Sunday, September 25, 2011

Learnings from working with unemployed IT professionals.

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One of the things about my current job is that I can afford to take a short time off work to spend half a day helping unemployed IT professi...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

What will you be doing in your miserable 40s ?

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"At 15 I set my heart on learning; at 30 I firmly took my stand; at 40 I had no delusions; at 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; at 60 my...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

People who read "The Secret" hate me !

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A series of events triggered this blog posting. I'm slowly coming to realize that there is a class of readers who absolutely hate my wri...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Sustainable Artistic Pursuits with Astute Financial Management.

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Today I just to share my ideas on pursuing one's interest in the Arts. There are quite a lot of friends around me who want to be artis...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

What's next ? Some random thoughts.

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Here are some random thoughts on writing, passive income and financial independence. a) A financially independent employee/entrepreneur is...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Final Writing Lesson - Quick tour of the Singapore Literary landscape.

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Friday was the last writing lesson for me. Most of us in the class felt rather sad. By the time the course ended, class participants have ju...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Fiction Writing #7 : Opportunities, Scholarships and Competitions.

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This update is going to be really short. For folks like me, writing is an attempt to build a third source of passive income. It's slow, ...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Fiction writing lesson #6 : Genres

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The last lesson had almost no theory. We spent the greater part of the day going through the works of other writers and coming up with a cri...
Saturday, August 06, 2011

Fiction Writing Lesson #5 : Perspectives

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Writing class is now starting to become interesting. As the homework submissions become larger, we now spend more than half the time reading...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Fiction Writing Lesson #4 : Characters

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At this point of our classes, we will spend more time writing and discussing the merits of our works so there is less theory to share moving...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Fiction writing lesson #3 : Plot, Reversals, Recognition and Beats

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Yesterday we got into a detailed discussion on how to construct a plot. Stories can be plot-driven or character driven. A plot-driven stor...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Fiction Writing Lesson #2 : Show, don't tell.

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Show, don't Tell is one of those basic fiction writing concepts which have been something I've been trying to wrap my head around f...
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Saturday, July 09, 2011

Fiction Writing Lesson #1 : Joys of discomfort.

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Yesterday marks my first fiction writing lesson under Felix Cheong, who conducts a brilliant course on fiction writing with NUS extension. W...
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Saturday, July 02, 2011

10,000 hours of deliberate practice : Maybe its time to realize my Fiction Writing ambitions.

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The Golden Point awards submission closed on Thursday this week, and I have, a month earlier, submitted an entry for the English short story...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

Why shouldn't Singaporean women be materialistic ?

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The following article has created a minor storm on my Facebook, I thought I should comment on it. Singaporean Girls are materialistic So...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Field testing my retirement and the World's Cheapest Guides.

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Maybe I should explain just what the heck I'm trying to do. About 3 weeks ago, I left my job with a secure offer from another company. B...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Launch : World's Cheapest Guides on Financial Independence and Life Philosophy.

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2011 has been roller-coaster ride. a) My family downgraded to a 5-room HDB. It was not as tough as I thought. b) I became a new dad to my...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Some quick figures for 2010.

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Quick quiet update in case some of you guys subscribe to my blogs. Ok, this year is not as good as last year in terms of yields largely be...
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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Presentation at Bar Camp 6 - Quarter Life crisis

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Bar Camp 6 was a blast. I made a presentation entitled "The Quarter Life Crisis". Too bad my laptop which runs Ubuntu would not ...
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

What's marriage really competing with ?

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When the government said that they want to have a sustained campaign to promote marriage to younger folks, a lot of folks took the opportuni...
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