What the Financial Markets are experiencing right now, is Tranquility, with relatively small volatility, ahead of the Christmas Holiday. This is not a bad thing, for this Christmas.
God knows, with so much drama and trauma in October and November 2008, it is no wonder that the newspapers have not reported a drastic increase in suicide cases. In fact, in one email I received from a friend, there was a contrast of the two eras, between the 1929 Great Crash, and the recent October 2008 Stock Market Crash.
In the 1929 Crash, a number of well known Wall Street personalities jumped from their office windows. However, in this recent crash, the email depicted a number of protestors at Wall Street, possibly people who oppose the use of taxpayers' money to bailout financial institutions, or those who are upset with the mortgages crisis, carrying pickets with the message, "Jump, you idiots, jump!"
However, with bailout money forthcoming so easily, it is possibly the consumers and the taxpayers who have to jump in time to come.
But I digress. I was talking about the Tranquility of the Financial Markets today. The slow price movements of the Financial Markets can be depicted by this beautiful, serene song, "Opposition to an Arranged Marriage" from "The Butterfly Lovers (Erhu Concerto), performed by The Philharmonic of China.
The Erhu Instrument soloist is Xu Ke, while the Conductor is Mak Ka Lok.
I don't pretend to know Chinese Orchestra, but I do enjoy Chinese Classical Music, especially the instruments, Erhu and Guzheng.
I listened to a Soloist Guzheng played in a Chinese Garden in Suzhou and it was so fantastic, especially in the aesthetically pleasing surroundings of Suzhou Art of Gardening, which, in my opinion, is one of the best gardening art in the world. Of course, I have yet to visit the Chinese Gardens in Beijing, which I was told, also had its roots from Suzhou Gardening Art.
God knows, with so much drama and trauma in October and November 2008, it is no wonder that the newspapers have not reported a drastic increase in suicide cases. In fact, in one email I received from a friend, there was a contrast of the two eras, between the 1929 Great Crash, and the recent October 2008 Stock Market Crash.
In the 1929 Crash, a number of well known Wall Street personalities jumped from their office windows. However, in this recent crash, the email depicted a number of protestors at Wall Street, possibly people who oppose the use of taxpayers' money to bailout financial institutions, or those who are upset with the mortgages crisis, carrying pickets with the message, "Jump, you idiots, jump!"
However, with bailout money forthcoming so easily, it is possibly the consumers and the taxpayers who have to jump in time to come.
But I digress. I was talking about the Tranquility of the Financial Markets today. The slow price movements of the Financial Markets can be depicted by this beautiful, serene song, "Opposition to an Arranged Marriage" from "The Butterfly Lovers (Erhu Concerto), performed by The Philharmonic of China.
The Erhu Instrument soloist is Xu Ke, while the Conductor is Mak Ka Lok.
I don't pretend to know Chinese Orchestra, but I do enjoy Chinese Classical Music, especially the instruments, Erhu and Guzheng.
I listened to a Soloist Guzheng played in a Chinese Garden in Suzhou and it was so fantastic, especially in the aesthetically pleasing surroundings of Suzhou Art of Gardening, which, in my opinion, is one of the best gardening art in the world. Of course, I have yet to visit the Chinese Gardens in Beijing, which I was told, also had its roots from Suzhou Gardening Art.
Best wishes,
Ooi
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