Good news for those using interactive brokers, they recently sent out a mailer updating account holders that they will be removing the inactivity fees which used to be USD 10 per month. What is this fee about? The fee is levied when an account doesn’t maintain a minimum balance or transaction activity. When is the… Continue reading
How To Buy Travel Cake TVL coin on Pancake Swap?
As of this writing, TravelCake.io is still not yet listed on any exchange. They had a private sale and pre launch sale for 2500 BNB which sold out in less than 4 mins. If you like to get in early before they start major marketing, you can purchase $TVL on Pancakeswap via this address https://exchange.pancakeswap.finance/#/swap?outputCurrency=0x4388cA448baF6785bf1222a3E8e266536548eD75… Continue reading
Saving for Kids Higher Education, What Ideas Do You Have?
My kids are still pretty young, but having a friend working in a company helping teenagers select their tertiary or higher educational paths telling me the cost of going to university made me wanted to start thinking about their tuition fees. So as we head into the June holidays and enhance phase 2, here are… Continue reading
Cheeky Marketing to Counter Competition Price Increase
Comfort recently launched their new ride booking app – Zig, which allows Singaporeans to book taxis, order food and enjoy deals. They just sent out a marketing email in response to Grab’s latest price increase announce which I thought it was a good cheeky move to acquire new users and be relevant to their audience.… Continue reading
Gemini Personal Bank Account for Crypto Trading
In May, Gemini just improved their fiat bank transfer capability. Now each Gemini.com user gets their own unique bank account number. This allows us to transfer SGD into Gemini in a quick and simple way, no more mix up as the account number belongs to you as an individual. Here’s a snippet from their email… Continue reading
HDB Landed Properties in Singapore, Worth It or Not? Here’s My Personal Opinion
Recently there have been some coverage about a rather unique property type built by HDB in the 1950-70s during Singapore’s nation building formative years. The YouTube video was talking about a landed property or terrace house built by HDB which is the largest land owner in Singapore and is known to build subsidized housing for… Continue reading
Giving 1x Apple Stock, Is it Enough to Hook New Users? MooMoo Free Stock Trading App
We now live in a world of startups or businesses that tend to dangle FREE items to acquire customers. Gone are the days where you would need to pay to try something , just look at the past few “FREE” offering we had recently, free rides (Grab and Uber), free food (Grab & Foodpanda), free… Continue reading
Die with Zero by Bill Perkins Book Review 2021
Started the year with a thought provoking book which puts Asian values to the test. If you are Asian, you would understand the logic leaving something for your kids and later generations. In Die with Zero, Bill questions this logic about us working too much and too long wasting our life force. This is really… Continue reading
New Google Pay Singapore, Why You Should Use It
Google Pay recently revamped and launched an update for Singapore. Google Pay, now supports our national Pay Now network where users can conduct P2P fund transfers, payments to businesses via UEN, in-counter payment, order food online (Self pickup) or buy movie tickets. This new experience launched in September 2020, allows customers of DBS PayLah!, OCBC… Continue reading
5 Lessons I Learnt After Having a Car Accident
The question above is something that I want to share with readers when it comes to car accidents. Who do you call, where do you send your vehicles too and what should you do during an automotive accident in Singapore. Here’s what I’ve learnt from my experience being in an accident earlier this year. In… Continue reading