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First Day As a Financial Adviser
2007-08-10 20:44:00
Today’s gonna be the first day that I start work as a Fina n cial Adviser. To be precise, I will be taking part in my first road show in nine and a half hours time. My feelings are mixed for a few good reasons, mainly because I’m excited, yet fearful at the same time. I attribute ...

Getting out of my comfort zone
2007-07-31 19:54:00
This week, I am attending trainings in order to be authorised in selling insurance products. The training session lasts from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM and it would be quite relaxed if that was the only thing I had to do. However, I had to finish up some work at my ex-employment and the few hours of commute ...
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The Irony of High Standards
2007-07-28 21:46:00
I have just passed two of my tests to become an insurance agent and I think back to all my previous exam and test experiences. Focusing on just these two recent papers though, I have to say I did not do well in the mock papers the night before I took the actual papers. Therefore, I told ...
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Free Traffic Building Methods
2007-07-27 07:13:00
As promised in my last post, I will be discussing the free traffic building methods that I have used and got some traffic for me. These free traffic building methods normally requires you to spend quite a lot of time to build up and depending upon the stickiness of your website, the free traffic may ...
More About: Building , Internet Marketing , Traffic , Free , Methods

Search Engine Optimization Made Easy
2007-07-22 20:44:00
Every internet marketer is interested in targeted traffic and where can you find the most targeted traffic? Well… Search engines are arguably the best form of targeted traffic, provided that proper keywords are used to find your site. For example, if your website is about ’search engine optimization’, you will want people to find your site by ...
More About: Search Engine Optimization , Internet Marketing , Search Engine , Optimization

Sold Off All My Mutual Funds
2007-07-18 18:07:00
Two days ago, I finally decided to sell off all my mutual fund holdings. The decision was made after a few days of internal struggling and I decided that it is not worth keeping the funds emotionally. I still do not know the deal prices that the funds will get sold at, but I would guess that ...
More About: Personal Finance , Mutual Funds , Funds , Sold , Mutual

Computer Hijacked By Adware
2007-07-10 17:49:00
This post is going to be short. I just felt that adware, spyware and keyloggers are very intrusive, since my computer was recently hit. Unfortunately, I did a full scan with 6 different software and it still went undetected. To make matters worse, the ads are mostly showing erm... 'You know what'. Someone help me please...
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Having Money Is Important
2007-07-08 08:05:00
Before you go on to scream at me as being materialistic, stop and think for a few moments. Sure, there may be poor and happy people, as well as, rich and unhappy people. However, I am not trying to equate happiness to wealth in this post. It is almost impossible to quantify happiness in the ...
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Henderson European Property Securities
2007-07-05 19:48:00
I just looked through my Mutual Funds portfolio and noticed something interesting. Out of seven funds that I am holding, only one has not turned a profit yet. It is even more interesting as I dug out my previous posts and noticed that I once blogged that this fund may be my worst performing fund. ...
More About: Personal Finance , Property , European , Securities , Ender

Smile More
2007-07-04 08:49:00
I recall that in my younger days, (I’m still young now) I used to hate smiling. I put up a stuck-up face everyday thinking that my smiles look incredibly ugly. Therefore, I was perceived as being fierce and hostile. The cold expressions I made kept me from making lots of friends that I could have made. As I ...
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Mutual Funds VS Exchange Traded Funds
2007-07-01 15:49:00
I have been seeing many posters on Exchange d Traded Funds (ETFs) recently and they are basically promoting ETFs as having superior performance compared to Mutual Funds . Of course, there are many people who would look at these posters and shout “Oh! It’s SGX who puts up these posters, they got to be right since they ...
More About: Personal Finance , Exchange Traded Funds

Blogs That I Browse
2007-06-29 06:13:00
Maybe my writing is interesting, maybe not… but whatever it is, it should be more interesting to read up many blogs rather than stay at one blog. I also know that even if I am the most interesting writer on planet Earth, (which sad to say so… I’m not yet) you will ultimately surf away ...
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Marketing Is My Passion
2007-06-26 20:36:00
Have you ever had a sudden strong feeling about something? Well… I just had one such moment yesterday. It was 3AM on Monday that I suddenly felt so strongly towards my career path… the realization that I should totally immerse myself in Mark eting . It all happened when I was writing my resume as an assignment for a module. ...
More About: Internet Marketing , Passion , Passi

Agloco?s Viewbar Launch
2007-06-21 04:48:00
In February, I blogged about Agloco, a revenue sharing ‘get paid to surf’ network. I was pretty interested in their idea at that time and published this post “Agloco Might Help Us Make Money“. Now… few months down the road, their viewbar is finally launched. Without hesitation, I downloaded the viewbar and installed it. However, I was ...
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Tracking Successful Internet Marketers
2007-06-15 15:44:00
I ended my Hong Kong trip two days and a half days early, so I’m now back with a new hobby. Ever typed the names of people into Google just to see what results would come out? Well, I’m punching names like Ewen Chia, Corey Rudl and Mark Joyner just to see what gems I ...
More About: Internet , Internet Marketing , Tracking , Intern

Examination Results Release
2007-06-08 09:24:00
Ever tried waiting so anxiously for your exam results that you couldn’t fall asleep and just keep refreshing the webpage every second to see if your results have been posted? Well… I’m at the other end of the extreme this semester, refusing to login and check my results. When I was first told that the ...
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Powerpuff Girls vs Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi
2007-06-07 16:00:00
This is my blog's new design and I shouldn't be making any big changes to the design in the near future. Anyway, I will be packing up for a vacation to Hong Kong these few days, getting ready to fly on Sunday. This blog won't have any updates for a period of time, so I'm posting something cool. It's a short video I recorded during the event, 'PowerPuff y Palooza Battle of the Bands ?Live? Show cum Meet & Greet'. The stars featured are powerpuff girls and Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi. They are pretty adorable and entertaining, but too bad the video is taken with my handphone, so it doesn't have very good quality. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy it. :)
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Asking For Professional Reviews
2007-06-03 09:40:00
I’m pretty lost as to how I can further improve my blog. I know the colors seem a bit dull, but I tried changing colors and it just seems to look even worse each time. Being so lost, I decided to try to solicit for comments. The first thing I tried was to ask for ...
More About: Reviews , Sion , Professional , Fess

Blog Redesign In Progress
2007-05-31 18:54:00
This blog is currently being redesigned by me and might be quite unstable for a period of time. The blog layout is more or less settled, but the colors and tiny touchups are still not decided yet. Please help to leave your comments on how I can make this blog look and feel better too. I ...
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World Internet Summit - Photos
2007-05-29 19:11:00
Here are some photos I snapped at World Intern et Summit . I managed to get another copy of the photograph I took with Mark Joyner, which has much better quality. I got this photograph from Alvin Phang, who runs a blog, GatherSuccess. He’s doing quite a bit of interesting things at the moment and his blog ...
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Mark Joyner And Me!
2007-05-27 19:59:00
Hey guys, if you don’t like any of my posts, you got to at least check this out! Check out how wide my smile is while taking a photo with the Internet Mark eter I respect most currently. I only respected two Internet Marketers to such degree of excitement, but the other one is, for the ...
More About: Internet Marketing

Favoritism In The Workplace
2007-05-24 13:54:00
This post is not going to be about favoritism on a personal level, based on whether the boss likes your character or not. Instead, I intend to focus on a general tendency for employers to show favoritism towards sales and marketing staff. The reason is obvious, since Salesmen and Marketers are tasked with the honorable ...
More About: Workplace , Random Thoughts , Lace , Favor

The Future of Marketing - Chameleon Marketing
2007-05-23 20:15:00
I was reading through tons of Internet Marketing materials and went into a dream state with a powerful paraliminal. In my dream, I came up with this concept of Chameleon Marketing and I believe that the top marketers of the future will adopt the characteristics of a chameleon. Butterfly Marketing has taken the internet by storm and it’s about ...
More About: Internet Marketing , Future , Random Thoughts , The Future

Areas of Profitability
2007-05-15 15:32:00
I saw a survey on an exclusive membership website that basically asked its members what activities have been the most profitable to them. I thought that the results might be of some interest, especially to those people who are thinking of venturing into Internet Marketing. While it does provide a general overview of what’s profitable for these Internet Marketers, I would just like to add that whatever the activity, there are people profiting from it. It’s not a good idea to just jump onto an opportunity because the most number of people are making money from it. We are all made different and might excel in different areas or fields. Anyway, here’s the results: Number 1: Product Selling Basically, this is pretty straight forward, meaning you sell your own product. It’s not surprising that this ranks the most profitable, since you have your own product and will be able to form joint ventures and stuff like that. Additionally, most people who venture into Produc...
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The Internet Gold Mine Story
2007-05-10 13:44:00
I’m suddenly in the mood to write a story and all stories should end with a moral of the story. Stor ies make words come alive, so this post should logically draw more interest than the rest of my posts. However, humans are seldom logical beings, which is why we are particularly interested in stories, which triggers emotions. While this story will not trigger much emotion, it serves to sum up my opinions of the internet, few years ago and now. Let’s move on to the Internet story. In the year ADxxxx (only Mensa members know when Internet came into our lives), computers were networked together and hooked up to form the Internet. Little was known about this new land, except that it promised widespread communication. It was an age where technogeeks rule this land; they spoke a language that few understood and tackled problems that would cause heart attacks for the faint-hearted. We call them geeks, but deep inside, they were highly respected beings and charged high prices t...
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Saving Habits For Better Finances
2007-05-04 23:53:00
To begin with, let’s start with a quote from someone that I forgot: “When unmanaged, expenses always rise to income levels”. I think it’s a very meaningful quote, because it’s quite common to see rich executives spending lavishly, even to the extent that their savings can’t sustain their living expenses for a month. Coming to this, I read a definition of wealth from somewhere that says it’s a measure of how long you can continue your way of life if you stop having income or lose your job. While it’s not the traditional definition in the pure English sense, I do like the way the writer had put the concept of wealth into perspective. I acknowledge that someone more highly paid can afford more material goods, but I feel that sometimes these material goods turn out to be a liability. Instead of supposingly fulfilling our needs and wants in a society that demands higher standards of living, it seems like the regular upkeep for these go...
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Two Internet Marketers I Respect
2007-05-02 19:29:00
As promised in my last post, I will be blogging about the two Intern et Mark eters that I respect most. I don’t respect them more because they make more money than all the other gurus, but rather a combination of several factors make me see them in a different light. Of course, I will be detailing exactly why I respect these two specific Internet Marketers more than the rest. I do not attempt to convince anyone that they are the best in the field, since the contents of this post is just a reflection of my thoughts. If you think someone else deserves to be respected as well, feel free to voice it out. I think it’s always a good thing to acknowledge the efforts of others in making this world a better place. First Internet Marketer I Respect : Corey Rudl This name has gone into obsolescence for some time now, since it was very unfortunate that he met with an accident at a young age that cause his demise. He was previously known as the Godfather of Internet Marketing and he ...

Post Examinations Reflections
2007-04-30 20:11:00
My Exam inations finished last Friday, but I was sick and delayed blogging until today. Anyway, for my examinations… I did so badly in my Statistics and Economics examinations that my friends did not even believe me when I told them honestly that I’m going to flunk my examinations real badly. Although I was sick when taking the examinations, I have never thought for a moment that being sick was the reason that I did so badly. In fact, I believe that my body came up with this secondary gain of having something to blame on when I do badly in the two Examination s. For someone new to this concept of Secondary gain, it basically means that our body tends to give us a pain if there is a resulting gain for the pain, like falling sick so that you don’t have to go to school. I don’t really like to look back and reflect, since it’s obvious that I should have spent my time studying, instead of going out or watching drama series and anime. I have to admit that I...
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2 Exam Papers Over
2007-04-21 15:41:00
I have finished 2 exam papers and have 2 other papers left, which are the ones that I think is most difficult. I had originally planned to spend more time on Statistics and Economics, but laziness got over me. The moment I reached home on Friday, I slept till close midnight and slacked in front of the television until 4 AM. I planned to start studying for statistics today, but instead I went shopping and just reached home. I have wasted another day of my life, like how I have wasted my days for the past week, completing a full 35 episodes drama series and 2 series of 26 episodes anime. At this moment, I still maintain quite a positive attitude towards my examinations, but I’m certain that I need to spend more effort on Economics and Statistics. Competition is going to be real tough for these two modules, but I still want to do well, especially in Statistics. I can’t afford to waste anymore days, so I’ll definitely do all the tutorials for Statistics that I mi...
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Downgrading Wordpress Is a Chore
2007-04-15 12:29:00
Somehow, I suddenly decided to upgrade my Wordpress to the 2.1 series today and it was the first wrong move I made. I thought at that time how long can it take, since Wordpress had always made things very easy to upgrade. Therefore, I downloaded and plan to spend 30minutes to set up Wordpress 2.1 on my blog before starting to study. Since Wordpress had always made things so easy, I didn’t think of making any backups and this was my second wrong move. One thing led to another and I managed to install Wordpress 2.1 quite easily. As promised, it’s just a few clicks and viola, it’s up. The longest time spent is on uploading the files to the server. However, the trouble started from this point on, when I find the later version slower. Although it was stated that the new version had combed through their databases and made it more efficient, I found the new version quite significantly slower. Additionally, their functionality of dictionary checker isn’t really wor...
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