Appreciation Journal :25th - 30th Nov 2019

Today, I am so thankful that I have gone 15 days past the momentous four thousand day mark of rent-freedom!

I am also appreciative of four fairly enjoyable days in the capital zooming around from place to place registering for twelve meetings & getting food/vouchers in eleven of them!

Capital gains covered most of the expense via partial sales of risen shares in Bright Packaging (stake has dropped by half to 9,000 shares in 3 sales) while dividends almost matched that number on its own as well this week!

November earned a tad over 4,990 in such income, the best figure since June last year which is a miracle in such a doldrum-pervaded stockmarket!

I deeply appreciate the Universe/Infinite Intelligence guiding me to money earning opportunities this coming new month of December, be it in Hong Kong, Malaysia or maybe even Singapore or Japan! After all, I have had a nice taste of it this past month with the best day since Feb 9th last year which was an all-time record earning month, on Nov 13th 2019!

Appreciation Journal :17th - 24th Nov 2019

4,009 days of rent-free living comes to the fore as my main pillar of appreciation today as I reach nine days after that threshold was breached last Friday, which is also the day I sheared off my 55-month-old locks, representing the psychological cutting off of beliefs, fears, indecision and ignorance that no longer serve me as I exult in the powerful NOW and eagerly face forward to my bright and love-filled future!

Appreciation Journal :15th - 16th Nov 2019

What transpired in my reality in the last few days was AMAZING! At the same time, I crossed an important threshold : 4000 days of rent-free living ! To top it off, today I enjoyed a wonderful buffet lunch, my SIXTH consecutive one sponsored by listed Hexza Corp!

Appreciation Journal :13th - 14th Nov 2019

What transpired in the last two days was just sensationally synchronistic! It actually began the evening of the 12th, when I just happened to casually check on the stock chart of Nishishiba Electric (6591 - 西芝電機) a stock I bought in June 2018 because it was cheap relative to its NTA and the Japanese stockmarket seemed to still be in a bullish upward trend back then. It went nowhere and within weeks started declining in the face of global jitters over the Federal Reserve interest rate hikes & visited a 6-year low of ¥97, a nearly 50% paper loss on my stock position.

Nevertheless, I ignored the paper loss and just gamely hung on since my investment was just over $5,200 which was a paltry sum to me!

The price had risen relentlessly from a low of ¥120 in August till it was almost breakeven and I had toyed with the idea for some weeks of selling for a small profit/loss.

When I checked two evenings ago, I was pleasantly shocked to see that the stock had closed at limit-up to ¥220! If I had checked a few hours earlier, it would have been very likely that I would have rushed to sell for what would have been a ¥42,200 gross gain. However, my hopes soared that I could get an even bigger profit and so I busily checked Japanese news sites for the reason, and it turned out that parent Toshiba Inc ( whose large shareholding was one of the causes of my buying my stake in the first place ) was 'eliminating the parent-subsidiary relationship' (i.e privatising the co.) under pressure from its own shareholders.

In the morning, I called my broker as early as I could, but because there was an hour lag between the Japanese open & the local one, the highs of  ¥280 -  ¥285 was old news by the time my order was forwarded through the wires and the price sank rapidly to a morning low of  ¥238  before rebounding sharply to ¥257 at the lunch break. I modified part of my order twice, first to ¥272 and then to ¥258  for the afternoon session. An hour later, I found out the good news that my partial sale was executed at ¥264 but on checking at an internet cafe, I discovered that the stock had rebounded to ¥276 and was then halted again! My original instruction was to sell the balance of my shares at a limit of ¥248 and as I kept refreshing the quotes from Yahoo! Japan, the stock price did not change and I was resigned to accepting that the stock was suspended for the day & that I had to incur another commission selling the balance the next day.

However, just before I logged out & walked home, the price refreshed to ¥300,the limit-up price for the day, but the volume did not change and so I was left in suspense as to whether the balance of my shares had been sold.

I went home, logged on to my home computer, and the latest quote showed the volume to be 7,585,000 shares, up from 6,933,300 when I last checked. Sure enough, an e-mail from my broker confirming the sale of the balance of my stock at the limit-up price of ¥300  sat in my mailbox and I was feeling mixed because the announced tender offer price from Toshiba Inc was as yet unknown to me, or to anyone in Japan outside of the board meeting of said company.

Checking a Japanese stock bulletin board on Yahoo! Japan, I soon discovered that the final offer was only ¥240!

JOY OH JOY!!!

 The net gain of $3,261 (¥ 86,425)  is the largest stock gain I have earned since Feb 9th 2018, on top of being the LARGEST Japanese stock profit thus far! I am milking my thankfulness for this sheer good fortune & immaculate timing for as looooooong as I can!!!

On the other hand, the unfortunates who bought 652,200 shares at the 300 yen close yesterday are collectively sitting on a loss of over $1,400,000! In other words, the 2nd arm of the double joy of the episode was my avoiding a 'loss' of $1,151 in profit + commission had I been forced to sell the balance of my holdings in Nishishiba the next day!

Appreciation Journal :10th - 12th Nov 2019

Before I dropped off to slumber last night, I expressed my heartfelt appreciation & thankfulness for the blessing of this Life, sharpened into focus by many masters & teachers that I could access for free thanks to the internet, something I could not have done two or three decades ago!

Towards the end of my restful sleep, I awoke slightly with an insight that I imagined I was speaking to Abraham onstage and I could almost hear 'her' saying that it was the best way that anyone had said it! I write this as I endeavour to recall what the insight was:

I have to be consistently unconditional because if I lapse into conditional reacting, I won't maintain the vibration in a way that will be long & steady enough such that it will manifest in my reality.

Appreciation Journal : 21st Oct - 9th Nov 2019

Yesterday evening, I attended an investment talk even though part of me didn't want to because of the difficulty of finding transportation home when the talk was scheduled to end, especially since the friend whom I usually asked along who gave me a ride home decided not to go. 

The food was very simple(fried rice, fried chicken, a little fruit) but I gamely stayed on for the presentations, choosing to miss the last 7:30 bus home. The first speaker was giving away small gifties to participants answering questions so I put up my hand late in the presentation to answer a simple question & so won a giftie: a thumb drive in a lovely box.

The second speaker's presentation really cemented my conviction that I was at the right place at the right time as I deliberately intended on most mornings as it was on an area of successful investing I was not trained in : the language of business. A = L + E,  Free cash flow = Operating cash flow - Capex, Profit = sanity;Cash = reality, The purpose of biz is to grow shareholder equity etc etc

As I was listening, I was also contemplating whether I should ask some random person to give me a lift back & decided against it, only waiting for that very improbable offer of a ride from the one person I mentioned missing my last bus ride home to.

Finding out it was 9:25 and before the talk had ended I walked out to the main road & keep my eyes open for any yellow lights above cars indicating they were taxis.

When I reached the taxi stand in front of a popular mall, I was surprised to find no taxis there( their biz had been that badly cannibalised by ride-hailing app Grab! ). Walking along the main road, there was not a yellow light in sight. There & then I decided to walk the two or so kilometres home, which would be the first time I had done so this late at night!


As I passed the old state governor residence, I heard the sound of a meowing cat. I walked on but just as I turned into the four-lane road that would lead all the way home, a black-and-white kitten had materialised at my side, walking astride & meowing softly. I leaned down to caress it and then kept on walking forward but noticed the kitten keeping pace with me.

After awhile, I again bent over to stroke its head, hoping it would go on its own way but it kept following me; there & then I decided that I would take it all the way home if I had to rather than risk it getting run over on the roads. So I let it walk a little, then picked it up in my left hand & walked it a little & repeated the process. It kept following me until at one point, it stopped at the corner of a grass verge & looked around, meowing somewhat frantically.

I was about to walk on, but looked back at it and decided that I could not just leave it there to Fate and so walked back & picked it up again. Not long after, we passed an Army camp and I noticed the gate ajar and put it down to see where it would go: it followed me, much slower than before and as I walked I realised the meowing had stopped, so I looked back and saw that it was no longer behind me and assumed that it must have intelligently gone towards the open gate of the Army camp!

Feeling happy I had done the right thing, I walked on along the well-lit trunk road, easily, feeling contented & moderately energetic.

After ten minutes of so of sallying forth, and just before a roundabout which would need me to cross the circular road twice, a small car slowed down and stopped just in front of me; I  went up to the  left front door & noticed an elderly Indian man in the driver seat and he removed some stuff from the passenger seat, indicating that he was offering me a ride!

So I happily opened the door & went in. He advised me to get a bicycle and I explained that I had a phobia about it since a long ago accident and so on.

Serendipity(and perhaps a favour for God's beast) brought me through the last kilometre or so of my road home in a stranger's car!