Took one day leave to spend time with the family because it was France's National Day. You see my wife works in a french company which sells helicopters. Being a french company and being proud & patriotic about it, the company declared a half day leave for all staff. That means my wife who works part time there gets to spend the whole day with us. How cool is that ?

We went to Suntec City where my wife needs to do some food shopping and I need to go to my annual PALA conference, the trade show for broadcast, audio/visual, stage, lights equipments, so and so, blah and blah hurray. That was in the late afternoon but before that, we were in Shenton Way where we visited the Central Depository Office at the Singapore Stock Exchange to open a CDP account. A CDP account will enable us to buy shares if we want to. It's not like we are going to buy any, its just the feeling of being able to do so when we want to. Anyway it is FREE and being Malaysians who lived in Singapore, we have to do something Singaporean sometime. Furthermore its good family fun to go to the heart of the central business district of Singapore with a child, a toddler, a baby and a maid during the busiest time of a weekday. Boy I cannot describe to you the amount of attention we get from all the hi flying, coat wearing, blue collared executives walking past us. We got a few heads turning. Being the first time in Shenton Way with the whole family, it was quite fun.

Though we are not into speculating, we did do it last night. We were terrified and disappointed when we realised that the 25% discount for petrol of all petrol stations across the island tumbled down to 5% this morning. It was a speculation that the discount will last another night. So last night when we were contemplating if we should top up the tank, we made the decision to wait. So wrong was that decision, we concluded that we will NOT be very good in the stock market.

We thank God that as Christians we don't speculate on the stock market. Instead we bet on a sure thing in Christ, His eternal life in Heaven and a pretty good time down here on earth, serving Him. Christ is the share in a stock market that never tumbles! We can bet on Heaven.... surely.