What role are u playing on this stage?

Just heard this phrase from Shakespeare which goes something like this:

"The world is a stage. Men and Women are just players or actors on this stage. And one man can play many roles on this stage."

When I heard this, I immediately thought of LOTR. haha...cuz in tolkien's books, he told that the entire world was created by an almighty god and that he created different beings as well as lower gods like himself to manage the world. These lower gods use music to determine the world as well as use their influence over the different beings, and eventually created a perfect melody for the world and hence to show to the almighty god. Now, isnt this as similar to Shakespeare idea of the world as a stage? Which makes me wonder whether was tolkien's idea of middle earth based from shakespeare ideology? or is it based on some kind religious view with christianity?(that many had draw similarities from)...having said that, is shakespeare based from christianity ? assuming that if tolkien is based on both of them...haha...linkages man=P

Oh and FYI, I heard this phrase from an old Singapore movie" I Do, I Do"...haha and it was mark lee's character that said it de...haha...weird hur.

CITIGROUP
Recently, there had been much hype over Citigroup shares only worth US$4.52 as of 230909. Apparently,this morning on reuters, citigroup was said to be planning to cut down its US network to just 6 metropolitan areas in the states. And they also plan to limit its consumer lending business like credit cards and huge mortgages which caters to the more affluent customers. Another pointer to note was that the US govt. holds up to 35% of citi's shares and that they were pumped in with cash from the govt. twice.

So are they cutting costs because they need to increase more liquidty to find more assets to back their monsterous debt they have? And by limiting their lending business means that they are unwilling to lend more as they have less liquidity to back the loans. From my own perspectives, I think they are undergoing some major restructuring in their company's reserves and their asset allocation structure. We can expect more changes from them I think, and the price of their share will go even furthur down...but of course when will it stop and appreciate, i dun know and what's its fair price to own that share, i also dun knw. However the layman out there are hoping that they will rise back to its US$45 at least....i think it will take a long time for it to reach such heights again, due to all the changes and the potential regulations that the obama adminstration is going to impose on the financial sector in the USA. Well, heard that its fundamentals are quite good(havent check yet by me..haha), so it might very well be the steal of the crisis yet.=P