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Bear-Dog


In Big Island Hawaii'

:: Stuffy 11/29/2005 05:39:00 PM [+] ::
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Final Week, Finally!
Contemplating which bear-dog photo to put up, theres too many!

I haven't written a meaningful post for so long. But I'll try to give my two cents worth at this hour (3am).

As usual, my term passed at a glimpse and I hardly had any time to breathe. But I suppose this year's been different from the last in alot of respects. Perhaps the most obvious one is that I've been staying home more often, cooking more often (with a little precision - cooking more chinese meals more often) and of course, studying more often.

Even with being more settled down and laid back, I have always a cause for busy-ness. Theres work to be done because most of it counts for my degree. Theres always Latin and Ballroom which takes up almost 4 times a week especially when training for competitions or performances (big one coming up for One World Week), Economic Summit Exec meetings (am summit designer courtesy of photoshop, and am quite happy I managed to learn how to use it)and of course the new cell which has been tremendously fruitful and encouraging (many thanks to Hub's God-lead leadership).

And yes, I'm more than ready to go back after a year of being abroad. And I hear alot of you say : Oh so now you miss home huh? Of course, absence make the heart grow fonder *Wry smile at Zhi. Then again, going home too often makes less time for other things, not that I'm trying to taun next years internship.

When I go home, I hope to see change - changes for the better of course. And I can assure you, that you will see subtle changes in me, and I expect that. If I haven't changed, then I haven't grown in a year abroad and have probably learnt nothing then.

Am off to Kenya this weekend!

:: Stuffy 11/28/2005 07:08:00 PM [+] ::
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I took a well deserved break after completing next weeks essay. I was so bored I watched 3 movies and I was noseyly surfing around abit and this is what I found



This is a really cool pic of my cousin (thats why hes my cousin *beams), it looks like one of those Mediacorp artiste pics. Actually I think I know who took this pic.



And somebody is all dressed up for Christmas. Hahah, Santa bunny, so hurry down the chimney tonight! I remembered a pic with you and Helyn, but I forgot where is it though, did you take it down?



And this is my Bear-dog!

:: Stuffy 11/26/2005 12:34:00 PM [+] ::
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911

I bet at least half of you are guilty of having listened to 911 during your primary/lower secondary school days. Well, if I were 12 again, I'll be screaming and jumping up and down if I got tickets to see them, but last week when I heard that the there was a Latin and Ballroom social to the union to see 911, I had to ask them to repeat that again, because I thought the cheesy boyband group didn't exist anymore (like about 8 years ago).

Well, I'm going to see 911, since I'm obliged to go as part of my 'Equal Oppurtunities' duty to ensure that those who don't drink are not excluded when the drinking games start.

Hey, I can remember the lyrics ok...

:: Stuffy 11/24/2005 03:28:00 PM [+] ::
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Final Week

Am on the brink of compeleting my essay and posssibly starting on my regression or economics essay soon. Next week's the last week of school. Am going to Kenya on the 3rd Dec and I'll be back in Singapore on the 14th! So I'm starting to book my meet ups now.

Currently, I've got 17th/18th booked, 16th booked. And my 22nd till 4th Jan are entirely/most likely taken up. So that leaves me with erm - 15th, 19th, 20th, 21st.

Tat, is it suppose to be 17th or 18th? And whats the plan? Need to know by next week before I leave. Thanks!

:: Stuffy 11/23/2005 04:17:00 PM [+] ::
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How to make friends at Matthew Haag's office

S2.XX seems to be frequented by the few same few people every Tuesday. The long wait for professor Haag makes alot of time for conversation, and for the past 3 weeks, I've seen the same faces and got to know course mates and seniors alot better. I reckon I'll see the same faces again should I have to appear at his door next wenesday.

:: Stuffy 11/15/2005 12:47:00 PM [+] ::
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Academic Obstacles

I'm currenlty doing a paper on Product Differentiation. And for my own understanding of what I just learnt and for consumer(which is you) benefit, I would like to recap and organise.

I learnt that there are two types of product differentiation - Horizontal Differentiation where consumer preferences are ambiguous and uncertain, and Vertical Differentiation where all consumers prefer the best quality good given the constraints of income.

I'm suppose to discuss the developments of Horizontal Differentiation which first originates from Hotelling's Model where by drawing a line and locating two firms at both ends, the indifferent consumer is in the middle. (Given distance x, the indifferent consumer is at x/2 assuming that all consumers are uniformly distributed and that prices of both firms are given as the same). The idea is that the line of distance given by x is analogues to the varied consumer preference with two extreme ends. (for example, likeing sweet cornflakes and liking tasteless cornflakes)

The model then extends in several ways:
1)to a 2 stage game where given location, prices are set by firms.
2)Where location is costless and price is still set by firms
3) The inclusion of more than 2 firms
And countless others which I'm frantically finding the time to read through

Progressing from there, Sallop's model uses a circle instead of a line to show that there is an equilibrium despite having more than 2 firms. In point 3), there is a leapfrogging disequilibrium with more than 2 firms.

My main dilemma is about how many variation of the Hotelling development I am suppose to include. My difficulty lies in understanding the other variations from a few other industrial economists.

And then I have to compare it with other models of vertical intergration and give examples from, say the Economist.

My head is heavy, I'm going to bed and I'll think about it tomorrow.

:: Stuffy 11/13/2005 04:04:00 PM [+] ::
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