Friday, May 29, 2015

Mad Max shows us how the Singaporean Dream can become a Singaporean Nightmare.

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I think by now most readers would have watched this face-melting action movie so it's time to write an article on this action flick. W...
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Sunday, May 24, 2015

What kind of prata does your job resemble ?

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The Thosai article has attracted quite a lot of attention so I'd thought I'd follow up with a similar article about career managemen...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Why hanker for a safety net or a trampoline when you can have a jet pack ?

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Singapore is really lucky, we had a one in a million chance of being ruled by Lee Kuan Yew and after he passed away, we continue to come und...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

What kind of thosai does your degree resemble ?

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For this weekend, I wanted to write an article on treating a degree as an investment just like a portfolio of stock and bonds. Fortunately f...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

On IDA, fake degrees, and investing in human capital.

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It looks like a previous employer of mine is unable to get itself out of the limelight. First it was Alan Ramos, then xenophobes decided to ...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

Of course, most folks do not care about personal financial planning !

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The financial blogosphere is suddenly abuzz when Cheerful Egg wrote about the indifferent attitude to personal finance.   Upon reading the a...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

Getai Ethnica : Beware of the Hipster Agenda !

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I tried to let my hair down yesterday after a round of giving tuition to my girls, so I let my friend suggest that I go Chinatown to an even...
Friday, May 08, 2015

Happiness is a Strategy !

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I thought I share some of my thoughts with reader John Smith on my views on happiness as he has commented that I seem happy even though I ha...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

A Modern Interpretation of "The Best is Yet To Be"

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I am sorry if I'm a little bit late to the game as the fracas on ACS donations took place while I was preparing for my exams. But firs...
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Sunday, April 26, 2015

What can we learn from Albert, Bernard and Cheryl ?

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By now, most readers would have heard of the maths problem which went viral two weeks ago. You can access the information about the origin...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Survived another round of exams...

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Yipppeeeee ! I just finished my last paper yesterday... The sad thing is that my summer term starts next Monday so I have about 4 days to ...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Passing of a Giant...

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I am writing this article from SMU Labs as I'm in a middle of hell week where I would need to make two group presentations this week.  O...
Friday, March 06, 2015

Update : Chinese New Year is over !

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It has been two Chinese New Year holidays since I have left the workforce. Here's a quick update and some thoughts about life  in gene...
Monday, March 02, 2015

The problem with skills-based education.

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One of the more populist changes made to the education is skills-based education. Skills-based education is a very attractive idea. If a p...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Some thoughts on career management for the New Year !

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Happy new year of the Goat ! Gong Xi Fatt Cai ! The financial bloggers were goading me to write something pretty hardcore about Confuciu...
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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Dating and Mating strategies for single men !

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I finally managed to have a short date with the missus after writing my last article since my daughter had just fallen asleep. When I came b...
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Dating and Mating strategies for single women !

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First off, happy Valentine's day to everyone. A lady classmate asked me to do an article which summarises how I view the current datin...
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Friday, February 06, 2015

Huzzah !!! Time for guys to spend NOTHING on Singaporean women !!!

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I would like to build on Budget Babe's very interesting rant on The Real Singapore . In this very exciting article Budget Babe extends...
Sunday, February 01, 2015

Downside of financial independence.

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Initially, I wanted to put up a piece on who the Child in the Basement really is. I wanted to talk about the problems of trying to frame soc...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

What are the first principles in Investing ?

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The awesome thing about the finance blogosphere in Singapore is that bloggers can build on each other's ideas. BigFatPurse has put up ...