1 More Day…

October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is it. In less than 24 hours, my team will be in the trading room playing to win the Options Trading Championships. Our team leader has just return from her honeymoon yesterday and this whole afternoon we were shortlisting our targeted companies and strategising our plan of attack.

I must remember to bring my camera along to take some shots of my new friends at the championship. Keep our friends close and your enemies closer ha ha ha!

I know we can win the group category…yes, do or die, we have to win at least 1 category. May the Force be with us…

Options Trading Championship 2007

October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

6 more days until the championship starts…

Today we had just arranged for the printers to do the team uniform. The design is really cool and is done by one of my close friends, Suan Bee. I hope the ink transfer will be ok, or else the design will not be so nice. Will post a picture of it after the championship.

One of our team member is on honeymoon, she’ll be back 2 days before the championship, 1 day to debrief and strategise and another day to travel to KL…actually on the way, we can also discuss about our trading strategy…hmmm I hope we won’t get caught in the Hari Raya jam man.

I have been emailing some friends on internet marketing, that’ll be my next money farm. Really looking forward to start doing biz online.

Spa Wars

October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The term is derived from the name of the town of Spa, Belgium, where since medieval times illnesses caused by iron deficiency were treated by drinking chalybeate (iron bearing) spring water. In 16th century England the old Roman ideas of medicinal bathing were revived at towns like Bath, and in 1571 William Slingsby who had been to the Belgian town (which he called Spaw) discovered a chalybeate spring in Yorkshire. He built an enclosed well at what became known as Harrogate, the first resort in England for drinking medicinal waters, then in 1596 Dr Timothy Bright called the resort The English Spaw, beginning the use of the word Spa as a generic description rather than as the place name of the Belgian town. At first this term referred specifically to resorts for water drinking rather than bathing, but this distinction was gradually lost and many spas offer external remedies. — WikipediaWhenever I go for holidays, I look forward to visiting the local spa, especially if that region is famous for it. I have been to Bali, Indonesia and tried the famous Balinese hot stone massage. In fact I’ve tried the Balinese massage almost every where I went. However, Bali has still the best valued spas and the service rivals the land of smiles.

However, I do wonder what is the normal expectation whenever a guy goes into a spa. Are we suppose to go full monty or just down to our shorts? I know some spa provides those flimsy disposal ones, some do not and some provide their change of shorts.

I presume this may have something to do with each country’s culture and how they view nudity but…aren’t we suppose to be free of the restrictive clothing, be free and comfy and let our body relax and enjoy the therapeutic treatments? I mean if the masseuses are really professional then they should know what’s best right?