Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

Kinglazy has his graduation dinner-dance party tonight at the catering hall Leonard.  The janitor played the DJ … so no Backstreet boys or Spears, :).  “Oh, that’s nice way of using talent.” Lee commented as she’s giving the lesson.  When I dropped him off with his buddy, a SUV right in front of us came out [...]

Postnup is the inthing right now.  Last week, Golfer went to a hedge fund party in Chicago, thought the Chicagoan girls would be bit more sophisticated than the Dallar dolls.  No, not much difference, the groupies in the cool Chicago let out everything too…  One postnup lawyer in New York said that an US hedgie refused taking [...]

Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economist wrote yesterday that the forming of a G4 with the US, eurozone, Japan and China is sensible.  Quite few years back, once he talked about G7 prior to its meeting, I asked him why would Russia be invited when they couldn’t even afford a jeans but China isn’t.  He actually e-mailed back [...]

It’s been few months that I’ve been trying to get Woodie’s Asian seminar going.  Right off the bat, the state owned brokerage in Beijing said “fine, no problem … we can host him ..”  I was thrilled.  Ok, if it’s fine, np, can I get an official or written invitation, so we can start booking flights and [...]

It’s a Memorial Day weekend 17 years ago that I first heard of timeshare.  A Filipino coworker saw me looking for a weekend trip so she offered me the ‘opportunity’, charging me $200 for a 2-night stay in the Poconos, the condition for the cheapness was that we had to attend a tour.  She never disclosed [...]

Tags: Chess, Timeshare

I need to sell and buy some stocks.  Few clicks should accomplish the task, simple enough?  No.  Not with Citi culture: it took 13:47 minutes to execute just one transaction, costing me $35 commission on mere 200 shares.  Ok, it’s a Jap stock, so the Citi website won’t take it, has to go thro the human [...]

The auto exit got me out of this ghost trade, few seconds early.  Well, it’s my plan, and I’m staying with it.   Two more ghost later on, on the lower chart.

Lou introduced me to John Wang who founded a biz development outfit in 1994 and is shuttling between China and USA, and his deputy Michael Liang.  During more than a decade promoting biz on either side of the Pacific Ocean, he has his pics taken with presidents and ministers of Beijing and Washington.  So as soon as [...]

Different strokes have different requirements with different coaches.

a ghosty morning so far: 3 losers in gold (2 ghosts n 1 zlr) and a winning ghost on dax … cut the loser short and let the winner run.

A slow morning, barely carve out of a trade from gold, after missing one earlier at 8:15.

Garry Kasparov is former world chess champion, retired 2 years ago from chess, co-founded The Other Russia, an opposition coalition.  He wrote a short article for Bizwk, Putin’s Critics: A Web Strategy.  I began to know him and Fischer, the two most famous figures in modern day chess through Golfer.  He played on the Banker’s League, [...]

Tags: Chess

Friday night we got a treat: a former pro who played 1989 US Open came to challenge Tony who’s a 5.0 player and rarely does he find a opponent within our circle.  The story went like this: Tony showed up for work - a.k.a. to play - was playing first with the blue shorts [...]

Slowpoke tried with Barry today and liked it.  He worked on her forehand top spin only.  She asked me few times about it, but I didn’t want to give her any advice since my forehand isn’t good.  It turns out, my backhand isn’t either.  Barry took few minutes to hit with me, and pointed out [...]

I got up at crack of dawn and raced to play with my weekend morning group.  Sunny and I got there at the same time, 6:48am.  Harrison and Robert, the pair early birds are perennial, were there sweating it out.  They both have beautiful single hand backhand, it’s a joy to see them play.  Charlie walked by [...]

To raise a kid. .. Is that so?  Slowpoke was mad at me last night coz I was late picking her up.  My fault.  So, when she got to SAndy’s house this morning, it’s clearly I-dont-want-to-be here attitude.  Simon played with her, Lou played and entertained her, so did others … I was forgiven.  Phew.  [...]

Beijing turns to ‘education’ to avoid bubble
By Jamil Anderlini in Hong Kong Published: May 25 2007 03:00 | Last updated: May 25 2007 03:00
The Chinese government yesterday made a fresh attempt to reduce the dangers of a stock market bubble by urging investors and securities brokerages to raise the level of “investor education” and consider [...]

Sizable parents and grandparents showed up for the last game on home turf.  But I thought it’s rather thin, given the size of the team.  Slowpoke greeted me affectionately, made the coach ‘moan’ as she came to ask for sun screen: “I don’t want to look like 60 when I’m only 30.”   She had 3 opportunities to [...]