, yes it didn’t catch the full gory details of any splattering membranes, but it did catch my full sensibilities, my emotional response I feel I am being violated by this post.

I’m not trying to look and sounds like a whine-o-matic kind of thing, violence, apathy and suicide are a common thing like having a toasted bread for breakfast, but what hit my nerve is the question of where did the owner of the multiply blog gets her unnerving courage to take pictures of the splattered suicide victim’s body and post it (all 9 pictures) in the world wide web and have everyone commented on it?

I hit my keyboard at once and pound off comments on her blog. The owner of the site from what I’ve learned, is as dumb as she looks, from a profile which she admits that she’s a brat--in her youthful glory claiming that she’s just sharing what she saw, a noble intention? Well guess what, the road to hell is always paved with good intentions!

We took turns debating about it, I posted three or four replies and asking her to answer all my questions on how did she got the nerve to do it, none of my questions and challenges reciprocates decent answers, instead of answering intellectually and rising up to the challenge of proving the merits of her act, she resorted into trivial matters and bickering. What can you expect?

And to make matters worst, comments from her post says that they have copied the pictures and posted it too. Damn world we live in! Where these people do came from? What do these youth nowadays eat? What makes their skin so thick and their skull so hard enough that sensibility, awareness, and morality can’t pass through? what are these people made of? What if that guy lying on the floor oozing with blood is their dad? And somebody took pictures of it, post it in the net and have the world to pick and comment on it?

My point exactly is RESPECT. The dead body lying on the floor obviously committed suicide, you can’t commit suicide if you’re happy and contented in this world, logic tells the guy had enough of this world, thus ending his life by way of jumping few storey above. Isn’t that enough humiliation? Comments from that post tells how coward the guy is, as if adding more insult to the injury—I just can’t imagine if one of his (the dead guy) relatives or his daughter gets to read and saw the pictures of this post.

These people and the owner of the blog really don’t understand what moral responsibility is, I’m not trying to play hero, or moral guardian of the net—I’m just a father who tries to exercise my conscience a little bit everyday in a world where having a conscience is a luxury.

In relation with our debate, I happened to stumble upon an article from FORBES magazine, a leading business and financial publication in its October 15 issue titled ANONYMITY AND THE NET. It’s a cover story about how the net and the anonymity of the people behind it use the freedom of expression into a much sicker and evil doings.

Bear with me, the story goes like this:

An 18 year old girl, Nicole goes out of the house violating her father’s rule not to leave, taking the old man’s car and speeding away from where she intended to be, the girl met a freak accident—a gruesome one. One witness account says she was speeding at 100 mph.

Death was sudden and instantly, but it didn’t end there, gruesome police photos of the scene somehow made it to the internet, her mangled body still on the driver’s seat splattered all over blogs and forums around the world. It showed up on Google and Yahoo, even on Photobucket and Myspace and to 1,500 more outposts. Chat rooms had a great time talking about the scene and calling the dead young girl names such as “spoiled rich girl” who “deserve it.”

Some are not contented, even posting photos of the scene and adding mocking commentaries of some sort. Cropping the picture and making it look larger with a comment of: "What's left of my brain here: As you can see, there wasn't much."

Cruel world indeed.

If we could only try to be a little sensitive even just a minute a day, things will be a lot easier. The wide world web is not a license for anyone to do such cruelty to others, hiding behind the mask of anonymity, knowing that no one knows you while you recklessly wreck havoc in somebody's life intentionally or not happens all the time, and a lot of people get away with it. Yes they can get away with it at least in this world but knowing there’s somebody up there almighty, who sees all things happening, will someday have the final hand on all these matters, and be the judge of it all.

And as I quote the words of that young girl’s father, I deeply sympathize with his grief and the family’s:

"Have these people ever loved?"

as of this recent entry, the owner of the multiply.com blog suicide@trinoma barred everyone from entering and viewing her post a knock of conscience finally hit her hard head? or just maybe can't get to answer those barrage of questions this writer hurled against her pathetic skull?

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Classic Questions on basic answers

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

What hair color do they put on the drivers licenses of bald men?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older, then it dawned on me . . . they're cramming for their final exam.

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they delivered the mail?

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

Why don't you ever see the headline,"Psychic wins Lottery?"

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

When dog food is new and with improved flavor, who tests it?

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Through the rapist's eyes: Tips on how to avoid being raped

Violence proliferates in the streets just like a stinking trash, clogged in the society’s drainage running in the very vein of everyday life. Violence lurks behind the shadowy corner of the streets awaiting any uninitiated victims. It’s the sign of the times; every corner of the road you walked upon is a bare witness of wrong doings committed from person to person.

We are indeed living in a condition where the streets aren’t safe to walk anymore, strangers are to be feared, and a smile from an unknown person may pose a threat, a cry for help often drowns and fell on deaf ears, as if helping might get you in trouble too.

The evening news might be just another show to watch on TV whenever we got home relaxing after dinner, getting updated with the recent events and knowing how things matter, but what if someone dear to us landed in these tabloids on TV? What if your daughter or wife becomes a victim of violence also known as rape? Such horrifying thoughts to entertain to, but the fact is it happens, and nobody is exempted even those rich and famous people of the society are no let off.

Keeping yourself “armed” is the next best thing to avoid rape on the streets, it’s an act of violence among women (and men too), remember that the nature of this crime is violence not sexual, so it’s no excuse to say that “hey, I don’t wear sexy dress so rapist have no intention prowling on my ass.” Rape happens in full spectrum of age bracket, no matter how young or how old the victim maybe, as long as the urge kicks in the sick brain of those fucking rapist, coupled with right opportunity, crime happens.

Below are some surveys and interviews conducted from those rapist caught and in prison on how they view, how their sick brain works whenever they prowl the streets looking for victims. These I have been told is proliferating in the internet, and sharing these helps lot of people, so I took the liberty of reproducing it here and might as well share it.

1] The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun, braid or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets.

2] The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for women whose clothing can be easily removed. Many of them carry scissors around to cut clothing.

3] They also look for women using their cell phone, searching through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they are off guard and can be easily overpowered.

4] The number one place women are abducted from or attacked at is grocery store parking lots.

5] Number two is office parking lots/garages.

6] Number three is public restrooms.

7] The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman and quickly move her to a second location where they don't have to worry about getting caught.

8] If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn't worth it because it will be time-consuming.

9] These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas, or other similar objects that can be used from a distance as weapons.

10] Keys and other short objects are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these guys you're not worth it.

POINTS THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER:

1] If someone is following behind you on a street or in a garage or in an elevator or stairwell, look them in the face and ask them a question, like what time is it, or make general small talk: can't believe it is so cold out here, we're in for a bad winter. Now that you've seen their faces and could identify them in a line- up, you lose appeal as a target.

2] If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands in front of you and yell Stop or Stay back! Most of the rapists says that they leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she would not be afraid to fight back. Again, rapist looks for an EASY target.

3] If you carry pepper spray yelling I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY and holding it out will be a deterrent.

4] If someone grabs you, you can't beat them with strength but you can do it by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the waist and from behind, pinch the attacker either under the arm between the elbow and armpit or in the upper inner thigh – HARD ENOUGH. One woman told that she used the underarm pinch on a guy who was trying to date rape her and was so upset she broke through the skin and tore out muscle strands the guy needed stitches. Try pinching yourself in those places as hard as you can stand it; it really hurts.

5] After the initial hit, always go for the groin. I know from a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy's parts it is extremely painful. You might think that you'll anger the guy and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told is that they want a woman who will not cause him a lot of trouble. Start causing trouble, and he's out of there.

6] When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first two fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure pushing down on them as possible. The instructor did it to me without using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles cracked audibly.

7] Of course the things we always hear still apply. Always be aware of your surroundings, take someone with you if you can and if you see any odd behavior, don't dismiss it, go with your instincts. You may feel little silly at the time, but you'd feel much worse if the guy really was trouble.

FINALLY, PLEASE REMEMBER THESE AS WELL....
I know you are smart enough to know these pointers but there will be some, where you will go "hmm… I must remember that" After reading, forward it to someone you care about, never hurts to be careful in this crazy world we live in.

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do it.

2. Learned this from a tourist guide to New Orleans: if a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you.... chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car: Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won't see you but everybody else will. This has saved lives.

4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping, eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON'T DO THIS! The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side, put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU CLOSE the DOORS, LEAVE.
5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage: a. be aware: look around your car as someone may be hiding at the passenger side, peek into your car, inside the passenger side floor, and in the back seat. (DO THIS TOO BEFORE RIDING A TAXI CAB).

b. If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars.

c. Look at the car parked on the driver's side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot).

7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; and even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN!

8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP IT! It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked "for help" into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.

I'd like you to forward this to all the women you know. It may save a life. A candle is not dimmed by lighting another candle. I was going to send this to the ladies only, but guys, if you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc., you may want to pass it onto them, as well.

Send this to any woman you know that may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it and it's better safe than sorry.

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A glimpse of life in the year 3000

we may not be a Nostradamus of today but sure thing we can predict future by the way present holds for us. So here's the prediction of the not-so-distant future, don't you like it when you can see the soon to come? just don't forget to laugh!

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Life’s relationship journey

What does it mean by being faithful between a husband and wife? Is it just physically? Or does an array of emotional aspect go with it? Men often believe that they are still faithful and true to their promises judging that they have not done anything physical with the other party outside of their present relationship. But women believe so otherwise.

There is such a thing as being emotionally involved with a person. And others say that men are by nature polygamous, even not in the physical sense of the word. I don’t know, it seems, men cannot stop themselves from flirting with ladies, whether they are already committed and married already. Does it mean that they are not happy with their present relationship? Maybe so. Otherwise men will not look at other women and flirt with them even the slightest hint of it, knowing that they will hurt their present partners.

Flirting is just the start of a forbidden relationship, and may be the root of marital problems; I know you will disagree about my opinion. If a man flirts with a woman, and in turn the woman reciprocates flirting with the man (even if the woman is already committed), there seems to be trouble in there, something’s not in the proper order. The woman, in that case, may also not be happy with her present relationship, or basically she is just so bored with her relationship. No more spice, so to speak. And that would be called seeking another’s nest to fly upon.

Whatever the case maybe, whoever turns on the other side of the fence, relationship, if not being properly nurtured and taken care of mutually will doom to be just another brick on the road; every one treads on a long lost, lonely journey of this so called life.

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Spammers and their Greedy recipients

My inbox are getting full, a lot of messages are pouring in, not of great importance though but full of spam messages. Until now I can’t get over these people who are trying to scam other people with such mindless tactics.

I’m sure you have your own share too of these low filthy scheme emails from Nigeria, London etc where stated in the letter that he/she was a son/daughter of a certain diplomat or government official who her/his parents died of a plane crash or some sort of accident that he/she needs to get the inheritance but he/she needs your help to get it.

It’s strange that the letter always starts with “dear friend.” Those fucking spammers don’t even address you properly enough for you to fall on the trap, but apparently there are people who fell on this scheme. The spammers even offer a huge amount of money mostly millions of dollars to be transferred into your account and making you the caretaker of his/her money for the time being until it gets processed and smoothly transferred into his/her account, in return you will get a 10% commission on its amount. Imagine how huge that would be, and if greed sips into your system, you would think of running away with the money, anyway there’s no way he/she can get hold and track of you.

Real greed: that is where these spammers capitalize in order to succeed in their scam. When people starts to be greedy and think of a more advantageous leverage to be an instant millionaire, that’s when “greed meets greed” system happen. From what I’ve understand these evil spammers request that you deposit first some bond in their bank before you can go on the transaction process, some sort of “security” in their part.

Other schemes are in the form of a lottery, an email reached you informing you that you have just won a raffle or a lottery amounting to millions, they even provide you with transaction number or some sort of serial/reference number, they even using Yahoo name or Google name to make sure they are authentic enough to the eyes of the “greedy” uninitiated mind. But you will notice the disclaimer at the end of the letter that says not to disclose the information to anyone.

One thing for sure, if you are greed enough to fall for their promise of millions of dollars in your bank account or if you’re moron enough to believe that you have just won millions in lottery without even remembering joining one, then you deserve to be scammed.

Big amount of money just don’t fall into your lap, you have to work hard for it, strive, and sweat your butt out in order to earn decent living, and thereby saving for your retirement, I’m still stupefied by those people who fall victim to those scams, indeed greed begets greed

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I’m coming home-- coming to terms with myself

How many of you guys stay at home working? Or just stay at home doing nothing?

It was a tough decision on my part, through the years life had hurled me tough problems that requires tough decisions and so far staying at home and trying to earn a living at the same time is one of the tough if not the toughest.

I have been working all my life, nearly two decades of office/studio work as an artist going to and fro, traveling almost 56 kilometers home to office and vice versa every day 6 days sometimes 7 days a week, not to mention those extra work I brought home every night which takes me up to 3 am in the morning only to wake up at 8 am and be at the studio by 10. Pretty tedious huh?

Staying at home and trying to earn a living is not exactly 100% a decision of mine, part of it had been decided by the employment situation here in my goddamn country. Where work experiences doesn’t matter anymore if you’re older as 25, employers always have an option of replacing you with new and fresh ones as they have all the liberties in the world to choose young slaves lining up on their doorsteps willing to offer fresh meat to enslave. Work experience and loyalty come second best.

Surrounding hazards adds up too; imagine everyday spending almost 6 hours traveling? 3 hours to get to work and then another 3 hours again to get home? Not to mention an extra 2 hours if you’re lucky enough to enjoy the view while stuck in the traffic.

Through the course of me working for nearly two decades, I have developed some “immunizational” device to shun away such tiresome worries and keep my head intact, for instance, since I lack sleep almost everyday, I have learned how to enjoy sleeping in the bus, I have somehow developed some sort of body alarm that I woke up exactly on the same spot of the road near where I should get off the bus. Breakfast was always depends on the menu of those vendors proliferating the streets selling odd “edible items” or maybe a brunch came in handy after I arrived studio.

Sometimes I wish I can bring my drawing table with me in the bus so as not to waste hours traveling and convert it to income. Working in an animation studio is quite tiresome, pay-per-piece of work, but I love it then. You may ask why I haven’t relocated near work, actually I decided to relocate into the suburbs a nearby town of Laguna that time where I acquired a simple yet inhabitable house, my long time dream is to have a nice place to stay near the mountains where the air is cool and the surroundings are green, so much for a dream, I endured all those daily contrition just to end up abandoning that house—well that’s another story to tell.

Now then, I don’t live in that house anymore, at least not with my ex-wife but I still have my two kids with me and two other more step kids and an equally wonderful understanding, lively, lovable and beautiful inside and out partner in life where spending time at home and trying to earn a living is as equally fulfilling making a career and minding the home at the same time.

It’s hard to keep a juggling act, balancing money matters and maintaining the family intact including keeping the flame of your relationship burning. I have opted to keep out other unimportant people out of my life, friends are always there of course but they are the third or the fourth if not the last priority of my “new” life away from workplace and away from the hustling and bustling crowded city streets of everyday living.

Maybe it’s me getting old, getting tired getting mellow, I don’t have money right now, no retirement benefits whatsoever, still got kids to send to school, but for now living one day at a time gives me peace instead of worrying what to eat the next day or will I have money to pay the rent at the end of the month, this peace I have right now can’t be bought by money, no amount of compensation will be equally satisfying than this.

I don’t care about the new trend in cell phones and all the latest gadgets, nor the fashion and the political bickering happening all around me; I don’t have to put up a smiling face to people whom I don’t know just to please them, wearing shorts and shirts were all there is to make me going around the house while working for side jobs, I don’t need to put up formal or semi-formals anymore, and best of all temptations are of nowhere near me as I shut the front door of my house, but keeping my mind’s window open.

I like it here, don’t you?

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