If you saw the new Indiana Jones movie(heck with the aberration of the multiple ancient locations), you would've noticed the ancient buildings full of steps. That's Machu Picchu, the most famous symbol of the Inca Empire, which was built around the year 1450. I first saw it on a documentary late at night when I was in a Genting hotel room. The structures were astounding accurate in construction. Especially for their normal walls, it is pieced together by hundreds of unshapely rocks to form a neat wall with no protrusions. And to remind you again, there weren't cement back then and these walls stood the test of time! I just googled some aerial shots of the site and wow, it's almost like an old dimension tucked away on our planet.

I swear I'll bring back photos of me and Machu Picchu as background in future. Hope blogspot and also this piece of promise will still be around.

I had a doomsday night on Monday. I was eager to try new things on a new horizon, to escalate my interest and excitement in investing. I went to bravehost.com to start a new website so that I could pluck my personal investment sheets off the net wherever I was. But obvious the learning curve was too great and I couldn't even get a working link on the website I created to direct to my uploaded files. Frustration abound, I gave up and moved on to check out a widely-acclaimed tool called MSN Investment Toolbox. The original website gave me troubles because it couldn't recognise that I had the required latest IE ver7 (I just installed it following the MSN instructions). I went to a tech website and got a working link that allows me to bypass that verification page of MSN. The thing is, what i experienced and got in the end was nothing similar to what the Investment Toolbox had advertised on the website. Those had many charting stuffs and such, I was barely using the website's online tools. Bleaugh~

Tonight I'm switching to other hosting websites to try my luck. As for mapling and the MSN toolbox, that can wait larh!

I went to Tiong Bahru last night for a movie with my colleagues. We've got edmund, keng sen from my office and eugene tan, kaiwen and ah too from the other "sister" office. The Indiana Jones movie was "Wooahhh...amazing mechanism....wtf? got alien?" for me haha...

My bowman went back to Ellinia from Ossy and i came up with this picture hehe...

Today's Saturday! Thank God for giving us weekends! But I haven't got a clue how im going to spend the late afternoon and night. Can't maple all day la...

I can return my investment books and get new ones. Seriously, I'm like the author in one investment book i read. I won't lift a single page of a book that isn't about investment. I tried finding Picoult's books in library but all of them are out. I'll try to find some sci-fi books if i can. Yeah I'll do it. Library's just a 5min walk away :) And thank God for giving me such an excellently located home.

I was fascinated on Vesak Day because i leveled up to 53 and got to use my 77 wa 2 luk liu bei dagger. The weapon attack difference was +25 and my damage went well pass 2000. I was seeing 6 rows of 300/400+ dmg on a ghost lantern. I wanted to go home on tuesday badly to play but got caught in work until 12am so here comes my sad life again... What I will only say is that I was simply forced to waste my time that night. With no dinner provided, that was the worse bit of it. I had to kope Edmund's cup noodles to fill my stomach.

I am so going to watch the UEFA Champions' League tonight. Even it's aired at 2.30am, im going for it... Hey talking about that, I should catch some sleep now. I've checked and Singapore Pools put the odds at

I was fascinated on Vesak Day because i leveled up to 53 and got to use my 77 wa 2 luk liu bei dagger. The weapon attack difference was +25 and my damage went well pass 2000. I was seeing 6 rows of 300/400+ dmg on a ghost lantern. I wanted to go home on tuesday badly to play but got caught in work until 12am so here comes my sad life again... What I will only say is that I was simply forced to waste my time that night. With no dinner provided, that was the worse bit of it. I had to kope Edmund's cup noodles to fill my stomach.

I've created another excel watch workbook, this time it's for mutual funds of USA. I'm tracking my choices through Morningstar.com and I just bought my first trade in the wrong amount. I spent 9.6k in it because I thought $46x 200= $5200. Damn. It's demo only.

I am so going to watch the UEFA Champions' League tonight. Even it's aired at 2.30am, im going for it... Hey talking about that, I should catch some sleep now. I've checked and Singapore Pools put the odds at

MANCHESTER UTD vs CHELSEA
2.45	2.48	3.15

If you could only watch 1 Youtube video, here's what i recommend.

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Video Information: Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon and he's been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told he's got 3-6months of good health left. Here, he gives his last lecture at the university and talks about helping others with their childhood dreams, and what he wants us to learn from him personally. There are other Youtube videos on lectures he gave, but this one is epically the best. 76mins long of life-long lessons. Anyone could learn from what he lectures on.

The idea of having imeem.com as my music host came from Mel's blog. It is friendly to use and easy to upload and no breach of piracy laws. These 10 songs are the best in my chest of songs as of May 2008.

And yeah, I completed Day 1 of AA. JYJY! My muscles almost collapsed at one point. It's always that exercise that kills me off.

Tomorrow, i'll do lots of things at home. Read investing books, piano-ing, mapling~~, and maybe play bball to keep the legs going for the dream. Where's that bball again??

Yaataa! less than 6months to ORD. Not a bad idea to have a ord timer on my blog eh?

Hello my blog khakis. Haven't been blogging for so long.
Just to summarise what's for today.
As promised I went to Singpost Jurong Point to buy F1 tickets. Edmund and me are going to world's first F1 night race ! Just being part of a 1st is great. I had lunch at the halal foodcourt and hopped to the library to return my book and borrowed 4 new titles. They're all investment books which caught my attention with their title names. I haven't tried counting the investment books i've read, but these 4 should allow me to get past 20 books so far.

Since I came back from Taiwan, I've came up with a powerful Excel workbook that allows me to check several data of a single stock with the input of its symbol name in the 1st cell. I was absolutely impressed at what I can do, and how wonderful Excel is. I followed Adam Khoo's 6 fundamental figurative screens and build my workbook based on those screens.

Meanwhile I mapled here and there and practised piano on the piece, Sena's Piano II. I really felt bad and sad when I forgot the pieces I once learnt. So far I've remembered to play Julia, To Zanarkand, Blue Mind. Now learning back Sena's Piano II, progressing with Melodies of Life and Aerith's theme. That FFVII one is pretty messy and requires good dual hand coordination.

I'd start my AA training program at 9 pm later. AA does not refer to Alessandra Ambrosio though i like her smile very much ! Hope Mel wun check on me from her window. I bet she's with her 2x. =X

I'll be in Taiwan from 12 Apr to 5 May. On call of duty for the country.

Retributions can be so right sometimes. Just the other day, I saw a guy on a relaxer chair in the Mountainous Region II on a side ground from the mob. Immediately I knew I could kill him somehow. The black goats can kick up damage from their hind legs so i hit them and went to that guy. The victim had strong avoidability and it took several kicks to get him down the map. He got kicked left right. Then u know what happened to him after that..


Then i went to do the Giant Centipede quest and got pwned by its 800-dmg blows. Died before I even saw its blood. Then I got respawned at the map outside. I jumped off with a fraction hp left and received the falling tombstone again cos the livestocks were sprawling around below....

I am so into trading and investment books, more correctly the stockmarket and forex. I read Gary Smith's How I Trade For A Living, and he quoted Rick Pitino, "Dreams are what we want to end up and goals are how we get there. Our long-term success is the result of the small victories we accumulate along the way. " This 3rd-party phrase was one of the best thing I took away from his year 2000 book.