Friday, July 30, 2004
heyhey. i thought about writing economic papers but i realized that nobody would read it (then i'll just be another karl marx, buried in my truthness and uncovered zillions of years later), and most certainly, i wouldnt have the time to write em.
but i like to read economic papers. though i dont really like to read all those with lots of mathematical calculations like differentiations and integrations and matrices etc.
today's econs S was the longest . wow.. he went rambling till 6pm. and because he(as usual) came in half an hour late, we were let off one and a half hour past normal time. hooray!
but today's lesson was still quite ok. it was Completely crafted around the Phillips curve. well, i thought i knew a lot about it already with the NAIRU n stuff. but i was well wrong. the world is not my oyster.
later, me guang and camy went to parkway to shop for some presents for steps. and i ate some portugese egg tart that was highly disappointing because firstly, they didnt taste portugese (they tasted like flour), secondly, they werent quite tasty, and lastly, they were small. so me, thinking i could relive the euro2004 at that instance, was ultimately disappointed.
im going to the straits times scholars talk tml. i hope i can get some useful info about the US uni. cuz i am starting to favour going there. i think the uni of Chicago, which has spawned the likes of James Buchanan, Joseph Stigligz (how do u spell that) , Milton Friedman(well, not actually. he went there just b4 his nobel prize) n Co., might just be perfect for me.
posted by iambrianfu [ 10:56 PM ] |
Thursday, July 29, 2004
hello! nothing much to write about today. went to xian liang's funeral again. the most interesting thing today could have been eating there. what a day.
i was busying myself in practical today which was 2 and a half hours long. the sheer length started causing me backaches. and i was feeling the pain as i was pouring the purple shit down the long pointed shit you use to suck it all up with. what a day. so after the terribly long paper, me and qinhong played some scrabble, then read the accidental theorist.. with the cool weather. soft east coast breeze.
i am getting up terribly late for school every day, for this week. and its a horrible feeling to rush all the way to the bus stop early in the morning,( without breakfast! oh that sucks. because i am the type of breakfast guy who likes to have the papers, a hot cup of tea, some bread, eggs, butter early in the morning) then jog down the row of terrace houses after i alight from 15, then sprint like maurice greene past saint patrick towards the dumb old red gate.
someone picked me up half way down my jog today! he was a kind guy who i absolutely do not know, but he said his daughter is in year 2, and her name is lee xuwen or suwen or smtg. so thaks to mr lee (i suppose) i was not heading to the red gate today, but walked grandly like the emperor in new clothes down the big school gate. wOw.
i think im going to take pop's car next wk already. cant take it. i wake up consistently , and puctually at 7:07 every morning and im in a sort of a moral dilemma whether to take my time and miss assembly or start the normal routine of chionging all the way again.
i set a new goal yesterday.
it says:
Prelims...
Economics A
Maths A
Chemistry A
Biology A
GP A2
Econs'S M
Maths'S D
Wow..
posted by iambrianfu [ 11:36 PM ] |
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
my ears are itchy today. and my left eye has stopped twitching... this sounds damn dumb, but i never knew what left eyes twitching meant or felt like before. i thought that it always sounded corny. but boy am i wrong. im already beginning to be more superstitious already. i tied the d thread around my index and carried it all the way home last night. last faithful night. last unfaithful night.
i think things are better now, and although a couple of peeps might still be crying today and feeling afraid [ well, just remember fu:2609. that was a little message i wrote when i was walking home and feeling a little empty =) ] when the atmosphere gets better, i might publish an economic article that i wrote about too.. probably..
today was a long day at school again which i probably have been bitching about for eons already. but no doubt it was a day of considerable length. me and the guys went to parkway to study for our A levels and it was quite a good study lasting a couple of hours.
so by the mathematical postulation of kengyang, we should be needing to complete 2.53 chapters of study a day to finish on time for the first paper.
i need to eat some stuff now .. bye bye
posted by iambrianfu [ 11:02 PM ] |
Monday, July 26, 2004
"What A Difference A Day Made"
What a difference a day made, twenty four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers where there use to be rain
My yesterday was blue dear
Today I'm a part of you dear
My lonely nights are through dear
Since you said you were mine
Oh, what a difference a day made
There's a rainbow before me
Skies above can't be stormy since that moment of bliss
That thrilling kiss
It's heaven when you find romance on your menu
What a difference a day made
And the difference is you, is you
My yesterday was blue dear
Still I'm a part of you dear
My lonely nights are through dear
Since you said you were mine
Oh, what a difference a day made
There's a rainbow before me
Skies above can't be stormy since that moment of bliss
That thrilling kiss
It's heaven when you find romance on your menu
What a difference a day made
And the difference is you, is you, is you
posted by iambrianfu [ 8:25 PM ] |
i stepped into a hospital today. i havent stepped into a hospital for years. i stepped out of the hospital. i havent felt so depressed for a long time.
it is a depressing day.
what.. a difference, a day made.
it was the first time i visited him. it was the last time i visited him.
the boy who used to swing between monkey bars and squeeze pple's dick is gone.
posted by iambrianfu [ 7:24 PM ] |
Sunday, July 25, 2004
we trudged down to nus on bus loads. and it was college day today, so obviously, we missed college day. which shouldnt have been quite a big miss, though i havent attended vj's college day before. not last year. not this year too.
so at nus, we learnt more about the dismal science on topics such as undervalued renminbi, outsourcing, and signalling... so vj did a rather entertaining play on their topic and they had the best results for the presentation part. hwachong won the overall tounament. i was listening intently when the hwachong peeps were speaking and i realized that their presentation was really really comprehensive about the outsourcing stuff. thought it should have gotten the highest marks though, but they were speaking too quickly and not too easy for the layman to understand but i caught most of it. great research, but for the wrong crowd.
then we went back to school for and went to parkway to meet lap the airforce boy at Kbox. and we spent the rest of the time there before having some supper and catching the last bus home.
i realized that my chinese is really terribly bad cuz i cant read many of the words on the tv screen. anyway, i heard a couple of lovely songs i'm gonna download, like beyond's haikuotiankong, and hotel california, and some songs fr zhoujielun's old band.
joel asked me to watch garfield at gv tomorrow. shit, forgot to reply. but i guess i cant make it anyway. im gonna mug tml afternoon, and we're heading to the ocs camp for dinner with the defence minister tomorrow cuz its the ocs grad night and my brother is gonna be richer as a full officer
posted by iambrianfu [ 12:29 AM ] |
Thursday, July 22, 2004
i am going to use cost benefit analysis to determine if i should go to school tomorrow..
so lets start things using standard scientific procedures by isolating the separate benefits and costs individually.
the costs are going to be a required MC which i am surely not going to get. the act of MC alone has much points to talk about. Firstly, the transport cost, (nahhh.. its free), the time foregone that could have been better employed elsewhere, around 5 bucks, not taking the medicine again and therefore being identified as an irresponsible who comes for only the MC. but then again, i wouldnt be sick at all right?
there will be other costs. If i do not get an MC, Ms Ding is gonna kaopei and then that is bad cuz ultimately, miss ding is going to be involved some way or another in my testimonial and i wouldnt want an unfavourable one due to reasons that are so trivial. then again, disatisfaction takes time to be built up and i reckon that i am quite a good student (which surely I am), and incidents like such, although having the potential to accumulate as time passes by, will not affect her decisions. anyway, the costs should not forget my worrying (if it can actually be quantified, for cost benefit analysis) of whether she will take into account my misssing school without valid reasons.
there are other costs which include me not being able to attend PE, which is fun and utility contributing. but i will exclude this from the analysis because that is not the main point.
so the benefits =) of going to school are going to be...
Time above all things. the essence of life. of which spent well could be unimaginably utility contributing. So i could spend my time doing some good revision which could ease my mental perspicacity, which would make me know i am ACTually doing something and not passing the days by. Time could be used for leisure, which ultimately leads to happiness.
If i go to school, i can be accounted as a reliable boy cuz i made an appointment with Ms Low regarding the interview stuffs. yup. so cancelling the appointment or simply defaulting on it is going to cause a reduction in my credibility.
i cant really think of any other benefits of going already.
henceforth, it appears that the costs outweigh the benefits and the decision is clear
but then again, something might just crop up tomorrow that would make me go to school.
actually..
this whole thing is rubbish. cuz cost benefit analysis is used to identify the costs and benefits accrued to Separate parties. so this should just be termed as an analysis on marginal benefits and costs.
posted by iambrianfu [ 7:37 PM ] |
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
today's a really cool day. cool as in the weather. its one of the few days (in terms of weather) that i really enjoyed this year. as usual, i set my triple timer (once alarm, daily alarm, morning call) on my samsung phone. and the cool weather just made me sleep through all of them. and the rain sorta made me drift off to yet another slumber when i woke up , say around 7am. So i woke at 10 in the end and i was wondering whether to go to school. cuz wednesday is quite a short day with lots of tutorials. and i have piano at mandarin gardens after school too. ah screw it ... i went to school after all. anyway, mama started to yell at me to get my ass to school..
hrm.. i think i'll write a little on what i wanted to write on the other day but this dumb ass blogger just screwed up. So before the mid years, i wrote in my black army book my aims, sorta like the little red book of Mao, but this is a black one.. so probably the little black book. ok crap. i said i'd get ABBA for the mids . ABBA like the band just that the 2nd B is in the reversed direction. B. or BABA, like the lamb . and i wanted to get a B4 for GP. so now, the results are all back, which didnt come back thick and fast as i expected, but nevertheless (save GP), the papers are all here in my room scattered haphazardly in some particular corner. and me results is gonna read ABB(MC). oh ... so it has been quite a good estimate prior to the exams and i should be happy that im finally HITTING my goals like a fledging SUper teen! so i should be in glee for a while. but then again. hey. whats that MC doing there. its the dumb ole econs that i didnt do due to particular reasons. so i attempted it in a dumb room in the office with yaocheng. and we were pretty bored doing the paper. and as the hours went by... there was monotony.. and there was fatigue.. and .and...and zZzzzz . ok. i handed up the paper after all and indeed i got it back (unlike GP papers that tend to go missing for some time). i worked it out on the calculator and it was kinda 57-ish. so i was wondering if the calculator was cranky and playing mind games. cuz it could have been the other way round at 75.. but no.. it remained 57. tts e lowest econs grade in my whole entire life.. but im not too sad though cuz it was a bad attempt and i have reasons like the holland team to blame on.
my sister bought me a new back which is converse and really nice. she bought me a sling bag at first but i went to change it cuz i have 5 sling bags of all sizes shaper and colour already, and nono.. i dont really fancy sling bags nowadays cuz they're kinda kiddy and stuff. so i got a Nice school bag. yay!
oh dear.. i think im talking more and more jack cookish these few days
posted by iambrianfu [ 8:41 PM ] |
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
hi. its kinda sucky a feeling when u typed out some whole lot of junk and it disappears in a millisecond even without a click of a button or a move of the mouse.
byebye
posted by iambrianfu [ 3:01 AM ] |
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
i went to make the lens for my new spects today. nice redd spectsy. so today was a wednesday and i felt that time was passing terribly slow. (i was practically looking at the clock the whole piano lesson today) i think im tired . im always tired these few days, which is so unlike me usually. i hate the feeeling of waking up every morning knowing that i had just slept on my bed without turning off the lights. my eyesight has worsened by lots. my astigmatism has risen by 75%. whopping 75 % in probably only 6 months. i think its because of the the darn light shining on my face every night. im getting blind.
i got the UCL prospectus today! yay! so ive highlighted two courses tt im sure to be doing. its the BSc Econs and Maths w econs. both need 3As including maths as one of em, and a further AS paper. now. what the hell is an AS paper. i think its S paper. well ive two! yay again. so i think going to UCL will be quite ok for me. But then again, my clear aim is LSE. LSE LSE LSE> period
i went for the US talk after school for a while. its quite scary the amt of work u have to prepare for those american schools. SAT 1 SAT 2 TOEFL personal statemnents.. blah blah.. i'd only go for stanford and uni of chicago actually. prob do some research over the weekends.
piano rehearsal tomorrow again. im gonna go for bio prac and go MIA till around 145. parkway should be a nice place.
posted by iambrianfu [ 9:48 PM ] |
hi again. couldnt really wake up for school today cuz of the return trip. i left for school around 10, some maths econs lectures.. blahh. so many of my friends were asking me where the hell i was and my story sorta changed fr visiting my sick grandma in johor to relatives in korea.. but anyway.. being the truthful boy i am, i told ms ding tt i went to korea for some stuff and she told me not to run away fr school during school days again. hrm.. i think i wouldnt be going to school as the weeks draw nearer. esp after they finish most of the syllabi. it'd be quite fun if i can just lock away at some remote place and do my work, or probably hang out with a pretty girl for days and days , and we could study together and do things together, and get to know each other better. im sorta in a dazy mood after watching so many romance shows on the plane.. i think ive come to a point of actually enjoying them for the plot and not for the thrills already. hrmmm...
so the korea trip has been a good little experience for me. i like cool weather. i like to look at places i have never set my eyes upon before. basically we went there to do a little shopping, a little looksy looksy, the korean food. so there a couple of things in korea tt was sort of interesting. the cars are left hand drives, the cars are nearly the same.. white. the summer is actually a rainy season , where rain literally pours 23 and a half hours a day. the korean girls arent tt ugly after all because there are pretty ones in the city at myuendong. the streets are big and fat with pairs of zebra crossing ever so often. the roads can point one way today and another tomorrow. there are LG petrol stations. there is samsung, which does everything except probably lifts and petrol stations. the people are friendly to each other because taxi drivers just wind down their windows and shout to passerbys for directions. the taxi can be metered or fares decided before the drive. kim chi is not too tasty. there are people who work at carparks who point the cars at specific directions and then bow ninety degrees mechanically. there is north korea above south korea where there is no phones, no internet, no planes. it is sad to live in north korea. the 10 won coin on my table is practically worthless.
i visited grandma after the piano rehearsal today. it was pretty late. i had dinner and stayed there for a while cuz grandma is quite lonely on weekdays. then i began educating her about eating health supplements which is the protein pills she eats. i was quite shocked to know tt she was eating tt. i said tt the protein in our daily diet is enough and old pple neednt eat tt. cuz my aunt told her tt its useful for the bones and stuff. tts quite rubbish. so we had a good laugh and i went home
its 1.30am. i drew a chart earlier on, stuck it on some cardboard , and then to my wall. it says 'this is the chart that sees me into LSE'. its got the weeks on it and im supposed to update my study progress onto it. the first point on my chart tells me to do my tutorials.
yes
byebye
posted by iambrianfu [ 1:12 AM ] |
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
yOgiyo! im finally back here in singapore in front of my dear old comp. oh.. i miss my dear old comp much. the amazing race is over and we can finally draw breath after our last pit-stop at incheon.
i was watching ted hamilton and some jeux d'effants show on the plane. the latter was quite a nice show because it was a french show and we must admit that the french are good script writers, much better compared to the americans and the british. so the ending was quite cool when the story suddenly zoomed in on the two characters at the instance when the world sort of spun out of control and the two main characters got cemented to death.
back to school tomorrow
posted by iambrianfu [ 1:51 AM ] |
Sunday, July 11, 2004
hi.. its 2.20am now and we are still stranded here in singapore. so what happened? we missed our 2345 flight by a couple of seconds and the plane's captain wouldnt let us through. so mervyn was rather kancheong and i couldnt do much to help but to make him less kancheong although he is blaming me that i was looking at an fhm magazine that i was intending to send to mr heng. ahhh .. anyway. we are going to leave singapore at 9.05 tentatively. or worst come to worst, we'd depart via a transit flight to malaysia and then to s.korea. but i'd prefer to take SQ though.
dont you think that this game is starting to resemble and amazing race where we are trying to rush over some important documents or artifact to a particular location.
posted by iambrianfu [ 2:22 AM ] |
Saturday, July 10, 2004
dear blog. i can tell you that this is a joke. because i am inside the airport now. thanks to some fault with merv's father port stuff, we are heading for the land of the kimchi - South Korea.
so we are going to go there for about 24hours and i'll be back coping with the drudgery of school. but till then, im going shoopping.. and we're gonna have fun
yay!
posted by iambrianfu [ 10:55 PM ] |
Friday, July 09, 2004
this is the life of a pes C boy
jacobng@hotmail.com says:
haha
jacobng@hotmail.com says:
so u feel faint?
arjen says:
get lost
arjen says:
haha
jacobng@hotmail.com says:
haha
jacobng@hotmail.com says:
eh next time i help u climb stairs
jacobng@hotmail.com says:
=)
arjen says:
_|_
posted by iambrianfu [ 11:22 PM ] |
today, i achieved an incredible feat unsurpassed by no other of pes C. i was tortured during PE like a refugee in the prisons of abu gharaib, or an infidel beneath the knife of jihadists. oh dear old me had to do PE even though i dont need to take me dumb old napfa. and it wasnt normal pe. i was made to run 2.4, then do max numbers of pull ups twice, then do the four sets that army boys do every morning. 20 half squats, 20 push ups, 20 sit ups, and worst of all... 20 star jumps. ok it was doing the dumb set twice tt killed me. my poor ole' body could take it no more after the ordeal and my fellow comrade yaocheng was totally smattered after that shit too. so we laid in the hall, and then in the canteen like decapitated flogged carcasses of dead lambs.
o.. by the way. if you are thinking that it was tan screw hui who had inflicted all this damage. then you're wrong. nono. it was a young part time teacher. so i thought he was rather blur and easily bullied, but i was proved wrong. anyway i was talking much to him during the whole course where he was invigilating the both of us. (well, to distract him anyway, but he realized my ploy!) and he told me that he was being paid 65 bucks a day as a relief just to chao-keng a bit. well. i must say that is good pay. for a chao-keng job.
and my back just hurts like shit now.. oooo.. my poor ole' back
ive been reading dan brown's angel and demons recently and its amazing how readable he's books are. a mish mash of thrill, horror and plenty anti-climax
school's quite over already for this week. the 7 weeks begins from next wk. ive got back my maths today and i was rather shocked by the dismal marks. so i was feeling pretty sad inside cuz i thought i'd get probably 90 or at least 85. but i got 70. hey, that's my lowest this year man. get a grip. something went wrong somewhere.
but well, keng got a much lower result and he was way pretty more upset than me. so i didnt kaobei much. anyway this fuels me to do some maths S over the weekend and gain some ground
vj is having an iridiscent morning tomorrow having lotsa stuff lined up . like the VIP tts just a misappropriation of school funds (well, im saying tt because it doesnt affect me. BAh!), the judo comp (heh.. my cousin's taking part) , and the CHarity busking that is gonna busk your way into town. so as a member of the 'victorian' family, just like a hitlerian of under the rule of the red swastika, i appeal to all you guys out there to come to support vj's charity busking which will be held in selected spots at orchard like outside zara, tangs, ngee ann, and also PS and bugis. do come to PS cuz my class's performing. well, im actually not For this event cuz there is much, ( in fact, to a very high degree)of feather bedding. im totally against the idea of cushioning the effects of an economic activity with demand that is not TRUE demand. just like school concerts that we dont want to go to but get forced into going. THats the true manifestation of it.
ive come to realize that im much un-Keynesian as i delve deeper into light of economics. i tend more to the classical-monetarists in my way of analysis.
maybe im gonna be the next milton friedman.
oh nonono. he's bald..
posted by iambrianfu [ 10:02 PM ] |
Thursday, July 08, 2004
school life is quite interesting if you can detach yourself from it and look at it from a different perspective. the sad thing is that few people can actually do that. sort of the same way. doesnt it just apply to corporate life and all the drudgery of work.. ive been kinda laid back after the exams and enjoying this week as much as i can. its kinda amazing how the prelim's just 7 more weeks away. then again, its only the first paper and the 7 week thing is just sorta a wake up call to those thinking they are still in year one, though it kinda surprised me quite a bit.
i was watching the apprentice just now and i just find it kinda fake and just for the commercial purpose. well.. it appears that the programme is carved out for viewers to take a peak of donald trump's life and he's millionaire qualities. but its simply like some sort of facetious play afterall. the type of corporate survivor or whatever that is. though i learnt that donald trump has a strong personality that one could die for.
ive been in school running here and there. im gonna take my napfa tomorrow. i dont intend to do v well for running but im gonna ace the others. then maybe we'll be getting some of our mids papers back. vj's kinda slow marking.
so life still revolves around school and work. much inseperable from any year twos now. some of my friends are getting panicky about the prelims and have suggested forming study groups and stuff like that. jane was asking me whether i had started cheonging for the exams. i guess not but will build up probably soon.
ive been wondering how i am going to get A1 for GP any time soon. probably an A2 will do. then again, its much easier said than done. some planning needs to be done. yup
well.. after all. No one plans to fail. but everyone fails to plan
posted by iambrianfu [ 11:14 PM ] |
Monday, July 05, 2004
still taking on the world? -the.economist. sure i am. the world is my oyster and you're just my slave. speak to muh hand. muahaha.. so today has been a boring day cuz i woke up rather late though i had intended to. from repeated smses sent by waihin which wasnt really the sorta way i had intended to wake up to. anyway, i didnt go down to play soccer, cuz there was something within my grey matter that was hinting to me not to go. something was to happen. And it rained dogs and mice. Look... i had foreseen the future just like a merlin in king arthur (or does he foresee the future?). hrm.. tts kinda crap.
so i gathered my dumb-o economics notes which has been strewn haphazardly in insconspicuous corners around my room with the other bits and jumbles of paraphernalia. had a hard time gathering my notes before sitting down to start some good revision. but it wasnt long before i started to read the papers.. and the economist... and my mind sorta drifted off. so i wasnt too productive. i just myself to blame for trying to act smart, missing the econs paper last week. so im taking the paper after school tomorrow. under supervision...
school's beginning tomorrow. oh.. so today's youth day. havent really felt youthful the past couple of hours though. sigh.. whats youth day about? i know nuts about it. how bout children day? ok.. so im gonna sing a song for you on this special youth day..
(with pizzicato on the violin)
Spiderman, spiderman
Where are you? spiderman
(an octave higher, incessant pizzicato)
Spiderman spiderman
where are you now. spiderman
yea
posted by iambrianfu [ 7:53 PM ] |
good day! im gonna launch into an account of the events happening in the past two days. it has been rather light-heartening and fun in a way.. a brief respite from the busy jc2 life.
so i went to mahalo maloha mamaho mohama whatver on saturday night. it was supposed to be a foam party which wasnt too foamy afterall. so the boys lost their 'life-savings' by acting punk and holding a party at the beach, though it wasnt really the beach or beachy, probably some bitchy girls around. but beach? nope. just maybe peach vodka.
i met a number of friends over there.. chillin' out.. the usual stuff. so we managed to get in our hands (though not in a very legal fashion) a bottle of pure bourbon. and we decided to be strong men, and being the boy who is always so full of initiative and have drunk much 'from the bottle'... i convinced the guys to put our livers to test. so it was rather fun playing dumb finger/hand games and dousing cups (or are they even cups? c'mon.. just tiny-mouthfuls-fit-for-kids glasses of pure bourbon with ice). i didnt get to drink so much but i seriously coudnt help it cuz i was trying so hard to lose each round so i could drink with the others, but my AI was just so strong (just like how the octo-hands are controlling Dr Octavius's mind), and i won rounds many a times. i was intending to get the dumb old hk boy antho drunk but keng got drunk anyway.. it was rather amusing. what a joker tan he was. he was practically talking nonsense after the party and couldnt even walk straight.
so we went home to my house and caught some sleep before going to bishan to catch Spidey Man at joel's GV. the show's just quite ok. not that as brilliant as i thought though. probably had too high an expectation. or maybe it's because i watched the Last Samurai on DVd a couple of days ago and waAAAAaay is that movie cool. makes spidey looks lke a midget in comparison.
went home to have more sleep before heading down to chijmes for soccer match. it was all reserved and shit like that so we trudged down to some pub in clarke quay to check out what the troyboys could do to our eggtarts heroes.
and troy stood in the end. and many people lost money. stupid greeks
posted by iambrianfu [ 5:54 AM ] |
Saturday, July 03, 2004
the exams are finally over. at least for now. so i was having lunch with my classmates at mac before heading back home with them. i started playing CM, which is the biggest mistake you can ever make .cuz you dont stop playing until you go on a lousy losing streak and you realize that youve been playing for like 6 hours and your team is now plummeting down the league table. the feeling of ending such an ordeal is just like completing 5 hours of monopoly and realizing the smartest ass is the one who quits and declares bankruptcy first. its just like going around in stupid concentric circles.
so i came home played some games and went to play soccer at marine terrace with the muds & co. went dinner with yaocheng n heng at katong...
lots of things ive been thinking about lately, but too lazy to write em down. probably another time. gbye
posted by iambrianfu [ 2:17 AM ] |