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curse his mother ... curse his father ... curse his grandfather ... curse his grandmother ... oops ... sorry wrong forum ... lizard

hi zehuan, you clueless ... then we how? i thought you got hold of a money-magic book from borders or was it kino ... don't bluff us you know ... we saw you lurking around in taka ... lizard

chill ... my friend cyclop ... Life is but a fun thing to be ... be happy and breathe well ... enjoy ... i had never been in love before ... i am trying it out now ... wish me luck ... money indeed can buy or acquire a lot of things, but it will also mask the true feelings ... so very hard to detect nowadays ... lizard is growing very old and short-sighted. i am not bitter ... it is just that i have so much talent in me ... but, i have no one to share them with ... that's my only regret ... i really don't wish to finish my life alone. lizard

business is about starting VERY VERY SMALL ... you will bound to make mistakes; but since it is small, it can weather the mistakes way way better than big decisions ... so that you can last longer to see the light at the end of the CHANNEL bag ... then, am i a small business man? YES and NO ... yes. i started small. no. i am no longer small ... even microsoft started with a 2-man show, same same for apple and hp. so please don't hear big stories ... start sizing up smaller ones ... you will feel better ... even local joints like charles & keith started very small ... ACCS (bad now) also started VERY small ... small is beautiful ... by being small, you have to do one-leg-kick, so you know every bit of the business process, so when you grow bigger, you can still manage to solve their problems, because you've been-there-done-that. it is like a chief-cook that no longer needs to cook ... better end this by saying ... it is only my 2-cents worth ... wor lizard

hi sis JE, just one more thing: (wow ... i so free meh ... because i just gone out-of-love, so heart very pain, must do nonsense to defocus on the sharp pain) business is not an easy subject ... if your people tell you that you need or they need money to start a business. then, i am sure that business will fail. if a business cannot start within one's means, that business idea is a bad one. MARK my words ... i am telling you the truth ... lizard you don't know how fetish i am for young business women ...

hi sis JE, since you are a gal ... let me give you one manhood advice ... YOU BETTER SPONGE YOUR MAN DRY ... REMEMBER FROM AGE 8 TO 80, DON'T ALLOW YOUR MAN TO FEED FULL. OTHERWISE, YOUR MAN WILL HAVE ENOUGH RESOURCE TO START ANOTHER FAMILY. why allow a problem to start, just kill the issue by making him poor and you thyself the envy of the town with all your expensive value-less gifts from your man. for a start, try the brand "fly-off-chicken-feather" (in cantonese), it is nice and very not-too-expensive, but, still kills a normal man. if you don't know what's the brand, ask your girl friends ... they will surely know ... if your man is stronger than normal, try CHANNEL brand lah. me gals all try CHANNEL brand, almost killed the lizard, ohhh, boy ... ha ... i am beginning to feel like MR ANDERSON ... lizard

arhhhh ... cyclop you are still young ... have not suffered like me ... you have not been insulted by the gals you like ... if you have then you wouldn't behave so nice oredi ... when the gal tells you NOT to embarass yourself by exposing your fat self in the swimming pool ... that's when you will flip to the dark side ... like the lizard when you are ready, you shall become my APPRENTICE of the DARK FORCE ... may the dark force be with you ... lizard

hi ervine, yes. you have presented the sentiments of the other side ... it is a big de-li-ma ... on one hand the business man needs the money to start, hence, he doesn't mind getting the money in exchange for the shares of the profits. on the other hand, the gal giving the money, will only give the money on condition of a certain minimum share, otherwise no go ... at the beginning, all systems go, all are happy ... the business bestest collapses ... otherwise problem will appear ... your situation comes about due to ONE reason (that same reason you mentioned): i.e., the business managed to turn around and start to make money as predicted ... hahahahahahahahahaha ... initially the business man will give the fair share to the gal .... but after a while, he felt not so good, unless the business man can have a go at her .... you saw it coming actually ... most businesses require effort to sustain the operations, normally our dear business man does not factor in this part as business cost. hence, every time the profit is gotten, the business man ALWAYS feel that he deserves more. .... sigh ... human greed ... but can't really blame him ... it will come a time, where the business man will give the ultimatum and quickie (oops, i mean quit) the partnership. ANOTHER business bites the dust ... hahahahahahahahahhaha ... how nice. the fallasy of man - GREED. the business man failed to undertsand that the money is also important to start him off or get going for the business. as history became legend. legend became myth. much that once was is lost. for none now live to remember ... (always works for ALL my love letters to gals, hmmm ... so proud a copycat: I) the gal failed to understand that as her man continued to work hard, there may come a time where the effort overwhelms the initial sums of investment. dis-satisfaction sets in ... the gal forgot that the man also needs to be comforted, i.e., she needs to give some sugary carrots to make him happy. just a teeny weeny bit will do, just like in all my cases. so that your donkey-man or in MIN's words, the mule-man will continue to work his guts out. how nice ... lizard remember, ladies out there: a DIOR period bag (yes, that furry one) is now going for $2,870 only. please get one before its is out of stock ... get your donkeys going, gals ... in this respect, i really hate MIN, he really brings the baddest of gals out: he said the gals (jockeys) love to treat their men as donkeys, worst still mules; a mule is a terrible cross between a donkey and a horse, so it is born of no ###### organ or ability. his existence is to wait for his sad exit ... he can't run like a horse winning trophies for the jockey, he can't carry loads like his donkey mother ... damn sad existence ... sadly too ... i am also a mule to some of my gals ... sigh ... since i know it ... why not ??? ... erhmm ... i just can't help it ... i am in love with them all ... as MIN said: it is also the stupidity of man that maketh the gals so c*ck-sure of themselves and ride all men like horses, donkeys or mules depending on your breeding (rich or not) ... hahahahahahaha ...

sorry sis JE, one more thing .. you are a girl .. so don't need to worry about money what? don't even need to think for him ... remember your man always got BIG EGO one ... so better quiet quiet ... and just ask him for all the leather stuffs ... soon you can get them only behind taka called GINZA. just get your man to work hard and help him spend his money lor ... all my @!@#$$%&(*&(^%$&*% gals spend my money dry ... ohhh boy ... some even got the cheek to ask for cars ... sigh ... poor lizard, such hideous abomination ... lizard

hi sis JE, the answer is NO NO NO !!! why? well, i am a dirty business man ... all business men are up to no good if they ask for money ... meaning they need money to tie them over their own problems ... once they do that ... you can safely say bye-bye to your cash. it will never return. if you want sure thing ... well ... bank lah ... (also not so sure actually) ... but you get 0.125% that's very sad. otherwise buy shares lah ... you can get about 15% IF YOU ARE LUCKY and hit the right stocks ... don't buy insurance that are investment type .... (sorry, i just speak my mind, hope insurance guys don't feel bad, i am not saying bad things here, just the type. insurance will always have a place in businesses) money doesn't grow on trees and hence, you cannot hope to make money by sitting back ... then how can one make MONEY safely ... well, ask bro zehuan ... he's got the answer ... not me, i am afraid ... lizard

yo ... RAV i didn't know you are into mythology ... see mythology so nice ... don't need to hurt people (and fishes) .... hahahahahahahaha ... my latest love letter to a fish: LOVE became LONGING ... LONGING became DESPAIR ... Much that once was is lost, For none now live to remember ... lizard

hehehe ... bro WEISOON, tired of fast-food, going for home-made veggies? yes, i have to agree that home-made veggy don't go for money alone. they go for feel more than money ... especially those beyond 30+ ... better get your 6-packs out in no time. otherwise, if ever i find a new method of chioing them OTHER THAN 6 packs. you lose to me. ohhh ... boy, i better think of a way to look good too ... my scaley hind is hideous ... good luck ... lizard

hi zehuan, just revived an old thread here ... nice meeting you at LFS today. after you have finished the books, the question to ask is: "what's wrong with what they told you and not what's so good about what they have written .... and why?" lizard ps: JE, please don't believe any words MIN told you, they are worse than poison. you see: poeple like to hear doom stories and they don't like to hear success stories of fellow singaporeans, i wonder why ... i am leaving earth for middle-earth ... that's where all my sweethearts are. some are already sweethearts, many are not. so, i really have to spend my time in middle earth wisely ... sigh ... great trouble stirring again in mordor of late ... the evil orc prince charming is getting on my nerve again. have to kill him once and for all. such hard work ... you are right ... i got to get down to work ... never work so hard in my life ... damn that orc prince ... such deformity ... yucks

wow ... WEISOON, miss your great post ... why must you try to slim down since you are already so rich? a great puzzlement ... i tried to slim down also. but, wifey kicked up a ruckle ... she said why must i look good and slim. for jioing gals is it? so no choice, nowadays have to go for quiet starvation regime. real hard work. maybe there are other ways to look good ... put a 1000-bucks in my left breast pocket. i am sure gals will find me rather slim fit. lizard

hi ALL buayas, buayas-to-be, crocs, birdy catchers and fish collectors, Worthless gifts get the good girls 13:21 27 July 2005 NewScientist.com news service Anna Gosline Men who spend big money wining and dining their dates are not frittering away hard-earned cash. According to a pair of UK researchers, they are merely employing the best strategy for getting the girl without being taken for granted. Using mathematical modelling, Peter Sozou and Robert Seymour at University College London, UK, found that wooing girls with costly, but essentially worthless gifts – such as theatre tickets or expensive dinners out – is a winning courtship strategy for both sexes. Females can assess how serious or committed a male plans to be and males can ensure they are not just seducing 'gold-diggers' – girls who take valuable presents with no intention of accepting subsequent dates. Sozou came about the idea after reading about a man in his local newspaper. The man had been paying the rent of a woman he considered was his girlfriend – he was giving her a valuable gift. But she had been heartlessly manipulating him, dating another man on the sly while accepting money from her unwitting sugar daddy. "It spurred me onto thinking that if he had just been buying her expensive dinners, and not paying her rent, she wouldn’t have strung him along so much," says Sozou. Dating and mating So he and Seymour built a model based on a series of dating decisions. In the model males had to decide what kind of gift to offer females – valuable, extravagant or cheap – based on how attractive he finds her. The females had to either accept or decline the gift and then decide whether to mate with the gift-giver – a decision also weighted on the 'attractiveness' of their prospective partner. When they measured the different outcomes of all the steps, they found the best solution for the males was to give extravagant, but intrinsically value-free gifts the vast majority of the time, while giving gifts of material value very occasionally. The model showed that if males gave valuable gifts too often, the females would start to exploit them: the males have no clue as to the females’ real intentions in the model. Put simply, the females just take the diamonds and run. But when the gifts are worthless, an uninterested female has little incentive to accept, gaining no return on what could be just turn into the simple waste of an evening. Only girls who are serious would bother to go the distance. Worthless balls Sozou and Seymour believe their conclusions about people find support in the actions of animals, such as the dance fly. Males of this species give worthless cotton balls to entice partners into mating – and they work – although other scientists interpret this as male trickery. Alison Lenton, a social psychologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, questions some of the model’s assumptions, however. For example, one assumption is that females obtain a negative outcome for accepting an unattractive, though committed, male. Women have been shown to prioritise traits associated with good parental care above physical attractiveness, she says. The model also fails to take the potential effects of cheating females into account. “Some female birds raise their chicks with a 'nice' male and engage in short-term copulations with an attractive male - there is similar evidence among humans. In this way, females may get the best of both worlds.” And what is more, says Lenton, psychologists have found that experiential purchases – like theatre tickets – make people more happy in the long run than material purchases. "I do not necessarily agree that theatre tickets are 'worthless'," she says. Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society B (DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3152) Related Articles Sperm-free ###### keeps hens happily faithful http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7657 11 July 2005 Even cheap love tokens can buy ###### http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524826.100 15 January 2005 Hormones converge for couples in love http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4957 05 May 2004 Even cheap love tokens can buy ###### 15 January 2005 NewScientist.com news service IT IS an age-old story in the animal kingdom: males give gifts to females to seduce them. But why do some individuals hand over valuable presents while others get away with common tat? For instance, males of some fly species either present females with hard-won edible insects, or inedible seeds or twigs. Some even do both. The evolutionary benefits of giving gifts that boost reproductive success, such as food, may seem obvious. But Natasha LeBas of the University of St Andrews in Scotland and colleagues believe worthless gifts also give males a selective advantage by reducing the investment they must make to reproduce. They studied male dance flies mating on Scottish farmland. The researchers replaced the insect gifts being offered with cotton balls - and discovered the cotton-bearing males managed to copulate for just as long (Current Biology, vol 15, p 64). "Selection does seem to act strongly on the males that reduce their investment," LeBas told New Scientist, since this group of flies have evolved several fake gift strategies. lizard

wow ... BINGO ... i was looking hard for this article .... man ... so nice ... just as the article said: now i understand why i need to talk to so many girls, just to catch 1 girl ... why i must eat so many dinners and see so many shows before i can get them to go again another time ... why i must spend so much money so that they can blan-jar me one time at the hawker centre ... great wisdom ... wise sayings ... love them all ... now i know why i shouldn't be angry when they spunned me all these times ... i am humbled ... i shall line up more dates and be ultra-patient ... patience catches most birds .... hmmmm ... love that feeling ... lizard

erm ... HAPPY 3rd Anniversary SRC !!!! finally got a chance to do big red sign-board ... lizard

hi bro congrats ... welcome to the married club .... lizard

i find human a lot harder to understand ... reef fishes so much easier to love and be loved ... some LFSes also go out of their way to help me maintained my TOTM status ... so very nice ... lizard

hi PIGLET, for once you are effectively conjuring the right images ... sigh ... but, it was too late. helm's deep will not be the same without you. ... the pork-making skill that the peasant king learnt from his father was a common skill; which was passed down from his father before him, who also learnt the skill from the father before him. the common skill did not make him into a king. it was his burning passion that he does not wish to end his life as a peasant that he embarked on a journey. a journey that would bring forth the final mastery of pork-making. he slogged day and night. he finally chanced upon an idea that he could create pork out of nothing. of course, this is another story that detailed how he met PIGLET and how he borrowed PIGLET's tail as a catalyst to his unusual experiment. soon, his pork-making skill was known throughout the middle earth and every pork-seller in minas tirith approached him for training. he merrily imparted his skills to the rest of his countrymen. he was hailed as the saviour of the pork industry and conferred the position of the pork-seller alliance's head hongcho. this did not go down well with PATRICK123, the dwarf king. PATRICK ordered the alliance to be expelled from minas tirith and never to return. the peasant king wept on national TV when he declared the formation of the kingdom of pork man and the pork men proclaimed the peasant - the king of pork man. as the land was insufficient. the pork king led an invasion on helm's deep and managed to annex it into the controls of the kingdom. shortly after, the needs of the kingdom grew in leaps and bounds. the time has come for the king to go back to school and research again the ultimate art of pork making. he applied to hogwarts - the elite school of pigs. he was fortunately accepted as the most mature student ever. the spring of the school term arrived and the king was bundled off to school again for 3 months. the pork men was wondering how on middle earth, this old king can take a day in school. they were pleasantly surprised. ... the king expecting nothing went for his first day of school. he walked the fields of freshly flowered daffodils ... and behold and beyond ... there stood a gal of wonderous beauty (a 7.5-pointer). she was also attending school in hogwarts as well, but in the fine arts class. she was only half the king's age. in the king's eyes, her laughs and every single expression was a wonderful sight to behold. once again the king's heart was filled with light ripples. a stirring that had not happened and forgotten for a long time. ... JUSTIANA, his girlfriend then did a disappearing act in protest of his new found interest. (she later married a prince from Gondor and hopefully live happily ever after.) ... a sharp pain was felt in the chest and the king was jolted out of his recalls. blood gushed out from his wound. an orc had just pieced a spear into the king's chest armour. the king couched lightly but painfully. he didn't want to end it all this way but does he have a choice ... lizard

hi GUYS, this marine thingy is a cute hobby to all. SRC is a gift from heaven ... (thanks to AT) further this is kopi-tiam ... i love kopi tiam forums as they allow more lateral thinking ... so why get so uptight. i know you both MIN and RAV personally. both ages add up is 3 times my age ... ohhh boy ... let's chill and talk rots lah ... there is no right or wrong, just shades of grey ... MIN taught me ... there is a holy grail - SPS ... RAV taught me ... so guys, please chill ... drinks on me ... (coke only, been very broke lately due to personal friends) lizard

hi sis Justiana, it was such an irony that you asked me to post. how's your battle march on Gondor ... i hope all is well. the battle of helm's deep has ended. the fate of king of pork man is sealed. he has fallen. his great army of near 20,000 men was routed. the orcs had overrun helm's deep. helm's deep was no longer in the hands of the great king of pork man. as the king drew his last brealth ... he recalled vividly scene by scene ... his passage to kingship and the things that had brought about his downfall ... he had fallen not by any might of men, orcs or arch-angels, but by the one and only gal he loved ... such irony indeed ... the king did asked for help but in the end, his trust was misplaced. the white wizard, MIN, promised to bring in reinforcements from rohan on the 3rd day of the siege of helm's deep. his words were not to be trusted. the white wizard only minded his fish tank and nothing else. what a fool i was in trusting him ... PATRICK123, the great dwarf king, where the king of pork man drew great friendship, was once asked to help. but, he too, spent his time trying to pretend he was taller than a common dwarf in minas tirith. PIGLET, the sooth-sayer did turn up at the crucial moments of the failing battle. instead of bring along his conjuring images of angels and elfs, he brought instead his RA21 pictures of n*ked AV women. how on middle earth was he going to perform his magic with so much distractions. HERMIT was worst. he forgotten that he was a hermit and not a cockle. when the battle of helm's deep was at its most crucial stages of breaching its own defence by the orcs. WEISOON, the eagle was recalled and sent home and got grounded by his queen, saying that he should not associate himself with pork. with such ill-gotten friends, the king of pork man had no choice but to admit that it was fate ... fate that sealed his destiny ... fate that consumed him fully. sigh ... he remembered once upon a younger days in middle earth ... he was only a peasant in minas tirith serving the dwarfs. but, he worked hard and long. he managed to take over his dad's pork joint and expanded it to many pork joints within the dwarf country. soon, an association of pork men was formed. with his glib tongue, he was voted as the head hongcho of the association. under his leadership, the association grew tremendously. his ascension to kinghood was fast and furious ...

hi sis JE, nice to see you back again ... lizard

hi MIN, if not for you, i would not have posted. just for you ... i will post ... lizard

hi MIN, sad that you are giving up a nice tank like that ... it must have taken the better of your best time. nevetheless, since it is a decision. let it be, the best is yet to come. don't feel so sad ... in life, there will be ups and downs ... this is indeed one of bigger Downs for you, but hey, that's what life's all about (you said life is about suffering) damn ... i didn't agreed with that though. you are way younger than me, so to bounce back is not a problem ... when you reached my age and then kanna told by a person that i like that i shouldn't embarass myself going out with ... that's what i called LIFE. we all have sufferings ... but, of different degrees and types ... i believe you will go through it well and come out even stronger ... let's this be a time of fun too ... as all journeys are valuable in not its destinations but its passages ... the people you will meet and the places you will pass through ... lizard