Investments

Ok non car related post again. Instead of buying BBKs, I'm looking to pick up some shares.

Missed:
Citi at US$1. Now it's US$5+ (11-Feb $3.5)
DBS at $6.80. It went up to $25 and down to $16+ currently (12-Feb $13)
Gold at $700. It went up to $1800 and down to $1000 currently
STI at 1700. It went up to 3500 and down to 2800 currently
Oil went from 147 to 32 to 110+ and now it's at 36 currently (11-Feb 26)
Crazy swings in oil but now I'm watching Keppel at $6.37 and SembMarine at $1.73
14-Dec update: Keppel at 6.22, SembMarine at 1.65
14-Jan update: Keppel at 4.88, SembMarine at 1.39
18-Jan update: Keppel at 4.67, SembMarine at 1.30

Lost:
Swissco bought at $0.044, high of $0.061, suspended at $0.052
Triyard bought at $0.22, high of $0.26, sold at $0.11, suspended
Mum bought AEM at $1.19 and cut loss at $1.05, went on to $1.35 then $5.25

Hits:
COE at 18.4k. Rio bought at 3.7k depre.
COE at $2693. Jetta bought for 82.8k (7k depre) and sold for 82k (10k depre)
House at 308k. SBF was going for 380k! Market value of 565k. “Sold” for 525k.
FD2R bought at 11+k depre, sold at 14k
Mark X bought and sold at 10k depre
SembMarine bought at $1.7, sold at $1.81
Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust IPO at $0.93, sold at $1.00
Wynn Macau bought at $7.80, sold at $21. High was 30
Mum bought AEM at $1.12 and sold at $1.24. See above miss thereafter.
Mum bought ThaiBev at $0.82 and sold at $0.83

Sold SCB at 61 after buying at 60.45, 54, 44.2, 39.2. High was 93.80

Sold ESR at 0.445 after buying at 0.25. High was 0.50

Hopefully more hits to come!

Geeky post

Nothing about cars this time. So SITEX just passed, dec holidays are round the corner. Happy days! We got ourselves an iPad mini 2 16gb for $399 and a Lenovo ideapad-100 core i5-5200u with 4gb ddr3 1333/1600 ram for $599. Apparently not upgradable, nor is the battery replaceable. Oh well let's see how long it lasts.

iPad mini 4 was going for $548 and core i5-5200u with 8gb ram was going for $699, core i7-5500u going for $799. As you can see, budget ruled. Haiz so poor nowadays. My diary excel got lost when I migrated laptops, heart pain. Something that I kept going every outing since 2007, and daily since 2012. Oh well was told it was lame anyway, so maybe I'll post here more often. Maybe.

Been sourcing for 2gb ddr2 800 laptop ram recently since nobody wanted to take in her laptop and the battery and charger and laptop were all good, excep that it was kinda slow. Hopefully the extra ram will help. I sold my toshiba satellite L645 core i3-370m with 4gb ddr3 1066 ram for a princely $100. When I bought it for $849 in 2010, with 2+3 year extended warranty for $233. Keyboard and charger changed once, battery bought once. Now the dvd drive keeps popping out, charger and battery going, and the not so occasional slowness is killing me. Bye! Her acer t4400 with 2gb ddr2 800 ram was bought for $599 with no problems. Grrr. But it's so slow I would have died if it was mine. I can't stand my gadgets being slow.

So I suddenly remember my old desktops with fondness. Compro Pentium II 233mhz with MMX back around 1997 with 32mb ram that cost $2k+ I think. And caused my poor results after sec 1. This was shared with my sis, who went on to buy a dell pentium 4 2.8ghz in 2003 for 1k+. I used it occasionally as I was in NS, and finally bought my very own desktop in 2004 before uni started for around $800. Pentium 4 2.8ghz with 256mb 533 ram. 1 new power supply, 1 new graphics card, upgrade of 17" CRT to 21.6" LCD screen, and upgrade to 768mb ram to 1gb ram later, the motherboard finally died. I bought a new power supply in vain. Laptops were $2k when I started uni. Too ex for a poor boy like me back then.

Ok enough of geeky stuff. Ciao