If you’ve been checking out the Singapore personal finance blogosphere, you might know Alvin Chow, who writes at BigFatPurse.com. Alvin and I spoke at a couple of events together, and we’ve hung out a couple of times drinking beer/coffee and chatting about psychology and investing. So when I was in Dhoby Gaut last month, I texted him […]
Talking about investing is kind of like playing poker: It can tell you a loooot about a person. For example, whenever I talk to random people about investing, I’ll usually get responses like: “Yeah, I should really get started on investing” “I invest on-and-off, sometimes I’ll read the papers and buy stocks that are undervalued” “Right now
So I have a confession to make: I’m actually a 45-year old Asian mom trapped in the body of a 30-year old Singaporean male. Yes, it’s true. I came to this conclusion after noticing that I share several similar traits with a typical kiasu lady who walks around all day with a green face mask and
A particularly difficult restaurant customer was complaining non-stop about the temperature. First, he asked the waiter to turn up the air-conditioning because it was too hot. Then, he asked the waiter to turn down the air-conditioning because it was too cold. This happened every 20 minutes. Every time, the customer would complain and the waiter
Ok, you psychos – Since it’s CNY, I know about 89.2% of you are thinking of gambling and buying 4D/TOTO. There’s just something about this festive period that brings out our inner God of Gamblers. Every year, hundreds of otherwise sensible, rational citizens take out our wallets and throw money at cards, majong tiles and yes, lottery tickets. So let’s
My favourite characters in Modern Family are Phil and Claire Dunphy. Phil’s a nerdy real estate agent with a penchant for magic and lame puns. He’s married to Claire, an ambitious OCD career mom with daddy issues. Every Valentine’s Day, they act out a fantasy where they role-play their fantasies of “Juliana and Clive Bixby”. They pretend that they’re strangers
So I had my first live radio interview on Kiss 92’s morning show with Maddy, Jason and Arnold today: It’s stressful speaking live on radio! To those who heard me on air this morning, I’m sorry if I sounded like I was talking a mile a minute – that happens when I get excited. Okay, so I admit: I was
So it’s been an EXHAUSTING month: The launch of my new index investing course, getting into the flow of my new job posting, and the honour of speaking at not one, but TWO events this month: The inaugural Personal Financial Investment Seminar The third instalment of INVEST Carnival At first, I wanted to write a blow-by-blow account,
2 weeks ago, my girlfriend and I had a MASSIVE fast food craving. And by massive, I mean, “Wow I wanna eat 6 McNuggets, a Zinger and two large packs of curly fries” kind of a craving. (Yes, we are totally role models for living healthily). However, we wanted something more than just a plain ol’
