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Sometimes when you apply for jobs, you see a job requirement “must be a team player”. It’s occurred to me that I fail in this requirement. I am most definitely not a team player. I mean, I could be persuaded to work as part of a team by a capable leader. But by and large,Continue reading ““Must be a team player””

Some days are just a haze. I’m not really present and it’s hard to focus on anything in particular. On such days, I lose myself in a game, a book, an anime, or a movie. I just want the day to pass by as quickly as possible, so that I can go back to sleep.Continue reading “Some days”

Sometimes I feel I am losing my mind, when I cannot recall the details of something I should. It’s like trying to grasp at the straws of a fading dream soon after waking up. I’ve learned not to rely on memory, that fickle thing. It chooses and selects what to remember and what to forget.Continue reading “Memory is a fickle thing”

I’ve seen you a thousand times, but none of them are you. Your dress, the way you walk, the way your arms bulge, the way your hair falls down by the side of your face When you turn, I look to see your face, but it never is you. Except that one time when itContinue reading “Time to let go”

2 years, 4 months ago, I decided to stop working. I tell people it’s because I wanted to explore the freegan way of life and figure out how to make it last for the rest of my life without having to go back to work. That’s only partly true. It’s just that the real reasonContinue reading “Still going strong”

If you could have an additional $400 a month, how would you feel? Back when financial planning took up the bulk of my time, I was surprised at the lengths that people would do to earn a few hundred dollars more every month. Some would write a book. Some would give tuition. Some would putContinue reading “How to get free food, part 1”

I realise that I hardly write in this blog, and it’s been about 9 months since I wrote here. The only reason I decided to write a little tonight is because I just renewed the domain name and thought I might as well use it. Let’s see. What has happened in my life so far?Continue reading “An untitled post”

Today I accompanied a friend to a bankruptcy hearing. It turned out well and got the best possible outcome.  Bankrupt. Divorce. Affair. Lawsuit. Orphan. Shotgun. Addiction. Mental illness. Broken family. Parental abandonment. Autism. Gay. Death of a child.  These are things that don’t happen to you, you think. No one you know goes through this,Continue reading “Normal is an illusion”

Money is simple. But people make it complicated. If you’re just learning about how money works, you’ll definitely come across terms such as investing, debt, inflation, rate of return, risk, savings, assets, liabilities, income replacement, protection, index funds, stocks, bonds, trading, forex, options, CFDs, fixed deposits, unit trusts, mutual funds, and so on. This isContinue reading “How to stop worrying about money”