Explaining personal finance to kids can be very challenging, especially when it comes to the logic around compounding. Here’s a simple way to explain the power of compounding with your kids. Here’s how the conversation would be like between me and my imaginary son, Tom. Mickey: Tom, what would you rather have, $100,000 or a…
We’ve crossed the middle of the year again and if you’re as lucky as I am, you should have been informed of your salary increment for 2018. This year, I got a small increment of $195 in my monthly payroll so that’s an additional 195 one-dollar soldiers awaiting for deployment every month! I checked my…
Seedly is probably the only company that is able to organize a finance event in Singapore that managed to get people in their 20-30s to show up for a 6-hour long event, and make them pay $30 to attend. On a lovely Saturday morning, I joined the bunch of lovely folks from Seedly at their exclusive…
In my last post, I wrote about how my first property investment has finally completed and with that, my 3 years of scrimping and saving to pay for the purchase has also ended. Hooray! Recently, I saw a photo of the actual building in a property investment website so I thought I share it with you. I…
In December last year, I received a letter from Oxley WorldBridge, the property developer for The Bridge. In the letter, it was mentioned that my Cambodia property is completing ahead of time and they attached a payment notice for final payment. That means it’s time for me to pay up the remaining 50% of the…
Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus from The Minimalists created this game called the 30-Day Minimalism Game that helped thousands of people worldwide declutter their homes. How to play the 30-Day Minimalism Game The game is a way of getting rid of the excess, the stuff that no longer adds value to one’s life. Here’s…