Sometimes, getting an article for this blog is so easy it is as if the Gods conspire to help you with your next posting. This week, news started to spread about Singapore Island Country Club members conducting a poverty simulation for their members. Of course the news attracted a fair share of brickbats and I'm not going to go about making things worse. My stand is that a poverty simulation is good thing even though there might be a better way to go about doing it. It can be argued that my life as a law student is some sort of poverty simulation, I have to feed my growing family without touching my investment capital for a minimum of 3 years without rejoining the workforce. After three years, I will review my portfolio to figure out whether my financial independence is for real. If it is not real, then my ......