Sunday, January 29, 2012

Song Writing - Day 2

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Day 2 is an embarrassing day. I did not do my homework, and making matters worse, almost all my other classmates did. We were told to go...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Song Writing at Thunder Rock School - Day 1.

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We all come to a point in our lives when we ask ourselves, what's next ? Until this question can be answered more concisely, it helps ...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Happy Year of the Water Dragon !

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Just finished the Channel 8 New Year Celebrations. The folks born in the Year of the Tiger have a rough year ahead. There will be encounte...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Level 5 Ambition and Fun with Psychology.

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Over 12 years ago, I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. Then about three years later like most engineers, I wanted a bus...
Saturday, January 07, 2012

Engineer makes living salvaging rubbish - may be a good thing.

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I'm getting postings on this article with my name being tagged on them. I detect a strong tint of schadenfreude in those postings but I ...

The problem arises if you don't die.

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A Facebook posting echoes the view of many critics who have confronted my take on frugality.Their argument goes like this : Why be frugal ...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

Moving forward - 2012.

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Resolution is too strong a word for setting of goals for 2012. Not all of my goals are completely within my control. e.g. This may turn out ...
Sunday, December 25, 2011

Happy Birthday to me - A year in review.

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Well it's Christmas and it's my 37th birthday. 2011 is going to come off as a year where I experienced the largest change in my li...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Income Streams - Your Three Armies.

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I like to use War as analogy in Finance. We are in a constant state siege in Singapore. We have to battle foreign talent and meet tough ex...

Consider the transition to Entrepreneur slowly.

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Read a while ago that ago that many start-ups are suffering in Singapore. They blow most of their capital to get a basic version 1 of their ...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

What should a ceramics manufacturer know about artificial insemination ?

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I was reading the Innovator's DNA, a book about innovation in companies. It had a very interesting story about a ceramics manufacturer t...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Are you eating better than a prisoner ?

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Heard that a long acquaintance of mine who is now going back to NUS to get impressionable undergraduates to get into MLM. As times get worse...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

I'm a vanity publisher but not a backyard money manager.

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Traditional bookstores received another death knell with the closure of Clementi Bookstore, Funan computer bookstore and, of course, Borders...
Saturday, November 05, 2011

Time Management as a discipline.

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One idea which I'm hatching is that time management is no different from portfolio management. We all have a fixed 24 hours a day but a ...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Value of Literary Devices

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Ok, there is something very important I really need to get off my chest. Today's Write-Camp featured Laremy Lee who gave a very passiona...

Some random thoughts from the Singapore Writer's Festival.

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This year has ended fairly productively on the writing front. a) I published 3 e-books, one is an RPG, one is a book on Finance and one fi...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Politicization of Steven Levitt's talk.

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I was very privileged to attend Steven Levitt's talk yesterday on unconventional thinking. This is the first time I took time out and pa...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Why most of the time, it does not pay to be a Generalist.

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Life is'nt fair. Many sales pitches can be thwarted by the most inconsequential detail. From what I have encountered so far, a heartla...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Write-Camp Presentation Idea #2 : Platform for continuous and never-ending failure

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Suppose in a fit of temporary insanity, you start a web magazine. You ignore the conventions that most information junkies already have a fa...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Write-Camp Presentation Idea #1 : Sustainable Artistry

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A lot of writers and artists struggle with the question of whether they should quit and go full time with pursuits that they are passionate ...