What would YOU do with $5,000,000

Was a question posed to me from a professor today (or yesterday) .....

*Look at the picture a little more carefully...

1. Send my parents a catered feast

2. and papers to a Vacation House



3. Reward myself with a month's supply of socks


4. And a trip to Tibet

5. The majority into a diversified Index Fund Portfolio favoring aggressive returns .

6. And a good measure into AAPL ($10 drop? Wall Street, I love your insecurities).


















7. Give heavily to Cancer Research and Art Museums

8. The rest on my friends.

Because no matter how helpless you are, there will always be someone more deserving.

How would you spend $5 mil?

*The "about me" post will come next. This is merely for fun!
**To be fair, the market in general wasn't doing well. But -$10 for AAPL? *Hugs*

You learn something new every day....

Did you know that Diet Mountain Dew


has more caffeine per mg than your average cuppa java?

And apparently


A healthy part of your daily diet?

Welcome to:


Guess who isn't sleeping tonight?

:)

DeSean Jackson.....

Makes me want to do this.

45 - 31

Fierce!

I talk to strangers…

All the time.

And I like it that way.

But what did momma used to say?

“Don’t talk to strangers”

And for good reasons too, there are some really sick people out there.

It works on children because they are relatively innocent and inherently trusting.

But assuming that if you are reading this, you are already college-matured…or at least aspire to be.

So is that maxim still beneficial?

The majority of people (especially those who live in sprawling metropolis) still has this belief ingrained within. Walk down any street and you’ll discover people

with glasses so big they look like bugs

or

Proud ipod groupies

or

Mr. I can text so fast you won't even know what hit you.

Are you one of them?

And you wonder why you are lonely

You've seen them. They'll fiddle with their Treos every two minutes while rocking their Ipods with eyes downcast; creating this invisible shield around them. They panic when you so much as to smile at them, hoping you'll just pass them by because...

Oh, momma told them not to talk to strangers.

The average Joe live in solitude. Don't believe me? Go on craigslist personals section and search up the word

"lonely".

The average American wake up, eat, work, sleep. Repeat. Maybe the occasional restaurant scene on the weekend. They cling to their families and cliques like drowned rats to a wooden plank and refuses to venture out. And yet at the same time they long for that spark of spontaneity, that rare encounter.

Everyone from the busy Strada bar girl to the hot shot investment banker to the content janitor are really living in this endless cycle.

Are you sick of it? Living in the same predictable, routine life. Talking to the same people, doing the same thing everyday, having the same old banter. That is why divorce rates in America is so high, people want a spark of life, something unpredictable.

So talk to people.

(but use your brain, if you are walking on Telegraph Ave 3am in the morning and a gang hoods is coming your way.... RUN)

Talk to people?



Why should I? They'll think I am off my rocker! No one talks to strangers!

Precisely, no one talks to strangers, but everyone wants a little bit of human touch. Why do you think people spends hundreds in massage parlors when pilates does the same thing? Its a little bit of human touch.


But most people want to be left alone!

Do you want to be left alone? If you are happy with your current crop of friends then by all means do so. If you are content, you are one of the lucky few.

But I know that many of you out there are just dying for a little human touch, but the idea that you have to approach a complete stranger decked out in

This

absolutely terrifies you.

So how do you start? There is no one around!

Really?

Where do you go get your morning dose of caffeine? The paper boy? The grocery clerk? The awkward intern at your office? (Hire me! Raises hand) The person suffering next to you in a crowded Bart station? The neighbor that you have never talked to?

Now when you start, thread lightly. Remember that while you've overcome your barriers, the other person still has hers up in full force. Start out with something light:

"It is sweltering in here!"
"How long have you been waiting for the Bart?"
"What do you recommend? Americano or Lemonade?"
"You come here often?"
"Cal is so going to cream Tennessee"
"Orange, what an unfortunate color"

And see that person's face light up because for the love of everything holy you are the first person to acknowledge their existence today.

Even if he/she doesn't speak to you for the rest of your stay, that smile is worth it.

Well, for me at least, it is.

*I try to live my own advice, thus you'll probably find me either 1) studying or at gym 2) at school clubs or 3) chatting with random people. This blog is for my own reflections and realizations. Although I can give your average geek a run for his money in terms of computer knowledge, I love people more.
*Stay tuned, I'll still update regularly! But please understand that this blog is not my life, but a mere vestige of it. Comments make my day :)

K, CAL GAME IS NEXT!

Have a wonderful day.

College Spending Problem

#1: “Hey Daddy….oh yea Daddy, of course the books here are expensive. Yea, I kinda need another grand.

#2: Arches eyebrow

#1: *Pause and listen*. "Great! Thanks Daddy, I love you."

#2: "I take that he doesn’t know of your shopping problem."

#1: "And he never will."

- Berkeley Bookstore, MLK Building.

Parents often complain about their kids spend like there is no tomorrow.

And why shouldn't they?

Its not their money.

So how do you make them view the money as the "'family stash?".

Stay Tuned.

(Yes, I will actually answer this question, and the "how to deal with women" one too)

Don't Fake it In College

Hello Freshmen (for all you 1st years out there....others, ignore me)!

School starts on Monday, and you might want to know that...

College isn't and extended version of High School, don't try to impress someone.

You have all the time in the world to do that.

Don’t bury your face in books either.

This is the time to find your goals, your friends, your insecurities, yourself.

These four years someone else is paying (if you’re lucky) for your opportunity to think about the rest of your life.

Use it well.

Because what is going to come after college?

God willing, it will be a high-paying job

A stressful job

And then you’ll always try to impress your boss, trying to establish yourself as a professional.

By the time you did, you’ll have kids and a mortgage.

So stop trying to impress someone. Start living your life.

Stop trying to attain the unattainable and comparing with everyone else.

If only I can get into Haas

Yale Law

Harvard Med School

UPenn MBA

That Perfect Job.

If only I can get a boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husband

Oh wait…that would be the start of your troubles.

Beatboxing flute inspector gadget remix

Holy Merlin on a bicycle...