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A frustrating week

May 12, 2012 by La Papillion

I’ve had students who asked to stop the tuition once they did well for their exams or once the holidays are here. Usually I don’t agree, especially for graduating students because I think the time spent with me is worth many hours spent doing their own revision, unless proven otherwise. I’m in this business too [...]

in Categories: Investing

Noble chart

May 2, 2012 by La Papillion

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives, Technical Analysis

Be Brave.

April 26, 2012 by La Papillion

A student of mine recently got ‘scolded’ by me. She was trying to solve a physics problem but she had no idea how to do it. I had a glimpse of her thinking when I asked her to think out loud. She said after doing this and that, she had no idea what to do. [...]

in Categories: Personal Development

What’s the minimum salary to live comfortably?

April 19, 2012 by La Papillion

I was wondering what is the salary that one would need in order to survive life here in Singapore. It would not be surprising to hear a wide range, perhaps from as low as 1k/mth to as high as 20k/mth. That’s because we want different things in life and for certain things, we really do [...]

in Categories: Investing, Personal Finance

Changing market strategy?

April 17, 2012 by La Papillion

Some people follow a market strategy of being a contrarian. This means that if others are buying, then you will be selling and vice versa. I think this makes a lot of sense, at least in theory. The hard thing is not about the theory itself, but deciding when the theory is applicable. If you [...]

in Categories: Investing, Market Review and Trends

Sharing my monthly ritual

April 3, 2012 by La Papillion

I just finished tidying up my month end accounts. I’ve been doing this for quite a while, so it didn’t take too much time as all the necessary process had already been routinized and it’s just a matter of clicking the right websites and recording down some numbers. Let me share what I do every month end: [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

Don’t be obsessed over financial freedom

March 9, 2012 by La Papillion

The title says it all. Do not be obsessed over financial freedom. Financial freedom is for the future, but in order to have a future, you need to have a present. What if one day, your present situation changes, would the financial freedom that you have in the future still be meaningful? For example, you [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

Complementary opposites

February 23, 2012 by La Papillion

I realised, by living with my wife, that we have different ways of looking at things. She could fuss over details that I wouldn’t bat my eyelids over. Or I could crunch over the numbers before buying things while she just looks at the colours available. I think that’s the thing that makes us, as [...]

in Categories: Uncategorized

Selling mode

February 16, 2012 by La Papillion

Throughout the entirety of this week and last, I was trying to sell of a good part of my portfolio. I sold off all my aims before the run up and all my sabana and all my lippomall. Don’t be alarmed by the word ‘all’ – it means different things to different people. I sold [...]

in Categories: Investing

Results announcement calender

February 8, 2012 by La Papillion

Here’s the result announcement for this month. I’ll be paying attention to a few counters that are announcing their full year results. I wonder whether this is the thing that keeps STI awake these days and wondering what will become of STI when the excitement dies off.

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives

The swan song of local bloggers

February 7, 2012 by La Papillion

As the market transforms back and fro into a beast that is neither a bull or a bear (perhaps it had always been a hybrid chimera of sort – a bull with bear head for instance), I noticed that more and more old timer bloggers are slowly exiting the blogging scene. I say that with [...]

in Categories: Site Update

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 [...]

in Categories: Personal Development

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 [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

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 [...]

in Categories: Personal Development

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 [...]

in Categories: Personal Development

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 [...]

in Categories: Personal Development

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 [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

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 [...]

in Categories: Personal Development

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