Growing your tree of prosperity

Growing your Tree of Prosperity is an introductory investment guide written specifically for Singaporeans who wish to take their first step towards financial independence.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Singlehood versus marrying a foreigner. Which is the bigger threat if you are single and looking for someone ?

According to a survey done in 2000, only 5% of Singapore singles want to remain single eventually. Although the faith in marriage as an inst...

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Switch and changing spending habits.

One of the best things about the Internet is that now its possible to buy e-books the moment they are freshly available at Amazon. Using som...

Saturday, February 20, 2010

The CCA vacation and my fashion line.

I've been busy launching my role-playing game product on Lulu.com for the past few months and one of the things I was thinking about whe...

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Three week break from blogging.

To all fans, Right now I'm about to complete my e-book for my role-playing hobby so I need to focus on this project exclusively over t...

Thursday, February 04, 2010

On Art, Art investing and the worst book I read in ages !

If Seth Godin were right, this is how you write best-selling non-fiction. First, try to understand and define the zeitgeist of the times. ...

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

More on high-frequency trading and building a personal hedge fund.

My search to understand more about high-frequency trading has led me to the following book, which has garnered quite a lot of good press. ...

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

My first smart phone : Google Nexus One

I gave my old Nokia a Viking funeral last month as it had accompanied me in my journeys through three companies and survived countless of IT...

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Will the Reform Party make your blue furry fantasies come true ? A look at proposed improvements to education in Singapore.

In the movie Avatar, the Na'vi were only able to fend off the colonial humans because humans found way to break ranks with their own kin...

Friday, January 29, 2010

Moratorium on investing my money for about 5 months

For the past 3 years, I have been investing almost my entire salary packet into the stock market. The aim of doing that then was to ensure t...

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

What Apple's new tablet would mean for writers.

What do you get if you add this : To this ? In a moment's time, Apple will probably unveil their next big thing, some sort of tablet PC ...

Sunday, January 24, 2010

So having an Ivy-League degree is like having a D-Cup breastsize ?

This week, the OverEasy nightclub has caused quite a stir by offering ladies drinks based on their bust size. Basically if you are a lady an...

Thursday, January 21, 2010

High frequency trading and having your own hedge fund.

Right now I've been pretty intrigued by the concept of high-frequency trading. If these experts are to be believed, market efficiencies ...

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Financial Recap of 2009 and my predictions for 2010.

Straits Times invited me to give a summary of 2009 and make a guess on how 2010 will turn out. I submitted the following reply. In the end m...

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Love and politics - Singapore style !

Suppose you are male student studying in the Normal Academic Stream in Bukit Batok Secondary school. You've become infatuated with a gir...

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Analysis of SPH in June 2009

Not too long ago, I was contemplating the creation of a website using Wiki technology to create a community to contribute fundamental analys...

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Zorba the Greek and our perception of time.

I was acquainted to Zorba the Greek because of forays into Lifestyle Design. http://www.amazon.com/Zorba-Greek-Nikos-Kazantzakis/dp/06848255...

Sunday, January 10, 2010

So Singapore is not good enough for Singaporeans. Now what ?

There are a lot of unhappy people these days : a) The single Singaporean man is unhappy that the government is not giving enough HDB grants ...

Thursday, January 07, 2010

The Singapore Plan.

I just want to take a short break to introduce the Singapore Plan. i) Do well in school. ii) Get a university degree in a professional field...

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Greek mythology, CPF and the Single man.

I just heard that a friend of a friend who takes the cake when it comes to being a pragmatic dude. When asked by my friend if he has a girlf...

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Why foreign talent will trounce your asses.

The next book I completed over the weekend is Daniel Pink's Drive. http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/15944...

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