† Darkest Moment †

The darkest moment of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon as an inspiration to remind us, and to strengthen us.

† Music Is Part of Me †

I found my drum sticks in the cupboard filled with dust. My Tama, Vic Firth, Zildjian and Vater sticks: I've left you guys for years and I missed you guys. Its time to rock and I've decided to get myself involved in the music team once again.

Get to know my drum sticks.
 

† I've Got Automated †

My programmed weekdays: Waking up, bath, breakfast, travel, work, lunch, work, dinner, work, travel, home, body workouts, bath, share market, sleep. I've got automated for the weekdays.

† Happy Halloween 2010 †

Happy Halloween 2010. Well, is there Halloween in Malaysia? Short answer? No, not really. Halloween, if it can be found at all here, is barely visible to the naked eye.

Halloween is something of a non-event in this country. While the stores in much of the western world are without a doubt by now ensconced in Halloween candy, decor, costumes, pumpkins, and all manner of things Halloween, in Malaysia there is nary a sign of it. It is decidedly odd to not see any advertising or preparations for trick-or-treaters, haunted houses, or costume parties. What an interesting festival to miss.

† Color-Based Wallpaper †

Here's a few desktop wallpapers that I categorized based on colors that I think I should share with all my readers. Note that all these wallpapers are at least 1024 x 768 Jpeg files. To download it, simply click on the picture. Once you get the full scaled picture, right click on the picture and choose save image.

WHITE: It is the color of purity. Brides wear white in many countries, because white symbolizes a virgin. White means kindness. In some cultures white is worn at funerals. White is Monday's color. White daisies are a symbol of loyal love.

PINK: It is the color of universal love. Pink is a quiet color. Lovers of beauty favor pink.

PURPLE: Purple has been used to symbolize magic and mystery, as well as royalty. Being the combination of red and blue, the warmest and coolest colors, purple is believed to be the ideal color. Most children love the color purple. Purple is the color most favored by artists.

BLUE: Is the color of inspiration, sincerity and spirituality. Blue is often the chosen color by conservative people. Blue is the calming color. That makes it a wonderful color to use in the home, especially for babies. Blue is so soothing that is a good choice for pajamas.

GREEN: It is the color of nature, fertility, life. Grass green is the most restful color. Green symbolizes self-respect and well being. Green is the color of balance. It also means learning, growth and harmony. Green is favored by well balanced people. Green symbolizes the master healer and the life force. It often symbolizes money.

RED: The warmest of all colors. Red is the color most chosen by extroverts and one of the top picks of males. On the negative side red can mean temper or anger. In China, red is the color of prosperity and joy. Brides wear red and front doors are often painted red. Red is Tuesday's color. Red roses symbolize passionate love.

YELLOW: Yellow symbolizes wisdom. Yellow means joy and happiness. People of high intellect favor yellow. Yellow daffodils are a symbol of unrequited love.

ORANGE: It is one of the healing colors. It is said to increase the craving for food. It also stimulates enthusiasm and creativity. Orange means vitality with endurance. People who like orange are usually thoughtful and sincere.

GOLD: It is no surprise that gold symbolizes wealth used wisely, but it is also the symbol of good health. People who favor the color gold are optimistic.

BROWN: People who prefer brown are often conventional and orderly. The negative meaning of brown can be a repressed personality or a lazy person. Brown is the color of the earth and is associated with the material side of life.

BLACK: The most misunderstood color. A black tie dinner is very formal and elegant. Women can wear that "must have little black dress" to the black tie dinner. Yet the bad guys wear black hats. Black symbolizes death in some cultures. Native Americans thought black was good because it was the color of soil, which gives life.

† Dilemma... Should I Go For GAMUDA †

Being a trader who don't have much money as compared to other heavy investors/traders, its not easy for me to make decision in such difficult time of economy downturn especially seeing Dow Jones Industrial Average moving up and down but at a bearish direction.


After SCOMIEN announced its dividend release, I'm sure many people are rushing into the market, hoping to gain a last minute profit before it drops this coming 28th July. I simply don't want to risk too much and I've sold all my shares at 1.60. Many of my professional and experienced friends told me that it will go up to 1.80 but... forget it.


Here's something that attracted my attention few weeks ago: GAMUDA. There were so many news saying that it is gonna be the leading construction group that holds the contract of building MRT in Kuala Lumpur next year 2011.


From my further research, yeah it is confirmed that GAMUDA group has submitted a proposal in January 2010. The proposal focuses in the benefit of having MRT in Kuala Lumpur. It is true that our Malaysia's current LRT system is totally stupid. Whats the point of having a non-centralized LRT system running around in KL city? STAR-LRT, PUTRA-LRT, KTM, MONORAIL... what the heck. Look at London, Paris and Barcelona. Their transit system is so well organized and it covers almost every part of the city. Come on Malaysia, you can do better than this! Source: The Edge, CIMB, OSK


So whats holding me back? Pardon my mistakes because I'm not professional. These are just my point of view.

1. The price is already at a high end. If the prediction about a double dip of economy down fall is true, then I'll be in a deep shit buying it in such high price. My concept is simple: buy low sell high. Gotta be patience to wait for such 'buy low' concept. Of course I can be wrong too. If it goes up and up and up, then its a great news to everyone.

2. I gotta admit that I'm not really good in Technical Analysis (TA) as I only use TA as my indicator. The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) somehow isn't convincing me to execute a 'buy'. Further more, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is somehow another important indicator for me and it shows an overbought status.

3. Fundamental Analysis (FA) is part of my way of analyze it. I gotta say that, I wasn't that convinced enough about GAMUDA too. Its quarter report in April 2010 shows an EPS of 3.62. If say the current price is 3.36, it gives a PE of 24. Thats that is freaky high and I usually won't go for company with a PE of higher than 10.


Go or wait? I'm still in a dilemma...

† My Father My Guiding Light †

Dad, you're the shepherd of the house, our guiding light. We thank you for all the hard works and earnings for the family.

싸이 - 아버지

A wonderful song sang by a Korean group known as PSY, with the title "Father". Its not an easy task for our dads to take care of the family and thus, we must never forget him even we're busy with studies or works. A simple phone call or text message will always please him in the heart without you knowing it.

Happy Father's Day 2010 in advance!

† Two Years Of Progress & Anniversaries †

I started off my blog in year 2008 when I was working in Hospital Pekan and this is the 2nd year anniversary of my blog. Hurray!

Thanks to Nuffnang that I am able to analyze how many viewers who visited my blog for the pass few weeks. I know there are many blogs with over 2000 views a day but I'm still glad that I am able to hit almost 1000 views a week recently.

I'm quite surprise that most of my viewers are from United States and follows by Malaysia. However, readers are still readers I welcome anyone to drop by at my blog. Thus I would like to thank all the readers including my friends and strangers for your supports and views!

† Why Use Mozilla Firefox †

There are so many internet browsers available out there and many people only know about Internet Explorer (IE). I've been using Mozilla Firefox for 5 years and personally I think it is so far the most suitable browser for me. Google Chrome and Opera are considered not bad but still, I think something's missing somewhere. So why do I use Mozilla Firefox?


1. It is easily located from your browser, easily downloaded and installed. After you've downloaded the installer, simply double click the installer (firefox.exe) and click 'next' all the way until 'finished'.


2. Customization of add-ons is the fun thing about Mozilla Firefox. Users can choose many types of useful and fancy add-ons (fasterfox, adblock, noscript... ) from the Mozilla homepage, making your their Firefox personalized. However, the only drawback about this add-ons idea is that it may confuse many new users of Firefox.


3. Mozilla Firefox is safer than many other browsers because of its ability to block the background running scripts and ads. The two important add-ons that I'm using for almost 5 years are NoScript and AdBlockPlus. As you can see from the image above, there are so many scripts being blocked from being downloaded into your computer, making your websites safe to visit. Note that when you're using NoScript, you need to 'allow' or 'temporary allow' certain important script of a website in order for the site to function properly.

• FaceBook: fbcdn.net and facebook.com
• Blogspot: blogger.com and blogspot.com
• YouTube: ytmg.com and youtube.com
  

4. Faster loading time for a page is the most important thing to me. Sometimes it can be very annoying if you couldn't get into the page you wanted to visit. However with the use of Fasterfox, one of the famous add-ons, the loading time for a page has become faster than I thought.


5. An enhanced download manager is one of the features of Mozilla Firefox. DownThemAll is so far the best download manager I've ever found in Mozilla Firefox. Very interestingly, DownThemAll allows you to download multiple files from a website at once and these files will be neatly categorized according to their extension such as exe, jpeg, avi or mpeg. Most importantly, DownThemAll can boost your download speed so much that it can reach up to 50% higher than you expected. For example, my download speed is usually 42kb/s and it reaches 67kb/s after using DownThemAll.


6. As for this point, most bloggers or advanced html users will be happy about it because Mozilla Firefox enables users to view the detailed page source of the website and most importantly it would allow the users to view the html codes of the page.


7. Neat and tidy is one of the factors that made me choose to use Mozilla Firefox. The good thing about Mozilla Firefox is that all the links will be opened in different compartments known as 'tabs' located one single window box. Unlike the old version of IE, each pop up links will be opened in different windows, making your window taskbar looks so messy. There are a few important hotkeys that you should know when you're using Mozilla Firefox.

• CTRL + T to open a new tab
• CTRL + Tab to switch between tabs
  

8. Tired of retyping your usernames and passwords? I think Mozilla Firefox gives a good service in remembering passwords thus reducing the typing workload of the users. The only drawback about this service is that people tend not to remember their password.

† My Favourite Fighting Scenes †

When you ask somebody whats the best fight scene they've ever seen, they'll definitely bring up a great one they've seen recently or a really strong memory from childhood with the longevity to stand out today. There's a lot of fighting scenes I've seen and the following URLs and pictures are those that I loved the most.

A brutal fight between spiderman and the green goblin in Spiderman the movie. In the fighting scene, spiderman was badly punched and kicked by the green goblin but the power of love brought spiderman back to life and won the game.

Stephen Chow's Kungfu Hustle has several nice watching fighting scenes but personally I like this part the most. The video shows 2 blind assassins trying to kill other martial artists using their unique deadly art.

Chocolate, also known as Fury is a Thai action fighting movie produced in year 2008. I was surprised to see a sweet looking girl will have such amazing stances of kicking and punching. To be honest, I didn't think the storyline of this movie was attractive but I really enjoy seeing Jeeja Yanin's fighting scenes.

This is one of the most classic anime I've ever watched at the age of 12 (1996), Street Fighter 2Animated Movie. The fighting scene of Ryu and Ken versus Vega was truly amazing. It doesn't matter how powerful you have become, no one is invincible. Vega forgot this concept and he was beaten unexpectedly in the movie.

I believe everyone recognizes this scene. Its the scene of Neo fighting army of agent Smith inMatrix Reloaded. I still remember the moment when I see so many agent Smith appeared and I got so excited, thinking how Neo's going to fight them.The fight lasted almost 8 minutes and I think Neo was seriously exhausted. If you don't believe it, try to watch the fighting scene again and you will really feel Neo's tiredness.

Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children final battle between Cloud Strife and Sephiroth along with the great music 'One Winged Angel' performed by the Black Mages was a hot topic to talk about when the movie was first released few years ago. Its been almost 3 years but the fighting scene still deeply crafted in my memory.

Finally, my most favourite fighting scene came from Yip Man the movie. In the fighting scene Yip Man alone using his Wing Chun martial art fought against 10 karate Japaneses. I guess no explanation is needed after you've watched this video.

† Welcome 2010 †

Welcome to my life year 2010. 2009 was eventful where tons of good and bad things happened in my life. However, those events have become history of my life. A new chapter has now begun at 12:00:01am of year 2010. Happy New Year!

† 3 Months Advertisements By Nuffnang. Thanks! †

31 December... This is the last day of year 2009. It has been 3 months since advertisements coming into my blog. Many thanks to Nuffnang, the Asia Pacific's First Blog Advertising Community. And most important of all, my valuable readers who visited my blog. Thank you for your supports and I appreciate if you leave your link in my chat box so that I'll visit you as well.

Regards,
Keat
31st December 2009

† A New Beginning †

At the very end of each year, people often look back at what they've done. At the beginning of a new year many wonder whether they have the time and energy to accomplish their goals in the coming months. We're reaching the very end of 2009 where 2010 is just right in front of us and its going to be a new beginning soon.