Look at what I found...

Today I set upon the Herculan task of tidying up my table in the living room.

Before that my Dad offered to drive to East Coast cos he was bored. He wanted to jio us to go out together. But none of us wanted to head there. I went there just yesterday. Yingel was doing her work that was due. Geoky wanted to go Swirve-boarding at West Coast Park instead.

Plus if I went with him, I would definitely put off tidying up my table until god knows when, the next blue and full moon perhaps.

I started near 2pm, and just finished around 10pm. There was so much accumulated dust and things to sort through, tonnes of mail, books, comics, IT warranty stuff, bits of it here and there. Had to wipe, throw, sort out, set to dry, organize, even reminiscent through when I flipped through the stuff to look at. I can say, I did throw out and sort through most of the stuff on my actual table and under my table. Its cleaner and more organized that I can finally see the table top.

I am now left with the side of the table, the box I used to store bags, books and stuff, plus the room, the shelves in the room, the bed area, my clothes and storage boxes. Its time to get rid of clunky stuff.

Guess what I found?

An urn!

Remember this?





If I should be cremated, I would like to be put into this container from my budding artist friend, Tab. Nicely done, with name and even my favourite guitar, which is still true today. I think all of the gang has one "urn" each.

I still remember Krynnder's reaction when she got hers and we looked at each other with a knowing look. Then she said "urn". Both of us were doing the "praying to our urns" actions with the Valentine's rose we got. LOL =P

Well, think I will continue with part 2 of the cleaning up on Tuesday. Tom supposed to go crash at Candle's office. Before that I would have to make a trip to the salvation army to give away the stuff I've packed, check out the pharmancy to collect more medicine, go to the closing I-shop on the way there. Then go for lunch. I wonder if there's enough time?

Hmm... see how things go. Should I bring my guitar to practice? Or full day of stock tracking? But guitar heavy leh, today I practiced until my fingers pain... think I should bring my stock book to read too. Okay, tom is a purely stock day.

Date crashing, Beach bumming and Furniture hunting

A busy busy day indeed.

I woke up, shortly after brushing my teeth and washing my face, my dad asked me if I wanted to go to IMM. Since my holidays have finally officially started, I decided to go. I drank my water and changed to go.

He was sending my sister for her Er Hu lesson, then turn and drive to IMM. We ate breakfast, went banking to clarify issues and shopped at Giant. I chanced upon long and short burmudas, bought 5 at a shot, $5 each, 4 shorter, 1 longer. Also bought 2 sleeveless tops, $7 each for the bloody hot weather. My older sleeveless going-out shirts seemed to have fallen out of shape with age.

My plan after I reached home, changed out, was to catch up with some sleep. Still feeling the effects of fatique and was lying in bed listening to my FF music (still havent finished the 5 albums)

Shortly, I heard my phone and picked up. It was Quetzal, she's near my home, heading to East Coast, meeting up with Tab to go 'crash' Candle and FH's "date". Huh? Okay, I got dressed and picked out a long bermuda and the white sleeveless top to wear. The weather is bloody sunny and hot, plus going to East Coast, a fitting outfit.

My youngest sister suggested excitely to buy the Swirve Board, that we tried the other time. Its $79. We decided to share between us both, but all 3 of us can use. Okay, I headed out with my visor (man, its really nice to wear something to block out the sun, really worth the money for the visor)

We headed to Tab's place. Her dad's reaction when he saw Quetzal and me was "Where are you going?" Cos I was obviously very casual, Quetzal smart-casual and Tab was kinda Orchard-going clothes. After that, we headed to buy cat food and litter sand. Brought them up to her place and she changed into more casual clothes. Then we headed down to East Coast.

Its a nice sunny and hot day. The type where the skies are very clear with a bit of clouds, and the sun shines hotly down upon you. There were many many people at the beach as usual. We headed to eat Korean BBQ, though the 3 of us had set lunch, FH and Candle shared the BBQ. I stuck to my no-beef policy. The food was surprisingly good.

After, we headed to the shop I saw the other time and bought a Red swirveboard, with a set of guards (after they reminded me, I was not getting any younger) Then I had to "demo" to them what I had "achieved" the other time. Previously had less than an hour of practice with my sisters when we rented 2 swirveboards.

I could mount the board rather easily, but getting it to swirve is another thingy. I was doing the more 'S' shape thingy (which they termed butt-shaking) but a lady stopped and gave some pointers, watched that she alternated her feet only. Hmm... that is something I have to practice and work on. I think I have done pretty well with less than 1 hour under my belt.

After they had their fun taking photos, videos... we headed to the coffee bean to stone in air con. Man, its really nice to stone away from the sunny sun. Near 5pm, we headed to Candle's area to search for Quetzal's bedframe. She needed one.

I had never done such intensive furniture shopping before. After we headed to Kaki Bukit industrial where there were a few warehouse/clearing sale. The most out-of-the-world experience came when we took the cargo lift, which seriously is kinda creepy, like those in-the-movies either supernatural or action film, whereby something pops up. LOL, the other out-of-world experience came when the cargo lift opened to this funky-looking furniture place, complete with bit of disco lighting and funky music. We were so surprised, with the WTH face? Huh?

After that, we drove to another place that had 2-3 furniture retailers but they were closed by then. Then picked up IR and headed to eat at Chomp chomp. After, I dropped off at Bishan and made my way home. I stoned on the bus back and it was either a quicker ride or I was so zonked out that I didnt realized time passing by. Reached home in one piece, bathed and now online.

Tom I WILL tidy up my outside table and my bedroom. There are serious things to throw, or give to Salvation Army. I need to clear space, make my things more organized, clear away those seriously old things that I didnt use for many years. A more organized place for me to "work", play, think and live in. Though the "work" I refered to refer more others than my real work.

http://www.ffdistantworlds.com/

The website for the Distant World music from FF. I went there to search out the cost of the CD, by USD is $14.99, equivalent to SGD$22 excluding shipping.

Then at the side bar, there is the mp3 to listen from the concert. Wow, does brings back memories of the concert. Maybe I should check out Esplanade, whether they had stocked up on it in that merchandise shop.

Was listening to the "Maria and Draco", damn dramatic sounding still. Surprisingly this CD is recorded by the performers in the SG concert. Think because it is the first stop. The earlier album which I just bought "More friends" is recorded in another country, I presume US concert.

My own card

Be getting my first card except Atm, which incidentally I have 3.

Am getting a debit card to get into the Apple I-tune store. Reason, Tab wasnt that comfortable with loaning me hers, though I did assure her I wont download "Sexy girls in Bikini" paying applications like nobody's biz. And I wont download "Sexy Japanese men in bikini" too... as if there are shuai ge applications >_>

But nevermind, get my own, so that I wont have too much consideration downloading paying applications eg Sexy girls in Bikini... or would much prefer Sexy Men. Anyway my sisters were dying to buy some stuff only available online eg hair shaver (private use) and all of us dont have cards. So put off, kiv very long. To avoid problems, I linked it to the bank account that I had set up and maintained specifically to pay all my insurance. So there isnt too much money inside and its very easy to monitor cos all my insurances are annual modes. Hence only near Nov-Dec then there are deductions.

Connecting to the wireless at home, I had scrolled through most of the apps. Mostly I will be getting those finance related, mainly things like a portfolio manager, but I am already using the original Stock inside and that is already good for me cos I had input all my portfolio counters inside. When I am out, can take a peep at times, though cant transact. But given the pricey stocks, plus the fact I am over-invested in one counter, I have to wait it out for much lower prices due to lowered capital. Also a more patient longer view would allow me to sit more comfortably through the upswings and downswings in the market. Maybe wait it out for more gains, which I hope to.

Think I be getting a portfolio mgt type that allows keying of lots of shares and prices to monitor, though I am already doing that on excel. Good to have a ready version to kiv when i am away from my laptop at times.

Another would be Exchange rate, Commodity prices tracking. These have impact on the stock market. Also allows me to know when to get ringgit at a glance.

Another would be Financial news, which are easily available through that app, instead of have to surf several webpages and search.

Another would be Personal finances/ expenses tracking. Which is useful cos I wanna make sure I can save more given my impending loss of income.

A couple of games, music apps, 4D and Toto app. That's about it. I think I remembered seeing some other apps that I would like to kiv but cant remember now.

All these would have to wait. The processing for debit card takes 2-3 weeks. I should kick myself to load my entire CD collection into Uruha... Havent started yet.

My holidays would begin after tomorrow's work has ended. This is very much a very delayed holiday, given Tab has already started hers. SIGNZ.

My plans would be to be actively online for next Monday til Friday during stock market hours. Of course inbetween would do other stuff and especially catch up on the reading of the Wave theory and even revisit the Technical analyis book. Next Friday is the drinking celebration for Bond-Free, plus guitar after, then flying off.

I have been thinking through the things to do after. So far really nothing is set in stone, though I am trying to think through and sort through the prospects and all the considerations. Uru's note function is very useful for this. Just type in some thoughts and save. Review and add on. Very useful indeed.

Accounting 'Magic" - the glass is half-full or half-empty

The last thing I remembered was telling myself to sleep earlier and not so late. Then when I woke up, I realized it was in the early morning cos I could hear my sister getting ready for work. The light in the room was left on cos I fell asleep on the bed trying to read the Wave Theory. I re-read the earlier pages to refresh, then read a little bit more and re-read the part just read again to try to commit to memory. At this stage, cos I am just reading the theory, certain things dont stick. When I have somewhat finshed, then its my turn to try Charting and reading them.

I woke up again and it was 9.30am. Login to poems and saw the amount outstanding for the yesterday's glitches... Signz. I had come to a 'somewhat' accounting solution.

I had 5 lots bought earlier under LT portfolio. That I would 'transfer' to ST portfolio instead (help to lower average cost of lots) and then 'transfer' 10 lots bought at higher prices to LT portfolio.

Effectively, I am 'using LT funds' to invest in more lots. Then the other 10 lots plus the 5 cheaper lots, I put under ST portfolio to do trading. Helped to lessen the amount of ST funds used, still have a little bit of ST funds left...

Anyway all those things above are just 'Accounting' methods to make the picture more rosey... I am sure for those who are more knowledgeable, they realize the 'NETT' effect is the same, which is the undeniable fact that I had many many lots and a huge chunk of investment capital in it...
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Using Uru, I was checking through the Apple applications. There are quite a number of free ones I wanna get, but dont have account... Bubu... Then there are seriously bizarre ones. Think there are useful ones, eg financial news, 4D, Toto numbers, guitar, games etc. Only see a couple of paid ones that I might be interested.

Money, money and money

Today I headed to the bank, to deposit the coins in the piggy bank. Had about 1.2k, intend to use this to top up my reserve amount and also to pay for the upcoming trip so that I 'dont feel like I had drawn from my reserve amt', but the main bulk was saved last year. I remembered wrapping up 1k of coins last year. This year, surprisingly I didnt save much $1 coins. Wonder is it cos I didnt dilligently put away the coins, which I did. Or that I am spending more of notes, that I dont get much coins back.

I loaded the coins into a normal plastic bag. Wow, it looks like a bag of gold.


Before I could put it into another plastic bag and load into my bag, it broke.


*(&$#(&#, have to pick them up and put into 3 bags. Then wasted more time. I was thinking, so much work for coins. Next round, I am doing the Tab's way, to save up $2 notes instead. First they are lighter, next I wont incurr transaction cost to bank in, dont have to specially go down on certain coin deposit days etc etc.

Finally done, and loaded into my bag. Seriously heavy. Definitely in the 15kg range cos I could feel the weight. Given my strength, 5-10kg is not an issue. It felt so heavy to carry in my backpack on both shoulders.



I heaved a sigh of relief once it was taken my the teller and banked in. Transaction cost of $5 which I gladly paid. Got my lunch then headed home. Shortly after, headed off to work.
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Today I kinda very very suay. Its an understatement.

In the morning, I had login to poems. Decided to do 1 trade of 5 lots. Keyed in, later prices fell, I withdraw it, and keyed in another one. But then after 10-15mins, still no update, I withdraw it and keyed in one more. Later still not moving. I realized got problem and called up to ask.

It seemed, system problem and that the orders inside not sure whether withdrawn or carried out. Then I did a trade through the broker. That's 5 lots.

Later in the afternoon, after lunch, I got 3 sms, the 3 trades that I had keyed and withdrawn, all went through!!!!!!!! Walao, ended up with 20 lots that I have to honour.

LUCKILY I do have that amount but it meant ALL my ST capital are used up. SIAN. Now if prices start falling, paper losses magnified. Also hope the ones I was bioing dont start falling.

Also hope prices will go a bit higher for me to sell off a bit of them to comfortable levels. Currently I havent finished updating the excel. Just uncomfortable to hold so much in one counter. But on the other hand, my dad focused his money in 4 counters. Then again, I am not like my dad with such deep capital reserves. Those lots represents all of my ST trading capital... Then if hold it for a bit longer, got chance of multiplying gains or losses, also meant dont have much for other counters. I am not that confident.

Hmm I shall have to monitor the prices very very closely over the remaining and next week. I dont hope to make big gains, but I hope NOT to lose capital.

Sia Suay. I better go pray when I am free-er for better luck.

I-Pod Touch aka Uruha

I decided to name my new I-Pod touch, Uruha or Uru for short. Its the name of the other lead guitarist in the band, Gazette. The word means Beauty and the real Uruha is really way way way too beautiful for a guy. Actually I really much much prefer Aoi, who is the rhythmn guitarist instead.

Just that I had named my PSP, Aoi already, so let the other be the matching Uruha.

Just syched it.

Cant login to my Poems cos it needs Java applications. And when I searched through the apple homepage, cant find for it. Have to ask the next time I am in a I-shop, which will be very soon, to buy a protector and screen protector too, most likely Cineleisure.

Err I've done some setting up. Havent loaded in songs yet, havent downloaded apps yet, havent loaded pics yet, also havent set up any other accounts, except the apple id and also warranty registration. Think I should do that when I get my hands on Tab's debit card number *evil laughter*

Also cant tell when its fully charged or not... Whats the sign for fully charged?