Random Observation #2

You know how sometimes the bus is fully packed the driver just can’t open the door to let people in, but when he has to open the back door to let people out, there will be some who try to get up from the back. Mind you, these are not fair cheats, as evidenced by their repeated tapping of the ez-link reader in spite of the protesting beeps. They are usually foreigners not accustomed to the system. Today, a lady tried that again and she got a mega scolding by one of those uncle – whom you cannot tell if he just had a drink or is going drinking. I was tucked at the back-row but I gathered she was someone from the mainland.

I went to the annual fundsupermart seminar and turn out was quite bad. There was even suspicion that people turned up for the refreshment and then left. In general after the bad beating of 2008, every one was in a sombre mood. Yes, valuations are cheap and in an ideal world, we should plonk down all our money and reap riches in a few years time. 2003 all over again. But dare we? Back to the seminar, the hall was half full, the speakers were not very engaging. The first to speak was CEO from dbs asset. What was really weird was that she ended her talk by quoting some ridiculous study that short term investors had longer index fingers than ring fingers and she proceeded to show off the hands of her team. She might have meant it as a joke but come on! Did she really had nothing useful or insightful to speak about? I might as well go and trust my money with palm readers.

Lastly, I received an email to submit my biography to Who’s who in Singapore. Must be a joke, well I’m not submitting.

~ by jtc2718 on January 22, 2009.