Parenthood
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While my son was counting down the days to the school holidays, I was counting beans. I counted his final test scores and derived an equivalent PSLE score of 188!! This means that he is headed towards Normal stream in his secondary school years. That sounds remotely like paranoia fromContinue Reading

Buying property in JB
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While sorting out my photographs, I came across this picture taken when I attended a PropertyGuru seminar in 2011. This was part of the slides presented by a Malaysian law firm. For those who find it difficult to make out the text, here they are. I’ve included the approximate datesContinue Reading

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And so the wait was finally over. Way back in March, we bought the Legoland annual passes at pre-launch rates – RM199 for adults and RM149 for children. That is about 30% cheaper than current rack rate. Then we waited eagerly for them to announce the official opening date. ThatContinue Reading

Financial PlanningMy Walk with God
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Okay I am going for something possibly ludicrous for some but I’ve worked out the numbers and it seems totally possible. And so earlier this year I blogged about my retirement plan which I decided would be derived from rental yield received from a portfolio of properties. Based on myContinue Reading

CareerSingapore
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Today I gave the last talk of the year, my fourth this year. The target audience of my talk had typically been a mixture of 50-50 Singaporeans and Singapore Permanent Residents. I enjoy giving this series of talks because the audience size is small and cozy and my boss isContinue Reading

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For the last two days I was enrolled into an Advanced Public Speaking workshop by a renown consultant. I hate giving presentations and yet this skill becomes ever more ubiquitous in my job as an educator. It is a constant struggle for me between the fear of speaking to publicContinue Reading

Otome Gaming
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Recently I found the love for reading again hence the missing in action from blogging. I started with a few random books I bought from Popular bookstore. Some trashy romance novels under the Little Black Dress Book label, then 3 more best sellers: 1. My Story by Dave Pelzer –Continue Reading