GoodBye, Harry Potter.

I don't actually have the boxed set but I've got all seven books separately. For me, they're just flat-out amazing. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows was my favorite, the thickest one! I get sucked into the lives of the characters so quickly. FYI, I've downloaded the movie (Deathly Hollows part II) and watched it. Seriously it deserves 5 stars. Oh, come on! I don't want any hate mail. Spare me your snobbishness and ignorance... I just tell you the truth. ;p

An exchange of beauty and money

Its a very interesting article. I'm so glad that a young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum.

Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York. My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married?

I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?

Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden(?), $250k annual income is not enough.

I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)

2) Which age group should I target?

3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I've met a few girls who don't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys.

4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty

A philosophical reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan:

Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here. From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain.

Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of "beauty" and "money" : Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a "trading position". If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or "leased".

Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income.This has better chance than finding a rich fool.Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in "leasing" services, do contact me.

signed,

J.P. Morgan CEO

Searching for Andrian Tan

damned if I do, damned if I don't.

still, I'm gonna find him even though he chose to disappear...

Wild whisper

If I could see the future and how this plays out

I bet it's better than I am now

But after going through this

It's easier to see the reason why

I wake up every morning and ask myself, "What am I doing here anyway with the weight of all those disappointments?" I wanna scream but I'm down to my last breath that I started looking for a warning sign. I break all my thoughts hit the floor and keep telling myself actions speak louder than words.

I think I'd learn my lesson by now that I'd learn the cost of love. After this time spent alone and thinking about the better times, I'm finally getting better cause the day I thought I'd never get through, I got over it. I've no doubt. One day, the sun will come out and I know in my belly, I've never alone.

I try to see the good in life but good things in life are hard to find. I wanna do something that matters, something better with the time I've been given and I wanna try to touch a few hearts in this life... More and more I start to realize I can hold my head high. Now it all seems so clear, there's nothing left to fear cause that's when fears will usually led me blind. So I make my way by finding what's real. Cause there is no guarantee that this life is easy. I know its worth in the end and I finally learned to believe whatever will be, WILL BE.