KSE: traders (not investors) are an odd lot. t…

KSE:

traders (not investors) are an odd lot.

they use the lastest technology to both stay in touch with the markets and to attempt to predict them. 3G capable phones, downloading real time data to wherever the hell you are, pc’s with 4 screens and a direct line for the fastest analysis and execution( i have two ), gadgets, widgets, thingamabobs and esoteric number games all meant to help make a better trader. (it rarely does)

and yet we’re a superstitious bunch.

leaving the KSE one day, when it was up mind you, i saw a dead kitten on the road.
the next day the market dived.

walking back to my car that day, i came across a dead pigeon.

the following day the market tanked.

and on the days i didnt see anything dead, the market went up, or atleast finished positive.

naturally, i dont give this more than a passing thought since i dont daytrade:P,….. but it makes you go hmmm on the slow days

today it opened way down, about 65 points i think.

then a bunch of school kids around 10 yrs old came in on a school field trip, and the market rallied, all the way up to close the day positive

young blood on the floor revitalised the beast perhaps?

or maybe the momentary distraction helped to lighten their mood.

i’d like to think that they thought it would be rude to have the kids seeing grown men weeping

the 3rd culture: in a recent conversation with …

the 3rd culture:


in a recent conversation with a couple of friends, the concept of third culture kids came up. all of us are technically third culture kids by definition, despite the fact that one of them is a local.

now, theres been alot written on the subject, and i’d rather not rehash it all again, since it makes little difference to the lives of those in question. studies range from explicitly recommending large multinationals hire 3rd culture kids for their as their staff( we work better with a larger world view, apparently:P), to blaming them for the gradual erosion of the local culture and traditions( i dont want a falafel mommy i want a fuckin McDonalds,..umm fo shizzle).

on the one hand we’re great cos we can be dropped into just about anywhere in the world and hit the ground running,….. but then we get blamed for forgeting our core traditions and values and allegedly wanting to see a Starbucks on every corner. (ITS NOT OUR FAULT FFS!!!)

actually i take issue with the very phrase “3rd culture kid”. it suggestes that while youre neither one of the other, youre a third, and quite frankly, it doesnt fit.

that might fit in a country like singapore or malaysia, or even the uk and anywhere else immigrants have been accepted into the community. as the second generation comes forth they become malaysians, british, americans, french and germans.

we dont.

we dont fit in where we are, and we dont fit in at home. but we can get comfortable almost anywhere if we had to.

and while we dont fit in, would we really want to? i think alot of us like our odd expatish status. fuck a conventional life!

we’re the first generation of the truly global.

the personification of the globalisation phenomenon.

we’re the first step on the way to the whole world becoming only a shade of brown, instead of colours and nations.

we live on cnn, time, newsweek and the herald tribune cos your local papers dont satisfy our need to know what goes on in the broader world. (especially the papers in the UK,….. jesus christ they wrote about such pointless shite!)

we’ll have cereal for breakfast, a curry for lunch and sushi for dinner,…. or the other way round if we feel like it.

most of us were flying between timezones before we could crawl.

we got jetlag before we learned to stop pooing in our diapers.


so heres to anyone that ever felt out of place,…. know that youre the next step in human evolution, and take comfort in the knowledge that there are lots of others just like you out there.

and the world is yours for the taking !

global nomad?

nahhhhh

citizen of the world!!!