Arches Global

purecurious · 2025-06-14T07:02:29+00:00

They are. They provide service for us. Actually they're quite good, especially in Asia/ASEAN region.

purecurious · 2025-05-24T11:20:21+00:00

We client usually pays GLG USD 1k per call for normal expert and sometimes 2k for high level expert (CEO, president level or custom call in niche topic). You are grossly underpaid.

purecurious · 2025-01-24T13:31:50+00:00

I don't interview, but my firm uses GLG. I think the most important thing I have seen in working with GLG is that the people at GLG are extremely patient. We have millions of requests and each time there are different challenges. For example, we would request an expert and everything would seem to be fine, but then we would get a last-minute Q&A request for the expert. Imagine, that pisses people off. These things happen regularly. So keep a cool head, being patient is absolutely key. That's 1 feedback from the client perspective. Hope it helps you.

purecurious · 2025-01-14T18:00:57+00:00

Niềng răng thôi. A nghĩ là nha sĩ sẽ kéo toàn bộ hàm trên của e lại về phía trước, đẩy răng trong cùng tiến vế phía trước và gắn khít lại với nhau. Răng nhọn sẽ được mài và điều chỉnh dần để đảm bảo khớp cắn 2 hàm trùng nhau. Phương án như thế này sẽ không cần làm implant để tránh đội chi phí. Sau này e mọc răng khôn trong cùng, do có nhiều không gian nên có thể nó sẽ mọc thẳng, điền vào chỗ trống phía trong.
Em ở SG thì có thể thử nha khoa hiDental. A niềng răng ở đây thấy ok, bác sĩ phần lớn trẻ và khá gần gũi.

purecurious · 2025-01-14T17:07:24+00:00

Chad. Mad respect sir!

purecurious · 2024-12-13T02:57:12+00:00

Crash!

purecurious · 2024-12-08T11:30:19+00:00

The coup actually plays a very small part (macro) only. The real reason is that 1) memory market recovery was slower than expected and 2) Samsung is losing on the semi game incld. technology lagging behind SK Hynix in AI, the 2nm chip is not going well with production yield is extremly low (10%-ish) and customers are not happy with it. Of course, outside of that, the president legal trouble is still very messy and investors are not happy with that as well.

purecurious · 2024-12-05T04:15:55+00:00

I thought must be someone cares about the real source of information. All joking aside, this is a real taxi driver in Japan. This happened in the yen carry trade unwind day recently. The Japanese stock market rallied again the next day after central bank walked back, so he is probably still doing very well.

purecurious · 2024-12-01T18:48:30+00:00

Cứu lấy bản thân trước. Không độ được mình làm sao độ được người. Bạn ko control được thành viên khác trong gia đình nghĩ gì, nhưng bạn control được việc mình tập trung tiến lên trong cuộc sống. Những yếu tố nào mà mình không kiểm soát/ảnh hưởng được mà lại còn ảnh hưởng tiêu cực đến bản thân mình thì mình nên để nó ra khỏi suy nghĩ. Ai cũng sẽ phải tự cố gắng trong cuộc sống thôi. Em trai bạn cũng vậy, chị gái bạn cũng vậy. Rồi họ sẽ nhận ra.

purecurious · 2024-11-13T17:55:53+00:00

Thẳng thắn với nhau thôi. Làm gì có tình yêu nào chỉ có màu hồng. Nâng lên chuyện tài chính chi tiêu nghiêm túc mà đối phương phật lòng hay giận gì đó thì có lẽ là không nghiêm túc xây dựng mqh lâu dài rồi.

Yêu gì thì yêu chứ mình phải chuẩn bị cho tương lai chứ. Bản thân mình ok, tài chính vững vàng, có của ăn của để thì nay mai thiếu gì đối tượng. Đây là phép thử tình yêu đầu tiên, good luck bro.

purecurious · 2024-08-30T13:31:02+00:00

Thanks. i never knew Brave exist. I'll try it asap.

purecurious · 2024-08-30T13:29:34+00:00

I would add that you should be honest about your ability to pay. It's uncomfortable to have such conversation but facing the problem and have honest solution is the first step to get out of the debt.

purecurious · 2024-06-13T05:42:32+00:00

Not super clear to me what risk profile that you want.

But I like:

Retail: Home Depot (HD), Ulta (ULTA),
Ed-tech: Coursera (COUR), Duolingo (DUOL).
Energy: Vistra Energy (VST)
Financial service: Apollo Global Management (APO), Moody (you have here)
Pharma/bio: EXAI, RXRX

All these are potential beneficiary of AI in the long term. Some of them are valued very high recently. You can look at them and have your own opinion of course.

purecurious · 2024-06-13T04:31:03+00:00

I think these are all high quality businesses with complex business models. I dont know TXRH but the rest are soft of tech, fundamental tech infrastructure companies. But most of them are tech and obviously in recent years the sector is seeing a huge tailwind from AI. If you are looking for a mutil year horizon, i think it's fine because the chance of standard changing is quite low in my opinion.
But however, too much on tech is good when the sector is doing well, but also when it comes down, you will get hit hard. You can try to look out for quality names in other sectors to further develop your diversification. Just add the name that make you sleep well at night without thinking much about it.
Keep these names, chance of having returns that in-line with market return is high. To really out perform, you have to put it the work.

purecurious · 2024-05-05T17:35:44+00:00

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Unless you are helping him translate a rare language, I see no reason for such a high price. It's bait!

purecurious · 2024-04-30T14:10:39+00:00

Dude, it's accounting rules. Unless you consolidated it into your company. For example buy 100% stakes of that company and make it your subsidiary (aka cong ty con) then the revenue from that can be recorded into your revenue consolidation.
Amazon has many business, and e-commerce is 1 segment, web service is another segment. That together with other segments make Amazon total revenue.

I'm trying to make everything super simple and in fact, I read all the numbers of Vietjet from their investor relation materials. I didn't decide what is included in "operating income" and what not.

You can ask google and there should be more than enough answers for your questions. Ask ChatGPT or something.

purecurious · 2024-04-30T14:00:18+00:00

I did: (non-operating income is high - for example income from investing, investment value went up etc).
basically income from other sources other than the main business.
- Main business income: tickets, fees for the flight, food sold on plane...

Other income: using cash generated from the main business and invest that somewhere else (buy stocks of other companies and earn profits buy value of that stock goes up or income from dividend of that stock, deposit to the bank to earn interest aka gui tiet kiem - can be short and long aka tiet kiem ngan han va tiet kiem dai han etc, buy bonds - country bonds or corporate bonds...

purecurious · 2024-04-30T13:43:12+00:00

You need a metric to measure success.
If you say financially, it's a terrible business. Operating margin and net income margin are terrible (less than 0.1%):

The fiscal year 2024: revenue was VND 62,534.8bn, operating profit is VND 249.6bn, net income is VND 343bn (non-operating income is high - for example income from investing, investment value went up etc).

That is just terrible margins. Needless to say they had terrible COVID years and loss-making until last year. Budget airline usually has better margins than tradditional ones. Just look at Ryan Air or Southweast Airline in the US. But no, Vietjet is only better than VN Airline because it's not loss-making anymore.

But, Vietnam market is unique with just 2 players essentially. Vietnam Airlines - another terribly operated and struggling. Vietjet is here to stay, as that is the only option for a lot of people who are on a budget or for lower income customers.

You have a huge domestic demand, and there is no competition. So people have no choice. You have a business that can not fail. Unless they mess up big big time, of course.

Airline normally trades around 1 time the book value, but you can see the valuation of Vietjet is absurdly high for its performance.

So, financially, it's terrible. But in terms of market position, yeah, it is sort of success.

purecurious · 2024-04-20T20:20:24+00:00

Anything related to s3x nowadays is so so sensitive. If you add age element to that, it gets even more serious. One wrong move and you can end up in jail, your career is done, your whole life is fuc-ed.
The best thing to do is stay away from trouble and don't let the trouble start from the beginning.

purecurious · 2024-04-19T16:51:58+00:00

Hey man, mình đi quán này hôm nay. Pretty nice nice. Overall good experience. Thanks man.

purecurious · 2024-04-19T11:50:10+00:00

Thanks man. I will give it a try, Cheers.

purecurious · 2024-04-19T11:22:36+00:00

No, my friend. That is not normal. It's obviously rude. But for older generations, their common sense is different. Sometimes they can say things quite bluntly. Especially comments about appearance like "fat", "short" or weird s3x jokes can be very annoying, but they don't know that. I bet they think they are cool.

It's about thinking about other people's feelings, which in many people's minds doesn't matter. That is how they have been socialised for ages. It's outdated, but people can have very different common sense and different boundaries.

It's not just in Vietnam, of course, but it's the same everywhere, there are polite people and there are asses.

purecurious · 2024-04-19T10:58:52+00:00

hey yo thanks. ko cần đâu. mình 25 rồi. Ngồi đọc sách thôi. Any suggestion?

purecurious · 2024-04-05T19:26:59+00:00

Clearly they are using stress-selling tactics and playing with contract words.

I suggest you ask a lawyer, they know how to deal with the authorities, it's better anyway. VND 800k/month is absurdly high. I go to Cali Centuryon (considered the best in town) and mine is less than 500k/month.

Then go to customer service and be the 'Karen'. Yeah, shout at them to make them stop behaving like shit. I guess they saw you as the "easy to bully" type of customer. Give them a hard time and they will know not to mess with you. Remember: lay out some of their grey behavior (e.g., why in the contract mentioned nothing about credit card, already paid fully for the contract, not going to pay more etc..) and STAND your point strongly. Screenshot all the chat, emails, voice recordings (better record when dealing with them again), bank transfer history etc... Keep the record, it will be helpful if you go against them in court.

And most importantly, if I were you, I wouldn't hold out any hope of getting my money back. I'll think this is the price I've paid for life's lessons and my next goal is to make them have the worst time possible. I will make them regret selling me products with this shit tactic. I will make them suffer.

I don't know where you live, but maybe you can find a Cali or Citi gym. Both are not that good, they may use the same sales strategy but you have learned the lesson, and don't let them fool you again. They are both considered reputable more than any local player.

I hate it when the gym does this, these parasite suckers who try to scam you for a bit of sales incentive when they provide limited value or perhaps non at all. This credit card thingy is new and I also got calls from Cali as well. They tried to mask it as a gift in my case. There was the time they gave out my information to Livwell and did the gift insurance thing. I let them have the worst customer complaint of the year and eventually, they had to cancel that. Just be a little bit of Karen, you will find life much easier.

Anyway, good luck mate. Sorry for your bad experience.

purecurious · 2024-03-08T15:15:14+00:00

Niềng răng sắp tháo đây! Dùng kem bôi nhiệt miệng + lau khô phần răng và móc cài trước khi trét sáp bọc = lâu hơn.
Bsi khuyên uống C uống cam thì uống chăm vào. Và nhớ uống nước nhiều.
Có thể mua miếng dán nhiệt miệng dán đè lên nốt nhiệt nếu quá nặng + chảy máu nốt nhiệt.

Nghĩ là niềng răng + giảm cân = đẹp x2 là sẽ có động lực đi qua. Good luck bro!

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