The other day, someone told me that after watching Avatar, there is people out there very unhappy with their own real lives because there is not much beauty or colors as in the movie, of course I completely disagree but these guys have found a solution anyway…

Too much free time (as usual)…

“While my boss is acting like is paying me good money … I will act as if I were doing a good job. ” – a popular saying

via Microsiervos

And if you are working and think you are not well paid at least I hope you can listen this amazing session from The Requesters on the meantime…

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” – Walter Lippmann

This quote was sent by a friend in the same email as the news

What do you think?

I saw this sticker inside a car in Berlin and found the quote on it very cool…

“Work is For People Who Don’t Know How to Fish”

My father use to say another good one: “If you want to fish you have to dip your butt”

Ah! If you like photography, my girlfriend took this pictures when we where to Berlin…

  Listening: mp3 Editors – Road To Nowhere (Napster Live Session)

At lunch about a month ago, Chou, a friend of mine (an investment banker) asked me: “My friend, what are your future goals/plans?”
I remember replying immediately: “I want to live on the coast, have a small boat and spend most of the day fishing”

Then he told me this parable:

An investment banker was at the pier of a small coast village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.
Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The fisherman replied, only a little while.

The investment banker then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish?

The fisherman said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs.

The investment banker then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a nap with my wife, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my friends, I have a full and busy life.”

The investment banker scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to a big city where you will run your expanding enterprise.”

The fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”

To which the investment banker replied, “5-10 years.”

The fisherman asked: “But what then?”

The investment banker laughed and said that’s the best part. “When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.”

The fisherman asked: “Millions.. Then what?”

The banker said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a nap with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your friends. You’ll have a full and busy life.”

Take it easy man, take it easy!