Have been very busy setting up Thymos Capital last couple of months so wasn’t able to travel much so feeling a bit out of touch. So after postponing this trip a couple of months, I am finally arrived in Beijing last night. This is mostly a study trip for me, to catch up with old […]
Category: Random Musing
Malaysia Election surprises!
Malaysia 12th election ended last night. I stayed up until 3am refreshing Malaysiakini (mirror) watching the election unfolded. While BN still remains in control, it suffered the biggest lost ever, garnering merely 61% of the seats (source). The last time the election come this close in 1969, it resulted in a major racial riots. Jeff […]
How subprime works?
For those who don’t understand how we got into the subprime mess in the first place, here is a cool illustration! | View | Upload your own Try this link to see a bigger version if you cannot read the words.
The Power of China
Spend the last two evening with Dr Zhang Luyang 张陆洋, a professor from Fudan University. He is one of the leading academic on venture capital in China. I learn a lot from him about the venture scene in China and makes me rethink about China in the short time we spend together. I reach a […]
Money and Happiness
via Dani Rodrik In economics we think that happiness increases with lifetime wealth, albeit at a decreasing rate. But recent research on happiness fails to show a steep gradient between incomes and self-reported life satisfaction. But this work has typically focused on rich countries. In a recent paper, Angus Deaton uses Gallup poll data for […]
Foreign Talents in Singapore
Several weeks ago, a prominent friend whom I shall not named here said something that stick to my mind ever since. “As Singapore grows to 6.5m people mostly via importing, the positive side effect is Singapore can control the IQ of its overall population.” Population IQ is a statistic game. The IQ mean is 100. […]
Recent Books I was reading
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, Fourth Edition The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East Soeharto: The Life and Legacy of Indonesia’s Second President
Amazing Hand Shadow show
by Raymond Crowe
The $1.4 Trillion Question
Americans sometimes debate (though not often) whether in principle it is good to rely so heavily on money controlled by a foreign government. The debate has never been more relevant, because America has never before been so deeply in debt to one country. Meanwhile, the Chinese are having a debate of their own-about whether the […]
The Legacy of Suharto
As Suharto lies in his bed on life support, and the buzz online about MM Lee visits over the weekend, mostly negative from the Singaporeans, it is timely to remember Suharto as he is. Like many outsider to Indonesia who is less then 40 years old, my original perceptive of Suharto is a corrupted dictator […]