Early this month, I received an email from Alvin Chow, the founder of BigFatPurse. It was an invitation to attend his Value Investing Mastery Course (VIMC) on 21st June. Besides providing an avenue to get to know one another better, he hoped that I would be able to provide feedback on their course so that they could improve on it.

I was really surprised at the invitation because I didn’t know Alvin too well. Actually, I didn’t know Alvin at all. =p

Sure, I had visited his website before and even left a few comments on a couple of posts. But really, that’s about it. I wasn’t even an avid follower of his blog and didn’t even know that he was an author of a book on stocks trading. And it didn’t help that he wasn’t exactly active on this blog as well (sigh).

Naturally, I was pretty honoured by the invitation. But that didn’t overcome the initial ...