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Implications of Sovereign Debt Default
2011-12-08 19:11:00 With recent events, it seems like Basel III is not doing much to prevent another financial meltdown. To share a bit of background first, banks must hold capital depending on the risk-weights: the higher the risk-weights, the more capital banks are required to hold. For example, mortgage-backed securities had low risk-weights and consequently, there’s an ... More About: Random Thoughts , Debt
Correlation of Employee and Customer Engagement
2011-10-19 18:00:00 I was reading an interesting book, ’Human Sigma’ and one of its rule in driving an organization to achieve high customer engagement is that employee engagement and customer engagement has to be managed together. Without needing to go into details, almost everyone would believe that high customer engagement relates to great company profits, especially in this increasingly competitive ... More About: Customer
The Importance of Family Background
2011-08-21 08:03:00 I think the realities of having a strong family background is striking me harder and harder nowadays as I relate to people around me. For example, a person with rich parents or strong connections will obviously have the chance to pursue education in the best instituitions and potentially is going to have great certifications landing him ... More About: Family , Background
Life Is Still Pretty Good
2011-07-14 19:04:00 June was not a good month for my family. It started with my hospitalization, my father-in-law injured his back, my wife’s grandma passed away and finally we lost our baby due to miscarriage. All these seem to kick in all within the same week and I just can’t believe how things just happen at the ... More About: Life , Random Thoughts , Pretty , Good
It Has Been Ages Since My Last Post
2011-03-16 17:17:00 As the title says, I can’t even recall when I last posted anything. My life has been so hectic preparing for wedding dinner and our photoshoots. Adding to that, I have become more and more busy in office now that I hardly have time to breathe. When I reach home from work, it’s usually bedtime ... More About: Post
It Has Been Ages Since My Last Post
2011-03-16 17:17:00 As the title says, I can’t even recall when I last posted anything. My life has been so hectic preparing for wedding dinner and our photoshoots. Adding to that, I have become more and more busy in office now that I hardly have time to breathe. When I reach home from work, it’s usually bedtime ... More About: Post
Comfort Zones Are Dangerous
2010-12-20 18:10:00 When it comes to my own websites, I am in a comfort zone since one year ago. My websites were making me a healthy income, although nothing fabulous and I did nothing to improve the results of my websites since I was in my own comfort zone. A year ago, one of my revenue generating sites ... More About: Random Thoughts
A Little Extra Savings Go A Long Way
2010-11-15 18:07:00 After working for a year, I am really glad that my savings had grown quite significantly. Over the years, I have now become more down-to-earth, putting in more hard work in simple things to make money, instead of chasing after revolutionary ideas. Few years ago, I always want to be involved with businesses that I ... More About: Personal Finance , Long , Extra
The First Will I Planned
2010-11-12 17:55:00 Without much surprise, the first will I planned is for myself, the luxury that some starting estate planners do not have, either because they already wrote a will with someone else or they think they are too young to have a will. I am really glad that I have the experience to plan my own will, because ... More About: Personal Finance
The Importance of Estate Planning
2010-10-31 15:49:00 Recently, I just completed a course on estate planning and it struck me really hard on the importance of it. Also, a lot of people do not even know what estate planning is, since it is a topic that we do not really think about and it is not very popular in Singapore yet. For ... More About: Personal Finance , Estate , Planning
Are Talents Made or Born?
2010-10-12 17:23:00 A couple of weeks ago, I was speaking to a colleague and I just asked casually ‘Where are you sending your kid for studying?’. His response was not what I expected, as he sort of got a bit worked up and replied ‘Nope, I’m not going to let my kid study’ and my first thoughts ... More About: Random Thoughts , Made , Talents
It Has Been A Long Time
2010-09-16 19:36:00 Wow, it has been such a long time since I have blogged. I think I know what’s the reason for me not blogging for such a long time. There were many instances that I wanted to blog about something, but I am at times worried about the repurcussions of blogging, especially since I’m an employee and have ... More About: Time , Long
Passed Level 1 of The CFA Examination
2010-07-26 16:15:00 Last week, I have plenty of bad news on all fronts. After taking on that arsenal of attacks, with some partially self-inflicted, I was emotionally empty and down. I can’t imagine that I neglected to pay my web hosting for the entire time that I am on long holiday in Spain. Other than the web ...
Greed Is a Finances Destroyer
2010-06-25 18:13:00 As I age and mature, I gradually alter my behavior as I strive to be more successful. In recent years, I noticed that I have gotten rid of many of my bad habits or limiting behaviors. However, in the course of becoming more capable, I become more greedy as well. I also notice the same ... More About: Personal Finance , Finances , Greed
Switching to Shorter Posts
2010-06-14 16:48:00 It has been some time since I blogged, probably because I did not have something that I feel would warrant an entire blog post. I used to choose to blog only longer articles and when I did not have enough to write, I simply choose not to write totally. Seeing the lack of posts, I ... More About: Random Thoughts , Posts
Dreaming Big Towards The Holy Grail
2010-03-24 19:24:00 Today, I met up with my ex-colleagues and they brought some of their current colleagues along. Since one of them was interested in doing a web business, they asked me for some advice. I know that I am not some wildly successful internet marketer, but I have quite a lot of experience with making money ... More About: Dreaming
Learning Something From Daily Work
2010-03-23 15:47:00 Today, I was just having a simple discussion with my friend and we were talking about our careers and where would it lead to. Sometimes, it is inevitable to think that we are not learning much from our job when we work on almost the same job scope on a daily basis. However, I believe ... More About: Daily , Random Thoughts , Work , Learning
Red Is Not An Auspicious Color in Stock Markets
2010-02-18 14:27:00 Chinese liken the color red to luck, however, any investor alive should be sensitive to the color red. Afterall, our losses are displayed in red, stocks falling are depicted as red… red is not a color we like to see when we login to check our portfolio. Unfortunately, the stock market is giving us plenty ... More About: Personal Finance , Color , Markets , Stock
My Favorite Media Exposure
2010-01-31 11:12:00 I have several brushes with media exposures, ranging from TV news, blogs, newspapers, posters and websites. However, I have to say that today's exposure in Sunday Times is my favorite so far. :) More About: Media
Recovered and Refreshed
2010-01-21 15:17:00 I was discharged from my physiotherapy last week without any issues and I believe that my right hand is in fact stronger than it used to be. I would rate my own recovery as extremely fast and even the doctors and physiotherapists would probably agree with me. I’m really happy that it did not turn ... More About: Personal Finance
Passion as a Key Ingredient for Success
2009-12-01 18:29:00 I was attending a course today and it talked about Passion as a key ingredient for success. This is actually nothing new, as we constantly hear about successful people advocating the importance of embarking on something we are passionate about. With that thought in mind, I flashed back to my own personal experiences and think ... More About: Success
First Business Trip
2009-11-20 15:23:00 I just came back from Malaysia after my first business trip. When I received notification of having to go for the business trip, I was really glad that I have gotten such an opportunity. Afterall, I am regarded as just a fresh graduate and I was given a cross border working opportunity. I think a ... More About: Business , Trip
Broke My Wrist While Roller-Blading
2009-10-10 06:17:00 Two saturdays ago, I went to east coast park with a joyous mood and rented a pair of roller-blades. Unexpectedly, I broke my right wrist an hour or two later. I think it is pretty ironic that I broke my right wrist when I hardly even fall while roller-blading nowadays. I have taken my body ...
Nokia E71 vs HTC Dream
2009-08-17 18:32:00 Recently, I purchased a HTC Dream and I just cannot believe how dumb my new smartphone is. I really wonder if it even deserves its name as a smartphone, coolphone probably, but smartphone is really a far stretch. I am not writing this review as a professional techie or something like that, but just as a ... More About: Nokia
The Importance of Insurance
2009-07-28 17:33:00 I suddenly felt like blogging on this topic, because I felt that it’s really stupid that people have to be persuaded to buy insurance. Come on, buying insurance is probably one of the most important things that we can spend our money on. Some people says that they don’t need insurance, but they have got ... More About: Insurance
Stepped Down From MyWobile
2009-07-11 09:01:00 I have stepped down from MyWobile, a startup that is funded by MDA and it is truly regretful that I cannot stay till the end despite the wishes of my incubator. I have learnt a lot through this year of experience with the startup and the opportunities in speaking to people, companies and even the ...
Pursuing Interest Over Money
2009-06-25 20:31:00 After a long period of struggle, I finally decided to pursue my interest and accepted a job offer in Market Risk Management at OCBC. With my decision, it means that I have to work much harder, enjoy less flexibility and yet get paid less. From doing something that I have years of experience with, IÂ switched ... More About: Money , Interest
Making Tough Decisions
2009-06-07 19:08:00 This is a period of time that I feel quite lost since this is the first and only time in my life that I am about to step into the labor force. To be honest, it has been very difficult to make my decisions, because interest and money are two major factors that seem to ... More About: Tough , Decisions
Why Create RSS Feeds For Websites
2009-04-29 16:13:00 RSS Feeds was something that I did not totally understand until just a while ago. To be honest, I am still not used to using RSS Feeds, but I can already see how effective RSS Feeds can be for the ordinary user. However, not many people understand how RSS Feeds work, so it still has ... More About: Websites , Create
Major Overhaul of My Own Life
More articles from this author:2009-04-23 16:59:00 Recently, I just deleted four posts of a specific topic, the first time I ever did something like that. I would also be deleting all comments related to that in future. It is a very drastic decision, but one I feel that I have to make to protect those being flamed in the comments. It ... More About: Life , Major 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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