Soya's New World!: March 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Shd I succumb to being NORMAL?

I have been toying with this idea of getting a new phone-mainly for trading-on-the-go purpose.

Reasons:
1) My LG Windows Mobile HP's processor is too slow & lagging...
Apparently, LG had oversell their promise, LIFE IS definitely not GOOD with them!

2) I need a Operating System that is compatible with my trading softwares (there are mainly 2).
Either a WM or iPhone or at least gd platform for surfing net.

3) Upgrade to Data Plan, but my current mobile service provider SUCKs at Mobile Boardband (USD Doggle), I actually told them that I no longer wanna WALK ON SUNSHINE with them! So if i duno if I wanna stick to them further.

But but....
they are giving me an gd offer. In order for them to clear their iPhone stock (for the new POWER 4G iPhones -expecting 3rd qtr), i dun need to top up $100 to get a new phone & since it's an upgrading of plan - I can restart the contract.... but of cos I will be stuck with them again for another 2 yrs....

But hor... knowing me... i had refused to succumb to all the WHITE APPLE craze!
1) I have an iPod (cos it was a gift)
2) I look those pple no up if they dun do graphics but die die wan a MacBook!
3) I had by far managed to stop myself from succumbing to the iPhone craze.... until now...

I would love to have a iPad - as the name suggested already, it's made for the LADIES!!!
Looks like my most immediate choice of HP would be the iPhone! Cos my fav HTC is mainly Andriod platform & i duno how it the OS is!

But, having only been able to carass the iPhone for the 1st time on Mon... I realised that my refusal to succumb to the norm (which is to use the iPhone for games)... I didnt even know how to unlock or locate the keypad to make a call! *FAINT* so paiseh!!!

So So.... should I finally allow myself to be "normal?"... will that mean I am no longer "Special?"
Kekek!

Sunday, March 28, 2010

What have I been busy with?

Havent have time to blog the past week... I havent even got time to sleep!

Today I woke as usual ard 7am, fed my babies, LS, went back to sleep, in btw woke up reply smses, doze in & outa dreamland till 1.30pm- dragged meself outa bed! I guess this is what they call "恶补"
"恶-Revengefully", "补- Payback/return"! I need to payback my sleep deficit!!!

Seriously, what have i been busy with?

Doing these:

It's damn chim... took me a few hrs just to analysis 1 chart.... 2 -3 hrs bah... & i ended up eating into my sleeping hrs... u know me, I need 6hrs survive, 7hrs to not be cranky, 8hrs to be in my prettiest mood.... so 5-6hrs each nite for the past week is SOOOooooo damn not enough!!

Anyway, i survived... that's y i needed the more than 12hrs sleep today! Wuahahah! so shiok! this record was held too long ago! =D

In the midst of doing all these, i managed to find myself a few new working "colleagues", running buddies... all in the name of doing what we wanna do in our lives... we are taking the plunge many feared to do so.... wish all of us luck man!!

God bless all of us!
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Life is so fragile.... ironic even.
I attended a birthday celebration of my fren's father in the evening... he's ill with Stage 4 cancer, probably part of the 冲喜 plans, they had a buffet celebration at the house & invited a few relatives & friends.

The mood was relaxed but tensed at the same time, my friend's father was visibly bald from the chemo, bloated (liver, stomach cancer), swollen legs (probably from liver weakening). We were careful with the words to use but wanna lighten the mood.

We left at ard 8pm when the house was overcrowding with guests & everyone was happily filled in the tummy.

Adjourned to a funeral wake. Another friend's father had fallen sick the last week & passed on suddenly-gastric cancer. The sensitive thing was that both of these friends knew of each other's case cos we hang out together, we are good friends. One is 白事 (funeral) one is 红事 (celebration) - both: cancer in the stomach region. As friends, it's sensitive to reveal too much details to each side....
haiz....

How ironic life is! Life is so damn fragile!

If u like someone, pick up the call & tell the person (dun SMS or MSN for goodness sake!),
If u are with someone, tell the person u LOVE him/her,
If u have not tell ur family members that u love them, pls do so within the next few days...

Ok- confession: I cant tell my family member in the face (OMG! So mushy!) But i'm gona write them a card, leave it on the kitchen table & "tell" them! Oh, u get the idea!
As for my kiddos Creamie n Nugget, I jus told them the millionth time 10mins ago! wuahahah!

Do it before it's too late! =D

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Busy Bee... Cutesy kids...

Have been rather busy lately, & will be for the next couple of weeks due some trading work to be done. *Pray*pray* for a great outcome thereafter! YAY!

Havent been able to run as diligently as before, & for the past week, did not even swim once! OMG! The week before - only once! Damn!

Today did my slightly longer run finally... 18km for 2hrs 3mins. one word - SHAGGED.
Damn! But when I keyed into my trg log for the week, I was pleasantly surprised that though I did like 14km, 10km, 8km etc way lesser than my required, I hit 59.4km this week! Wauuu! Scary... i think this is my most. this week only didnt run on Fri n Sat.

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Got some pics from the Project that some SMU students did on me n my cats, more for their school projects on *Society Responsibilities* & they interviewed me n a few other pple who adopt cats or volunteers to look after them.

Some of the lovely photos!

Grooming Creamie...

"High Five" with Nugget!

Took some really nice photos of Creamie!

The hue of this photo is so nice....

The "KISS-KISS" stance with Creamie!

Treats time for being such great kiddo!

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Watch LIVE 林俊杰 JJ LIN JUN JIE!!!

Was invited by Ellen to catch 林俊杰 JJ LIN JUN JIE - LIVE!!!

Ok, most of his older songs I will know, but the newer ones I havent heard them much cos dun listen to chinese radio stations. But he is really talented & cool! Like Singapore's Wang Lee Hom!!!

Anyway, while waiting for ellen to pick me & Starry up....

*Finally got chance to wear the hat that Starry bot for me for Xmas!

Here goes!!

Love this song he performed:

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Anyway, sidetrack abit... showing u this interesting video me & Starry took abt walnuts...
Yes.... W-A-L-N-U-T-S!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Finished 戀愛女王 - Love Queen

Finally finished watching this taiwanese drama series...
Lotsa agony watching this cos my internet connection is too slow to watch at nite n wkends. So can only watch in the day time.... but also gd lah, accompany me when I am doing work online. =D

*戀愛女王 - Love Queen*

Never cross a woman. Ten years ago, Zuo Shao Tang humiliated Zhang Jin Han in front of the entire school and left her unlucky for the next ten years. Ten years later, they meet again but he does not recognise her. How will the bewildered Zuo Shao Tang escape her vengence? Zhang Jin Han, for her part, suddenly finds herself sharing her new home with two unwelcome roommates.

Zhang Jin Han is a career woman recently divorced from her unfaithful husband. Hoping to leave behind her painful past and take control of her love life, she moves out and rents a new apartment which turns out to be just next door to Shao Tang. In a surprise arrangement, she finds herself sharing her apartment with two other girls: Liang Jia Xin, a confident runaway daughter of a rich businessman who made a bet with her father that she could stand on her own, and Yu Qiao Le, a simple village lady who came to the city to pursue her dreams of becoming a skating queen.

Three women, three dreams, three love stories. What sort of problems and changes lay ahead for these three unlikely roommates?

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It's a nice drama, funny but lotsa tears also, is it cos I'm a cry baby?! Anyway, I love the actress Cheryl Yang, very natural. Funny she alwis act roles that depict her a older woman, successful, shrewd but kind hearted deep down, then have to overcome dating some1 younger.... she looks young leh, though not the bubblegum candy kinda SweetYoungThing. =D

The one on the extreme right is Cheryl Yang 楊謹華.

She acted in the previous drama I watched: My Queen / 敗犬女王.

I specially searched for the drama acted by her & came upon this series... she's cute lah. Oh, I found out she's born in 1977. Means she is 33 yrs old this year, no wonder she has a mature stylo milo elegant look n air abt her... =D Likey her!

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Watched *HACHIKO* finally!

This one really made me cry buckets.... even when in between I had to pause the movie to change screen to check on my trading... even when I am watching from my lappy n minimised window of abt 4" wide... my tshirt was at least soaked in tears n heavier by 35%. *Sniff*

Catch it! Definitely not just for the Animal Lovers!

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Everyone, keep me in ur prayers... I spent the past week worrying abt my future, my work, $ mainly. So much so that i was not even motivated to train, skipped training, purposing sleeping in later than usual, giving myself 1 million n 1 reason to skip training or leaving the house.

Hope my work will be smooth going, fingers crossed... traded 2 days this week liao... so far it's rated decent or mayb even gd. The thing abt trading is this. it's never abt money.... cos if I am right, money is just a by-product of the method I used. the tricky part is this, method is not 100%, in fact, it's probably only abt 5%. Strange it may sound, but it's 95% psychological...

I alwis believe there is no fool proof method/strategy to do trading, it's really individual's style. If trading can be 100% mechanical, human would have come up with a system or software, auto trade, why do we still need analysts, bankers, brokers, trader to manual do the work?

Analysis is Psychological, market forces is driven by human sentiment. We all read recently that Sterling Pound (GBP) is at the 1 yrs' low. Sentiment is THROW all the pounds that u are holding of cos!! No 1 wants to hang on to a sinking boat! Technically, it's only 1yrs low - it simply means that 13 mths ago, this was not the case. Is Pound really weak Fundamentally? No, but still it will drop like crazy. This is FEAR.

Same thing as New Highs in the market. U BELIEVE it will go higher... U BUY more cos this is the market sentiment, but what happened to the possible BUBBLE BURST? Still people worry and consider abt it, but majority still BUY! This is GREED.

Fear n greed drives the Market, not fundamentals.As a trader, I dun wanna care abt fundamentals. I only wanna know what do every one feel & i will hop onto the same wagon going towards the General direction! Dun swim against the current in other words!

On the other hand, I must not get too sentimental... esp with company stocks... i may knw that this company is very gd etc, fundamentals etc, good ratings, earnings, P/E etc. But what really matters is whether the chart is nice looking or not! So what if the chart pattern is not very nice? Drop it! U may have heard this"but but.... fundamentals very gd leh! Sure will go up 1!" Who can guarantee? I dun care even what the company does etc. Cos if the chart is nt nice, cfm the company not gd! If the chart is good looking, cfm the company gd - even if I dun know WTF the company does! The chart reveals the Market sentiments of the company already! Dun need fundamentals!

Any traders out there? Share with me what u think leh!?!

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God, hear my prayers! =D

Monday, March 8, 2010

My Quest for Immortality visit...

Visited the *Quest for Immortality - The World of Ancient Egypt* at the National Museum of Singapore today! COOL!

Love it when I have the luxury to visit museums on weekdays, minus the wkend crowd! Of cos a different kinda crowd I ran into, tourist crowd + school kids groups! This week Starry is on leave so we decided to beat the crowd & chiong to the museum 1st thing in the morning!

So envious of the school kids! During my days, the only places we visited were the Zoo, Bird Park n Botanic Gardens... in Primary school alone - I visited the Zoo thrice! Not that I am complaining, it's just that as though Singapore only had these educating places!

We ran into kids from Preschoolers (probably from International school cos they were of all different colors!), secondary teenagers (some girls school bah, cos alot of bitchy commotion - sory to those from girls school reading this, u know what I mean), tourists etc.

We were lucky cos there was a scheduled Museum tour to intro to us the exhibits, learn more this way! What I love most abt these tours are that they are very informative, providing details we can never read from the description cards, plus we can ask questions! Curators of the exhibits are seldom ard, who else knws the exhibits better than them!? I remb in Italy, Rome, Sistine chapel, catholic museum etc, some of the guides were students who earn a living part time, they charge extortion price lor! But then again, they know THEIR history so well! How many of us can claim to know Singapore history well enough to stand duty at the Singapore Museum and be guides?! Only a handful bah.... & we take History as complusory subjects in School... shame on myself... haiz...

Anyway, it was great! Check it out! MASTERCARD has 50% discount so it's only $8.50 instead of $15. Even a movie ticket costs more on a weekend! It's definitely a Great deal!

Mummified Cat.... OH NOOOOOO!!!

A "Mummy" Mummy...

Xray of the Above exhibit.

She probably passed on during labour, there were 2 infant probably twins mummified tog with her as shown in the Xray... poor thing

Canopic jars for placing the internal organs while they do the embalming of the corpse...

So this is how it looks like after 1st stage of Mummification...

Just the bandages...

This is the Book of Dead (Manual for the afterlife)

It's aka the 10-years series to get pass the stages of Judgement so that u can go to Paradise/heaven...

Chim....

Close up on 1 section:

This is the rich man's version, buy of the shelf & write in the name of deceased, then buried together. The scroll is rather long, probably 6-7 metres writen on Papyrus paper.