My First Hour Conversation with An Ex-Colleague

807852_friends_in_businessI am sitting at Singapore’s Changi International Airport. It is middle of the night, and I come to know my flight is delayed by four hours for technical reasons. I was contemplating what should I do. Made few personal calls and then I decide to munch on unhealthy burger and some fries. I was getting bored, so I started browsing the internet. I log into my blog’s wordpress interface and opened another tab with my blog. I was hoping to answer my emails and blog comments. That just remained a hope.

While I was reading comments, an Indian gentleman came and said, “may I sit here” pointing a chair just across me. I said, “sure, be my guest”. We exchanged few more pleasantries, and then each of us continued doing our own stuff. He started playing with his blackberry, and I turned my eyes to my computer. At the same time, I am thinking, there is no one around in this cafeteria, tons of empty chairs, so why this guy came just next to me. Usually, we just go and sit in an empty space.

I said to myself, “hmm, forget it, why bother”. I went back to reading comments and emails.

Few minutes later, he stops playing with his blackberry. He is looking around. I can sense he wants to talk to me. The moment I raise my head, he says, “The blog you are reading is awesome. Isn’t it?” Continue reading rest of this article…

Stock Market for 2010: What’s Your Prediction ?

265713_confusionFor many of us retail investors, there is a perennial dilemma about two issues. One is about how we should invest and where we should invest. The second one is we always say (or crib) we do not have big enough capital. We never get out of this loop. Which stock to buy or where to invest is decided based on what was read yesterday. Everybody from the top VP of financial firm to any small investors like us, we keep churning out ideas, themes, predictions, estimates, etc. But we do not have conviction in our own ideas. Honestly, I love reading all those ideas as they do make some interesting reading material, but that’s not the way to manage your personal portfolio. .


As year 2009 is nearing completion, I have been reading new predictions and themes for year 2010. It is quite amusing to read what folks have to say. I always wonder do any of these forecasters follow their own advice. Could we take a peek at their portfolios? Here are few excerpts: Continue reading rest of this article…



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