I recently met up with Alvin and Jon from BigFatPurse.com (I know right, that’s a freakin’ awesome name) to talk about my hot-off-the-press ebook Automatic Investing: The No-Stress Guide to Index Investing in Singapore. You can check out the interview here. You know the feeling when you’re traveling overseas, and you meet some fellow Singaporeans at […]
Readers who follow my blog will know that I’m a huge weirdo. For example, I used to be obsessed over trading books. I’d spend hours in the “investing” section at Kinokuniya and Borders devouring mountains and mountains of books. (Fact: When Borders closed, I ran out into the rain, turned my head to the sky
First, a quick announcement: This Sunday, at 9am Singapore Time, I’m going to release Automatic Investing to the world. By this point you’re either really excited about it or are really tired of hearing about it. Either way, we’ll be underway soon. 🙂 The Most Valuable Currency Of All Today, I want to talk about
I used to worry a lot. It sounds silly now, but I used to worry that one day, I’d wake up and realize that I wouldn’t be able to support my parents. I worried that I was going to have to work till I was 70 just to feed my family. I was probably the
One of the side effects of being a personal finance blogger is that relatives love asking me for financial advice. This Chinese New Year, about 20 uncles and aunties asked me “so what’s good to invest in right now?” in between mouthfuls of prawn rolls and bak kwa. What’s good to invest in “right now”? I
This is the reason why cheerfulegg has been really quiet lately: As you can see from my Rescuetime summary, I’ve been involved in a project that typically takes up over 20 hours a week. I’d work on this project during any free time I had: Early in the morning, late at night, on the bus, while
I used to think that dieting was for chumps. That was before I got way fatter than I expected (Damn you, mee goreng!) It really sucked to feel pudgy, so I embarked on my 4th LifeTest: To lose 5 kilograms. And after 13 long weeks, I’ve succeeded. I’ve gone from 70kg down to 65kg, and
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
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
