To: Cogito who wrote (149328 ) 1/28/2013 11:50:33 AM From: manalagi 1 Recommendation Respond to of 213176 I woke up this morning and saw the sun shining albeit a cool day where I live. Just beautiful, beautiful day ahead with Apple stock going up. The icing on the cake is reading your post which shows that your spirit is up, and that means a lot to us posters on your thread. It seems that you are refresh and have joy witnessing the positive movement in the portfolio. You might wonder whether I regret that I sold half of my Apple holdings in my portfolio? The answer is a big NO. Why? I am a believer what my boss told me and it is in my profile: ' the decision that you made, given the data, given your knowledge and experience and the urgency to fix the problem, was the right one - even if the outcome was not what you wanted '. As I said, the remaining Apple stocks that I own is just house money. Ay you are alluding to my grammars and spelling, I plead guilty. I am not that good in writing, I don't have the talent in using words that are sesquipedalian, and I am too lazy (bad habit) in editing my posts. Right now I am struggling in writing for Seeking Alpha which invited me to write my views for Apple. Now on the lighter side (I'll address your reply to me about CM in later post): As I said: many generations ago many adventurous Chinese men left Southern China because of famine and went on sail boats to various parts of Asia with only "a penis and two balls" with them. How did they establish themselves in the strange countries? By working as labor and always humble to the employer. Now, just witness some older Chinese men. They bow giving respect. But wait, look closely, based on the culture, they are always ready to defend themselves. Look at their fists, it is ready to strike that that weak part of your body between your legs. That is what Shaolin kung fu teaching. "Always be humble but be prepare to defend yourself". Well, that's it for now, maybe you already know all about Chinese culture, and maybe in your spare you can teach me about grammar and spelling. When I wrote my dissertation, I asked my classmate for editing and in return I did his statistical calculations and wrote computer programs for that. We both finished school about the same time.