to pay rents&rates on all the properties here, right?
you wouldn't need a Sybase administrator for your intelligent business would you?
I own quite a few properties here and in other places in Hong Kong. CC came dirt cheap during the SARS and during post SARS periods. An A only cost $2.3M during SARS. C sold for $1.5M and a F was only $1.25M. H was $3M one year after SARS. So the rents are good no matter how you negotiate lower. And it is just a game when the renter uses comparative pricing. When HSBC only gives $1 for putting $100,000 in the bank account, these properties form good long term and stable returns. HSBC must be trying to make up their short fall somewhere else. If than can lend it out and can make fees from selling mutual funds, I guess it is cutting costs with their customers. Although biz school taught me that you should not time the markets, I have also found that it is emotional and timing does pay off. Perhaps it was luck or insight. Or was there something wrong with the famous biz school.
Sybase? We moved beyond that. If one was to read the Feb/Mar Forrester report, one needs to move beyond pure IT because the next boom is not pure IT as we have past that. Look at the primary students, they use notebooks and the seniors market has been penetrated too. Business applications are where I see things going, not IT infrastructure. Funny how you phrase the question as a negative to expect a negative answer. I remember taking a people skills course and the question would have been phrased "would you..." instead.
....Hey! I remember you.
Aren't you the guy saying how bad my French was? And I asked for some nice comments and you sad it was still bad?
Hehe ...I'm an objective person when it comes to business and set aside my emotions onto this forum as I am made of flesh and blood.
Well, I was able to test some facilitation skills in this forum. ....this was a safe place to do this and to learn mistakes before moving it into the real corporate world. Well, I also learned that investment ideas are quite a private affair and sharing these come at the detriment to my emotions. And it is to this that understand why Templeton moved to a small island to have a clear mind. I did want to teach, but the students were not ready. Oh well, off to the Chinese and to build the new republic.
...so I go home to my China and I have aged. As a famous poet once said.....So many moons and so many days of frost that I have thought of home from a far away place. I was young when I left. Now I older and need to shave; I have returned. The sounds are the same. The place has changed and young people do not recognized me.
....I cannot wait to meet again the old Chinese alumni to meet and friends from days of school. And I will visit the graves of my grandpapa.
I am no chink or a yellow skin pig. It is home. It is family. It is nice.
