tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97591862011-07-06T06:34:22.690-04:00epnnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-71248854045723706142007-07-09T20:50:00.000-04:002007-07-09T20:52:51.252-04:00

so i decided to start writing down lessons in management consulting. even though i think i forgot a lot of them already1. numbers are really just estimates from the internet or the back of your head2. it matters how pretty your powerpoint slides are because essentially consultants sell paper3. nobody really understands what your job is

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2-2 last roundmy pick for the stanley cup finalistsanahiem (6)buffalo (6)

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vincent lam - bloodletting and miraculous cures = 6/10. i'm not entirely sure if i like this book or not. some of the short stories have good suspense and are interesting. he also brings his experiences from med school into the story. on the other hand, he tries to link the stories and i think its ineffective. he can't really develop character this way. finally he sensationalizes stories

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i know this is kind of late, but i picked them all before the each series started and emailed them to people. anahiem (5)san jose (6)buf (7)new jersey(6)

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my hockey playoff picks for the first roundbuffalo (5)new jersey (7)atlanta (6)pittsburgh (6)detriot (6)anahiem (6)vancouver (5)san jose (7)

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i learned today that you can send letters to members of parliament without a postage stamp. simply write their name, their title (member of parliament) and address ("house of commons").

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two restaurants i've been meaning to go to for a long timecanoe - 7/10. the winterlicious menu was pretty typical, but the food quality and preparation were good. the lamb dish i had didn't taste gamey, so that was a huge plus. also the view from the 60 + floor of the td building was amazing. service was also pretty good. nectar - 9/10. i thought this 6 course meal was amazing. the portions

epnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1170259218949917612007-01-31T10:57:00.000-05:002007-01-31T11:00:19.003-05:00

i think i'm going to have to stop helping out around the house. by doing housework i seem to be taking over the work of my dad, who seems to be bored. last night he seemed disappointed that i took out the garbage because he was getting ready to do it. today i picked up the mail and he tried to sort it while it was still in my hands.

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happy new year!goals for the next week:start learning mandarin (again)update my friendster, facebook and linked in social network profiles

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every smart computer person or mba at american schools applies to work at google. there was even an article in fortune titled "is google too smart for its own good?" too bad i got an email from google today saying that my resume says i'm smart, but not smart enough to work for google. anyways i think i'm going to apply for a job at yahoo. i don't think anyone actually does that. got to

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i meant to write this post before. epn endorses bob rae for leader of the liberal party. i'm hoping that my late endorsement won't effect the voting outcome this weekend. loli'm always liked bob rae. i think that his difficult time as premier of ontario was due to the economic circumstance of the time. his decisions in that government angered many groups, but were based progessive policy that

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today's interviewinterviewer 1 - "so e, you're a smart guy, why did the other consulting firms not give you an offer"my answer in my head - "well you have that opportunity now, why don't you tell me the answer."interviewer 2 - "so why do you want to work for us and not mckinsey"my answer in my head - "well obviously because mckinsey didn't hire me"

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p is working for this company that makes athletic clothing and gets 50% off for friends/family. it is a sort of imitation of nike's dry fit stuff. its cheaper when you take the 50% off into account. anyways one of the latest product discussions on the gmail chain involved the "performance underwear". you see this underwear for athletic performance, also has a condom holder built in. does

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observations on groups1.in groups where the members have no choice in member selection, groups of 3 or more, tension is inevitable. i will refer to this as a random group.first let's examine groups of less than 3 but more than 1. in forced selected groups of 2, the group members might get along. they might have common interests, they have to deal directly with their problems. arranged

epnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1164234768326630852006-11-22T13:41:00.000-05:002006-11-22T17:32:54.583-05:00

ok so i complain about my assigned work groups a lot, but i must say that the gods of randomly assigned groups have been good to me today and yesterday. in my one new group, half of the members are ex strategy consultants.in my old dysfunctional group, m and i pulled the project out of the flames and put on a pretty good show in class.i the meantime, i am going to write the laws about group work

epnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1163955713132387012006-11-19T11:55:00.000-05:002006-11-19T12:01:53.163-05:00

pearl buck's, the good earth - 9/10. one of the best novels i have read in a long time. her writing is amazing in terms of flow. buck chronicles the life of a chinese farmer in the early 20th century. the story goes through the seasons of life, and it seems by the end, it has come a full circle. the joys, pains, difficulties that the farmer faces applies to life at during any time period

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boys - this woman is on our sidein class we were discussing diamonds and how diamond engagement rings started to be marketed as a symbol of commitment in the 1920s. prior to that, once a man proposed, he was forced by law to marry the woman. now diamonds are also being marketed as "celebration rings" etc. because of the declining status of the diamond engagement ring.prof "we (women) no

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2 new expressions i learned todaypollyanna - "not to be pollyanna about it" - apparently it is a derogatory term aimed at those who are cheerfully optimisticherding cats - which i heard as "hurting a cat". i was wondering - why is the prof talking about hurting cats. but apparently cats are independent and difficult to herd.

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this why i really dislike my city councilor mike del grande. if the man tried to arrest me walking down the street, i would counter arrest him and then we would both definitely pressing charges against each other for assault.anyways, i endorse david miller for mayor of toronto. nothing happens fast in politics and when his only legitmate competitor jane pitfield promises every thing under the

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with crosby and malkin highlights and the up and coming stoll, pittsburgh is going to be added to my list of hockey teams. i liked the lemeiux jagr combo back in the day, but i have never really liked pittsburgh until now. as it stands my teams are: edmonton, colorado, toronto (due to peer pressure), pittsburgh, and i’ll throw in san jose( since I used to live there, they have an amazing

epnnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1162333812841089192006-10-31T17:22:00.000-05:002006-10-31T17:30:12.856-05:00

my 6 hrs of class today mean that i am running out of websites to surf. i guess its time to blogmore quotes"if you are not passionate about a particular job, you should be an investment banker. because if you are going to hate what you do, you might as well make a lot of money doing it" - mi think you should be an investment bankers if you hate your life, not if you hate your job.

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some other quotes i like. i seem to be collecting quotes these days"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill"We'll sacrifice so much to reach for some (possibly) unattainable happiness, satisfaction, something, that we forget how sweet and tangible sadness can really be. That feeling of loneliness and remoteness and dislocation are

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guns, germs and steel - 5/10. jared diamond provides an interesting account of why european civilizations ended up with all the power - because they developed guns, germs and steel. his arguement is that it was environmental factors that lead to this, most notably the availability of plants and animals to domesticate. very intesting, however i found long stetches of the book long and

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i like this one"we must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us" - Joseph Cambell

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i'm really not sure how some people get by in my class. they literally have no contribution in group assignments. i am basically the group. but i'm pretty dis-illusioned with a lot of things these days so as of now, i am withholding my contribution. i'm going to see what happens if i do absolutely nothing. i'll just start studying for the exam or something.

epnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1161796099650917802006-10-25T13:06:00.000-04:002006-10-25T13:35:02.596-04:00

what does a blank reply to all email mean? i'm in a dysfunctional group (what's new) anyways a couple of the members are friends. they reply to group emails (this is good) but they don't include a response. blank reply. does this indicate that they just agree with the previous email?? talk about mbas not knowing how to communicate...

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rejections part 2. so m gets a call from the bankers a week late. they tell him - "we're still thinking about you. are you still available?" this sets up a possible double rejection. cause obviously if he was the first choice, he'd have an offer and not a week late phone call.so there seem to be people who disagree with the silent rejection theory. the arguement is that they need closure. i

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i've decided that i like silent rejections the best. i think quite a few people will agree with me. for example after you interview with a company, they say that they'll call you on "x" day. if they don't call you, it means you are rejected. investment bankers seem to have this right. this is better on the feelings than when consulting companies call you and then uncomfortably tell you that

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quotes from mba school"follow the money""life is about making mistakes and learning from them" .. how trueother observations. it seems to me that girls like to see pictures of/meet their guy friends' girlfriends. as a guy, i really never care to see pictures of girls' boyfriends. do girls do this to compare? or are girls just more in touch with human relationships in general.

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the world championship for rock paper scissors is coming to toronto in november. i am thinking of entering as a wild card entry. i'm pretty good at rock paper scissors, i'll challenge whoever to a game. does anyone want to sponsor me for part of the $40 entry fee? i will split the winnings with any of the sponsors. for example if you sponsor me $10, i will give you 25% of the $7 000 grand

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the world gives me these small victories so i can't accuse it of being unfair...

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what kind of respectable newpaper puts local celebrity divorce proceedings on its front page? in addition, the toronto star's new ad campaign "ask why" is apparently the same slogan that enron used. anyways i have been phasing the toronto star out of my life over the last few months.

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maple leaf tickets sold out pretty fast today. at least the good games seemed to have. i didn't check to see if columbus tickets were still available. oh well. i've sort of soured on the idea of paying money to see professional sports. probably 7 of the last 10 professional sporting events i've seen in the past couple of years came via free tickets. so if you have free tickets...more on not

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bye bye waterloo. not a fan of the city itself. i don't think i could live here full time. keeping it real. the ceo and founder of my waterloo based $15 B US market cap company was spotted eating a $5 lunch at a chinese restaurant frequented by students. the funny thing is that he would be hard pressed to find a $20 lunch in this city... the bankers of this world would have a hard time

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i have personally got at least 5 people interested in watching the movie "snakes of a plane". i first saw the trailer before i saw pirates. it is for sure going to be #1 at the box office this weekend. and i think the only reason i and other people want to see it is because of the title. its probably going to be one of those movies where it is so bad its good. for all those people (there

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blogging from work... (during lunch!)wal mart. don't shop there if you don't like them. a lot of people complain about wal mart and their "abusive" labour practices or their ability to push less efficient mom and pop stores out of business. but the silent majority of people support walmart because they continue to shop there. wal mart took in 321 billion! US dollars in revenue last year.

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a good charity is well managed, has low expenses and has major impact.i like bill and melinda gates foundation. i think working for them/with them would be intellectually stimulating. you get to work with very smart people in trying to solve the world's health problems. in addition to this, they have a huge challenge in trying to manage and distribute the money. something that requires

epnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1154537683335660122006-08-02T12:42:00.000-04:002006-08-02T12:54:43.373-04:00

tour de france winner floyd landis' 2nd test sample should be tested by saturday and will be the final say on whether he used performance enhancing drugs.my question is why don't we let professional athletes take drugs? olympic athletes or amateur athletes - no - that would be against the spirit.mark mcguire did steroids. barry bonds did something. jason giambi did something and then got cancer

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ever since working at hydro one, looking at electricty demand patterns has amused me.anyways we've already beat the demand record today and its not even the peak yet. avoid elevators and subways....

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i was cleaning out my hotmail inbox, and i had an emails from 2002 in it.the oldest saved email i have on record is in my hotmail account dated august 20, 1999.

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"Some Liberals have argued privately that Volpe's campaign took a fatal blow with the loss of Karygiannis."when you have karygiannis the strong armed crook who represents my riding and volpe the crook who calls for government accountability while accepting larger campaign donations from children... your campaign was already doomed... as for jimmy k.. the people involved in the sponsorship scandal

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much criticism has been leveled at the canadian government at the so called "slow" evacuation of canadians from lebanon. while the people being evacuated are understandably under a lot of stress, much their criticisms against the evaculation sound annoying and ungrateful. i'm thinking, maybe we should have left them there. props to the people who praised and were grateful to the evacuation

epnnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1153448831040182942006-07-20T22:24:00.000-04:002006-07-20T22:27:11.090-04:00

its been raining a lot here in waterloo so my front lawn has literally 50 frogs on it. everytime i walk by on the path, the frogs scatter in random directions. now i'm scared to walk out my front door because i don't want any frogs to jump on me...on a random note, i like the blue jays this year. i think they are going to make the playoffs.

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Quote from BBC news article on the restaurant Hooters"The company employs 25,000 people including 15,000 "Hooters Girls" and has been heavily criticised for exploiting attractive women. But on its website the firm says such claims are "as ridiculous as saying the NFL exploits men who are big and fast". It adds: "Hooters Girls have the same right to use their natural female sex appeal to earn a

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I have visited 16 of the 812 in 5 of the 137 states represented. They add sites yearly. I will make it my life goal to visit 100 sites. "The World Heritage List includes 812 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value."Canada (2) Canadian Rocky Mountain ParksHistoric District of

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hot dog eating contest = haha rest of world who is starving. we have a lot of food in america and are going to rub it in your face in a pointless display of gluttony.am i paranoid? i wipe my mouse when someone touches it. i've seen call centres though, they wipe their whole desktops with company provided antibacterial wipes everytime a shift changes.i got a new composite hockey stick, the bauer

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since the world cup semifinals are beginning in 10 minutes, my picks are portugal and italy solely based on the fact that i think college st in toronto would be an interesting place if those two teams played in the finals. its been pointed out that whoever i pick loses. by this logic, we might get to see a final featuring a ww2 rematch in which germany destroys france...lol

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ghana is going to win tomorrow

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hockey night in canada commentators - bob cole and harry neale really piss me off. they have no clue what's going on and they keep talking. viewers at home have a better idea of what's happening on the ice.

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i'm cheering for south korea in the world cup. i know its a long shot, but i'll even take them as my pick to win the world cup.mariah carey is coming to toronto. by the time i looked for tickets all thats left was $100 seats on the 3rd level at air canada centre with a side view of the stage. you could watch the raptors for $12 from those seats... hopefully someone will somehow acquire free

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edmonton is coming back. they were down 2-0 against the sharks in the 2nd round before they came home. much has been made about edmonton losing their #1 goalie rolston. rolston is a 37 year old goalie who has bounced from team to team throughout his career. he has no stanley cups, or even significant accomplishments. he has played a few months of good hockey, but losing rolston can't be that

epnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1149645977544118252006-06-06T21:55:00.000-04:002006-06-06T22:06:17.563-04:00

there was a car in front of me and some jackass decides to tailgate me. so the tailgater decides to go around me, cut in front of another car and then gun it down a little bit of open road. anyways the best part is... a cop comes out and pulls him over. bad things happen to assholes. nice.a lot has been written about the terrorist suspects arrested in the toronto area last week. george bush

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i generally consider myself liberal in my views. i believe if any one group – the right or left is in power too long, it screws things up. for example in france, the left has created a socialist country that doesn't adapt. they have high unemployment and angry members of the right wing are joining nationalist groups and which are openly racist. on the other hand, if the right wing is in power too

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i read eric's schlosser's fast food nation - 6/10. interesting read about how much crap goes into the cows that we eat. meat eating is potentially dangerous because of this. the funny thing is learned is that mc donald's probably has the safest beef around because of the stringent standards they impose on their suppliers. its also interesting how fast food has become a part of the american

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skype is so amazing. for the cost of a mic and headphones ($4.99) you can call any phone in north america for free using your computer and internet connection. i talked to j yesterday using this, but it came out to like $2/min, since she was busy. doh. i need to talk for 500 minutes, then i could get the cost down to $0.01 per minute. so by offering voip services for free, did skype just

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so a bunch of people at work are going to the cottage for the long weekend. i find this kind of funny, since living in waterloo is like being at the cottage all week. the best one is this guy from belleville, who's going to the cottage to get away. me - "you mean you're going home for the weekend?"i went 1-3 in picking winning hockey teams for the nhl 2nd round. i'm 6-6 overall. i'm going to

epnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1147829301274015772006-05-16T21:26:00.000-04:002006-05-16T21:28:21.303-04:00

technically working in waterloo is like working as a consultant - the job with travel that everyone seems to want. i leave toronto sunday, travel to waterloo, come back to toronto on friday.

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is it ok to eat food bought from the dollar store? this dollar store is a no name dollar store – not the name brand dollar store - dollarama. the food was brand name – glosette and hershey bars. i was looking for batteries at the dollar store and i ended up picking up a bunch of candies. since everything else in the dollar store seems to be of questionable quality, i can only wonder about the

epnnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1147398690087520812006-05-11T21:41:00.000-04:002006-05-11T21:55:33.220-04:00

i started a delicious site. its actually pretty good. you can tag and story all your links.http://del.icio.us/epnepn

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i played my first round of golf in a long time this weekend. averaged triple boget every hole. on a par 3 course. also got to dragonboat twice, played hockey, helped j move furniture. now my body is hurting like crazy. i think i'm also joining a frisbee league and toastmasters - you know to entertain myself in waterloo...

epnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1146703603819569992006-05-03T20:37:00.000-04:002006-05-03T20:46:43.836-04:00

anyone giving away a small tv? i'm also looking for a bike. everyone bikes in waterloo. it looks like fun. saves on $1/L gas too.

epnnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1146539033727218442006-05-01T23:01:00.000-04:002006-05-01T23:03:53.750-04:00

edmonton is my team. so is colorado. i'm so embarrassed that i didn't stick with edmonton when i was picking teams to win in the nhl playoffs 1st round. i hope people don't think i abandon people in need.

epnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1146530441536267442006-05-01T20:30:00.000-04:002006-05-01T20:40:41.553-04:00

so i'm here in waterloo, ontario and finally got internet. i was going crazy because i couldn't check my mail and surf the web yesterday. anyways waterloo reminds me of mountain view, california. sparse city with lots of greenery. high tech companies. lots of residential, 15 min of rush hour, lots of people jogging outside. i'm only on day 2, but i think i'll survive here for the summer. td

epnnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1145850189063838112006-04-23T23:41:00.000-04:002006-04-24T16:18:15.690-04:00

thank you for smoking - 8/10. hilarious and witty. ep & n give it 2 thumbs up.anyways sorry for not saying anything of substance. let's just say - brevity is the soul of wit.

epnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1145643391617691412006-04-21T14:11:00.000-04:002006-04-21T14:16:31.653-04:00

my 1st round nhl playoff picsottawa, montreal, new jersey, buffalodetriot, colorado, calgary, san jose

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today was a strange in that numerous random people approached us/me. how could we say no to frisbee with random people. then after i worked out, i was walking outside in shorts, and some girl says "nice calves". i was very confused for a while... like did she just complement my calves? maybe she liked them because i have hairless legs? had i had time to size her up, i might have returned

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everyone should get a designated personal consultant. in business school you learn a bunch of techniques - managing people, leadership, managerial decision making, but its extremely difficult to apply it in your life and in business. you read so many examples in the newspaper about managerial screw ups because people just didn't see what their problems are. on the other hand it is easier to

epnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1145220882244935462006-04-16T16:48:00.000-04:002006-04-16T16:54:42.263-04:00

i've been walking around the house and trying to study at the same time. i tempted to say - screw it, buts its due diligence - the day before an exam you have to study no matter what.so last week it took me 10 minutes to remember the combination to my lock, even though i've had it for 10 years and i use it at least 3 weekly. it was so weird.

epnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1144898506252602832006-04-12T23:20:00.000-04:002006-04-12T23:21:46.283-04:00

21st out of 3500 and 160th out of 3500 in online poker tournaments. anyone want to fund me for the world series of poker.yes i should be studying

epnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1144527904974443332006-04-08T16:23:00.000-04:002006-04-08T16:25:05.000-04:00

the world health organization seems to agree with my march 2 entry.

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a brief update, gladwell is a much better speaker than writer.

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malcolm gladwell is speaking in the atrium. although i was somewhat critical of both of his works - the tipping point and blink, i wish i wasn't in class listening to everyone's favourite engineering economics prof - bb speak.on a side note, doesn't gladwell look like sideshow bob?

epnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1143668517912471952006-03-29T16:26:00.000-05:002006-03-29T16:41:57.940-05:00

the recent tim horton's ipo is hilarious if you are a bank or institutional investor. the ipo is such a good scamfirst the ibank screws wendy's by selling it for less than what the market will pay - hence the huge stock price jump on the first day. then the institutional investors dump thi at its high to the public and small investors, making a quick profit. this drives the market down and

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symanticsshooting deer, moose, bear, bird = hunting.shooting/clubbing baby seal = slaughtering or harvestingcalling killing baby seals a hunt is like reffering to cattle farmers as a cow hunters

epnnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1143480997998876552006-03-27T12:34:00.000-05:002006-03-27T12:36:38.036-05:00

15 minutes of yoga is really hard. new respect for people who do yoga...

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my "sin" of choice is gambling. some people always want to go drinking. i don't understand it. gambling is so much better. from now on everytime someone says "let's go drinking", i'm going to insist on gambling instead. for instance drinking you take out $50 and your end of the night expected value is $0. you get a good buzz, talk to strange women and the next day you feel like crap. on

epnnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1143068027131800502006-03-22T17:50:00.000-05:002006-03-22T17:53:47.156-05:00

the mba program works as follows: the lower your gpa, the more and better job offers you get. maybe its because people with lows gpas are fighters.. or maybe its because gpa has no correlation to jobs. anyways this is all good news because my gpa goes down every quarter. i think next year the job offers will start rolling in...

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is anyone interested in renting my place at college and spadina (kensington market) for the summer ( may - aug) ?

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life is hilarious because. today i walk into the gym change room. guess who's standing naked right at the entrance. one of my profs.one of my group members thinks we perform well as a team, even though every assignment completed by this group is below the class average. he wants me to work with him in an assignment in which we can pick our own groups. i need a way to nicely tell this guy - "

epnnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1142020523479614742006-03-10T14:54:00.000-05:002006-03-10T14:55:23.503-05:00

life is hilarious. this is a good thing

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if the canadian government really cares about helping poor countries, they should stop immigration from these countries. this sounds like something coming from the far right, but i'm actually saying it from the left. by allowing immigration, canada picks off the best, smartest and most educated people from poor countries. while these people get "better" lives in canada, the poor countries

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no longer a fan of the toronto star. i get paper copies of all 3 major canadian dailies at school, and in the beginning i stuck to reading just the toronto star. i viewed the star as a liberal newspaper for the people, and myself as a man of the people. i started reading the globe for its business section. then for some reason they stopped providing the star for a week. now that the star is

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the canadian men's hockey team lost, no surprise considering they lookand play like crap. whatever. my question is why is wayne gretzky the "executive director" of team canada. what exactly does that mean? in hockey there is a coach, general manager, vp operations... but executive director? and what exactly does wayne gretsky do? he basically pick the personel. so his is a human resource

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my prof gave me a bad participation mark, a mark lower than people who don't show up to class or don't participate all all. participation mark is probably somewhat random at best. but historically bad marks have been somewhat correlated with bad future employment. anyways, being a spiteful person, i got my revenge on the professor during course evaluations. not only did i give him the lowest

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david emerson is a prostitute, blonde bimbo and a slut for leaving the liberal party to join the conservatives. i just want to make sure he gets the same treatment as when belinda stronach changed parties earlier this year.

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right wing european newspapers are idiotsi am a supporter of freedom of speech and believe just because people don't like your opinion you should still be able to publish it - provided it doesn't violate hate crime laws. i also support the european newspapers in their belief that free speech should not be silenced by protesters or groups with sketchy records on civil liberties.while depecting the

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happy chinese new year!anyone interested in a new pair (no tags) of men mavi jeans. size 32x30. dark blue. i don't like the cut - too baggy. $20 or best offer.

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the election results are probably the best possible outcome. it was time for change. the liberal government was getting old and tired. the conservatives have a bunch of new ideas and directions that will be kept in check because of their minority standing.the liberal set back is a good thing. its a chance for them to reorganize and find a new leader. i think bob rae is an excellent candidate.

epnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1138071327899906882006-01-23T21:49:00.000-05:002006-01-23T21:55:27.920-05:00

election day. i previously expressed my support for the green party, but to make it official, epn and the editorial board on this site endorse the green party. one could say that they won my endorsement because the only person (ajk) who has for my vote was running for the green party. in fact he asked for my vote before the election was even called.freakonomics - steven levitt, 7/10. my high

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nail in the coffin for the liberals. as if the the rcmp deciding to launch an investigation on the liberals during the campaign wasn't enough. when members of the liberal government start getting sued by famous hockey players.... its about over. i can understand shane doan's timing. he's from stephen harper country - small town alberta. what a good time to get even with an enemy.

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for those of you who don't know, ajay krishnan (U of T eng sci, comp) is running for the green party in the upcoming federal election. if you don't know who you are going to vote for, consider voting green. check out his website here.

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if canada somehow manages to get electoral reform and single transferable vote like in australia, this is how i would vote.1. green2. ndp3. conservative4. liberal5. bloci'm a traditional liberal, but note that i would support the conservatives over the liberals. i'm a fiscal conservative and social liberal who likes jack layton and some of his ideas. anyways conservative leader stephen harper

epnnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1136743224372658852006-01-08T12:52:00.000-05:002006-01-08T13:00:24.410-05:00

barbarians at the gate, 8/10 - a must read for anyone who is interested in business. well known in mba circles, it chronicles the takeover rjr nabisco in1980s and makes me wish i was a banker in the 80s..i also read a couple of recent best sellers with not so good resultsthe tipping point, 4/10 - gladwell spends 300 pages describing the tipping point, a simple concept that could be explained

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this is good. a mother turned in her 17 year old son who somehow managed to acquire an ak47. i'm tired to hearing mothers of arrested kids say "he was a good boy", or "he would never use a gun". i'm also tired of the race card - "they would have never arrested my ak47 toting kid if he was white". yeah whatever.the black community is making accusations of racism because the governments were

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re: rcmp investigation on ralph goodale for alledgely tipping bay street traders in regards to the income trust annoucement. as you know there was large trading volume in the income trusts a few hours before the annoucement.i'm a first year mba student with little knowledge of sales and trading or the intricacies of hedge funds. i read the news regularly. my dad is a retired engineer who

epnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1135736367580111212005-12-27T21:17:00.000-05:002005-12-27T21:19:27.606-05:00

fashion question - are double brested suits completely out of style? like could i get away with wearing one?

epnnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759186.post-1135542887626716902005-12-25T15:28:00.000-05:002005-12-25T15:34:47.673-05:00

merry christmas everyone. some people might take offense. they shouldn't. i don't take offense if someone wishes me well on holidays that i don't observe. feel free to wish me happy st patrick's day, happy john de baptiste day, happy independence day or happy yom kippur.

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too much buffets and too much eating out. sake 7.5/10 - japanese buffet at pacific mall. good food for good value. all you can eat dinner for $12.99 on weekdays and i think the food quality is higher than places like star wok buffet.

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chronicles of narnia - the lion the witch and the wardrobe 7/10, is a pretty good movie. i noticed that we were the oldest people in the theatre. actually that might not be true, parents were sitting with their kids. a lot of kids. there were times during the movie where i thought something bad was going to jump out of the wardrobe... but then i thought - this is a kids movie, that can't

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next year i'm going to write and mail christmas cards. its a good networking tool and good way to keep in touch, especially with random colleagues from my old work.anyways - things i learned at the interview i had yesterday. it probably didn't go too well. prepare to stretch the truth. yeah.... obviously you can't lie about your credentials, or experiences. but about your feelings - stretching

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