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Date:
Thu, 15 March 2007 12:00 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Andrea’s Painting And the Down Trend in Stock Market
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The painting before I continue to work it looks a little bit like this, with some white parts
on the right and the bottom. The white parts in this painting are computer generated because I made no photo of it when I left it unfinished.
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The finished painting after I continued to work it since Sunday 25 February 2007.
After the worst plunge in a decade at Shanghai Composite index, that caused down trend in the other stock market around the world,
I realized that this painting looks like a chart.
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The flower bud of the lotus water plant on the right part of the painting that looks like a green arrow pointed upward.
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Chinese investors check stock prices at the Zhong Xin securities stock
trading house in Beijing Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007. Chinese regulators shifted into damage control, denying
rumors of plans for a 20 percent capital gains tax on stock investments as the benchmark Shanghai Composite
Index opened lower but then regained lost ground Wednesday following its worst plunge in a decade.
(AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
AP via Yahoo! News - Feb 28 12:29 AM
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Chinese investors look at the stock price billboard at a private security
company Friday March 2, 2007 in Shanghai, China's commercial hub. Chinese shares rose Friday as investors
snapped up bargain blue chips following losses earlier in the week. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index
gained 1.2 percent to 2,831.53.
(AP Photo) AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 02 12:59 AM
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A trader works Monday under a stock price billboard March 5, 2007 at
Shanghai Stock Exchange in Shanghai, China. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.6 percent
on Monday as investors sold off holdings in foreign-currency denominated 'B-shares' after officials denied rumors
those stocks might be merged with the mainstream Chinese-currency shares. The main Shanghai Composite
Index closed at 2,783.31.
(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 05 12:13 AM
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Like I mentioned in my previous letter
Drowned Suherman Died Bringing Three Others, on Wednesday 21 February 2007 when I was going to
take pictures of my paintings, I unintentionally unrolled the unfinished painting of Andrea Corr. At that moment I opened it on top of
my bed, and considered to finish it. But since I was in the middle of preparing to make some pictures of my other paintings, I cancelled
my intention to finish the painting that day.
On Sunday, 25 February 2007, I unrolled it again and attached it on the wall, then began to
continue working it.
Two days later on Tuesday, 27 February 2007, there was the news about Shanghai Composite
index plummet down sharply, worst plunge in a decade. It was followed by the crash of other stock market index around the world.
Wednesday 28 February 2007, I painted a bud of flower on the right side of the painting. As
usual I also let the TV on in my room while working my paintings so that every once in a while I could view the TV. And it was a few
minutes after I painted the bud of flower, with green colour, the Shanghai Composite index that was opened lower but then regained
lost ground moving up again. The green arrow on the CNN stock market news appeared again, after previously it was red arrow pointing
down. Yet the next day it was falling again.
It was then that I realized that the position of Andrea Corr in the painting looks like a going down
chart of a stock market. While the bud of flower that heading upward on the right part of the painting is like a moving up part of a chart.
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Behind China's Stock Meltdown
By BILL POWELL/SHANGHAI
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007
Chen Jing was one of the lucky ones. The 56-year-old retiree, who lives in
Shanghai, dabbles a bit in local stocks, exchanging investment tips with what she calls her "mah jong friends"
a group that gets together each week to play and chat. Just before the Chinese New Year holiday last month, one
of her friends spoke ominously of rumors that China's government was planning a crackdown on stock speculation,
including a possible tax on capital gains. Over the past 18 months, Chen's small portfolio had almost doubled in value
as the Shanghai market shot straight up. So she decided to pull the plug, suddenly afraid it would all go wrong. "I
sold everything just before the holiday," she says, and was blithely unaware that the Shanghai stock index
plunged 8.8% on Feb. 27, its biggest one-day drop in a decade.
Roller-coaster rides are not unusual for China's stock markets, which
sometimes resemble a casino in Macau. What happened next, however, was decidedly unusual: investors in
New York's equity markets woke up, saw that Shanghai had tanked, and had a collective heart attack: they
sent the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 400 points, its biggest single-day
drop since Sept. 17, 2001 — the first trading session after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The drop in New York,
in turn, fueled fear in markets across Asia the following day, and suddenly investors were seized by visions of a
rerun of 1997's "Asian contagion" when a financial crisis in Thailand triggered stock crashes from Jakarta
to Moscow to New York. On Feb. 28, as this new outbreak of investor gloom spread, India's main stock index
tumbled 4%, Singapore's dropped 3.7%, Japan's fell 2.9%, South Korea's lost 2.6%, and Hong Kong's
slipped 2.5%.
source: time.com
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Date:
Thu, 15 March 2007 12:15 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Andrea’s Painting Like Related to Mr. Carlos Slim Helu
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"Phone Call In the Garden"
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"Gatotkaca Under the Spotlight"
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Tycoon Carlos Slim Helu speaks at a news conference at one of his
companies' corporate headquarters in Mexico City March 12, 2007, flanked by his son Carlos Slim Domit (C)
and his son-in-law Arturo Elias Ayub, who is the main spokesman for Telmex, Mexico largest telecommunications
company. Slim was named as the third richest man in the world by Forbes magazine last week.
REUTERS/Andrew Winning (MEXICO)
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 12 4:13 PM
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This is a file photo of Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helu speaks at
an event in Panama City, Panama on March 2, 2005. Forbes magazine releases its annual rankings of the world's
billionaires, Thursday, March 8, 2007.
(AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, file)
AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 08 3:49 PM
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U.S. President George W. Bush (L) and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon
tour the Nunnery Quadrangle during their tour of the Mayan ruins in Uxmal March 13, 2007.
REUTERS/Jason Reed (MEXICO)
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 13 4:55 PM
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On February 25, 2007, when I was preparing to continue this painting of Andrea Corr, I attached it
in the wall on top of the other painting, the "Gatotkaca". Like in the above photo, the painting of Gatotkaca also contains the
picture of a helicopter at the background. While the Andrea’s painting is depicting her holding a cell phone in the garden.
A few days later, on Thursday, March 8, 2007, there was the news on TV about Forbes magazine
releases its annual rankings of the world's billionaires, in which on the third of the list is Carlos Slim Helu. His last name Helu is a
little bit like the word "helicopter", while his company is in the telecom business.
Considering that the Mexican president is Felipe Calderon, with the syllable "Cal" like my
brother’s name Faisal that sometimes called "Ical", so a few days ago I wrote a letter to the company of Mr. Carlos Slim Helu.
Of course whether or not he would buy this painting is up to him. It is more to symbolize my handing over this "L" painting of
Andrea Corr, because the "L" is like my sister in law name "Lena" that should be with my brother Faisal like I explained
in my previous letter of
Lefana Not Levina.
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Date:
Thu, 15 March 2007 11:25 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Andrea's Painting the Denmark's Little Mermaid Turned Pink
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Andrea Corr "Phone Call In the Garden"
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Pink paint has been sprayed on the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen,
Denmark Saturday, March 3, 2007. Vandals covered Copenhagen's famed Little Mermaid statue with pink paint,
a police spokesman said Saturday, but said it was not clear whether it was linked to two days of left-wing youth
riots in the Danish capital. The Little Mermaid was created by Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen in tribute to Danish
storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. Sitting on a rock at the entrance of the Copenhagen harbor since 1913, she
draws an estimated 1 million visitors a year, and is occasionally targeted by vandals. She has been beheaded and
doused in paint several times. Four years ago, the statue was blown off her perch by vandals who used explosives.
(AP Photo/Kristoffer Eriksen)
AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 03 12:08 PM
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Another news that seems like related with this painting of Andrea Corr came from Copenhagen,
Denmark. The statue of little mermaid, with the position that rather similar to the position of Andrea in this painting, has been painted
in pink by unknown perpetrator. That statue has a sitting position that look a litle bit like the sitting position of Andrea Corr in this painting.
The Little Mermaid was created by Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen in tribute to Danish storyteller
Hans Christian Andersen. Sitting on a rock at the entrance of the Copenhagen harbor since 1913, she draws an estimated 1 million visitors a year, and is occasionally targeted by vandals. She has been beheaded and doused in paint several times. Four years ago, the statue was blown off her perch by vandals who used explosives.
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