Sky

Sky, why sky for the title of the blog?

Coz I'm the author, See Kwan Yong.

What about to infinity and beyond?

Just a catchy quote from Toy Story. If you remember Buzz...the toy who thought he could fly but he can't and finally could, artificially.

Drink

Felt kinda weird today after a glass of beer yesterday.

So shall not drink beer anymore.

Red wine, anyone? :D

Blessed

Felt blessed as our cell leader wrote me and Rachel a short note each, encouraging us.

This is part of it. Hope it encourages you too. :)

Never again will I confess 'I can't', for
" I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me ." (Phil 4:13)

Never again will I confess lack, for
" My God shall supply all of my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." (Phil 4:19)

Never again will I confess weakness, for
"The Lord is the strength of my life." (Psalms 27:1)

Never again will I confess defeat, for
" God always causeth me to triump in Christ Jesus." (2nd Cor 2:14)

Never again will I confess worries and frustration, for
" I am casting all my care upon Him who careth for me." (1st Peter 5:7)

Never again will I confess condemnation, for
" There is now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8:1)

Dreams

Do you keep it to yourself or tell others?

When you tell others, others might poke fun at you for it.

When you don't tell others, it feels a bit selfish.

Oh ya, I'm talking about life's dreams, not that one you make when you're sleeping. :P

Agriculture

This suddenly cross my mind again.

Suddenly felt like going back to lead a small town life, doing agricultural stuffs for a living.

Things I can think of that I can do:

1. Rare cattles

2. Build fish farms

3. Do bird farms

4. Plant oil palm/grass for cattles

Emmm... I must be missing Malaysia/Malacca/Segamat.

Stocks - Experiment on Titan

I'll start a new tag on stocks since I foresee that I'll be writing more columns about them.

Reading a technical analysis book now by John. L. Person. There are quite some examples of candle charts, explaining what they indicate and stuffs like that.

Ok. Let me apply what I learnt on the spot.

Stumbled upon cari's chinese forum and found some discussion about Titan. So it'll make a good candidate then.

Plucked this out from TheStar.


3 months candle charts with volume indication (hope Nexus is ok with this since it's a personal blog)

After trying my best to furnish it with some candle chart indicators.


1. (not so clear)Hammer/Hanging man - indicator of a reversal. (but notice the next day it still tries to go up but got drag back down?)
2. bullish engulfing pattern - black follow by white with white opening at lower than previous low.
3. reaching previous resistance and forming a clear hammer - reversal and 'boh lat' to break resistance
4. gravestone - suppose to indicate a reversal (since it's also confirmed by a new low start on the next trading day) but somehow the next next day the trend is upward. How to explain leh?

Just started with some new learn kung fu, so it's not accurate. Do not take all these as an indication to buy/sell since it's the author's own opinion (I wrote as if thousands of people are reading my blog :P)

Just for some simulation, I'll go for a buy tomorrow @ 1.38 based on the strong uptrend and it broke the previous resistance. It should be forming a '3 white soldiers' tomorrow.

Let's review this tomorrow again.

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Reviewed on 22 May 2008

And voila.... my prediction is wrong. Titan closed at 1.32. If I'd gone in @ 1.38 @RM2k, I'll be losing a few meals there. :P ( approximately RM100 including transaction fees)




And I have no idea what trend is this. Anyway, I remembered there's this technical analysis expert that says: if there's a gap in candle chart when price move up and down, it'll tend to cover up the gap. So the gap is 1.30-1.31, let's review again to see whether the trend will cover this gap or not. :)

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26/5/2008

Price for Titan as of today is 1.31. One step closer to the gap.

By the way, for technical analysis to be more convincing, the trading have to be substantial also. And looking at Titan, the volume is somewhat small.

I'll choose another stock to do my TA on. Maybe Equine?

*****
28/5/2008


Looks like the gap is already close. Will it form a reverse neck and shoulder?

Anyway I'll try to do a fundamental analysis on it sometime this week. Maybe there's an external factor that made the share price drop?

Interesting stuffs about Malaysia...

NATIONAL EXCUSE FOR HAIR LOSS:
Maggi Mee.

NATIONAL EXCUSE FOR BEING LATE:
Traffic Jam.

NATIONAL CONDOM:
None. Most Malaysians still feel embarrassed buying condoms.

So they rush into a 7-11, hurriedly grab the nearest pack,

any pack, pay and leave before the cashier can even blink an eye.

NATIONAL FRUIT FOR INDUCING MENSTRUATION:
Pineapple

NATIONAL APHRODISIAC DRINK:
Stout. Many swear by it.

But after a few pints they start

swearing at everything.. .

NATIONAL FAKE ILLNESS FOR GETTING MC (MEN):
Food Poisoning.

NATIONAL FAKE ILLNESS FOR GETTING MC (WOMEN):
Menstrual Pain

NATIONAL EXCUSES GIVEN BY WOMEN WHEN REFUSING SEX:
Headache, kids not asleep, maid not asleep, mother-in-law around, early
appointment, period, haven't removed make-up, haven't had a shower, no water
supply, going to watch 'Desperate Housewives', depressed, no mood, etc...

NATIONAL EXCUSES GIVEN BY MEN WHEN REFUSING SEX:
None. Malaysian men never refuse sex. (oh ya??)

NATIONAL CURE FOR HEADACHES :
Panadol. The 'cure for all'. If it fails we have another secret weapon;
Tiger Balm.

NATIONAL CURE FOR DIZZINESS:

Minyak Angin Cap Kapak.

NATIONAL CAUSE OF DIZZINESS (FOR YUPPIES):
Happy Hours.

NATIONAL INSTANT CURE FOR DIZZINESS (FOR YUPPIES):
The sight of a police roadblock.

NATIONAL RUBBISH DUMP:
Anywhere. As long as it is not your house.

NATIONAL MOST MIS-PRONOUNCED NAME:
Carrefour. Sometimes even pronounced as Carry 4!

On second thought, why bother pronouncing stupid French brands like Peugeot, Renault or Citroen correctly. I think it sounds better,when the local mechanics say 'Pew Jeot'. When I was in school, Milo was always 'MeeLo', now that I'm sophisticated, I say 'My Lo'. So don't be embarassed saying 'Carry 4' when the ! Mat Sallehs shamelessly pronounce orang utan as 'rangootan'.

NATIONAL ROADSIDE DISTRACTION:
The Bra-less Tourist. See how heads turn and traffic slows down when a bra-less Mat Salleh backpacker goes 'bouncing' about on the streets.
haha...

Memorizing scriptures

I remember telling my cell leader and some members during a small discussion that we will start to memorize some scriptures.

So I'm trying to start off with memorizing one/two verse at a week.



Isaiah 40: 30-31 (NKJV)
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
31 But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.

A lot of times in our daily life, we just start off solving our daily problems on our own strength. Most often when we realized the problem is too big for us to handle alone, then we would get panic, appear lost and even despair. Out of desperation, we cry out to God for help.

What about some reversal of sequence? We wait on the LORD for a word for direction, drawing our daily necessary strength from Him, waiting on Him for His Spirit to speak to us. Then we start our day, and when problems arises we know that He's there to help us through the situation.

Focus

I seemed to get distracted very easily.

What I need to develop is a laser-like focus to make an impact to the things I'm doing.



I'll be focusing on my SMU's Masters in Applied Finance course and to get my CFA certification.
While reading on finance related books to boost my knowledge in finance as well. I'll also have to choose some particular area of finance to focus on.

So forgive me if I do bring my finance books around, I don't meant to gave an impression as one below.

Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core

This is a game post.

Finished this game 2 days ago. Was a good game, story was a kinda short. Super long missions which somehow made you feel the game is long enough.

The game developer likes to leave some questions mark here and there for the story line, and you can't believe there are forums arguing debating on who likes who, who more powerful among the characters and so on.

I still remember playing FF7 10 years go after I finished my SPM. Was a great game at that time. Wonder if 10 years later they'll come out with FF7: xxx. I guess I'll be too old for games then. Another thought, I might be still gaming at that age. :D

Till then...


From left : Cloud, Zack, Aerith and Sephiroth

Yay, it's Friday.

Some jokes someone posted in forum. Just to share...

SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows, so you give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM / WALL-STREET JOURNALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire rich on the income.

MALAYSIAN BUMIPUTRAISM: You have two cows, the State takes one and gives it to your bumiputra neighbour. From the milk you sell from the
remaining cow you buy a bull and mulitply your herd. The State take 30 per cent of your herd as it grows and give them to your bumiputra neigbour.
Your bumiputra neighbour has a kenduri each time they receive a cow.

UMNOPUTRAISM : The State takes 30 per cent of your herd and parks them in Switzerland in the name of some UMNO official or close relatives, friends and sons-in-law. (UMNO)

MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT LINKED OR BUMIPUTRA CORPORATION : You have two cows. You employ mainly bumiputras to milk them. But both cows have been sent to the kenduri, so the State gives you more cows and write off the losses of the first two. After several kenduris later, you invite an American or German Corporation to turnaround the losses. The Japanese have however already taken their two original cows back home to Japan .

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.Later, you hire a consultant to
analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the
release. The public buys your bull.

A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the
milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimon’ and market it worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are. You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows because you’re sobering up and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5,000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINA CORPORATION: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. Both are mad.

IRAQI CORPORATION: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy….

IRISH CORPORATION: You have two cows…or is it three? What matters? Aren’t you well off to have even one?

Back to Malacca

Woo hoo... can't wait to get back to Malacca. :)

Looking forward

So often in life we tend to look backwards and thought we had done good enough.

Staying in the past is dangerous; though part of it may serve as a history lesson to remind us from committing the same mistakes over again, another part of it might resulting us thinking of the 'good old days' and made us despair.

Look what I found when I googled for 'good old days'

Bing told me: What MMU? I'd almost forgotten all about it.

I was complaining to Bing about the standard and reputation of the university that might have made me fail in my application to NTU and NUS. When I went for SMU's interview for Masters program, the director did asked me: So how's this MMU? From that type of question, you can roughly guess how reputable MMU is, especially when it comes out from the mouth of academician.

Perhaps it was my GMAT scores. As far as I'm concern, I'm quite satisfied with it. Took 2 weeks to prepare for it seriously, and I got 660/800. The part that I did not do well was the verbal part (English sentence correction etc.)

Whatever it is, I thank God for being admitted into SMU's MAF. It doesn't matter much to me now on what's the reason of not being accepted into NUS and NTU's MFE.

Looking forward matters. I'm looking forward and will be focusing on walking the path that had been decided for me.

Thanks Bing, for the unintended inspiration. ;)

Happy birthday

...to this blog...

Talking about birth, my ex-colleague/current colleague/future ex-colleague is going to give birth soon. Her blog.

Decided to write something since my wife is a frequent blogger, just want to catch up with her in blogging. Though that might be a futile attempt.

I'm now working in Singapore, and the truth is, I'm quite happy in Singapore itself (provided I don't think much about where should I land myself in in the future) Things are pretty organize and comfortable here(yes Mdm. Lee, except for the limited space of room we're staying in). You can see pretty much that I'm enjoying life by gaining much weight during my one year stay here(looking at how the gluttons eat the amount of food posting in my wife's blog).

Maybe I should change the blog name to JasonEats.blogspot.com instead. :D