Going on a long walk, Edifice meets Quiksilver meets Millet Mountain…

Having gone thru my morning routine well, I’m off to the mall. Maybe around… before lunch. I am wearing the above clothes (see title of post), didn’t plan it. Maybe today, something big will happen. I am also wearing a “casual karate” belt -karate: the way of the empty hand. The belt has a pentagon shape “clasp”. Let’s check the ABY:

12F / 11F - 50 / 14 - ䷱ / ䷍

“The Cauldron. Supreme success” [Dr W K Chu]

LOSING THAT SPECIAL FEELING : A young

schizophrenic who had been coerced into mind crimes

so heinous, had lost his “special feeling” for himself

a.k.a. love. “I like to quote a certain song lyric,” said

Elder Brother Yeap softly and sang, “Oh yeah, life goes

on, long after the thrill of living is gone[28]” “And

another: You may still be here tomorrow but your

dreams may not[29]” “Does that mean I need to research

or buy music?” he groaned. “Not really,” said Elder

Brother Yeap, “but if you like music – and music is

about culture – about us – you’ll know you didn’t

exactly set a precedent for being bad, that you have a

role model who succeeded in life or at least in love of

life. Remember, though, that you have to make up for a

lot of -” “- Tears in Heaven[30] - I know,” he smiled,

“and I had better be a celebrity to bear all the crying”

[28] J. Mellencamp, “Jack & Diane” [29] Yusuf Islam, “Father and

Son” [30] E. Clapton, “Tears in Heaven”

As RAT-dog dominates, Intelligence will be helped

by virtuous behavior.

Seems something is going on!

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Now typing this from the shoebox. Laundry is done and we can go get some lunch. I had a Lotus’s chicken ramen which tasted pretty good. As usual, I abstained from prata flatbread this morning at breakfast. Yea, something big must be going down this 24 hours.

Liew witches pulling hair in frustration over God’s prophecy moving forward. Defeated them for the most part.

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Musings on the luxury watch industry in 6 bullet points:

1. Luxury goods have taken a hit -no question about it. The reason is that there is expectation of 2 things: even more luxury (from hi tech) and even more poverty (from earth changes). Think about it.
2. People are seeing others as peers more than competitors.
3. People are going looney / whimsical (6 million dollar banana)
4. People are buying health wrist monitors due to fear / telepathy
5. The second hand market for luxury items is disjointed and confused
6. Finally, luxury is no longer a sign or guarantee of passage to higher things

 Strategies for marketing are in 3 general points:

1. Fashion is everything. Don’t x your brand with Omega, x it with Barbie movie / dolls. Don’t x your brand with a Playstation game, x it with Victoria’s Secret or Playboy
2. Function is to be downplayed. No longer should a watch be multi-complicated. Neither are there to be ones too plain. Just time and date, and the requisite selling point. Such as if you think you need an alarm, then there should be a selection + time and nothing else. If you need a beater then a wide selection + time and nothing more.
3. Charging customers for time involves spending time with them. There should be more places to sit down and talk watches, more opportunities to trade watches among customers, and to upgrade securely via trade-ins.