Weekend

I feel better about life. I got enough sleep. I had icy cold lemonade. I had piping hot tea. I don't strain to read what's on the screen.

Research Division (Education portfolio)

Studying value investing, and doing a a stock screen for the KLSE. Studying some of my trading bets. Some very irrational moves, made without sufficient study. Time to stop loss. Reminding myself to conserve resources, and to avoid driving anywhere unnecessarily. On KLSE Saturday morning trades of large blocks, off the exchange, visible on the broker-provided tradestations - goddamn data doesn't turn up on Bloomberg. Wondering how it impacts retail trader psyches on Mondays. Reading up on Erlang expressions. Gotta drill these in. Turning up the brightness on my lappy's LCD is probably the best move I've made in a while. Individual pixels more visible, reading is indeed easier. I've been moving around too much, what with this lack of a HQ. Wondering about removing the backpanel from generic laptop or TV LCDs... and making a poor man's Samsung LCD Window (touch not included). Anybody wanna donate a tablet for a DIY smart window experiment? "I'maz thinkin I can survive on #ramenAndEggs, the traditional food of #studentsEverywhere"

Properties Division (Real estate portfolio)

No updates at this time. Headquarters still in limbo.

Marketing Division (Social portfolio)

Hacking out some study in Bukit Bintang, while waiting for a friend. Gamification is about games? Are you kidding me? LOL. Most people don't know what games they play. 12 Angry Men - great movie. Wish I had a stimulating environment like that every day. Met a cute girl today. Divas, boozers, and tourists. It's not that I don't like them - they just don't remind me of me. Or do they? The CNY Hamper mission: "Contact missed deadline and AWOL. Proceeded without. 4x cargo delivered. Back home to catch up on sleep and work. Local inhabitants behaving consistently with observed patterns. Status quo." The technology in Minority Report that bloggers probably turned into a go-to reference existed in lots of places before that movie came up - I remember the Matrix's Zion airport control system.

Finance Division (Commercial portfolio)

Why don't people understand... that ANY EMPLOYEE IS ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR SHAREHOLDER VALUE? *SIC* Employees answer to Management, Management answers to the Board. If none of these can explain to shareholders why stuff goes down, someone needs to be fired. Depressed. Have run into too many non-managers in my last 36 months. Then again, this is exactly why I chose this career in 2005. Anyone who doesn't like their work, appears to be allowing themself to stay alive for all the wrong reasons. Walking around Bangsar's Telawi - three years of work in this neighbourhood, and I'm wondering if it's been worthwhile. Took a nap. Felt more distanced from the day job - good, it'll help me pay more attention to it. Made lemonade and cleaned kitchen. Whenever I identify with my portfolio of strategies, and not the individual execution of each strategy, I know I just got enough sleep.