Happy Birthday to JuTong

Oh yes, today's 31st Mar, it's my brother's birthday. Hmmm, as my mum was at my place today, he called to inform us that he's bringing his birthday cake (I suppose from his girlfriend) to my house and share the joy. That's thoughtful since it's very troublesome for me to go back to mum's place due with little Edan!! haha!

And so JuTong de-toured his cab to fetch my dad before coming to my house for cake cutting ceremony! No birthday song lah, so old liao! Make a wish and cut the cake ... that's typical of my family, though we are very closely knitted, being rather traditional and conventional Asian, we dun really express out love the AngMos way. Can't imagine the few of us singing "happy birthday" song ... haha!

Nice cake!! So Happy Birthday to Ju Tong! :)

4 bids for Singapore First Casino, Integrated Resort

Recently, property stocks has been hitting new high in the STI. If one is to look at the newspaper, you'll know why.

1) development of Orchard Road into a sleepless shopping hub.

2) Our up and coming Integrated Resort (IR). 2 days back, MGM Mirage+Capital land, Las Vegas Sand, Harrah's + Keppel Land and Genting International has put forward a bid to build and operate the IR. Not much info yet, currently only know that Genting will be investing $5billion while Las Vegas Sand has come up with a $5.9billion proposal.

Next week will see them presenting their proposal to a 5 minister panel. Really exciting, dunno who'll win. Dun wanna speculate now, let's look forward to next week.

Of course, with all these good news coming up, I think property counters are in for a good time next week. GO GO GO!

Today quite happy, see my Ascott Reit trading at abt $1.14 ... too bad I was only allocated 1 lot at $0.68, nonetheless good enuf to cover Edan's 5 in 1 Injection this morning tat cost $294!! -_-" ... polyclinic still so expensive! And just before trading ends, notice counter K1 venture also starts to build up volume ... very likely next week will cheong liao. Watch it! :)

19th Mar - 25Mar 2006 ... An Eventful Week

My Badminton Idol, Reiko Shiota! With her partner Ogura, they are now a considerable force to challenge the Chinese in the Women Doubles. Dunno if I have the chance to see them in action this year in Singapore AVIVA open 2006 ...

19 Mar Sun: Today's the day to bring Edan to my mum's place since Ace's 3 mth maternity leave has come to an end. We brought him over at ard 6pm ...only to come back 2hrs later! He cried and screamed like there's no tomolo whenever we tried to put him into the sarong rocker. He just simply refused to be pacified, screaming till his face all turned red! No choice, he won, we brought him to fetch a cab back to my house ... only when we put him into his own sarong that he begin to stop crying! Gosh!

20 Mar Mon: Well, my mum stayed over at my place the nite before and will be looking after Edan today. All seems well as he start to get familiar with my mum. So I've applied for leave on tues to bring him for aclimatisation programme. Oh, ya today also sold ShangTurbo for some profit, not much lah, but good pocket money. :)

21 Mar Tues: Morning was spent at my own house, monitoring share market. Quiet day and all stocks seems to be in a correction stage. Saw Ascott trading at $1.02 - $1.03, knn, that's cheap. But my mum keep saying no good lah, correction ah, scary. Then I remember rich dad poor dad concept, buy at discount, sell when everyone rushing for it... I look at the live stream, $1 - $1.01!! Walao, cannot tahan liao, move in!
Afternoon, brought Edan to my mum's place, so far so good, only some slight crying and unhappiness shown by him ...

22 Mar Weds: Last nite stayed over and accompany Edan, seems ok, we went to work. Before 10am, got a call from my mum ... Ascott hit $1.06!!! Quickly log in to sell, saw $1.07 ... hestiated for a while .. miss hit, finally after 30mins I sold it at $1.06. My best buy so far, 1 day made abt $400 after paying commissions. Afternoon, Adrian came and understudy SGX game ... funny guy, made some buying errors! haha!Anyway, I went in Shang Turbo again at 0.405.

A busy day since yesterday, my Ebadminton group is closing, rather reforming due to an idiot in the group, shaking the morale and accusing organisers for pocketing extra money and shuttlecocks! Knn, still try to form his own group. Of course I show no mercy in my emails and sms to him. I PROMISED HIM hell! I started alerting everyone of his scheme.

23 Mar Thurs: My Duty day wor. As for the idiot who caused chaos in my group, hell he has got, very likely he will need to find new place to play liao. I think those with common sense and a heart will never agree with him. The weird thing is till now he still doesn't sound apologetic ... tho I'll nvr accept him again. My poor organiser who's a dy was so angry and frustrated.

STI start showing recovery, esp all the China related stocks! Squeeze balls, my mum ask me share with her Luzhou Biochem, but we couldn't get it and was later scared off by the correction yesterday. Today it's trading at 0.56(yesterday 0.535)

24 Mar Fri: Duty off loh! Came home take shower before rushing off to my mum's place, played with Edan for whole day. Part-time monitoring the live streaming and chat with Adrian... haha! Well, today really bang my head ... Ascott hit a high of $1.16! Knn could have made $1.4k instead if I just hang on for 2 more days! walao! But nvm lah, got some milk powder money can liao. Sure? how abt this, Luzhou closed the day 0.61!!!!-_-"" !! But the good news, I notice some movement in my "fundamental" counters, those I felt very good and have bought as investment ... finally moving a bit, hope they sustain the momentum.

25 Mar Sat today: Start the day with a running nose. Xian. Later will be playing badminton representing brand new Ebadminton Gen2 !! Read the newspaper today and you will have a clue what sector to buy into if you are into stocks. IR deadline is next wk! I'm very hopeful that a rally in the related sectors is imminent! Let's look out for next wk. :)

Today's news also report PSB corp has been sold to a german MNC. Ace's working there, lucky no retrenchment, else I have to go back and beg for 3 yr contract liao! haha! On Top of that, PSB issued a 3 mth change management bonus to them!!! knn!!! So good! Why that time Navy implement IWF we never get bonus!!! hahaha!

Time flies ...

My gosh, time really flies, remember when I just posted tat Edan has arrived on Planet Earth? Look at him now, he's 2.5 mths old already ... and wow, receiving his baby bliss gift from Minister for Education, MR. Tharman Shanmugaratnam.

Well, as we read this, the date now reads 14th March 2006 ... 3 mths into 2006 liao, really time for me to think of my next career already.

Gone are the days when we just worry about studies, gone are the days when we live on pocket money, gone are all the BGR affairs and problems and like what Bro Sam says ... pple ard us are all now talking abt having babies!!! (no longer even abt marriage!) Well, bro, we've aged ... thk you my bros and good friends who has grow along with me! One day, maybe I will post a blog ranking my top 5 "oldest" bros ... haha!

Sometime, when I look at pple ard me, I feel really happy for them. I'm grateful to god for letting a lot of beautiful and happy things happen around me. (I believe sooner it will happen on me too ... perharps the most recent one is the arrival of Edan! thks!) For example:

Bro Sam has found the true meaning behind love and marriage ... he has look beyond the pair of eyes that talk ... haha! He has a good job that give him a 2 door vehicle to drive! And he found his way with 4d and forge an alliance with Ti Kong! hehe!!

Bro Wenwei has also found his love one, diving in every corner of the world with her. And he's a pilot now with SIA! Woman and money ... he has it all ...

Bro Ken is also settling down soon, in oct 06! But he got a bit of prob, other then recently kena dragged down with me in 12dp issue (sorry) ... he's still figuring which camera is the best to own ... haha!

Of course not forgeting my batchboys, Jackie becoming a father too very soon, Ah wee in a highly paid sales job (but he's still finding his sexual preferences), Ah Song is realising his dreams of serving the society and KS is enjoying his days as the big boss of E3 engineering company.

And me ??? Other then Edan and a simple but closely knitted family consisting me, ace, edan, my parents and my in-laws ... what I have most now is time ... hahaha!!

May happiness be bless upon My Family and pple ard me! :) ... ok ... and world peace pls ... so many countries are having riot now ... sigh ...

Week 6 Mar - 10 Mar 2006 ... Below average week

Yes, this week has not been one of the better one and I certainly pray it's not a hint of things to come, here goes;

Mon: attended Yewtiong wedding last nite, ah, now I confirm he really can't take pork, last nite ask him to bite the roast pig's head, he nearly vomitted ...
Today mark the first day of my 1 wk leave, also my day one of trial day-trader, market was good, went in together with the crowd in Sky petrol, shanghai turbo at quite high price ... what am I thinking!?

Tues: share prices dipped ... knn slap myself man, know the market for nearly 10yrs liao still make such mistake ... traded a lost of abt $120 today.
Went out with wife, bought the fountain show in picture. Walao, the last time I went there, the lady quote me $218, lucky never buy, today was quoted $138. We closed the deal at $118.

Wed: share prices corrected despite attempt to rally early in the morning, like I told BB, it could'nt held on. We cut lost for Global Voice ... lost abt 3 fountain each ... Afternoon met BB and Sai-moon for lunch, after that we gather in front of my computer to withness further weakness in the STI. Believe it or not, I bought more UTAC! Fun experience though.
Really not a good day, went to badminton session only to find many kakis not ard, had a bad day on court too ... play like a weakling and did not enjoy it at all.

Thurs: Market today very low in volume, not much action; close shop half day. Met No-pork Tiong, Sai-moon and FatBian for lunch ... Navy pple very free ... haha! After that, Fatbian went visiting our out of action comrade while we 3 went to IT Show 2006! Very big this time round, but like what ah tiong say, knn like everything also can buy ... but better dun waste money. I really force myself not to buy the 17" LCD monitor, gosh only $339!! (Later you'll know potentially I lost how many LCD this wk ... -_-"" ). Bought some rams, CF card and CD-R ... then we went to filled ourselves at Cafe Cartel. Well, these relax and happy days will soon end when we ORD ... very very soon.
Yup, bought a racket today while ah tiong went to collect his comic at Bras Basah. Cap21special, no choice cos broke my fav mp100 2 wks ago. Maybe that caused my bad game ... haha!

Today-Fri: Aiyo, still very lethagic leh the market, still sleeping. Enter more turbo at 38.5 ... it close the day 37.5! Come-on! I've been telling pple it's not a correct practise to ave down your shares!!! Books teach that too!!! I'm really just ... mortal ... haha!
Close shop halfday again, went to bank to sell my Eight portfolio and close my SAYE acct ... no lah, not that broke yet lah! Just that since got some profit, might as well cash out. And the SAYE has matured 1 yr ago already. I'm going to invest into the "one" stock ... BB told me got rumours ... hehe! I hope that'll be my saviour! No venture ... no gain! Come monday, I'll be ready!

Well, for those who think trading shares is gambling or it's bad or what ... I once read a book... the author says: " I've yet to meet any rich man who has never lost money ... but I've met a lot of poor man who has never lose a dime ... investing that is." Quote from Rich Dad poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki. I also love another quote from the book ... it says " Everyone wants to go to heaven, but everybody is afraid of dying ... " haha! I like that.

A quick updates of ... a few things ...

Oh ... just a quick update before I leave for Yew tiong's wedding today!

Well, as mentioned, ah tiong's big day lor, meeting keith at 7pm. Ah tiong ah, paiseh, dun expect big ang pao hor, broke lah, going jobless, maintenance of the above shown boy and lagi too lan, Fri dropped my nokia 6030, the LCD cracked! Knn, went suntec repair shop and had to pay $65 for the repair. Say what physical damage not covered by warranty. Nevermind, I pay, but now I 'm sourcing for anther phone liao, I'm going to look beyond nokia from now on.

Oh yes, and Edan is 2 mth old already. I dunno how other pple feel, but that face above works for me ... I'm worried he show me that innocent face and ask me buy things for him ... how to reject ...

Yesterday went to career fair 2006 ... I made wrong decision in the past, but I'm sure my decision to leave the navy for good is the right one. Bloody hell, go career fair then realise what crap experience I have as a senior techincian! Was even laugh at by a lady from CSM when I told her I'm from Navy! So much for the sun, the sand and the sea ... they forget to tell me to go "eat north-west wind"

STI has been doing well recently, hope it continues it's bull run, then my portfolio that I've hang on to for nearly 7 yrs can grow back ... I'm happy if I can get back 70 - 80% though. As of now the STI is blowing CHINA wind. China related stocks seem to be aiming for the sky as a limit ... reminds me of the DOT.com stocks yrs back ...

12dp has close door for good, again proving that there's no free lunch in the world, I knew that but I couldn't even react when the turn of events happened. Lose money again ... nb!

Today saw in newspaper, interviewed this boss of a printing firm, he become millionaire at the age of 29yrs old via starting his own biz when he was 24. Again, I re-affirm that it's hard to get rich by working for others. I'm still thinking what biz I can start ... where's there's a dream and hope, there's chance ...

That's all.