It rained so heavily in the morning I could not go anywhere. I could not even log on to the internet. Takut kilat. Continued with my sleep instead. Woke up at about 3-00 pm. Did some graphics using PSP. On my 674th day of a 30-day trial period...hahahaha. Worked on my Q & A page, had the earlier part ,Part 1 separated from Part 2, too long now. I received a few mails (with questions) within the last few weeks and didn't really put much effort to update that page. I'm a bit surprised to know that page has become favourite to some. Maybe because the answers are very honest, the answers that come straight from my heart. I keep reading Part 2 from time to time.
Agnes and Andrew were at the office tonight. She asked Andrew to liquidate one of the positions but I advised them not to do so. Dangerous. Their sustaining power is only 1.5 points. My equity is bigger and yet I don't have the guts to enter market. Not this time, thank you very much.
Went for drinks with Andrew and Dominic just after midnight. Had a nice conversation with Andrew, he used to live overseas for more than 10 years, and that was (probably) the reason why I found it easier to talk to him. I'm talking about open-mindness here, ok?. He was worried about his account, in a pretty bad (another nice oxymoron?) shape I must say. He blamed our Business Manager for messing with his account. Well, "that guy" messes with everyone else's accounts, including mine. Andrew was a bit surprised;
Andrew: ,"But you look so cool, so confident, you know your stuff well".
Me:"Yea, because no one knows what's inside me, no one knows know how much I hate him, he made myself a living hell. He really did.
Andrew:So you have your own agenda, huh?
Me:No, but I'm going to stay a bit longer and find out who the real monkey is and at the same time try to make some money. I have hopes, very high hopes. Success is the best revenge.
Andrew:Just play your cards well.
Me:Sure, my brain is bigger than his.
It was a dramatic finish tonight, price tumbled (after playing sideways since opening) within 20 minutes. Hmmm....where have all the bulls gone? Dead?
Saturday 26/6/1999
Interesting. Very interesting fact indeed. I only uttered a few words today, less than 10. What? Yea, I only uttered a few bloody words today. OK,lemme see..woke up at 1-30 pm, went for lunch at 2-30 pm, it was a self-service restaurant. I merely said, "How much?"...and that was not even a sentence. OK, 2 words so far. Then to Seven Eleven, bought 2 newspapers and paid without saying a word. The counter girl did not say anything, she did not even thank me. This is Malaysia, unlike in other countries where customers are kings. Here, you will get scolded if you don't have enough change. It really hurts to be scolded by Post
Office clerks, Seven-Eleven counter girls etc for nothing.
OK, where was I? Then I went home, didn't go out again until 6-30 pm. Took a spin around Shah Alam, until Maghrib. To Section 9 for dinner at 10-00 pm, I remember saying, "One fried rice, one iced lemon tea"...9 words all together, huh...and there was no phone calls, I did not make any. So basically it was a quiet Saturday but I was not bored. My mind was busy thinking, it was fully "occupied"....*LOL*
My life's changed a lot since doing this commodity thingy. My social life is zero at the moment. Problem is that I work nights, from 8 pm to 2-00 am. Then I will log on to the internet to check on market reports. Will only go to bed after 6-00 am. Wake up at about midday, I feel "guilty" sleeping during day time. Not to mention about phone calls. Then I'll go for meals,aku makan sekali je, malam aku makan something light.Tak ada selera.
Weekend is lagi teruk ,tonight, for example. Was in bed at midnight and couldn't bring myself to sleep. Wasted about 2 hours counting sheeps. I should have counted bulls instead...hahaha... It's now 6-30 am and I'm ready to go to bed. Meaning I will miss half of Sunday.Malam esok lagi teruk, I hate Sunday nights.
Sunday 27/6/1999
Oh, my eyes, my eyes....I went to bed this morning without taking my contact lenses off! And only realised this when I was about to put my glasses on after shower. No wonder I had a very good dream! Very clear, I could see every single detail...until my dream turned into a nightmare of course.... And while frantically trying to nurse my already-devilish-red eyes, I lost one of the lenses. Drattttsss. I didn't spend much time or give extra effort in trying to locate it. Just wasting my time.Ini kali ke 4 aku hilang my lenses, 4 times in 2 years.
Je ne sais jamais prendre le grand soin de mes choses. Yesterday for example, I stepped on my Omega zip drive driver tool. And last week, I accidently burnt my favourite Pierre Balmain shirt while doing my ironing. To say I'm not a very organised person is really an insult to myself. And to find someone to take care of this Zainal guy won't solve the problem either....
So, off I went to Shah Alam Malls. Tried a few coloured lenses, dark brown, royal brown etc.I even tried putting on green lenses. Man, I looked like the incredible hulk. We had a very good giggles. I finally opted for tinted lenses, not so dark - make my dark brown eyes more darker. Hopefully Sara won't call me "cat-eyes man" anymore after this.
Again, I stayed up all night long. Took me a few hours to figure out what went wrong with my coding. My old journal archive has a calendar which shows all the dates in tabulated form. And it was written in css language. Now I need to modify here and there for instead of wasting my time doing a new one I might as well use that page for my current entries. Easy. No. Not quite. I had to print out the table and its codes. 10-page long, the codes. Wow. Looks like I'll have a lot of things to learn. But I kind of like it, it keeps my mind working. I'm not the kind of guy who gives up very easily. Oh, I don't know. Maybe I will this time.
Had my ICQ running while on-line. A nice visitor by the name of Michael from British Virgin Island paged me and we chatted for a while. Strange, I was checking some pages on companies in Tortola, BVI a few minutes before. Our Headquarter is situated there in Tortola, but I couldn't get any information about the company on the 'net. That doesn't mean they don't exist. Maybe they are too busy making money to be on the 'net.
Oh,almost forgotten...
Hi RiRi...so, what's the story, morning glory?....go get a life !!...*LOL*
Monday 28/6/1999
It rained again at about midday, it poured like nobody's business. I was stucked at Anjung Cafe, Section 9 for almost 2 hours. Killed the time by reading newspapers.
"Guthrie Turns To "Dolly Parton" For Greater Yields", - read one article in the business section.Guthrie Plantations is to plant "Dolly Parton" oil palms - shorter trees with bigger fruits - to increase yields and boost profits."Dolly Parton as you know is well known for her ...",the General Manager laughed without finishing her sentence, when asked about the nickname of the trees".Lawaknya....
I was bombarded with ICQ messages/urls while checking my usual commodity-related websites this evening. I didn't realise my ICQ was on "free-for-chat" mode. I just ignored them and clicked on the x button. I was more interested in reading news about Colombian peso devaluation. But the messages kept coming in. He/she wrote, "Something tempting inside, check it out,please" Oh, I can resist anything BUT temptation (*LOL*) so I clicked on the accept button. Voila....well, as expected...another porno webcam site. Hmmm...my online life is far more exciting than my real life......
Nothing exciting happened tonight, market was dull. It didn't break 100.00 mark, maybe tomorrow. With surplus stock at various US warehouses, warmer weather in Brazil and currency devaluation (Colombian peso), market looks certain to plunge again. Unless US speculators do something about it. Hope they will.
And thanks to hotdog software, I managed to do the calendar for my journal archive. It looks like this:
Rushed to Maybank to bank-in Ariffin's money, his profits for June 1999. 5K, hmm....my investors are making more money than I am.I'm still waiting for the right time to strike it rich, maybe soon.I'm keeping both eyes wide open on the Brazilian weather reports. Stastic says that if we put a buy(s) before 15th July and sell before 29th August, we bound to make lots of money. That analysis has been right for the last 16 years. So I better not to rush into things and put buys so soon. Not now,the market is nervous, so am I.
Reached the office a bit early tonight. Had to park my car right beside Wisma Genesis, oh, paid 3 ringgit to the jaga kereta boy. It's a common thing here, these drugs addicts won't budge unless we pay them some money. Or else your car will be scratched, at least. And who am I to complain?Besides, my complains will only fall on deaf ears. And most of the officers are deaf and mute. So,I just choose to suffer in silence.
Dominic and Kumar were early tonight. Spent the first half an hour analysing charts, way back to records for the last 22 years, the time when coffee price reached all-time record high.
It was a very interesting session indeed, price dropped to below 100 point, bounced back and closed higher.
Wednesday 30/6/1999
I don't feel like writing today, too tired. Besides, market was cruel. It opened high, shot to 105.00 and played sideways until 10 mins before closing. And it tumbled. I nearly peed in my pants. Lucky I did not enter any new positions.