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…
Category My Own Journey
The Subletting Business
For many parts of the world, especially countries like Singapore, the rental market has been hot. Rental prices have nearly doubled compared to 5 years ago, with its increase the most significant during the Covid period. Many people who own…
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…
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…
Playing The Residential Property Market – Part III
In the first article we talked about the overall big picture when choosing the location of a house, such as which general area we should choose by looking at the zoning and plans of the government’s city planning agency. In…
Playing The Residential Property Market – Part II
Continuing from the first article, where we talked about choosing the right locations, today we will deal with the hated numbers. Numbers are important because first it determines the risk we are taking, second the time to breakeven and thirdly…
Playing The Residential Property Market – Part I
Despite the different types of property available, the residential property market is the favourite among the masses for those looking to enter the rental game. Previously I had touched on the non-financial considerations when buying a house as well as…
TFIP 2023
As countries vie for the top position or a place for survival, the need for people with hard skills become more pressing. An economy cannot thrive with just tiktokers who look pretty and dance well. A country cannot survive just…