Sangreal

Transcending Business (Investments) and Art (Poems)

[AFC_Adi @AFC_Adi06]

Some clutch goals scored by Leo Trossard at Arsenal

[Jeong @datchuguyy]

“There was a time we had 90 million turnover and we had to pay back 22 million per year for the stadium, I couldn’t sleep because we had to qualify for the champions league to pay back the money. We had to sell our best players. Other clubs came in with lots of money but we were on the same level from 2007 to 2016”

Arsene Wenger

[wassieloyer @wassielawyer]

“Baby ah - we got BTO number”, she shouts from across the room.

The hairs on your skin shiver. Endorphins flood your brain. Your heart palpitates as it rapidly redirects blood to your half erect cock, quickly bringing it to full mast.

“What number?”, you ask cautiously, not wanting to get ahead of yourself.

“132” - she replies.

132. Out of a 976 unit development. 5 year MOP. Should be able to get mid-high floor. Without morning sun.

450 - 550k purchase price. 5% due now, the remaining 20% due on key collection.

Gahmen recently announced a new revitalisation programme for the area. New mall, new bicycle path, new MRT link.

Easy flip for 1m+ after 5 year MOP.

Finally the time has come for your ascension.

You gaze upon her, eyes filled with love. She has never looked so beautiful. Sitting there in her university T-shirt, phone in hand. Her red brown balayage hair pulled away from her acne scarred face in a low ponytail. You watch her pull a funny face as she updates her Instagram and besties Telegram group with a 5 second video.

Sure she’s a 5/10 by any objective measure. To anyone else, she is a mid SMU psychology student with questionable job prospects and bland hobbies (food 🍔and travel✈️❤️).

But to you - she is the angel of your financial ascension.

Years pass.

You have since graduated and now hold down an office job at Shoppee. So too has your wife, she does 'marketing and comms' at some SME. After three years of living with your parents, it is finally time to collect the keys.

You hand over the cashier's order for 100k to the HDB employee. It wasn't easy but between your savings, a loan from your ah ma and the angbao profits from your wedding (off-peak Thursday lunch reception @ Holiday Inn Orchard no open bar suckers!), you got there.

As you finish signing the papers, you mentally write up your net worth by 500k. Then you add an asterisk on it. Just in case you know. Your wife has just finished her selfies with the HDB sign and pulls you into a photograph with her.

You smile.

A few years pass.

"No lah! No lah!" - you exclaim loudly at a gathering of your secondary school friends who jest that you have 'made it already' because of your luck in securing your BTO. "Cannot sell la - still got MOP!"

But deep inside you smugly muse "Yes bro - I did fucking make it". A friend who became a lawyer humble brags about how busy he is and 'offhandedly' drops his salary and how much he spends on rent. "Sucker paying other people's mortgage" you quietly muse as you sip on your mug of Tiger.

As you return home you observe your wife being dropped off by her handsome ang moh colleague in an Audi. She laughs as he hands her the Chanel handbag she bought on Atome and waves her goodbyes. The wide smile on her slightly red face - a smile you haven't seen in years - fades slightly as she sees you.

"We had team drinks and Thomas offered to drop me off. Very nice of him."

"Yea ok cool" - you reply, unsure if you want to start another fight.

Sensing the tension, she tries to change the subject.

"Oh by the way ah, I spoke to my secondary school friend Celine. She in real estate now. She say ah - that our unit probably can sell 1.1 - 1.2m+ when MOP leh!"

You smile - blood returning to your phallus.

2 long years pass.

"Thank you Sir" - the DBS banker smiles warmly as you hand him the signed housing loan agreement.

After eight arduous years, you were finally able to dump your HDB on the next sucker for over 1.1m. After agent fees etc, you got away with a clean profit of over 500k.

And today marks the culmination of your ascension to the condo class.

A 2 bedroom condo in the newly TOPed Merdeka Jewel - 750 square feet at $3000 per square foot at 2.25m. Sure it is a little smaller than your 990 square foot HDB but its not like you need that much room. Your wife made it abundantly clear that she does not want to have kids because she is 'too busy focusing on her career' (although you still question what the fuck her actual job is).

Rolling your savings and your HDB profits into the 25% down payment and taking the 30 year loan at 2.6% interest was a no brainer. 8k a month in mortgage payments seem steep but is manageable. As long as you both keep working. I mean it will all pay off right? Singapore property is up only after all.

You look to your wife and her Chanel handbag. She smiles back at you, she too celebrating her ascension to the condominium class. You can hear the gears in her head turn, the dopamine firing at the thought of all the likes her house tour video is going to get on Instagram.

"Ill be out tonight with friends" - you tell her. "Ya ok I got plans also" - she replies.

You text your real estate agent to confirm that you will exercise the option to purchase. Your cock is now fully erect at the thought of your ascension.

Then you go on WeChat and text Lanlan "我好想你 - 今晚见！❤️"

You smile and take in the Singapore sun.

Damn it feels good to be a Singaporean son.

[wassieloyer @wassielawyer]

Yep this is the correct take.

Running a startup in Singapore is so negative EV that you select for retards who failed out of system, high functioning autists that refuse their place in the system and wealthy heirs trying to make their name outside the system.

The retard class is almost uninvestable, except for those who pivoted into the shadow economy (nightclubs, ktvs, gambling etc) in their teens and still maintain a code of brotherhood but good luck getting access to these people or convincing them to let you ape their KTV / Johor Vape Run. Avoid the system dropouts that pivoted to insurance sales like the plague (they basically sell financial scams to the elderly) and they will rug in the blink of an eye too. You might find a diamond in the rough that previously worked at a local tech company like Grab, Shoppee etc but it’s like finding a needle in a haystack bc it’s hard to tell them apart from a retard that got fired and will be pivoting into insurance if the startup LARP fails.

The high functioning autists are more investable but there are two main problems. To clarify - these are kids preordained by the Singapore system for high finance, bigtech, biglaw, medicine and other “high value” professions alongside a 2 million dollar mortgage but have somehow rejected their destiny.

The first problem is discoverability. The first class of autists fuck off to the West Coast, London or godforbid Berlin for college where they embrace and explore all their quirks that made them feel out of place in Singapore. The ones who went to Berlin are lost forever. The ones that went to California / London might, after a few years of self-discovery often involving sex, drugs and rock and roll financed by autistic superpowers or their parents, return to Singapore after either a family tragedy, the false promise of a good Asian wife / husband or their Western tax bill. You might be able to invest in them then as they seek funding for some grand moral mission to embrace or reject capitalism in their autistic niche area.

But the second class of autists that are investable don’t leave Singapore at all. You will find them in STEM, geeking out in the laboratories and computer science departments of universities, possibly in A Star. They speak a maximum of five sentences a day and are largely incapable of maintaining extended eye contact. But behind those bespectacled eyes in the acne scarred face is the potential engine of a billion dollar empire. Or a Chinese spy. Too bad you don’t speak autist.

The second problem is economic alignment. The autist does not understand money the way you do, if they did, they would be on half a mil+ comp packages within the system. You think just because you found them and funded them they work for your bags? No sir - they work for the mission. And you better pray that mission has the side effect of increased enterprise value or a path to liquidity. If not - thank you for your donation we will be applying our next gen quantum computing capabilities to solve poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

Finally, the wealthy heirs. Success in the system means nothing because they will never emerge out of their parents’ shadow. Their grandfathers name is on your university lecture theatre.

Desperate to make a name for themselves, they will reject the family mandate to manage the real estate portfolio in order to found a startup. They might even take your venture cheque even though your fund is smaller than his inheritance bc an external fund provides “validation”. You will vie for allocation alongside people who want an intro to their dad.

Pros - they have near infinite funding and networks.

Downside - they don’t care about money and might be retarded. Good luck getting an exit.

[itscorrekt @itscorrekt]

1973 Embargo vs 1990 Gulf War vs 2026 Iran War

Claude-ed a comparison between the 2 other historical precedents with similarity to our current taco-laced ME conflict

TL;DR: Are we going stagflation or reflation?

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Spot on with the Singapore-Dubai parallel - but the stakes are even more explosive than most realize.

If the PRC launches its long-planned invasion of Taiwan, it will need to make sure the United States stays out of it.

That means it must first neutralize America’s nearest major forward-deployed force which is the US 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka, Japan.

We’re talking 60-70 warships, 150-180 aircraft, and over 27,000 personnel.

To keep that fleet out of the fight, Beijing would have no choice but to strike Japanese soil and bases preemptively - dragging sovereign Japan directly into the war. Japanese PM Takaichi enraged the Chinese for merely saying that this constitutes a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan and implying that Japan might be drawn into the conflict.

The 7th fleet relies on logistics and sustainment from Task Force 73 / Logistics Group Western Pacific which is headquartered in the Republic of Singapore.

Singapore’s role as the critical maintenance, resupply, and repair hub for US naval forces in the region makes it Target #2.

Just like Iran hit UAE facilities for hosting American support, the PLA would have to take out Singapore’s ports, airfields, and logistics nodes to choke off the flow of fuel, ammo, and spares.

In other words, there's a huge potential for a regional cataclysm: direct attacks on Japan and Singapore, the Malacca Strait turned into a war zone, global shipping paralyzed, and the entire US-led alliance structure under fire.

The idea that China is pursuing “peaceful development” is hard to believe when you consider its military buildup - hypersonic missiles, carrier-killers, anti-access/area-denial systems - that seem to prepare them to deal with exactly this problem of a regional fight for control and navigation of the seas.

Not many people are aware that there are 3,000 active Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) troops on rotational deployments throughout each year in Taiwan. While this is for military training (it's been ongoing since 1975), this could further complicate things for Singapore in a Taiwan conflict scenario. These troops might be trapped or become bargaining chips during a blockade or invasion.

Anyway, tl;dr: Singapore likely won't be able to stay out of it as the chokepoint it sits in will probably come into play

[Kene @Tempo_ae]

bro is one unlucky mf 😭

[DonMadrid @imsomadridista]

Remember this? Emre got dealt with by Trabzonspor players after his racist slur the previous game. No handshakes, no respect non of that bullshit. Prestianni got away.

[Triple M @Trip_ple____M]

Mesut Ozil doing something not just Bruno Fernandes can't do but everyone in football. If you mention Ozil and Bruno Fernandes in the same line again, I am gonna look for you, I am gonna find you and I am gonna do that thing
https://t.co/GR1OKCxfi0

[RoBLack @roblack66]

It's crazy to attempt chipping from that angle

[AI @nonewthing]

The only striker of his generation who could chat to R9

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

This guy predicted Trump and the Iran war last year.

Is a high school history teacher.

He had no views and no subscribers a few days ago. Has over 100k subs in like 3 days. Has entire playlists on what’s gonna happen. Has been right so far.

Absolutely insane.

[BowTiedRealtor @Bowtiedrealtor]

@ScottAdamsSays This was a fun use of grok.

Happy easter Scott you are blessing to many myself included

https://t.co/PwhgLDrYQb

[Master Togan @Getinwithgame]

Most men find it difficult to approach a woman, even when she’s by herself.

And will almost never approach a woman who’s with a group.

I was having lunch at a restaurant sometime ago, and saw this gorgeous girl with 4 of her friends.

Here’s how I got her number.

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[(Fan) Stop that SAKA!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @FT_thread]

Don’t let Media hype make you believe Mo Salah, Eden Hazard or even the new cat Cole Palmer was better than Alexis Sanchez.

Watch this thread if you’ve forgotten how good he was.