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I’m in Tullahoma, TN right now and houses are HUGE here!  $350k can buy a 4410 square feet house compared with $700k for a 1200 square feet condo in Southern California.  This makes me wonder why I even stay in California and worry about my future housing cost when I can pay 20% of the [...]

Are you addicted to spending money?  If your answer is no, think again.  Do you like gambling?  What about smoking?  Do you like having wine, coffee or even coca cola?  To some extent, even paying golf or doing your favorite past time requires money.  In an indirect way, if you are addicted to buying or [...]

I’m definitely someone that likes gadgets. So much so that my boss even called me “a hardware type guy”. Back in college, I had a very frugal lifestyle - eat home cook meals, seldom go out, buy very little clothing. However, I bought expensive gadgets like PDAs, MP3 players, and golf clubs.
At [...]

People like us care about money.  Let’s face it, many of us read financial websites most days of the week, if not everyday.  We spend so much time thinking and reading about money and money advices that we almost know how the piece will be structured after reading just the title of the article.  We feel that [...]

Monday morning is always one of the worst times of the week because you just got through the busy and eventful weekend and is still in the “holiday” mood.  For whatever reason, Monday is also the day where everyone likes to have the most internal meetings!  Staff meetings, weekly team meetings, you name it, they [...]

This has been an amazing week as far as my finance is concerned because I closed a major deal for my company (read big $$$ for me in the coming months) as well as the incredible stock performance. Therefore I have been a little busy celebrating I ended up not buying anything [...]

I noticed that Asia companies usually send their paychecks out once a month while North American companies usually send them out every two weeks (bi-weekly).  Personally, I believe that the more frequent it is, the better because I’m happier on payday even though I am not living paycheck to paycheck. 
I also believe that [...]