week 3.

kinda bumped into my sister-pal today, did some major catching up.

updates on personal life aside... the topic shifted to buffeting. or buffet-ying. or buffeying.

i admit. i have no idea what buffeting / buffet-ying / buffeying is about until today. though when i was told the word under that situation, its meaning was clear.

see... i did bring my brain out from my home.

let's stick to using buffeying.

buffeying has nothing to do with eating a buffet except in the very abstract sense. what it means is not so easily conveyed, and i shall not bother to do so.

this word, although appropriate, was a tad far from my liking. personally, i like to call it diversification, hedging. are some very finance terms but i prefer the use of these words.

sometimes, life is like buying lottery. it's pretty straightforward - most decisions you make carries risk (ok, this is my FYP topic but let's skip it). so let's say for the upcoming 4D draw on wednesday you decide to place a bet.

why not place two bets instead?

although you have to fork out an extra buck, it somehow increases the chance that you will strike something. i do not have a PhD in statistics or probability theory (thank goodness!) but the notion is intuitive. the more numbers you buy, the more chances you have in getting a winning number. or numbers.

which is the rationale for the occurrence of buffeying.

i'm not going to go into statistical stuff, but if you're familiar with the concept of expected value - which you do. am not going to say much.

it is not unfair in the sense that insofar, there's still no commitment. and this is something not exclusive to the masculine class.

splitting is the unfair thing.

and speaking of buffets, i'm abstaining from it.

i foresee an endless line of feasting all the way up and including CNY. its gonna hurt my stomach for sure.