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
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
