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Money & Travel

Small Tweaks: Tiny Savings Strategies With Big Results

I can take my clothes off pretty fast (but not in the way you think, you perv). I picked up this awesome skill back in the military. Our commanders used to regularly punish us with “change parades” – these crazy exercises where we’d have to change out of our army uniforms into a t-shirt and […]

AI & Productivity

LifeTests

A friend of mine (Hi Jing!) introduced me to Raptitude, a great blog centered around the idea of experimentation. David, the blogger behind it, conducts little experiments in his own life and posts his observations and conclusions. Some examples of his experiments include: Going 21 days without complaining Establishing meditation as a habit for life

AI & Productivity

Confessions of An Email Addict

Dear Office Email, It’s time you knew the truth. I hate you.  Like smash-you-with-a-baseball-bat-if-you-were-a physical-object kind of hate.Whenever I see you, a fluffy little bunny dies along with a part of my soul. We didn’t use to be like this. Once upon a time, I used to love turning you on. You were the first

Money & Travel

Why You Should Always Go Upstairs

So last week, I had to get my iPhone fixed. Why? Because my speaker broke down.  I knew I had to get it fixed when my girlfriend (who has never seen Star Wars in her life), called me and claimed that Darth Vader answered the phone: What I thought I sounded like: “Hey so I’ll

Business & Career

Pointy-Haired Boss Gives Career Advice

Loved yesterday’s Dilbert strip which gives some excellent career advice: If you want your company to value you, start by being valuable first. I know way too many people who whine constantly about their jobs: The boss sucks, the pay sucks, the location sucks, they aren’t given enough responsibility, etc. But the truth is, nobody

Money & Travel

What Chinese New Year Blackjack Taught Me About Money

Okay, hypothetical scenario. Imagine you’re on your honeymoon in Las Vegas, chilling in your swanky hotel room while your spouse is taking a shower. While checking out the minibar, you come across a $5 gaming chip in one of the drawers – the previous occupant must have mistakenly left it there. You take the $5

Money & Travel

An Epiphany From First Class

One of the best perks of my job is that I get to pretend to be a rich person. Well, not all the time of course. Like I definitely did not feel rich these past 2 weeks: Staying late in the office, eating at my desk, slaving over Excel sheets till I started dreaming of

Soul & Connection

The 2012 Cheerfulegg Review

All the blogs in the world are reviewing 2012 at the moment. In summary, the world didn’t end, Obama got re-elected, the Euro crisis didn’t blow up, and most importantly, Singapore saw a record number of sex scandals. And they said Singaporeans don’t have enough sex. So I thought it’d be a good time to

Soul & Connection

Help Me Pick My Title (And More)

So everyone I meet these days has been asking me how my book writing’s been going. So I’d just like to let everyone know right now that it’s been friggin’ awesome. I blame peer pressure. It started out as a spur-of-the-moment declaration at an Awesome Anonymous meeting to write a small, simple ebook. It has

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