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.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Is English Literature a conspiracy to keep non-elites poor in Singapore ?

While it seems that this blog is veering off topic again, I want to emphasize that a good investor is a fox rather than a hedgehog. Good inv...

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Hedgehog or the Fox ?

If you are a hedgehog, you know one thing really well. If you are a fox, you know many little things. This question has many many applica...

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Using models to explain life, success and the assholes around you.

This article might be a little "cheem" since I have just completed all 20 lectures of the Model Thinking course conducted by the U...

Thursday, July 17, 2014

When Insurance Agents attack...

Sometimes, when I get a great day, a friend who believes in insurance writes a passionate message to me to take issue with my ideas on insur...

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Some change in my thoughts regarding the $100,000 challenge.

There has been some calls to poll my opinion on what should someone do with $100,000. There has also been queries as to whether some of the ...

Sunday, July 13, 2014

No need to be suicidal if your girlfriend is materialistic !

Sometime ago, the trolls in TheRealSingapore put up this hilarious post : http://therealsingapore.com/content/young-sporean-suicidal-beca...

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Should I invest in my excess cash into my start-up or use it build up my stock portfolio ?

A friend who attended my talk was having a discussion with me yesterday, he mentioned in passing that one of the Zopim founders actually att...

Monday, July 07, 2014

What games can tell us about success ?

Recently, psychologists have dealt a resounding blow against Malcolm Gladwell's idea that in order to succeed in a field, you will need ...

Saturday, July 05, 2014

Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Rocks !

First of all, this blog has been given a new template. Many friends and readers have commented on how horrible the old design was, so I thou...

Thursday, July 03, 2014

Term Life Insurance and the Brutal Realities of Modern Living.

While I do not buy the argument that concludes that Singapore is a winner-takes-all or a No-U-turn society, many of you may have met someo...

Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Six months without work ! Whoa !

Today has been quite a fine day. It's my wife's birthday and my seventh wedding anniversary. We spent the day just hanging out with ...

Monday, June 30, 2014

Buay Kan Buay Tua Han as a methodology for success.

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

Friday, June 27, 2014

Some thoughts after today's talk...

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...

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

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

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...

Monday, June 23, 2014

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

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

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Attended my first investment seminar on Value Investing.

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

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

If you want to rich, be a bigger asshole !

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...

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Some random updates.

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...

Friday, June 06, 2014

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

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.

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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