17-05-2012, 09:37 AM
(17-05-2012, 09:15 AM)shanrui_91 Wrote: [ -> ]it's just very scary to know that some random guy or company that we are talking about will pop up once in a while. and if they don't even say hello to us, we will never know that they are constantly monitoring us
Rest assured that there are at least 10 other pairs of eyes (my ball park estimate) in this forum who'll be around to assist and support each other to welcome them when they do decide to pop in to say hello.
Having said that, as long as we post responsibly and support with facts and figures, there's nothing to be afraid of.
BTW, what happened to that post by that nick (can't exactly remember the nick but I think got James + Gu / Niu since it seems so conincidently related to the product) who was trying to 'teach' us how to improve our investment skills by consulting our girlfriend/mother (he must have left out wife cos' he's young and single?)?? Unfortunately, we are now left with his quotes for future case studies purposes,
(02-05-2012, 04:34 PM)yeokiwi Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:Hi, I personally have spoken and meet with the Salisbury company. In revert to you comment of 'I doubt', perhaps you do doubt however you do not know! D.O.G is so confident in his summary that he hides behind a set of initials for mans best friend. Next you'll be asking your mum or girlfriend if you can invest.
Now, I am totally convinced that this investment sucks.
Abraham Lincoln quote - "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
(02-05-2012, 04:38 PM)KopiKat Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:Next you'll be asking your mum or girlfriend if you can invest.
See what Jason Zweig wrote, some extracts,
Finance professors Brad Barber and Terrance Odean have found that women's risk-adjusted returns beat those of men by an average of about one percentage point annually. In short, women trade less frequently, hold less volatile portfolios and expect lower returns than men do.
(17-05-2012, 09:24 AM)yeokiwi Wrote: [ -> ]Actually I can empathize with Mr Mason.
Many years ago, I had a chat with an Australian when I was in Australia. After warming up, he started to talk about rearing of Kiwi birds. He said that he had developed a rearing process that could make the kiwi birds reproduced like rabbits. I said what's the big deal about it. He then further educated me that kiwi birds are an endangered specie and if we could reproduce them in mass, we could in stage 1 at low reproduction rate, sold to the zoos worldwide at a premium price. If the reproduction was very successful, then we could introduce the kiwi birds as unique pets for the rich and famous. Lastly, if the reproduction was very very successful, we could sell the kiwi birds and the eggs to China as delicacies.
I was dumbfounded and quickly agreed that we should turn this into investment.
The aussie was delighted and he proposed that I should start to work on it when I was backed in Singapore. The first thing among all was to setup a website to sell the investment idea to like minded Singaporeans.
When I heard that, I was happy but slowly I realised that I had a problem. I only had a HDB flat and if I had to register a investment site domain name, then I had to use my flat's address. Wa lan eh, this is very sia suay!!! And If I let my IT savvy khakis found out, they will see me no up.
So, I reluctantly told my aussie friend this problem and due to the siasuayness that I might face, I had decided not to partner with him.
He was disappointed and I had never heard from him again.
Sigh, an investment opportunity was lost simply because I could not overcome my siasuayness.
If I had known Cyclone san earlier, I would not have faced this problem. He will teach me how to mask it.(Oops, am I teaching someone??)
And if this forum exists earlier, there are so many rich members here that probably will lend me a private property address to use since I have a good reputation of +2 here (much better than some past forum member called Dennis who was in the negative region).
My apologies for wasting your time if you find this post sucks.
After all these years of 'lost investment opportunity', any update on anyone making tons of $$ successfully selling kiwi birds as pets? Perhaps you ought to be thanking your lucky stars that you'd not ended up as the visible Front Man (Scape Goat) of an Alternative Investment gone wrong? For that, you may have to be grateful to your HDB flat for having saved you from both financial / reputation ruin? If so, don't ever sell your HDB flat!
BTW, I don't understand why you couldn't have asked your potential biz partner to use his Farm/Lab address when you register the domain address? It'd be cool when potential investors used Google Earth to check and see a Modernistic Farm cum Lab with thousands of kiwis in the background (gives extra credibility to your biz).
BTW-II, I don't think it's a good idea to mask your registered address. If I were a potential investor doing such a credibility search, it'd be an immediate red-flag to me..
PS. I also have 'fond' memories of 'The-One-With-Ten-Thousand-Posts' (can't call by real nick, like 'Voldemort' in Harry Porter).