Good Share Offers MUST BUY LAH !!
Recently, there have been a spate of mergers, DBS & POSBANK, Sembawang & STIC, etc.
Rumours in the market have it that Lum Chang and Haw Par plan to merge - the proposed new name for the company is, you have guessed it - Lum Par. However, it is suspected that SES will object to this, since it would be deemed not proper for lady brokers and remisiers to transact LP shares on behalf of their male clients.
Morever, Lum Par name seems very crude and it means scrotum in Hokkien.
For e.g. The people: "How much is Lum Par now?", "I want to sell Lum Par at 60 cents."
The male broker: "How much do you want to buy Lum Par?"
The female broker: "Lum Par, 60 cents, sold!"
The newspaper: "Good management lifts Lum Par.", "Lum Par drops again.", "Lum Par suspended.", "Plunging Lum Par needs Viagra", "Lum Par is being squeezed out as market leader."
The employees: "We are Lum Par employees."
The interviewer: "Mr. Tan, you have written in your resume that your last company was ...er... Lum Par. Did they treat you so badly that you have to put in an abusive term for them?"
Share buyer was heard doing a transaction with his remisier over the handphone inside the MRT train.
Buyer: "Hey, Mr. Tan buy for me Lum Par... Neng Liap (literally: buy for me 2 lots of Lum Par shares)
Remisier: "I can't hear you properly. Please repeat your buy order louder."
Buyer (very loud): " Lum Par lah.... Neng Liap...OK?"
Contributed by Kah Heng
