I watched yesterday evening a movie about Nick Leeson, the guy that brought Barings Bank down in 1995 (when he was 28 years old). The movie was awful and based on his book Rogue Trader but the story is quite charming. On February 23, 1995, Nick Leeson hopped on a plane to some exotic vacation leaving behind a GBP 827MM hole in the Barings balance sheet …… I was disturbed that, just before the credits, the authors felt the need to write that poor Nick was diagnosed with cancer shortly after entering jail and that his wife left him as if they were trying to show that misbehaving is invariably sanctioned by bad Karma. Which is a lie…there is indeed a very poor correlation between the people’s level of ethics and kindness and their destiny, they often outlive anybody…. You are actually a good application of my theory and Nick leeson survived, remarried and just wrote a book to teach me how to cope with stress.
On awful people, I suggest you go on this webpage: – given the sensitivity of friendster f**ers as shown yesterday please note as a disclaimer that this is not my personal list (I have my own local list 
as you imagine that includes among other Pierre R., Yagnya L., Jack M., Mathieu D. and will publish it on a later blog). I am just astonished that Betty Ford made it. Also I think that having Nick played by Ewan McGregor (even fat) is unfair as the guy seems probably much more charming than he is. I will end my chapter on Nick by saying that he used to be introduced as “the only man in the world ever to write a check and make the bank bounce!".
On a lighter note, I find amazing that EBay has its second-quarter profit rose 53% on sales the same month I get in a shopping spree on e-bay (so much for my roommate Kevin D. sarcastic comments on that topic). Yes, yes the market did very well today…so much for the advice of the “unfortunate subject”. Also I’d like you to check out my buddy: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=12891853.... I wonder where I was, what I was doing and how I could miss that…. If only Kevin D. would pay the cable bill, I would have watched the Bachelorette like everyone else.
Anyway I think, you people need to get out of your house more often and I suggest you go to this link. Talking about DC Socialites I have to get ready to go to Results. I propose a fun game which would be to finish the following sentence: “going to the gym is like….”. And I start: going to the gym is like going to the slaughter house and watching the pigs try to escape. On this charming note.I leave you. Kisses.
Regarding the other Tristan, could someone please explain to me what a "Reality Show Actor" is? Isn't that a bit oxymoronic?
Personally, I prefer this Tristan to that one. I just wish he would stop looking at the stock ticker every day. Who buys insurance companies and then obesses about how they trade day-to-day? A World-Banker, I suppose.
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Posted by: Kevin | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at 04:22 PM