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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (4444)	4/8/2003 10:21:16 PM
From: Step1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

Marcos, it is quite slow all around so i ll comment on the "4"s in Japanese. You are right, it rhymes like death and often there are no room with "4"s in them or fourth floor for that matter... I used to live in an apartment numbered 405 although it really should have been 404. I moved out and hit good luck in PMs ... Mostly true... But for 8s, i think you are confusing that with the Chinese... Don`t know of any special meaning for the 8 here ... That`s all as we return to our normal programming in PMs step1

To: marcos who wrote (4444)	4/16/2003 3:48:40 AM
From: LeonardSlye	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 8273

I'd been doing a little contrarian wing walking with AC.a for a few days up until early last week and decided to take some time off after a couple of good rides. Time to get back to work. Lots of really good posts here of late. Better than reading the Guerilla News. I see what you mean about StockWatch and the Market Depth for the Venture exchange. They already overcharge horrendously for the real time quotes and now this? I felt the market depth service was a way for them to make up in part for their overcharging at the exchange. The Toronto think tank have out-thunk themselves with me. So, they would like to have another 12 bucks a month and that would only give me price. This is on top of the $25 for real time quotes within which there is a surcharge just for being Canadian. I’ll be taking off the real time quotes for Vancouver at the end of the month and just saying to Hell with them. It used to be great to be able to get a peek at a bit of the real time book at the bottom for whom was behind the orders but I guess that is now no more. Damn, there goes a good tool. But, I’m ready to restrict the palate a bit and write a strongly worded letter to the exchange telling them why I’ve quit. My Vancouver stocks move in slow motion anyway. But, I don’t really like being coerced into only playing the Toronto exchange in real time with market depth although I already spend most of my time there as it is. It just seems a little sinister, that’s all. I was looking at Gabriel Resources today too after I picked it up in a filter yesterday. Didn’t buy in though. I guess it will really depend upon who comes in the door to replace those lost in the exodus. That’ll be interesting, maybe for awhile anyways. Mountain Province will be at least interesting to watch tomorrow morning as a spectator or speculator. It was halted, and still is tonight on the TSE at $1.09, but the Nasdaq listing wasn’t halted. It kept trading through the not good news and plummeted. It opened at 80 cents and sunk to 37 before coming up a bit to finish at 45. I’m wondering what the Canadian shares will do tomorrow. I see that somehow (but I don't get it, and don't want to) politics perhaps got a bit out of line in a post further back. I figure that when name calling comes into anything, it means that any thinking is over. Actually, I was starting a post titled "I am a Parasite" with apologies to "I am Canadian" but it would have been on a dead unwelcome issue anyway. But, good Lord, without the discussion of politics on at least satirical levels, we’d have to admit that they who can’t think their way past a simple party line will have won something...a silent minority ...nah...we’d be like a bunch of Liberal back or front benchers. Speakin’ of which, I see John (I do everything here anyway) Manley has decided that he is Prime Ministerial material. The Right Honourable Prime Minister John Manley...I don’t see it. He’d have a better chance of hailing a cab from the door way of the SARS Clinic than winning that gig. He always looks to me like he’s just been shaken awake and accused of something. Come to think of it, he might be just the perfect choice to represent Canada internationally. According to John Wright, Senior Vice President of Ipsos Reid, 47% of Americans assume that Canada is fully involved in the War on Iraq. His suggestion is just not to tell them any different by taking out apologetic full page ads in their papers. We don’t need a new wave comin’ in. I didn’t know about the Japanese dislike for the number 4 but in Cantonese, the number is definitely bad luck. It, “sie”, sounds like “death”, it could be the last sound you'd let out too. Mind you, as an address, a good feng shui guy (boy these guys are worth their weight in gold eh?) can give you some recourse to make the numbers auspicious, but it’s not cheap, unless you go for just putting red dots on either side. I’m a little steamed at the feng shui thing as a new neighbour moved in kitty corner to us and almost immediately there was a guy walking the yard with him pointing to things and the next day the great looking privacy tree in his front yard was turned into firewood. Now I’ve got to get new underwear for the weekends. The number 8 though is a pip. It represents happiness and/or prosperity and other good stuff, so if you’ve got 2 eights you're doubly blessed. It’s common knowledge (so probably wrong) that licence plates with 8’s go for a premium. I saw one in town the other day that was DRK 888, it may have gone a little cheaper depending upon the English level of the owner. August the 8th is “da da” in Mandarin...the perfect day for father’s day or so a former student of mine told me one August the seventh. He could have been conning me though, I was conning him. In the days leading up to the Tiennamen Square Massacre the students would drop little glass bottles from the windows to insult Deng Xiao Ping because his name sounded like little broken bottles in Mandarin. It seemed to have worked. Some names when they are taken transliterally across to English don’t seem to work very well. The Hung Fat Brassiere Company found that they needed a name change for the North American market. Sometimes poor choices are made in English as well, there was a driving school in town with the name “Target” with the appropriate logo on the side of the car. They didn’t last long. Gotta prep for the open... EC, thanks for the informative piece on the introduction of badminton...it confirmed a few of my suspicions. Happy Trails, Lenny