It doesn’t take much to start a day well. A warm familiar face and the pleasure of getting dressed at your time and pace beats rushing to punch in before the clock hits 830 anything anytime.

Well, not anything cos nothing beats sex in the morning. Im sure the Flying Dutchman swears to this by heart

posted by ikaira @ 8:40 AM, ,


first and formost, thank you mona for the book and the card. lets hope the title is wat i'll become of in a few years time. precisely like wat you said, i dun see u nowadays but its not the quantity of meetings that count right.

caught babel with cy, vinz, adrian and mona. thou most felt that it was a depressing show, i kinda feel otherwise. for the first 3 quarts of the movie, it felt like scenes and memoirs of most ppl's life passing through in that 2 hrs. from making choices that we'll have to bear consequences when we're young, foreign policies that'll affect the very way we are made to live our lifes, craving for acceptance in the society that we love and hate, to family matters, parenting etc...

would it be nice if only the basic economic models trully exist. where wat we earn is wat we spend to keep us alive. no govt involve. ppl just be contented with living this ur time and die, nv crave for more or desire for better, no anger, no jealousy, no envy.

Goodnight to monks and nuns

posted by ikaira @ 1:35 AM, ,


When we're too into something, sometimes we lose sight of wat is actually happening or how we could interpret it in an more happy way than self-torturing our own self.



When Benjamin Graham (Warren's mentor) was teaching Warren about the shortsightedness of the stock market, he asked Warren to imagine that he owned and operated a wonderful and stable little business with an equal partner by the name Mr. Market.

Mr. Market had an interesting personality trait that some days allowed him to see only the wonderful things about the business. This, of course, made him wildy enthusiastic about the world and the business's prospects. On tother days he counldn't see past the negative aspects of the business, which, of course, made him overlyu pessimistic about the world and the immediate future of the business.

Mr. Market also had another quirk. Every morning he tried to sell you his interest in the business. On days he was wildly enthusiastic about the immediate future of the business, he asked for a high selling price. On doom-and-gloom days, when he was overly pessimisxtic about the immediate future of the business, he quoted you a low selling price hoping that you would be foolish enough to take the trouble company off his hands.

One other thing. Mr. Market dosen't mind if you don't pay any attention to him. He shows up to work every day - rain, sleet or snow - ready and willing to sell you his half of the business, the price depending entirely on his mood. You are free to ignore him or take up on his offer. Regardless of what you do, he will be back tomorrow with a new quote.

If you think that the long-term prospects for the business are good and would like to own the entire business, when do you take Mr. Market up on his offer? When he is wildly enthusiatic and quoting you a really high price? Or when he feels pessimistic and quotes you a very low price? Obviously you buy when Mr. Market is feeling pessimistic about the immediate future of the business, because that's when you would get the best price.

Graham added one more twist. He taught Warren that Mr. Market was tehre to benefit him, not to guide him. You should be interested only in the price that Mr. Market is quoting you, not in his thoughts on what the business is worth. In fact, listening to his erratic thinking could be financially disastrous to you. Either you will become overly enthusiatic about the business and pay too much for it, or you become overly pessimistic and miss taking advantage of Mr. Market's insanely low selling price.

Warren says that, to this day, he still likes to imagine himself being in business with Mr. Market. To his delight he has found that Mr. Market still has his eye on the short term and is still manic-depressive about what businesses are worth.

posted by ikaira @ 4:23 PM, ,


First of all, a happy birthday to mona. a great lady who i've known from the west timor trip. the leader of my welfare commitee, the top student from forgotten which primary sch, the top prelim o level student and one who spent 8th mth for her degree overseas (she must be a child prodige to only need 8 mths for a degree) lol

Happy 6th 21st birthday and so i guess ur 126th years old and all the best till ur 147 or 168 etc...

I guess we're honoured enough to have ur holy presence on ur actual birthday or so we thought, maybe u've inherited queen e's royalness during her bi-annual visits. lol, just to rub it in a lil more, picture how vinz was so cold that he had both hands constantly under under his thigh, a hot iced water and had to catch some warmth outside the resturant perpetually upon the royal arrival.

hahahahahahahahaha. u must be feeling it. but...... its ok, cos its your bigday, and all is forgiven and actually theres nothing to forgive in the first place. anyway becos of the comfy bed, i was able to grab the whole of the limelight for the dinner and did i mention we had a cute waitress serving around.

thou the crowd mainly the 4 of us, adrian, vinz, cy and myself, we had a nice time crapping, maybe it was me crapping only, had not been yakking crap for a long time and its gd to let loose once a whice with ppl not seen for 482716475890 days. its good to see that all are doing well and going strong and thank you adrian for the exclusive cup from prague and czech beer, it must have added quite some weight to ur luggage in europe, ur the man. and cy for the lovely the new buffettology which i happened to have brought the night before. but lady, it ain about wat the present is, its about the conviction of getting someone wat he wants and sure that he'll love it. im sure u did just that, thank you.

for another group of frens who i had not seen in another 19846736871263 days, the tep bunch, and i know that no one amongst u will know that i have a blog or might keep track of my writtings, thank you for the great company at the turf club and for my virgin seesha session subsequently at arab street. thou we may not see each other in everyday life, im happy we're still keeping it alive.

posted by ikaira @ 3:32 AM, ,


I want somebody to share
Share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts
Know my intimate details
Someone wholl stand by my side
And give me support
And in return
Shell get my support
She will listen to me
When I want to speak
About the world we live in
And life in general
Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
Shell hear me out
And wont easily be converted
To my way of thinking
In fact shell often disagree
But at the end of it all
She will understand me
Aaaahhhhh....

I want somebody who cares
For me passionately
With every thought and
With every breath
Someone wholl help me see things
In a different light
All the things I detest
I will almost like
I dont want to be tied
To anyones strings
Im carefully trying to steer clear of
Those things
But when Im asleep
I want somebody
Who will put their arms around me
And kiss me tenderly
Though things like this
Make me sick
In a case like this
Ill get away with it
Aaaahhhhh....

posted by ikaira @ 12:39 AM, ,


the saturday birthday marks the first of all the other 21st tt'll be coming for the 86 ppl. and this marks our virgin step into adulthood, no more excuses for not knowing wat to do, no more explanation tt we're just only a child and deserve some grace.

i know mine is also in a few days time but im not celebrating. since young, the yearly celebration from my parents was a slice of cake from whichever bakery shop tts along the way. most of the time, by the time im home, both folks would have been off to bed and the cake would be lying on my computer desk. althought some ppl would cry for company during that significant day of theirs, i guess tts not my case.

but, if your looking to surprise me, there are 3 things on my want list....

1. ben sherman bag.

2. a book - the alchemy of finance - george soros.

3. anothe book - new buffettology - warren buffett.

i know im becoming a geek, well i think i really am. as astonishing as it my be, how time shapes a person, comparing to my younger days at sec sch for those who known me since then. wat a change, for the better i guess.

posted by ikaira @ 12:05 AM, ,


Heres a para of my current read:

Wealth is really a state of mind. In the words of Charlie Munger: ‘I had a considerable passion to get rich. Not because I wanted Ferraris – I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it.” If you share this attitude, once you have gained that hard-fought independence the last thing is you’re going to do is jeopardize it by blowing all your money.

The alternative to living below your means is the debt-laden pattern of the middle class: If compound interest isn’t working for you, it’s working against you, bleeding your money away just as a spurting artery drains your life-energy.

So now, should I get that Ben Sherman bag or not……..

posted by ikaira @ 11:45 AM, ,


"being beaten is just a temporary condition, what makes it permenant is giving up"

so ppl, chin up and move on.

posted by ikaira @ 9:10 AM, ,


studying is fun, studying is nice, y did i figure that out while it was in abundance. i guess tt proves tt human dun treasure things until its gone. it feels gd just to scribble as fast as my fingers could comprehend wat the lecturer was talking about. and it felt i've sinned for drifting away during that one slide of explanation. i guess i shall enjoy it more these days.

now, i have to wake up at 730 and only reach home at least at 11pm. and it makes the days pass much faster, all well worth for 16k?

posted by ikaira @ 11:04 PM, ,


My mum has a PSP!

My mum ler....

Nowadays old ppl quite havoc ar.

Guess wat game she plays....

Some car game that looks like battle tank of the nitendo of old.

Maybe i should find some monster hunter for her or some games tt'll woot her frens.

posted by ikaira @ 12:03 AM, ,