Singapore’s been encased in a shroud of haze for the past week. Because I’m a total wuss when it comes to poisonous airborne particles, I decided to stay indoors, strap on a hardcore N95 mask that made me look like Bane from Batman, and read all the email I got from last week’s article in […]
So I was giving a talk at my old junior college, encouraging final-year seniors to apply to an overseas college like Penn. After the talk, a student came up to me and asked how he could afford the tuition fees for an expensive US education. “Well,” I said, “Maybe you could apply for a scholarship?”
I once had this Econometrics professor back in college. He was young, Brazilian, super intelligent, and had an insane pleasure in messing with our heads. Once, he gave me the most stressful multiple-choice exam ever. Here’s what went through my mind while I was doing it: Question 1: The answer is B. Easy peasy. Question
¡Hola, I’m back! Didja miss me? So sorry for being MIA for the past couple of weeks – I was vacationing in Spain, and after I got back I had to prepare for an unexpected interview (for an internal rotation – I’m not quitting my job!). But it’s all good now, and I can finally
Back in college, just before I started my backpacking trip to Mexico, my dorm mates taught me my very first Spanish words: “Yo tengo una fiesta en mis pantalones” (Go Google Translate it if you don’t know what it means) Needless to say, that was a totally worthless line, though it did almost get me
I can take my clothes off pretty fast (but not in the way you think, you perv). I picked up this awesome skill back in the military. Our commanders used to regularly punish us with “change parades” – these crazy exercises where we’d have to change out of our army uniforms into a t-shirt and
This post from Barry Ritholtz (The Big Picture) was too awesome not to share. He talks about why doing nothing is often the best way to invest: Don’t do something, anything, just for the sake of it. If you are going to do something, you better have a damned good reason for it. Doing something feels good. Doing something creates the illusion of
So last week, I had to get my iPhone fixed. Why? Because my speaker broke down. I knew I had to get it fixed when my girlfriend (who has never seen Star Wars in her life), called me and claimed that Darth Vader answered the phone: What I thought I sounded like: “Hey so I’ll
Booya! Welcome to the very first “official” post at the relaunched, self-hosted, cheerfulegg.com! I spent the weekend migrating to a self-hosted website, which means I take your cheerfulegg reading experience seriously enough to actually pay to get those pesky ads removed. Woot woot. Anyways, it’s been awhile since I posted a TED talk, so I’ll
