The Heart With A Million Knots

Perhaps I was very young. Easily enamoured by the beauty of Chen Chen and the romanticism of that tender age.

Those were the days that we can associate with the dashing handsomeness of Charlie Chan Siang Lin.

Even the movie with its ups and downs tend to even out as the good overtakes the bad.

The theme song was lilting and softens our hearts for the young lovers.

Interestingly, it was a fairy tale that we all gobbled up like geese.

These days, the younger generation may not take too easily to this kind of gooey-saccharine movie.

But for old foggies like me, it was certainly heart-warming to see the beautiful Chen-Chen all over again, as young and as fresh.

The Golden Touch of Ray Harryhausen

Prior to computer graphics, the world of animation belonged to Ray Harryhausen.

Ray have lent his skills from such great epics such as Jason and the Argonauts to the classic Sinbad movies.

So, now that the Bersih 3.0 climax is over, I settled down once more to walk down the memory lane of movies.

This time, I immersed myself to look at Ray Harryhausen's magic at work in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Story-wise it is no more exciting that any yarn spun from the Arabian Nights. However, the magic of John Philip Lawas the debonair Sinbad, Caroline Monroe as Margiana and Tom Baker as the Evil Wizard, Koura in search of youth has its chemistry.

Caroline Munroe is obviously a sight for sore eyes then.

Also, the catch phrase, "Believe in God but tie your camel' reverberates throughout this movie.

God movie and I will have more pleasant strolls down memory lane soon as I intend to watch The Seventh Voayage of Sinbad and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger after this.

Bersih 3.0-To Be Discreet?

Today (28 April 2012) will see a potential fight between the victorious Gods of power from Putrajaya and the so-called vanquished Titans of Bersih 2.0.

Until it begins and plays out from the hours of 2.00 to 4.00 pm, one cannot tell but speculate.

There will be a sea of colour in the expected mammoth crowd but yellow will dominate and possibly green.

The government is not stopping the LRT and so we can expect more to turn out in spite of the clampdown around the Dataran Merdeka.

Though, I would not expect many BN component parties to send its people to participate (in spite of MCA allowing its members to do so),there will be some intermingling with the crowd for sure.

I do hope they are no trouble makers up to mischief who can cause the whole protest to go awry.

Some heading for the venue may be emblazoned in yellow Bersih 3.0 t-shirts and its signature emblem. Others may come as they will.

This photo of a person discreetly having a yellow item in his pocket as he rode the LRT is a sign that history may be made today if they can really get a juggernaut of a crowd to appear in the streets of Kuala Lumpur.

Will it be might and mayhem at play?

Or will it be a peaceful outing?

Let us be witness to it.

The Iconic Holly Golightly

Remember the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's?

Yes, we all do, don't we?

It was classic Audrey Hepburn.

Now, they are re-shooting it with Anne Hathaway in the role.

Anne is lovely.

Do you like the first shot here?

YTL-The Obvious Treasury Buy-in

This is one interesting counter.

Just when you think that it has gained traction,it begins to slip and believe me, it slipped below the RM1.60 radar today, going to RM1.59. This is definitely not in the comfort zone of most minority shareholders who would have averaged about RM1.50 after almost more than a year of YTL's stock split to 10 sen.

Even before the lunch close, I knew they will do some mickey mouse on the counter to bring it back to its overnight level of RM1.64.

And by Jove they did, punting it up from RM1.61 to RM1.64 all the way till the close.

And it was obvious that they are Treasury buy-ins which they reported accordingly.

Let us see what happens to the counter this coming Monday.

Bersih 3.0 : Here We Go Again

So, history will repeat itself this Saturday.

A total lockdown of Dataran Merdeka is now set into motion.

It is now Day 2 to to the much anticipated sit-in.

If the people are fearful of the authorities, they will buckle and seek alternative venues.

If not, then it will be head-on and see who inevitably blink or play chicken.

Let us see how Saturday 28 will turn out.

Sing A Song of Digi

Yesterday's announcement that Digi will pay an interim dividend to shareholders 5.9 sen for each 1 sen share for the year ending December 2012 must have been music to their ears.

To top it all, Digi will also, as a special payback, distribute special dividends from the value it acquired from the diminution of share value in Digitel from 10 sen to 1 sen denomination.

That means every shareholder with 1000 Digi shares will stand to earn RM 123.00.

So,it came as no surprise when Digi shares were sought after from mid-morning today.

The shares added 10 sen on the close with 1,360,960 shares traded.

Would we see more upside?