huh? what recession?

Just take a cursory view of the stockmarket lately and you'd be thinking: "when is this blasted recession supposed to be due?" Food and beverage stocks are now pushing the ceiling to new 52-week highs amidst doomy predictions of rising raw materials costs. Analysts can be totally wrong. On the other side of the coin, electronic and electrical exporters are suffering a crush and banking stocks have fallen from last year's highs. Plantation stocks are doing so-so. Anyway, time to sit back and watch as the new plateau take shape. I'd like to sell my Nestle counter for recession seed-money/war chest but it's moving upwards right now so i'll just wait till it settles to its new plateau. Or it might burst its bubble but i doubt it cos all the other food stocks are trending upwards too.

have fun will travel

i enjoy taking a trip out of sleepy hollow, out of the country, every once in a while. It really helps me to get a true perspective on life and not succumb to the gold-fish-bowl syndrome. Many a times i have thought to myself how "bad" things are but really after seeing and talking to people elsewhere, you come to the conclusion that life where you are and what you face daily isn 't really that bad after all. People, places elsewhere have got it bad, but not so yourself. Not really. People work longer hours, face all sorts of problems at work and in life, have their own personal tragedies to deal with and still have to turn up at the office each day and do whatever distasteful things that their bosses command them to do. And if you thought that the government was bad, well, it could certainly be better but it's not the pits neither. I'm travelling again over the next few days and i take this opportunity to soak in the sights and open my eyes and my mind to possibilities and get out of this mentality of self-doubt and self-pity.  The world's about to enter into recession again (unless something miraculous happens in Europe) and it's a good time to looksy around at what's happening outside the tanahair. Even more intriguing is travelling with my 2-year old daughter in tow. She's going out of malaysia/singapore and flying on a plane for the first time in her life and this will also be an opportunity for her to soak in the sights and smells of life outside of home.