"out with the old, in with the new" - if i remember correctly, this was my high school yearbook quote.
throughout academia, one of my biggest writing insecurities was with the "delete button". i was hard working and studious, but could never translate these efforts into coherent, fluid literary essays. what it did translate to was wordy, redundant, un-proofread pieces of transcribed classroom babble. but with maturity and blogging, it seems i've found equilibrium btwn my hs year book quote (which referred to promiscuity at the time) and anything that has to do with text. i am now "delete" addicted.
there's a certain confidence to be had when using the delete button so freely. for one, after writing pages and pages of thesis, one must decide what crucial matters are no longer crucial anymore and what brilliant anecdotes are no longer relevantly brilliant. secondly, to be able to use the delete button and trust one-self's diligence and creativity to resurrect/recapture a better scribed version at a much later time takes much security of thought.
last month, i butchered by own resume line by line, font by font, margin by margin. this month i butchered someone else's resume, a trio of my own works (analytical and prose) and had the full confidence that it's essence would be revived 2-fold stronger. i went "out with the old and in with the new". and up to this point, this mentality has probably bled into all facets of my life, which to me, is a calculated gamble worth taking but simultaneously the strongest argument against my lack of stability.
as of today (post singapore), it's not that i voluntarily continue to live out of a backpack, it's that things are in transition and it just so happens that i'm still on standby. and so while i wait for the office to finish renovating, and i wait for my mom to move out of my soon-to-be-1st-home-in-6-years, i spend another day at another starbucks. it would be cool if the couches could have outlets near them and it'd be even cooler if the hot chick across from me could kindly watch over my stuff and conveniently slip her number in my bag while i find relief in the washroom. but that's not the case, so im stuck and i wait. i wait for the office, i wait for my mom, i wait like all of asia for the US fed numbers to come out tonight.
these days, everyday is financial Armageddon and it seems like a once in a lifetime global meltdown. but when someone loses money, there's always someone making money! who's making money other than warren 'wily' buffet (gaining 2 billion USD in net worth this past year). "A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful," Buffett wrote in an a guest commentary published by The New York Times. so it got me thinking...BRING BACK REAGANOMICS!
i'm no staunch republican, in fact i'm very liberal, but find myself polling for tax reasons instead (what does it matter anyway being that i'm an electoral new york voter). that's beside the point. i'm just thinking that since america is a culture built on spending, a habit that got us into this mess in the first place. so why not try to fix today's financial problem by not changing the habit of the people, but to use this habit positively. give the people more money in their pocket, make everything and "anyone" tax deductible and LIVE AND LET DIE! american's aren't going to save that extra cash and today's recession shows that the avg person doesn't have any saving to fall back on. so...give it a whirl! why not! go go gadget palin! 150k @ macy's and saks is a poignant way to set the tone.
that's a certain p.o.v. on today's US. how bout elsewhere? would reaganomics work in asia? doubt it. asians in asia are built on saving. Confucius was frugal. mao was poor. kim jong il starves his people. china has the biggest savings of foreign currency in the world. my parents know of nothing but saving.
"i told you so"
there's not much ummph in me being ahead of the curve because i did not have the financial backing to do anything to fully capitalize on it. and to those around me that had asked for my opinion on certain matters 4-6 years ago, the "i told you so" is just not the right thing to say for today's crisis, but who can resist the opportunity of a bitter backlash? so in moving forward, how do you do something about 20/20 hindsight? how do use hindsight to equte to 'bite the bullet, take the loss and let's move on'.
"out with the old, in with the new"
