Do I look scary? I'm an atheist that's why. Feel free to add horns and fangs to your mental picture of me

Currently listening to: pantera
Currently reading: crime and punishment
Currently watching: moderately indecent stuff ...nothing hardcore

They call it buy and sell I prefer to call it “smart investing”, my new found hobby. Instead of letting your money rest or buying things that will lose half their market value in a very short period of time, you convert your money into second hand gadgets that, in turn, you can convert into even more money which you can convert into more gadgets and so on… Aside from earning money you also get the pleasure of owning some very nifty gadgets even if it’s just for a couple of days. Also, because of the number of different gadgets that pass through your hands, you gain more knowledge about those gadgets and the market for them which make you spot good deals easier.  There’s just no reason to not be doing it. It’s fun and profitable

 I shudder whenever I think of all the unrecoverable money I’ve spent on bad investments. Just in 2004 I spent more than 30,000 on my PC and every year I spent something like 8000 on a new video card and a couple of thousand more for a new processor. The 30,000 I spent on my PC, I can’t even convert to 13,000 now. If that 30,000 was invested properly, even if it just grew by 150% between 2004 and today ( a very conservative estimate), I could be trading used cars by now. –probably not much more lucrative than gadgets but it would serve the ego very well if I was able to buy a car with my own money in my mid 20’s 
 

I obviously don’t intend to do “buy and sell”( at least the way I’m doing it now) for the rest of my life. For now, it’s just the fastest, surest, most fun way of making my money grow. If you know the market fully there’s just no way that your investment will go down in value. My father’s been bugging me about helping in the family business for quite some time now. I want to and I intend to sometime in the future but it’s just too much responsibility for me right now. Plus just thinking about how my father talks to his employees and the way he criticizes their intellectual capacity for every mistake they make …I just don’t think I can operate effectively under such scrutiny. Especially with my style since I like taking risks –calculated risks but risks nonetheless. It also doesn’t help that I turn into a little kid whenever I’m with my father. I can’t even make simple decisions.

Aside from selling used camcorders and other electronic gadgets, I also sell brand new mid range digital cameras (canon A410, A430 etc) with 1 year warranty at a much lower price than you get at the malls.  Btw if you were inspired in some way, a word of advice: don’t get into this business unless you know what you’re doing and unless you have good contacts ‘cause you’ll lose a lot of money

....thanks to anokaya for introducing me to tabulas

I forgot this is supposed to be a “light” blog …I’ll try to talk about curtains next time

Currently listening to: pantera, radiohead and chopin ...yup it's that diverse
Currently reading: crime and punishment
Currently watching: Akira Kurosawa's "the idiot"
Currently feeling: happily depressed

As a rule, the only movies I watch are foreign language films, independent films, movies by great directors and art films. I’m stuck up when it comes to these things I’d rather be caught wearing a pink shirt than be seen standing near a theatre showing a blockbuster Hollywood movie …occasionally though for some weird and childishly shallow reason, I’d watch a Hollywood flick or two  Like just last week….

In an alternate dimension where big explosions are synonymous to figurative, intellectually gripping, plot devices, this could actually be a pretty deep movie.

 I must admit It was fun up to a certain point –until I finished my first large bag of popcorn. I lost consciousness soon after that and remained unconscious until I got my second bag. But popcorn induced enjoyment can only last so long. After you’ve finished your second bag, when your hands and lips …and shirt are all orange and sticky and your head feels like it’s full of MSG, you’d wanna get out.

I’d like to give you a review but I was snoozing or busily eating popcorn and downing coke for most of the movie so I have no idea what it was about. Maggie Q was somewhat cute though. It’s nice to see Asians starring in non-stereotypical roles

Another Hollywood movie I saw recently was Silent hill. Hardcore fans of the franchise will be pleased ’cause the movie is visually as faithful to the source material as is possible using live actors. I think it’s pretty accurate to say that this is the most faithful adaptation of any game into a movie ever …The lighting, the colors, the camera movement 
The movie is basically a remake of silent hill 1 (which’s sad since I thought it was gonna be based on SH2) only instead of a male lead looking for her daughter, this time it’s a mother looking for her daughter. The other characters though were lifted straight from the game. Allessa, Cybil, Dahlia, pyramid head etc. The female lead character is reminiscent of the main character in silent hill 3. The soundtrack is also lifted straight from the games. The director obviously knew the right way to appeal to gamers.

I wouldn’t recommend the movie to people who haven’t played the games. A lot of the scenes are there just to elicit goosebumps from hardcore fans and the plot definitely would be confusing to people who haven’t played the games.

Currently listening to: pantera, beethoven, a perfect circle

After more than a week without selling anything, I finally have a buyer. I’ll be shipping the item to him tomorrow …I should have a few more buyers this week, I hope. I was actually starting to get demoralized. I had had this huge inventory of camcorders for more than a week and my father was already starting to lecture me about not taking too much risk in business. I usually have buyers for my items even before I acquire them but this time, through some strange twist of fate I lost them all ….hopefully I’ll still meet my goal of 70-90k before the trimester ends.

This is one advantage of starting young. Even if I lose 100% of my capital I won’t go hungry and since nobody depends on me for basic needs yet, not even myself ( I still am fed by my parents) I won’t have to deal with guilt so it’s easier to take risks.

Short term goal: reach 70-90k before the trimester ends (btw that’s profit plus whatever’s left from my allowance)

The long term goal is to create a family financial empire rivaling at least the tambunting’s within my lifetime :D ….I’m glad I remained childish enough to be this ambitious. I hope I never mature

Currently listening to: Old weezer songs