After a two-year hiatus from blogging, I’m back! A lot has happened during this time: we welcomed a new family member in 2023 (the last one, I promise!), we were fortunate enough to secure a BTO in Tampines North with a completion date between late 2025 and mid-2026, and my salary has seen some smallContinue reading “I am back, after 2 years, with positive updates”
Category Archives: finance
CPF Balance Hits SGD 200k Milestone
Happy new year! after disappeared for 7 months, opps! A lot has happened in this unprecedented year, many wouldn’t expect that the coronavirus, a vibe word used frequently nowadays, is still spreading tirelessly across the boundaries. Countries, particularly the Western, are struggling to curb the virus successfully. Thankfully, Singapore has more or less kept theContinue reading “CPF Balance Hits SGD 200k Milestone”
eToro – Social Trading
2 months ago, I started exploring a very unique investment platform, eToro. This is a very controversial social trading portal, often labelled by others as “Scam”. Nonetheless, eToro is gradually getting accredited by reputable authorities in the world. eToro was founded in 2007, with its HQ in Cyrus (hence the suspicion in old days), notContinue reading “eToro – Social Trading”
Stock Market – Is it a V-shape Recovery?
It has been an eventful March and April, we are undergoing an unprecedented pandemic which affects greatly the norms of social interaction for human beings. A “new normality” is to continue for the foreseeable future, with huge focus in digitization and online collaboration to minimize the spread of virus. As you can see from myContinue reading “Stock Market – Is it a V-shape Recovery?”
First Bad News in year 2020
It is clear that we have entered a recession” that will be worse than in 2009 following the global financial crisis, she said in an online press briefing. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday (Mar 27) A sunny morning, my son woke up at 7am, started to play by himself, but it took usContinue reading “First Bad News in year 2020”
Recession? Opportunity?
Year 2020 is no doubt an eventful year, US-China trade war, Hong Kong protest, COVID-19 outbreak, and the most recent US Fed emergency interest cut. It is clear that the global economy is now seriously hit by the outbreak of COVID-19, which originated from Hubei province, China, and has infected more than 100k population inContinue reading “Recession? Opportunity?”
Side Hustle Ideas
Getting boring at 9-5 routine office works? Wanting to quit your job due to stress at works? It is very common phenomenon for almost every employee in the job market, and typically it happens 2 to 3 years after you joined the work force, regardless if this is your first job, second, or third job.Continue reading “Side Hustle Ideas”
Speculative Investment – Cryptocurrency
If you invested 100 USD in Feb 2011, when the bitcoin price is as cheap as USD 1, you would have been a millionaire today (bitcoin price is around 8,500 USD in Jan 2020). Since graduated in 2009, and started to have my own earning power, I had heard not only once from various sourcesContinue reading “Speculative Investment – Cryptocurrency”
Time in the market or Time the market?
It is probably not uncommon to hear this – time in the market is better than timing the market. These are 2 different investing philosophies, ie. waiting for market to crash before pulling the trigger, or dollar-cost-averaging every fixed period of time, ignoring the market condition. I was once a believer of stock picking, creatingContinue reading “Time in the market or Time the market?”
How much I lost in Forex Trading?
In 2012, I was getting bored and tired of my engineer routine works, and decided to quit and took a short break. During my one-month notice period, I started exploring side hustles (in fact I was into SEO / affiliate marketing in 2010, gave up due to lack of time / interest), one of myContinue reading “How much I lost in Forex Trading?”
