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I saw in The Star Newspaper in Malacca (Malaysia) today an advertisement that reads as follows: “We’re giving a discount on discounts.” This is from Citibank. What a catchy statement. Reminds me of the time decades ago when I was working in private equity fund management (aka venture capital). A colleague of mine was working on a deal in [...] What a difference a misplaced punctuation mark makes! Consider this classroom scenario. Teacher: Make a statement from the following sentence by inserting punctuation marks at appropriate places: “woman without her man is nothing” Male Student : “Woman, without her man, is nothing!” Female Student : “Woman! without her, man is nothing.” See how the meaning of a sentence is changed completely [...] The Abruptly Wealthy If you have an opportunity to receive an unexpected financial windfall, how much would you like it to be? How about $232.1 million? A despatch from Associated Press dated June 6, 2009 named Neal Wanless as the sole winner of 9th largest Powerball jackpot in history. After deducting taxes on this jackpot winning, [...] There are five ‘big questions’ people always ask and by giving people logical answers to their honest questions you maybe rolling away the stone so they can come out of their tomb of unbelief? Or your answer to their questions may be that ray of light pointing them to the gospel. On a certain ocean liner, a [...] Lisa Redick
Not a very comfortable way to be — broken. Not for the average thinker anyway. It gives the idea of “spoiled or not working right.” Yet clearly, brokenness (or absolute surrender) is a fundamental in experiencing the promised victorious Christian life-life lived in victory at the foot of the [...] Ah Beng wrote to his former girlfriend. Dear Ah Lian, I could not sleep well ever since we broke off our engagement. It is all my fault. You are the world to me. I don’t know how am I going to live on without you. Think of all the wonderful things we [...] Look Who Is Seeking Financial Bailout In case anyone missed it, there is a Fox Business Report dated January 13, 2009 entitled “Adult Entertainment Industry Wants a Bailout”. The catchy part of the report is this: “Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis and “Hustler” magazine publisher Larry Flynt have said they will petition Congress for financial aid along [...] A Look At Money It was The Beatles who said : “I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love”. Jackie Mason replied : “Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money”. To this, Jim Rohn weighed in: “Time is more valuable than money. You can get [...] On November 27, 1982, I asked a very important question. In fact up to this point in my life it was one of the most important questions I ever asked. It was a question that contained no more than 4 words. Yet the answer to that simple question would shape the rest of my life, greatly [...] |
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