The scariest Halloween photo ever!

The scariest Halloween photo ever: a scene from January 20, 2013:

The electorate reacts!

How to write like Thomas Friedman

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Create Your Own Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Column.

It is a lot easier than you think. Just make sure you don't actually say anything.

WORDS OF WISDOM FOR THE DAY : Controlling Impulses, Key To Market Timing Profitability....!

Winning market timers have learned to control their impulses. They can follow buy and sell market timing signals effortlessly. They show extreme self-control. Rather than give into their urges, they stick with their timing strategy knowing there will be days when they are in the red, but that over time they will be profitable and also (importantly), they will never suffer huge losses. Depending on your personality, you may have difficulty controlling your impulses. But whether you find discipline easy to control or difficult, there is much that can be done to ensure you follow your timing strategy.

The most common way market timers act impulsively is by abandoning their timing strategy. Once you decide to follow a specific timing strategy, it is vital to follow it. But this can be difficult to do. Even though we have years of experience here at FibTimer, that does not mean we do not have the urge to change a trade. Those years of experience have not dulled our emotions, but they have taught us to stick with our timing strategy. Like anyone else, we learned the hard way. We exited strategies with the best of intentions and with great conviction. We also lost money almost every time. It seems easy when you first start following a strategy, but while in the midst of a bullish or bearish position, it can be hard to stay with it.

The emotions of fear and greed are the two most compelling urges that trick market timers into abandoning a perfectly good timing strategy. Exiting a timing strategy may give you a good feeling for a day or two, but you will have joined the "herd," of millions of investors. And overall, the herd loses money. By self-monitoring your emotions, you can identify how they lead to impulsive decisions. By identifying how fear and frustration precede impulsive decisions, you can control these emotions and remain disciplined. It takes time to control emotions. Don't give up.

Staying with a timing strategy through a difficult period, and then realizing you have not only beaten the market, but also your own emotions, is very rewarding. Staying with a timing strategy for several years, and looking back at the huge up and down market swings caused by the emotions of investors (the herd) and realizing that you not only avoided them, but steadily achieved a profit when most have lost money, is incredibly rewarding.

WORDS OF WISDOM FOR THE DAY : Is There Still Money In Scalping The Stock Markets....?

 

Scalping is the process of capturing small price moves in the markets, normally repeatable each day. A scalper may make several to several thousand trades each day. Scalping techniques are executed by individual traders, entire trading firms and also by algorithmic black box systems. With the amount of movement that occurs in the markets each day there are ample opportunities to grab small profits, but stops and losses must be kept extremely tight. Since profits are small stops must also be kept small so that a loss does not erase the profitable trades.

There are benefits to scalping, but scalping often requires a certain personality type. While anyone can learn to scalp, the people who will enjoy scalping are the ones who generally don't mind stress, can focus on the task at hand and often spend hours of intense concentration during their selected trading time. The traits among scalpers will of course vary, but since many trades are often made every single day, the trader needs to be disciplined and emotionally strong. Making many trades in a day can be wearing and many traders burn out before finding their groove. The burn out issue can be avoided by knowing what scalping will entail both technically and psychologically. Once we know what to expect we can prepare and develop our strategies for profiting, remaining disciplined and focused.

Increased volatility has hurt many traders, but it also has created advantages. It has really become an issue of "the more the market changes, the more it stays the same." Things still go too high, and then fall too far and there is always room for the scalper to jump in and take advantage of these opportunities intra-day. There are also the stocks which barely move at all, and a scalper can step in adding liquidity and trading the small range.

While some may argue that algorithms, black boxes and automated trades eliminate the arbitrage opportunities in the stock market, this really could not be further from the truth. If anything the abundance of computer orders allows for short term traders to capitalize on computer orders coming into the market. Just as humans push things too far, often algorithms do too, and then everyone turns and switches direction. Nothing has changed; it is just how we view the market that has changed. But the market does not care how it is viewed. As long as the market is there, scalpers can capitalize on its movements if they have the right personality for it.

Jurong Point Banquet

Had my chicken cutlet for lunch. Not very fantastic. A little saltish on the skin. Overly marinated. Avoid

My wife had laksa. The thick bee hoon is overly cooked. The sauce is not thin and tasteless. Avoid.

Coffee w/o coffee aroma. More like drinking hot water with very diluted coffee smell. Avoid.

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Hundreds in Singapore queue up for new iPhone 4S - Yahoo!

Your friend findgreatstuffs@gmail.com has shared a link with you. Personal message: Hundreds in Singapore queue up for new iPhone 4S Higher launch prices notwithstanding, hundreds of iPhone fans queued up late Thursday night to be among the first people in Singapore to own Apple's latest gizmo – the iPhone 4S. Although the launch time stated by all telcos was Friday 12 midnight, some began queuing as early as 8.30am on Thursday to ensure that they get a place in the queue. Take Melva Yip, a 21-year-old student at Nanyang Polytechnic. He and his friend agreed to work in shifts and started their quest from 8.30am on Thursday. His reward: the first M1 customer to own an iPhone 4S. A current iPhone 4 user, Yip is convinced that the 4S is a worthy upgrade. "I'm upgrading for the speed, for the camera," he said. Also in the M1 queue was 20-year-old Jayden Chen. He said, "What attracts me is the Siri function. I'm switching over from SingTel because I think there's a lower chance of getting the phone fast with SingTel, as they're going with a pre-order system." In comparison, M1 offered the iPhone 4S on a first-come-first-served basis. But others were less willing to queue for the phone themselves. 27-year-old Amit Sawhney, who owns a construction materials manufacturing business, conveniently got his foreign worker to stand in line for him from 9.30am. As a result, he managed to be the first SingTel customer to own an iPhone 4S. In addition to the launch of the physical handsets, SingTel also unveiled their exclusive apps for the iPhone 4S, including one which localises voice-controlled assistant Siri's functionality in a separate app. Called deF!NE, the app allows users to search their surroundings with familiar terms like "char kway teow". A quick hands-on with the app shows that it's nowhere near Siri's polish, but still works well enough to be useful. These apps could prove to be a key differentiator for the red telco, as the iPhone 4S is otherwise identical across the board. Check out our photo gallery of the launch here! Hundreds in Singapore queue up for new iPhone 4S - Yahoo! http://sg.news.yahoo.com/hundreds-in-singapore-queue-up-for-new-iphone-4s.html Higher launch prices notwithstanding, hundreds of iPhone fans queued up late Thursday night to be among the first people in Singapore to own Apple's latest gizmo – the iPhone 4S. Read the full story

Hundreds in Singapore queue up for new iPhone 4S - Yahoo!

Your friend findgreatstuffs@gmail.com has shared a link with you. Personal message: Hundreds in Singapore queue up for new iPhone 4S Yahoo! Tech TalkBy Raymond Lau | Yahoo! Tech Talk Higher launch prices notwithstanding, hundreds of iPhone fans queued up late Thursday night to be among the first people in Singapore to own Apple's latest gizmo – the iPhone 4S. Although the launch time stated by all telcos was Friday 12 midnight, some began queuing as early as 8.30am on Thursday to ensure that they get a place in the queue. Take Melva Yip, a 21-year-old student at Nanyang Polytechnic. He and his friend agreed to work in shifts and started their quest from 8.30am on Thursday. His reward: the first M1 customer to own an iPhone 4S. A current iPhone 4 user, Yip is convinced that the 4S is a worthy upgrade. "I'm upgrading for the speed, for the camera," he said. Also in the M1 queue was 20-year-old Jayden Chen. He said, "What attracts me is the Siri function. I'm switching over from SingTel because I think there's a lower chance of getting the phone fast with SingTel, as they're going with a pre-order system." In comparison, M1 offered the iPhone 4S on a first-come-first-served basis. But others were less willing to queue for the phone themselves. 27-year-old Amit Sawhney, who owns a construction materials manufacturing business, conveniently got his foreign worker to stand in line for him from 9.30am. As a result, he managed to be the first SingTel customer to own an iPhone 4S. In addition to the launch of the physical handsets, SingTel also unveiled their exclusive apps for the iPhone 4S, including one which localises voice-controlled assistant Siri's functionality in a separate app. Called deF!NE, the app allows users to search their surroundings with familiar terms like "char kway teow". A quick hands-on with the app shows that it's nowhere near Siri's polish, but still works well enough to be useful. These apps could prove to be a key differentiator for the red telco, as the iPhone 4S is otherwise identical across the board. Check out our photo gallery of the launch here! Hundreds in Singapore queue up for new iPhone 4S - Yahoo! http://sg.news.yahoo.com/hundreds-in-singapore-queue-up-for-new-iphone-4s.html Higher launch prices notwithstanding, hundreds of iPhone fans queued up late Thursday night to be among the first people in Singapore to own Apple's latest gizmo – the iPhone 4S. Read the full story

One Giant Lens.

Today. went to Pudu Plaza for some photography equipment shopping.. and here i am infront of YL camera. their used lenses and used camera always impressed me. and maybe you can find a cheap GEM in here. try your luck.


and even birdie lovers put theirs lens here. telephoto. which is Five Figure Price tag. gulps...


and i found a cute MINOX digital camera. with Flash.. a great collector item. it's Mini Leica M3.


and i stop by in shop beside YL Camera. and i found this huge barrel, and it caused me to stop by and have a look..



it's say.. Reflector Lense.. 1000mm!!! seriously?


and try look at the size of the lense!!! some more it's made of Metal! which means it's  one big heavy lens.


look at the front element.. it say.. 1000mm f10! and it's screw mount.. wonder if it fits my m42 mount? hmph.. and they say this is a Russia lens. and the previous owner kept it more than 20 years.. now selling for RM1080. way cheaper than five figure price tag from the shop beside..

‘Joe the Plumber’ launches bid for Congress

‘Joe the Plumber’ launches bid for Congress – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

Good on yer, Joe.

Unfair, unfair, unfair!

A Dr. Sanity diagnosis:

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Occupy Wall Street's Code of Omerta

Back in the '60s they called it cooperating with your oppressor. The NY Post reports on the crime-ridden Zuccotti Park:

Overall security at the park had deteriorated to the point where many frightened female protesters had abandoned the increasingly out-of-control occupation, security- team members said.

Rumors swirled that one homeless man had pulled a knife in a dispute the night before -- and that there had been yet another case of groping.

But protesters and a cop on duty told The Post that most of the crime goes unreported, because of a bizarre “stop snitching” rule.

“What’s happening in there is staying in there,” said the cop.

"Godfather, what happens in Zuccotti
Park stays in Zuccottii Park!"

Ah yes, the code of Omerta, the Mafia's infamous code of silence that what happened among the families stayed among the families.

But this tidbit is only at the trail end of the Post's story, which points out that Zuccotti Park's squatters are a bunch of - gasp! - freeloaders!

The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday -- because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.

For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.

They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.

The real problem is that there is a vast organization, well funded by unknowns, supporting the squatters to enable them to eat quite lavishly for free. And now other folks want in on the squatters' dolce vita, the chronic underclass of New York who were there long before the OWS squatters ever came and will be there when they finally leave. They understandably don't see why these whippersnapper newcomers can eat like gourmands free at OWS kitchens while they cannot. But OWS alone has purity of heart and motive, so they feel qualified to judge the motives of everyone else.

And why should they be turned away? Cannot anyone who shows up at Zee-Park simply claim 99 percent status and get in the chow line? If not, why not? Well, the answer is easy: OWS is a bunch of commies. And they won't let New York's ordinary underclass join the revolution. The revolution, you see, is only for the "right people," the overwhelmingly white, Gentile sons and daughters of the middle class who want to live freely while others foot the bill.

How this makes them different from the old line of New York's freeloaders and panhandlers is quite beyond me.

Fantastic online file synchronization

I have three computers on which I need to keep a few gigs of files synchronized all the time. Rather than lug them around on a thumb drive (and you know what a pain that is), I use a free service called SugarSync.

Once installed, SugarSync automatically uploads your specified files to your password-protected sub-site of sugarsync.com (syntax is www.your-logon-name.sugarsync.com) and also downloads the files to your other computers where you set up the software. All your computers are sync'd at all times.

You can also install the software on your smartphone or tablet. This app lets you access a directory of your sync'ed files and download files to the device if you wish. You can email files from every device you have installed the software without regard to file-size limits; what you send in the email is a permalink to the file which the receiver uses to download it. You can do this directly from the web site, too. Here's an example - in Windows Explorer I right-clicked on a file and selected the SugarSync menu, then clicked on "Get Public Link." That yielded this permalink, which you can click on and download yourself (the file is PM's used car checklist): https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D6661692_8692402_649070

You can also designate a whole folder to be shared.

And that's my tech tip for today. If you want to give it a try, just click here.

Toyogo @ Toa Payoh

Did my shopping there again yesterday. Lots of plastics to buy. Happily got container to hold my baby's toy, high chair, education table, ...

However, the attitude of the counter staffs are bad. I wanted a high chair and they insisted I take the display set. It was raining and the chair was wet with spotted black water dots.

I asked for new ones and they said it comes in unassembled form. I'll need fixing which is not possible to do by myself.

I'll need clamping devices and will break the chair if not careful. In the event, they threaten I could not return it for exchange.

Within minutes, they change explanation and says there is no more new ones in their warehouse.

They are bull shitting me. How difficult can it be to fix some plastics stuffs. If it is really the case, then the design is poorly done. How can there be no stock if they're are the manufacturer.

The plastics ware selection is good, but speak to the manager and not floor stuffs if you need help.

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Fish and company @ Clementi Central

Had dinner at Fish&Co. Someone happen to celebrate birthday there and the staffs celebrate the event with singing and cheers. This is a wonderful dining experience.
Dolly fish "the Best" does not taste great though the fries is fine.
Salmon rice is good.
Fingerling food bake rice is good though the portion is small. About a third of main dish. More like kids' meal.

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Is this really a good idea?

Knoxville dad finds city's best kept secret | No Silence Here | knoxnews.com

At first glance it looks like a great idea. But is it really? You decide.

My first thoughts: Might work great for the consumer, but is it a viable business model? The volume of business (only two customers at a time) might not be high enough to make profitable revenue, and the likelihood of customers buying more than a few items at a time seems pretty low. I'd like to know how it will work in cold weather, too.

OWS = Tea Party

Woman Threatened For Reporting Assault At #Occupywallstreet » American Glob

The Occupy movement and the Tea Party are just alike, yes? Well, maybe not . . .

Update: "Claim: Occupy arrests top 2,500"

A running total of the Occupy related arrests. Tweet at #occupyarrests and @occupyarrests to add your numbers to the total. I am not a bot. Current Total: 2511. -- More.

And there's this: Believe it or not, the "Occupy" movement is now bragging about the total number arrests since the whole "Occupy Wall Street" charade began a month ago. They set up a twitter bot called @OccupyArrests that is keeping a running total of the amount of arrests these left wing kooks have accumulated. At the time of this posting, the total number of Occupy Wall Street arrests (from all over the world) stands at 2,222.

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