Blizzard!!!

Blizzard games under development:

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Diablo III
Starcraft II

Blizzard does not want me to have a social life...

Also just got Metal Gear Solid 4, and it like half movie, half game. Cut scenes are awesome.

How I started investing...

So I started investing about 2 years ago, when realized that I don't get paid that much, especially with all the stuff I had to do. I decided to look for other ways to make money. I thought about investing, heard about people making money off of the stock market and I had some ideas/strategies.

So in May of 2007. I put my saving(can't really spend money during bootcamp and MCT) in a mutual fund. Some random one recommend by my parents and broker at Charles Schwab. Added money to it every month. Few months later, at my new duty station, in 29 palms, I decided to check on it again. It made like a 3 percent gain or something. Mutual funds weren't gonna cut it.

So I decided not to listen to my parents, sold the mutual funds, and put everything into stocks. Made a 20% return in 2007. In 2008 I started looking into indexes and ETFs. Also dealt with Ipos and option trading. Not doing so well with the option trading, still learning about it. I don't have a whole lot of experience in general, but always trying to learn. As of Feb 14 2008 I started publicly tracking my progress on this site Covestor. Made about a 40% return this year. Check it out it's pretty cool, start tracking me to see how well I perform!!

http://www.covestor.com/mbr/wong55

Googling thru class

Wow, finished most of my classes for this semester. Have my last final tomorrow, Bio 101, and I still don't know whats the difference between Mitosis or Meiosis. I think I used Google way to much. Not really learning anything, just typing the question in and answering/posting the answers. This semester was somewhat like this in my classes. ( click pic, for larger image)



Surprisingly I did well in my classes, but this bio class final is gonna be lowering my B average.

Gas

New Razor

Bought a new razor today. The Gillette Fusion Power. It's really cool. Its comes with a triple a battery that makes it vibrate while you shave. And it has 5 blades!!

5 vibrating blades!! Gonna be really careful not to cut myself.

History 1970

Been reading and the comparing the situation in the 1970s, the situation now at hand. It seems to me like there's a lot of similarities in today's economic problems and back then. I am talking about the 1973 oil crisis and the stagflation of the 1970s. Today there is another oil crisis as speculation has pushed oil up to 135. Inflation has also increase with upward prices of commodities, like food, gold, etc. Unemployment numbers are up to 5.5%, although not as high as the 12% unemployment rate in the 1970's. It's not as bad today, as it has been in 1970s. There was rationing of gas, price controls, and overall conservation by everyone. High price oil is again reviving interest in alternative fuel sources. Also noting that the Vietnam war ended in 1975. And the U.S helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War(conflict in the Middle East), while the current conflict is in Iraq.

Those who cannot learn from history are bound to repeat it.

References:
Wikipedia