mourning for fifty dollars

Dear fifty,

You were gone in a jiff.. we didn't even have the chance to meet...
If I knew, I wouldn't have withdrawn you... rousing you from your deep sleep...
If I had spent you, then I wouldn't need to grief...
But precisely it's because you were lost, without an exchange of neither goods nor service..
That it made me feel a little pissed!

But alas, the bank called and said...
They did a tally, and there's no mistake...
There's nary an extra 50 in their ATM, or so they state..
But what if, someone else got that extra 50 that belonged to me by mistake..
Oh... but there's no evidence to back up my stake!

And so, I must accept my fate...
That a fifty was lost through the machine's mistake...
So a lesson is learnt, through this event's wake...
Never withdraw large sums on weekends from the machines, otherwise I can only wish you... errr... good luck mate!

down down down

Whoa, its been a depressing week with the worldwide financial markets heading south. Just imagine, for the week alone, investors lost about $2.4 trillion. Read here.
Someone was commenting, what is the 700 billion bail out as compared to these losses in trillions?

On a closer note, my funds have also been diving drastically. This week alone, the value has dropped another 10% as compared to last week. Total paper loss is 50% in total as compared to when the funds were invested last year.

Recession has also been declared in Singapore. Singapore is the first Asian country to enter recession. This is a first that we can do without! But, in times like this, I think we should have seen recession coming...

However, here is an article that makes recession doesn't sound so gloomy.