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Norway's sovereign wealth fund, which plays a much bigger role in Norway's economy than similar funds elsewhere, reported negative returns across all asset classes in the past year. https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/worlds-biggest-sovereign-wealth-fund-posted-negative-return-3q2022 The EPF will likely again declare ~6% returns. Khazanah will again cause the newspapers to report as if it made money, when in fact it never did.

Alternate cutter: Have you tried the Ukrainian lady's drafting system? Me: Yes. Didn't work. Alternate cutter: I'll try it when we are less swamped. Me: We are never less swamped. It's always like this.

There is a ton of technique details in tailoring. If you ignore one small detail, the whole sleeve cacat. My new employee Syaqira is basically fucking up everything she touches.

Relatively recently, I received a visitor. He was here to make a proposal. It's not necessary to go into the details. What I want to express here is that I rarely meet people who are so assured of their own level of competence and knowledge. I meet and talk to lots of men. Most of them are quite successful in what they do. Most men are never quite sure if they know enough about something. They have a stance whereby they tell me what they know, but that it's probably limited, and that they are open to new perspectives, or to new details of what they already know. They have this level of curiosity about many things. So it surprises me to meet a non-tailor who thinks he has not much more to learn about tailoring. He never asked me a question. He lectured to me the whole time he was here. He is the opposite of me. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm NOT getting about something. Is there something I've missed all along? Will I make a new insight today? Not him. He already knows everything. If only more people would listen to him.

Today, I handed over a 3-piece to a 50-something overweight customer. I thought it was a triumph of the cutter's craft. It was also a triumph of coatmaking. The finishing was amazing--I've not seen better in Malaysia. It wrapped smoothly around his body and made him look like he lost 5kg. He said he thought the cloth would be smoother. Is it normal to be this rough? (VBC Perennial) He then gasped at a cuff button. What is this? he asked accusatorially. I said, what? This! He pointed to a white swirl in the cuff button. I explained to him the buttons are made of genuine horn and no two are the same unlike plastic. He then found fault in the SIZE OF THE INTERNAL POCKETS. At this point I realised this is a fucking low IQ idiot. This is the first and last suit he is getting from Jeremy Tok. He is too stupid to deserve to wear one. I'm firing him as a customer. I mean, wtf is this shit. Get the fuck out of my sight.

I instructed the customer to please take off his Santos 35mm and took it for a spin on my own wrist