Wife is like Tornado

Q. How is your wife like a tornado?
A. There's a lot of sucking and blowing, but in the end you lose it all.

5 Languages of Love (Part 3)

Acts of Service

Sometimes simple chores around the house can be an undeniable expression of love. Even simple things like laundry and taking out the trash require some form of planning, time, effort, and energy. Doing humble chores can be a very powerful expression of love and devotion to your mate.

Very often, both pairs in a couple will speak to the Acts of Service Language. However, it is very important to understand what acts of service your mate most appreciates. Even though couples are helping each other around the house, couples will still fight because the are unknowingly communicating with each other in two different dialects.

For example, a wife may spend her day washing the cars and walking to dog, but if her husband feels that laundry and dishes are a superior necessity, he may feel unloved, despite the fact that his wife did many other chores throughout the day. It is important to learn your mate’s dialect and work hard to understand what acts of service will show your love.

It is important to do these acts of service out of love and not obligation. A mate who does chores and helps out around the house out of guilt or fear will inevitably not be speaking a language of love, but a language of resentment. It’s important to perform these acts out of the kindness of your heart.

Demonstrating the acts of service can mean stepping out of the stereotypes. Acts of service require both mates to humble themselves into doing some chores and services that aren’t usually expected from their gender. However, these little sacrifices will mean the world to your mate, and will ensure a happy relationship.

Eagleboy's score on this: 3rd (ie my 'quite important' love language).

If you are thinking of loving me, you can start with washing my car regularly on a weekly basis.

Emptiness

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

Maxwell Maltz

Language Barrier

One day, an "Ang Moh" from the USA arrived at KL Airport. After he checked out from the customs, he felt he needed to go to the toilet, so he looked for one. When he found the toilet, there was a lady sitting at the entrance.

When he was about to enter the toilet, the lady stopped him and asked for forty cents in Cantonese ("sey kok"). The Ang Moh wondered why in MALAYSIA they have to "see the cock" before entering the toilet? So he said "no" but the lady insisted.

But lady still keep asking for forty cents in Cantonese. Since he had no choice, he took out his cock and showed it to her. The lady said "No! No!", "Duit, Duit!" (money in Malay), but the Ang Moh misunderstood again and thought that she said "Do it! Do it!"

So he asked,"Now? Here?" The lady replied "Yes, yes!" because she doesn't quite understand English. The Ang Moh thought that she wanted to have sex with him, so he stripped the lady and had sex with her.

The lady started screaming and shouted, "SAKIT! SAKIT!" (pain in Malay), and the Ang Moh thought it was "SUCK IT! SUCK IT!" he said "OK! I'll suck it for you" and he took her both breasts and suck them.

The lady again screamed "Oh, TUHAN!" (Oh, MY GOD.... in Malay). The Ang Moh misunderstood again. "Too HARD? OK, sweetheart, I'll be gentler a bit,"the Ang Moh replied.

Suddenly, a security guard walked by, so the lady shouted for help, "TOLONG! TOLONG, ENCIK!" The Ang Moh replied,"Not too long, just 6 inches only.

5 Languages of Love (Part 2)

Receiving Gifts

Some mates respond well to visual symbols of love. If you speak this love language, you are more likely to treasure any gift as an expression of love and devotion. People who speak this love language often feel that a lack of gifts represents a lack of love from their mate. Luckily, this love language is one of the easiest to learn.

If you want to become an effective gift giver, many mates will have to learn to change their attitude about money. If you are naturally a spender, you will have no trouble buying gifts for your mate. However, a person who is used to investing and saving their money may have a tough time adjusting to the concept of spending money as an expression of love. These people must understand that you are investing the money not in gifts, but in deepening your relationship with your mate.

The gift of self is an important symbol of love. Sometimes all your mate desires is for someone to be there for them, going through the same trials and experiencing the same things. Your body (not sex!) can become a very powerful physical symbol of love.

These gifts need not to come every day, or even every week. They don’t even need to cost a lot of money. Free, frequent, expensive, or rare, if your mate relates to the language of receiving gifts, any visible sign of your love will leave them feeling happy and secure in your relationship.

Eagleboy's score on this: 4th (ie it's my next least important love language).

But then again, that doesn't mean I don't appreciate a fine gift. Please keep them coming, okay?

Peace

"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace."

William E. Gladstone
1809-1888
British Statesman

Wall Street and Subprime

Wall Street's largest banks, brokers, hedge funds, 'Big Boys' are reeling from the worst housing disaster since the depths of the Great Depression! As U.S. real estate values nationwide continue to plunge, the first few dominos in a complex web of financial derivatives have already fallen - and this may be just the beginning.

During the recent boom-time in American housing markets, the titans of Wall Street lined up to feed at the money trough. Firms like Bear Stearns, Citigroup Inc., Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers Holdings and JP Morgan Chase jumped at the chance to underwrite and re-package mortgage-backed securities - an estimated $6 trillion worth!

But the plunging property markets in the U.S. have brought the chickens home to roost - and the odor is very foul indeed. U.S. home prices and the $6 trillion mortgage-backed securities market are locked in a downward death-spiral racing to the bottom, which is marked by growing foreclosures, defaults and bankruptcies.

The share of sub-prime loans entering foreclosure in the first quarter of 2007 was the highest in almost five years, and sub-prime late payments rose to nearly 14% - indicating many more foreclosures ahead. The result is massive write-offs of collateralized mortgage obligations and other debt-derivatives that are exploding like hand-grenades amid the sub-prime panic. For instance, Countrywide Financial Corp., the largest U.S. mortgage lender, admitted to $110 million of foreclosed real estate on its books at the end of March - up more than 300% in just three months.

All of this foreclosed property must then be dumped on an already oversupplied real estate market, depressing prices even further. The result is likely to be a domino effect of even more catastrophic losses in mortgage-backed derivatives held by Wall Street's firms and the hedge funds they finance.

Already, two hedge funds at Bear Stearns were on the brink of being liquidated thanks to crushing losses in a $20 billion portfolio of complex and risky mortgage-backed securities and derivatives - much of it the toxic sub-prime variety. But Bear Stearns isn't the first victim, and won't be the last by any means.

In fact since 2000, Wall Street has created more than $1.8 trillion of securities and complex derivatives backed by sub-prime mortgages. Many of these are illiquid securities, so Bear Stearns' problems may be only the tip of the iceberg!