A Night of Stocks Stuck in Mind

The Stock Market Seminar that I took interest into was promptly attended by Angeline and me last night, along with mostly students (surprisingly), therefore not making it too intimidating. Prior to the event, I have personally been thinking whether only the ‘wealthy’ would come, or those who have already been monitoring the daily financial charts because of the stocks they currently own. I can’t even afford a job to buy me a single share at the moment, so that immediately grew the apprehension in me. Our main objective in coming really was to provide ourselves with whatever handy information there is on stock investing and trading, which may prove to be a good primer and backgrounder on the kind of work that we are to venture in Seoul. Being able to add the said event to our list of “Seminars Attended” in our resume was a second goal. We weren’t doing anything anyway, being the jobless dudettes that we are, so we might as well shell out a reasonable 500php for this seminar. Off we then went to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) headquarters in Ortigas.

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Driving In the Rain

The rain that abruptly, but strongly poured this afternoon couldn’t have been the best setting for my first driving lessons ever. Given my current unemployed status at twenty-three, I finally gave in to the need of possibly filling the “part-time-driver-job” in the family. This personal submission was most importantly brought about by my mother’s plodding on securing myself a driver’s license before my student permit expires a year from now. She paid for it a couple of months ago when we applied for it, and she simply wouldn’t want to put it into waste, since she said that I have the tendency of putting off equally vital things until I cannot make good use of them.

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-Gu / -Dong

This is currently the greatest artwork that is enticing both my eyes and mind, as I do the search for the great EXPAT abode. A few more days of looking at this, and I'll have my fresh set of Korean tongue twisters on que. I am anyway amazed at how I am learning so much about the city and the country with all these search. That blue strip in the drawing is the famous HAN River by the way.

Seoul, aside from being the capital city of South Korea, is also considered as a “special city” (Teukbyeolsi) that is divided into wards or districts called –gu’s. GU’s are pretty much similar to New York or London’s boroughs. These GU’s are then divided into neighborhoods or city districts called -dong's (not on map, though).

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Friday the 13th

A local noon time TV show I chanced upon the screen today sure had its way of commemorating the classic Friday the 13th superstition, informing me of a new trivia on a question that it asked in one of its studio games.

Any month that begins on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th. Haha. Cool.

I can pretty much imagine the logic, given there are seven days a week, and fourteen days in two weeks... and… nah! My mind is sure not capable of presenting some algorithm on this, I’m sure you’re getting the blurry picture anyway.

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On Choices

I think I can pride myself with how life throw its choices on me, for I am able to exercise discernment and show off such faith not only to myself but to the Great Guy up there-- on how He thinks I could endure such challenge given the kind of skeptic skull that I have. He never throws a heavy ball that we cannot carry anyway, and so I hold on to that.

I only get to mumble to myself though, “I do hope I have actually made the right choice”. Because sometimes, opportunities flood when you can only grab on one, and you suddenly think of the previous days when you patiently wait and can’t even catch a single. Why do two good things that you yearn come to you as choices for you to come up to just ONE, and only one?

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My $10,000 Bling

It was a pretty straightforward question that my Korean colleague had in regard to the housing arrangements, in his efforts to recommend the best place where we can stay during our work stint in Seoul. As I may have already mentioned, the company we are to work for will not be answerable for our rent expenses, but will be guiding us in finding the house we will spend the rent expense on.

Ji Hyun says:
by the way, if the leaser asks $10,000 for downpayment, can you do that?
Ji Hyun says:
monthly payment will be around $50 though
Ji Hyun says:
i mean 500
Ella says:
an outright payment of $10,000? I don't think so. I'm sorry.
Ella says:
That's too big for us. Is that DP for one year?
Ji Hyun says:
until you leave
Ella says:
Yeah, so that's for one year, right?
Ji Hyun says:
right
Ji Hyun says:
1 or 2 year depending on how long you wanna stay
Ella says:
Is the $10,000 DP non-refundable?
Ella says:
To the lessor, I mean.
Ji Hyun says:
of course refundable when you leave there
Ella says:
Is that how it goes for all apartments there?

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On Temperaments

Anyone may have casually heard of the word “temperament” as pertaining to one’s mood, temper or general disposition. In psychology, experts explain this term in deeper detail with the hefty “HUMORISM” theory. While this has never been a bit of a joke, it was pretty dominant in the medical practice in the medieval times until the advent of modern medical research in the nineteenth century.

This theory holds that the human body is filled with four basic substances, called four humours, or humors, which are in balance when a person is healthy. The four humors were identified as black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. And from these humors, a set of characters were developed. Those with too much blood were sanguine. Those with too much phlegm were phlegmatic. Those with too much yellow bile were choleric, and those with too much black bile were melancholic.

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My Kind of Silence

At a priest's homily this evening, these lines sure struck my senses the most. Silence is Faith. Silence is Humility. I want my silence to forever speak and reflect of these.

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Stock Market Seminar

I got this post from Entrepreneur.com.ph's Forum. I'll just think of one person whom I can practically drag into this, and I'm off. These stuff are currently my "I-dig"s. Given the day and time of the seminar, I could actually just think of one person who can benefit from this. Head on, fellow Seoul conqueror! ;-p

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Baby Lovin'!

With how engrossed I easily become to such adorable kids whom I see outside, there is no limit to the things that I could do to show that special fondness to them. Like rounding this child’s eye with a surprise flashed shot from my digital camera.

Meet Amar, born to an Iraqi father and a Filipina mother. I sat beside him in a jeepney in Pampanga. Fair complexioned, high cheek-boned, with long, upward lashes. Quite tall for his age of just a year. So cute! And he was sporting a blue shirt with Bart Simpson in it, who is by the way my favorite cartoon character. It would not be so hard to tell where he got those beautiful features, especially if you’ve seen the mother who carried this child on her lap. Let’s just say, I initially thought she was Amar’s personal yaya. I may be mean, but it was what I really thought.

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