Let’s say that you wanted to learn tennis. What’s the first thing you should focus on? Should you figure out which racquet to buy? Whether it has a leather grip or fiberglass frame? Should you buy shoes that suit the surface you’re playing on? No, you weirdo. The first thing you should do is grab […]
There are a couple of timeless truths about Valentine’s Day: Restaurants will charge you crazy prices for a mass-produced prix fixe menu Guys will panic on 13 Feb because they haven’t bought gifts or flowers yet Florists will see the look of panic in their eyes and use the opportunity to sell them a crappy
One of the side effects of being a personal finance blogger is that relatives love asking me for financial advice. This Chinese New Year, about 20 uncles and aunties asked me “so what’s good to invest in right now?” in between mouthfuls of prawn rolls and bak kwa. What’s good to invest in “right now”? I
I love to laugh at the fancy ads that fund management companies take out on the MRT. They’ll say things like “Hey, we’re superdamnawesome at knowing our stocks, so don’t worry, let us do the dirty work to invest for you!” But the truth is, “professional” investors like unit trusts (or as Americans call them,
So I stumbled upon this article earlier this week: I Want To Travel For The Rest of My Life – featuring travel bloggers who’ve managed to successfully accomplish a life of full time travelling. The benefits of a life of travel are pretty obvious (duh), as Sab from justonewayticket.com writes: Every day was a new
I’ve always had a problem with shoes: No pair of shoes lasts me for more than eight months. No, really. I’m a shoe-serial killer, and I strike fear into the hearts of shoes everywhere. Take this pair of work shoes I bought recently. I purchased them eight months ago because they were on sale (at
There are so many things to hate about traveling. Let’s start with the flight: You walk through Business Class, feeling incredibly jealous at the smug dudes holding their champagne and their copies of the Wall Street Journal. And then you pull back the curtain to Economy Class, and it’s like a war in there. People
As you know, I love making fun of people who get overly stressed about tiny things. Don’t we all know someone like that? For example: the student who obsesses about the half-point that he lost on a test, or the co-worker who stays late in the office to churn out a report that nobody reads.
Check out this infographic from iMoney.sg. A lot of people tend to look back at how much their home prices have appreciated and brag, “Hey check it out, I made X dollars on my property!!” What they don’t take into account is the amount of fees, surcharges, and interest they’ve had to pay over the years –
