I wish i could move on...

IT is Torn....

Never hav known it is this much HURT !
no mater wat, no change !

Out of my expectation !!!

M i the worst ...

JUs Used to...

Wat i used to hav
Wat i used to do
Wat i used to say

might be no more for me...

All jus a lie...

At last...

No one no & no one care...

NO one CARE !!!

No matter it is ...
it is alw not !!!

Touched Memory !

Although m not, i stil alw remember...
It touched me so much !!!

WHEN ???

SADness & Happiness are alw be together.
NO one could run away from them...
Anyway, i wish there is Hapy Ending with FANTASTIC Begining !!!

For everyone :):):)
Wish everyone be happy !!!

Wat wil be my COMMITMENT !!!

Many times i hav said but Action hasnt come yet...
NOTHING has come to me.

Is not !!!

Should or should not is the same !
nothing has changed...

Raining...

Typhoon Ketsana blasts Cambodia

The powerful typhoon that has hit the Philippines and Vietnam with deadly force is now battering Cambodia.
At least nine people have died in Kampong Thom province in central Cambodia.
When Typhoon Ketsana hit Vietnam, more than 30 people were killed and almost 200,000 people fled their homes; severe flooding remains in central provinces.
In the Philippines, where the typhoon hit over the weekend, at least 246 people are known to have died.
Relief officials in the Philippines, struggling to feed and shelter hundreds of thousands of displaced people, admit they have been overwhelmed by the disaster.
They warn that new storms are heading towards the country.

more detail:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8281950.stm

Jus a PAST TIME...

That is the NEXT !

Happy BIrthday :):):)

May god wil give all wat u want very SOON !

LOVE & Care will alw come to U !

Wish u all the BEST...

be happy n having fun for ur BIRTHday !!!

Hop for a new SUN SHINE

SeptemBirth...

The FIRST and the MOST...
nothing more than this !
JUST WAITING...

p.s: thank for ur wishes !

I really cant forget it...

Brilliant but Lazy...

To do the rigth thing is to be stable n give up eventhough things i need the most !!!

M i moving ?

Wat i hav done so far ?
my class has started nearly 6weeks, but Wat hav i done ?
i hav done nothing...
wat i did is Doing for the LAST MinutE !
Hw i gona changed ?
Pls wait for me...

EarthQuak-Japan

Realy feel suprise for the first earthquak in here.
i was told that i was about 6.1 ! it is ?
hwever, lukily, it is only 30 second i think.
honestly, i dont no wat to do.

Thank God.

U hav to...

i hav to deserve wat i hav done lately.
"you couldnt blame anyone besides urself"
LAzy n Behind
That's the result.

My brain wil follow my heart !

This phrase is very familiar to me now...
i believe most people wil understand after reading the tittle ! somehw it means nothing to someone...hwever, he/she wil get wat it mean later.
Moreover, i hav ask myself lot of time, M i Fantastic ? is it posible to title my V70FANTASTIC ?
Actually, m not ! i should hav change the title rite ?
I do feel very bad rite now...y wen i need the most , but it turn to be negative answer to me ?
hw much that should be enough ?

wish everyone enjoy ur time !
good luck...

I am no body...

I am no body to u...
I am no body to u...
I am no body to u...
I am no body to u...
I am no body to u...
I am no body to u...
I am no body to u...
I am no body to u...
I am no body to u...
I am no body to u...

Is it called Japan ?

Love n miss u all...

In Japan

Everything news comparing to my daily life in PP , all stuffs are very expensive (seem like 3times expensive than in PP-Cam). People are rushing to work to school to everywhr... No one seem to be like to talk with me or let me do greeting ! Is that japaness ?
Anyway, i stil do feel strange although i no the japaness culture.
I have started class-IEP since wednesday- 3days i hav arrived. I have to walk to the train station- YoYoki-Uehara, which take 12minutes walk and take about 30 min to Kudanshita station then i have to walk about 5-7 min to my school-FASID- Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development. My class is particular start at 9:30 am - 4:10 pm with 1 hour lunch break.
Hmmmm.... lunch break is very fast, japaness eat so fast, i think only 5-7min they can finish their rice in bow without leaving anything. However, i couldnt finish everything in my bow, i feel so ashame of that. Not because i dont wana finish but 1st thing is the taste and 2nd m full. The taste is jus good i can eat- But my friend from Sreylanka n Africa cant eat much , they dont like the food here. Usually i spend 400-600 yen = 4-6$ per lunch, however i need drink like milk coffee or coke to wake me up in afternoon class, so it cost me abt 100-200 yen=1-2$. (Cola here is much expensive than in PP, it cos abt 90-110 yen a can, unbelievable).

The first day to school is very damn tiered, i almost exhusted... never feel like dis so far ;(

Oh train cost is also much expensive for who doesnt have train pass. I spend 190 yen from my place to school- one way - so a day i spend 380 yen for transportation. hwever, it cost about 4000-5000 yen a month if i hav train pass, now i dont have train pass yet, so it much expensive to me. by the way, on the train it hardly to find seat to sit, usually, train is crowed, somtime no space to stand. In the morning, japanese sleep on the train, some close their eyes while standing , n some sleep while sitting. Usually no talk on the train, everyone sleep, close eyes, listen to music, or read books.
Traffic in Japan is wonderful, esp for people who is walking...the car driver is very respectful to the walker, he will stop the car if people cross the road ( it is not like in PP, so dangerous wen crossing the road- eps wen crossing the road in front of NBC- so becareful na.
My accomodation is very convenience, it is single room, one study table set, telephone, one TV, one Aircon, Frigde wil be requested later, with a bathroom in my room.
Sports are available in my center too. there are scorcer, basketball, badminton, table tenis, tenis, velleyball, and another kind of japaness sport like fighting- sory i forget wat is called.
Emm.. there is also a canteen in my center, hwever, the food is not alw satisfied- it is kind of same same al day.
After diner, usually i hav a little talk -before going to room- with some khmer who are also stay here, some of them are short term n long term training.
hmm.. coming in a room, another feel is coming ! can u guess ? wat is that ?
it is a ghost of me- Feel so lonely. I hope there is s.o with me to alw cheer me up n give me a cute smile :)
Luckily that i can access internet in my room, it is free. hwever, i stil dont sleep early, usually at 12am ( it is 2hours different from PP, so in pp is 9pm). NOt i dont wana sleep early but i can get myself asleep - heartfelt thank Lin for ur comment, i wil try to get to sleep early.
U no wat, i turn on the light n Tv til morning, i dont no, it seems like being afraid somtime !

That's the first time in my life dat i have been away from my family alone.

By the way, i realy heardfelt thank to everyone for seeing me off at the airport, thank u so much !

very thank -Lin, for ur scraff n socks... i love it :)
Miss u :)

Good luck to u guys...

4 July -One year had passed
Hwever, dat feel is stil in my mind, it reminds me all the time, although it's hurt so BAD.
aNYWAy, i never regret of wat i had done... i was happy !
I do understand !!!

???

Everything is Nothing....

No for More...
No for Nothings...
No for No reasons...
No for Answers...
No for Accepting...
No for Wat i hav been asking...
No for that things !!!

FOR ALL I KNOW...

P.s: i should hav known who I am...

EXams STARTED !

Let's say Best luck to everyone for who take the CPA exam which start from today 1st-10th June !!!
Best luck to me !!!
-F8: 3rd June
-F7: 9th June

Good luck for yr Exams !!!

Wish...

Can u jus give CouragE !!!
pls pls pls.......

Y do i CARE ?

Another question come up in my mind again....
hwever, i dont know hw to answer this question !
There is no reasons to me...but it seems like there is sth push me to do that !
Although i no there is no result...posibly negative for wat i have done ! Or mayb i jus to to comfort my heart which alw insist me to do this n that !
Nothing can be meaned something ?
OF course, it means Nothing to s.o but it is much worth to ME...
it's nothing but it realy does to ME !!!
At last, i cant answer y i do care ?

Ps: mayb it is such a stupid think- that's ME !

Jealousy...

Wat m doing for a whole day ???
-hav been waiting ?
hez wat for r u waiting... thought u no that it not gona happen to jjU !
nothing is strange to U, u should hav awared of that so far...
-hav been reading ?
come on, the book read ur face- not u read book, clear !
-hav been thinking ?
thinking of wat ? u hav thought alot, most of the time- it were the worse+useless+stupid thinking ! Although it came to ur mind that it isnt mean to u at all !!!
U r not...

it is enough ? It should be...
the time is not waiting for u...but u hav been waitting for the time so far !
u hav to accept it-nothing will be happened more !!!
is it not the point of Being Jealous...? M Fully awared of that, y it is not happen to u ? but other !
U should hav known the reason, rite !!! No more for explanations !

Pls be in control !
cheer up urself...
U hav to do ur Best !!!

Thinking outside the BOX

Job Interview Question:
You are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night. You pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect man (or) woman you have been dreaming about.

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car?
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This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application.
You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first;
or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect chance to pay him back. However, you may never be able to find your perfect dream lover again. The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble coming up with his answer. He simply answered: "I would give the car keys to my old friend, and let him take the lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the woman of my dreams."

Never forget to "Think Outside of the Box."

Hw was it ? good ?
it made me remember abt my F8 lecturer word, realy the same as above... think sth outside the limitation/box...

hope it is funny- make u smile or laugh :)
plus give u a an idea... :)

p.s: thank to Roatha for forwading this Funny story !!!

Wana lose Weight ???

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here is it, pill for losing weight !
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p.s: for those who alw eat n eat.... hehehehe :):):)

oh, one of my friends has tried it... then lost 20pound.

I hate the Time...

It is realy fast than i expected !
hwever, after this fastest period there gona be turtle moving of the TIME :(
I hate the time !!!

anyway, Wish me good luck...
Miss u !

My fault !

Having thinking for long... but i stil got no answers !
what should i can do for that ? or i hav to accept it ? so far for long i hav ignored it and took it for granted. Wat is the different being accepted or not accepted ? Sure it is different ! Lost is the result of that accpeting.
however, if u dont accept, wont u lost ? Same thing i think. As i can see, u hav got so lot than u expected na...
hmm...that's the reason i dont wana loss. I jus wish i could delay for longer than this. can i jus only ask for that !!!
M sure there's lot of things are abt to happen that no one couldnt hang them on.

p.s: i hav no chioce !

1st May 2009 !!!

HOpe it is going smooth !!!

Congrat !!!

Wish u all the BEST in ur LIFe...
Be happy with wonderful of JOYs.

Good Luck !

Miss that TIM3...

Having view some past photos, i came across photos i took last time in the early morning.
Guess whr ? i bet u all know the place is !!!
Yeah, seeing the sunrise makes me feel so relax n freshful ! It seems like everything starts again... n most of the worst things gone away by the brightness of the Sun !
Seeing sunrise n sunset is completely different feeling- to me, anyway ! Think so ?
Sunset is best for a couple or lovers... i think ! it's such a romantic time for treasuring !
hmm...seem so long time never have i been that place again, not becos i dont hav time to go, but no one accompany me to go ! so lazy to go alone :(
hez...anyone is interesting to go with me sometime !!! Possibly, not many people are interesting cos they must enjoy sleeping or dreaming in the early morning hoy...dont wana go te !
hop i wil visit that place sooner :):):)

Miss !

p.s: welcom for who is interested to join :P

Swine Flu OutBreak

Suspected swine flu deaths in Mexico top 100

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government is trying to stem the spread of a deadly strain of swine flu as a new work week begins by urging people to stay home Monday if they have any symptoms of the virus believed to have killed more than 100 people. Labor Secretary Javier Lozano Alarcon said employers should isolate anyone showing up for work with fever, cough, sore throat or other signs of the flu.

Fear of the disease caused most residents of Mexico's capital to hunker down at home on Sunday. The cardinal said Mass in a shuttered cathedral. Soccer teams played to empty stadiums. A television variety show filled studio-audience seats with cardboard cutouts bearing broad smiles on their faces.
For the first time in 300 years, the cathedral in Mexico City's main plaza pulled an icon of the Lord of Health from storage, and worshippers placed it on the principal altar.
The Rev. Cuauhtemoc Islas said it would remain there until the medical emergency is over, Mexico's government news agency Notimex reported. But the bad news kept coming. Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova late Sunday that the number of suspected swine flu cases in Mexico had climbed to 1,614, including 103 deaths. Authorities were trying to confirm how many new cases were caused by the virus, which has been confirmed or suspected in at least a half-dozen other countries and has caused the U.S. to declare a health emergency. But even as Mexican officials urged those with flu symptoms to seek medical help, some complained of being turned away.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090427/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_swine_flu_mexico

Is it REAL !!!

A turtle in the shape of gourd was found in a farm product market of Huaibei City, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 8, 2008.(Photo: cnsphoto)

A volleyball-shaped calabash is seen in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, Sept. 28, 2008. The Lanzhou citizen Zha Taishan used biotechnology to cultivate various shapes of calabash, making the plant into the artworks. (Xinhua Photo)

Zha Taishan displays his cultivated calabash in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, Sept. 28, 2008. Zha Taishan used biotechnology to cultivate various shapes of calabash, making the plant into the artworks. (Xinhua Photo)

IMF- Economy

WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday cut its growth forecast for China's economy this year to 6.5 per cent, but said signs of recovery had emerged in the world's most populous nation. The IMF's 2009 forecast, made in its bi-annual World Economic Outlook report, was down slightly from its January prediction of 6.7 per cent. But the growth rate is "still a strong performance given the global context," it said. "Also, there were some signs of a turnaround in economic activity in China in the first quarter of 2009." The global economy is projected to shrink by 1.3 per cent in 2009 due to the financial crisis, with the demand collapse in advanced economies and worsening global financial conditions dealing Asian nations a heavy blow, it said.
The IMF predicts China's growth to pick up to 7.5 per cent in 2010.


The IMF unveiled a darker outlook for the US economy Wednesday than just three months earlier, forecasting a deeper recession (-2.8%) in 2009 and no growth at all in 2010. US GDP fell at an annualized pace of 6.3% IN 4th quarter of 2008 and will be dropped in 1st quarter of 2009, while unemployment rate dropped to 8.5% in March.

source:www.channelnewsasia.com

Is It TIm3...

Time passing one day by one day...

people keep moving forward to find their goal and happiness.

Finally, they got them in hands, their dream is abt to happen in reality !

Honestly, i am really appreciated all the affort, valuable time, n strength which have been spent to reach their Goal...

I bet not all people can make thier dream come true like that...

Wish them hav a wonderful time for thier Future !

p.s: Never fail in reality...

Happy Khmer New Year- The Year of OX

Wish eVeryone all the BeST !
Be Happy and enjoy for holiday !

cheer !!!

M tired enough...

M tired enough...
M tired enough...
M tired enough...

Hand Up !

Jus wondering now, wat m doing is wasting my time ?
Wat is the result m looking for... although there is a sign that m not qualified enough.
Do i need to improve, hmmmm....i did try to improve, but seem like not very different gap between past and present.
Oh, I alw remind myself with a quote from my dad that 'if s.o can do, YOU urself can do as well'. The matter is that u give urself chance and commit to change or not !
On the other hand, in general, people are completely different, but y people can get the same success ? wonder ?
Can i do like other who is successful ?
S.o has said, no one's better than anyone. Same Same !!!

Wish i could do i like other...

Birthday- Phakdey !

Wis u all the best na...

Everything wil be wonderful

Keep moving !

p.s: here is my cake baking for u ,

i spent for a whole day na...

believe ort ?
hez... bring me some cake, m waiting

tomorow... hhehehe :)

Cheer up !

Tend to DECREASE- Oil Price

VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC's decision on Sunday to resist new supply cuts laid the ground not just for cheaper oil to help heal the economy, but for warmer relations with the world's biggest energy consumer.
Two days after U.S. President Barack Obama called Saudi King Abdullah, OPEC said it would stick to existing supply targets, even though fuel inventories have swollen and oil prices are much lower than it would like.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said the weakness of the world economy, which effectively receives a financial stimulus from cheaper oil, was a central motivation.

By Barbara Lewis - Analysis

This is a sign that the oil price is expected to be lower, and i think it is a good sign for all of us...then we can save more for petrol, while all of us are in the financial crisis (so sad)...

Jus HOPE

Nothing should be said but I do know who i am, i no clearly what m doing right now !
although the result is not my wanted nor i expected to get, i couldnt reject all of those...
Things have to be both ended and moved on...anyway, how ?
Everything had been kept in mind, nothing gona gone...
That's y it had been happend never END !

p.s: sory for the stupid things i did...
i do feel regret of my sily-ME
if i could turn the time back i wont let it go...
M lost.

hw was them ?

Wish...

jus hop i could do more than this !!!

Promise !

Hw do u define the word PROMISE !!!
Saying can be a promise ?
Is it important if u promise s.o with words.
hw do u feel wen u break ur promise ?
Hw u feel wen s.o broke ur promise ?
I think u might feel nothing... n forget all wat u say as it's considered as NOT IMPORTANT !
Nothing's strange to this cos it is...
NO one could argue and can claim back wat u was told///
Of course, u r not !!!

Hav u ever ?

wat a weekend to me ! It's nothing again !!!
Feel sory to the lecturer F8, as m not in control to listen to him...
i realy didnt catch up wat he was talking abt last class !!! i dont no wat m thinking during his lecture... seem like flying away, not in class... plus very sleepy although having a small cup of coffee in front of me !!!
hmmm....last before time's up, he said We gona hav extra class for next week... come on lecturer, i dont wana hav more classes !!!!
Wat if ? if he said, everybody we gona hav no class next week !!! that's must be great :)
hahahhah.... sound funny rite !!! it could not be !
sight...a weekend gone again !~!
That's nothing- to ME :(

Mean Nothing !

i dont no wat for !
but I cant stand with it...

Miss the MOST !!!

Not this Time !

Jus got result jus before time to leave...
Guess wat ? good or bad ? wat is the result ?
Unfortunately, it is not my luck this time !
Earlier, i hop i would have a chance but it's jus my own thinking (day dream) !!!
Sound rediculous to myself too...
hmmmmmm..... sight !
Hopefully, next time is my turn !

No Reason

I dont no wat m doing now is in the right trace or not !
hwever, i can sense there are sth against me !
NOT allow me to do smoothly !
What should i do ???
Realy sad :(

Does he look sad ?
or he felt sleepy ?
hop he is not sad...

Y these two guys dont ask him to join ?

They are so cheerful with FUN :)

(Like this T-shirt?)

p.s: no one wants to be sad unless one has no chioce !

M not that BEST !

To be satisfied is the hardest thing to do in this real Life.

Most people got they want, while very few people can do wat they need or desire to get !

People is not alw be pleased for wat they asked, insteat they will get sth that they never wish to !

Hmmm...I dont realy like wat m doing rite now !!!

i realy wish i could change my position where m standing rite now !

hw can i ? i realy Cant Be !

i wonder if there is a magic for me...
Pls pls pls give me...

Happy Valentine's Day

For Lovers, They will be more Sweeter...
For Friends, They will be more closed and touched...
For Families, They will be in great happiness lasting ever...
I LOVE U ALL So Much !!!
Miss the most...

Pro-Chinese supporters are seen outside Downing Street as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in London.03 Feb 2009
North Korea appears to be preparing to test-launch an intercontinental missile amid growing tensions on the peninsula, a South Korean intelligence source was quoted as saying Tuesday.

www.channelnewsasia.com

NIce time to U...

Hav a good time to everyone for

the begining of the

WEEK !!!

Japan slips deeper into recession, says no end to slump in sight

Japan announced a triple slump in key economic data Friday and said there was no end to the bad news in sight, as US President Barack Obama blasted Wall Street bonuses handed out amid the financial crisis. Taking on one of the most politically explosive issues of the economic downturn, Obama expressed outrage over a report that Wall Street firms gave out more than US$18 billion in bonuses last year. "That is the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful," the president said, calling on US financial firms to "show some restraint and show some discipline and show some sense of responsibility." Just months after major Wall Street firms asked for billions of dollars in government aid, the report will give ammunition to critics of federal bailout measures as well as Obama's proposed US$819 billion stimulus package.
"The problem is very serious," Economics Minister Kaoru Yosano said. "As to when the economy will bottom out, it is impossible to predict at this time as the problem is not only domestic but global." Japan's unemployment rate jumped to 4.4 per cent in December, the country's highest rate in three years, while household spending meanwhile tumbled 4.6 per cent as consumers tightened their belts. Analysts say Japan's economy now looks set to log its worst quarter since the oil crisis in 1974.
“The labour market remains extremely weak, with very few signs that things are starting to improve," analysts at Goldman Sachs said. The jobless rate in Germany, Europe's largest economy, meanwhile jumped to 8.3 per cent, significantly higher than had been forecast.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/

IMF Sees $2.2 Trillion in Losses Slowing World Growth

Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The global economy will slow close to a halt this year as more than $2 trillion of bad assets from the U.S. help sink economies from Russia to the U.K., the International Monetary Fund said. Bank losses worldwide from toxic U.S.-originated assets may reach $2.2 trillion, the IMF said in a report released today, more than the $1.4 trillion that the fund predicted in October. World growth will be 0.5 percent this year, the weakest postwar pace, the fund said in a separate report. The reports signal that writedowns and losses at banks totaling $1.1 trillion so far are only half of what’s to come and that contractions may deepen. Losses on that scale would leave banks needing at least $500 billion in fresh capital to restore confidence in their balance sheets, the IMF said. The IMF’s latest forecast revises its estimate of world growth down from 2.2 percent in November.

Global growth this year will come to a “virtual standstill,” said Olivier Blanchard, the IMF’s chief economist, in a press conference in Washington. “We need stronger policy on the financial front.”
In the U.S., President Barack Obama is negotiating with Congress on a plan worth $825 billion that includes tax cuts and spending projects to pull the world’s largest economy out of a 13-month recession. The Federal Reserve meets today in Washington to decide how to use emergency credit programs, rather than interest rates, to arrest the financial crisis. The European Central Bank has cut its benchmark interest rate by more than half since early October to 2 percent, matching a record low. Governments are also beginning to ease fiscal policy as the 16-nation euro-region suffers its worst recession since the single currency began trading a decade ago.

China’s economy will likely expand 6.7 percent this year, the IMF said, reducing its estimate for the world’s fastest- growing major economy from 8.5 percent in November. Russia will contract 0.7 percent this year, compared with a 3.5 percent expansion the IMF predicted in November, today’s report showed.

The IMF report said inflation in advanced economies may fall to a record low of 0.3 percent this year, from a prediction in November of 3.6 percent. The average price of oil may be $50 a barrel this year, the IMF said, less than the $68 a barrel forecast it made three months ago.

source: www.bloomberg.com

It’s the Economy, Girlfriend

The economic crisis came home to 27-year-old Megan Petrus early last year when her boyfriend of eight months, a derivatives trader for a major bank, proved to be more concerned about helping a laid-off colleague than comforting Ms. Petrus after her father had a heart attack.
For Christine Cameron, the recession became real when the financial analyst she had been dating for about a year would get drunk and disappear while they were out together, then accuse her the next day of being the one who had absconded.
Dawn Spinner Davis, 26, a beauty writer, said the downward-trending graphs began to make sense when the man she married on Nov. 1, a 28-year-old private wealth manager, stopped playing golf, once his passion. “One of his best friends told me that my job is now to keep him calm and keep him from dying at the age of 35,” Ms. Davis said. “It’s not what I signed up for.”
They shared their sad stories the other night at an informal gathering of Dating a Banker Anonymous, a support group founded in November to help women cope with the inevitable relationship fallout from, say, the collapse of Lehman Brothers or the Dow’s shedding 777 points in a single day, as it did on Sept. 29.
In addition to meeting once or twice weekly for brunch or drinks at a bar or restaurant, the group has a blog, billed as “free from the scrutiny of feminists,” that invites women to join “if your monthly Bergdorf’s allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life.”
Theirs is not the typical 12-step program.
Step 1: Slip into a dress and heels. Step 2: Sip a cocktail and wait your turn to talk. Step 3: Pour your heart out. Repeat as needed.
About 30 women, generally in their mid- to late-20s, regularly post to the Web site or attend meetings.
“We do make light of everything on the blog and it’s very tongue in cheek,” said Laney Crowell, 27, who parted ways with a corporate real estate investor last month after a tumultuous relationship. “But it all stems out of really serious and heartfelt situations.”
When she introduces other Wall Street widows to the group, Ms. Crowell added, “They call their friends and say, ‘You’re not going to believe what I just read. It’s going to make you feel so much better.’ ”
Once it was seen as a blessing in certain circles to have a wealthy, powerful partner who would leave you alone with the credit card while he was busy brokering deals. Now, many Wall Street wives, girlfriends and, increasingly, exes, are living the curse of cutbacks in nanny hours and reservations at Masa or Megu. And that credit card? Canceled.
Raoul Felder, the Manhattan divorce lawyer, said that cases involving financiers always stack up as the economy starts to slip, because layoffs and shrinking bonuses place stress on relationships — and, he said, because “there aren’t funds or time for mistresses any more.”
(One such mistress wrote on the blog that when she pouted about not having been taken on a trip lately, her married man explained that with money so tight, his wife had taken to checking up on his accounts.)
Harriet Pappenheim, a psychotherapist at Park Avenue Relationship Consultants who wrote “For Richer or Poorer,” a 2006 book on money in marriage, said that the repercussions could be acute for Wall Street wunderkinds who define their identities through their job titles and the size of their bonuses.
“It’s a big blow to their egos and to their self-esteem,” she said of the endless stream of economic bad news, “and they may take it out on their partners and children.”
Ms. Petrus, a lawyer, and Ms. Crowell, who works for a fashion Web site, started the support group when they realized that they were facing similar problems in their relationships with bankers last fall.
“We put two and two together and figured out that it was the economy, not us,” Ms. Petrus recalled at a recent meeting in the lobby bar of the Bowery Hotel. “When guys in banking are going through this, they can’t handle a relationship.”(She and her boyfriend split up last year; he declined to discuss it.)
Many of the women said that as the economic crisis struck last fall, they began tracking the markets during the day to predict the moods that the men they loved might be in later. On big news days, like when the first proposed government bailout failed in Congress, or when Lehman went belly-up, they knew that plans to see their partners would be put off.
I was like, ‘O.K. I signed up for that, it’s fine,’ “ said Ms. Cameron. “But all of a sudden,” she said, her boyfriend “couldn’t focus. If he stayed over he’d be up at some random hour checking his BlackBerry, Bloomberg and CNBC.”
Ms. Cameron said that she and her boyfriend broke up at the end of November but that they still saw each other occasionally.
One frequent topic among the group is the link between the boardroom and the bedroom. “There’s actually the type of person who has a bad day on the trading floor and they want to have sex more,” Ms. Spinner Davis offered as she sipped a vodka gimlet, declining to say how she knew.
Ms. Petrus chimed in.
“If you’re lucky you’ll get that guy,” she said, not revealing whether she considered herself lucky. “Middle-case scenario: It gets relegated to the weekends.
“Worst-case scenario,” she began, and then took another sip of her drink.
Brandon Davis, Ms. Spinner Davis’s husband of almost three months, acknowledged in a recent telephone interview that his new job was “certainly more stressful and there’s certainly more pressure” because of the economy, but disagreed that such stresses had affected his home life. He did not want to talk about golf.
Some women in the group said the men in their lives had gone from being aloof and unattainable to unattractively needy and clinging. Others complained of being ignored — one, who called herself A.P., wrote on the blog that three weeks had passed without her boyfriend “asking a single question” about her life. Another wrote, fearfully, that her beau had told her to make a list of their favorite New York restaurants before the bad market forced a move to the Midwest.
“Next time you are stressing over some finance guy, remember that he is just a math-club nerd,” one woman wrote after recounting a breakup. “This recession just bought everyone an extra two years of the single life.”
Another, though, seemed chagrined, after her boyfriend told her to “grow up” and stop “complaining about vacations and dinner” since he had to “fire 20 people by the end of the week.”

source:www.nytimes.com

Wat u think about this ???

Are my lucks coming ?

Feel so surprised that i have wont a lottery on the 1st day of Lunar New year this year 26 jan :)

I dont no whether it is a sign of my lucks or not !!!

Jus pray to the God, Pls bless me n bring me LUCKsssss !

My greatful to u, God !

Here is a lottery from Caltex, A can of Fanta :):):)

p.s: oh i dont intend to advertise for Caltex tei, as i havent gained anything from it, heheheh :)

UPDATE 12-Oil settles 6 pct higher as OPEC output drops

NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose more than 6 percent on Friday as mounting evidence that OPEC is complying with the bulk of its record output cuts countered gloomy economic data that further dimmed the outlook for global energy demand.
U.S. crude CLc1 settled up $2.80 at $46.47 a barrel, while London Brent LCOc1 rose $2.98, to $48.37 a barrel.
The gains came after oil consultant Petrologistics estimated OPEC production would fall by 1.55 million barrels per day in January as part of the cartel's efforts to meet a 2.2 million bpd reduction agreed in December.
"I think this represents anticipation that the OPEC production cuts are really happening after the Petrologistics estimates on January OPEC production," said Tim Evans, energy analyst for Citi Futures Perspective.
Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are cutting output in reaction to a slide of more than $100 in oil prices since July as global economic weakness slams energy demand.

source: www.uk.reuters.com

Happy Lunar New Year 09

Terrific Tiger

The sky is the Limit for TIGER like you !

This year LOVE/CAREER are both looking as Sparkling

as you roar in 4707 !

Shin Nian Kuai Le!!

Wish u all the BEST :)

p.s: jus copy from Zodiac sign from ecard.