Year-end schmooze with Sonnet
Dear Sonnet:
Let me clarify something first of all. My market-timing guide refers to timingthe stock market and try to buy low and sell high, it has nothing to do with
marketing per se. What did I get out of that book? Well, since any investing
book would suggest that we allocate only 10~15% of ‘play money’ out of our
portfolio to hazard into individual stock and profit from the margin of
frequent trading, and since I am temperamentally disinclined to some reckless
and foolhardy dice throwing games, I have not saved up enough play money at
this point to venture out those brave techniques shown in the book.
Nonetheless I gained a lot of statistics insight and grasped a great deal
on the theory of probability, and the functionality of the stock market.
Suffice to say it wasn’t a lost cause after all, but it sure feels like
pontificating military maneuvers on paper.
The online research book dwells on different kinds of search engine, how to
apply Boolean operators and searching techniques using a huge slew of variables,
propositions and computer logic elements etc to retrieve the information needed.
Many famous libraries in the world had digitized almost all their book
collections and that made online research feasible and easy for plebeians
like you and I. The debut of Wikipedia is also a godsend for online researchers.
This book is quite vapid and technical and is not meant for the faint-hearts
or techno-foes, so users beware!
The “Teach yourself” series are good at cutting straight to the chase. I’ve
read Tech-yourself books on Visual Basic for Applications programming, MicrosoftAccess and Adobe PageMaker. I find the guide walks you through each stepsystematically and ushers you all the way to mastery of the skill sets. As
long as you don’t try to be a smarty-pants and hop around from subject to
subject until you lost all the bearings, these guides offer the best
straightforward method in obtaining the desired know-how.
I can understand your frustration when the book you shelled out some heavy
doughs to buy turned out to be a pile of impractical information compiled by
some upstage and haughty saints living high on the hog up in the ivory tower.
What you need is a book chock full of hands on tips pertaining to all sorts ofunderhand schemes and marketing gimmicks, one that does not send you on a wildgoose chase and spends pages after pages beating around the bush. In this case
“Marketing for Dummies” may just be what the doctors order. Is it still
relatively cheap to order books from Amazon and have them shipped all the wayto Great Britain? Amazon is located just south of my backyard but it’s quitea long stretch from where you live, I thought the shipping chargecould be a tad hefty for British consumers?
So you’re engaging in a brave endeavor of learning to drive? Well double
cheers for taking such a fearless plunge. I learned how to manipulate and
maneuver a vehicle 27 years ago. My longest drives are the twelve hours drive
from Calgary to Vancouver in the mid 90’s and the thirteen hours drive from
Paris to Monte Carlo in the summer of 2004. I really like driving on French
highways because there was no speed limit. I was following my cousin in Franceand driving at 140 Km an hour at night when it was dark all around. I felt
thrilled to the bones when I could speed to my heart’s content and be totallyreckless for a short moment, man, it was good while it lasted. But of courseI still don’t know how to operate a car if the driver’s seat is on the right
front row ;-) I mean how do you do right shoulder check before cuttinginto the right lane and how awkward it would be to do right parallel park
without sliding into the curb?
I can empathize how tense and fluttered you would feel moving to a foreign
country alone in your adulthood. I came to Canada when I barely turned
teenaged. Life back then was pure beer and skittles because I always had my
folks to come to the rescue. Being a matured and independent person you have
an alien and dreadful life style to blend into and gazillion things to adapt
to. Things can get pretty edgy and frightful at times and needless to say
your stress level might be shooting through the roof. But remember an old
saying, pain can make a man harder than pleasure, imagine how hard and fine
you’d become once you’ve been put through the mill ;-)
I ran into a colleague named Karen this afternoon. Karen is a soft-spoken ladyfrom London England and I absolutely love her charming British accent. I think
she speaks the so-called the Queen’s English and I find it purely melodic to
the ears. I feel a little inferior that my English accent is merely that of agrass roots redneck Canuck ;-)
You live in a time zone eight hours ahead of mine in this mid western Canadiancity. I am glad we can have our little private discourse when all the folks inChina are in dreamland. Thanks for the warm holiday wishes and likewise I wish
you a hatful of joy, serenity and good health in this holiday season and a
boatload of energy and grit to triumph over all challenges in the foreign land.
Neil
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