Its the mid of 2015, let's just do a little checkpoint to see how much am I closer to my target :) I started building my portfolio in Oct 2014. So close to 1 year of results. STI vs my portfolio: My portfolio started to beat STI recently with the cumulative amount of dividends collected, it should be a matter of months. But I noticed that STI rebound faster than my portfolio probably because blue chips are more popular when there's a dip or in an oversold situation, it can recover quickly. Portfolio by stocks: I am currently still in the process of diversifying my portfolio such that they should not exceed more than 5% of my total portfolio. I am still looking out for more high dividend stocks to buy so that I will be more diversified. I have 16 stocks with me now and will be targeting to ......