My Accounting 101 professor back in college had ginormous biceps. He’d flex them menacingly as he paced Huntsman Hall, and the fear of getting our heads crushed between his guns stopped my buddies and I from falling asleep during lectures. But even though I managed to stay awake most of the time, I still pretty […]
The past couple of days have been the equivalent of a 7pm Channel 8 boxing drama for personal finance geeks like me. In the Red corner we have Roy “Colourful Charts” Ngerng (how do you pronounce that name?) crying foul at how our CPF funds are being used by the “gahmen”. In the Blue corner
Wow. Last week, I published a post asking you what you’d like to see on cheerfulegg that could make a difference in your life. A BUNCH of you emailed me back with super awesome suggestions. (Side note: The amount of email that I get from cheerfulegg has quadrupled over the past couple of months, so
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
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
A lot of people are complaining about how hard it is to get by in Singapore these days. Maybe it’s because of that EIU report claiming that Singapore is the most expensive city to live in. Maybe it’s the huge surge of unhappiness over the recent transport fare hikes and Whatsapp charges. My Facebook feed
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
