I haven’t been programming for some time, so I decided to write a simple application that shows the power of compounding in investment.

Download it here compound.zip

It’s FREE, but if you like it please donate (Even just USD 2.00) to my PayPal account fablefox at fablefox dot com. Thanks.
- Now it only print two digit after ‘.’, but but number are NOT rounded.

Just like the Beatles went through a lot of recording studio and J.K Rowling went through a lot of book publisher, I went through a lot of job interview.

I guess you know how it went. But this didn’t stop them from being successful, and end up a legend. You might consider me boasting, but I will end up successful and a legend, or die trying.

All those look that people give me when they decided not to hire me burn my passion to start my own business, and be my own boss. It also ignite my passion to seriously think and put an eye on investment, so that one day I can live on dividends. Yeah, forget about withdrawal amount here – live on the dividends, baby!

My past might have stole 27 years from me, but hey – I’m still alive and I will keep on fighting. This is the best moment to start making my dream comes true!

It’s never get’s easier than now, after all.

There a lot of things happened in the past. But, it’s the past. I remember reading a motivation book that talk about a movie. It’s about illegal racing. One of the character hire a professional racer to drive his expensive sport car, while he sit in the passenger chair. He was shocked when the racer rips the rear view mirror and throw it in the back seat. When asked why, the racer replied:

“We’re in a race. What behind us doesn’t matter.”

heh..heh..heh.. The animation Cars take this differently, but that’s OK. The thing is, the past is the past. You might have a family that screws you. I know. I once read an article by Andrew Vachss about a mother who force her 17 year old daughter to work as a nude dancer, and live on her proceeds. Her daughter then commited suicide. If you read the book ‘Bad Childhood, Good Life’, you’ll be shocked how evil parents can be. It’s scary, trust me.

Your parents screws you, your family screws you, but you doesn’t have to screw yourself.

Success and The Shrug Effect

Don’t shrug success just because your family shrugged you.

The whole world might hates you, but no one can stop you from being at the top.

After all, sometimes the best way to be at the top, is to start there.

Hello, Young Workers: One Way to Reach the Top Is to Start There

Fable “See you at the top” Fox

How do I get my name – Fable Fox?

Now this is a very interesting blog post. There is a lot reason on why I come to this name, and at times, as I do more research later,

I have a lot of stories to tell. Most of them teaches a lesson or two. This is why I love game programming and 3d animations – I want to use them as a vehicle to tell stories. In my early days, I was a loner. This is because when I was a kid (and even now) my parent doesn’t allow me to have friends. So I created the name ‘Maniac Wolf’. Maniac stand for ‘Master of animation and coding’.

In 2002, lack of money caused me to lose the maniacwolf.com domain name to someone who love to park expired domain. Oh well. Then the unability to register the word ‘Maniac’ as a business name force me to think a new name.

In those day, I’m a great fan of the hacking group called ‘Phrozen Crew’. Suddenly, I kind of like the word ‘Frozen’, as it means cooler than cool, heh..heh.. I look for an animal name that start with the letter ‘F’, and realize that fox, which not much different than a wolf, is a cool animal name. I’m also a fan of Fox Moulder from the mini-series X-Files.

And so I create the name ‘Frozen Fox’. I checked the domain name frozenfox.com and still available. I’m a happy man.

Months and after months I toil day and night to purchase the domain name. When I finally have the means to do so, I was shocked. Someone purchased the domain name. When I checked the WhoIs, the person just bought it three days earlier.

So now I must create a brand new name. I love the word ‘Fox’ so I flipped the dictionary, and jot down any good word starting with ‘F’. In the end, the word ‘Fable’ won. I logged on to the internet, registered the domain fablefox.com.

Officially, my handle is Fable Fox.

As years pass by, I do more research on my very own name – and found out something quite interesting that I didn’t think of when I first create the name.

More on ‘Fable‘

I took this from Wikipedia.org on Fable

“A fable is a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a “moral”), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.”

“Whether a fable is handed down from generation to generation as oral literature or constructed by a literary tale-teller, its purpose is to teach a lesson or value, or to give sage advice. Fables also provide opportunities to laugh at human folly.”

More on ‘Fox‘

I took this from Wikipedia.org on Foxes in Fiction

Cultural Connotations

“In many cultures, the fox is a familiar animal of folklore, a symbol of cunning and trickery.”
“In Japanese folklore, the fox-like kitsune is a powerful animal spirit (Yokai) known for its highly mischievous and cunning nature.”

Literature

“Some well-known stories involving foxes can be found in Aesop’s fables and the medieval story of Reynard.”
“In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, a fox indicates the true value of things like friendship.”

As my research went deep, I found a shocking fact – as if I was fated to use the name ‘Fable Fox’.

The Fox and The Grape

I took this from Wikipedia.org on The Fox and The Grape

The Fox and the Grapes is a fable attributed to Aesop. The protagonist, a fox, upon failing to find a way to reach grapes hanging high up on a vine, retreated and said: “The grapes are sour anyway!”. The moral is stated at the end of the fable as:

It is easy to despise what you cannot get.

The English idiom “sour grapes” – derived from this fable – refers to the denial of one’s desire for something that one fails to acquire or to the person who holds such denial. Similar expressions exist in other languages. In psychology, this behavior is known as rationalization. It may also be called reduction of cognitive dissonance.

There I was, looking at my monitor screen, with tears in my heart. I used to want a lot of things when I was a kid. Couldn’t have much. When I was a teenager, I needed less thing, couldn’t get any. When I’m an adult ,I just want the basic thing, and yet I was deprived of everything.

Maybe, I was the fox from the fable.

Yes, Fable Fox, me.

I want to destroy my burnout mood so I wrote a poem to start writing again.

A Poem For My Mother

I have a poem for my mother,
She wouldn’t listen, so why bother,
So let just write it here in the blog,
About a son being treated like a dog,

I worked so hard, and my bones are frail,
Still everybody hates me, as if I have fail,
I have done everything, doing my best,
And yet everybody looked at me in a jest,

There is empty space in my heart,
Which I would fill before I depart,
No one here, I am alone,
There’s no happiness in my zone,

My whole life are filled with grieve,
The time has come, I must leave,
There is a woman that I currently eye,
She has the shoulder that I needed to cry,

My life has options, which I must pick,
Choosing the correct one might do the trick,
If she can take me as her adopted son,
Yes sir – that day I would finally won!

Annete O’Toole – Martha Kent of Smallville fame.

People might be wondering why did I put Allison picture on? Hmmm…

If I think money is everything, I would be envious of Bill Gates.
If I think look is everything, I would be envious of Tom Cruise.
If I think intelligence is everything, I would be envious of Andre La Mothe.
If I think talent is everything, I would be envious of Dakota Fanning.
If I think fame is everything, I would be envious of Bono of U2.

I want enough of above to be happy and smiling all the time. That’s why I’m envious of Allison Mack.

Well, a happy family and parent that support your career helps too.

“She’s a total pro. She memorizes half-page monologue in two minutes while Richard Kohlen’s doing her hair. I think Allison Mack is easily one of the most talented actress of her generation. Everything you give her on the page comes out better than you intended.” Associate producer Mark Warshaw on Allison Mack.

Oh yeah, she has quite a number of luck and opportunity too. But you can read that youself, it’s how she get the Chloe Sullivan role, and something related to The Ant Bully.

Allison Mack : Money, intelligence, look, talent, fame, opportunities and lot of luck combined.

Nothing hurt more than to wake up one day and realized that you have wasted 27 years of your life, sacrificing each second of it to others, who in the end, once they no longer need you, hates you and doesn’t even want to help you back.

And suddenly, you are alone, penniless, without a place to belong.

I feel like it’s too late for me to do anything now. Suddenly, I remember a saying that allow me to finish two books.

“It is never too late to be what you might have been”
George Eliot

I saw a true story happening in front of my eye. It’s about a small lorry (here in Kelantan, we call it ‘bin’ ) driver. He’s just a driver. Going from here to there to deliver things. Then I left Kelatan to work in Kuala Lumpur. When I returned, he is the owner of a hardware shop. The funny thing is, he is way richer than the people that he deliver things for before.

I know right now I has to start from scratch. But I still have my brain, and that’s all that it take to make a difference.

Yours truly

Fable “keep on fighting” Fox

PS – My logo has three F. What does one of the ‘F’ means?

Maybe it should stay as a secret until the time is right.