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Boast Your Victories, Hide Your Losses
2009-04-15 15:32:00 Have you ever wondered why is it that so many people seem to be doing great in their lives? Everyone seems to talk about themselves like they are perfect and should be promoted to the CEO of their company. Everyone talks about how much money they win in the casino, 4D, stock market or anything ... More About: Losses
Lack of Budgeting Causes Poverty?
2009-04-12 08:48:00 Recently, there are quite a few people losing jobs and going into debts. However, there is nothing surprising about that. In fact, the surprising thing is that a lot of those who get into real big problems are not the really poor folks, but rather those once-rich highly-paid executives. It is bad to lose jobs for anyone, ... More About: Poverty , Budgeting , Lack
Twouble With Twitter
2009-04-03 12:14:00 When I was reading up more about Twitter and seeing how it can possibly help in a business platform, I came across this video. It's pretty cool. :)
Google Pagerank Update
2009-04-02 20:45:00 Just when IÂ started focusing on Internet Marketing with real actions done, Google has a pagerank update. This update is not particularly favorable for my websites, since all of them fell in their Pagerank . Over the past few years that I neglected the websites that I built up, all of my websites had fallen in pagerank ... More About: Google Pagerank , Update
Written My First Wordpress Plugin
2009-04-01 20:35:00 I have always wanted to learn more about how to do additional things in Wordpress and finally got around to doing it. My first wordpress plugin is only intended for my own use, although I may decide to publish wordpress plugins in future. For those visitors that constantly refresh my blog for updates, you may ... More About: Plugin
Rejected a Job Offer
2009-03-26 11:31:00 Recently, I was contacted by the boss of a company where I used to work for. He actually asked for my help to work on a web portal and offered a reasonable pay for my services, making me slightly hesistant to reject him at first. After all, I think he is sincere in his approach and that the ... More About: Rejected
Security Vulnerability of a MNC Detected
2009-03-18 03:42:00 When I was trying to automate some tasks with Microsoft Excel, I was exploring a website of a MNC in detail. As I was browsing through different pages and exploring different permutations of the URLs, I got a great surprise. I was able to see information of clients that I am not supposed to be ... More About: Security , Vulnerability
Competitive Advantage in Business
2009-03-11 18:03:00 I am currently attending a workshop on getting seed funding. We were just talking about innovation and value proposition, so all the teams started presenting. As all the teams presented, one question kept lurking around as a stumbling block. Some of the teams have very good presentations and ideas, but almost everyone can’t give a perfect answer when ... More About: Business , Competitive
The Career Effects of Graduating During a Recession
2009-03-01 09:55:00 I stumbled upon an interesting article that will probably interest many people of my age, since we are about to enter the job market. This article is from the National Bureau of Economic Research and the study is done on Canadian students. The highlight of the article is the point where it stated that young ... More About: Career , Recession , Effects
Looking For a Business Developer
2009-02-26 11:23:00 MyWobile is currently looking for a business developer to work on the business aspects of the company. As a startup company that is funded by MDA, cash is pretty tight, so the salary offered is going to be low. However, significant shares will be given as you are expected to be a key partner, with ... More About: Business , Developer
The Man Without Limbs
2009-02-23 14:39:00 This is not a blog post asking for sympathy and donations. If you are expecting to see beggars or people cursing their fate for their loss of limbs and asking for donations, this video is not where you will look. Look here and be touched, be inspired. More About: Limbs
Second Appearance on Channel 8 News
2009-02-16 18:08:00 This is my second appearance on Channel 8 News for another topic, basically about university graduates running startups. This is sort of self-solicited, since it is part of the publicity strategy I had in mind for MyWobile, a startup funded by MDA. After months of hard work, we are starting to see the fruits of our ... More About: Appearance
The Power of The Last Word
2009-02-10 16:28:00 Have you ever felt that bloggers hold a lot of potential power? I mean, imagine how much they can change people’s perceptions about different things by just writing a post. For example, there are a lot of food blogs out there currently and a restaurant owner pleasing the owners of these blogs may mean a ... More About: Power , Word , The Last Word
Release of My Examination Results
2008-06-05 14:17:00 Once again, I got my results and as always, I am posting them on this blog, whether the results are good or poor. As a summary, my results in this semester are of first class standard, but barely there. It’s a sharp contrast to my previous semester’s results, where that single semester totally ruined all ... More About: Random Thoughts , Results , Release , Examination
My National Service Life
2008-05-29 16:52:00 As I have related in my previous post, I am back to serving the remainder of my four months National Service liability. As of next week, I will be officially promoted to a new rank of Corporal First Class. Well… it doesn’t really help much, except that I get a $40 pay increment, which isn’t ... More About: Life , Random Thoughts
Serving The Rest of My National Service
2008-05-14 13:34:00 I am now serving the remainder of my four months national service liability, due to the fact that I’m a disruptee. I reported to my unit in the next working day immediately after my last university examination. Haiz, my last examination was a real disaster, due to a real bad stomachache which I had immediately after the ... More About: National , Service , Rest
Learning To Cook Desserts
2008-04-21 15:54:00 Recently, I have been pampering myself with some extra time to do what I like and cooking is one of those things that I always liked, except that I did not really want to spend the long hours on cooking. Recently though, I have a craving for desserts and I just felt that I needed ... More About: Desserts , Learning , Cook
Singapore is a Land of Opportunities
2008-03-18 21:20:00 I haven’t seen much of the world to judge that Singapore is good relative to other countries. However, personally, I do feel that Singapore has been launching many initiatives to provide opportunities for those who want it. For example, if you want to study, it is always possible to get bank loans, government grants and ... More About: Random Thoughts , Opportunities , Land
The Rise of Facebook
2008-03-11 18:12:00 It was not long ago that I signed up for a Facebook account and I seem to be behind most of the human race when it comes to becoming a Facebooker or whatever term they call it. The initial resistance to join Facebook was caused by a pre-misconception that it’s similar to Friendster and that ... More About: Internet Marketing , Rise
Forex Trading on EUR/USD
2008-02-29 00:17:00 It’s been some time since I last blogged. Anyway, I have recently been spending quite a lot of time trading forex and I’m getting close to making 1,000 trades soon. I only had this forex account for about 20 days and I already have hundreds of trades. It astonishes myself that my daytrades resulted in ... More About: Forex , Trading , Forex Trading
Pay Per Play Advertising
2008-02-16 08:20:00 Recently, a new type of advertising has emerged on the Internet - Pay Per Play . This term was also used for websites that pays people when they refer people to play games, but now Net Audio Ads has been using the term for playing audio ads. To illustrate the concept, I have added the code ... More About: Advertising , Internet Marketing
The Power of More Brains
2008-02-05 21:47:00 I have been involved with a business startup recently after one of my friends invited me to join him and help the startup take off. Our management team currently consists of three people, with me as the business / soft skills guy and the other two in charge of software development. Honestly, my friend roped me ... More About: Power , Brains
Singaporeans, Start Saving For Your Taxes
2008-01-31 14:34:00 Every year, we give a portion of money back to the government through income taxes. This year, it isn’t going to be any different. However, let’s do things differently this time. Instead of waiting till the last minute to file your taxes and be confused about what’s going on, why not take a proactive approach ... More About: Personal Finance , Taxes , Start , Saving
Experiencing Neuro-Linguistic Programming
2008-01-15 18:59:00 I just came back to Singapore from a Neuro-Linguist ic Programming course and this is the first time I skipped my lessons for a really worthwhile cause. I experienced and learnt so much that I feel like a totally changed person and my goals are now much clearer than before. I can’t say too much in ...
Examinations Result Release
2007-12-29 10:04:00 I just got back my results yesterday and all I have to say is that I have dropped from first class honors to third class, with the two modules that I skipped 60% of my tutorial classes getting Cs. My grades in this semester totally portray the importance of attendance in Universities. My Investments and Communication modules got ... More About: Release , Result
Merry Christmas To Everyone
2007-12-24 01:39:00 A Merry Christmas to Everyone! It’s that time of the year again, a time where we see the big red fat guy. Honestly, Santa looks like a real kidnapper, with his big bag and moustache covering his entire face. Perhaps that was how Santa originated when he was on his rounds to kidnap children and got ... More About: Random Thoughts , Merry Christmas
Investments and Risk Reward Ratio
2007-12-17 03:11:00 It is always interesting that there are so many different types of investments around us, ranging from regulated investments such as bonds and stocks, all the way to unregulated investment vehicles such as collectibles, antiques and many others. In this post, I’m slightly more inclined to talk about some common investments, mainly money markets, bonds, stocks and derivatives ... More About: Personal Finance , Random Thoughts , Risk , Investments , Reward
My First Two Days of Forex Trading
2007-12-12 07:00:00 Before I go on with my trading experience, maybe let’s look at the market after the FOMC. Most indexes were down from 1 to 3%, but I should not be that much affected, since I sold off all my fund holdings a day before the FOMC. However, since my holdings are mutual funds, I don’t know what ... More About: Personal Finance , Forex , Trading , Forex Trading , Days
Speaking at Singapore Polytechnic
2007-12-05 14:03:00 Recently, my lecturer back when I was studying in Singapore Polytechnic said that he wanted to talk to me about a new module that he was teaching. Initially, we were thinking of meeting outside, but we decided that it was much more convenient to meet in Singapore Polytechnic. Then, my ex-lecturer suggested that I attend a class ... More About: Speaking , Technic
Resolution To Quit Playing Games
More articles from this author:2007-11-29 12:00:00 I know it is not New Year yet, but I’m setting a resolution to quit playing computer games. The last time I set such a resolution, I stopped playing games for 3 months, but got tempted by my friends who were always playing games in my presence. This time round, I don’t see much temptation around ... More About: Games , Random Thoughts , Quit , Resolution 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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