Blog It As It Is - BIAS

These days when I blog, there's this nagging self censorship that stops me from finishing my blog article, or from publishing it. It's this new-found sensibility to others that I find it irritating. If this goes on further, I'll have nothing more to write!To remedy this situation, I will follow dream's blog and do my own "dream's speak", a special feature where I get to say anything I like with scant regards to others. This will keep my mind free from the annoying self censorship that kills off my articles at its infancy.So here it goes, my very...

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Begone idealistic youth!

When I was younger, I was quite idealistic. This kind of idealism must have come from a limited world view due to underexposure to reality, or simple a sheltered kind of environment. As I get older, I realised that things don't always go according to what I think. Here are some things that was idealistic about: 1. I wanted to get 10-12% returns from the market per year, because I read from books that the equity returns over the long term is around...

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Batam photos

Recently I went over to Batam for my yearly pilgrimage. Since I never had the habit of bringing my camera with me, I snapped some nice scene with my handphone. Turns out nicer than I imagine, considering that it's 3 megapixels only. Here's a flash based site that I created a few days ago, where I show case some of the pictures that I took over at Batam. Click here. I always wanted to find some flash based sites to design some widgets or sites, and it's just pure luck that I found wix.com. Anyone can do nice sites using that free interface, do...

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My noticeboard

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New year resolutions redefined

Seeing everyone doing their new year resolutions, I thought of doing one too. However, it's a serious thing to me because I want to do one which I intend to complete, so a fair amount of thinking and planning is involved. I don't like dreaming of big things and waiting for it to happen to me - it can be quite demoralising if it didn't come true.I was thinking about the project that I did in 2009 - which is my 50k challenge. For the uninitiated, it's my 12 months long plan to save 50k for various things that will happen this year.Now, I'm thinking...

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