"New Bedroom" for the second half of year 2009.

I re-decorated my bedroom 2 days ago. Spent almost 5 hours to clean up my messy room! But I do not want to go into details here. Please see my "new bedroom" below:

My labby corner. ;-)

My lovely bed with green luminous stars & moon on the wall. :-)

My books & drawers. =D

I have a few wishes for year 2010. (some missing furnitures need to be on the way. keke.. )

100 Best Jobs in Singapore(2009)

I happened to come across a website which shows the best paid jobs in Singapore 2009. I was figuring which industry was offering the best pay. This survey was generated 9th Aug 2009.

Here’s the top 100 best-paying jobs across all industries (ranked according to monthly gross salary excluding performance bonus and profit sharing):

1. Specialised surgeon - $27,977
2. Managing director - $26,444
3. Personal banker - $20,238
4. Commodities futures broker - $19,098
5. General manager - $18,068
6. Foreign exchange dealer and broker - $17,383
7. Company director - $16,025
8. Finance sales associate professional - $15,833
9. Fund manager - $12,634
10. Risk management manager - $12,200
11. Treasury manager - $12,000
12. Financial futures dealer and broker - $11,667
13. Legal service manager - $11,531
14. Advocate and solicitor - $11,147
15. Business management consultant - $11,000
16. Operations manager (Finance) - $10,471
17. Legal officer - $10,417
18. Computer operations and network manager - $10,238
19. Training manager - $10,100
20. Corporate planning manager - $9,850
21. Computer and information systems manager - $9,800
22. Business development manager - $9,770
23. Research and development manager - $9,627
24. Engineering manager - $9,268
25. Sea traffic controller - $9,088
26. Marketing manager - $8,917
27. Lawyer (except advocate and solicitor) - $8,800
28. Budgeting and financial accounting manager - $8,727
29. Customer service manager - $8,635
30. Personnel / Human resource manager - $8,500
31. Technical manager - $8,500
32. Quality assurance manager - $8,480
33. Procurement manager - $8,400
34. Naval architect - $8,300
35. University lecturer - $8,282
36. Creative director (Advertising) - $8,050
37. Sales manager - $8,050
38. Chemical engineer (Petroleum) - $7,991
39. Chemical engineer (Petrochemicals) - $7,939
40. Manufacturing plant and production manager - $7,934
41. Instrumentation engineer - $7,831
42. Logistics manager - $7,745
43. Structural engineer - $7,295
44. Network systems and data communication analyst - $7,293
45. Advertising and public relations manager - $7,282
46. Premises maintenance manager - $7,260
47. Information technology security specialist - $7,110
48. Chinese physician - $7,043
49. Aeronautical engineer - $7,022
50. Shipping manager - $7,000
51. Business analyst - $6,997
52. Medical scientist - $6,875
53. Librarian - $6,842
54. Property / Estate manager - $6,780
55. Financial analyst - $6,667
56. Operations manager (Commerce) - $6,660
57. Editor (Radio, television and video) - $6,515
58. Credit analyst - $6,475
59. Database administrator - $6,417
60. Computer engineer - $6,407
61. Marine superintendent engineer - $6,387
62. Transport operations manager - $6,377
63. Administration manager - $6,350
64. Building and construction project manager - $6,200
65. Flight operations officer - $6,157
66. Sales representative (Technical) - $6,100
67. General physician - $6,085
68. Information technology auditor - $6,048
69. Securities dealer and broker - $6,000
70. Market research analyst - $5,834
71. Clearing and forwarding agent - $5,800
72. Power generation and distribution engineer - $5,790
73. Chemical engineer - $5,708
74. Industrial health, safety and environment engineer - $5,700
75. Automotive engineer - $5,670
76. Chemical engineering technician (Petroleum) - $5,647
77. Operations research analyst - $5,611
78. Chemical engineering technician (Petrochemicals) - $5,609
79. Chief / executive cook - $5,600
80. Warehousing manager - $5,550
81. Building architect - $5,500
82. Systems designer and analyst - $5,500
83. Application programmer - $5,495
84. Pharmacologist - $5,475
85. Speech therapist - $5,407
86. Semi-conductor engineer - $5,360
87. Stationary plant supervisor and general foreman - $5,353
88. Treasury officer - $5,350
89. Ship-master - $5,301
90. Software engineer - $5,281
91. Industrial machinery and tools engineer - $5,250
92. Sales representative - $5,237
93. Hotel service manager - $5,170
94. Production engineer - $5,165
95. Network and computer systems administrator - $5,159
96. Telecommunications engineer - $5,100
97. Advertising copywriter - $5,000
98. Civil engineer - $5,000
99. Environment health inspector - $5,000
100. Soil mechanic and piling engineer - $4,980

If you are interested to know more, please go to http://www.salary.sg/2009/100-best-jobs-in-singapore-2009 to find the ideal job that you want. =) I am finding one.

Making a decision through Economics.

This is my first blog here. =) I am currently taking an Executive Master of Science in Finance and I had just completed two modules. One of them is Economics. I like to share with everyone an interesting topic posted by a lady on a forum. Please read on.

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 is only average-looking? I've met a few girls who doesn'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

[b]Here's a reply from a Wall Street Financial guy

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 analyze 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 worried 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