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What Valentine’s Day Taught Me About Planning Ahead
There are a couple of timeless truths about Valentine’s Day: Restaurants will charge you crazy prices for a mass-produced prix fixe …
What’s Good To Invest In “Right Now?”
One of the side effects of being a personal finance blogger is that relatives love asking me for financial advice. This Chinese New Year, …
What I Spent 29 Hours On Last Week
This is the reason why cheerfulegg has been really quiet lately: As you can see from my Rescuetime summary, I've been involved in a …
The Myth of the Successful Money Manager
I love to laugh at the fancy ads that fund management companies take out on the MRT. They'll say things like "Hey, we're superdamnawesome at …
Who Says ICT Is A Waste of Time?
I had an epiphany while I was crouching in the jungle in the middle of the night. I don’t know why these flashes of inspiration always come …
Why Big Market Drops Don’t Scare Me
As you know, I love making fun of people who get overly stressed about tiny things. Don’t we all know someone like that? For example: the …
Is Home Ownership Actually Worth It?
I’m a huge weirdo, so I love to do random studies like whether I can eat a whole bowl of ramen (I can), whether 7 hours of sleep really …
Passive Investing: Why It Rocks When You’re Young
My second MoneySmart guestpost is up! This time, I talk about three reasons why passive investing is the PERFECT strategy for young, …