TFIP 2024
TFIP 2023 is over. Offers have been sent out and training will start in February 2024. As with all cases, only a handful succeeded in getting a placement in the programme. We do not know yet whether there will be…
Category Miscellaneous
Our Future In A World Of Artificial Intelligence
The hot topic in the recent science and technology sector is that of artificial intelligence. While the topic of artificial intelligence has been around for the longest time in movies, in talks and by incremental developments in the technological sector,…
Know Thyself
Apollo, one of the Twelve Olympians, although is a god of many titles, is best known as the sun god. In the Temple of Apollo, 150 Delphic maxims (set of moral precepts) were inscribed. Of the 150, the most famous…
Consumerism
Consumerism basically is a phenomenon of individuals spending and acquiring things way beyond their basic needs. This spending and acquisition of goods or services will elevate an individual’s well-being or happiness. For example, the never-ending shopping and buying of clothes…
Red Alert – Part II
In Part I we used the classic game Red Alert to reference our battle to reach financial freedom. Today we will continue using Red Alert as an analogy to go deeper into detail the things we could do. Analogies are…
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…
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…
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,…