Soul & Connection

1,000 Subscribers!

Just thought I’d drop a quick post to commemorate 1,000 subscribers to cheerfulegg! We’ve grown from a motley crew of 100 back in Feb this year to 1,000 today, in just 9 short months. If you’re not in the cool club yet, come join us at http://eepurl.com/v9vTz. Woot woot!

Business & Career

How To Kick Ass In Your Commitments

So last week, I attended a talk by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, who shared this story: Back in the day, Christensen used to work with the Boston Consulting Group. Now as you know, consultants pretty much live and die by their presentations. Christensen’s team had a critical presentation to a client coming up on

Soul & Connection

What A Hot Mom Taught Me About Assumptions

So last week, I came across a picture of freelance writer/fitness blogger Maria Kang wearing a sports bra, baring her abs, kneeling behind her three children and under the caption of “What’s Your Excuse?” That picture got Maria way more attention than a she bargained for. Yahoo Shine reported that the photo went viral and racked up more

Money & Travel

How To Have A Real Vacation

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

Soul & Connection

Two Steps To Get Lucky

I’m really embarrassed about this, but here goes: Hi, my name is Lionel and I’m terrible at Mandarin. No, really. I’ve had endless tuition sessions as a kid, I took my AO-level Chinese exam twice, but when people talk to me in Mandarin today, I still end up looking like this:   So when the girlfriend

Mind & Body

How the Economic Machine Works

This is pretty awesome. Check out this video which explains the last 10 years of the US economy in a lovely animated cartoon with visually appealing vintage graphics that came right out of a Papermarket store. It’s 30 minutes long, which is long for an online video but shorter than reading a boring-ass Economics textbook.

Money & Travel

Why Big Market Drops Don’t Scare Me

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.

Money & Travel

A Singaporean Guide to Home Buying Fees and Charges

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 –

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