Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Countdown to 2015 - Create Systems, not Resolutions.

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As we approach the new year, I start to find myself busy again. SMU has started spamming the readings for the next semester and I've bee...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

About to begin my fifth decade....

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Tomorrow, I will celebrate my 40th birthday. Just some thoughts and reflections on the last decade of my life and what's in store for ...
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Monday, December 22, 2014

Who wants to be a "Sergeant" ?

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A class of problems in a modern urban city is that problem of "Who wants to be the Sergeant?" Why would a top A level student ch...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Financial Independence as a Continuum.

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Since my exams, I have been busy getting my EC ready as TOP occurred a couple of months ago. Most of my day has been spent moving my belon...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Why Jack Ma is wrong about education and innovation.

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Jack Ma joins the list of very successful billionaires who laments about the education system he has gone through and has spoken very convin...
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Monday, December 01, 2014

The Myth of the Self-Made man.

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Wow ! It has been a while since I blogged. I've been busy on my first Law Exams which took me out for about 3 weeks, and after that, I...
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Friday, November 07, 2014

What can we learn from hipsters ?

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The days get worse and worse for everyone in my class. We survived our double-whammy Friday where two papers become due within one day and I...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Are you Superman or Batman ?

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One of the privileges I have in my life is that I get a front seat to experience the struggles of myself and my fellow classmates. This 3-ye...
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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Why we should press on.

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At the end of the semester, some classmates are having doubts about whether they made the right choice in coming to the SMU JD program. I pr...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Taste and Aesthetics. Being Basic and Normcore.

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I think get along fairly well with my JD classmates despite a glaringly large generation gap. I actually said to a classmate that if I had a...
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Sunday, October 19, 2014

"Till All Are One !" - The Mechanics of Synergy.

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It was a perfect storm for my personal finances this week. First SMU decides to bring forward payment for my next semester of fees. The th...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2014

The Shallow Search for Happiness.

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I'm in the middle of my term 'break' in which I had to do even more work than a normal week at school. Test preparations and wri...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

What tools in the Arts and Law can be used by an investor ?

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After Hell week, my class started getting bombarded by essays and more written work so I am unable to put up more postings for quite a while...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Going through hell week !

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I'm going through hell week and have nothing much to share with the readers. Apparently due to fate or some may even argue, good luck,...
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

What would I do if a start-up exit made me a multi-millionaire ?

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Of recent interest is that we are starting to hear about successful start-up exits in Singapore. I really enjoyed reading about the intervie...
Saturday, September 06, 2014

September 2014 Update : From Retiree to Law Student.

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I've just survived three weeks of law school, just sharing a personal update to keep in touch with readers. a) Drowning in legal cases...
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Friday, August 29, 2014

Learning how to learn.

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I enrolled into the course Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects by Dr. Terrence Sejnowski and Dr. ...