Friday, July 29, 2016

What does Trump, Brexit and NUS Freshman Orientation have in common ?

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Wow ! The last article broke a major record with more than 1500 hits within the first 24 hours. I will need some time to follow up on that t...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

The Absurdity of the Singapore Dream

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As National Day is around the corner, I just want to share one or two points about the absurdity of the Singapore Dream or what most Singapo...
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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Lessons from Sarong Party Girls.

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When I first read about the book Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Tan Lu-Lien, I stopped everything I was doing, bought the e-book from Amazon ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

The Herbivore's Guide to Lifestyle Design

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Social science is full of surprises. While we do know that there are men who give up on relationships and withdraw from society (also know...
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Sunday, July 17, 2016

The Power of Constraints and the Focus as a personal asset.

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This is going to be a personal update. I've spent the past 4 weeks doing my internships and I've been personally struggling with a...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

My talk on Funding your child's University Education at the Lifelong Learning Library.

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It's been a tiring day ! Today's event attendance was great and I noticed that some folks are far too young to actually be parents...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Don't forget my talk on funding your child's university education tomorrow !!!

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One of my concerns is that no one will attend my talk tomorrow as it is a weekday afternoon after all so here's another reminder : The...
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Sunday, July 10, 2016

World War III : CPF Edition

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Today's article is a little incoherent. I was ill throughout the weekend and wanted to share some insights into the most divisive i...
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Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Jiak Cheng Hu - Manage your CPF by "Eating the Government"

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The CPF board invited some financial bloggers to have a session and I was able to gate-crash the event because a few "more prominent...
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Friday, July 01, 2016

The Nature of Success

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One challenge of modern living is that we do not really know for sure whether we have really succeeded in life. To many people, this is a d...
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Saturday, June 25, 2016

It's all about your kukujiao !

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The title of this post is inspired by a recent programme in Channel New Asia , after all if your kukujiao (penis ) is talked about in mainst...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

My next talk !!!

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Looks like the good folks of NLB and WDA have already prepared the EDM for my next talk.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Debunking the arguments for Integrated Shield Plans.

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Due to a combination of government policy-making and the marketing propaganda being spread by insurance companies, the selling of Integrated...
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Sunday, June 19, 2016

What to think about when thinking about Billionaires.

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In Singapore, the fastest and most convenient way to one-up a millionaire when you are not even one is to cite a billionaire. A common thi...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

How to lead a life without a Financial Advisor.

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It has been a relatively tough week for me this week because I have just started my internship. I have to acclimatise myself again to a 6-ho...
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Friday, June 10, 2016

Personal Finance Lessons from eating KL Murtabak

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I have just ended my second trip to Malaysia and will embark on my third trip tonight. Just wanted to share a really delicious picture o...
Sunday, June 05, 2016

Quick Update on my life.

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Just a quick update on my life... I have spent the past few days trying to arbitrate the the SGDMYR exchange rate... No lah... These t...
Thursday, June 02, 2016

A different way to think about Lifelong Learning.

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Just the other day, I had the privilege of meeting members of the NTUC Social Media team, we had a good, long discussion on the possible iss...
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Friday, May 27, 2016

Engage Singapore politics by understanding more about WWE.

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With my exams over, my next paper would be sometime in November so I get to enjoy the rest of the summer holidays. Quite a lot has hap...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Is Grit Overrated ?

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Bully the Bear has a great article on finding meaning in suffering. I'd thought I would build on this idea by critically examining its ...
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