Tuesday, December 27, 2011
THE FIRST VIEW OF BORACAY
Not much to see, drank my first two beers ate my fish steak and went to sleep.
Sky is the Limit!
The Clouds are my friends in this trip. Their cottony view seem soothing in the eye!
Ready to take off!
Took my Photo while I was bored from traffic in Resorts World. Air Sea Land traffic is Massive this season. Where do all these cars come from???
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Atlas Shrugged
Damn, I have not read Atlas Shrugged for quite sometime.
The first time I did, It was in my high school years. Shopped a book out of Booksale along with that Shakespeare Collection all in one book I have always been raving about to my friends of getting. Back in Highschool I didn't go much because I was busy finding my niche out of the boring, but that is a story to tell later on.
But Atlas Shrugged changed me, all of a sudden back in high school I have always wished I can be Dagny Taggart, run an empire or at least be a part of it the daring and the bold, no man fazes you , but you bend over to the right ones, the smart watchful same like mind you can "mind fuck" with. (So far, I found one, but John Galt got him.)
You just do the deed and walk by it to greatness and death.
The right kind of ego. I even wrote one time. I will be Dagny Taggart. read the book 5 times since.
Until this year they made a movie, failures gone by, stagnation and all I went through a different path from what i once wrote.
Dagny Taggart shocked me. I all of a sudden realized, what was making me feel better was because I was going the way I oct wrote, I was living the dream that sparked my interest all along. I intend to stay the route for as long as I can knowing, not everything is right.
Wow.
Thoughts
The vast majority of the study of space and ocean have always fascinated me. It bores me to see water space with an Island close by.
I always loved and was thrilled of infinite possibilities, limitations such as not knowing how to swim, not knowing how to drive, shortage or lack of money are the ones I am set to conquer during my lifetime. By conquering this, I consider myself whole.
When people around me ask why I am not married, why I don't have kids, the reason is, those are not the dreams I dreamt In my younger years. If you were a fan of "The Secret" those are not the things I wrote in my book.
What sparked a light in my tiny head and made me giddy are stuff not normal girls are accustomed with. I always liked the thrill of making things and shocking people without saying a word. I loved the thrill of people not seeing it coming. The trouble of whats taking things so long is when the times that I cared what people will say. The more I thought of that, the lesser I become great.
I was not just born that way.
Thankfulness, That's whats UP
Looking forward to my family being back here by next year from their failed retirement. Too much rain in the south lately.
Looking forward to a mind-blowing year work wise, new experiences, new opportunities, new growth, new blossoming future. I hate being in Plateau. I am very thankful for this current phase in my life where I am given enough liberty to control my growth the way I want too. Thankful for the experiences that brought me to this point, good or bad. I had no regrets, but nothing to come back to because if I did, I would end up S.T.U.C.K. I hate that word. I am thankful I have come to love the hate on it.
I hate on the right things, Stop hating people, seen too much fruit f bitterness going on, I lived on that majority of my life.
Never look Back, just Move forward.
I am moving on. I am in the right opportunities at the right time.
I have only God to thank for everything. He deserves all the glory, no man no woman no material thing.
I am very thankful He made me see that on his own time.
xoxo
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Hi blog, here I am again
I rarely update this blog now because I am busy with work life and it does to concern me channeling to my emotional side. I am surrounded with testosterone that sometimes, giving in to a little emotional girly route can derail me, because as I have faced it, I am a woman. I have always reminded myself to stick to the goal. My only goal in life is to not get fucked over and as it has been progressing, money came along the way which I am grateful for. There are better goals than making money and my mentor was indeed right, your personal growth follows income. I can say Im starting to see that due to what has been happening to his own life that I do not doubt in my mind it can happen to me. I just follow his lead. It's simply put, Don't get fucked over as I see it.
What do I want? As far as I know, I am pursuing something that I am not able to define. It is as if it's a moment to moment thing. It come that day as a challenge and I just refuse to accept defeat and it has been pretty much satisfying. I stumble upon some emotional shit that I am able to recover faster now from than before. I have grown to know that our minds are very powerful ore than we ever think of.
What do I want for this year, I want to get head cleared and really focus on my health. I have not been very watchful lately. There are a lot of limitations I have not crossed over yet. Because there is still that huge emotional chunk part of me that wants to get delayed food has provided enough stuffing to not get me derailed. I am seeing patterns that sabotage my success'. I guess my next goal is not to sabotage myself.
That's why this next Hong kong trip is going to be wonderful. It is a time for long walks and assessment. Most of these alone trips give me perspective and epiphany comes my way. The outcome becomes fabulously fruitful after. It excites me treading alone because it boosts my confidence in making personal decisions that need no approval of others, Hong kong is perfect because you walk long walks and able to do a gazillion of things.
Till then I shall document and update.
xoxo
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
How Am I, Really
How am I really
I get out of the house to work so I can escape from that fact that I really don't have a home. I have no mother, I have no father I have no sisters or brothers. I am attached to a name that I don't really share ideals with but I do know at the end of the day when I die that group shall claim everything I have to leave behind and that's a part of that whole shenanigan of life.
I have no emotional support other than God. My affection support is my dog.
Some people call it sad, I have to convince my self that it's not and that I can call it life.
Because Life is tough.
And So should I be.
I can't be blown by the wind every single time though I look like I can be, I have to fake my way through it to survive in this crazy world sometimes.
People read me the way they want to, I know who I am.
In some standard of living, I may be crazy, I maybe different, I maybe sad because I don't have anything that they think they have.
Still I wake up everyday convincing myself I am not but rather
Go with The truth that I am a person that doesn't bend over the world and if I do I'm only human and it's ok.
I am very thankful to God, he gave me a second chance. He gave me what I asked for.
I believe that in the midst of everything else, he will make a way for something some people in my favor.
I trust his plan for me wherever he wants to take me.
I am going somewhere only he knows, he is hooking me up with some person or people he only knows who. He will give me anything I can bear. He will teach me the lessons he want to teach.
I am my own cheer team.
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I get out of the house to work so I can escape from that fact that I really don't have a home. I have no mother, I have no father I have no sisters or brothers. I am attached to a name that I don't really share ideals with but I do know at the end of the day when I die that group shall claim everything I have to leave behind and that's a part of that whole shenanigan of life.
I have no emotional support other than God. My affection support is my dog.
Some people call it sad, I have to convince my self that it's not and that I can call it life.
Because Life is tough.
And So should I be.
I can't be blown by the wind every single time though I look like I can be, I have to fake my way through it to survive in this crazy world sometimes.
People read me the way they want to, I know who I am.
In some standard of living, I may be crazy, I maybe different, I maybe sad because I don't have anything that they think they have.
Still I wake up everyday convincing myself I am not but rather
Go with The truth that I am a person that doesn't bend over the world and if I do I'm only human and it's ok.
I am very thankful to God, he gave me a second chance. He gave me what I asked for.
I believe that in the midst of everything else, he will make a way for something some people in my favor.
I trust his plan for me wherever he wants to take me.
I am going somewhere only he knows, he is hooking me up with some person or people he only knows who. He will give me anything I can bear. He will teach me the lessons he want to teach.
I am my own cheer team.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Desiderata
Desiderata
Max Ehrmann
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Desiderata is Latin for "Things to be Desired."
Monday, July 25, 2011
It is nice to be blogging from my cellphone.
I never knew what busy meant not until this week happened.
I'd rather be busy than stop and dwell about my pasts and my life my plans etc. Because I do know my issues and the only people who try hard to say they are well meaning people who want to help you out with your issues and go talk to you and try to fix your life are the very people who are afraid to face their own set of self trouble, you are a bad friend if you let them go on and let them fix your life.
Because even if it is true that No Man is an Island, the beauty of realization is a thing that happens when some mysterious moment and ephiphany comes, a phase that only you and God knows how did or will happen. The human physical hand cannot touch a soul, only God or the devil has a hold on that thang! Thus the no man is an island thing is a co beneficial relationship, helping each other physically, and the only thing another person besides you can contribute is to be physically there!
So any bullshit that binds and hooks you that makes you feel like you cannot live without them is another persons control.
Being physically there is a day to day choice and is not based on emotions.
These are notes to myself.
Xoxo
"Sent via BlackBerry from Smart"
I never knew what busy meant not until this week happened.
I'd rather be busy than stop and dwell about my pasts and my life my plans etc. Because I do know my issues and the only people who try hard to say they are well meaning people who want to help you out with your issues and go talk to you and try to fix your life are the very people who are afraid to face their own set of self trouble, you are a bad friend if you let them go on and let them fix your life.
Because even if it is true that No Man is an Island, the beauty of realization is a thing that happens when some mysterious moment and ephiphany comes, a phase that only you and God knows how did or will happen. The human physical hand cannot touch a soul, only God or the devil has a hold on that thang! Thus the no man is an island thing is a co beneficial relationship, helping each other physically, and the only thing another person besides you can contribute is to be physically there!
So any bullshit that binds and hooks you that makes you feel like you cannot live without them is another persons control.
Being physically there is a day to day choice and is not based on emotions.
These are notes to myself.
Xoxo
"Sent via BlackBerry from Smart"
Monday, July 18, 2011
It's Monday.
Monday seem to be slow today. Just took a Mr.Bigshot Lemonshot to speed it up a little.
For some reason, I hate the weekend specially the times where there is nothing to do but I know it is made for rest so I cruise along and rest a little.
I rest more to the fact that I am really thankful to God for whatever is happening in my life right now. Really thankful for all the changes and the pacing of every happening, how God is keeping me and the rest of us grounded in all these changes of routine and success that's about to come, I just know we're on our way.
We're getting solid more than ever. God is responsible for making things happen the way it is. We only are instruments to making things happen, he already opened these doors long ago for us to take, and the choices each individual make takes us a step closer to the next level.
The more we get up in every fall the better we face the next challenges that come.
"Sent via BlackBerry from Smart"
Friday, July 15, 2011
My own "Men Personal Checklist".
Never revisit old acquaintances and "THE" possibility of getting together. You failed on this numerous times.
If you want to continue to live until at least 70, never get hooked up on facebook outside the maximum "sixth degree" people get killed from the thrill of it.
If. THE guy says these, or have these, don't think twice and just settle for friendship, that's it:
- says "I'm not going to bring my car ok? When they don't have one or if they have one, who cares, yeah?"
-if he says he is a broker
-if he is very very nice.
-if he wants to look good everytime.
-if he is a bottom class model
-if he is ON the latest thing of. EVERYTHING.
-if he is busy changing work titles and work affiliations in facebook.
-if he doesn't say his civil status on face book.
-if he always in an "it's very complicated" situation.
-if he poses a picture on a coat (or coat and tie) aside from being on a prom or being a CEO.
It means he is a bottomline POSER.
Never revisit ex boyfriends and that possibility.
And when all else fails, Keep on moving forward.
I'll put up more.
Disclaimer: I'm not bitter, I am just taking notes for future reference. I do not encourage you to believe what I say but just know, these are mistakes time and again.
"Sent via BlackBerry from Smart"
If you want to continue to live until at least 70, never get hooked up on facebook outside the maximum "sixth degree" people get killed from the thrill of it.
If. THE guy says these, or have these, don't think twice and just settle for friendship, that's it:
- says "I'm not going to bring my car ok? When they don't have one or if they have one, who cares, yeah?"
-if he says he is a broker
-if he is very very nice.
-if he wants to look good everytime.
-if he is a bottom class model
-if he is ON the latest thing of. EVERYTHING.
-if he is busy changing work titles and work affiliations in facebook.
-if he doesn't say his civil status on face book.
-if he always in an "it's very complicated" situation.
-if he poses a picture on a coat (or coat and tie) aside from being on a prom or being a CEO.
It means he is a bottomline POSER.
Never revisit ex boyfriends and that possibility.
And when all else fails, Keep on moving forward.
I'll put up more.
Disclaimer: I'm not bitter, I am just taking notes for future reference. I do not encourage you to believe what I say but just know, these are mistakes time and again.
"Sent via BlackBerry from Smart"
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
What was your favorite birthday gift?
Nothing beats a Hallmark Birthday Card with very emo and personal messages.
What's your favorite drink?
VODKA, I have a love and hate relationship with that spirit. Mr. Bigshot for that energy!
If you could be a star athlete in any sport, which sport would you pick?
I would pick the table tennis guys, they are very underrated.
What was the worst job you've ever had?
The worst Job I have I have ever was cleaning dog poop every waking day.
What's your earliest memory?
My earliest memory was when I was 5 years old at UP integrated, we had an old school bus we would play in. Such Fun!
What TV show do you wish would go off the air for good?
I wish Jersey Shore would go off the air for good, because it is soo wrong I know DJM but please!!!!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Huling Huli ka balbon
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:)
Monday, June 20, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
What was your favorite childhood meal?
My favorite Childhood mean as my parents would tell me is that frozen hotdog in the fridge. As I can recall, my favorite childhood meal is sinigang and adobo. I can eat that everyday until today.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
What's your biggest pet peeve?
My Biggest Pet Peeve is when a person abuses you after you become nice to them.
What was the worst place you've traveled to?
Down the rocky path of being under a twisted emotional rollercoaster ride of any form. Make it the worst and scariest place I have ever been. I shall never go that route again.
Would you rather vacation at the beach or in the mountains?
I would most rather have a vacation in a nice uncrowded white beach with my $VUQO in tow. :)
How would you describe your personality?
I am a very headstrong, upfront person. Seen as a challenge and wished could be beaten up in the outside. But the truth is I am just one loyal follower of the right things in life. I am sweet, loyal and fluffy on the inside.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
I perfected that Cauliflower Rice
I perfected that cauliflower rice, thanks to Mikey Bonifacio for the tip!
Saute Grated Cauliflower in Garlic and 1/4 Slab of butter and whoala!
I take the worst Photos I swear.
Liberty
Reading and studying
Liberty
"a loosening, relaxation," is translated "liberty" in Act_24:23, AV. See INDULGENCE.
"dismissal, release, forgiveness," is rendered "liberty" in the AV of Luk_4:18, RV, "release." See FORGIVENESS.
see FREEDOM.
"authority, right," is rendered "liberty" in 1Co_8:9 (marg., "power"), "this liberty of yours," or "this right which you assert." See AUTHORITY.
(MSG) But God does care when you use your freedom carelessly in a way that leads a Christian still vulnerable to those old associations to be thrown off track.
is rendered "at liberty" in 1Co_7:39, AV (RV "free"). See FREE.
for the meanings of which see LET, No. 3, is translated "to set at liberty" in Act_26:32; Heb_13:23. See DISMISS.
"to send away," is translated "to set at liberty" in Luk_4:18. See SEND.
Note: In Act_27:3, AV, epitrepo is rendered "gave ... liberty" (RV "gave ... leave"). See LEAVE (b)
Dictionary
lib·er·ate (lb-rt)
tr.v. lib·er·at·ed, lib·er·at·ing, lib·er·ates
1. To set free, as from oppression, confinement, or foreign control.
2. Chemistry To release (a gas, for example) from combination.
3. Slang To obtain by illegal or stealthy action: tried to sell appliances that were liberated during the riot.
[Latin lberre, lbert-, from lber, free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots.]
liber·ating·ly adv.
liber·ator n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
liberated [ˈlɪbəˌreɪtɪd]
adj
1. given liberty; freed; released
2. (Military) released from occupation or subjugation by a foreign power
3. (Sociology) (esp in feminist theory) not bound by traditional sexual and social roles
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj. 1. liberated - (of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination
free - unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron"
2. liberated - free from traditional social restraints; "an emancipated young woman pursuing her career"; "a liberated lifestyle"
emancipated
free - able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"
The Hathaway Effect
Taken from: Anne Hathaway and Automatic Trading - Robert P. Murphy - Mises Daily http://t.co/SzQo2iH
A humorous financial story making the rounds concerns the apparent relationship between media mentions of the actress Anne Hathaway and jumps in the stock price of shares of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
The presumed culprits are algorithmic trading programs, which raises the question, What does Austrian economics have to say about computers buying and selling shares of stock?
The Hathaway Effect
Dan Mirvish at the Huffington Post broke the story, in an article cleverly titled, "The Hathaway Effect: How Anne Gives Warren Buffett a Rise." Mirvish documents the apparently irrational correlation:
Whatever you may think of how Anne Hathaway and her co-host James Franco did as hosts of the newer, younger, hipper Oscars, one thing appears to be certain: When Anne Hathaway makes headlines, the stock for Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway goes up. Think of Berkshire-Hathaway shares (BRK.A) as a really expensive version of the IMDb's StarMeter (which actually is designed to go up and down as actors make the news). But a bedrock member of the New York Stock Exchange? The evidence would indicate as much.
On the Friday before the Oscars, Berkshire shares rose a whopping 2.02%. And on the Monday just after the Academy Awards, they rose again, this time 2.94%. But it's not just an Oscar bounce, or something Warren Buffett may have said in the newspaper, or even necessarily something the company itself is doing (i.e. rumors afoot to buy Costco). Just look back at some other landmark dates in Anne Hathaway's still young career:
Oct. 3, 2008 — Rachel Getting Married opens: BRK.A up .44%
Jan. 5, 2009 — Bride Wars opens: BRK.A up 2.61%
Feb. 8, 2010 — Valentine's Day opens: BRK.A up 1.01%
March 5, 2010 — Alice in Wonderland opens: BRK.A up .74%
Nov. 24, 2010 — Love and Other Drugs opens: BRK.A up 1.62%
Nov. 29, 2010 — Anne announced as co-host of the Oscars: BRK.A up .25%
My guess is that all those automated, robotic trading programming are picking up the same chatter on the internet about "Hathaway" as the IMDb's StarMeter, and they're applying it to the stock market.
Although it's always risky to try to explain particular changes in stock prices, Mirvish's analysis seems plausible. Presumably there are computer programs guiding lightning-fast stock purchases and sales, which scour news sources in order to make "momentum trades." In other words, if a particular stock is being discussed in the media, then (other things equal) at least some of these programs buy shares, because it's "hot" and is likely to continue rising as more slow-footed investors read the buzz and want to get a piece of the action.
Of course, the downside of automated stock-trading programs is that they have no common sense (which isn't to say that human traders necessarily do, either). In order to beat their competitors to the punch, they can't engage in careful analysis of the news items; they simply look for "Hathaway" and take it as a bullish signal for Berkshire Hathaway A-shares. (I wonder if Mirvish could do another story on the fortunes of the Rand Capital Corporation as the new Atlas Shrugged movie premieres?)
Do Automated Trading Programs Have Any Benefit?
After stories such as these — and certainly after the huge financial collapse in 2008 — many cynics understandably dismiss all the newfangled derivatives markets and financial strategies as a casino for egomaniacs with above-average math skills. Yet there is a danger here in throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
It's true that economics — as conceived by Ludwig von Mises and his followers — is a logically deductive science. Mises didn't believe that economists should ape the physicists and develop empirical hypotheses that are then "tested" by the data. Rather, Mises believed careful introspection on the nature of human action could yield a core of economic principles or laws. It was this framework that allowed the economist to then interpret the mass of available data on commodity prices, unemployment rates, and so forth.
For example, Mises wouldn't "start with a blank slate" and look at the historical statistics to try to develop theories about the business cycle. Rather, he would first reflect on the operation of the capital structure in a market economy, think through the function of market prices and interest rates, and only then be able to start explaining the connection between credit expansion and unsustainable booms. Mises didn't reject the use of historical data — in fact he helped Hayek found an institute to study the business cycle — but he didn't fall for the positivist illusion that one could develop economic theories by "letting the facts speak for themselves."
Having said all that, Austrian economics doesn't forbid stock traders from using such techniques in their quest for profits. For example, suppose an analyst at a hedge fund starts cranking out regressions on "randomly" selected data. He discovers a startling correlation between the phases of the moon and the NASDAQ index. He shows the other analysts, and they confirm his results. They can only offer the most ad hoc "explanations" to their boss, but the relationship is nonetheless staring them in the face.
Introduction to Economics: A Private Seminar with Murray N. Rothbard
Suppose the hedge fund begins trading on the newly discovered relationship, and earns money. Over time, as the formula continues to perform, the hedge fund wagers more and more heavily upon it, and is never let down. At the bar the analysts' buddies ask, "Why are you guys up 84 percent this quarter?" but the analysts smile and say, "Ancient Chinese secret."
The question is, are these profits "real" or illusory? Is our hypothetical hedge fund actually doing something useful?
The social function of stock speculators is that they speed up price adjustments. The goal of the speculator is to "buy low, sell high" (or "short sell high, cover low" for an overpriced stock). In this respect, so long as the hedge fund's moon strategy is profitable, then that is prima facie evidence that it is performing a service to others in the market economy. Specifically, the hedge fund buys into the NASDAQ when its price is about to rise, and it sells when the NASDAQ is about to fall. In this limited yet important sense, the successful trading strategy is a time machine, giving the rest of the world advance access to future information.
In this grand sense, results are what matter. The fact that the hedge fund personnel can't really explain the correlation is irrelevant. By the same token, the workers at a utility company can't really explain the laws of physics; they just know that if they repeat certain actions every day, then consumers are able to turn on their lights and run their refrigerators. As David Hume famously pointed out, just because something has happened in the past doesn't mean it will happen in the future, but in many contexts we benefit from making just such an invalid leap.
What About Bubbles?
The arguments above might make some readers uncomfortable. After all, didn't the fancy quants on Wall Street look like hot stuff for a few years during the housing boom — until everything blew up in their faces?
Yes, but that is entirely consistent with the position we've laid out. Austrian economists do not naïvely endorse the most extreme versions of the "efficient-markets" approach of the Chicago School. Austrians know that investors can make colossal mistakes and that the going market price can be horribly wrong.
If a trading strategy yields profits for a few years, but will eventually bankrupt the company when a "black swan" comes along, then it is an unprofitable strategy — barring government bailouts. For this very reason, our hypothetical hedge fund managers had better be very careful with their uncanny moon-trading strategy. They have no business being shocked if and when the strategy completely backfires on them, and they had better position themselves accordingly rather than shooting the moon (if you'll forgive the pun) with each new trade.
To correctly assess the value of any entrepreneurial venture, we need some idea of the underlying uncertainty involved. (Note that Mises made a distinction between quantifiable risk and amorphous uncertainty.) To switch away from financial markets to something more concrete, suppose in January a t-shirt manufacturer sunk $1 million into producing shirts saying, "The VCU Miracle of 2011." After the VCU basketball team made the Final Four against all odds, the manufacturer was able to recover his investment as well as a tidy profit.
Now how should an Austrian interpret this event? Did the entrepreneur see beyond what others saw, and allocate resources more effectively to serve consumers? Or did he take a big chance but "get lucky"? At this point the question is almost philosophical rather than economic, but the scenario sheds light on automated trading programs yielding short-term profits.
Mises Academy: David Gordon teaches How to Know: The Epistemology of Ludwig von Mises
Conclusion
Faced with such apparently nonsensical results as the Anne Hathaway effect, automatic trading programs look silly. On the other hand, this is true of any task to which humans put computers; it doesn't mean computers are useless.
The ultimate criterion for whether automated trading is socially useful is the profit-and-loss test.
If the financial institutions relying on these programs blow up in the long run, we'll have our answer — if only the government and Fed would stay out of it.
A humorous financial story making the rounds concerns the apparent relationship between media mentions of the actress Anne Hathaway and jumps in the stock price of shares of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
The presumed culprits are algorithmic trading programs, which raises the question, What does Austrian economics have to say about computers buying and selling shares of stock?
The Hathaway Effect
Dan Mirvish at the Huffington Post broke the story, in an article cleverly titled, "The Hathaway Effect: How Anne Gives Warren Buffett a Rise." Mirvish documents the apparently irrational correlation:
Whatever you may think of how Anne Hathaway and her co-host James Franco did as hosts of the newer, younger, hipper Oscars, one thing appears to be certain: When Anne Hathaway makes headlines, the stock for Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway goes up. Think of Berkshire-Hathaway shares (BRK.A) as a really expensive version of the IMDb's StarMeter (which actually is designed to go up and down as actors make the news). But a bedrock member of the New York Stock Exchange? The evidence would indicate as much.
On the Friday before the Oscars, Berkshire shares rose a whopping 2.02%. And on the Monday just after the Academy Awards, they rose again, this time 2.94%. But it's not just an Oscar bounce, or something Warren Buffett may have said in the newspaper, or even necessarily something the company itself is doing (i.e. rumors afoot to buy Costco). Just look back at some other landmark dates in Anne Hathaway's still young career:
Oct. 3, 2008 — Rachel Getting Married opens: BRK.A up .44%
Jan. 5, 2009 — Bride Wars opens: BRK.A up 2.61%
Feb. 8, 2010 — Valentine's Day opens: BRK.A up 1.01%
March 5, 2010 — Alice in Wonderland opens: BRK.A up .74%
Nov. 24, 2010 — Love and Other Drugs opens: BRK.A up 1.62%
Nov. 29, 2010 — Anne announced as co-host of the Oscars: BRK.A up .25%
My guess is that all those automated, robotic trading programming are picking up the same chatter on the internet about "Hathaway" as the IMDb's StarMeter, and they're applying it to the stock market.
Although it's always risky to try to explain particular changes in stock prices, Mirvish's analysis seems plausible. Presumably there are computer programs guiding lightning-fast stock purchases and sales, which scour news sources in order to make "momentum trades." In other words, if a particular stock is being discussed in the media, then (other things equal) at least some of these programs buy shares, because it's "hot" and is likely to continue rising as more slow-footed investors read the buzz and want to get a piece of the action.
Of course, the downside of automated stock-trading programs is that they have no common sense (which isn't to say that human traders necessarily do, either). In order to beat their competitors to the punch, they can't engage in careful analysis of the news items; they simply look for "Hathaway" and take it as a bullish signal for Berkshire Hathaway A-shares. (I wonder if Mirvish could do another story on the fortunes of the Rand Capital Corporation as the new Atlas Shrugged movie premieres?)
Do Automated Trading Programs Have Any Benefit?
After stories such as these — and certainly after the huge financial collapse in 2008 — many cynics understandably dismiss all the newfangled derivatives markets and financial strategies as a casino for egomaniacs with above-average math skills. Yet there is a danger here in throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
It's true that economics — as conceived by Ludwig von Mises and his followers — is a logically deductive science. Mises didn't believe that economists should ape the physicists and develop empirical hypotheses that are then "tested" by the data. Rather, Mises believed careful introspection on the nature of human action could yield a core of economic principles or laws. It was this framework that allowed the economist to then interpret the mass of available data on commodity prices, unemployment rates, and so forth.
For example, Mises wouldn't "start with a blank slate" and look at the historical statistics to try to develop theories about the business cycle. Rather, he would first reflect on the operation of the capital structure in a market economy, think through the function of market prices and interest rates, and only then be able to start explaining the connection between credit expansion and unsustainable booms. Mises didn't reject the use of historical data — in fact he helped Hayek found an institute to study the business cycle — but he didn't fall for the positivist illusion that one could develop economic theories by "letting the facts speak for themselves."
Having said all that, Austrian economics doesn't forbid stock traders from using such techniques in their quest for profits. For example, suppose an analyst at a hedge fund starts cranking out regressions on "randomly" selected data. He discovers a startling correlation between the phases of the moon and the NASDAQ index. He shows the other analysts, and they confirm his results. They can only offer the most ad hoc "explanations" to their boss, but the relationship is nonetheless staring them in the face.
Introduction to Economics: A Private Seminar with Murray N. Rothbard
Suppose the hedge fund begins trading on the newly discovered relationship, and earns money. Over time, as the formula continues to perform, the hedge fund wagers more and more heavily upon it, and is never let down. At the bar the analysts' buddies ask, "Why are you guys up 84 percent this quarter?" but the analysts smile and say, "Ancient Chinese secret."
The question is, are these profits "real" or illusory? Is our hypothetical hedge fund actually doing something useful?
The social function of stock speculators is that they speed up price adjustments. The goal of the speculator is to "buy low, sell high" (or "short sell high, cover low" for an overpriced stock). In this respect, so long as the hedge fund's moon strategy is profitable, then that is prima facie evidence that it is performing a service to others in the market economy. Specifically, the hedge fund buys into the NASDAQ when its price is about to rise, and it sells when the NASDAQ is about to fall. In this limited yet important sense, the successful trading strategy is a time machine, giving the rest of the world advance access to future information.
In this grand sense, results are what matter. The fact that the hedge fund personnel can't really explain the correlation is irrelevant. By the same token, the workers at a utility company can't really explain the laws of physics; they just know that if they repeat certain actions every day, then consumers are able to turn on their lights and run their refrigerators. As David Hume famously pointed out, just because something has happened in the past doesn't mean it will happen in the future, but in many contexts we benefit from making just such an invalid leap.
What About Bubbles?
The arguments above might make some readers uncomfortable. After all, didn't the fancy quants on Wall Street look like hot stuff for a few years during the housing boom — until everything blew up in their faces?
Yes, but that is entirely consistent with the position we've laid out. Austrian economists do not naïvely endorse the most extreme versions of the "efficient-markets" approach of the Chicago School. Austrians know that investors can make colossal mistakes and that the going market price can be horribly wrong.
If a trading strategy yields profits for a few years, but will eventually bankrupt the company when a "black swan" comes along, then it is an unprofitable strategy — barring government bailouts. For this very reason, our hypothetical hedge fund managers had better be very careful with their uncanny moon-trading strategy. They have no business being shocked if and when the strategy completely backfires on them, and they had better position themselves accordingly rather than shooting the moon (if you'll forgive the pun) with each new trade.
To correctly assess the value of any entrepreneurial venture, we need some idea of the underlying uncertainty involved. (Note that Mises made a distinction between quantifiable risk and amorphous uncertainty.) To switch away from financial markets to something more concrete, suppose in January a t-shirt manufacturer sunk $1 million into producing shirts saying, "The VCU Miracle of 2011." After the VCU basketball team made the Final Four against all odds, the manufacturer was able to recover his investment as well as a tidy profit.
Now how should an Austrian interpret this event? Did the entrepreneur see beyond what others saw, and allocate resources more effectively to serve consumers? Or did he take a big chance but "get lucky"? At this point the question is almost philosophical rather than economic, but the scenario sheds light on automated trading programs yielding short-term profits.
Mises Academy: David Gordon teaches How to Know: The Epistemology of Ludwig von Mises
Conclusion
Faced with such apparently nonsensical results as the Anne Hathaway effect, automatic trading programs look silly. On the other hand, this is true of any task to which humans put computers; it doesn't mean computers are useless.
The ultimate criterion for whether automated trading is socially useful is the profit-and-loss test.
If the financial institutions relying on these programs blow up in the long run, we'll have our answer — if only the government and Fed would stay out of it.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
What's your dream car?
My dream car is a car with a driver. I am not very particular because it was never my interest. Hahaha!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Diet Plan Using Pregnancy Hormones
An Article About This Can be Found in This website:
This diet plan is executed combining the hormone injections with a 500-calorie-a-day diet, it is promised that an individual will achieve a kind of weight-loss nirvana: losing fat in all the right places without feeling tired or hungry.
Doctors’ offices, weight-loss clinics in America are paying $1,000 a month per consultation, packed with hormone and syringes supplies as aids. It has been 50++ years after a Roman Catholic Doctor promoted hCG as a diet aid.
The regimen is a combination of daily injections and a near-starvation diet. Women patients are enticed by the weight loss promise of about 1pound a day sans hunger. These women are told that the hgc will prompt to metabolize your body and loose the fat in the hard to reach areas.
Is this true? I don't know, you can try and do your due diligence first before you do.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Change is available to everyone including you.
I’ll give you the greatest news in the world, Jesus answered the call to humanity, to live what God really meant about His Glory. His legacy remained up to this day.
The truth is God is not a respecter of persons, He has no favorites (MSG) God shows no partiality undue favor or unfairness; with Him one man is not different from another (Rom 2:11, Phillips). Jesus is God in the flesh, I meant to say that because he lived to what God wants him to be and we are like image of God, if we choose to be. It was just available all along and he just took up to boldness to walk it unto death.
He doesn’t want sacrifices and offerings; he just wants us to recognize him as our father, and that Jesus is Lord. What I mean by Lord is, he is the epitome of what we are looking for. WHATEVER we are looking for. It’s saying yes to his way and not our own long and winding way. The giving up of the self will to God’s will.
Just sit in his right hand and HE will take care of the rest.
And you have the bible to read in whatever so many ways you want to read it. Its power remains the same. Heck that’s God’s word and that word moved Jesus to the most influential person in the history of man.
Majority of Us struggle to matter, Jesus answered the calling. He matters a big deal up to this day. What did he do? You will find it out once you hit the pages of the Bible. He didn’t put the credit to his own, it was completely said he was the first of the many.
As sure as a father delights in his son, for sure he is delighted with US.
I became different because of Jesus.
And how did I say that?
Every impulse that brought me to be a pathetic and as absurd as I am was healed by his name.
I have looked up to people with stories of change and it was change that I always desired and worked for, don’t we all?
What do you desire?
Until I dropped to my bottom where there was no way out. Just as when I was to throw down the towel out of 27 years of trying to live.
There was God. He made a wonderful thing
He sent me angels, in the form of people in my life that lifted up the best of me into coming up and accept that I can be saved.
I know I had no choice; I did the best that I could.
This world kept me spinning and under, I have given up on people. I kept coming back addicted to regret, to feeling small and not wanted, to all it’s negativity, a very twisted way of comfort. To that heat in my belly that prompt me to be bold that I got through the substitute of alcohol, to being so broke. The false warmth and calm that smoking gave me and the addiction to all these that made me run to some horrible circles. I sought my refuge to the music that validated my feelings and looked up to people who wrote the songs, books and poems that understood what I felt, but yet did not have an answer as to how I could get out. It kept my world running in circles. It kept me addicted to these cycles. Until I got so nauseated and fell flat on the floor.
And I still fall flat on the floor every now and then.
But God’s ways pull me in every step of the way. He made me now so bold to tell you without the influence of any sort than genuine happiness and fulfillment of the spirit about what God did to my life.
He speaks to my life through everyone’s life and experiences through the validity of his word right here in the church where I was planted and in your life.
He gave me verses every step of the way to hold on to, with the Holy Spirit as my guide, which is a wonderful thing as well, leads me to places of safety and answers.
Every craving I said the name of Jesus and it has power. I cannot explain it to you, God knows I just believed.
You just got to believe. What else are you left with? We all have times in the night where we look inside us. Every person has a different way of coping and assuring. But I can guarantee, every self made effort is a dead end. We can only see as much. God saw it all; he made the moon and the stars for us to look up to. The earth on itself is amazing everything is made with the same cycle and chain. If things were made out of some sort of source chains and all then who made all of it? To who are we linked to? Have you asked yourself that?
Every Longing I said the name of Jesus, and his love filled me.
As I continue to remember may I continue to remember, the bottom, the other way was a dead end.
I really suck. Life sucks
I do not become nostalgic when I do revisit because I miss those times, hell no it makes me grateful and thankful.
Of how far God has come into my life. How he has my heart changed every single time. How he made me matter from the times that I had to be under just to get by and be normal.
I am really nothing and nobody without God.
And in this Journey maybe that I am somebody in front of someone who is a witness to what Christ can do for his or her life.
We were born to call on God; we were slapped in the butt way back as an infant from our mother’s womb, to cry out for a sign of life, to breathe our first air.
And those bottoms failures and losses we encounter were not made for us to suck; it is a call for life, a second life, A breath of fresh air, new-ness.
Just as when life and the world kill us with is horribleness.
There is a God. He never fails. Choose God, You can become new and start all over again.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Warning on Slimming Coffee if you know people taking this, pass this information around
Please read the following information about the slimming coffee.
I started to ask my questions after I mixed my coffee with suka from my cup and saw a green slew of thing in my coffee. Vino a friend warned us about this when me and mamu also a friend started to take it told us a story abt her aunt who died because of drinking these things. Effects on her were she had lbm whenever she would take it that s why she stopped, After reading this I will never think of taking this ever again. Yeah it is effective but somehow the question still remains to be why stuff this good is not becoming a staple and not widely advertised and had to be bought underground in divisoria and all these places. As it turns out, these things in the internet shows up.
I read this blog and started to research on it.
http://sweetbitesbybang.com/2010/09/slimming-coffee-or-killer-coffee/
Read This too:
http://www.ukmedix.com/reductil/marsha_slim_plus_contains_phenolphthalein5307.cfm
And these too:
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/23/1943.full
And test it on your own slimming coffee. Or better yet have it tested by any chemist you know or BFAD.
I started to ask my questions after I mixed my coffee with suka from my cup and saw a green slew of thing in my coffee. Vino a friend warned us about this when me and mamu also a friend started to take it told us a story abt her aunt who died because of drinking these things. Effects on her were she had lbm whenever she would take it that s why she stopped, After reading this I will never think of taking this ever again. Yeah it is effective but somehow the question still remains to be why stuff this good is not becoming a staple and not widely advertised and had to be bought underground in divisoria and all these places. As it turns out, these things in the internet shows up.
I read this blog and started to research on it.
http://sweetbitesbybang.com/2010/09/slimming-coffee-or-killer-coffee/
Read This too:
http://www.ukmedix.com/reductil/marsha_slim_plus_contains_phenolphthalein5307.cfm
And these too:
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/23/1943.full
And test it on your own slimming coffee. Or better yet have it tested by any chemist you know or BFAD.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Deal Grocer Limited Offer, Sujiivana Salon
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Friday, January 21, 2011
You are Amazing
Today was not the best of all days.
I slept sick with fever and chills.
Woke up with a headache.
I felt like shit.
But I remember this is only one of the two times of this year I got hit by the "almost" flu.
And that is something to be thankful for.
Because compared to most people I am blessed to have an arm and a leg to sweat the fever away.
And with all of the people I am able to stand up and walk despite of being sick.
That I AM ONLY SICK WITH FEVER AND FLU.
And not cancer
Not Lupus
Nor a very deep health problem.
With all the bitching and complaining and with this realization, I felt better.
I am thankful that today, it did not stop me being thankful.
Thank You, You are amazing.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Pablo, What is Home and Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure Books?
What is home? Home is where Pablo is, waiting for me, loves me unconditionally. Like God who is always on the watch makes me feel both comfortable and uncomfortable the same time, which is a big thing on it's own and like the Devil always looking to destroy something when I am not watching, waiting to irritate and when I am sucked in to his playing, wants to provoke. If I choose to ignore him, his behavior is not fed, but if I react, he uses it as a tool to get what he wants. I still am learning a great deal from my interaction with this feline. He keeps the balance in my life. He is a dog for a reason. He has only a few years to live for me to learn my life's lessons.Where is home? Home is where People in my life are for a good reason they come stay and go for some good or bad lessons that propel you to move forward. They are not my blood relatives, some of them very good friends, others think were very good friends but it is in the exterior but is a continous work in progress, reality is we are a good show infront of some people but reality is we really don't text each other the whole week and get connected just like the other friends I consider real, which makes me think...shucks I have to talk to THAT person over the week over coffee. Random thoughts hey. That's what I am in here right now. To some extent bored with thoughts being typed.
Where is home? Home is knowing that God put me in this place in my life for a very good reason. He is showing me more of who He is and what He is capable of beyond my own thinking and to shape me for a greater purpose, a friend once said and I believe that.
As long as I stick to finding what his reasons a
re in the book where he put it all overtime (a.k.a, the Bible) I am good to go.God didn't put me into a great deal of so much loving those Choose Your Own Adventure Book stories for no purpose. The same "thrill" I feel is the same "wanting" I get whenever I pick up to search now it's been better and more exciting because this is the real deal and this is home. And just like the good old Choose your own adventure books of the past. When you "die" in the adventure you take, you have the option to start all over again, till you get to good end of the book.
I hope they didn't stop making one of these:--------->
I maybe different fro
m you and whoever who will read this blog some will like what I say, some will not, some will critique some will find themselves better than me or find to be lesser than me and be so dead jealous and angry. But there's just one thing I want to tell you, as I am a work in progress so should you be as long as you choose to live. Let us not give up our own personal fights and live through the good and the bad because we are made and born for it. That's why we're human.
A journey of staying with the parents , Tacloban
I had a three day stint in Tacloban and I must say it was not a vacation but more of a not so comfortable feeling. I was happy at most parts but this is not home anymore.
What I love about my trip is how I have seen my brothers growing up, Joma for growing up to be a responsible man, a man of his own a man with a dream and a man who has broken out of feeling sorry for himself. I love the man he has become. It's not a sappy relationship between him and I but I have come to love the man he became. He is graduating college this year. This Kid is a thankful kid, his character was built up a big deal on how he is now.
As for Jolo, I have to wait to see, as of this moment he is held from the wit he uses on his own accord to suit his own wants and needs, has weird sisters spoiling his mind and heart to becoming a dysfunctional kid. But with me he cannot act the way he acts with other people, he cannot play the games he play. There is an awful lot of enabling happening to this kid.
I have learned a whole lot about my self on this trip. How I still have not mastered the art of waiting and trusting. Being here was a good gauge of where I am at on that weakness. I struggled a whole deal of control and worry that led me to places in my head where I had to think of getting my own grip, going back to the thought was a very unhappy feeling. In that space is very very dark and I hate it. Why do I keep coming back there?
I have decided instead to send myself over that I start sending them over. I have always come to think that I can build something with my dad, but I realize this is beyond my control. For now I cannot raise the dead.
The best thing of all is I get to be with my mother.She has Life.I love her and She is a fighter.
I come home with them on my mind.
What I love about my trip is how I have seen my brothers growing up, Joma for growing up to be a responsible man, a man of his own a man with a dream and a man who has broken out of feeling sorry for himself. I love the man he has become. It's not a sappy relationship between him and I but I have come to love the man he became. He is graduating college this year. This Kid is a thankful kid, his character was built up a big deal on how he is now.
As for Jolo, I have to wait to see, as of this moment he is held from the wit he uses on his own accord to suit his own wants and needs, has weird sisters spoiling his mind and heart to becoming a dysfunctional kid. But with me he cannot act the way he acts with other people, he cannot play the games he play. There is an awful lot of enabling happening to this kid.
I have learned a whole lot about my self on this trip. How I still have not mastered the art of waiting and trusting. Being here was a good gauge of where I am at on that weakness. I struggled a whole deal of control and worry that led me to places in my head where I had to think of getting my own grip, going back to the thought was a very unhappy feeling. In that space is very very dark and I hate it. Why do I keep coming back there?
I have decided instead to send myself over that I start sending them over. I have always come to think that I can build something with my dad, but I realize this is beyond my control. For now I cannot raise the dead.
The best thing of all is I get to be with my mother.She has Life.I love her and She is a fighter.
I come home with them on my mind.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Hopped on a Bus to Baguio , 4 hr Bus Ride was awesome on a deluxe bus with bathroom free wifi and cozy seats like a business class airplane from victory liner
Got off the bus and stayed a while because I was freezing, my outfit did not work so I had to pull out all the things I had to beat it and it helped, thank God, it made me able to brave the cold walking to the nextdoor Microtel Inn . I had to wait because they were fully booked and I came in way before my declared time of arrival so I hung out till 6:20 am till I got my room fixed. They had a buffet breakfast of eggs, egg this and egg that and callos, better than no food at all so I ate.
Soon as I got into the room, guess what i cheaked? of course , the bathroom. it was clean and of course had a hot shower so i can brave the cold, clean towels clean tiles, good with me. As soon as that bag hit the rack I went up to the bed and slept until 12PM
Soon as I woke up I hopped on the shower and got fixed up to walk around where I can get lost , all I was sure about is there were taxi cabs everywhere and so I walked for hours visiting SM baguio, snagged a resistance band I have been looking for for days which I only found in Chris Sports House in Baguio, walked up to the peak of the mall and had a birds eyeview of the city, burnham here mines view there saw the swan boats from my view sipping a hot Figaro Cafe Americano and chowing down a pesto pasta for lunch while chatting with friends on bbm. and so while walking made a couple of phonecalls, chat with mom for a good 45 mins.
Soon as my bum had the rest it needed I walked some more and i walked and I walked. Found myself on an ukay ukay chain of stores scouted around for any good bargain of stuff I can get for a great deal, there were a couple this' and thats' of Louis Vuitton originals and french made some crazy nice boots that did not have my size. Suffice to say, I didnt get any. Nothing tickled my fancy.
So walking as I was proudly saying I did stopped and got a cab to Camp John Hay, to try and get some stuff I can reasonably find at the Mile Hi Center. Outlet Store as they say, It still was way expensive than the deals in Manila so i did not really shop but got whatever need, a fleece jacket shawl and gloves just incase I needed to brave the streets of cold baguio in the wee hours of the morning (which I was not succesful of doing since I am now sitting comfortably snugged in the comforters while typing my blog entry.)
After so I decided to bring in the heat by coming back again in the room, I figured I would save myself from trouble just being inside on the nighttime here at the room eating while watching tv until I fell asleep at 7 and woke up 10:30 PM so I can stay up and have my night sleep s0oon as I arrive in Manila. I am boarding a deluxe bus again at around 10:15 am in Manila to hopefully get there by three in the afternoon the most.
Some say you travel blog without pictures. I say I know right I don t know I am asking that myself. people said I have to buy a camera and start taking pictures who knows right? I just started going around and who knows maybe one day. I think right now what i can say is I am too lazy to take pictures while processing my thoughts on things that I see. Some people are not just cut to be travel photographers and I am counted on that number.
It was a very relaxing stay in Baguio non the least and I enjoy the freezing experience and would love to come back sometime.
I am very thankful I have opportunities like these to go out and explore. I am very grateful, I never knew I can do this hope I can continue.
Got off the bus and stayed a while because I was freezing, my outfit did not work so I had to pull out all the things I had to beat it and it helped, thank God, it made me able to brave the cold walking to the nextdoor Microtel Inn . I had to wait because they were fully booked and I came in way before my declared time of arrival so I hung out till 6:20 am till I got my room fixed. They had a buffet breakfast of eggs, egg this and egg that and callos, better than no food at all so I ate.
Soon as I got into the room, guess what i cheaked? of course , the bathroom. it was clean and of course had a hot shower so i can brave the cold, clean towels clean tiles, good with me. As soon as that bag hit the rack I went up to the bed and slept until 12PM
Soon as I woke up I hopped on the shower and got fixed up to walk around where I can get lost , all I was sure about is there were taxi cabs everywhere and so I walked for hours visiting SM baguio, snagged a resistance band I have been looking for for days which I only found in Chris Sports House in Baguio, walked up to the peak of the mall and had a birds eyeview of the city, burnham here mines view there saw the swan boats from my view sipping a hot Figaro Cafe Americano and chowing down a pesto pasta for lunch while chatting with friends on bbm. and so while walking made a couple of phonecalls, chat with mom for a good 45 mins.
Soon as my bum had the rest it needed I walked some more and i walked and I walked. Found myself on an ukay ukay chain of stores scouted around for any good bargain of stuff I can get for a great deal, there were a couple this' and thats' of Louis Vuitton originals and french made some crazy nice boots that did not have my size. Suffice to say, I didnt get any. Nothing tickled my fancy.
So walking as I was proudly saying I did stopped and got a cab to Camp John Hay, to try and get some stuff I can reasonably find at the Mile Hi Center. Outlet Store as they say, It still was way expensive than the deals in Manila so i did not really shop but got whatever need, a fleece jacket shawl and gloves just incase I needed to brave the streets of cold baguio in the wee hours of the morning (which I was not succesful of doing since I am now sitting comfortably snugged in the comforters while typing my blog entry.)
After so I decided to bring in the heat by coming back again in the room, I figured I would save myself from trouble just being inside on the nighttime here at the room eating while watching tv until I fell asleep at 7 and woke up 10:30 PM so I can stay up and have my night sleep s0oon as I arrive in Manila. I am boarding a deluxe bus again at around 10:15 am in Manila to hopefully get there by three in the afternoon the most.
Some say you travel blog without pictures. I say I know right I don t know I am asking that myself. people said I have to buy a camera and start taking pictures who knows right? I just started going around and who knows maybe one day. I think right now what i can say is I am too lazy to take pictures while processing my thoughts on things that I see. Some people are not just cut to be travel photographers and I am counted on that number.
It was a very relaxing stay in Baguio non the least and I enjoy the freezing experience and would love to come back sometime.
I am very thankful I have opportunities like these to go out and explore. I am very grateful, I never knew I can do this hope I can continue.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Merry Xmas and a OI TO THE NEW YEAR!
This has always been the New Year Song I play it is Oi to the World by - N0 Doubt.
R.I.P Mark Lledo, best drummer I have ever known.
If you wanna sing-a-long here is the lyrics to the song.
OI TO THE WORLD - NO DOUBT
Haji was a punk just like any other boy
And he never had no trouble till he started up his Oi band
Safe in the garage or singing in the tub
Till Haji went too far and he plugged in at the pub
'Twas a cold Christmas eve when Trevor and the skins
Popped in for a pint and to nick a bag of crisps
Trevor liked the music but not the Unity
He unwound Haji's turban and he knocked him to his knees
If God came down on Christmas Day
I know exactly what He'd say
He'd say "Oi to the punks and Oi to the skins
and Oi to the world and everybody wins!"
Haji was a bloody mess, he ran out through the crowd
he said "we'll meet again we are bloody yet unbowed"
Trevor called his bluff and told him where to meet
Christmas day on the roof down at 20 Oxford street
If God came down on Christmas Day
I know exactly what He'd say
He'd say "Oi to the punks and Oi to the skins
and Oi to the world and everybody wins!"
On the roof with the nun chucks Trevor broke a lot of bones
But Haji had a sword like the guy in Indiana Jones
Police sirens wailing, a bloody dying man
Haji was alone and abandoned by his band
Trevor was there fading and still so full of hate
When the skins left him there and went down the fire escape
Oi! Oi!
But then Haji saw the north star shining more than ever
So he made a tourniquet from his turban saving Trevor
They rappelled down the roof with the rest of the turban
and went back to the pub where they bought each other bourbon
If God came down on Christmas Day
I know exactly what He'd say
He'd say "Oi to the punks and Oi to the skins
and Oi to the world and everybody wins!"
If God came down on Christmas Day
I know exactly what He'd say
He'd say "Oi to the punks and Oi to the skins
and Oi to the world and everybody wins!"
Oi! Oi!
R.I.P Mark Lledo, best drummer I have ever known.
If you wanna sing-a-long here is the lyrics to the song.
OI TO THE WORLD - NO DOUBT
Haji was a punk just like any other boy
And he never had no trouble till he started up his Oi band
Safe in the garage or singing in the tub
Till Haji went too far and he plugged in at the pub
'Twas a cold Christmas eve when Trevor and the skins
Popped in for a pint and to nick a bag of crisps
Trevor liked the music but not the Unity
He unwound Haji's turban and he knocked him to his knees
If God came down on Christmas Day
I know exactly what He'd say
He'd say "Oi to the punks and Oi to the skins
and Oi to the world and everybody wins!"
Haji was a bloody mess, he ran out through the crowd
he said "we'll meet again we are bloody yet unbowed"
Trevor called his bluff and told him where to meet
Christmas day on the roof down at 20 Oxford street
If God came down on Christmas Day
I know exactly what He'd say
He'd say "Oi to the punks and Oi to the skins
and Oi to the world and everybody wins!"
On the roof with the nun chucks Trevor broke a lot of bones
But Haji had a sword like the guy in Indiana Jones
Police sirens wailing, a bloody dying man
Haji was alone and abandoned by his band
Trevor was there fading and still so full of hate
When the skins left him there and went down the fire escape
Oi! Oi!
But then Haji saw the north star shining more than ever
So he made a tourniquet from his turban saving Trevor
They rappelled down the roof with the rest of the turban
and went back to the pub where they bought each other bourbon
If God came down on Christmas Day
I know exactly what He'd say
He'd say "Oi to the punks and Oi to the skins
and Oi to the world and everybody wins!"
If God came down on Christmas Day
I know exactly what He'd say
He'd say "Oi to the punks and Oi to the skins
and Oi to the world and everybody wins!"
Oi! Oi!
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