Red Alert – Part I
In any war games, be it Starcraft or Red Alert or even Civilization, the general strategy for a win is to gather as much resources as we can in the shortest possible time, produce enough war machines and attack before…
The Shield And The Weapon Called Freedom
In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China and plundered it. Prior to that in 1884, the corrupted Qing Dynasty which ruled China at that time and led by Empress Dowager Cixi, spent a huge sum of money on reconstructing and…
The Two Systems
Background One may have realise that it is always the West that has explored unchartered territories. The Asians seems to be always (though not all the time, as evident by TSMC and Samsung’s semiconductor industry) lagging behind. This has got…
Huawei’s 7nm Chips
On 29 August 2023, Huawei announced its latest smartphone series, the Huawei Mate 60 and Mate 60 Pro. The phone itself is nothing fanciful, but the components which made up the phone shocked the world. Huawei and China’s top chipmaker…
Resources
This will be a very short post. This website was created in 2008, and throughout the years I have wrote different things. This website has undergone 3 major revamps, each with a different type of content as I grew up…
Japan’s Radioactive Nuclear Wastewater
‘The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.’ This statement was widely attributed to either Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin or Vladimir Lenin. But regardless of who came up with this, it is a common perception…
The Fentanyl War
200 years ago, the West sent drugs into China and plunged the country into chaos. The population became addicted to drugs and lost the will to fight and to work. Control of the people by the West was easy. China…
Why Is A University Degree Important
In one of my previous post I talk about whether a university degree is worth it. In the post I recommended for most to get a university degree, even though in today’s world the value of a degree has been…
Money Laundering
Singapore recently conducted an operation involving more than 400 police officers and arrested 10 people suspected in money laundering. The cash and assets confiscated are worth about 1 billion SGD (approx 736 million USD). This piece of news shocked many…
The Resources We Are Allocated
Ever society is made up of a pyramid-shaped structure – be it power or money. The masses are at the bottom, while the few at the top control most of the society’s power and wealth. If resources are allocated equally,…
The Overall Climate For Property
This will be the last article on property for this period, having written a series on rental, 1 article on capital appreciation and even side-tracked 1 article on fengshui. Today we will zoom out further on the economy. While no…
Of Fengshui And Witchcraft
Fengshui as we know it, lies in the field of mysticism. There seems to be nothing scientific to it, yet many people from all walks of life believe and dabble in it. For example, you may see people arranging furnitures…