Bursa KL: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Star Performer

Well, today is an opportune time to review how your stocks did in 2011 now that trading will only resume on 3 January 2012.

Dividend Star

For me, I have my share of winning and losing. On hindsight, we are all 2020.

Bountiful Harvest

There were times when we were suckered in by irresponsible regulatory bodies,analysts and industrial banks. There should be a law to punish these irresponsible people and investment banks!

Commodity King

Then there were the circumstances-really extreme in 2011.

Digital Leader

Wall Street jitters, the horrendous Eurozone sovereign debt issue led by the sick Greeks and the debilitating effects of the constant property meltdown possibility in China. Remember also the tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan. These all added to the vagaries of dabbling in equities in 2011.

Fast Food Champion

So, what are in my list of the good, the bad and the ugly? What are the regrettable and poor decision making fumbles?

Megamall Master Builder

The shining stars are definitely GAB; Krisassets and TWS which went beyond 100% capital appreciation. This was followed by Digi.Com,BAT, Berjaya Assets, KLK,IGB,Kencana and KFC which brought more than satisfactory capaitalisation gains.

Time Square Operator

O and G Monolith

Megamall Super Administrator

On the other side, the greatest screw-ups include UOA Development,Metronic Global,EIG,Maybulk, Adventa,Ramunia,Hai-O,KHSB,KPS,MNRB and Time Engineering Berhad.

I bought Ramunia based on bad analysts’ reports, Metronic-based on a smart alec statistician’s appraisal but should have left when it ran into bad debts. 

PN 17 Red Herring

As for Time Engineering, I did not know why just selling TdC shares to shareholders would lead to its share price downgrade. Something lost in translation?

Lost in Translation

MNRB went down in spite of giving a good dividend? Why, oh, why? 

Loss of Agencies?

EIG was an unattractive share that the market kept away with a 10 meter pole given its change in ownership when the ‘beauty people’ left. 

Biting the Bullet

Hai-O went down because it followed the government’s ruling to tighten up its direct selling member-get-member structure. 

Potential Winner?

Maybulk going south is generally attributed to poor demand for shipping while Adventa's sharp fall was because of the increasing price of rubber.

Die hard?

As for KPS and KHSB, it is because of the water amalgamation mess in Selangor and the court cases.

Foggy Perspective

Hopeful Candidate?

Finally, UOA development, blame it on the Securities Commission and the analysts. They were too laid back in their valuation for the IPO and were faulty in their advice as well.  Minority shareholders were all made lambs for the slaughter. No ethics!

Bad Debts

Low Ebb

Institutional Irresponsibility

So, how did your investments went?

Fantabulous Shots

Yes, these surely are.

Enjoy!

Banpo Bridge Korea

Belgium-Netherlands Cafe Boundary line

Rich Man,Poor Man-Favelas-Brazil

Bruno Catalona Sculpture Creations

Cappadocia Balloons

Crescent Moon Tower

Danxia landform China

Emerald Lake New Zealand

Lena Pillars Russia

Night and Day Sower-Lithuania Monument

Maldives Airport

On Bended Knees Gryfino Poland

Yucatan rayfish migration from Florida

The Density Waveline Breaker in Baltic Denmark

Digi:Just to Touch..........

It must have been some sort of de javu for Digi shareholders when Digi touched its highest historical price peak of RM3.88 momentarily this morning.

Riding beyond RM3.88 in 2012?

It is definitely consoling when it managed to breached the RM3.80 price obstacle.

That it has been firm in maintaining above this price continues to be re-assuring as the day moved on.

After trading in a tight range of RM3.85 and RM3.86,Digi finished 10 sen up for the year-end at RM3.88. So, it ended highest for the year. Good omen for the Year of the Dragon!

Finishing up 10 sen for 2011

It has been a good two months since Digi went ex-split. If you have entered at RM32.00 cum split, you would have made a tidy sum of RM6,800 by year end.

Happy New Year 2012.

A Most Forgetful Penang Holiday

Looking back over the years, there were some episodes of food poisoning courtesy of Penang's street food.

As good as you can get

This time around, the holiday was most forgetful.

The reasons, you may ask.

Quality deficiency

Firstly, I never did eat a real good plate of char keow tiau. Quality has really gone down the chute.

Quite good still

The same goes for my other favourites except for the famous Ayer Hitam laksa which is still very good.

Losing taste

Curry mee and or chien were so-so and the lobak was below standard.

Okay

The keow chiap at Jelutong market was okay.

Tolerable mee rebus

Worse thing, I got food poisoning on the way home to Petaling Jaya.

Palatable

What a nerve wracking episode...

Below par

Digi:Two Difficult Rubicons

If you follow the price trend of Digi shares, you will notice this.

Boxed Pattern

It really had a tough time moving from RM3.60 to RM3.70. Now it is again at the threshold of another barrier-the second Rubicon to cross-the RM3.80 barrier.

Today, it can be seen that there is a deluge of sellers at RM3.79. Fortunately, buyers sprung out at RM3.78 to support Digi's price.

There is just two whole trading days left before we enter the Year of the Dragon.

Today, it  closed at RM3.79 for a one sen gain.

Will Digi pass the RM3.80 threshold in this given time?

First Malaysian in a Same Sex Marriage

For ultra-conservative Muslim Malaysia who will say a no-no to same sex marriage, this one takes the cherry.

A medical student,Ariff Alfian Rosli has just married his male friend, Jonathan in Dublin.

I think the Malay Muslim community is most concerned. This is the first for this ethnic group and from Malaysia as well.

Here are the photos of the wedding.

Exchanging rings

A Kiss on the lips

Rejoice!