Lululemon dropped 23% today based on their earnings and coming year forecast. I love their pants/tops etc ! I am a believer in investing what you know! I shelled out an outrageous amount of money for leggings and workout tops and I normally wouldn’t! It wasn’t even on sale! And currently I don’t even work out that often – so a brand that made me shell out cash is definitely worth looking into. The quality of the tights and top…
Summary : Go shopping at Macys in Chicago , go to the Art Institute of Chicago and skip the Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium unless you have a very keen interest in such attractions ! Shopping Macys On a Saturday morning we went to Macys for shopping. They had a special Saturday sale going on that day ! We found some great deals on shoes, gloves, and scarfs ! I am from Toronto, Canada – compared to Toronto for similar…
Someone told me today to buy Lithium Americas Corp – LACDF. So this is what I did. For Canadian Investors this company is also traded on the TSX LAC.TO . If you decide to trade it you can avoid the exchange costs by trading the CAD ticker. Check out what the company does: Yahoo has a profile section. You can search buy ticker symbol on yahoo and go to the profile section to understand what the company is about and…
A few months ago I started looking at Delphix for using it for data masking between our production and Development/QA environments. The more I learned about Delphix, the more I realized the kind of impact it can have for Development/QA in addition to data masking. These are some of the common tasks we do in Development/QA that I felt Delphix might be able to help with: Faster Data Refreshes – Maintain versioned compressed copies of prod database that can be refreshed…
It is anticipated that the US feds will be raising the Fed Interest rate at the end of their meeting this coming Wednesday. This would be a good time to learn a bit more about interest rates. I use Khan Academy Youtube videos to brush up on basic Finance Concepts. What Are Interest Rates ? Great explanation here . This has an introduction to simple interest and compound interest rates. Some examples to solidify simple and compound interest rates. The…
Snapchat went public last week and it opened up around $24.73 and has since traded between $23.50 to $29.44 . It is one of the most anticipated IPOs in recent times. I been asked a few times if I would be buying Snapchat stocks. My answer is ‘No’. I have a very simple reason for not buying it. Mainly it is a product I dont understand and find a use for. I normally tend to invest in what I know…
Summary : If I had to pick only one of the towers to visit in Chicago I would pick the John Hancock Tower – also known as the 360 Chicago Observation Deck ! I liked the lake view and felt it provided a more diverse view of the city ! For details read on ! There are two towers that you can visit in Chicago to get an aerial view of the city . The Willis Tower or the John…
Summary : If you visit Chicago you must go see the Bean ! See below for why ! I have heard the bean mentioned whenever people talked about Chicago. To me it just looked like a reflective surface that people made funny faces for . In person it is a really cool structure. Beautifully designed . From the different sides you can see the reflection of the city skyline. Its official name is The Cloud Gate. The night time view…
I recently had a chance to visit Chicago known as the Windy City . During my visit I stayed at the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel. This is a beautiful hotel across from Millennium Park and the Bean ! This is a great location for a first time visit to Chicago. I sort of fell in love with this hotel so I wanted to start off writing about my Chicago Hotel. The hotel has very rich history and is beautiful inside….