Please please please

There is going to be a World Capital Markets Symposium this coming 10-11 August.

First time I saw it was in the newspapers and below is the list of the key note speakers:

I got pretty excited coz I just bought a Paul Krugman book and I've come across his name so many times in the newspapers...so you can only imagine how exciting it'll be to be able to meet the man in person! But I am also quite curious of Dr. Laura D'Andrea Tyson (economic adviser to Barack Obama and Bill Clinton) and Dr. Mark Mobius (considered to be one of the global leaders in the emerging market industry)...and I'm sure it goes without saying that all the others would be pretty damn amazing too. (You can click on the image if you want a more detailed description on the other speakers)



But then what a bummer coz it says:
Pssccht...that completely EXCLUDES me!






BUT today I just spoke to a friend and found out that she has a role in all of this. And so here is where the blog title comes to play....To that friend (her name shan't be stated just in case there are any other enthusiast out there who would ruin my chance at getting it), I'm blogging to show you how serious I am about it...(heheh maybe you didnt even need the convincing) ... I know its very highly unlikely to get one but please please please try and get an invitation =) =)
Heh Love you long time with or without the invitation xx


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Age, relatively

"The oldest rocks which have been found so far on Earth date to about 3.8 to 3.9 billion years ago" (Source). So I take it that the Earth must at least be 3.8 billion years old.

Thats all some fancy schmancy number unimaginable to us. But when you put a lil maths twist to it, the number becomes rather extraordinary. I wont bore you. I swear! Its only simple maths.

"DNA and fossil evidence indicates that modern humans originated in east Africa about 200,000 years ago" (Source).

Sooo if you put it together.....us modern humans have ONLY lived about 1/10,000 or 0.0001 of Earth's life. Thats like saying for the time of Earth's life, there could have be 1 x 10,000 of what we know of human history so far. TEN THOUSAND times of our whole human history!

2 things come to mind
1) We've got a long long way to go because our existence has been relatively short; or
2) Us humans are plain ol insignificant

And you know what else is fascinating? That the earliest fossil suggesting animals walked on legs date back to 570 million years ago (Source). We're a relatively new species.

And to think that we're so proud.
You know whats playing in my head right now...thoughts of high school and thoughts of seniors thinking pfft these juniors know nothing of whats install for them. Like 'yea thats right...you think you got life figured out? wait a couple hundred thousand years'



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Hey RS,

I miss slushies on a perfect afternoon.