Random musings

“It doesn’t matter how slowly you go-so long as you do not stop.” - Confucius Today was almost an event less day and somewhere I decided that I need to do something, no matter how small. With that I decided to brush up some of my macro-economic fundas. If not in my actual trading perhaps it would help me with some talking points ;) I decided on some amount of readup and within a specified amount of time was able to achieve what I had set out to do. Then while wrapping I felt that it would perhaps help my cause if I could get hold of the study guide for the book I was using. I searched in Google for quite a long time and got nowhere. At that point I messaged Aruna, the only contact I had in my Alma Mater. Later in the day I caught her on chat and within moments she started a search for me. She must have spent in excess of half an hour and got me some very useful presentations. All this despite a pretty hectic schedule of her own. Thanks Aruna, very much appreciate your gesture :)

“If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles.” - Odysseus That was the ending quote of the movie “ Troy ” and I was fascinated in a very funny way. I didn’t find a single moment in the movie that really moved me. Somewhere I have this thought that I missed the point in the story of “Iliad”. Obviously there must have been something in the writings of Homer that touched so many over so many centuries ;) I intend to watch it a few times and hopefully I will see what I missed till now :( *** Another fascinating snippet that I picked was from a book of selected Lee Kaun Yew interviews. One quote was attributed to Queen Elizabeth’s office which declined the author’s request for a quote as the Queen prefers not to make any public comment about any living person. *** Then my trading...