May 31 2007
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 [...]
May 31 2007
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 [...]
May 31 2007
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 [...]
May 31 2007
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 [...]
May 31 2007
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 [...]
May 31 2007
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 [...]
May 31 2007
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.