FOREX end-of-week Summary (9-14 Nov 09)

Started the week with small investment in accordance to my risk management and made some short term gain. Took a long term trade but entered the trade too late, however I decided to hold on to the trade in loss as the support had yet to be broken. Even at the end of the week, the support had yet to be broken, hence I hold on to the trade over the weekend. At the meantime, I did not take any other trade so as to allow maximum margin available in my account. Hopefully the price go for the resistance level when the new week start... ;p

FOREX end-of-week Summary (2-6 Nov 09)

Another week of negative result that almost made me to quit trading for good. Decided to stop trading for the week and analyse all the loses I had made. Next week, I will make a come back and trade more successfully. ;p

FOREX end-of-week Summary (26-30 Oct 09)

Exactly the same method and selection decision, but was caught by the beginning of the week, early hours movement. Also because of the size of my account, was not able to hold on to the big losses, so had to close the trade prematurely. Additional USD70 was credited into my account by IBFX as promotion credit, matching 10% of my deposit. Well, have to rebuild my account again, though feeling a bit disappointed by the result, I will have to persevere and continues on.

Kusu Islands revisited... 29 Oct 09

It's the annual Kusu Island Pilgrimage 2009 and since I am currently jobless and nothing to do in the day, I asked Ruilong along to the island. We met at about 4pm at Marina Bay MRT Station and took a bus to Marina South Pier where the ferry is. Once we arrived at the pier, we bought our tickets at the booth and went onboard the ferry.

The ferry left shortly after we went onboard and headed for Kusu Island. It was just a short fifteen to twenty minutes ride and we arrived. Kusu Island, also known as tortise island or formally as Pulau Tembakul, it's a small island with two lagoon and a chinese temple as well as a malay shrine.

After entering the island, we went to the temple and bought the offering and prayed. After that, we walked around the island and experience the changes it had went through after so many years. Like I mentioned, it's Kusu Island revisited... The last time I visited the island was like 20 over years ago, when I was still very young.

If I had not remembered wrongly, I actually stood on this statue for picture before when I was young. Wonder if I am ever able to find that picture again...

We went over to the tortise santuary and used the left over vegetables to feed the tortise... There were so many of them, some in the pond while some it the tortise shelter.

We continued walking around the island and took some pictures. We went to the Malay Shrine and had some drink at the food centre before taking the ferry back to mainland.

After reaching back at Marina South Pier, we took a bus out to Tanjong Pagar MRT Station and travelled back to the east and had our dinner at Bedok Market Block 85 before proceeding home.

Lawrence Sim Belated Birthday Celebration

Lawrence Sim's birthday falls on 21 Oct 2009. His event staff, Carol Ho and one of the boater, Eric Cheong jointly organised this kelong get together trip for him. We met at SAFYC Sembawang Clubhouse on 24 Oct 09 to take a ride on Eric Cheong boat to the kelong.

Once everyone arrived, or rather the maximum capacity of the boat was reached, we set off to the kelong with the first batch onboard. Eric and myself came back to the Clubhouse immediately after dropping the first batch at the kelong to ferry more guests over to the kelong, including Mr Sim.

Once everyone had arrived, we started BBQ all the good food we had brought along as well as the freshest seafood you can ever find, provided by the kelong.

Oysters and Mussels fresh from the kelong...

Half way through the BBQ session, it was the kelong harvest time, the net was hauled up and everyone crowd around to see what prize it's going to bring up....

The BBQ session continues after that and knowing that it was Lawrence Sim's birthday recently, the biggest catch was presented to him.

More boaters came along to the kelong for the BBQ while the first group who had eaten their fill, roam around the kelong and interact with each other. After the second group had taken their fair share of food, it's the singing of birthday song and cutting of cake for Lawrence.

After the cake cutting and having a taste of the delicious cake, some went back to mainland and went home, while the rest stayed on and chat and played mahjong till the next morning... ;p

It is something different that I had never experience before, simple kelong yet so much to explore and experience. I wouldn't mind going back to the kelong in future and spend another peaceful day on it...