Our mango season is exactly the same; at peak we buy them for as little as US$.30 a kilo. Several different varieties; they grow a lot for export in this area. I wonder how analogous our seasons are... here we get monsoon rains from June-August, occasional typhoons from July-Nov., relatively cool and clear Dec-Feb., blazing hot March-May. I always figured the fruit seasons were governed by that cycle, but I'd be surprised if that cycle were repeated there, and the season seems the same.
Really pretty safe here; I've paddled my boat all over the place and never felt threatened, though I wouldn't go near Muslim Mindanao, where kidnapping is a major industry (they are still holding one poor American guy, who has been conveniently and totally forgotten). A few weekends ago we paddled a new river, very remote place, heavy jungle all the way. Later we found out that it's a real NPA (left rebels) hotbed, and the village where we took out is regarded as NPA-controlled. Nobody bothered us... I think they were so surprised to see us that buy the time they figured out that we weren't from outer space, we were already gone.
Stocks... well, maybe someday. I was out well before the crash - it didn't exactly take an abacus to see it coming, and for once I was rewarded for being chicken - but the thought of going back in doesn't appeal much. Things are so much driven by emotion these days that a psychoanalyst probably has a better chance of calling the markets than a financial analyst does. I'm neither, so I should probably stay on the sidelines. When a few fund managers toss themselves out of lower-Manhattan windows, that will be the time to buy.
I'm sure that people with a lot more knowledge and a lot more time than I can make good money on a floppy market like this, but it ain't for me.... |
