This is a true story. I was lunching with my colleagues the past week and midway we had a conversation about the topic on finance and the stuff I was writing in my blog every other day which they saw appear on their facebook news feed. The conversation goes something like this: Colleague A: "Hey, I saw you were blogging about passive income in your blog and all those financial jargons you researched about on companies. What was all that about ?" Since they are not accounting or financially trained, I gave them a brief explanation on what investing in equities mean and how I was trying to build up passive income from the companies I own. I also tried to explain to them that investing means owning a part of the business which we think will have great potential to grow in the future. In other words, it is ......