My CEO Journey

We Asians love to associate your success with work.  Recently, I met up with my friends to celebrate the Chinese New Year before it starts. Due to the extremely hectic schedule of many of them, we finally managed to squeeze a day out to meet. This makes me feel so lazy, as I seem to be the one who is able to make it most of the time! Many of my friends are so busy that they clocked numerous hours on weekday evenings, and even on weekends for their company. For me, I have been arriving at 9 am and leaving at 6 pm sharp daily. Most of the time, not turning on my office laptop after working hours (unless really required). Sharks, I seem too free, and it seems quite unusual. In fact, from the meeting, I get the feeling from many that busy is good, and the reverse sounds trouble. Being not busy means you are not important to the company.  There are generally a number of works that we are busy with.  Since I am an engineer, let me share with you the type of works we ar

I have this hobby of googling random words or names that come to my mind. Sometimes, there's nothing much from the search results. Sometimes, otherwise. Today, I googled minimialist: Since the search, I have been reading on this topic for the past few hours. Minimalism The main idea revolving around the concept of minimalism, is basically having less possessions so that one can focus on more important things in your life and lead richer lives, or in short less for more. Joshua Millburn describes it best with this Minimalists don’t focus on having less, less, less; rather, we focus on making room for more: more time, more passion, more experiences, more growth, more contribution, more contentment. More freedom. Clearing the clutter from life’s path helps us make that room. Look at the photos and simple captions here  to have an insight of how ZEN minimalism can be. It seems that minimalism has become increasingly fashionable, particularly in Japan. How I

My partner and I have almost separate finances. The only item that is many under both our names, is the present home that we are living in. Our mortgage repayment is done 50- 50 and deducted directly from CPF. We have no joint bank accounts (except the one that the bank made us open for the mortgage for cash top- ups, if required. The value in it is $0 for now), no credit cards under both's names, or whatsoever. And we are living very well under such arrangement. Both of us are working, and are able to support ourselves prior to the marriage. And both of us  intend to continue working after marriage. Hence, why should marriage change how we manage our finances? In addition, we understand and respect one another's differences. As such, the decision for separate finances. One Ground Rule We have only one ground rule regarding each others' finances -- Whatever we do, we must spend within our means (no debt, except for housing which we can be in debt for).