9 October 2015 Friday

Pictures from my apartment at 4 am (PSI 81)

Good news, the Dow closed at 17050 up 138 pts. Oil is trading at close to USD50. Hope the STI will also be strong today when it starts trading at 9 am. Keeping a close watch.
By 11 am STI was up by 46 points to 2993. Noble is up 0.045c to 0.45c on a top volume of 139 million done.

STI up 51.47 pts to 2998.5 on closing. Noble closed 0.47 cts on a turnover of 245 million shares. Was a good trading day for me.

Eaten a simple breakfast of buns and a cup of black kopi at Toast Box (below).

Haze condition is deteriorating again from PSI 81 at 4 am to 110 which is in the unhealthy range by 1 pm. Below is a video of a song about the haze in Singapore. It is sung in Hokkien and I hope you will forget about the haze and enjoy the song.

A job assignment

Picked this pet rabbit up from Changi Cargo and cleared AVA formalities. Transported it to the owners this evening.
Had a quick meal at McDonald's ( big cup of Mocha chino, A McChicken burger plus a choc cone).

1 October 2015 Thursday

Will Singapore be liveable in the future?
Can you imagine if the dense haze from Indonesia keeps blowing our way all year round, will you continue living here?
Some may just immigrate while others who choose to live in Singapore (not by choice) may be sick and eventually die. The haze in the unhealthy range could over time kill many people. It contains poisonous gases and particles.
With the El Nino effect, the haze could predictably be around us for a while. Typhoon Dujuan which is causing havoc in Taiwan also caused a low pressure situation. The low pressure inevitably cause the wind from a high pressure place like Sumatra to be sucked in. In the process,this wind-flow carries the haze from Sumatra on the way to the low pressure typhoon areas. Singapore lies in the path of the wind direction and this is one of the reasons for the haze in Singapore.

Who knows one of these days we may be like the boat people (touch wood) who are fleeing their countries due to war and poverty and desperately looking for a safe haven.  Or perhaps our compassionate and wealthy government would buy a little place in another country like Australia and resettled us.

Full haze protection

The share market: My trade today

Although the Dow was up 243 points last night and the STI was up almost 11 points, there was nothing to crow about. My shares didn't do too well. SIA was plus 2 cts closing at 10.72. Tiger was unchanged at 30 cts, Genting unchanged at 0.725 cts, Noble down .005 cts to 0.41 cts and so on and so forth. Not an exciting trading day.

I had the famous Lim's Yong Tau Foo for lunch nearby. It was really one of the best YTF in Singapore. After lunch, I stopped at McDonald's for a Chocolate Cone.

Nabe dinner@ home due to the horrendous haze

Ex stewardess adopted a pet dog

A former SQ stewardess Whatsapp me these photos of the pet dog she so kindly adopted from a dog shelter in Singapore. Good on you young lady, if not for you this pet would have been put down by her previous owner.

Dow Jones

The Dow is down by 108 points by 2300 hrs. It's annoying to watch it coming down after last night's gain of 230+ points. I am not going to watch it now but instead go and listen to some lovely music.
Will talk to you again tomorrow.