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" Ambition can be pretty heady, like an expensive perfume or that new car smell, and you're both drawn to it and a little afraid of it. Ambition, like most strong forces, is an excellent servant but a bad master. As long as you remain aware of your ambition and make sure it doesn't get too outsized, you should be just fine. So go ahead and reach for the stars -- they're reaching back."
- Yahoo Astrology.

"Alabama Redneck"

A Redneck from Pohickey, Alabama walked into a bank in New York
City and asked for the loan officer. He told the loan officer
that he was going to Paris on an international redneck festival
for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000 and that he was not a
depositor of the bank.

The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of
security for the loan, so the Redneck handed over the keys to a
new Ferrari. The car was parked on the street in front of the
bank. The Redneck produced the title and everything checked
out. The loan officer agreed to hold the car as collateral for
the loan and apologized for having to charge 12% interest.

Later, the bank's president and its officers all enjoyed a good
laugh at the Redneck from the south for using a $250,000 Ferrari
as collateral for a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then
drove the Ferrari into the bank's private underground garage and
parked it.

Two weeks later, the Redneck returned, repaid the $5,000 and the
interest of $23.07. The loan officer said, "Sir, we are very
happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked
out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were
away, we checked you out on Dunn & Bradstreet and found that you
are a highly sophisticated investor and multimillionaire with
real estate and financial interests all over the world. What
puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?"

The good 'ol Alabama boy replied, "Where else in New York City
can I park my car for two weeks for only $23.07 and expect it to
be there when I return?"

I remember the time when employment figures was hitting news every other day (Unemployment, lowest in the last 26 years!!) you can easily stretch your CV a little and get to where you want to be.

Recently I've discovered a new feeling of passion, re career. It's a bit like showing a banana and a human face to test a monkey's preference.

If Healthcare is really the next big thing, you know, as with the emerging dot.coms back then which pretty much revolutionise the way we do things, like.. instead of asking for an address so you can send them a snail mail, you ask, "are you on Facebook?"

I trade shares from time to time, it's good side income if you know what you're doing.

And so the earnings on Goldman Sach has been released just last night. It turns out that she was right. Raboo.

Meet Meredith Whitney. I would probably call her the Oprah equivalent in the financial sector. I was quite amazed that her words alone was enough to lift up Walls Street just a couple of days ago, literally uplifted the market by $B of dollars.

There's a saying that goes, "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is".

... lately I've been addicted to the bejeweled game.

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Winner.

This is the reality, we're freakin' heating it up. From source.

... If you're still working.