8 Random Facts About Me

I have not been blogging as I was away on a holiday. Now that I’m back, there is this sickening pile of work facing me. Argh!

Well, I guess I just got to grind through and bear with it. What’s life without work anyway? Utterly boring that is!

Anyway I’ve been tagged by Robin of FortuneWatch.com to participate in this meme, so here I am!

Actually I don’t really wanna bore you out with 8 facts about myself, but I need to do what’s gotta be done! So, do bare with me…!

• My idol is the late martial arts legend, Bruce Lee. Yes, I was a big Kung Fu fan when I was young. I even fashioned a nunchaku, Bruce Lee’s signature weapon, out of paper rolls and twirled and swirled it like a crazed madman!

• I ranked in the 27th percentile in a stock competition that I took part last year even though I only use 40% of the given budget. Till today, I still monitor the virtual portfolio, and presently my returns are in excess of 30%. Damn! Why didn’t I buy it in real life??

• I’m in the process of setting up my first registered business venture. More to be revealed in due time.

• I’m Chinese and my partner is Malay. I wonder if the racial harmony campaign needs any new poster boys? Singapore is multi-racial in its set up, while my partnership is likewise. Great fit! I just want to add that race is irrelevant anyway. It is the ability, attitude and trust-worthiness that matter to me more than anything else.

• I studied Applied Chemistry in university. What I’m doing today though has totally no relevance at all to what I studied. Luckily I quit my honors year to save myself 1 year of school fees (which are not cheap!).

• Argentina is my favorite soccer national team. Club-wise, I root for Newcastle United, which I predict will win the premier league next year, and the European Cup the year after. Talk about optimism!

• I’m a night owl. I sleep very late at night. Or rather in the morning to be more precise.

• I’m falling asleep as I’m writing this. Time to go to bed!

• I used to represent my company during my army days in cross-country competitions. I can only look back and wonder where has all my fitness gone to? Work (or laziness) has definitely taken its toll.

Hope I’ve not bored the tears out of you!

Anyway, I discovered that I’ve given 9 facts, 1 more than required. That is overdelivering, a fundamental concept of all businesses!

Till the next post, take care!

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I feel like I know you already. Check out my blog since you are into finance. I think you will find it interesting.

Hi Lowell,

I feel like I know you too just by reading your comment! Heh.

I went to your finance site. Looks good!

Seems like I found a kindred spirit here! :)

Cheers,
YongSing Jag

Hi Jag,

Thanks for putting up this post as a result of my tagging you, I enjoyed all I read buddy. Of course you broke the rules by adding in the 9th Fact about you, for some reason I wanted to do that too, but something stopped me, I think it was you…lol.

I am pretty sure you are doing pretty good in your investing. I booked a 300% profit in my first investments in a span of less than one year, that was 20 years back, I sometimes do wish I had held on to that, today its worth $$$$$, but then I never carry regrets.

Take care and Cheers mate, I read somewhere that an extra hour of sleep sharpens personal skills, so try and get more sleep.

Robin

Newcastle to win EPL? eerrrrrrrrr ok

i aso adore bruce lee when i was young. always make the ‘iya kaposh piang’ sound & the trademark touch the nose everytime play fighing with my frens

what i’m studying now, also no relevance in my passion .. bleah

for a moment there i tot i read, i own a night owl. haha! i aso falling asleep as i read this. gnite dude!

hope you recovering well yar

Hey Sha,

Haha, as a long suffering Newcastle United fan, I have to stay eternally optimistic about our silverware chances.

Bruce Lee fan? High 5 man! I like and respect him a hell lot because of what he has achieved during his time as a martial artist and as an actor. He really pave the way for Asian actors to break into the American market!

Seems to me it’s a trend that many people are not working in the field which they studied in.

And no, I don’t own any night owl, though it will be nice to have one. It’s exotic!

Thanks for the comments man!

Cheers.
YongSing Jag

I totally understand the night owl aspect. That is the life of many online business owners. I am excited to here that you are starting a business venture. I am moving forward with a couple myself. It is so exciting for me. Anything that you have learned about starting a business that you didn’t know before?

Hi Cade,

You are a night owl too? High 5! I’m so used to sleeping late now that I find it real hard to wake up early.

Great to hear that you are also have some progress in your online business.

Regarding your last question, I think there are many aspects of business that I didn’t know before. You know for a lot of things, we can plan and plan, but we won’t really know till we have tried it. This is especially true for business.

Cheers,
YongSing Jag

Hey Robin,

I was still wondering how come you have not posted a comment yet? Turned out it ended up marked as spam!

Luckily I checked and saved your comments!

Haha, yea I think I flout the rule with the 9th fact. Anyway 300% profit is pretty pretty pretty good! Well you win some, you lose some!

Cheers mate!
YongSing Jag

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Hey YongSing,

haha a few coincidences..

I’m also in the process of setting up my first registered business venture, and my partner is also a Malay.

My fav national team is also Argentina. But Newcastle to win EPL??? Haha.. Sorry.. NO way.. Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea!

Hey Calvin,

Wah that is a coincidence!

Perhaps we can have collaboration opportunities to work together.

Argentina? High 5 pal!

I’m just kidding about Newcastle. If they can get into Champion’s league, I’ll be very happy!

Cheers dude!
YongSing

Hi Matt,

Thanks for telling me. I’ll be hopping over to take a look.

YongSing Jag

Hi Jag..

I’m back again, thanks for your comments in my blog, that’s really helpful, I appreciate that.

Oh yeah, I’m a fans of Bruce Lee too.. Unfortunately, he’s too young too die..
My fav movie is Enter The Dragon, how about you?

Hi CenGoh,

Anytime man! I’m glad to help!

Yes he is absolutely too young to die. Felt quite sad when I read about his death when I was young.

As for my favourite Bruce Lee movie, it’s gotta be Fist of Fury.

Cheers,
YongSing Jag

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