Wednesday, December 20, 2017

My Talk on Mid-Life Crisis #4 : Implications for Personal Finance.

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All this discussion on mid-life crisis does not exist in a vacuum. Over the next 3-4 years, there will be an unprecedented number of f...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

My Talk on Mid-Life Crisis #3 : Lessons from Existentialist Philosophy

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It takes a modern affluent society to be able to muster the resources to even begin to have a mid-life crisis problem in the first place,...
Monday, December 18, 2017

My talk on Mid-life Crisis #2 : Coping Mechanisms

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A really good book on coping with mid-life life crisis is entitled Midlife : A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya. It may be the first...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

My talk on Mid-life Crisis #1 : Defining the problem.

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The next few articles will be about my 10 minute talk I gave last Friday. People typically have a mid-life crisis around their mid-40s. On...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

After-Action Review : Financial Bloggers Meet-Up

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The tradition of having blogger gatherings was started by the folks of BigFatPurse who took the first step in getting the financial blog...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

The Art of the Good Life #1 : Mental Accounting and the "Tai Ko Kia" fund.

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Let's move onto the next book. This is great book that has so many tools, it is best digested slowly. Mental Accounting is supposed...
Monday, December 11, 2017

How did 2017 pan out ?

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We have less than a month to go until 2018, so I decided to look at my first post in 2017 to see whether I managed to fulfil all the promise...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

Upcoming BIGScribe Financial Bloggers Moot

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This coming week, a select group of extremely elite and exclusive financial bloggers will be meeting up for a friendly gathering. Over the m...
Monday, December 04, 2017

Can you be financially independent and be a loser at the time ?

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Personal Finance is to Finance the same way English Literature is to the English Language. While financial problems may be resolved by mathe...
Sunday, December 03, 2017

Before Happiness #5 : Positive Inception

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In this last article on Shawn Achor's Before Happiness, we talk about scaling happiness. This is also a very practical chapter and I t...
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Saturday, December 02, 2017

Personal Update - Just Finished the Bar Exams

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Wow ! I am finally free ! For the next one month, I have no obligatory readings that I have to do and papers I need to prepare for. Beyond s...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Before Happiness #4 : Increase Signal to Noise Ratio

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Ok, managed to squeeze in some time to post on this blog. Exam preps are really insane this week. This section of the book is the hardest...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

After Action Review : Supercharge your REITS investments.

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Ok, as I am preparing for my bar exams next week, I would only start writing about yesterday's session only after I am done with all...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Before Happiness #3 : Goal Accelerators

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The third section of the book is also the most practical component of the written work because it summarises in one chapter what most motiva...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Before Happiness #2 : Mental Cartography

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[ I am slowing down my blogging as I am 2 weeks away from my Bar Exams. It is quite harrowing as we have to complete 8 papers within 4 days....
Tuesday, November 07, 2017

The past is not dead; it is not even past.

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[ The title of this post is actually Q1 of this year's AO level General Paper. It has been long time since I have written a GP essay so ...
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Saturday, November 04, 2017

Before Happiness #1 : Choosing the most valuable reality

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The first skill in the book Before Happiness by Shawn Achor is the skill of choosing the most valuable reality. This skill is broken ...
Thursday, November 02, 2017

New Series : Before Happiness by Shawn Achor

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Starting tomorrow, I will start talking about this book called Before Happiness by Shawn Achor. The last series of articles on Efficiently...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Titles Culture : A Demon of our own Design.

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I think it's going to be quite vogue to talk about "Titles Culture" in Singapore today. "Titles Culture" happens whe...
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Sunday, October 29, 2017

Next BIGSCRIBE Talk #2 : The fear of leverage.

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I was supposed to be pushing for my next talk but ticket sales picked up over the weekend and we're down to almost single digits wor...