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 […]
Happy Sunday! I’m pretty psyched because I’m featured in today’s edition of the Sunday Times, in an article about young investors. 🙂 First, a funny story about the article: I knew it was going to be published today, but I had absolutely no freakin’ idea how it was gonna turn out because I hadn’t seen
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?”
What’s the number one excuse people give for not pursuing their own awesome personal projects? “I don’t have enough time.” We spend 8-12 hours a day working at the office. When we get home, we barely have enough time to shower, shove dinner into our mouths, catch up on Facebook, before we crawl into bed
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
So how does it feel to sleep for 7 hours a night for 10 consecutive nights? I conducted my second LifeTest to see if consistently sleeping 7 hours a night would dramatically increase my mood, productivity, and overall awesomeness. (The original challenge was for 7 nights, but I later increased it to 10 just because
I have an unbroken record when it comes to iPhone covers – I’ve managed to successfully scratch and maul every single one that has ever passed through my hands. This includes my most recent one, which lasted all of 3 months before it turned into one heck of a hot mess. So last week, I
