Archives
May 2008
- 15th: Round Up for week ending 15th May 08 (0)
- 11th: Progress Update – My goat farm (10)
- 8th: Round Up for week ending 8th May 08 (0)
- 7th: How should I choose my web designer? (4)
- 6th: Cool skills to have / habits to form for personal development – Learning Theatre / Drama (6)
- 5th: Applying Kaizen, the Japanese science of continual improvement in our daily lives (4)
- 4th: How I intend to help my daughters secure jobs they would like – Part 6 – Preparing for the Interview (1)
- 1st: Round Up for week ending 1st May 08 (1)
April 2008
- 30th: What should I do with my Timeshare? (4)
- 29th: My son, a gentleman in waiting (3)
- 28th: Reviewing my children’s allowances (1)
- 27th: How I intend to help my daughters secure jobs they would like – Part 5 – Preparing a Killer Resume (3)
- 24th: Round up for week ending 24 April 08 (3)
- 23rd: Are YOU ready for a 1930’s strength recession? (9)
- 22nd: Tax filing for Malaysians – it’s a little less taxing now (0)
- 21st: Tagged! (0)
- 21st: How I intend to help my daughters secure jobs they would like – Part 4 – Understanding the career options available (2)
- 20th: A tribute to the teachers of the world (2)
- 18th: Round up for week ending 18 April 08 (2)
- 14th: We sold our house – the emotional factor (2)
- 13th: We have sold the house (7)
- 10th: Round Up for week ending 10th April 08 (7)
- 10th: Hah! Phase 1 of another major financial commitment has now been done with (1)
- 9th: A good piece of advice on marriages (6)
- 8th: Children…….and their effect on budgets….sigh! (0)
- 7th: Looks like it’s going to be a very busy time ahead – should I give up blogging? (6)
- 6th: The sun is rising again in my life (2)
- 1st: Still feeling listless (1)
March 2008
- 31st: A (very) belated round up for the week ending 20 March 08 (4)
- 30th: My mother passed away on Wednesday, the 19th March at 7.40 pm (8)
- 18th: A family emergency has cropped up (10)
- 18th: My plan on making time for my personal goals (2)
- 17th: Welcome (0)
- 17th: Insurance renewal settled and now it looks like I’ll get my credit card fees waived as well (1)
- 17th: A major financial concern has been settled, Thank God! (2)
- 13th: The Digerati Life has included me amongst people she classifies as “great minds” (0)
- 13th: Round up for week ending 13 March 08 (6)
- 12th: My business start up – the area where costs must not be the primary consideration (2)
- 11th: Is this the Law of Attraction of Work or has my friend found his switch? (3)
- 10th: Welcome, Readers of Consumerism Commentary (0)
- 10th: Is the world’s financial roof about to fall off? (0)
- 9th: How I intend to help my daughters secure jobs they would like – Part 3 – Basics of life as an employee (3)
- 9th: The 8th of March 08, history in the making for Malaysia (0)
- 6th: Round up for week ending 6 March 08 (6)
- 5th: Review of my younger children’s money habits (2)
- 4th: Please help me to help a friend advice his daughters on PF (9)
- 3rd: How I intend to help my daughters secure jobs they would like - Part 2 - Additional Skills to pick up (0)
- 2nd: My advice to my children on traveling in the post 9/11 world (4)
February 2008
- 28th: Round up for week ending 28 February 08 (5)
- 27th: Insurance auto renewals may need insurance (0)
- 26th: Spotting and seizing opportunities (5)
- 25th: People who have given me a helping hand – A friend of a friend who gave my company a huge unsecured loan (0)
- 24th: How I intend to help my daughters secure jobs they would like - Part 1 (9)
- 23rd: Round up for week ending 23 February 08 (5)
- 22nd: Aircraft carriers and personal finance management (2)
- 21st: The “counting down the no’s theory” of perserverance (1)
- 20th: The Parents giving and giving - Some Westerners may have no idea…. (9)
- 20th: Welcome (8)
- 18th: Can a windfall really change people’s lives? (7)
- 17th: There is no mine and yours in our family finances (0)
- 16th: Round up for week ending 16th February 08 (0)
- 14th: This should be a no brainer, shouldn’t it? (1)
- 13th: Can this provide the motivation to my children on smart personal finance? (12)
- 12th: Cool skills to have / habits to form for personal development - Handyman skills (4)
- 11th: The power of indirect communications (5)
- 10th: The goat farm is coming up nicely (4)
- 9th: Roundup for week ending 9th February 08 (2)
- 7th: A good example why just preaching to my children on pf won’t help (6)
- 6th: A critical review of my loans (4)
- 5th: Counting my blessings again and again (8)
- 4th: Giving my elder girls a firmer life foundation (7)
- 3rd: A review of goals set for 2008 - Educating my children (7)
- 1st: What should I tell my children if they were to ask me “How to choose the right spouse?” (0)
January 2008
- 30th: People who have given me a helping hand - My primary school friends who gave me the gift of “loving to read” (0)
- 29th: Business (and investment) opportunities arise when technology meets and improves on an old business practice (0)
- 29th: Thank you, a little less belated than the last time (0)
- 28th: The costly PF mistakes and blunders I have made, and why you should not repeat my mistakes – Part 4 (1)
- 28th: My personal motivation and guide on “charity” (0)
- 24th: The costly PF mistakes and blunders I have made, and why you should not repeat my mistakes – Part 3 (6)
- 23rd: The costly PF mistakes and blunders I have made, and why you should not repeat my mistakes – Part 2 (9)
- 22nd: The costly PF mistakes and blunders I have made, and why you should not repeat my mistakes – Part 1 (4)
- 21st: How can we nurture and reap the fullest dividends from our greatest asset (8)
- 20th: How my wife and I “frugalized” a sensitive item, telephone bills (8)
- 17th: 2008 – the year for earning more (7)
- 16th: Let us not forget those who have given us a helping hand (2)
- 15th: How and what should we recognize as corruption (7)
- 14th: Cool skills to learn/Habits to form for personal development – Learning how to cook (7)
- 13th: How I keep track of my financial progress (4)
- 10th: What I want most in life or What I want said as my eulogy (9)
- 9th: You tell me, what is really my greatest investment? (7)
- 9th: The 134th Carnival of Personal Finance – Building on the basics Edition (12)
- 8th: “Frugal” things I did in 2007 and plans for 2008 (4)
- 8th: My 3 rules on dealing with people (4)
- 6th: How I plan or overplan my year, month, week and day (2)
- 6th: The 2nd Carnival of Financial Goals – A walk with Sam Edition (4)
- 3rd: How attending a funeral can change perspectives (13)
- 2nd: My little boy has just become a young man, and I almost missed the signs! (5)
- 1st: My Least Audacious Goals for 2008 (8)
- 1st: The 133rd Carnival of Personal Finance – The Last of 2007 Edition (3)
December 2007
- 31st: My M.A.G. for 2008 – Part 2 (14)
- 30th: My M.A.G. for 2008 – Part 1 (9)
- 27th: My 8 year old daughter’s 2008 SMART financial goal (11)
- 26th: Koottus, Tontines, Arisans and Peer to Peer Lending (0)
- 26th: The 132nd Carnival of Personal Finance – Whimsical Christmas Edition (10)
- 25th: My first outing to the Carnival of Family Life (3)
- 24th: Cool skills to learn/Habits to form for personal development – Basic Car Maintenance (2)
- 23rd: Should parents ask their friends to employ their children? (3)
- 23rd: A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ! (0)
- 21st: Tagged for the first time (1)
- 19th: What’s worse than being a borrower? (2)
- 18th: Carnival of Personal Finance – the second last one for the year (1)
- 18th: Cool skills to learn / habits to form for personal development – learning Qi Qong (0)
- 16th: 2007 – A year of a paradigm shift for me (1)
- 13th: This is what our Family Mission statement says about money (0)
- 12th: “Horrors! Dow Jones dropped 300 points!” or should it be “Hooray, Dow Jones dropped 300 points” – An opportunity to stress test my investment philosophy (0)
- 11th: 5 stages of a child’s life and how it relates to financial and life education (5)
- 10th: The 130th Carnival of Personal Finance (1)
- 10th: We have found our “How to Guide” to shaving our monthly budget (1)
- 9th: Agricultural investment, is it for you? (1)
- 6th: Paying it Forward – How it relates to bringing up our children (2)
- 5th: My daughter is attending a property investment course (4)
- 5th: Inaugral Carnival of Financial Goals (2)
- 4th: Fathersez’s frugal tip – Don’t buy a bed (0)
- 3rd: The 129th Carnival of Personal Finance (3)
- 3rd: The 9 things I would like from my Bank does not include a birthday card. (3)
- 2nd: Guerrilla PF and Life Experts – Madam Halimah Mohamed Naton (0)
November 2007
- 30th: Keeping accurate investment records and its impact on investment “luck” (3)
- 29th: One of my goals for 2008 is to impart to my children the two most important PF lessons that I have learnt. (11)
- 29th: Cosmetics – Is there a way to lighten this outflow from many a lady’s wallet? (5)
- 28th: Guerrilla PF and Life Experts – Meet Mr. Kumar (2)
- 27th: What advise can I give my college going children on forming a peer group for personal finance management? (0)
- 26th: My first budget meeting with my wife (2)
- 23rd: Cool skills to learn/Habits to form for personal development – Rising Early (2)
- 22nd: All we employees, shouldn’t we be starting our side businesses NOW - Part Two (2)
- 21st: All we employees, shouldn’t we be starting our side businesses, NOW - Part One (0)
- 20th: Cool skills to learn/Habits to form for personal development – Speed Reading (2)
- 19th: A week of 3 milestones, including a Carnival (0)
- 16th: Cool skills to learn for personal development – Yogic Sleep (1)
- 16th: Cool Skills to learn / Habits to form for personal development (0)
- 15th: Levels of Financial Security ……… knowing where we are is the first step to getting where we want to go. (2)
- 14th: “Switching ourselves on” - creating an instantaneous change in ourselves (0)
- 13th: What turns you on – Expansion of income vs Reduction of expenses (1)
- 12th: Facing and overcoming advertising terrorism (0)
- 11th: Debt Management 101- taking on only known and well understood debt obligations (1)
- 9th: Starting organized and keeping organized with our documentation. (0)
- 8th: The “James Plan” – Paying ourselves first by creating a virtual employer (0)
- 7th: How to set up your own automatic morale booster (1)
- 6th: Starting our career on the right foot (0)
- 5th: Is our career really our greatest financial asset? (0)
- 2nd: Preparing our 2 senior girls for employment. (0)
- 1st: Why not have regular, formal Family Meetings? (0)
September 2007
- 21st: How do we instill the importance of personal finance management to our children? (0)
- 20th: When should we start our children on having written goals? (0)
- 19th: What “branding” should we aim for as an employee? (1)
- 18th: 5 Things that should be taught in schools - Part 6 (0)
- 17th: 5 Things that should be taught in schools - Part 5 (0)
- 14th: 5 Things that should be taught in schools - Part 4 (0)
- 13th: 5 Things that should be taught in schools - Part 3 (0)
- 12th: 5 Things that should be taught in schools - Part 2 (1)
- 11th: 5 Things that should be taught in schools - Part 1 (1)
- 10th: How do we impart to our children the two most important Personal Financial Management Lessons that we have learnt? (0)
- 8th: The two most important personal financial management lessons that I have learnt and want to impart to my children (1)
- 8th: Hi, Welcome (0)
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