The Avengers

Just watched The Avengers and it rocked! I'm stoked... I'll probably go to the mall later and browse the comics section. :D

See I can't really feel for the real comic fans who've been living these fiction stories since they were young - maybe there really some parts of the story left out, or that the characters could have looked and acted more comically, but I just wasn't from that end of the web. I loved the classic world compromised theme, and the deus-ex-machina cuts like when Captain America wolfs in to stop Stark and the Mighty Thor from fighting. It's all good to me, although I know it may have disappointed the more discriminating palates.

I still could not wrap my mind though as to how these films are being produced. They are of course very expensive, what with the special effects, and set design, and the professionals, most especially, who carry the business. Are they paid up front, or do they get paid after they collect the earnings from cinemas? How rich are the producers, or are they buried in debt loans, too, every time a movie is launched?

Hmm... Makes me think.

I'm off to the bookstore now. :D

-stoked, love Thor-

You Know that Glassy Feel?

I got my new desktop today! IBM deployed a new Lenovo model for me to work on and it's equipped with Windows 7! Wooot.

It stupefied me at first, but Ken is a curious magpie, and no complexity can beat the power of curiosity ;).

Inside story: I asked my IT partner what happens to the old workstations after they were replaced - Does IBM recycle them, or resell them to any willing buyer who harvests second hand parts? IT partner says they were scrapped.. "What do you mean by scrapped?" "Sir, they're brought to a disposing facility where the hard disks are charged with some sort of static electricity to erase the memory, tapos padadaanan sa pison para madurog (then they will be rolled over by a steam-roller to destroy the components).

I guess that way, IBM protects itself and its stakeholders from any information leak and data privacy breeches. In short, your data is safe with IBM.

In the meantime, I can do this:


-Window flipping in Windows 7-

Multi-tasking Utensils

To me, companies show signs of increasing profitability when they get to afford higher grade instruments to carry out their business.

We were at Jollibee this morning and I noticed that their usual stirring sticks now double as mini straws! It looks like the usual straw but pinched longitudinally to form two cyllinders. Afar, it looks flat like a stirrer, but if you look closer, you'll see that you can sip at the other end and use it as a straw. Handy!

I wonder how much JFC spends for these utensils... Then again, comparing the stock's price from last year, the figures are just off the roof; that may explain why their hot chocolate is more chocolate-y now...

-cool stuff-

To Sell or Not to Sell... ICT?

That is the question. Thank god one of my very trusty resources answered this for me. The answer: Not to Sell.

Or in our parlance, Hold.

Actually, my impression is that the company got a Hold rating overall (this I got from reading news online, discriminating concencus estimates, and the scrutinizing the stock price curve itself). I was itching to sell it these past few days because I can't afford to lose the earnings, specially now that I just invested my money on MPI and PGOLD, and I'm therefore at a loss on both because of the commissions I paid when I entered the orders. I dunno, all around analysts are saying they're both Strong Buys, so I bought. Let's see where the rumor brings us on the next quarter.

Back to ICT, the company declared an ex-dividend date on April 30, 2012. This means that the company will pay out dividends if you bought the stock prior to this date. The payment date is on May 18, 2012... So I guess I'll be invested on terminals until that date. :D



That's it for now, I'm headed to Trinoma to meet my mom who's celebrating her 60th birthday today. Happy birthday motha! Good news, you may now enjoy free movie passes at SM malls every Tuesday... :p

-when faced with dilemmas, there's always a tipping point somewhere-

GTCAP IPO today!

GT Capital Holdings Incorporated (ticker GTCAP) is a holdings firm owned by George Ty, pegged by Forbes as the 10th richest man in the Philippines in terms of net worth.

Stocks opened at Php500.00 and is currently on the Php485.00 mark:

Too bad I don't have as much free money to buy the stock. I just sold my BPI stocks yesterday, but my earnings aren't that much. I guess I'll buy MPI instead. Still a good buy per concensus:

Happy trading!

-stoked-

I'm Back!

Finally! An investment blog! It took me a very long time before I can go back to blogging. After months of hiatus, I'm writing my first blog entry, probably the first time this year.

A lot has changed since I was a teen-blogger back in the days. I'm an auditor now at a huge multinational company. I work the day shift (which is not usual for a country run by BPO's). I live on my own apartment at a very peaceful subdivision five minutes away from the office (literally, my street address reads Mapayapa St (Peaceful Street in English). I must say, I'm in a more comfortable position now and I'm lovin' it.

Lately, I get more time doing other things aside from work. I mused under a cheesy blue moon about dedicating a separate blog for my newly acquired hobbies and interests of late. I'll try to write about investments and finance, which are probably the topics I least blogged about previously. There will be more focused entries on this blog as opposed to my previous one which is just literally my online status tracker (reading back on my blog, I half-hated myself for posting too much information about personal whathaveyous - they're nonsensical most of the time :p but hey, we gotta start somewhere). Ultimately, the biggest difference from my first blog would be I'm expecting more people to read it. It's an open book from now on, so I'm calling all my friends, plez, help me spread the word!

And as for the title... It can change, but at the moment, it's the catchiest I can come up with... I hope it gives you the same posh irony I got when I coined it. Recessionista...

Anyway, the site's still under construction. I'll probably whip up something in Adobe Photoshop to replace the background, probably tweak the color scheme to the green side. I'll get there as long as I don't get promoted in the near future (I already see a question mark on your face, and yes, I'll blog why I don't want a promotion next time :D).

For now, please welcome my new blog into your bloggerverse and leave comments (if you can : / ).

Bien à vous!

Ken