Hi again Chartsuk,I wasn't totally honest in my last post,...

Hi again Chartsuk,

I wasn't totally honest in my last post, sorry.

I am holding and continue to accumulate one other stock. Again, if you care to click on my liitle blue kempeman above and file back over the years, you'll see that I've been hammering away at this one for a while too. About 8 years to be exact, lol:)

But please understand that this puppy is about as high risk an investment (and it is an investment, not a trade) as one could EVER hope to play with.

How to explain it to you so you won't be under any illusions, hmmm, now please give me one moment to think, ok.......got it!

Again, I'll get you to picture China in your head please. Just imagine you are in Beijing for one moment please. You are a peasant who has moved to the city in a last ditch attempt to find work. With the 3 AUD/motnh you make working and living on a construction site (that renumeration includes dormitory accomodation but you have to cook for yourself) you hope to save enough in 2-3 years to then be able to travel back to your home Province, probably via train if your lucky, and hopefully you'll have enough money to woo some pretty nearby village girl and get married and have one kid. Preferably a boy because you know the way it is in China, right?

But after on e year of slaving away through the cold Beijing winters and hot, sand blasted Beijing summers, you find even with the total ban of cigarette smoking (just outside, you can smoke in your dormitory. And don't say you don't smoke, you're Chinese remeber:)and motorcycles due to the congestion and chronic pollution problems, you realise that the 'opportunbtiy cost' of trying to earn a living in Beijing is just too great. You'd much prefer to be back in your comfort zone, out in the furthermost western province of China. Well, it used to be a province, but the population has exploded in recent years and it is now classified as a city and at best guess has a population of 100,000,000 peoples. Got it?

Anyway, the tyranny of distance has always been a problem for you and job prospects and given the avergae income in rural China is about, let's say 10 AUD/year. The Party restrictions put on the ever popular and affordable motor scooter makes the only feasible option for mobility seem like a pipe dream, until of course, like a firey phoenix rises out of the ashes appears an angelic American environemtal start-up Company called Save the World's Air. And while you are still poorly educated (even more so considering your peasant heritage and inherant lack of schooling - that's just the way it is) you have managed to teach yourself enough Yingyu (Putonghua/Mandarin for English:) to understand that this may be the solution to not only your mobility problem, but simultaneously provide a solution to the pollution as well.

So, you force yourself to find out more about this company that seems 'to good to be true'. You find out lots by going to a website called www.ragingbull.com and popping ZERO (their stockcode) into the little white box in the top left hand corner and you also go to www.nasdaq.com and see that they trade where all start-up Co.'s in America start; that being the notoriously and ruthlessly manipulated and shorters haven, the OTCBB. Still not phased you ask a broker friend of yours to look into them for you and once you tell him about their OTCBB staus he laughs at you and tells you to invest in your local Beijing Duck Restaurant, of which he is a part owner. And unbeknowns to you, he has just found a dead duck out the back of his shop and while he hasn't mentioned anything sinister to you, he has a feeling in his water that it maybe bird flu. Yep, the duck shop's plucked.

Anyway, undeterred by your latest set back, you decide to hedge your bets. You too are starting tro notice that some of the native birds are starting to say, do and behave in ways which you are not toally accustom too. Now, you've never been afraid to 'walk the line' so you finally decide to bite the bullet and lash otu and invest your hard earnt in the American Co. listed on the OTCBB, against your brokers longwinded protestations. You don't really care, as you've been reading up and you've started doing the autodidact thing and you realise that you and you alone are the best judge as to where your money should go and what level of risk/reward you are comfortable with.

Time passes by.......more ducks fall off their respective perches, your broker mate goes broke and he has to close his Roast Duck Shop and walk to Beijing in hope of finding work cooking duck for his great Aunt's cousin's husband. His name is Fu Man Qu. Ok, I admit, that is probably too much info:) But you are following I hope, yes?

But here is where you reach what those who have played the game of life before call the crossroads. Yep, yee ole crossroads. See, you've made 200% on your ZERO stock.....at one stage you held while sitting on a paper gain of 700%, but your a romantic at heart and you believe in this Co. They seem to have aniled down everything that is nail-able (e.g patents, they've tested and retested their technolgies and have met and exceeded the WORLD's most stringent emissions guidelines), howver that is not to say that you are naive to the incumbent powers at play who most certainly have a vested interest in seeing and assuring that this Company, and as a direct consequence, it's share do not make it off the OTCBB and definately don't market or position themselves in China! I mean conutries, for e.g the USA, have alot to loose if overnight their revenues from oil are drastically reduced. They pride themselves on how much exhaust emmissions their R.V's can spew out and seemingly just continue to make larger and larger fuel guzzling machines!

And this brings us to the present day, it's July 4th 2006. You've been able to purchase an Apple G4 Powerbook too, because you bought OSH and held it for one week and you are thinking that in the current market, stocks such as Oilsearch (i.e those with links to stable trading partners) may make great trading opportunties as well as brilliant long term plays. These are indeed heady, not heavy, days and you find an investment website in Australia called HotCopper and you are lucky that there are some that post on this site that actually seem to give to pips about young, brash and impetuous up starts. But you manage to keep a lid on it and open your mind and ears for long enough to realise that they don't all talk trash. Well not all the time at least, lol:)

Finally, you begin to realise that their is so much more to investing than just amking a quick buck. So much so that you begin to realise that you can never hope to glean, store and digest all the available information and scenarios yourself. So, you just kick back and resign yourself to the fact that no matter what happens in the next month to 6 months, you're just going to hold on tight and ride it out. Occassionally you might pick up some more OSH and maybe even some more BHP. Some flooger on HotCopper suggested some outlandish possibilties and 10 year projections for them as well. 10 years, is that a long time? Nah you decide, it'll fly by.............and at the speed the world is moving on nowadays, it may just come sooner than you think.

So, you just sit and wait and postulate. You think yourself lucky that you've done what you have done and have bitten your tongue when you've wanted to scream out aloud. You hold on tighly to the stock all the experts have told you not to touch with a 50 foot pole and you hope like hell that the purported said shipment of 1,000,000 units to China this month is 'only the beginning'. As every day goes by you begin to see the Western Powers for what they truly are. Greedy school boy thuggs who have been addicted to sniffing petrol fumes for far too long. You believe that if STWA (www.stwa.com) can gain significant enough market penetration within the China market (afterall, 100% of 1.3 billion person market ain't a bad start), yee 'ole pull through demand by consumers worldwide will be provide enough momemtum to expose the manipulators and the greedy once and for all.

And while you are acutely aware that ZERO is and always has been at least a 100/1 play (and could fall of the boards tomorrow), you've got balls big enough to cum in a dump truck and you are prepared to go long, invest and loose it all, if that is how the that pennies do fall - so be it.

Hope this helps Chartsuk...........now I'm off to finish my beer and outside to have that smoke I was talking about.

Good luck with it all mate. Have you got what you expected on here today? More or less?

Careful how you choose to answer that, if at all, and remember, I don't have too help you at all.