Life For Rent

Woke up today and found myself on my own bed. No buzzing from the industrial fan. No noisy birds. No sun shining down onto me. It felt so surreal. Am I really back yet? It sunk in after a while. After 16 days of holiday, routine somewhat sets in. Images of the past 16 days flashed through my mind. It appears as if while my physical shell is back here, my soul was left behind somewhat.

That’s the one thing I hate bout holidays. This is the longest holiday of my life yet, with the earlier record at 9 days when I used to travel with my dad on the SIN-TYO-LAX sectors. The post holiday blues that hit me can get quite bad. Ideally, a way to curb that is to plan for the next one. But it does seem the next one is gonna be quite a while away so I guess I gota focus on other stuff.

It is never easy to say good bye. A quick one could possibly be the least painful. As we departed from Perth and on ascend and we flew over the brewery, swan river and where we stayed, I couldn’t help but felt reality hitting. It was a pretty picture as we flew out of Perth and towards the sea. My greatest thanks goes to princess rach and amy for housing us. Thank you all for the wonderful memories that I’ll be keeping with me. It was a home away from home indeed. Sorry for getting everyone fat. Thanks for taking us to the airport. For the Chai Latte. Thanks to Tina  too for picking us up. It felt like yesterday when we arrived in Perth, hungry. The pizza and kebab we had. Thanks for lending us the bed too. Perhaps when one is on vacation, he enjoys the time away from home and work and what nots. But perhaps what the vacation really gives is the wonderful memories that will be etched so deeply within. The same memories that makes saying goodbye so difficult especially when you’ve bunked in with great hosts as compared to hotels and all. It is so hard to believe that it is all over. Yet I must. We all have to carry on with our lives. When we went to Rottness Island and chatted with a fellow tourist, I think she said it best though she probably never realised it. Why do we work so hard for? So we can afford great holidays like these. I used to feel, heck, if I didn’t have to work so hard I won’t be so stress and need such vacations do I? Yet life will be meaningless without the memories. Additionally, how much can it mean if I could just reach out my hand and get my travels all paid for just like that? I can see why some prefer frequent short trips. Cheaper. A good getaway yet without major ‘heartbreak’. It all makes sense to me. Yet I do not like to rush through my vacation. So what do I do? I haven’t quite decided yet.

As for you Amy, although you’ve never really said anything, I could tell the tough times you are going through and the dilemma set within at the moment. Unfortunately many a time, we cannot get what we wish for. Sometimes it is a lose-lose situation. To give up something in order to achieve another. Many times we also know what we need to do, but what we decide to do may not go in sync with it. In a way, one could say, it is not easy to be you. I have to agree. On the other hand, it is not easy to be someone else too.  We may not like to be ourselves, but by switching roles it may not necessarily be any better. It might be different, but not necessarily any better. The fact is we don’t get what we want all the time. For the good of ourselves long term, we may need to make very difficult decisions. These take time. And I tell those around me, when you have made that decision, to not turn back. Never look back, only forward. Even if it was a wrong decision, there is no point looking back. When I do stocks trading, hindsight is always perfect. If I could reverse time and reverse my trades I would have been a millionaire now. And so will everyone else. What happens forward is what that will count. Hope your foot gets better soon! Don’t eat so much maggi sauce and rice la. While it is nice, not nutritious lei. And it is a lousy way of losing weight. None of us are skinny model look-alikes but perhaps that is the beauty of it all. That we are all equal in everyway. Live n look like how the characters in Devil Wears Prada? No thank you. I still love my food. So what if I’m fat and don’t carry a drop dead gorgeous bod. So be it. Life is too short to torture oneself.  I have a saying that goes “Don’t pet the sweaty things and don’t sweat the petty things’. I think you do that quite well and it shows.  Congrats on your graduation! Enjoy the convocation! You deserve it.

Reality always bites. I reckon most of us are used to it by now.  I love u all! Thanks girls for the many memories once again. How do I go on from here? I don’t know. But I know I must. And I will.

I could only begin to blog this now, 1 day after that dive. Evidently that dive took so much out of me that I felt like I got hit by a truck and then run over by a steam roller. The lack of sleep (we had to be there by 7.30am) coupled with the pressure underwater crumbled everything from my eardrums and beyond. Did not help that I was still recovering from a nasal ailment.

The boat ride from Freo to Rottness Island took around 50 mins. I suppose I only began to wake up after my coffee and big breakfast at Dome. Seems like these days I am turning into a coffee addict. Is it psychological?

We got suited up and briefed before we took the plunge. I gotta say putting on the suit and equipment itself took a lot out of me. Didn’t help that the boat was rocking from side to side. When the instructor released the air which started the descend, I began panicking! I mean, there you are in the water, trying to get used to the equipment and breathing normally through the airhose and suddenly you begin sinking before you are used to the surroundings. Panic! I almost decided I wanted to resurface. I think instructors should brief new participants about this so that people are mentally prepared. If he had done so and and therefore made the dive more pleasant I would have tipped him. (He happened to be our bus driver too!).  With a depth of around 25 feet, the pressure really got into me. Every little bit I had the pressure built up in my ears and you cannot go further without equalising the ear drums. It sounded like a squirt when I pinched my nose and exhaled to equalise the pressure. Perhaps one could have seen the tiny bubbles that came out of my ears then? But once I got used to the environment and breathing through the hose, it became a little better.

I would dive again but my advise is not to do so when you have a runny nose or if you’re not 100%. The pressure really gets to you even at such shallow depths. Divers also have to get used to the pressure slowly. Till now I have yet to fully recover from the pressure in my ears hahah… There was one female diver who’s licensed to dive I think but she got so sick she was green all the way after the dive and vomited on the boat ride back. Perhaps she got sea sick.

Gonna head out now! Heard that Mox is closing. Too bad I am not back in town yet to visit MOX one last time but then again I haven’t really been there much anyway. Will be back soon! It has been a good 2 week plus break. I think my blood pressure has lowered significantly already. Don’t know bout cholesterol though cause we’ve been eating so much seafood,especially my favorite chilli mussels! I’ve got some chocolates that I will bring back for the folks. Come grab them while stocks last!

Looking at the STI chart, few things to note:

- Downtrend line always saw the index testing the downtrend line resistance and subsequently plunged. This suggests the trendline is very strong. Recently however, the index has broken through this line and is now supported by that trendline. It has not ‘lao sai’. Yet. This suggests something has changed but will require confirmation.

This confirmation comes from breaking the 3100 level which has been the resistance level as observed. If it fails to do so, it is possible the past will repeat itself and the index could correct again to test the low of up to 2800. This support is important as the index has been supported many times here, plus it was the target of the index after the STI broke the descending triangle at 3300.

If it does run past 3100 convincingly, there are a few resistance to clear before coming to test the all important 3300. I do think 3400 is possible to be tested eventually but may not be that easy to break, with it being a fibonacci 50% projection (most of the time prices will do a reversal at this point) AND it is 200 moving average resistance. I would think people can begin to place shorts here.

Indicators are beginning to show signs of bearish reversal, despite the recent pullup. Let’s see if my indicators work. My take for now this weekend is, the STI is unlikely to run past 3100 at this juncture. Take profit on strength maybe? Till now things are still range bound and volatile without a clear direction. Support at 2960 and resistance at 3050 region and 3100.

DJIA on the other hand is a little uglier. A little evening star candlestick formation look-a-like there.Indicators are bearish. Currently supported by 14d moving average.

Olam had a trading halt for the announcement of their placement at 1.97. This is a bit weird, cause instead of giving bonus shares they are asking shareholders to buy 1 share for every 10. I thought normally companies who need to raise cash would do rights issue or do placement with institutes and all that other than from retail investors. I didn’t like their gearing and with their breakdown at $2 I entered a short position. I have not covered that short yet so we shall see what happens to the price actions. Will investors begin dumping cause they dont want to pay for odd lots?

I saw a buy call on Wilmar but if you look at the chart you’ll see the interesting moving averages. Any break below $4 is a break below 200MA, which it did for quite a few times on the last trading day but it did not come with heavy volume. Will be watching this one. Along with a few other counters. Ausgroup looks like a good possible shorting target at $1 which is a resistance level. Will be looking at these counters in comparison to the market sentiment then.

What’s a road trip without good music? Despite losing radio signal waves here and there we still got quite a fair bit of music. Pretty recent too, comparable to Singapore. I am so hooked onto Kelly Rowland’s Work (freemasons mix) and Moto blanco’s mix of Bleeding Love. They play the radio edit of the remix here rather than the originals and I gotta say I absolutely love those tracks. Those delightful beats done by funky house remixers take the tracks notches up. Another track that’s an ear worm to me now is One Republic’s Stop and Stare. Excellent track! I don’t know if there’s ever a nice remix to it but I am in the mood in creating a new mixshow already! Gotta take sometime to plan and execute the whole thing once I am back but it should be interesting.

Scuba diving day tomorrow! Should be fun. I hope!

Settled back in perth now with a very bad nose and throat. Sinusitis perhaps, and the throat is probably due to the iky stuff flowing down into the throat. Albany was really cold and I suppose my immune system went into shock literally, as it wasn’t quite recovered from the previous ailment yet.

And so our trip began from Thursday, heading from Perth to Albany, via Augusta where we stayed for 3 nights. The trip took us through Mandurah (where we had the best fish and chips in the world at that price, I swear! To hell with Freo’s fish and chips, eeek!), Busselton (great jetty sights!) and Margret River. I gotta say Margret River wasn’t what I thought it was, expecting something similar to the wynham estate vineyard tours I took many years back in Sydney. Nonetheless there is this nice Asian eatery that serves really good food I must say! I will be posting some vids and photos as we go along, while the rest will head into my friendster page I reckon.

Unfortunately we hit a kangaroo along the way too and taking insurance into consideration I think the damage is gonna cost me about a thousand smackaroos. Might have to give up on the skydiving trip

We still have a scuba dive to do at Rottness Island and some good chilli mussels before we end our trip here. Weather’s rather cold, and dry. Perth is averaging 13-29 while Augusta was 14-22, breezy and cold. I’m quite drained from the trip and the illness so I am gonna work on getting more fluids in. Meantime there’s quite a fair bit of news to catch up from back home. So they still haven’t caught the guy eh. 1 fella, VS so many people. Sometimes u really wonder what’s behind all that.  Anyway stock market action interests me more than all those yada yada. Hope everyone’s safe back home! Shall talk a lot more about the road trip when I can get to it.

Woke up early to see how dow closed and wow, felt it will be a good shorting opportunity today. As usual, all gapped up and began to close the gap almost instantaneously. So what u will see in the chart is the opening price being the intraday high. If it closes and does not break new high, bearish.

Opened short positions for goldenagri at 0.8 which is 200ma. A very strong support. A break below this will turn support into resistance. But so far I think it has stayed at around 79c nia. puiz.

Also shorted olam from $2. Now down till almost 1.8. Got a shock man. Broke all my interim supports by the time I got back. So looks like 1.74 is the next one to look at. Will be covering open short positions soon.

Limited downsides for shorts actually. If u ask me, after drawing fibo projection, 3400 is the target. Based on current fundamentals i do not think it will break so easily. So shorting from 3400 is ideal. This rebound might be a strong one based on elliot wave theory. *might* be a strong one. If it does break 3400 resistance though, which also happens to be 2 MA lines waiting there, then based on fibo projection 4300 is very possible indeed. For now need to break downtrend line which stands at around 2990-3000 there abouts at this juncture.

STI’s descending triangle’s support was 3300. It was also a double bottom (bullish formation) but it broke instead. From 3800-3300 is 500 points. 500 points below 3300 is 2700 which is the target of the STI for now. That is how we find targets based on formations.

And I did tell someone, with some whipsaw in place, the volatility range is between 2600 and 3400. And where are we? Right in the middle. What does it say? We got no direction. To take any positions or not, up to individual. A lot of people are saying this is a short term rebound and to sell into strength. People are actually following that advise from what I see. But the way I look at it, it is very possible still that this rebound will last longer than people thought it would.

What I am looking at is for each stage to clear, which will tell me an overall picture of our sentiment, and for higher lows(bullish) to form. Reason? I do not want to catch a falling knife. I could buy now and hold, but as my mantra goes, cheap gets cheaper.

One maybe be concerned that one could miss the boat and hence dollar averaging down is good. Agree, but only in a bull market, not in a volatile market. When is it time for things to bottom? One way to tell is when value investor Jim Rogers declares he has covered all his shorts on financials across the world. When shorts are covered, it is enough to result in a major upswing.

Zoomed right into Perth via TigerAirways. I guess for those who haven’t flown budget airlines before and wonder how the prince had the guts to fly such a long haul one on his first attempt, well.. I CAN! I guess you gotta get the mindset right first. I didn’t really expect much. The budget terminal was quite empty, in all aspects. Forget about going there early to ‘tour’. But I was pleased that it was air-conditioned cause if it wasn’t I would be very mad!

I selected the door seats in advanced so we’ll have some extra leg room and I was pleased with the space we got. What I didn’t realise was, the first row of seats have quite roomy leg space too. So if you don’t wanna pay the extra for the door seats, just pay for seat selection and choose the front row. Do note that you will be near the toilet and galley. It won’t be that noisy though in the galley unlike full commercial flights.

Food wise, forget the hot-meals. If you’re hungry, go for the korean instant noodles. Drinks wise, wine goes for $5 a can which is quite a good price. It’s duty free you see. Soft drinks go for $3 a pop. Juices (Marigold packets)too. They’ll bring the food and drinks whenever you want them so that’s okay you do not have to eat with everyone else if you do not want to, unlike the catered flight meals on other airlines.

And yes while we departed from the budget terminal, we arrived at the destination with a proper boarding gate and arrow-bridge. The turn around time is about 35 mins so it is quite chop chop. That’s a good way to save cost for the airline. Minimal ground time.. especially at foreign airports.

So yes. I guess I prepared well for the flight and all. If you got a good book and your music player with you, you should be fine. Heck, the flight to Perth is over 4 hours so if I can handle it, I guess why can’t anyone. Okay so I had a good seat with leg room which is what I do need cause I need to stretch my legs.

Saturday saw us picking up the car in the morning, ran some errands, driving around.. providing ‘courier’ service to another fellow passenger’s  baggage, going down to Freo, heading to the airport 3 times within a span of 24 hours (I know how to drive to and fro from there already) before some grocery shopping at night before heading home for dinner. Perhaps I haven’t had enough water… my throats giving early warning signs that I’ll get sick if I don’t watch it so I went to buy the Vit C pills. Darn I should have gotten some Vit C from my doctor… so expensive here!

Loaded more on groceries today in preparation for tonight’s house party. We should be begin the cooking and cleaning up the house pretty soon. Darn I am still on half energy… I must fight the illness!

Temperatures here are around 18 deg at night and 24 in the day. Has been very sunny so far and you can’t really get around without sunglasses really especially when you’re driving.

Time to go! This has been a roving report by the prince, from Nedlands in Perth, Australia!

Yippie yai yay! I am heading for my 2 week holiday to Perth. Some sky diving. Some vineyard tasting. My favorite fish n chips at Freo. Picnic under the stars….. woah! I will try and blog as much as  I can while I  try REALLY hard to stay away from the stock markets. The way I look at it, it is all gone. I told princess rach.. Say bye! Say bye bye to Dow! Everything the feds have done resulted in a 1 day wonder only to see markets plunge even DEEPER days later.  To cut or not to cut? Either way the result is the same. It is a matter of whether we will get a quick death, or drag it over years. For those with long positions, just hold it and don’t even look at the markets if you hold fundamentally strong company stocks. If you are a shortists, be prepared for volatility. Volatility is NOT a signature characteristic of a market bottom, so why go long now? Cheap gets cheaper. Look at cosco. Breaking supports line by line till I can count with just 1 hand how many supports are left based on charts before we return back to the stone age days literally. Volatile markets are really tough for trading. Not for the weak hearted. For value investors, buy if you must, and don’t look back. Hedge funds are collapsing. Today news of another fund has collapse. How many more to go before we see the titanic waves come to the unit trusts we have here? Nothing is spared! This is not just an american thing. So will I return in 2 weeks to a rainbow, or blood flowing everywhere with a fiery hell? Or both maybe? One thing for sure. I do not want to be Ben Bernake now even if you paid me.

So I guess I will be gone to pack and have fun. Thanks Ash for the great talk. It is really nice knowing you! Let’s go do shirts someday. Yes.. I tailor made 5 shirts so far. Cost me a damn bomb but I hope it pays off really well.

Perth here I come! Take care fellas meantime!

Sentiment rebounded today across Asia bourses despite dow closing in the red. Hungry for some rebound? About time. However the rebound did not occur at the previous low. Could be good or bad. I anticipated a test of that level, therefore fulfilling a strong rebound from there. A rebound from current levels *might* be short-lived, considering losers still outpaced decliners. Require another day for confirmation. STI broke 2850 to end at around 2860. The next line is 2900 which is a very strong support turn resistance and I am not looking at this to break tomorrow. It might in subsequent days. Or it may begin to backtrack. Did some long positions today. Queued SGX at 6.90 but failed to get it. It has flown away! Target upside is capped at $8 for now and I did consider chasing the stock but decided not to anymore. Since I already have other long positions, I shall focus on these instead. I locked in the positions as tikam, hoping the day will end with nice charts. This is a little risky though. For those with an adverse risk appetite, I suggest you wait for a higher low to form (on a pullback from this rally) to confirm the uptrend is back. You can then ride on the subsequent uptrend which will be safer. Disadvantage is that your upside may be limited by then. I discussed market depth movement to try and detect what BBs are up to with my ka-kia Ash. It is very interesting. Have you realised that, if you can see market depth and detect BB’s movement and you see a stronger buy queue than sell, this is actually bearish? Yes! A stronger sell queue is actually bullish. I will test this out and comment at a later date once mastered. Thanks Ash!

Let’s look at this stock that seems to be popular among people I know. No chart formation is seen.Notice volume is just average so it is not considered much of a breakout. MFI showing a straight line confirms this.  However, stochastic has crossed and opened it appears. MACD shows buy signals though it requires one more day to confirm. The 3 candlesticks look a tad like a morning doji star which is bullish. I drew fibonacci retracement lines from the bottom as I want to find target upside prices. So I used the current candlestick and drew it upwards to the top of the highest point. As you can see, fibonacci is quite accurate and correctly spots supports and resistant lines. Today’s upward movement is resisted at  25MA and 50MA  which are short term moving averages. I do expect this to be broken on another uptrend day capped at perhaps, $6.76. Breaking that is possible and will hit towards 50% at $7.14. I do not expect the 50% line to be broken at this juncture as the 50% line is a strong line and a breakout is extremely bullish at this point, something that I do not anticipate in today’s market unless STI breaks 3300 maybe? Another reason is that the long term 200MA line is there too. Making it a near impossible level to clear. I would buy perhaps if it can clear $6.1 MA resistance convincingly and ride towards $6.7, representing a 60c upside. This is only the case if our rebound is still intact. Immediate support is at $5.4

  FerroChina’s volume has increased, and most indicators are also bullish. Adding on $1.19 breakout may be okay, with a target of $1.45 region resistance. Maybe it could go further. Supported at the usual $1.04 line which held very well.

Bought Swiber today.. I like its $2 support line. Allowing for some whipsaw, this line held pretty well. You can see the MACD bullish divergence (higher low) as well as indicators all turning bullish. High volume is also observed. Price target based on fibonacci would be $2.68. It has plenty of resistance to clear in between and a change in market sentiment can see it being stopped by one such resistance. I think it has a bit to catch-up though as bargain hunters return back.

Also went into Straits Asia today. A pretty sight. MACD downside has been supported and most indicators are also bullish.  I’ll ride this stock till sell signals appear possibly. One of the few counters that has long term MA below still which confirms this stock is strong and is on its uptrend still. It has not broken down yet.

Also went into Midas today. It has been hit badly by rising steel prices. It hasn’t been battered down enough actually.  What one does see is the morning doji star bullish candlestick formation. This one is a bit risky as stochastic is still kissing and has not crossed over yet. MACD also says it needs 1 more day of confirmation.  Possible uptrend targets are also based on fibonacci 1.16 and 1.37  levels. I use fibonacci to ‘predict’ upside targets as they are more or less near actual support and resistance lines.  I took a gamble on this one due to oversold indicators among other bullish indicators. This one has not confirmed its buy signal yet. You will notice however a huge spike in volume. This track is currently XD and is doing quite well if you ask me. A tikam indeed. Fundamentally sound I feel. This is based on FA and I used TA to time an entry.

Here is an example of a counter that did not move up with today’s rebound. RafflesMG was tipped off to me for some value buying. I did spot support at 1.25 r Segion which is where it is now. Do I wanna buy? No. Why? Indicators are ALL bearish. Also notice the descending triangle. I will never buy a counter that is on a descending triangle formation even if it is on a strong support. Look at the stochastics indicator. It has done a bearish crossover which is confirmed with other counters. In other words, despite STI’s performance, if this one cracks the support it becomes a VERY good shorting target, along with all counters with such a pattern. I will buy this counter someday. But not now, and not at $1.25 where I see possible downside.  I have done a price projection should it break support at the descending triangle. This is done by measuring the height of the triangle pole and bringing it down. The target for downside is $1.05 which is what I will bear in mind if I commence a short position. If the chart was opened wider, you will see that that particular line also happens to be a resistance turn support line. Short when the STI momentum is up? Yes. That is how strong a descending triangle breakdown is.  It may take a few weeks. A month. It may rebound a little to test a few lines but ultimately it could settle somewhere near the target unless fundamentals change along the way and signals all change.  A CFD position lasts 30 days and I have that amount of time to do shorting. In fact. This chart looks so interesting tomorrow I shall put it onto my CFD watchlist and monitor it.

Enough of tikams. And more on the fundamentals and rules.

First of all, the spirit squad welcomes Xing, our newest member to join our league. Pretty strong I’d say and he’ll catch up pretty soon. He’s serving his NS in the dog unit, stationed at HQ. A lot of recalls these days, thereby disrupting his progress… thanks to you-know-who that’s on the loose right now.

Measurements taken on the final day of a not-so-religious training of 2-3 times a week only showed overall fat reduction by 4%. Weight on the other hand increased and settled at around 83.5kg (84kg is my resistance level and thankfully I did not break it!).  Some overall stats:

Weight: 185 pounds / 83.7kg
Olympic bar bench-presses: 140kg 6 reps unassisted
Free weight military shoulder presses: 28kg each side (cleared heaviest set on the rack)
Left arm diameter: 16.5 inches
Right arm diameter: 17 inches (overall increase of 1 inch per arm)
Shoulder-shoulder from back (measured by my tailor): 43

Some interesting notes… from taking my measurements for my tailor-made cuffling workshirts, I see a standard size 16.5 (neck) and 33(arms) with other measurements to cater for my ‘expanded’ regions. What surprised me most is that, my arms are larger than my neck! Shahrin my trainer cum training buddy took that shot from behind cause I have never seen my back before and I was actually quite shocked to see the size! Some areas of improvement would be the rhomboids and the forearm which looks incredibly small and neglected. Shahrin has his nice ‘chicken wing’ so that’s what I’ll be striving to achieve but as it is, it is almost impossible for me to roll up my long sleeves already. Maybe I should just stick to what I have right now although it is a little unbalanced. What it does for me is if I go sleeveless, my arms will look even larger than it is due to the contrast between the arms and forearms.

The focus areas of this round of training was on my pecs and shoulders. I have genetically gifted shoulders so working on them is easy. I do not have genetically square based pectorals though. God is fair.

The lats cannot be seen from this back shot as flexing the lats require a different technique of pushing ‘in’ rather than out, so a lat flex will only show lats and nothing much. One of the 7 poses for body building, half of which I am hopeless at mastering hahaha.

That aside, what a day of shopping yesterday for the diamond-stud squad. hahaha… me, the husband and ceddy. Had lunch, headed to Tangs.. almost bought my DKNY (I like to pronounce it as dinky!) but saw that is made in Malaysia. I like the texture and it is really nice but is it worth $35? Headed to Library where Isaac set his eyes on  a pair of pants. Great fit and material, 50% off with an additional 6% from my card so it costs $60 or so. Great bargain, but they ran out out of stock for his length! Not to be outdone so easily, we got the salesgirl who’s sweet enough to call up Vivocity for us and they had stock still! So we got the reservation done and promised to head down later that day. No purchases made here. Went down to Paragon to take a look at the crumpler shop…. not much designs.. same old ones. Could see Isaac set his eyes on a particular color. Hmmmmm…….

Heeren was next.. Ceddy got a pair of converse shoes, leveraging on the converse discount card that we have. Couldn’t find bodynits though! And so we headed down to Vivocity.. and along the way Ceddy and dear kept going forth with the accounting stuff. Credit this debit that. Credit here debit there. Quack quack quack quack. I studied (and flopped) my accounting back in uni but thank goodness it didn’t count towards my honors grading. I don’t like accounting, like how I can’t stand maths. Arrrrgh.

Finally, we got our butts to vivocity.. bought our tickets to watch Bangkok Love Story.. and it was shopping time round 2! Went to Library… isaac picked up his pants. Ceddy saw one he liked and picked one up too while I got myself a nice shirt, all at 50% with an additional 6%. A good quality cuffling shirt at around $65 is quite worth it if you ask me. Love the material and design and it is now my second piece off Library. No sizes for me on pants though. The ones I wanted only came in large sizes, which cannot fit me obviously. Like size 38.. hello?! Got 2 sets of cufflings for $50 too, making it the second and third pair I own. My colleague is ordering another one for me which I absolutely love. It is actually the logo of Patek Phillipe (the very expensive watch brand). Really nice!

I lamented that I didn’t have a pair of proper berms anymore… for the uninitiated, I cleared out more than half of my wardrobe.  All the ones I do not wear, be it being obiang in style, too large, too small, all were cleared. So we walked past Gap and I said GAP sells normal stuff at high end prices… but I seem to fit a simple berms pretty well and it costs only around $50 discount. Ceddy reckoned that for a pair of berms that price is pretty alright, so I went for it. Tried to go for loafers  and as much as I would love to wear them, sockless and all I felt that it emphasized the ugliest part of my legs. I do have scaly legs and my ankles are quite small compared to the size of my calves now. I do not have the prettiest legs indeed. Therefore I would either go totally ‘naked’ with just slippers and or flip flops, or I will deck out in proper shoes with ankle socks. Actually I do think berms and socks don’t go together at all. And loafers are really nice, the right color for the right fit but I guess there’s no point in it being perfect theoretically but my ugly legs spoil the whole look.  Couldn’t get anything out of NUM either despite taking quite a while there. Both of them contemplated on getting a piece that they like but decided otherwise in the end.

Bangkok Love Story was the last thing for the long..tiring day. I knew beforehand it was just a sad sad story. After the whole show I realised why people said it ought to be renamed the Bangkok Sad Story instead. There is nothing positive at all in the ENTIRE show. It doesn’t make you cry.. cause it is so unbelievably sad. Homosexual themed show.. rated R21.. had so many parts cut that I got quite pissed. On one hand you want to bring in the film, yet give a half fuck standard. What’s the big deal anyway? Critics gave it 1 star. You know what, I will give the censorship board that 1 star instead. I think the show was alright and I can’t be quick to judge on the quality of the film. Why? It was slated for 150 mins. But the overall run time was only 115 mins.. Yes I calculated. So someone made a mistake. Cut too many parts, or was the timing wrong? I don’t know. But I do know a lot of AJs would watch it cause one of the male leads is very much ‘everyone’s type’ of guy.

And there you go. One whole day. I have lots to work on our trip to perth which commences this Friday, all the way till 31st March! I am not the ‘hunt for a motel as you drive’ kinda guy so I like to have some sorta system and schedule put in. Uncertainty isn’t my cup of tea, though I know a lot of people strive for that during travels. It excites them. But not me. What’s slated right now are sky diving trips, diving, Rockness island, Margaret River and all the way down to Albany maybe? I want my fish and chips from Freo!! yum yum.

I’ll be back. At 200 pounds. NOT!