So check this out – someone recently wrote in to ask: “Work takes up 14 hours of my life every day. By the end of it, I’m too tired to sit down and start doing research. What should I do?” Goooood question. We all KNOW that investing is important. We know that once you learn […]
Let me just put it out there: Pitch Perfect 2 is an awesome movie. Sure, the plot was thin and the lines were cheesy. But admit it: you were bopping your head to those remixed songs during the movie, weren’t you? Embarrassing confession: Sometimes, I play the Pitch Perfect soundtrack when I get ready for work
Sooooo I wrote a post last week that sparked off a flurry of responses from both bloggers and readers alike. Who would’ve thought a post that I concocted in friggin’ Xin Wang would’ve gone semi-viral? First, let’s start off with the personal finance bloggers: Xeo Lye wrote about the different reasons for different age groups, and even zoomed in
Last week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore got together with a bunch of us – the good folks behind 15HWW, BigFatPurse, MoneySmart, Tradehaven, TurtleInvestor, and yours truly. Now, you have to understand that we’re personal finance bloggers. Which means that this session was way geekier than say, a Gushcloud meetup. For example, I think we spent about
Soooo guess how I spent a greater part of our Labour Day public holiday? At a Starbucks. Banging away for 12 hours at computer code. No, I wasn’t trying to hack into some high-security government site, and it’s not for work. It’s for a one-month Coursera course on R Programming, part of a larger Data Science specialisation
I was a pretentious jackass when I was 20 years old. For example, I thought that lip-syncing to Mark Ronson’s “Ooh Wee” (complete with rap hand gestures) in Phuture made me look really cool. I still cringe when I think about it. Fast forward 10 years: I’m a little more mature, a little more stable and I no
Back when I was a young, blur student, I picked up my first investment book and tried to implement the strategies in it. But I got really frustrated because it wasn’t working out. So I sent a quick email to the author. I can’t remember what I wrote, but it was something along the lines
Tell me if this sounds familiar: It’s workout day. You’ve just come home from work. You’re exhausted. It’s 8pm, your stomach is growling, and every inch of your body is pleading with you to stay home instead of going for that run. You know that if you go for a workout, it’ll be hard, uncomfortable, maybe
“When all is said and done, we cannot but marvel at what Mr Lee had done for Singapore. We owe him much. What is the secret of Mr Lee’s success? It is his self-discipline, a life guided by a deep foundation in ethical and moral principles, devotion to his country and a deep love for
