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Insurance Agents or Financial Consultants?
Do you call them insurance agents, financial consultants, financial advisors or financial planners? Or is it the insurance industry, financial planning industry, financial consulting industry or wealth management industry? In the past, it was much easier. It was just insurance agents and insurance industry. When I was in the insurance industry from 1994 to 2002, [...]
50,000 people throng Circle Line
“More than 50,000 people turned up to take free train rides through the 11 new stations from Dhoby Ghaut to Bartley.” quoted *The Straits Time today. It’s not unusual to see people forming up lines everywhere in Singapore. These are some of the places you get to see Singapore’s national hobby: Outside of 4D/Toto booth; [...]
Windows works faster in an Apple?
As an owner of a web hosting and web design company, I have to use several Internet browsers to check and see if my sites turn out okay in different browsers. And if you’re a web designer, you’d agree with me that most, if not all, web designers just don’t like IE6. Period. But unfortunately, [...]
7 Habits of Highly Effective Ah Bengs
You’ve heard of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. You may even have read it! But I’m sure you haven’t read this Hokkien version. But you’ve got to be a Hokkien or understand Hokkein to enjoy it. Nevertheless, try reading it. It’s really funny. 
It’s really mumbo jumbo!
“Hw r u. tku 4 visitg me. u r so kind bah. wat u did was cool siah. i reali lonno wat 2 say abt tt. but tomolo we’l c hw.” I’m not sure about you. But I usually get very confused, and at times irritated by such rampant use of short-forms and Singlish. I [...]
My car got scratched!
2 days ago, my maid told me that my car got scratched. And it’s a long one too! The scratch starts from the driver’s door to the back passenger’s door.
WALL STREET. Made simple.
If you have difficulty understanding the current world financial situation, the following should help… Once upon a time in a village in India, a man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10. The villagers seeing there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man [...]
While it may not be "politically appropriate" nowadays to share one's true belief and philosophy, I have always endeavoured to run my life and my businesses the way I feel is right, although it is not always necessarily popular or "politically appropriate".
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