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Soufulow: You nerd, you’re bringing laptop along on your diving vacation… what you plan to do huh, surf net with the sharks!?

Because this is the ‘view’ when you online.

Cool?

But i only online for 15 minutes a day. Sometime things that ‘look good’ aren’t really that good and things that ‘look bad’ aren’t really that bad.  Beautiful things can be very impractical.

1. Sea wind is so strong that your laptop screen keep yo-yo-ing.

2. Light is too strong in the day time that your screen has reflection (I see my face).

3. Light is too weak at night (they have those romantic dimmed yellow light) that you feel sea-sick after 10 minutes ’surfing’ online without a boat.

My room and my bed is still the best. And it’s free.

Flying to Shanghai tonight! Has been shitting non-stop for 2 days (guys version of ‘bocor‘), hopefully will not need to keep on shitting at KLIA, the plane and Shanghai. Wahahaha.

I find out that the most happy days I have, are always the days I don’t need to touch and see my computer (and the internet). I know that only after I traveled to Korea 3 years ago. I always thought that I like computer and internet very much. I thought I have passion with it, can’t live without it. But after I didn’t touch the computer for a record of 8 straight days at Korea, I find out that I actually hate computers. 8 days is a record because ever since I got my first computer in 1994, I have not left my computer for such a long period.

Soon, you will find out what you thought you like is actually what you hate.

Soon, you will find out what you thought is right is actually wrong.

Then later, what you hate become what you like again. And what you think is wrong become right again. Then you hate it again, like it again, hate it again …. then you think it is wrong again, right again, wrong again … it keeps repeating.

People (and everything), keep changing, every second. From physical stuffs like a car, to non-physical stuffs like our thoughts and believes. There is ONLY ONE THING that HAS NEVER CHANGED in our universe, and that ONE THING, is the fact that ‘Everything Changes’.

And the reason I write this post, is to make you confuse. Wahahaha.

I talked about BEST BRAINS in my last post on Why Malaysia is so stupid to dump away our best brains and give to Singapore (but didn’t charge Singapore for any money). I want to explain to you what I meant by best brains.

What are BEST BRAINS? Do you like add math in SPM? I can never finish my add math in all my exams even in SPM. But a friend of mine can finish it and check the answers for 3 times and still have the time to look around! FINISH + CHECK 3 TIMES + LOOK AROUND.

Can you memorize phone numbers? I went to a phone booth with a friend. We saw a paper ads sticked to the phone booth regarding a house rental. We just had a glance on it. 2 months later I suddenly thought of the ads and wished that I had copied the phone number. Know what? This friend of mine thought for 2 seconds and recalled the phone number! I doubt the accuracy but after we made the phone call, it is correct!

We took a subject called Islam Science in Uni. The notes given by the lecturer was so terrible that he can write 100 words in 1 one sentence with all kind of subjects, objects, verbs and adjectives in it! I don’t even have the brain to read it smoothly. The same friend of mine, can memorized the whole sentence word by word in mere seconds.

Do you have friends that don’t need to study much for exam but can get very good results? Do you have friends that can listen in the boring lecture and understand everything the lecturer is teaching?

BEST BRAINS are those people who can do something that seems RIDICULOUSLY easy to themselves but RIDICULOUSLY hard for someone else. You can also call it TALENT.

Yesterday, I talked about Singapore refusing the landing of AirAsia and why Malaysia is doing a lot of similar stuffs. Today I want to talk our our education and universities, in relation to Singapore.

Our government complaints that many of our knowledge workers (engineers, doctors, etc.) don’t want to serve in our own country but prefer to stay overseas. They say these people should be more patriotic.

Our government also complaint that we are lack of knowledge workers. While at the same time there are many graduates that can’t find a job.

The most STUPID mistake that our IGNORANT government is doing in EDUCATION -

Our government spend a lot of money providing FREE primary and secondary education us. That is 6 years of primary school, 5 years or secondary school and 2 years more if they take form 6, total to 13 years! 13 years or FREE EDUCATION and TRAINING!

Let’s take my school as an example. I study in Sam Tet, Ipoh which is considered one of the good school. In 1997 when I finished my SPM, there were 18 students getting 8As and above (maximum 10As only at that time).

6 of the 18 are now exported to Singapore. Singapore gives them full scholarship, let them choose the exact course they want to study and give them Singapore PR few months before they graduate! You don’t even need to apply for the PR! (some of them went after form 6, some of them went immediately after SPM to Junior College)

Malaysia trains these smart students for 13 years. Singapore train them for 4 years ONLY and have them work for Singapore for the next 30 years.

Who is smarter? Malaysia or Singapore?

Why they want to ’selfishly’ go to Singapore and don’t want to serve our own country?

1. Singapore give them scholarship so they don’t need to worry about money. They don’t need to worry that PTPTN will reject his loan.

2. Singapore give them the exact course they want so they don’t need to worry that they can’t get into the course they want in Malaysia.

3. Although Singapore has only 2 universities, both of them are far better than ANY one in Malaysia. UKM is currently bragging that they are the Top 200 Universities in the word, ranked #185 ahead of UM #192. Singapore only have 2 universities and they ranked as follow - NUS (National University of Singapore) #19, NTU (Nanyang Technological University) #61. Anything for the Malaysians to be proud of?

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But the primary reasons are still #1 and #2, the UNCERTAINTY that the Malaysia government is giving to these SMART BRAINS. They are worried about the future and they need to plan for their future too. If Singapore can give them the promise and certainty, why would they want to take the RISK of rejection from their own beloved country Malaysia? (How hurt does it feel when your own country doesn’t appreciate you?)

Every year we have a lot of STPM straight A students complain that they cannot get into Medicine (doctor). The Goverment says that if they allow all straight A students to go into Medicine, then other student with poorer results will not be able to get into medicine.

Well getting straight A means they are the BEST students with the BEST brain and medicine is usually consider the BEST course (and tough to study!). What sense does it make when the BEST STPM students are not GUARANTEED by the government to take the BEST course? Then what is the point of having the exam at the first place?

These BEST brains are the one who will be contributing the most to the country when fully utilized. They represent the future of Malaysia and they deserve the TOP attention. They should be given the VETO power to choose whatever course they want and not by a randomly picked-by-luck system. Keep the picked-by-luck system for your ordinary students, why RISK losing your BEST BRAINS?

Imagine what are the benefits we are getting by just focusing on keeping our BEST BRAINS from being stolen by Singapore! It won’t break the quota system even slightly because we are talking about the Top 1% people only. Apply the quota system to ordinary students like me! Put me and soufulow on the quota system, don’t RISK our BEST BRAINS! Just risk me! 

I have a lot to say about Singapore in relation to Malaysia. Most of us has been brain-washed by our politicians and puppet-doll-newspaper to think Singapore is the BAD GUY. While Singapore might be the BAD GUY, what we didn’t notice is that Singapore is also the SMART GUY! On the other hand, Malaysia look ridiculously STUPID in many aspects.

One of the hottest topic is the refusal of the Singapore government to let AirAsia land in their airport. I hate this myself because I do hope to fly cheaply to Singapore. BUT, before you think Singapore is selfish, do you know Malaysia is doing the exact same thing in MANY MANY ways?

Truth #1

Malaysia is building the double-track train system that connect the whole peninsular. Johor government refused to let the double-track to be connected to Singapore. They want it terminated at Johor Bahru. They are afraid that most people will actually ride directly to Singapore and will not stop at Johor, thus reducing the money flow to Johor and at the same time benefit their ‘enemy’ Singapore!

Isn’t that selfish? Isn’t that the same as Singapore refusing the landing or AirAsia?

Truth #2

We are so patriotic that almost all Malaysia families that own a car will own a PROTON! We are so patriotic that we actually need to pay a lot more money to buy a lousy car just because it is ‘Made In Malaysia’. We can’t own a better Toyota at cheaper price like Thailand citizens because we have to subsidize Proton. We have to ‘love’ our country because ‘Malaysia Boleh‘ Make Car. (Proton still lose money after 20 years of operation while Mitsubishi make a lot of money by selling engines to Proton. And we still can’t make our own engine. So technically we don’t make our own car, we make our own car cover only.)

There are lots of Nissan Sentra in Malaysia. Do you know there is a model called Nissan Sunny? You can’t find one here because if it is allowed to be sold in Malaysia, it will be too cheap!

Our government has disallowed other car manufacturers to compete equally with Proton. And who pay the price? We! The drivers!

Isn’t this the same as Singapore protecting their own airline company?

Truth #3

Digi is the most well run mobile company in Malaysia, their marketing and growth outperform Maxis and Celcom (run by TM - Tak Malu). But because they are 60% foreign owned, they are not awarded the 3G license and the WIMAX license. If you are standing as a mobile user and internet user perspective, do you wish Digi could have won both licenses so we can benefit from this great company? Or you want your service provided by Tak Malu that also provide your fucked-up STREAMYX connection?

Isn’t this the same as what Singapore is doing to AirAsia? While AirAsia can benefit even Singaporeans, they choose to protect Singapore Airline instead of benefiting their own people. Our government want to make our own national car and we have to drive lousy car that is more expensive and yet more dangerous on the road because it is made by recycled Coca-Cola tin.

(At least Singapore is launching a new budget airline call Tiger Airline to benefit their people)

Truth #4

Most of us will have a Maybank account because it is the largest bank in Malaysia. So probably you must have dealt with a Maybank staff before. What kind of treatment do you get? How long do you need to wait just to place a Fixed Deposit? How long do you need to wait to apply for an ATM card?

The last time I close an FD, it took the staff 30 minutes just to serve me alone! It took me another 30 minutes to reapply my lost ATM card. And that time doesn’t include waiting for my turn! It is just the time the staff took to do my work alone while letting a lot of other customers waiting!

If you have been to a Singapore bank, you will actually thought you are in a Hotel! The bank staffs will wait for you at the entrance! They will do anything you need while you sit on the sofa reading your favorite newspaper. In Singapore, customers is the boss. In Malaysia, customers is the slave.

This is happening because Malaysia banks are over protected by the Government. Only until recently Citibank are allowed to setup a few more branches. Before this, Citibank only have 3 branches in the whole Malaysia. So again, why Government choose to protect local business, we pay the price.

Isn’t that what the Singapore government is doing to AirAsia?

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If Singapore Government is selfish, what about our Government? While Singapore Government might have been selfish, they have actually done a lot of great things for their people which we can only dream of! They are SELFISH but they are SMART too!

I use fucked-up Streamyx. You probably use Streamyx too. TM has a monopoly of the last mile connections. Unlike other countries, Malaysia has not passed any legislation for the unbundling of last mile connections. This gives little chance for other third party companies to compete with TMNet and has thus created an unhealthy business environment.

Look at our crime rates! We have tons of notebook thieves wandering around KL. We have tons of snatchers planning to snatch your mum’s handbag. We have tons of robbers that want to break into our house everyday.

Compare our Internet connection with Singapore!

Compare our crime rates with Singapore!

Compare our public transportation system with Singapore!

Compare our local universities with Singapore!

Compare our Ringgit Malaysia with Singapore!

Compare our Police with Singapore!

WE ARE FAR FAR BEHIND! WAKE UP MALAYSIANS! WAKE UP! We both started at the same time! We can’t blame our population and size because we will then need to compare ourself with Japan and Korea, which is even more scary!

(Japan need to recover from World War II and they don’t even speak English. Korea have to fight Communism and have their country split into half and they don’t speak English as well.)

WAKE UP MALAYSIA! Just talking ‘Malaysia Boleh’ is not enough, we have to work hard and PROOF IT!

If this blog post doesn’t help you grow smarter, I will cut off my dick and never blog again.

Disclaimer: My dick might be too small to be found.

Story begins…

The phone in my room ring many times in the evening (I sleep in Day Time). There are only 2 persons who know my house phone number, my girlfriend and banks. Usually I will pick up because it seldom ring.

But today, I am a total PIG (ARRRR!), I ignore the phone. At one time I pick it up and it happens to be the Telekom robot calling me telling me I have a voice message. I need to call some 1300 number to listen to the message. Ceeaaah! So, I hang up and continue to be a PIG, it rings again and I ignore them because I thought it was the Telekom robot disturbing me again. Finally I pick it up when I am not so PIG. My girlfriend called and she said she want to install mobilizer to her car.

My brain flashed ‘BIG WOK PROBLEM!’ （大锅！）

Now before I can make sure you read everything, I got to ‘brag’ about myself a bit. (Forgive me, I just want to make sure you read on. If I don’t, what I say won’t have power. It is like why someone need to put a PHD and all sort of qualification shortforms that you can’t understand (PoP, PMM, kld, Cpat…) in their name card so that what he said will has more power and authority than a barber or a pimp.)

I have read over 100 books in the last 4 years. I have read a lot of books on human psychology, sales and marketing. And I have read 5 books on the topic about conman alone (how people cheat and why people get cheated).

Now why it is BIG WOK without asking further?

1. She has been calling so many times, things might have get worst. (洗湿个头了-Hair get wet already)

2. She suddenly want to install something so irrelevant (girls want to buy shoes and dresses or bags but definitely not a car immobilizer!)

3. The car already have an immobilizer!

My guess, someone has approach her and use psychology and sales tricks to influence her. So I ask if a salesman has come to her house. She said yes. Exact guess - 全中.

[If you think I am a genius in order to guess that, you are wrong! Selling car lock, alarm and immobilizer is a con work that is as popular as the lottery con that I write about last time. And these people always aim for students around the campus area. My ex-housemate was a victim when I was studying in Johor.]

Why they are conman?

- Do you need another immobilizer if you already have one? (Do you need another door or engine or wind screen if you already have one?)

- Things that they sell are OVERPRICED! It is like selling you a RM30 Digi prepaid card for RM100. It is like selling you an apple for RM19.90. (It’s exactly what the scratch-lottery 刮刮乐con do， selling you a RM199 foot massager for RM888. Selling you a RM100 water-filter system for RM500. That is water-fish system, not water-filter system.)

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I ask her to chase him away immediately but she said he has already ‘install’ something. (If I am not a PIG, this won’t happen. Arggghhh!). So she already get her hair wet. Problem! Problem! Problem! So I asked to talk to the salesman.

We talked and negotiated for more than half an hour! What I want is simple, I want him to remove the things and go away. I never even ask about the price. He go around talking this that, his office is reputable, who who has install this, why the current immobilizer is different than his …　And he keep on using his first trick

“You don’t need to pay anything now! I install it first and you can pay later.”

- This is a fucking good trick because you can’t say you don’t have money anymore because you can even pay by installments!

- Human has a psychology call “the reciprocal rule” (reciprocal means something like in mutual, in exchange,　both party, 互相). If someone give something to us (even something we don’t want), our brain will want us to return a favour (even if we are very unwilling to do so). This is a good psychology most of the time - I help you, you help me. But it can also be used as nasty tricks in sales and marketing.

Example:

There is a religion that is very good in collecting donation. The psychologist try to figure out why they are so good. This is what they do. They will stand in the airport door and wait for people to come out. Once you step outside the gate, they will stuck a rose to your hand telling you it is a gift from their church. Because this is so sudden, you have no choice but to accept it. If you are normal, you will return a smile (you reciprocate with a smile). But that is not enough because he will ask you to donate money to his church (they want you to reciprocate with money). Because you have accepted a gift at first (although you didn’t ask for it), most people will have to make the donation, either willingly or unwillingly. Some people will try to give back the flower but of course they can’t because the church member will insist “No! No! That’s a gift for you.” And what is more interesting, while some church members are in charge of giving away flowers and collecting donations, some others are in charge of collecting the flowers back from nearby rubbish bin! Most of them throw away the flowers 1 minute after making the donation.

So now, if he has install something to you car, can you say you don’t want to pay? (pay later still means need to pay)

And listen carefully again, what he said is -

“You don’t need to pay anything now! I install it first and you can pay later.”

but not

“You don’t need to pay anything now! I install it first and you can pay later. If after you try it and you don’t want it, I will remove it for you and you don’t need to pay a single cent.”

Now that’s make a big differences. The first sentence is a con case and trick case, the second is a more genuine offer with no obligation [tangungjawab, 责任]. Although the second one can create other problems, at least it is better. Malaysia is not like America or Europe where everything is assumed to have minimum 30 days money back guarantee! In Malaysia, all our bills and receipts state “Goods sold are not refundable!” which means “If I caught you as a Waterfish, you got to be a Waterfish forever”.

- The other important psychology is “commitment and consistency”. Commitment and consistently (or congruent) means if you make a promise, you got to keep it. Letting him install the things means you promise to pay. In daily life, having commitment and consistency is very important in dealing with other people.

Examples:

If your father promise to pick you up at the bus stop, usually he will unless there is something catch up. But he will let you know so you can make another plan. He won’t fong-fei-kei (didn’t show up) but watch TV at home while remembering he need to fetch you. And when you come home mad at him, he say ‘I change my mind and I am lazy to inform you’.

If you promised to buy a toy for your son in Christmas, you will buy it (even you regret you make the promise) because you need to be consistent with yourself and show your children your commitment.

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Things got very nasty because he don’t want to go away and I don’t want to pay anything. The conversation go very bad (all the mahjong players downstairs of my house can heard me talking so loud upstairs) So he use the second trick. He TURN the table, make me become the BAD GUY and he become the VICTIM.

“Do you think this is fair to me? I have install half and you ask me to remove it. And you have promised to buy before I install it”.

Hu-wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Many people, will get trapped on this one. Remember the ‘reciprocal rule’? I have do something for you (setup half of the thing), and I can’t do it for nothing. You got to give me something back. And remember ‘commitment and consistency’? You have make a promise and you can’t just abandon it. Hit to the death-spot （死穴）of many people like watching Chinese kung-fu film. Jackie Chan 2 fingers hit on the neck, DIE.

Before that, he is the bad guy and we are the victim, we are being lure into buy something overpriced that we don’t need. Now, he turn the table and make you the BAD GUY and he is the VICTIM! How brilliant is that (高招）. Now you start to feel guilty. Thought that it was your mistake. And now you have no choice but to comply with him and let him ‘rape’ you.

Our brain is playing with us (the reciprocal rule and the commitment and consistency).

A senior came by to ‘help’ and he fall trap as well, because his first question to my girlfriend was, “Did you promise him to install that thing?”. His brain is blinded by the ‘Commitment’. Luckily the senior leave for class very soon instead of convincing my girlfriend that the salesman is the VICTIM and she is the BAD GUY!!! Usually people that we think are smarter than us (like our seniors, our parents, old people, professionals and even policeman and politicians) are not!

**Not all commitments and promises are EQUAL. It is based on the Situation. **

If you are a girl. Some bad guy come into your house, caught you and want to rape you by saying “If you try to shout or fight back, I will kill your parents!” (or cut your face, or whatever treats that scare you enough to comply). So you ‘promise’ to be diam-diam [silent] and let him do the thing. IF, at any chance, you are able to get away from the rapist and you can make sure you parents won’t get killed and your face won’t get cut. Will you choose to escape or will you stick with the stupid commitment and promise?

“Yeah, I have promised him to let him fuck so even I can run away, I still need to let him fuck”. BULLSHIT.

Have you ever watch a police vs bad guy film where the robber negotiate something with the police, the police comply (e.g. ransom for hostage). Then both party shake hand and thanks each other for keeping their promises?

George W Bush, “Here is the $1 million dollar you asked as promised.”

Osama Bin Laden, “Thanks! Here is the hostage back to you as promised.”

Mr Bush and Osama shake hand. “Thanks for the cooperation and lets work again together in the future.”

BULLSHIT.

Police won’t keep any promise to robber or terrorist. Their ultimate objective is to make sure the hostage is safe and anything else if part of the skills and tricks. They will shoot and kill the BAD GUY on any chances they have and not focusing on keeping the stupid promises.

The immobilizer ass hole (and other conman and ass holes) is no different than the rapists and robbers. We don’t keep promises with BAD GUY which has begun everything with dirty tricks, lies, sin, dishonest, immoral and illegal acts. Once we know the ass hole is dishonest, every promise is automatically voided. If you promise to let your neighbor drive your car and later find out that he doesn’t have a driving license, can you break back your promise? If you promise a ‘friend’ to carry goods through the airport custom and later noticed that it might be drugs, do you still want to keep your promise?

Lets look at how many dirty tricks, lies, sin, dishonest, immoral and illegal acts that has been done by the immobilizer-ass-hole-with-metal-ass.

- He want to sell us a few metal plates that block the doors from thief for RM488. Negotiated down to RM388 and later RM250. I call my friend that own a car accessories shop. He said this plate cost RM110-RM120 and I can install it in his shop anytime I want. RM488 - RM110 = RM378!!! The last offer price ‘looks cheap’ because you don’t know the market price, your brain compare the price to RM488. If a few metals cost RM488, then Malaysia drunks that steal metals on the street will be millionaire. And how honest can a person be if he can initial sell you something at RM488 and the final price can end at RM250? And you find out the market price is RM110?

- He want to sell an immobilizer that we already have for RM688. If something selling for RM488 is worth RM110 in the market. What will the immobilizer worth? Before that, does 1 car need 2 immobilizer?

- He wear uniform and pretended to be from Perodua. He said he need to check on the Myvi. Because it happens that my girlfriend just serviced the car at a Perodua center last week, she thought it might be a follow up or something. The ass hole ‘check’ on the car and then start talking about the security thing. He then started selling his immobilizer and metals. (While writing this, something spark my brain, it is possible that the Perodua service center ’sold’ car owners information to people like this!)

- He refuse to let us know his name, his handphone number, his office name, address and phone number.

(to be continued…)

p/s Should pay RM250 to install the metal plates to his ass hole!

I wrote a very long post (actually longest in my blog) few weeks ago called Why Smart People Don’t Fight Against Prostitution. I also believe it is my greatest post. But I make a silly mistake as a blogger. It was too long. So people just skip it through, but if you do, you miss plenty of jokes. Wahahaha.

April wrote in the comment, “Cool. I like this post very much. Interesting and very true. What about pimps?”

Yeah, the first answer I need to find out is not What about pimps, but What is the meaning of the word ‘pimps’?! Answers.com gives the definition as”One who finds customers for a prostitute”, so that means Bapa Ayam.

Bapa Ayam play a very important role in the Chicken Industry.

1. They protect their girls from abusive customers, especially physical abuse. Some customers think that their RM30 is very big, want to play 6 hours, want to play SM and expect the girl to supply the candles. Some expect to get free gifts like cigarettes and mineral water.

2. They are more aggressive sales man then Citibank Credit Card and Digi! They don’t need a degree in Business and Marketing but they are still able to get customers for you. Depending on the chicken standard, some Bapa Ayam get customers directly from the street (guys that walk in Jalan Bukit Bintang before know what I mean), some uses the newspaper and yellow pages to advertise their massage girls or tour guide, some even got website ahchicken.com.

3. They charge only by commission. So if they can’t get customer for you, you don’t need to pay.

I suggest all credit card salesman and mobile line salesman to consider switching their job to Bapa Ayam since they do almost the same thing. You can get free service some more. Stop asking me what credit card or phone line I used when I go to Jaya Jusco and when I pump petrol! I don’t need another credit card or phone line!

I like to brag the fact that I got 4 of my wisdom teeth when I am 17. So that explain why AhYap is so smart! (cough*cough*)

But finally I realized got wisdom teeth early doesn’t mean you are having wisdom earlier, it only means you can have holes in your wisdom teeth earlier!

Fixed 2 holes in my upper 2 wisdom teeth few days ago. If wisdom teeth really means wisdom, then I really I hope I don’t have any wisdom. Celaka punya wisdom teeth.

Chinese like RED. Chinese New Year is always associated with the color RED. Many even wear RED clothes in Chinese New Year. The stock market in the WHOLE WORLD celebrate Chinese New Year together yesterday with the color RED. So here comes the RED gong xi fa cai from the US Dow Jones.

I watched the whole thing yesterday from 10.30pm at night Malaysia time to 5.00am in the morning. I have to watch because you don’t see this kind of fire crackers so often! The last one was on September 11, 2001 (more than 5 years ago). [The News]
How is it possible that I will know there is a FREE fire crackers show yesterday night? Lilian Too didn’t told me. That was because KLSE drop 3%+ yesterday. For those who are not familiar with the significance of the percentage, a drop of more than 1% in a day is consider a lot. It was 3% yesterday. So I hook up to Yahoo Finance and look at the world indexes. (To go to this page manually, simply go to finance.yahoo.com and look for the first column on your left named Market Summary and click on Indices - World)

Shanghai Composite Index fell 9% in a day. Remember I just told you 1% is SERIOUS? A glance on other indexes in Asia and Europe say the same thing, averaged to 3% drop in almost all exchanges in the world. And because Americans are lazy, they wake up later than Japanese, We (Malaysians) and Europeans (they wake up later not because of lazy lar, it is because the sun reach them later).

Because all stock markets in the world are one big family, waking up late doesn’t mean you can bypass the fortune of other family members. So everyone get ready to dump the stocks when the market open.

Here is what you can learn from Sifu Yap (You can’t learn much from reading The Star Business or Sin Chew Business because they always over-exaggerate on day events to make their news hot and interesting)

1. 9% drop in Shanghai index is a nightmare? Those who believe that when the read the newspaper are blind-leaded. You need to compare 9% to something to make sense. 9% drop in a day will only hurt those who jump into the market recently. Those who buy high and hope to sell higher. If you compare the 9% drop to the 126% increase of Shanghai Index in 2006, it just mean your gain is now 115% (instead of 126%). So what matter is when you enter the market.

People looking at the small picture see this - Shanghai Composite 5 Day Chart.

People looking at the BIG picture see this - Shanghai Composite 1 Year Chart.

2. Another example is our own KLSE index. 3.5% drop yesterday and 3.5% drop today. Is that scary? If you have enter the market in November 2007 (less than 4 months ago) when the index hit 1,000, it get near to 1,300 few days ago. It drop 7% this 2 days. So what? It only matter if you enter the market this month. Those who enter long ago still have a delicious 20% gain.

Your stockbroker, The Star Business, Sin Chew Business, Uncles and Aunties, Grandpa and Grandma see this - KLSE Composite 5 Day Chart.

Intelligent investor, and those who have read my blog and become more intelligent by 0.06% see this - KLSE Composite 1 Year Chart.

3. A stock market correction or bear market, which is scary for your grandma are actually good news for Rule #1 Investor and Warren Buffett disciples. Because it gives us the chance to buy something at a discount price. This is different than the wisdom of most people, who are trying to BUY HIGH and hope to SELL HIGHER. Intelligent investors don’t do that, we (ahem, AhYap *think* he is one) like to go shopping when they are giving BIG discounts.

My wish? I hope the whole market continue to fall so I can stock up my portfolio at discount price. For those who have buy low long ago, they have nothing to worry as well, as their cushion-protection is big enough. Only those who jump into the boat this month will have to lose some sleep and their children get scolded more often.
Phil Town, the guy who set a nuclear bomb in my brain on investing last October with his book Rule #1 is answering my question again today! Gotta love this guy. Here is the post -

Rule #1 Question of the Week: How Do You Calculate the Big 5 After a Merger or Acquisition? (Part I)

What can be weird about my Chinese New Year?

1. All people eat mandarin oranges, even Malay and Indians buy them. But I haven’t eat one this year. I eat some last year, but I didn’t eat any in 2004 as well. I love to eat, I just don’t eat. Hmmmm, what is the logic?

2. All people buy new clothes. Chinese believe they have to buy NEW clothes for NEW year so they can have good luck. If they don’t wear NEW clothes in NEW year, they will have very bad luck for the whole year! Bullshit. I didn’t buy and wear any new clothes for CNY in 2003 and 2004. And I do very well in 2003 and 2004. I buy new clothes in 2002, 2005 and 2006 (no money in 2002, girl friend force me to buy in 2005 and 2006), and those are my fuck up years, having screw up in almost everything (study, work, love) in 2002 and do nothing productive in 2005 and 2006.

3. People like the food in CNY, chickens, ducks, pigs, yucks, I hate bloody meat. Lion and tiger eat meat because they don’t have a choice, they can’t think. But human can think. And if human really meant to eat meat like animals, then do the way animals do. EAT RAW MEAT! No lion cook their dinner before they eat. And no tomato sauce please!

4. Ang Pow sucks. I receive around 30-50 ang pows every year (my grandfather have 1 daughter and 10 sons, the daughter is the eldest making 10 sons a straight set, who say probability works?) Quantity doesn’t mean anything. The total income from my ang pows total to less than RM100 for many years. These guys don’t understand inflation, 20 years ago, the ang pow size is RM2. Today they still give RM2, don’t they know Pop Piah was selling for 40 cents 20 years ago and now it is selling for RM1.30 for the SAME POP PIAH? My parents also give me RM2 ang pow for many years. Note: Not RM2 from Papa and RM2 from Mama, it is RM2 from Papa and Mama together sharing the same ang pow!!! So I tunjuk perasaan (boycott) 2 years ago by refusing their ang pow. It worked and they agree to increase it to RM10 per person. Wahahaha.

Happy belated Chinese New Year to all who read my blog!