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Yellow11
Cry Baby
- Romance
- English
- 912 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 579
- 3
It was not the best day Temari had experienced, as she walked through the dark wood forest that led her to the Leaf village. It was pooring and didn't look like it would let up any time soon, the rain carressed her body as she walked to the front gate to meet a certian lazy shinobi. You could tell by the look on their faces that neither of them wanted to be there, both drenched in the relesing of the clouds. As they walked to the hokage's office both stayed silent, watching the rain scatter after hitting the ground. As Shikamaru knocked on the oak wood door that led to a very let down Tsunade Temari regreted ever coming on this mission. Her brother Kankuro had gone on the mission with her and found himeself in the care of one of the best medic nin's to be alive.
After hearing Tsunade confirming their entry they relized the relieved look on her face, and reterned the mutual feeling. "He's not doing to well but he's going to live..." Tsunade got right to the point, "Do you wish to see him?"
"yes, if you could please take him to me" Temari said with a serious tone in her voice. Temari followed Tsunade into the intensive care unit, knowing it would hurt to see Kankuro like this trying to surpress the terror that he wouldn't be alright. Shikamaru noticing the fear in her eye's walked up beside her and took her hand resuring her it would be alright. Temari noticed immediately pulling away trying not to blush.
Tsunade opened the sliding door reviling a torn version of Kankuro, wich sparked Temari's anger. Shikamaru tried to hold her back but she managed to slap his hand away and run forward to Kankuro's side. Kankuro whispered something to Temari that shikamaru couldn't quite catch. Then all of a sudden after his last words to Temari his head dropped to the side of his pillow, his eye's slowly closing into a deep slumber that he would never awaken from. "KANKURO!!!!!!!!" Temari screamed causing a passing nurse to run to the room in a panic, only to realize that one of the paitients had passed on.
Shikamaru in a state of schock stared open mouthed at the flatlining heart monitor. The sound of his heart failing kept replaying in Tamari's head. Angrily she pushed away from the metal hospital bed and stormed out of the room. Shikamaru raced after her leaving a very confused Tsunade behind. Earlier Tsunade had checked Kankuro herself and came to the conclution that he would live so she was aghast at Kankuro's corpse.
Tears filling her eye's and all sense of derection lost, she gave up on trying to run and merely stood outside the hospital that her brother spent his last dying breaths in. Shikamaru stood a few steps behind her and noticed from the shaking of her sholders that she was crying. He slowly appraoched her being cautious of her unruly temper, knowing at any second she might explode. "Temari..." he said softly as if not to set her off "I-I'm really sorry..."
Temari whipped around and screetched at him tears running down her face; "AREN'T YOU GOING TO CALL ME A CRY BABY?????!!!!"
"No, I'd never do that to you...especially not after what you just went thrugh."
"Stop acting like you know everything about me!!!" Temari screamed
"Temari I might not know everything about you but I do know your not a crybaby." Temari didn't know how to react to what Shikamaru had just said to her, why was he being so sensitive? Confused and feeling half derranged she turned to walk away. Shikamaru grabed her wrist and this time she didn't resist his touch.
"What are you doing Cry baby, can't you see i don't want to be here?". Even though she said that she still didn't pull away, Temari and shikamaru stood there gazes locked.
"T-te-"Shikamaru started to say but was cut off.
"Someone needs to go tell Gaara..." Tsunade inturupted. The two quickly Pulled apart at the sight of Tsunade, there was a moment of akward silence.
"What do you guys need to tell Gaara?!" Naruto appeared out of no where scaring all three of them.
"N-Naruto!" Tsunade said suprised that he heard their conversation. "We were just saying that someone must inform Gaara that Kankuro..."
"Didn't make it." Shikamaru said finishing Tsunade's sentence.
"Oh...Temari I'm sorry" Naruto said suddenly a change of tone.
"There's no reason to be sorry it was my fault" Temari said choking on every word. She couldn't take the presure of knowing it was her fault that Kankuro was dead. "I'll go and tell Gaara the news, I am his sister after all."
"With yesterday's Ambush I won't let you go alone." Tsunade said looking at both Temari and Shikamaru.
"I can go alone Tsunade I know how to take care of myself..." Temari attempted knowing she would have Shikamaru go with her anyways.
"No, I can't let you do that...." Tsunade said Starring at Shikamaru, " I'll have Shikamaru go with you, he is your guide." Tsunade said smiling. "Now go pack up and be at the front gate at 4:06 pm." Tsunade said while walking away to go back inside. Temari sighed as she started to walk to her hotel.
"Troublesome" Shikamaru muttered walking back to his house.
'Shikamaru's back to his normal self now' Temari thought to herself. [more]
Keywords: Shikatema, fanfiction
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John Percival
The Way of the Dollar
Trading currencies for profit
- Business & Economics
- English
- 52180 Words
- Ages 12 and up
- 779
THE WAY OF THE DOLLAR
TRADING CURRENCIES FOR PROFIT
As readers know, my approach to analysing the currencies – its method – is essentially anti-crowd. We look where the crowd is not looking for an underlying rationale for the direction of the main trend. And we use a series of contrarian* sentiment indicators designed to orient us in the opposite direction to the crowd. This method has worked well, and it is timeless so it should always work. The method is OK. If we can have confidence in it and can apply it, we shall win.
"My all-time favourite currency guy is John Percival (now retired and living comfortably in the French countryside I understand). My respect for his insights over the years is immense."
"I have been a reader of John’s newsletter for over 20-years. I have learned a great deal from him, through his writings. There is a wealth of insights which I took from a very beaten up copy of his book, The Way of the Dollar, published back in 1991."
"Mr. Percival doesn’t know this, but he was the only mentor I had in this market. I read his book from cover to cover to cover … pages are falling out … highlighted and notes everywhere. His book provides more insight every time you go back to it. And I go back to it often."
"John Percival made a key point in the book that struck me – my belief in what matters when it comes to markets has little to do with trading success. I believed I was well armed given my freshly-minted MBA in finance and economics. I had already worked as a financial analyst and even did a stint in the never-never land of corporate strategic planning (talk about being paid to do absolutely nothing of value). Anyway, Mr. Percival’s book opened my eyes, but at the time I still didn’t understand just how valuable his advice was."
"After years of trading and barking up all kinds of analytical trees, with major failure and moderate success in currencies, I went back to Mr. Percival’s book. This time I appreciated what was right there in the introduction:"
Finally one had to see if there were other relationships which had any predictive value for currencies like inflation, trade, money supply, oil prices, economic growth, et al. So far, the conclusion is that few such relationships and none of the relationships that most observers seem to rely on are useful for predicting the dollar.
"Say what? I thought to myself. Heck, I have all these so-called analytical skills and education and now I’m effectively being told by John Percival if you want to trade currencies and make money, you better pack up that degree and see the market for what it is, not what you think it is with your left brain dominance. John Percival argues in his introduction to The Way of the Dollar:"
Because the systems constituent parts are mostly based on human behaviour which doesn’t change, not on fashion, we can be confident it will continue to work.
The financial markets, as anyone familiar with them knows, are deeply paradoxical. They have a logic of their own which is why in a way the opposite of normal logic. Hence the market adage “sell on the news” applies to good news not bad news. Hence other bits of market lore like “a bull market climbs a wall of worry: a bear market flows down a river of hope.” Markets do whatever they need to do to confound the greatest number of people.
This happens because prices reflect expectations. If everyone expects unemployment to rise, or a trade balance to fall, or inflation to remain steady, there is no intrinsic reason why they should be wrong: the expectation doesn’t affect the outcome. But if everyone expects shares to fall, or the dollar to rise, there is every reason why they should be wrong: because current share price levels already reflect the expectations of lower prices, and the current level of the dollar already discounts a rise. In other words, the expectation vitiates the outcome.
"You can see why John Percival is an excellent mentor."
"When I first got started focusing on currencies, I did my best to think only about what John Percival talked about in his book and push out all the smart rational analytical skills I was confident I had already learned. I didn’t realize the quality of this little book I stumbled upon; it was a true gem in the world of investment book wasteland where most reside, or should. I went on to do extremely well with my first real trading account."
Jack Crooks, Black Swan Capital
Copyright Notice and Disclaimer
THE WAY OF THE DOLLAR
Copyright © John W H Percival 1991 [more]
Keywords: currency, trading, profit, contrarian, sentiment, dollar, success, crowd, conversion process
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Saniul Alom Sun
The Game Of ignore
- Family & Relationships
- English
- 2266 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 35
OK, I'll do that, I'll apologize to him. As long as he doesn't forgive me, I'll try. Hmmm, that's right. The coffee went cold as Ray spoke. I like to drink cold coffee because it is cold. That's why you didn't have this habit before. When did you start enjoying this cold coffee? This is after leaving the country. You see, a lot has changed since you were out of the country for three years. You don't have to say that I am the same as I was before. You have changed except me, have you ever noticed it? How did I change again Ray? This is where you want to go home as soon as possible. In the past, when I used to go somewhere with you, I would never say the name of going home, now you want to go home in the evening. Hey, I see you have gone mad. Am I still in the faith? I didn't have a wife before, now I have a wife and I have to take care of the family again. I am telling you that you have no faith before. I understand that the faith I have now is not the same as the faith I had before. Moni Ray: Any girl-boy changes after marriage. The first reason for change is that their responsibilities increase after marriage, so in reality it changes them. I also understood that it is not an exception. I understood that I would never change after marriage. Well, I just understood what to do now, I ate coffee, I will hang out here, or I will go home to my wife? Moni, I am not ashamed to talk about you going home again and again, I understand, I am not ashamed. So are you ashamed or did I know only girls are ashamed. Seeing that girls are ashamed, girls have been told "shame is the adornment of women". Why Ray doesn't understand the boys' shame. I don't know if the boy is ashamed. Then let's go to their respective homes without any unnecessary quarrel. It will be better. I am very tense in this way, you understand that you are also having fun. Well, let's not have fun anymore, let's go home. Hmm, let's go. Then I came out of the restaurant with the coffee bill in two and went straight in front of the car. Then the two of us got into the car. Moni, did you stay in that previous house or did you change the house? No, I'm in that house! I can't leave the house, so the house was changed. I heard that the house was built by my grandfather. That's right. Hmmm. Well, let me give you a nice idea. What Idea Ray Moni? Listen, any girl loves flowers, and many girls love to shop, so I say do you buy flowers every day when you come home from the office and give them to your wife? Maybe. Then you have to use your idea. But will I give flowers every day? Well, first tell me which is your wife's favorite flower? It was never reported. You are a fool. You don't know anything about your wife's likes and dislikes. I can't understand why your uncle and aunt got married. Moni doesn't say it like this, I understand that it is difficult Silent Gandha doesn't know anything, it hurts again. I gave you a good idea which I won't give you any more ideas. Don't do that, Ray, I'm going to die. You just tell me what flowers to take? Well, I will say only one thing and I will not say anything. If I talk to you too much, I will go crazy. You call me crazy because of the names of the flowers, then I won't have any more problems, but even if I forget to say no, you won't be crazy. You're going to drive me crazy. Well, one thing you do is park the car in a market. What will I do at the market so late at night? Do what I tell you, why do you ask so many questions? I will not ask him any more questions. I parked the car in front of a market at Moni's words. Then he got out of the car and walked to Zeno. Where are you going to leave me alone? Come straight behind me without question where I am going. I got out of the car and followed him. He went to a sari shop and sat down. Why is this money here? I'm not asking you to ask questions. I will not ask him any more questions, this is why I am silent. Madam, what do you need? If you show a good sari, Ok madam Then the shopkeeper is showing the sari and Moni is looking at them. I am sitting quietly next to him. You pack this blue saree. I beat him. Then the shopkeeper packed the saree and Moni He is talking about the sari bag in his hand. [more]
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Sachin Sarohi
The Fear
- Horror
- English
- 2 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 461
- 9
Night was cold and wind was blowing with sound that can frighten ears. I and my wife were travelling in Himalayas. There was no sign of any life there. Roads were so narrow that car was driven at 20 km. We were talking to each other and planning about next day suddenly both of the car head light went off. I immediately stopped the car and was thinking of what happened. I told my wife to relax as she was frightened to see what happened. I got out of the car and asked her to stay inside. That was the first time realize the hilly region which we enjoyed the whole day is so dull and full of fear. It was completely dark and I was not able to see my wife sitting in the car also. She was again and again asking me to come back inside; she was frightened of wild animals that roam around there in search of food. I came back inside and tried to turn on the parking light but nothing was working at all. There might be a problem with the light circuit I told my wife who was mum and could not speak anything. It was 1 am and the whole night was left, I was also worried that our car is standing in the middle of the road and somebody can hit us. I again went outside to see the road end, in the silence realize that a river was flowing down below and the sound was so low that realize that we are very high from it. I came back inside the car and asked my wife to take some sleep as we cannot move till morning. We locked the door and sat inside. We were hearing different sound coming from the deep jungle which was not good at all. The night was not passing by and the temperature was going down and down. I asked my wife to go behind and have some sleep but she was not ready to leave me at all. 2 am I asked my wife to stay there as I need to go for a Lou. I unlocked the door and went outside again. As soon as I went beside the car I was frightened to see a lady sitting just beside the back door and watching me. My whole body was white and I could not move my legs, as I have heard many ghostly stories about people who die in road accidents in mountains. My wife asked me what happened and told to come inside. I held my breath and came back inside. I was shivering with fear and my wife was seeing me asking what happened. I saw the back window and that lady hand were placed on the glass of the window. I could not react and told my wife nothing happened. I could see the hand from the front mirror but was not looking behind because I could not. I Believe in god but never prayed, I knew something is about to happen and we both could not do anything about it. I was praying in my mind that whatever it was should leave us that time realized how much important our life is and about my wife who was more afraid of all these things and if I tell her about the lady she will not be able to wait till morning and will ask me to drive. I stopped looking into the mirror and was sitting there without speaking anything. My wife kept on asking me what happened. She was curious to know as she never saw me like that. We sat there for sometime and I again decided to look into the mirror. I took a deep breath and saw this time nothing was there and I felt relaxed but it was for just for few minutes. This time my wife asked me that she wants to go out to get fresh. The moment she said to me and I immediately refused because I knew something is there and how important she was for me. She kept on insisting that she will take just 2 minutes. After sometime I agreed but told her to wait inside as I wanted to check the place. I not at all wanted to get out of the car but I had to, I opened the door and went outside. This moment was more horrifying and worst experience of my life. I looked around but nobody was there. I called my wife out. She was out with me in cold now. After sometime we came back inside and I was happy that we are safe now. This time we felt that car was getting cozy inside. Temperature was not so cold we felt that we were sitting in front of heater. I knew I did not turn the heater on but still it was warm inside. Soon realize why it was. The worst night mare was about to happen. I saw in the mirror that lady was sitting at the back seat staring directly into my eyes. I COULD NOT REACT AT ALL. My wife saw my face with fear and kept asking why I was reacting that way. She knew I was not afraid of anything but she was to be proven wrong in a moment. She said what happened. Nothing came out of my mouth. Suddenly my wife turned to back seat and grabbed her shawl. I hold her hand and looked into her face. She said what happened, she could not see the lady but I could clearly see in the mirror that somebody was sitting there. I don't want to sit in that car anymore but I knew the moment I tell my wife about it she will be out of the car and will run which was not safe at all in the jungle. We kept sitting there for sometime and I closed my eyes and was praying. It was 4 am now and car was again started to get cool. We waited for some more time and it was looking normal now. Lady was gone and sun was about to rise. I turn the engine on and for our surprise lights were working absolutely fine as if nothing happened. We started again and after sometime sun was shining above us. My mind was a bit relaxed but what ever happened I was not able to forget. After driving few kms we saw a small hotel. We decided to stay there and we took one room. Hotel had an old construction but that was the only one there. After we had breakfast we went to our room and slept. We both were so tired that we did not knew that we slept for full day and now again it was NIGHT. Inside our room there was a big glass window from which we can see the full view of the jungle. My wife was sleeping as she was really tired suddenly there was a knock on the door, I opened the door and saw an old man standing with a candle in his hand. He asked me to take it as everyday light goes off anytime. I took the candle and again started to think about the last night. I woke up my wife to ask if she want to have dinner, she refused as she was too tired and did not want to get up. It was a full moon night and trees can be seen easily in the dense forest. I was feeling hungry so I decided to go downstairs and will have something. I saw my wife sleeping so I closed the door and went down to reception. I ordered something to eat and sat on a chair which was placed to see the full jungle view. I was looking at the jungle and full moon light crossing the trees was an amazing view. As soon as my food came in the light went off. I stood up immediately as I was worried about my wife. I started to run back to my room but could not find it. Soon I realized that we both were the only people staying there. With the mobile torch I found my room and I opened the door. THE THING WHICH I SAW WAS THE LAST THING I WANTED TO SEE IN MY LIFE: The same lady was standing beside my wife and looking at her and smiling. I was stunned and ran towards my wife. I shouted and grabbed her in my arms. She was shocked and was confused about what happened. I immediately asked her to pack the bags and leave the hotel. She insisted on staying in the hotel only as she knew outside weather will not allow us to leave. I wanted to tell her the entire things that was happening with me but I knew right now she will be able to sleep well but after that she will not be able to rest properly. I was inside the blanket now and was looking here and there but there was no sign of the lady. Till 11.30 I was awake but after sometime I feel sleepy and closed my eyes. 2 am somebody was knocking the window; I opened my eyes and saw the same lady was standing outside the window and staring me. I checked my wife and to my biggest surprise she was not in the bed. I turn on my mobile torch and check the entire room; suddenly I heard a low sound coming from the corner of the wall. I checked there my wife was sitting on the ground and looking at the same women. She was so afraid that she could not even shout. I immediately ran towards her and held her in my arms. She pointed her finger towards the window and said she saw a man standing outside. I told her it was not a man it was a women. She refused to believe it and was sure that it was a man. Nothing was there now and we both sat and I told her everything about what happened last night. She was very surprised to hear that I was seeing a women and she was seeing a man. We both decided not to stay at that place anymore. We packed our bags and came towards the main lobby from where stairs were going down towards the main reception and gate. We walked slowly and to our surprise somebody footsteps were coming from behind but we could not see that person. We came towards the gate and looked for the manager, he was not there so we opened the gate and came out. Our car was parked few meters away we both walked towards the car and I opened the door and we sat inside the car now.
I turned on the engine and to our surprise headlights were again not working. We looked at each other in fear, there was a complete silence. Suddenly a mist of fog covered the whole area and it was dense that we could not see a meter away. I knew whatever it was will not let us go anywhere but we did not know what they wanted from us.
After sometime I asked my wife if we can go inside the hotel again as it was getting colder and colder outside but she refused as she was shivering not because of cold but because of FEAR.
We kept sitting inside the car and waiting for sunrise. We decided that we will go back and will end our tour here. 2 hours passed nothing happened; we sat inside mum and thinking what we will see in next moment. Car window was covered with fog, I turned on the engine and started the blower, and it was of no use. Suddenly we heard that somebody is coming towards the car, the footstep was so loud and clear that we knew that it coming very fast towards us. We hold our hand together and look around, suddenly in the front mirror something was written – “I will be with you always”.
I started the car wiper but it was not going off as if someone has painted on the car window. My wife started to scream madly and shouted :” who are you, what you wanted from us?”
Nothing was there other than a big silence. It was sunrise after sometime and road was clear and visible. Next surprise was waiting for us, there was no hotel. We were standing in the middle of the road and it was covered of trees. There was no sign of hotel or anybody. I came out of the car and looked here and there but nothing was there. At least now we were relaxed that its sunrise now and we are safe. I immediately started the car engine and turned back. We drove so fast as if we are getting late to get our life back. 4 hours of driving I got a T-point, there was no sign where to go. We decided to take the left turn as road in that direction was in good condition. After sometime we saw a small café and a lady was sitting there. My wife was so happy so see someone to whom we can talk and ask about the area. We had some tea and ate some food. I asked the lady if there is any hotel in that area or if she has heard anything about a man and women. She knew nothing about it, we started again as it was evening and we want to get out this mountain drive. I kept on driving though I was feeling very tried but I knew if I stopped now then we will not be able to leave that place.
After sometime it was again DARK. Fear could be seen in my wife eyes, she was so shocked that she stopped talking to me and was looking here and there.
I stopped the car again to get fresh; my wife did not like it at all. I came out the car and first looked at the place. It was dark outside and same nothing was visible clearly. I got fresh and was coming back towards my car; suddenly I heard that someone is calling me from behind. I looked back and saw the same lady was standing in front of me with a man. She did not come near me but was staring at me and said “I will be with you always”. I started running towards my car and turned on the engine and drove as I was driving in formula one. My wife started crying as she knew something again has happened. This time headlights were working fine and we kept on driving. I knew whatever it was now will never come back, we saw the lights coming from town and we reached the town finally.
We were so happy and relaxed to be there, my wife jumped on me and we hugged each other. We knew that we have won the race against death and we are alive.
We came back to our house and months have passed now, there was no sign of that lady and man.
Today my wife has gone out for a party and I am alone in the house. Light went off and when it came back on, I saw something is written on the mirror: “I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS”.
The Fear: Being alone is my greatest fear. [more]
Keywords: Its just a new beginning
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