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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
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
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3 |
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