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Nights & Weekends...

2009-03-05T21:35:00.002+07:00

Sorry, cannot help wanting to share this. It certainly did make me laugh! LOL

"Not Happy" ...

2009-02-22T15:39:00.004+07:00

LOL. This PHD Comic really does crack me up. ;) For anyone in this situation with bosses, advisors, or what have you -- I feel your pain... ;)

(Well, no... not really... not anymore...)

_evil grins_

There & Back Again...

2009-02-19T23:36:00.003+07:00

I started wearing glasses when I was 5...

Then when I was in 11th grade, I drop my glasses and they broke. :( Since that was right before the long Thai new year holiday and because my eyesight was so bad (-7.00 ish) that I needed special glasses lens, they weren't able to replace it for me in time. So I started wearing contact lens.

During the winter of my sophomore year in college, at the suggestion of mom, I got LASIK done on my eyes. Around that time, my eyesight had stabilized at around -8.50 and -9.50 for some years...

For a while after that, everything was PERFECT. I was happy that I needed no glasses, and I didn't need to put something into my eyes every morning (and spending WAY TOO MUCH time that I should be able to sleep in some more.)

Then, first year of grad school came. The whole studying-8hr-a-day-on-top-of-classes came around. For a while, I used my eyesight more than I could imagine possible. My vision got a bit blurry. And when I came back to check, it was about -0.75. That was still negligible under normal daily life.

Last year, however, when I was spending about 3 extra hours each night after coming back home from work at around 8-9pm to study for CFA Exam Level 1, trying to cram everything in within the 2 months since I made rash decision to register in mid-September. I guess I had been straining my eyesight again, and so I had been feeling a little dizzy and blurry since.

It all came back to last weekend, when I accompanied dad to go pick up his new glasses. Since we were going to the family optometrist who had been checking my eyes since I was still a kid anyway, I decided that I might as well get my eyes checked up that day as well. As it turned out, my left eye's now -2.5 and the right one is about -1.5... Sure, I could still function without glasses on a daily basis, but I guess that in order to make sure I don't overdo it, I should do my eyes a big favor and help them out a little. :)

So, here I am. I picked up my new glasses today. It'll be a while to get used to seeing myself in these again... ^^% (And no, no contacts for me for now. I actually hated the thought of putting things in my eyes. I hated it back then, and I'm pretty sure I'll still hate it now.)

So, what do you think?

My Left vs My Right

2009-02-19T00:24:00.011+07:00

So, I always complained to my mom that the 2 sides of my face are VERY asymmetrical. :(

Today, as I was downloading some photos onto my computer, including a few that I took on the car when I got bored (very bored!) of the traffic, I decided to make my point, once and for all. ;)

Anyway, so what I did was I copied the left side of my face, flipped it horizontally, and pasted it on top of my right side, and vice versa. The images are very crudely edited, and I didn't do anything except for cutting, pasting, cropping, and texting. So don't expect a very high-quality image here. ;)

But anyhow, I think I made my point. The 2 images above look like 2 completely different person! (and at 2 different ages too. lol) Right? :) The left side of my face definitely looks more mature, with bigger eyes, and slimmer face! So, I guess if that's what I want, I should start turning my left side to the camera more often!!! (and if I want to look younger, I should turn my right towards the camera? lol!)

So, what do you think?

If you decide to give this a try, do let me know the results too! I'd love to see how others would do with this simple image idea! ;)

PS. This image was taken without this purpose in mind. Maybe I'll try again with a completely straight-face photo, under a better lighting! :)

PS2. I found this page here that has the same thing done for a few celebrities. Check them out! :) I guess my case is similar to this particular case of Jane Fonda where the right side is much more childish than the left side of my face. ;)

PS3. Also found someone else doing the similar thing here. If there's any other that you find, please do let me know! :D

Anyone else getting bored of this greenness of my blog?

2009-02-17T19:49:00.003+07:00

So, should I change the color to something else? What do you say... yellow or red?

PS. the yellow-or-red bit is a joke. But I really do think I've had enough with the greenery. I'll get around to it when I have the time to. :) Now that I have moved to blogger.com (and simplified my theme, SIGNIFICANTLY simplified it) changing it shouldn't be too difficult.

Deciding what to change to may be a bit more tricky though. ;)

When a Hemophobic person goes to donate some blood...

2009-02-12T21:44:00.002+07:00

Yup, the Hemophobic in question is me, and I'll be donating some blood tomorrow.

I cannot stand to look at blood, or even to think about it. Just HEARING stories with bloody words makes me feel weak in the knees. And I cannot even look at the TV when there's bloody scene on (even though I KNOW it's all fake on screen.)

Nevertheless, I have donated blood at the Thai Red Cross 3 (or maybe 4) times already. Tomorrow will be the 4th (or maybe 5th) time. And EVERYTIME, to the amusement of my mom, or whoever would be accompanying me to the Red Cross, I'd be making a face, closing my eyes completely, and turning & leaning as far away from all the needle and the running blood as my neck would possible allow me.

Fortunately for me, I have been able to pretty much avoid looking at it directly for the first few times, and so I have managed to not faint or made a big scene at the red cross. ;)

But of course, there are enough benefits (at least as far as I am concern) of doing this that made me want to do so.

Besides the feeling-charitable-about-helping-others benefits thing, I think it's a good thing for my body as well. At least when I know that I'll be doing some donation, it definitely gives me more incentive to take even better care of myself too. :) And of course, there're some otherunconfirmed benefits of reducing heart disease and all that. But those aren't my major concern anyway.

So yup. Just wish me luck for my blood donation tomorrow. Let's hope that I won't faint... ;) And maaaaaybe I'll be brave enough to take some photos.

(I mean, my tweets won't be complete w/o some photos, right? ;)

PS. I'm a B Rh+ . What are you??

Dad's "NOI-pedia"...

2009-02-10T19:52:00.002+07:00

As I was busily trying to get some work done in a coffeeshop yesterday, my phone rang, and it was Dad calling from his office at 4pm.

Needless to say, I was surprised when he asked he where I was, and said that he'd be joining me soon.

At 4pm on a Tuesday...?

It wasn't until he got there that I realized the reason why he wanted to see me at such an odd time.

He just received a 22-page survey in English... and instead of going through dictionary by himself, he decided it'd be easier to drive 10 mins to find me, aka his "NOI-pedia" as he calls me now. And of course, my Thai isn't even that great, so when I cannot translate a word, he teases me... and then I have to turn to google or wikipedia to look things up.

T_____T

Maybe I should just try to convince him to pay for my unlimited EDGE. :) I'd then be VERY happy to look anything up for him anytime... lol

Migrating from Wordpress...

2009-02-05T08:18:00.003+07:00

I now have approximately 0 interest in maintaining my blog-- at least the whole design/back-end part of it.

So, within the next few days, this blog will migrate to the much simpler blogger platform which I have come to get very, very used to.

I guess you can say that the little geek in me is dying by the minute. ;) Besides, I need more time to do other more-important things. The only thing I intend to keep around on my wordpress engine for now will be the photo albums (at least until I find a better, easier alternative.)

I do intend to migrate the older post to blogger (one day)... Unfortunately, that day is NOT today. ;)

Just wondering out loud: How many trees would it take…

2009-01-29T22:32:00.001+07:00

… to make 18.20 lbs worth of paper?

I think I should go plant some trees if I can get out of this alive… :)

Yes! I PASSED!

2009-01-28T21:27:00.000+07:00

So, many would say that 2 months is not enough to study for the CFA examination, even at the very first level.

I have to agree that it was hardly enough, but I did it!! :)

Ah, to see the word "PASS" on the screen was worth all the late nights that I pulled over Oct-Nov. :)

And to pass with higher than 70% on ALL topics was an even bigger boost! :) I almost couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw it on the screen! :)

Yay!

Q# Topic Max Pts <=50% 51%-70% >70%
- Alternative Investments 8 - - *
- Corporate Finance 20 - - *
- Derivatives 12 - - *
- Economics 24 - - *
- Equity Investments 24 - - *
- Ethical & Professional Standards 36 - - *
- Financial Reporting & Analysis 48 - - *
- Fixed Income Investments 28 - - *
- Portfolio Management 12 - - *
- Quantitative Methods 28 - - *

Q#	Topic	Max Pts	<=50%	51%-70%	>70%
-	Alternative Investments	8	-	-	*
-	Corporate Finance	20	-	-	*
-	Derivatives	12	-	-	*
-	Economics	24	-	-	*
-	Equity Investments	24	-	-	*
-	Ethical & Professional Standards	36	-	-	*
-	Financial Reporting & Analysis	48	-	-	*
-	Fixed Income Investments	28	-	-	*
-	Portfolio Management	12	-	-	*
-	Quantitative Methods	28	-	-	*