The Reason
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support,
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Soup Profiles 
We may come from different backgrounds, be of different races, speak different languages and have different interests but at the end of the day, we have all ended up in the same bowl of soup. As we expand into our latest wing, the soup blog, let us introduce our resident bloggers.
Chief Editor:
thesoupistooboss - Oversees the day to day operations of the soup
US Correspondent:
thesoupistooxxx - Based in Annapolis, thesoupistooxxx provides insight into the workings of the American society for our predominant Asian base.
Legal Correspondent:
thesoupistoosweet - A future legal eagle in the making.
Finance Correspondent:
thesoupistoofumo - Get a bigger picture of what's happening in the markets around you.
IT Correspondent:
thesoupistookinky - Our resident IT guy. Able to blog anywhere with an EEE PC permanently by his side.
Teenage Writer:
thesoupistooid - As we pass from our turbulent adolescence into adulthood, thesoupistooid seeks to keep us informed of the latest happenings with today's youth.
Anime Host:
thesoupistoogayy - Wondering what anime to watch? Or what's going to be released? Let our anime host tell you more.
Uncle Agony:
thesoupistoosalty -
Are you feeling blue? Is work getting you down? Are you having troubles with your relationship? Look no further than thesoupistoosalty and allow him to provide you with some of his invaluable advice.
Fitness Guru:
thesoupistoopradz -
Equipped with a state-of-the-art gymnasium, weekly workouts are in order.
Illustrator:
thesoupistooheng -
ze artistic flavour is brought out by the one and only.
We would also like to introduce our lovely covergirls! Girls like them are as hard to come by as it gets and we're thanking our lucky soups that they're here to stay. Lets us introduce, the beautiful, the stunning and the sexy CHENG, NETTE, AND EMMI!
*applause*
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
How rational are we as humans? Logically speaking, we should strive to be as rational as possible since it would tend towards the most probable favourable outcome based on the individual's perception of risk against reward. Yet, there are so many situations in which we fail to be as rational as we possible should be.
The study of economics and risk management to an extent is all about rational behaviour. And so is the concept of an efficient market. Still, has history not shown us that the most rational action does not always occur? Even at our level, on a more personal basis, sometimes you know that you should or shouldn't do something but yet you still go against what you think is right. Is it an emotional condition? Or is it something Soros calls "imperfect understanding". We simply do not understand enough to make a decision with enough certainty.
On a social level, if everyone were perfectly rational, it would be a really boring place. The upside would be that crime rates would be likely to fall in a rational society since the penalty of a crime typically outweighs the gains. Rationality is likely to be clouded by hope, emotions and/or despair. Gambling is in itself not a very rational thing to do by the laws of probability. The chance of you winning is so slim and the continuous "investment" in a 4D ticket or its equivalent is likely to set you back more than you gain. Even so, the snaking queues outside the Singapore Pools outlets when there's a big prize of $10million occurs all the time! Yet, when you think about it rationally, a bigger prize results in a larger participation which effectively means that more people will strike the top prize. Hence, after the pie is divided, the prize money is not what it promises to be.
Irrationality, though, is not always truly bad. Then again, rationality is a perception so 2 rational people may have varying degrees of rationality. Hmmm do I make sense? Is it better to be perfectly rational or does irrationality have its perks? David fighting Goliath was not a rational thing to do yet the improbable came true and his legacy has been left behind.
thesoupistoofumo
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