Getting what you wished for
It has been one really long year. Despite going on part time, my work commitments were not lightened and coupled with managing Joel’s school work, I was ready for a long break. However I didn’t ...
Primary One Report
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 ...
Buying property in JB 105
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 ...
Family Fun in Legoland Malaysia
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 ...
A Financial Stocktake 2
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 ...
Comparing the Singapore and SPR mentality
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 ...
The Power of Speech
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 ...
A Song of Ice and Fire
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 ...
Buying Property in JB 104
It has been about 3 months since I signed all the required documents and surrendered almost 2/3 of my savings towards the downpayment and other misc fees for the home purchase. Since then I have ...
Mountain #3 Gunung Pulai
On 3 September 2012, I finally got down to doing what I had wanted to do for the last three months. Climb a mountain and not just Bukit Timah. About 1.5 month ago, Theo and ...