Yesterday I did not receive any calls,not even one.But today,wow,the
battery had to be recharged twice. Subra, Haji Ramli, Abang Din,
Andrew, Agnes, Mie, Chris, Azizan and a few others.One after another.
Azizan
called and asked me to collect my statement of final account.
Yes,after more than 4 years of waiting.I quickly rushed to SIRIM
but he was nowhere to be found.I just sat there at the lobby of
Block 9 until 4-15 pm,waiting for him.Like a fool. He finally
appeared when I was about to leave.Since it was already late,
promised him to return the statement tomorrow.Oh,I have to go and
get En Mahadi's signature tomorrow morning,he's my business partner.Or maybe he was.
I don't know how long it will take
SIRIM to prepare the payment,a few months probably.Too bad
I don't like to grease their palms.
I was all nervous tonight,Tim and his men were giving a preview
to a group of investors,and it went on right until market time.
Coffee went up the
first 45 mins and one of the "high muckamucks" liquidated
his position with some profits ( about 3 K ) and I could see him ( from afar )
grinning from ear to ear.He even shook hands with everyone.Lucky
I was in the other room with Dominic or else we would have been
made a laughing stock for not entering market.
He showed them his buying script.They were so impressed.Price then played sideways for half and hour,only to turn south and tumbled.
Our hero was so confident the price would go up,he did not lock his buying position,he even left before closing time.
Price headed further south and his position was locked automatically by the principal office because of insufficient funds.Basically,he is now out of the market.He has to pump in some money to re-activate his account.
I don't know why I'm telling you this,yeah,I'm a bad guy,laughing at other people's misfortune.But this is nothing compared to what he did to us.
And it's none of your business to know what.
Friday 13/8/1999
I stayed on-line for 4 straight hours until 6-30 am this morning.Not really checking news/reports,just aimlessly surfing some sites.
To Port Klang to see En Mahadi at 4-30 pm, Mie was not there,working probably. I did not even ask him.This En Mahadi guy is a real UMNO supporter,or should I say, a real Mahathir's man.He spoke very highly of him.Little did he know that was probably the most boring conversation I ever had with him.Well,I did not say much.There you go UMNO,one vote in the kitty.
Did not have much time to check on market reports today.Left for work at 7-45 pm, had dinner at Anjung Cafe, Shah Alam and reached the office just 5 mins before trading session began. Traffic was heavy tonight,that was the reason why it took me nearly an hour to reach KL.
I nearly fainted when checking latest news on commodityexpert.com, there was a newsflash about possibility of frost in Brazil (North Parana and Minais Gerais). Price opened 4 points higher than yesterday's closing and within 15 mins it was already 102-00.
Oh god,we had been waiting for this moment to come, we were hoping for the price to keep on moving north....only to read another newsflash on bridge.com forecasting coolest temperature will only be around -1 degree Celsius,and warmer temperature will return by Tuesday.
Price dropped slightly and played within the range until about 5 minutes before closing when it lost a few points and closed at 98-00.
Cotton showed downward sign only to pick up again and closed slightly lower than yesterday's.
I'm logging off now,going to have some sleep.I'm seeing Azizan later before driving to Raub to spend the weekend with my parents.
Saturday 14/8/1999
Managed to submit my statement of final account before 11-00,Azizan
was not in so I left the document on his table.There was some kind
of "sports carnival" going on at SIRIM,everyone was wearing t-shirt
and track bottom.
Took us more than an hour to get out from KL,traffic was heavy and
Nuar took the new short-cut which did not seem like a short-cut at
all.
Teh and the family arrived an hour before and Ida and hers about 2
hours after.
Went to Pak Chu's (my uncle) house just after
Maghrib.My grandma was there too,she agreed to follow me
home.
There was a talk (ceramah) organized by
opposition parties, PAS,DAP,Keadilan and PRM about 1 km away.The 4 of us,me,Pak,Nuar
and Idris decided to just walk because there were far too many
cars.It was a good one,really an eye-opener.The one by one DAP
representative especially.I've never been to
ceramah by any DAP leaders before.We saw many outsiders,Chinese
mainly,and a few Indians.
It ended at 11-45 pm,had tea at one of the stalls there and went home.Logged on for about 10 mins,just for the sake of being on the 'net before going to bed.
Sunday 15/8/1999
Don't feel like writing much tonight,a bit tired actually.
Don't feel good too,probably because I had too much of sambal tumis tempoyak,lemang and rendang.Reached Shah Alam
at 6-00 and spent the rest of the evening watching live telecast of
SEA Games Closing Ceremony,Brunei Darussalam.
Monday 16/8/1999
Went to KL by commuter train this morning,to RHB Bank to collect my credit card.They sent me 2 reminders,if I didn't collect it by this week then the card will be cancelled.
I was glued to my laptop the whole day today,checking quotewatch.com, they had weather newsflash every 10 mins or so.Frost did occur in certain parts of coffee growing areas in Brazil but the intensity was not that great,no damage was reported.
Too bad it happened on Sunday.
Binews.com gave a totally different story alltogether.They predicted the opening price on London and New York Exchanges to be sharply higher and on Tokyo Exchange to limit up.
They were all wrong,except commodityexpert.com which carried a slightly different theory and prediction.Looks like I have to renew my subscription to commodityexpert.com which is expiring soon.
Price opened 375 points lower,and dived to 94.60,played sideways and tumbled to a new contract low of 89-30 (lowest in 5 years).
Tuesday 17/8/1999
Well, I didn't do anything today.It has been one of those days that I didn't get
anything accomplished even though I really should have
busted ass to get some stuff done.Example:my charts have not been updated,
the papers,scripts etc - scattered everywhere,reports have not been printed.The list goes on and on.
I'm noticing this is
becoming a trend this week, and I'm sick of it already.
I get bored just remembering what I did today, which was sit
on the couch and read some magazines. Basically, I'm becoming a worm.
I don't like it. I've set goals for myself for
this week. I'm going to get them done, or not go to bed until
I do because I need the sense of accomplishment, and I must finish
them this week. I have to.
I think the second is probably less important to
me at this point. I don't like feeling as though I have
accomplished nothing at the end of the day. I have to do
something, and I've done two full days of nothing. It's starting
to get to me.
But maybe first I want to go out and dissolve myself in the water of a drying
puddle, in the breath of someone decent,clean and healthy.
No dark thoughts, no paranoia, no lost hours of sleep.
Just plain clean, serene and empty.
I still feel bad about what happened at the office today.I
lost my temper,and I lost it infront of the guys I trust the
most,Dominic and Andrew.
Werner was pulling my legs but he sounded so serious I thought he really was.And
he kept repeating it.I felt like a fool.C'mon...I'm not that dumb.
I'm not even blond for god sake!
I don't know why I threw my tantrum just like that.Sometimes I get offended very easily.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.