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Addicted to burgers :D

April 26, 2011 by La Papillion

** “BIAS” is a special feature in my blog where I get to say whatever I want with scant regards for your feelings. I’m not politically correct in this feature, so go ahead, judge me.” Quite recently, I’ve been addicted to this new burger by Burger King. Actually I’m not sure if this is a [...]

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My political inclination

April 23, 2011 by La Papillion

Vault dweller showed me a very interesting test on my political inclination. Since the hottest topic these days is about election, and I’ve no idea which side I’m on, I took a test that he linked to me. You can try the test here and do write it in the comments so that we can [...]

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Leveraging for passive income

April 21, 2011 by La Papillion

Recently a person named newbie shared some of his insights into leveraging for passive income. It’s not a new concept to me, but he did kindly shared some of the details on how he did it. Many thanks and appreciation for his generous sharing in my infamous cbox. Before I proceed, do take note that [...]

in Categories: Investing

Spendthrift youth?

April 19, 2011 by La Papillion

I came to know of a story regarding a female private university student who had spent 11k of her parent’s money from the start of the semester to now. The semester should be about 4 months, starting from the beginning of the year. It’s really incredible because at 11k for 4 months, it’s about $2,750 [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

Hyflux preference shares Part 3

April 16, 2011 by La Papillion

It seems like hyflux preference shares issue is getting a lot of attention lately. Besides splashing nearly a whole page on the local newspaper, it is also widely commented in internet forums and blogs. To see how immense the interest in the hyflux preference share is, one only have to look at the explosive increase [...]

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives

Hyflux preference shares Part 2

April 15, 2011 by La Papillion

Here’s part 2 of the Hyflux preference shares commentary. In part 1, I’ve talked about the technical details of the offer, so now we can concentrate on whether it is a good buy, which is the ultimate question. Let’s take a look at the preference shares offered by the banks here: Most of them are [...]

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives

Hyflux preference shares Part 1

April 14, 2011 by La Papillion

Hyflux recently announced plans to offer a 6% cumulative, non-convertible, non-voting, perpetual preference shares to raise funds. The purpose of this fund raising exercise is not known (or I’ve not read closely enough in the prospectus here). Regardless, let’s see if this is worth looking into. First of all, let’s take a look at the [...]

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives

The difficulties of investing

April 11, 2011 by La Papillion

The most difficult part of investing is the fact that repeating the same thing in different times will end up with different results. That is both frustrating and difficulty to correct. Imagine you are trying to learn how to ride a bicycle. You do an action and immediately you can see the results, hence the [...]

in Categories: Investing

I’m a big girl now, mummy

April 8, 2011 by La Papillion

I came across this wonderful poem while reading this book by Virginia Ironside, titled “The Virginia Monologues”, which I’ll share in this post. I picked the book up in the library yesterday when my class got cancelled in the evening. I love moments like this – a sudden god-send gift to relax. Since it’s too [...]

in Categories: Personal Development

The posts that never made it

April 7, 2011 by La Papillion

The title is a little misleading. In this blog post, I will put in some posts that I canned away before it is even published. The reasons will be stated besides each canned blog posts too, so that you can agree or disagree with them, haha! As mentioned in previous postings, it’s hard to keep [...]

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Mid action review – Cache Logistic Trust

April 4, 2011 by La Papillion

I’ve blogged about the charts on Cache a few weeks ago. Here’s a mid action review. Weekly I bought it at 0.915 many weeks ago. Since then, the weekly bullish divergence has come to fruition. I’ll be mapping out the exit strategy now. 0.955 – 0.960 is quite a resistance to clear. After that, 0.98 [...]

in Categories: Technical Analysis

A giant living in a small world

April 1, 2011 by La Papillion

In this horrid times, I feel like a giant roaming around in Singapore. When I go to a typical food court to have my meals, I just cannot be filled by one portion size anymore. More frequently, I’ll have to order double portions or eat a light snack immediately after my main meal to ward [...]

in Categories: Personal Development

The unequal race

March 30, 2011 by La Papillion

I saw this picture that just strikes out at me, urging me insistently that I put it up on my blog. Here it is: In the picture, it clearly shows the difference between those from a wealthy family background and those from a poorer background. Even though the physical starting line is the same, the [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

Have you done your taxes?

March 28, 2011 by La Papillion

As I was doing my e-filing of tax (the deadline is on the 2nd week of April), I was pleasantly surprised by two changes. A picture, or in this case a table, represents a thousand words: You can see that the % for each tier had been reduced for tax assessment year 2012. I noticed [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

Just do it

March 27, 2011 by La Papillion

What is it with humans? We crave for the comforts and security of routine but get frustrated and bored by the very same things that we do again and again. We want to experience adventure yet fear the road that lies ahead. We want to be do the same thing that we did yesterday yet [...]

in Categories: Personal Development

The 4 priorities

March 25, 2011 by La Papillion

I believe that when we start working and start having a decent income stream, we shouldn’t start investing straight away with that money. I think that certain foundation needs to be built first before we should think about growing our wealth. These following points, in my opinion, are listed in order of priority. I’ll start [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

Clearing the clutter in your life

March 18, 2011 by La Papillion

I hate clutter in my life. It can exist physically or emotionally. Physical clutter includes the mountain of nonsense gathered over the past months (some are years) and stacks of paid and unpaid bills on the desktop. Even my computer desktop is cluttered with pdf and word document files that are archived off to read [...]

in Categories: Personal Development

Nikkei crashing

March 16, 2011 by La Papillion

Japan had the greatest earthquake in its history, of magnitude 8.9. This triggered a tsunami that devastated the eastern and mostly northern part of Japan island. Due to the specter of possible nuclear meltdown over the nuclear power stations situated in Japan and consequently damaged during the natural calamity, Nikkei crashed very badly. The first [...]

in Categories: Market Review and Trends

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