Monday, June 30, 2014

Buay Kan Buay Tua Han as a methodology for success.

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Translated from Hokkien to English "Buay Kan Buay Tua Han" means that you can't grow up unless you get fucked first. It allude...
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Friday, June 27, 2014

Some thoughts after today's talk...

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I felt that the talk that was given today in Block 71 was great because of the audience who was very interactive and kept me on my toes. Mon...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Back-testing a CNAV-like portfolio using local stocks.

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As a continuation to my Value Investing Master Class given to me free of charge by BigFatPurse, I spent some time in the National Library Bl...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

Talk this week : Escape the Rat-race - Hacker's edition.

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The Hacker and Painter's movement has expressed an interest in my approach towards attaining financial independence, as such, I will be ...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Attended my first investment seminar on Value Investing.

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Yesterday, I was invited to attend BigFatPurse's Value Investing Mastery Course along with 15WW. It was a great course.  I would like...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

If you want to rich, be a bigger asshole !

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Here's a conversation I had with a colleague some time ago : Me : If are walking along Orchard Road, an insurance agent and a snake ap...
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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Some random updates.

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I do not have a major insight to share this week as I have been hard at work writing programming code in R and also preparing to be Emcee fo...
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Friday, June 06, 2014

To succeed - Do more of this, do less of that.

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To accumulate wealth and attain financial independence, the most important thing you need to do is to earn more and spend less. This will in...
Sunday, June 01, 2014

Thoughts after 5 months of retirement.

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Time really flies. It's been 5 months since my mini-retirement and now given that I've got a seat in the SMU JD program, there is...
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The April Fool's Portfolio : The End.

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I'm stopping the April's Fool portfolio. All stocks were liquidated last Friday. There are two issues with a Current Net Assets ...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

The root cause of social stratification is ** drum-roll ** Singapore women !

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Like every parent, I want my daughter to be happy. Unlike some folks in Singapore, I think my daughter will grow up with a judgement criteri...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The Obligatory CPF post.

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I'm really upset with Roy Ngerng. We could spend time have a constructive discussion about creating a career path for Poly and ITE stu...
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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Choose Yourself !

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It started with my conclusion that conscientiousness is largely determined genetically so the following conversation started with the maxim ...
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Monday, May 19, 2014

How can we intrinsically motivate our kids ?

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Some of my friends think I might have some magical powers to answer some of life's most perplexing problems. Today they asked me a que...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Chaos is a Ladder !

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The blogger for SG Wealth Builder, Gerald,  has been very kind to mention me again in a book review : http://www.sgwealthbuilder.com/2014/...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Who should be at the bottom of the barrel ?

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Recently there has been a spate of articles criticizing Singapore's brand of meritocracy which has been gaining traction on the Internet...
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Sunday, May 04, 2014

Law school preparation, Thomas Pinketty and Capital in the 21st Century.

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To a few friends who know what I've been plotting scheming for the past year, Law School was known as Plan A. Plan A was the best in a s...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

April Fool Portfolio : May update.

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It was not a particularly good month for the April Fool's portfolio. The portfolio was down slightly while the rest of the market went u...