Rogers Santa Claus Parade

The Parade was taken place at downtown Vancouver on Sunday Dec 7, 2008.

Sora Mido

"Sora Mido" (voice of hope), was composed by Jaga Depari and sang by Juliana Tarigan and Alasen Barus. Jaga Depari was one of the most famous poet and composer from Tanah Karo, Indonesia. "Sora Mido" was one of his best creation.

The Milky Way

The Milky Way,
I have always been interested in Astronomy, the study of our universe: the constellations, the nebulae and the galaxies. I found it very fascinating.
Of course one has to start from studying our solar system that belongs to The Milky Way galaxy.

The Milky Way is the galaxy which is the home of our Solar System together with at least 200 billion other stars, and thousands of clusters and nebulae. All the objects in the Milky Way Galaxy orbit their common centre of mass, called the Galactic Centre. As a galaxy, the Milky Way is actually a giant mass of probably between 750 billion and one trillion solar masses. Its diameter is about 100,000 light years across and the thickness is 1000 light years. The age of the Milky Way was estimated to be around 14 billion years, and our Solar System is 4 billion years old.
The Milky Way Galaxy belongs to the Local Group, which consists of 3 large galaxies and over 30 smaller galaxies. The 3 large galaxies in the Local group are the Andromeda Galaxy M31, The Milky Way and the Triangulum spiral M33.

Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, the astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our Milky Way galaxy.
Using infrared images, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars, as shown on the accompanying artist's diagram (with "Star Wars" music theme).
The spiral arms of our Milky Way contain interstellar matter, diffuse nebulae, and young stars and open star clusters emerging from this matter.
On the other hand, the bulge component consists of old stars and contains the globular star clusters. Our galaxy has probably about 200 globulars, of which we know about 150. These globular clusters are strongly concentrated toward the Galactic Center.

Our Solar System consists of 9 planets lies near a small partial arm called the Orion Arm, located between the Sagittarius and Perseus arms of The Milky Way.
The inner solar system contains the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The outer solar system are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. ( Pluto, used to be called the 10th planet of the Solar System is now classified as a dwarf planet).

Federal Election, my 1 cent.

My view on upcoming Federal Election October 14,2008 in Canada.
It will be Minority Conservative Government getting elected again, but with strong voice from NDP. And Green Party will be shut out. This is what I think.

Self Portrait

Latest Photos of ME. Music: "Rico Vacilon" Cha-cha.

Colony Farm Regional Park

A visit to the Community Gardens at Colony Farm Regional Park, Coquitlam. Here, from $15 /year gardeners can grow anything they like. Organic garden is very much recommended. Ngoc Lan sings "Tinh Lam Lo".

My Photo Collections #3

Recent photos taken around British Columbia. Audio: "Lalap me lolah", composed and arranged by Alasan Barus and sang by Ramona Purba, a Karonese song from North Sumatra-Indonesia.

Flowers of B.C.

Slide show photos of "Flowers in British Columbia" that I took over the years.
"Non Je Regrettein Reix" is the background music.

My Photo Collections #2

Photos I took over the years around British Columbia.
The background song is "Nuan La Rani" by Netty Vera br Bangun & partner,
a Karonese song from North Sumatra, Indonesia.
I am glad that with this new feature, I can upload a video into my blog. Good job there Google!

My Photo Collections #1

Photos I took over the years around British Columbia.
"Concerto pour une ivox" as the background music.

Stock Trading

Dear Toni S. Tarigan,

Stock Trading is an activities of buying and selling stocks on the listed stock exchanges in Toronto TSE and New York (NYSE and NASDAQ). Each day, hundreds of billions of dollars change hands on the major United States securities exchanges.

To buy and sell stocks you need the service of brokerage firms. Stock trading is now mostly done online without ever going to the trading floors. But first you need to join an online brokerage trading company. Many of them are available on the internet websites, such as Ameritrade, Scottrade, DisnatDirect and many others.

I have been doing stock trading for a number of years now with limited success. You need to know what stocks to buy, and when to buy and sell. Timing is very critical, that is the make and break of profit and loss. There are two main approaches to buying and selling stocks: technical analysis and fundamental analysis. You can get all the informations about these analysis online free. You need to have in depth study on the two analysis above to have a chance of success in stock trading, and I mean a hell of a lot of study.

But I like to use the "stock screener" technique which is available at many websites to find the best stocks to suit my investment strategy. Basically it is a software provided by the individual website provider, that employs the many criteria from the two analysis above. It is just a matter of inserting what criteria do you want to meet from the tens of thousands of stocks available at the TSE, NYSE and NASDAQ. A more complex software can be purchased ostensibly for better results of success in online trading. It allows investors to apply the identical stock selection process, time after time, that focus only on the most important variables. This is discipline at its best. This is a time saver, no doubt. It can analyze thousands of stocks in seconds.

According to statistics that most investors are under performing the market. That's right, losing money, some of them losing big time. So they try different ways of stock trading, and different strategies. Many investors including professionals are now using more sophisticated software stock screening tool, that can be very expensive. And allow it to automatically do the stock tradings for them. It forces investors to buy and sell stocks without emotion and with discipline, which is very important, and focusing on the factors that matter using the exact same selection process every single time. On paper this technique should be superior, but statistically still need to be verified. The problem is that everybody using that software will buy and a sell a stock at the same instant. So if you see a stock price moving up or down very fast, this can be due to the works of the automatic software online traders, that all at the same time trigger a buy or a sell orders.
But I still want to do it by myself. Because many times after the sell-off the stock is back to its original price.

I traded mostly Canadian stocks that are listed on TSE, NYSE and NASDAQ. And also some United States stocks. Here are some of the stocks that I traded: ADCT, AMAT, ELX, FWLT, GRMN, KGC, MCHP, RIMM, RVBD, TLM and many others, but mostly technology stocks.

Photo: The New York stock exchange NYSE, at Wall Street. The NYSE used to be at the TWIN TOWER that was destroyed during "911".