So I have this friend who only drinks Starbucks coffee. And I’m not talking about cuppacinos, or lattes, or espressos, or the other fancy-schmancy drinks Starbucks is famous for. I’m talking about plain, regular joe, the kind that doesn’t really take any effort to brew. My friend buys a tall “café Americano” every day on […]
So yesterday, my work computer died. Like completely, irrevocably died. I tried to resurrect its poor heart by pushing “Please wake up” in Morse code on the power button, but to no avail. The damn machine remained as lively as a librarian’s toenails. It was 9.04am. May it rest it peace. “DAMN YOU, TECHNOLOGY!!” I
Great-looking (and particularly eye-opening) graphic today from Visual News: Totally in line with what I’ve been trying to say in my past few posts: “The return of the average investor is 1.9% over 20 yrs — due to poor buy and sell decisions. Investors who simply invested — and kept — their money in
Love today’s Dilbert strip. Most people focus way too much on market timing – when should I buy and sell? Which is why I always advocate a system of dollar cost averaging – to take all that worrying out of the equation. 🙂
Have you ever been accosted by a scammy salesman? Like one of those douches who tries to smoothtalk you and be your friend, and then sells you a friggin stone that’s supposed to have healing powers and improve your sex life and make you lose weight? And before you know it, it ends up being
So I attended Invest Fair 2012 this weekend, which was pretty much a marketplace of financial service providers, brokers, insurance companies, and the occasional weird individual trying to tout his own “proprietary” trading system. It was exactly like a marketplace, the kind you’d find at your local heartland HDB estate, with energetic sweaty speakers gesturing
So I’m just gonna say it – I’m a really big wuss when it comes to personal finance. Some of my friends get a big kick by bragging about how they lose like thousands of dollars every day on their own accounts. I totally get it. Hell, I’ve been there before. I used to watch
So I have this weird friend who is super random and texts me like the most RANDOM texts ever (No hate here, we’re good friends and she’s totally cool that I’m blogging about her hahahaha). After not hearing from her for like 2 months, I get this text message: “Hey lionie~ What % of your
I’ll let you in on a little secret: Being happy doesn’t depend on how much you earn, but how you spend your money. We’ve all heard that money doesn’t buy happiness – Multiple studies have shown that beyond a certain (surprisingly low) income, happiness very little to do with how much you have. Yet, we spend
