That much closer to 500K!
Posted on May 6, 2006 by Brian under Poker.
I can’t believe it. Me, the guy that gets knocked out before break and never wins anything beat out 1400 plus people to win a seat at a 1 million dollar tourney. I played my best poker ever tonight and I myself could not believe it. I thought I was going to have a heart attack during the last 60 some odd people. Then when it was down to the last 5 I thought I was going to piss my pants. Ching was griping the back of my chair trying to tell me to “go all in, fold, just call, your in position”. It was stressful; I couldn’t believe how much I was stressing. I was sweating my ass off I was so nervous. But I did it, I got my seat. Now the only problem is the dammed tourney is on Saturday the 13th. So either it will be one game that they will have everyone at or it will be several small games that will culminate into one game for the big prize. I’m hoping that it will not be during the party, otherwise we will be loading UB on Ching’s parent’s computer and I will be playing while everyone else is partying.Â
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Aeon Flux Movie
Posted on May 6, 2006 by Ching under Movies.
This is a conversation Brian and I had right before watching the movie Aeon Flux in the bedroom.
“I heard this movie was really bad,” I told Brian.
“The story is supposed to suck,” he said.
“Why? Because they deviated from the cartoon?”
“Pretty much. The only thing they kept were the characters. They created their own story. They would’ve been better off putting her in the original costume.”
“You’re such a perv,” I told him. “That wouldn’t have helped the story any.”
“No, but more people would’ve watched it.”
It wasn’t as bad as I thought. Brian fell asleep halfway through it, but I managed to stay awake and finish the movie. That was kind of odd because usually I’m the one who zonks out. I think it has to do having received full body massage earlier today. I had a waxing (face and bikini) and facial appointment so I got it him a massage appointment at the same time so he wouldn’t get bored while waiting for me.
Wasn’t that just thoughtful of me?
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Pet Insurance
Posted on May 5, 2006 by Ching under Babies.
My baby Molly is officially insured! The paperwork arrived today. I kind of wish that the other animals were insured now too, though.
A few days ago Brian noticed that Oscar’s eyes were filled with puss and gunk so he took him to the vet. It turns out he has an eye infection. Thankfully it isn’t contagious to humans. However, we are very concerned about the others.
We have some eye gel for Oscar which we have to give him in the morning and at night. He doesn’t like it very much so I have to hold him down while Brian applies the eye gel. I had no idea how strong he was until now. Despite his skinny frame it takes all of my weight to keep him from escaping.
Anyway, he needs treatment for a couple of weeks and then hopefully things will be back to normal. It’s kind of a pain to treat him.
As for Molly she seems pretty healthy. She is now 2 lbs and 13 ounces. That’s 10 more ounces than she weighed last week! Brian says that she is everyone’s favorite puppy at the vet. No wonder she is such a diva!
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My Teammates Rock
Posted on May 4, 2006 by Ching under School.
Not only did we take first in Market Share and second in Cumulative Net Income and Stock Price but we also got 100 in our presentation! Perry’s comments are as follows:
Team 1D,
I have graded your final presentation and want to give you feedback on it. Please see my comments below.
1. Initial Strategy In beginning your presentation with your mission statement and three-point Our Strategy slide you made your initial strategy immediately clear. Moreover the explanation that you offered for why you developed the strategy that you did (based on your collective, personal backgrounds) showed that you had thought deeply about what your strategy should be and developed a strategy to which you all were committed. This level of analysis, to realize why you developed the strategy that you did, was remarkable.
2. Strategy Change Your discussion of how your strategy changed during the simulation was, for me, the best part of an outstanding presentation. You did an excellent job of illustrating your early strategy and talking about how it changed. In the How our Strategy Changed section of your presentation, you did a good job of succinctly explaining how and why your strategy changed overall. But I was most impressed by your self-identification of the strategic drift that you experienced as a team. This self-identification again showed that you had thought deeply about your simulation experience and analyzed yourself. This was simply outstanding.
3. Teamwork It seemed that you worked well together as a team and you did a good job describing the communication norms that you developed.
4. Decision Making Excellent. You did a good job of describing both your decision-making process and structure.
5. Key Strategic Moves The secrets of your success you offered seemed right on-target. It seemed that the eight factors that you listed as the secrets of your success were the factors that indeed contributed most to the success you experienced. When I saw your slide it seemed to me that every other team could have learned from your experience. You made a lot of good strategic moves.
6. Current Position You did a good job of indicating where your firm currently stands overall in the simulation and where each of your vehicles stands.
7. Would Have Done Differently The three points that you suggested where you would have made changes if you had it to do over again (financing stock vs. bonds, miscalculating demand, and COGS) were right on-target. I think these are exactly the three areas of concern in which different decisions made have resulted in better outcomes.
8. Company Future You clearly showed that now, at the end of the simulation, you are in a great position as a firm. Based on your position, I agree with your assessment that I think that you could have been able to takeover the industry leader position in stock price and cumulative net income. Moreover I thought that your proposals for the future were strong. You did not simply state that we will continue doing what we have been doing. You showed that you had thought about your future and you offered specific, innovative ideas for your future. I particularly liked your plan to acquire firm E.
9. Lessons It seems that you really engaged the simulation and learned a lot from it. The lessons you offered followed perfectly from your experience, and again, you demonstrated that you had thought about your experience and extrapolated from it in developing your lessons. You did a good job.
10. Questions You did a good job of answering my questions.
Simply put your presentation was outstanding. You exceeded all expectations that I had for the final presentation. Therefore I gave you a 100 for your Case Presentation score.
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Our MGMT 681 Group
Posted on May 2, 2006 by Ching under Moblog, School.
I’m not this short really. I’m just hunched over. I promise!
This group totally rocked the MGMT 681 simulation. We dominated in the area of market share and we were leading in stock price. We ultimately finished second in stock price and cumulative net income, and then first in market share but I think had the simulation continued we would’ve blasted everyone right out of the water.
Our presentation was beautiful! Jen even did a commercial for our company. It was outstanding! Except for the minor technical difficulties in the beginning I think it went well.
I don’t think I’ll ever get over my presentation anxiety, though. I’ll always get the jitters no matter what.
Cheers to an awesome group!
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