Author: B

I spent my time during the weekend watching with my wife an ongoing popular series on Netflix called Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.  We barely watched only the first episode but it has already brought a change impact in us. In the first episode, KonMarie talked about why we should spend time tidying up our…

Hello 2019! Since I stopped updating on my portfolio 4 months ago, I’ve received lots of inquiries from readers asking me to reinstate back this post. After much deliberation, I’ve decided to republish them again in my blog starting this month with the January’s update.  While I don’t exactly know how these updates will benefit…

SPH Reit’s recent Q1FY19 results show something promising for the retail rent sector as they managed to negotiate for a 10.1% positive rental reversion for the renewed leases that expire in Q1FY19 for the Paragon properties. The Orchard central area continues to bounce back strongly on the back of strong high occupancy and the low…

The revised cooling measures implemented in the middle of 2018 has finally pushed Q418 sales to a dip since Q217. It was only slightly down by 0.1% quarter on quarter and most of the decline was mainly due to landed sales so in all essence the demand for private property is still pretty buoyant. With…

Your job pays you well. The benefits covered under your employment are comprehensive. You love socializing with your circle of friends. Everything is good, except you dislike your job. You dislike your job because it downbeats you hard enough to become a prisoner and dictates you to do things against your wishes. On some days…

Happy New Year Folks! With the official start in 2019, I wanted to start with an article that advocates a long term mindset strategy that can help you make better informed decisions as investors. This is something which I’ve personally used when I look into buying the equity of these companies. It has helped me…

You know you are always behind when it is towards the last day before the new year and you are rushing towards finding reliefs for your tax assessment before it closes. This year, I am leaving it again to the last minute month of the year as cashflow was struggling a little bit in the…

As we wind down this week towards the last week of 2018, I wanted to reflect on a few aspects related matters that is important to me. I feel it is important to keep abreast of the situation and we reviewed them after each year has passed. Job / Career I left my 6 years…

Time really flies these days when we are in our mid 30s, pegged by a combination of busy work and heavy loads of watching our children grow as each year past by. I wanted to wrap things up for the year given that I will be taking a holiday trip to Bali with my family…

SIA Engineering has been an investor’s favorite for many years because of their moats servicing the maintenance and repair lines for various different airlines, with their own SIA planes taking up the majority of the recurring business. It does look like a defensive business because every capacity planes that are increasing each year would have…