Day +1028 : Labourious in vain(一场忙碌一场空)

I am fine today.

I was determined to invest in Amanah Saham Wawasan (ASW) but coincidently, I had to do my post-transplant follow-up yesterday. In order to be an early bird, I went to UH to draw blood as early as 6:00am. I got a very good queue number and I managed to reach Puchong at 8:30am after drawing blood.

I saw many people queuing up at Maybank and CIMB to purchase ASW. I went to RHB bank in IOI mall and found out that they were about 20 people queuing there; relatively less people compared to Maybank where the queue had already extended to Public bank at 8:30am.

However, I still felt that the queue was too long at RHB in IOI mall. I went to RHB branch at TESCO about 8:45am and I was number 3 in the queue :-) While Maybank opened at 9:15am, this branch would only open at 10:00am but I was quite confident that I would be able to purchase the fund successfully.

However, we were told that the system hanged when the bank opened. The queue was getting longer – at least 60 people at 10:00am. No transaction could be done and people were just waiting there. I waited for about 45 minutes and left as I need to attend an interview session in the company.

I still hope that I could purchase the fund when I came back from UH in the afternoon, but Richard informed me the non- bumiputera allocation was sold out at 12:05pm :-(

For the sack of investing in ASW, I uplifted my FD prematurely, opened a saving account in RHB and transferred money over there, running here and there, waiting patiently for my turn, just hoping of getting a better return, but despite all these efforts, failed to deposit a single cent into ASW :-(

In fact, I planned to open 5 accounts yesterday – one for myself and one for each of my children. The outcome was zero account.

So this is really labourious in vain(一场忙碌一场空). I believe many people experienced the same :-) At least we try!

See you next post :-)