Kingmaker?

June 25, 2007

The New York Times has a great article today about Michael Bloomberg and the possibility of him running for President. Their take is that not only should he run, he should also lose but win a few states, thus effectively making him the power behind the throne so to speak.
Although, I am quite [...]

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Kryptonite Real?

June 25, 2007

I received the following below from a company regarding their vessel which had the below under their “CARGO EXCLUSIONS” or what we call, cargo in which their vessel will not load. What is really interesting is in Paragraph 3. YUP. The first word is KRYPTONITE. Either I have being failing my Chemistry or this guy [...]

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iPhone Waiters

June 25, 2007

You know the world has either truly fallen in love or gone mad when people are willing to pay US$250 for someone to wait in line for them to buy an iPhone on Day 1. Reports on craigslist has surfaced with such iPhones waiting service.
Although nothing new to most of us since we [...]

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Thailand’s Dilemna

June 22, 2007

Two days back, I wrote about Thailand’s formal President Thaksin who is looking into buying a football club. I expect a lot of twists in this story since it involves various factors, Thailand’s political scene, Investors confidence in their economy, and ironically to a lesser extent, how it will affect Premiership soccer.
When [...]

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Back to the Jungle

June 21, 2007

I get this question quite a bit from my friends on what exactly I do for a living. Here’s a more precise answer courtesy of Wikipedia.
I am essentially a ship broker.
“Shipbroking is involved in the sale & purchase (’S&P’), literally the buying and selling of existing or new ships (called ‘newbuildings’ in industry parlance) as [...]

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Thailand’s detrimental Politics

June 20, 2007

I wrote a year back regarding Thailand’s Festive Coup which led to then President Thaksin being oust. Since then Thaksin has being busy traveling around Europe, various parts of Asia and even being in the news a lot over in England where he is contemplating buying up a Premiership soccer team, Manchester City
Yesterday, [...]

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Pu er Tea Bubble

June 20, 2007

*I have being meaning to write this article since 2 weeks ago, but work kind of got in the way as always.
SCMP [subscriber only] recently had an article detailing the soaring prices of Pu er Tea and the potential of a bubble there. They go on to add that “millions of tea enthusiasts are [...]

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YouTube Regional?

June 20, 2007

YouTube announced today that it would localize its service in France, Spain, Italy, Holland, France, Brazil, Poland and Japan, as well as the UK and Ireland. Although most of the media is praising this move as smart which I think it is, they might be some downside to this. Logically speaking, YouTube being the giant [...]

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iPhone Reboot?

June 18, 2007

Although I still have eyes only for a Pocket PC Phone, I like most folks are under Steve’s RDF. The iPhone would probably be the most desired phone when it launches in 11 days time. It is thus with interest that I find Apple has done a Press Release stating that the iPhone has already [...]

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World’s most expensive cities

June 18, 2007

Moscow is the world’s most expensive city for expatriates for the second consecutive year, according to the latest Cost of Living Survey from Mercer Human Resource Consulting. To me, that isn’t really that surprisingly, what is are the fact that Seoul is above Tokyo in that regard. Hong Kong is not far behind at [...]

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Efficiency in New Economy

June 18, 2007

I was helping my uncle purchase a notebook recently. His needs are simple a computer that allows him to surf the web, read emails and pretty much do some general word processing. I browse around and quickly decided Dell was the rational choice for him since it was around 600 USD for the lowest model [...]

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One Phone to rule them all Part Deux

June 15, 2007

Well, so with my current phone woes, I have being seriously studying the various offerings by the phone companies.
Below is my current requirements for a dream phone
Essentials
1) Windows Mobile
Just about the biggest reason being that all my contacts are in Outlook and having it sync is probably the number 1 criteria for me. I’m sure [...]

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One phone to rule them all

June 14, 2007

You can almost hear the impending rush for Iphone when it is launched. Surprisingly, although I might be keen to take a look at it, I don’t think it would be the “be all, end all device”
Anyway, I doubt I am in the Target Demographics for the Iphone since I carry an average of 2 [...]

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There and back again

June 14, 2007

“Let us follow wherever the fates take us, there and back again.”
As I embarked on a whirlwind of trips, visits, meetings and what not over the past few months, I could not find the exact words to describe all the feelings of frustrations, anxiety, intrigues and joy. Strange enough, back in Singapore now, I saw [...]

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Relocation to Hong Kong?

April 7, 2007

Well, it seems that one of the projects I have being working for is panning out and I might be relocating to Hong Kong shortly. It has being a very fruitful few months. This project is essentially nothing high tech, but rather in a very traditional field.
Essentially, commodity trading in particular in the steel [...]

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Sexist or not, that is the question

October 26, 2006

You would think with our forward thinking and woman’s increasing role in society, sexism is a dead concept. Case in point, I had a client whom recently I learn whose wife had given birth. So out of courtesy and curiosity I might add, I enquire on whether the baby was male or female. He replied [...]

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Thailand’s Festive Coup?

September 20, 2006

“It was near midnight on Tuesday, tanks had rolled up to Bangkok’s Government House and the monsoons were drenching the crowds. But the mood during Thailand’s first military coup since 1992—the previous one ended with protesters gunned down in the streets—was remarkably festive. Women in mini-skirts posed for pictures in front of tanks, while elderly [...]

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Taiwan Political Situation

September 19, 2006

Mr Chen Shui Bian or “Ah Bian” as he is oft refered to is truly in a lose-lose situation. Caught between the Scylla and Charibdes, he has to choose to resign and thus admit his guilt of corruption or face tens of thousands of prostestors who constantly besiege him.
With the upcoming October 10 (Double 10) [...]

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Multiple Shipments

September 15, 2006

I recently did a few fixtures (deals) in Shipping talk. However just about everyone of them have run into some issues. Although it has being a great few months, I have to admit, the amount of effort and work put into them have being tremedous to say the least.
Back on the theme of Businessman and [...]

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Traders / Businessman and what not

July 27, 2006

I deal with Businessman and trader all the time in my trade and I always am amazed at their panache to find opportunities in our increasingly ever smaller world. Not to mention their ability to withstand a crazy amount of surprises, upsets and what not. What traders do might sound simple in concept ,a pure [...]

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