The 100 Greatest Living Players Medallion Set

The Carved Legends - this is the most appropriate term for the medallion set. It consists of 4 medals - Pele (in gold), David Beckham, Luis Figo and Ronaldinho ( 3 pieces in silver). This set will definitely appreciate in value because there are not so many of them in circulation. This is one of many different sets that I have and I intend to sell all. I'm still developing my website and in the meantime I've put this set on sale at e-Bay.

Interested? Maybe you can e-mail me.

Kak Ngah.....

It has been 2 weeks since the stem cells from her brother had been transfered to her. Luckily her brother's stem cells are compatible with her blood. Her first week was very bad. She had lesions in her throat which made eating difficult for her. I had cajoled her into drinking some manuka honey that has antiseptic ingredients. But she would vomitted as soon as she took some. Everything she ate or drank she would vommitted back.

On Saturday I had made chicken kebab for her. She ate one piece and as soon as she had finished she vommitted everything back. However seeing her enjoying her kebab made me happy a little. As long as she can eat is wonderful for me. I hope she has the strength to go through this final stage of her treatments for her leukemia.

Lucky numbers...

What is your favourite or lucky number?

My favourite or I can say lucky is the combination of numbers 1 and 7.

Here I just wanna relate how I got associated with the numbers and how at some instances the numbers made me very lucky - praise be to Allah. No, I don't believe in numerology nor do I believe in feng shui. It so happen that I was associated with the numbers 1 and 7 a lot and any bearings or outcomes from the numbers were the will of god.

My 1st association with the numbers was in 1992 when I bought a Nissan (cant't remember the model) with the registration plate number K117 from my friend. It was an early 1980s model and was registered in Sarawak. My friend, Basri who was then well known to malaysians at that time due to live news of an operation performed on his siamese twin daughters. One of his daughter died and miraculously one survived. Basri often spoke on TV3 to relate the progress of the operation. As a matter of fact I bought the car partly because I liked the number plate. However I did not use the car for long. It gave me a lot of headache due to problems on the power steering drive shaft. After I repaired it I sold to my neighbour at Taman Chi Liung in Pandamaran Klang. Well the car number was impressive but the car was not. I was not lucky with the number at that time. But the truth was, I was not very lucky with any cars that I bought on several occasions before.

My 2nd assocition with the numbers 1 & 7 was when I bought one unit of double storey linked house at Taman Bukit Saga, Shah Alam which was near to PROTON. I bought it at about RM120k. The house was number 17. As soon as I received the keys and CF approved I sold it to a gentleman for RM160K. My net profit was about RM30k. I could've profit more if I'd sold it a week late where the CF would have matured for 1 year and I wouldn't have to pay the property gain tax. Anyway the RM30k profit was reasonble enough for me to purcahse a better house in Seremban which I am going to write in future.

My 3rd association with the numbers 1 & 7 was when I joined a company in Senawang, Negeri Sembilan. My staff number was 117.

My 4th association with the numbers 1 & 7 was when I bought a Proton Tiara with the registration number plate Tiara1117. As you know, it was not a good buy and as I had mentioned earlier I was not lucky with any cars that I had bought. I sold the car to my uncle with a considerable loss.

My 5th association with the numbers 1 & 7 was when I bought my present house at Green Street Homes 1 in Seremban 2. The lot number for the unit when it was on sales was Lot number C117. First the lot drew my attention because of the number. Second I noticed that it had a big reserve land which I could use for my own good. It was an end lot and the road beside it swerved big in the opposite direction to make it a big corner for the lot advantage. I was presented with a large 1500 sf of extra land in addition to the 4500 sf of land that I had to pay. Total land area is 6000 sf which I'm optimizing the use with good effect. I had managed to renovate my house to the maximum and and had managed to squeeze in 2 wakafs (traditional Malay hut) which become landmarks to my home here in Green Street Homes. Later, I will tell you how I've totally transformed my house to its new look now that once, my mother in law cannot find her way to the old bathroom....lol.

So that's the stories of how I was associated with the numbers 1 and 7. Did you have any interesting numbers that have influenced you? Come and share with me.

There goes my trust....

My first step to start join forex was selling my unit trust that I had bought about a year ago. It was bought at RM0.25/unit for total price of RM6000. It was then sold at RM0.1415 and I just could get only about RM3700. It was a loss of RM2300. I had to accept the loss was inevitable given the global economic decline which also affected China where my unit trust investments were made. Actually I had invested in Public Islamic China Ittikal hoping the dragon will breath out fire and set the economic powerhouse to greater prosperity.

So with the RM3700 I got, I bought USD900 worth of Liberty Reserve from JT Gold and deposited it into my LR account at libertyreserve.com. From libertyreserve.com I transferred the money to Marketiva which I had opened an account beforehand. Now Marketiva is a broker that deals with forex, gold and commodities businesses. A week before I had tried with the USD15,000 worth of virtual fund in my account and did my buy and sell with it with great success. In a week I had managed to profit about USD1500. Now that was excellent because I did not trade fully for the whole week. It was just sporadic and on the spur of the moment when the interest on it drew my attention.

So my success with my virtual account had set my mind to trade with real money. That's when I parted with my trust...I mean unit trust and set my mind to earn real money with forex. More of this later.

My entry into forex world....

My earlier post I wrote how I had lost focus when I wanted to do so many things at the same time. I was actually halfway developing my website to sell various items that I had in my posession such as antiques and various other nusantara items when my old friend, Sabri came to my house. He was dropping by at my house en-route to home after a session with a senseh at Senawang for his backache.

After the usual conversations he started to tell me that he was doing forex and that his neighbour who was profiting many thousand dollars every month had impressed upon him the notion that forex was the key to get rich relatively easy (at this point he didn't tell me that 95% had failed especially the ikan bilis category). He said the month before his neighbour had made about USD50k. Sabri himself said that he was making about USD200 to USD300 every week, enough to pay for his bungalow house loan.

I was impressed by what he said. Actually at that time I was really fed-up with building my website. I was angry because for me it was not an easy task. Why should they make the web builder very complicated? I thought that with several templates it would be easy. But no. It was not that easy. It was a journey to and fro from somewhere to nowhere. So when Sabri came, he kind of gave me a passage to earn money relatively easy.

At that moment I decided that I wanted to join forex. I'll tell you later how it went. Don't expect fairy tales...ha ha...

To be or not to be, that's the question....

I always ask myself what I want to do? To set-up my own business website and to sell antiques? To join e-Bay or alibaba.com and sell my coins or philatelics? To be a Unit Trust agent with the hope of making few K's worth of money every month? To do forex and get rich intantly? Or have a secure job and work 9 to 5 and at the end of the month get my pay and have some peace of mind? You know, I have already done some of the things that I have mentioned and the problem was I was not focus on every each of them. Too many things that look so viable and promising, alas too many 'good' things to do have made a lot of distractions in my mind. I am not focusing anything right now. In the end I have gone nowhere and keep asking myself to be or not to be bla..bla..bla....So, Paqmalau, to be what or not to be what, that is the question.....and I hope to find the answer here.