Lester,
AMAT @35 or a lot higher is not too much to ask as your 81st birthday present if only Investors realize that the problems of people some 10,000 miles away do not necessarily cause problems here...Perhaps those young money managers or the like who are getting rid of their AMAT investments can learn from us Older Guys that the Key to wealth is thru Holding and Accumulating at bargain prices shares of companies best positioned to prosper in the coming years...Sadly to admit, I was once a young man, so independently minded as to have ignored the investment advise of older, experienced investors; if only I heeded their advice, I wouldn't be spending most of my time now in my olden years with eyes glued in front of a computer screen struggling to earn money to survive...
23 years ago at the age of 31 1/2, too proud to "kneel" infront of a Politician just to have a job, left the country of my birth with a vow never to return. Oh, how I wished the Philippines never got Independent from the U.S. to spare the country and it's people from the mess the Leaders were creating...Now in my waning years I realized I can not totally forget, despite its shortcomings, the one I left for good, that it will always remain a part of me...Now I understand that it takes time for a country dominated---400 years by a superpower (Spain), 37 years by another (U.S.) and 3 years by still another (Japan)---to adjust itself being Free and Stand alone steadily...Now, things are getting brighter, now I feel fortunate to have lived in 2 different worlds...now I'm thinking, why not alternately live and enjoy in them, at least to have 2 is better than to have 1... |
