I still wonder why my friend is so overly confident about making money from trading options. I mean he’s never even traded shares before. Where does he get his confidence from? Is it by reading 2 option books, going to seminars and subscribing to an option report? He is thinking of quitting his day job and do trading full time.
But the problems are:n1. Lack of experience, as mentioned he never traded before. He’s got some theories of course, he keeps on repeating that it’s all just about employing risk minimisation strategy, I thought to myself if it were that simple a lot of people would have quit their day job and trading from home. n2. Options trading is a zero sum game, for every option traded, there’s will be a wi
er and a loser. Now what makes him think that he’s a better trader than the rest?n3. Under capitalised. The biggest factor whey amateur traders crashed and burned. Especially when you HAVE to trade for a living. Also given that options is a leveraged instrument, it’s just becoming worse.
Common sense would suggest that he keeps his day job, build some capital, try some paper trades, give a reasonable time frame to get a hang of it (I would say few years), keep the possibility that he might not be suitable for trading open. But as someone said common sense is not so common.
I really concerned about my friend, I don’t want to come across as being too negative.. I mean he might be able to succeed in his trading endevour, who knows? But my judgement told me that he’s not going to especially when he HAS to make money out of the market. That’s a terribly huge task to ask the market to supply you with an income. But if he did end up failing with this trading endevour, how will it be.. I better start praying for him.
Which leads me to another thought, I guess the underlying desire to trade for him is to be able to be his own boss and make lots of money. Isn’t this greed talking? I really can’t understand why he thinks he NEEDS to be rich. Why? He doesn’t need to. He’s a christian too, shouldn’t he know that he’s already rich in God’s eyes?
This is what happened when people read Kiyosaki books and take all of the rubbish (among the good things) in the books without questioning.

Hm, I think I had enough of mourning. I can’t believe it affected me that much. I envy my sister, she isn’t as emotional as a person compared to me. She seems to be able to cope better.
This year, is the first time I had to use a tax agent to do my tax return as the deadline is too close and my tax this year is quite complex. Quite complex as the agent had to amend his final calculation twice. Uni assignment is due tomorrow, I’ve done half of it whilst in Indo, couldn’t be bothered to spend too much effort on it at the moment. Boss asked me to have a look at some payment gateway stuff, really don’t feel like doing it, the document contains quite a lot of information. Will go to a karaoke outing at Rusmin’s in half an hour, I guess they are pulling this one to cheer me and Thomas up.
Really feel like going back to Indo for good. I guess with the departure of my dad, going back to indo is more of a possibility now.
The past is history, the future is mystery and present is a gift, so someone said. My dad is now history, my employment is a mistery as I need to find a new employment soon need to start something new, at present I have to look after the close ones. Present is a gift, another day for my mom, grandma and auntie to know God, if they choose to.

Saudara2 tentulah telah mengenal baik papa saya dalam berbagai kapasitas, sebagai adik, kakak, teman maupun dosen, perkenankanlah saya pada hari ini untuk berbagi sedikit mengenai papa saya sebagai seorang ayah.
Papa saya itu adalah orang yang pendiam dan mungkin cenderung kaku, hal ini memang telah saya konfirmasikan dari teman2 baik papa dan murid2nya. Papa saya tidak pintar berkata2. Tapi sebagai seorang ayah papa saya itu sungguh memperhatikan anak2nya. Kalau saya telpon dari Sydney, pesen minta dibawain cover mobil ataupun pisau cukur, papa saya mau pergi mencarika
ya buat saya.
Akan ada banyak hal2 yang akan saya rindukan, akan saya kangeni dari papa. Mungkin yang paling ngangeni adalah pertanyaan2nya pada waktu di telpon. Papa saya adalah salah satu orang yg tidak kreatif dalam berkata2. Kalau di telpon, papa selalu mengawali percakapan dengan

I never have expected that you will departed this soon, but I guess that’s life huh? I have so much things that I wanted to say to you, but now I know I won’t have chance to. I wanted to ask whether you are proud of me, I am not as bright as you dad, but I always work hard.
We were quite close when I was a kid I guess up until SD. I remember we used to play chess, well not that often, usually when the electricity went off we played. When I got to SMP, I don’t know what’s gotten into me. I was just a hateful teenager, I thought you didn’t care about me. I am so sorry Dad, that I hated you because I think you loved my sister more than I do. I am so sorry that I was such a rebellious kid.
I know how stupid I was, I now know that you loved me so much, eventhough you are not good at verbalising it. It’s ok Dad, you are human too. You have your weaknesses. I am sorry if I haven’t succeded in my career either, but then again Dad, I am still young and you have left before giving me chance to make you proud. You left way too soon Dad.
These past few years Dad, I felt like we have grown closer. I really thank God for that, I guess it must be God that soften my hardened hart and for your part God must have done something with your communication. Oh by the way, Lina helps too, she helps to realise that you actually love me and that I need to do something about our communication. It was her Dad who can see your love and caring side.
I really treasure our trip to Tasmania with mum, that was fun and I felt like really close to you that time, reading the map while you were driving. Oh Dad, how I wish I have more time to spend it with you.. I am sorry, but this is just too sudden for me Dad, who would’ve guessed it. You play te
is regularly, so you must be healthy right Dad? I know your health has been deteriorating, but hey you’re getting older so that’s to be expected. I always thought you would live for another 20-30 years, then maybe you would come here or I would come back to Indo to take care of you. You leave me way too soon Dad, honestly.
Oh Dad, you’d probably think I married too young hehe, I knew you did, mom told me. But hey, I’ve got you a grandson and I can see that you are very proud of him. When Jet came out, the first thing came to my mind is, he’s got your nose (or Paulina’s nose). From now on, everytime I look at Jet, I will remember you. And I hope that I can love my son and tell him that I love him. I guess by now you would see that I have made the right decision on marrying my wife and yes, we are doing fine Dad.
I wish when we were on the phone, we were able to talk more Dad. Well you always asked the same questions most of the time, and I answered with similar answers. I guess that’s just you. We spoke briefly on Saturday morning, you wanted to hear Jet’s voice, he did make sound a bit for you. Oh Dad, I wish I knew that it would be the last time I spoke to you. I wish I knew Dad, I really wish I knew..
I never said that I love you Dad, I guess speaking it’s not something that we are good at. But I know that you know that I do love you. But if there’s one thing that I can say to you before you go, it would be that I love you and I am proud of being your son. You may not be the best father in the world, but I wouldn’t ask for different father than you (well except for my Father in heaven).
You shown your love to me through your questions. From your questions I know that you care, you always ask me, how is my work, how is my study, do I earn enough and that sort of thing. Maybe it’s not so much that you want me to be as succesful as you, but maybe you just being Dad, you just care about me and my family. I thank you for that Dad.
Whether you know Lord personally, only God knows, but I think you do know Him. I saw prayed before meal couple of times in the last few years, I’ve never seen you prayed before eating when I was teenager. If you do know the Lord Jesus Dad then I guess I will see you again in Heaven.
I am so upset now Dad, I am shocked that I lose you this soon, I am mad for those unspoken words to you. I guess Rest In Peace Dad. It’s been honour knowing you, it’s been a priviledge being raised up by you.