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How I read (almost) 52 books a year

January 20, 2012 by La Papillion
Since a lot of readers commented that they had only been reading 1-2 books max in a year, I thought it’ll be a good time to share what I did to read that many books. First of all, let me add that in my opinion, reading many books is not as important as reading the [...]
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Reflection on 2011

January 9, 2012 by La Papillion
After doing my end of month accounting for the Dec 2011 and thus wrap up my financial year 2011, I realised that a lot of my networth was wiped out. Okay, everyone’s definition of networth is different, so here’s mine – it’s defined as all my assets (includes cash, marked to market investment portfolio, whole [...]
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Making mistakes

December 30, 2011 by La Papillion
I made a couple of mistakes these few weeks as I shifted over to my new home. Most of them happened in the kitchen, because that’s the part of the home that I had least experience in. In school, we make mistakes when doing tutorials. In work, we make mistakes in handling people and other [...]
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Taking on full responsibility

December 22, 2011 by La Papillion
The recent mrt episodes in Singapore highlighted a couple of bias that can be equally applicable in the investment/trading mentality. I saw some report saying that since the CEO had been in the company, the company had grew its profit from xxx to yyy per annum. This implied that the CEO is responsible for creating the [...]
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Choosing quality over quantity

December 12, 2011 by La Papillion
As I get older and hopefully more mature, I realised that if I have to choose between quantity and quality, I’ll go for quality these days. It’s not always like that. There was a time that I thought more is good. For example, having more of a cheaper share is better than having less of [...]
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Hill Harper’s "The Wealth Cure"

December 7, 2011 by La Papillion
If you’re looking for prescribed, step by step ways to kick start a healthy relationship with money and wealth, then Hill Harper’s “The Weath Cure” is not your type of book. Initially when I read the book, I found it rather strange because of the way the book is structured. There are 5 big parts [...]
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Positive mindset vs possibility mindset

December 5, 2011 by La Papillion
I was reading this book by Dr. Robert Anthony “How to make the impossible possible”, when I discovered that the author actually differentiate between positive mindset and possibility mindset . We know the usual positive thinking – if we think positive, then the outcome can also be positive. This is opposed to thinking negatively about [...]
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Am I certified to trade?

December 2, 2011 by La Papillion
As I logged into my poems account, I saw this screen asking me to do a test. I think it’s the new ruling that is going to take effect on 1st Jan 2012. If you do not satisfy certain criteria, you’ll be asked to take a test to determine whether you know what you are [...]

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The joys of working from home

December 1, 2011 by La Papillion
As I was starting work in my new flat, I realized that there’s a few things that I liked about this arrangement. As I was slacking now after my student left, I realized how fortunate I am to be able to finish work and still be at home. I cherish this feeling and felt an [...]
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Cbox outing @ Beng Hiang

November 28, 2011 by La Papillion
Bullythebear had a lunch outing on Sat 26th Nov 2011. It had been quite some time where we had a gathering with the guys/gals from the cbox community. Anyway, thanks to Neophyte who initiated it and passed the baton over to me to handle the rest of the logistic. Not to forget sfry who sponsored [...]

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Starting a new friendship with an old friend

November 24, 2011 by La Papillion
Today I went to Sitex (the computer exhibition at expo) with a new friend. Rather, he was an old ‘new’ friend because I’ve known him for many years but perhaps this time round, I really treated him like a friend. Kind of sad, but I’ll always say it’s better this way then never. You will [...]

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My reshuffled priority in life

November 15, 2011 by La Papillion
I realized as I sat in my new home, that setting up a home is financially draining yet at the same time is very satisfying. As the furniture slowly trickles in and your house transforms into your home, with all the little imperfections that you will come to appreciate and all the weird corners that [...]
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The last few ticks of my to-do lists

November 12, 2011 by La Papillion
Finally finished the bulk of my work year! The rest of my work schedule are just some ‘stragglers’ from the graduating batch and maybe a few students for the preparation in the next academic year. I always said that I’ve never worked so hard before in the previous years, but I’ve to say that again [...]
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Adult quitting

November 1, 2011 by La Papillion
When kids quit, they just stomp their feet and leave the game. The quitting is physical and mental at the same time. When we’re adults, we can no longer quit physically because we either need the job or we can’t afford to sour the relationship. So adults quit mentally. They would just stay in droning [...]
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Tech hack for android

October 27, 2011 by La Papillion
I’m so glad I found the ultimate technological hack for android phones. Some of you may be aware that amazon had this new amazon app store, supposedly to cater for their new kindle fire tablet so that people can shop for apps through their site. They have this wonderful way to promote their amazon app [...]

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Investing in your life goals

October 21, 2011 by La Papillion
It’s important to align your energy to fulfill your life goals. That’s the only way to lead a purposeful and fulfilling life, isn’t it? Why do you want to work so hard to buy things that you don’t care to impress people whom you don’t like? Once you recognize that doing certain things are not aligned to [...]
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Winter is coming

October 7, 2011 by La Papillion
I’m seldom stressed about my financial situation because I don’t really spend a lot and I save a major portion of my income. However, recently I’ve been trying to think out of my financial situation. Without giving specifics, I think I might have spent too heavily on both the COV of my resale and the [...]
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4 steps to problem solving

October 7, 2011 by La Papillion
Diagnose, Treat, Comply, Maintain. Sometimes it’s so hard to help students. I would diagnose that the reason why they are not performing well in their studies is because they do not have enough knowledge in their mind. Practicing past year papers a million times (without reflecting) just practices whatever you know, so it would be very hard [...]
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