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In conversation with AK 2019 (Part 2).

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Reader #1 says...
Do you feel that there’s a REIT in Singapore which we could buy and hold forever?

AK says...
I thought I could hold First REIT forever.

I changed my mind. 😜

Now, I wonder if I could hold AA REIT forever?

I think we have to be prepared for changes because they do happen.

Related post:

Largest investments updated (3Q 2019).








Reader #2 says...
I noticed that you hardly talked about Forex Trading.

May I know if you could share your thoughts on it?

Actually I’m asking this because one of my friends is doing it and he advertised it on his Facebook recently

AK says...
FOREX trading.

Hmm.

I dunno anything about trading in currencies.

It isn't something I can value.

I made a mention of this in my blogs on Bitcoin.

Bad AK! Bad AK! 😛


Related post:
My final word on Bitcoin and friends.





Reader #3 says...
Now lippo seems to hv "fixed" the mess.

U think for ppl like me who never get (First REIT), can consider?


Can heal?


AK says...
Bandaged :p

You see my blog on why I sold and you decide for yourself. 😉

Related post:
Sold First REIT.






Reader #4 says...
AK, I want to show my friend your $1m CPF meme but the link is gone. 
Send it to me ok?

AK says...
Sure. 
Hope you song song gao Jurong. ;p

See:
This guy has $800K in his CPF (AK responds to HWZ forum).




Been a while since I took a photo of my breakfast.


Two hard boiled eggs eaten with a sprinkling of salt and black pepper.

A glass of warm water infused with ginseng roots.

New readers might want to read:
You are not successful in Singapore unless you do this!




Lose weight fast and stay slim! (From low carb to moderate carb.)

Friday, August 17, 2018

My lunch on 13 Oct 18.


Ingredients:
1. Popcorn chicken.
("FarmPride" brand 

by SATS, of course.)
2. Chopped spinach.

3. Egg.
4. Extra virgin coconut oil 
(1 tbs).

Microwave for 4 minutes at 800 watts.





Then, add and mix well:
5. Extra virgin olive oil
(2 tbs).

6. Black pepper.
7. Turmeric powder.







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I am back from a short holiday and, as expected it was so difficult to eat right.

It was terrible and it was good at the same time, if you know what I mean.

Now that I am back home, it is back to eating right.






Beautiful sunset.
It has been a while since I blogged about food.

As promised before I went on holiday, here is a blog on food.

Regular readers know that I went on a low carbohydrate, high fat diet many moons ago.

I shared it almost a year ago as the secret to my successful weight loss.

See:
Gain will outweigh the loss.







I had to present my passport on two occasions during my vacation.

When I presented my passport the first time, I was asked,

"Did you go on a diet?"

When I came back, I had to present my passport again.

After looking at my passport photo and at me a few times,


"You are much thinner!"








Over many months, from 78 kgs, I am now 64 kgs in weight.

Losing weight is 80% diet and 20% physical activity. 


I became a firm believer after I saw the results.

After reaching my ideal weight, I am no longer on a low carb diet but a moderate carb diet and for quite a while by now.





I have always liked bread but was avoiding it.

No longer.

Having read up on diets and nutrition, I am familiar with the arguments against eating bread but I did miss eating bread.

A moderate intake should be fine lah.

It is just like char kway teow and chye tao kway.

Right or not?

You disagree?

You are probably not a Singaporean.






Anyway, I like French toast but I decided to try doing something different.

I scrambled an egg in extra virgin cocounut oil before dunking a slice of Gardenia bread in it.

Must be Gardenia bread, of course.

Powdered with black pepper and a sprinkling of garlic salt.

1 minute in the microwave at 800W and voila!









A 20 (maybe 30) cents breakfast. 

Oh, so good! 

Yum, yum!





Related post:
5 minutes and less than a dollar!

The gain will outweigh the loss.

Thursday, October 26, 2017

I try to put some effort into coming up with creative titles for my blogs and I am quite pleased with this one. 

Pun upon pun. Rather fun.

After attending "Evening with AK and friends", some overweight readers became more interested in losing weight than investing for income. Ha ha.








A reader just wrote to me to say he has lost 3 kgs since he started dieting almost 3 weeks ago. 

I am very happy for him but I also told him that weight loss will slow down over time and, if he keeps to the diet, when the weight loss stops, that is when his body is telling him that he is at his ideal weight which should be healthier.

He could cut himself some slack then. 


One cheat day a week? Why not?





I see many overweight people trying to lose weight by hitting the treadmills in the gym or jogging along the PCN. 

They shouldn't be doing that.

Doing high impact exercises wears out the knees and overweight people will put a lot more stress on their knees. 

This is why for people with knee pain, losing weight helps a ton (pardon the pun).





Lose weight through dieting first. 

Then, consider doing some jogging.

Of course, regular readers know that my preference is for stair climbing.

I climbed 50 floors last night, jogged for 15 minutes and still enjoyed an evening walk. 

Nothing too strenuous. 

Just keeping myself physically active.





How to lose weight fast?

Avoid carbohydrates. Out with rice, bread, noodles, cookies and other stuff like that. 

Definitely, throw out sugar. 

When we take carbohydrates, it should be in the form of vegetables and fruits. 

Most of the carbohydrates is in the form of fiber and will not be retained in the body. 

Of course, there is sugar in fruits but they are naturally occurring. 

However, in the early days of your diet, you might want to choose berries, green kiwi fruit, green apples and pears, for examples, instead of mangoes, pineapples, durians and papaya, for examples. 

The idea is to go for less sugary options. 

Or you might want to eliminate fruits altogether for the first few weeks.




Don't avoid fats. Take good fats like extra virgin olive oil, extra virgin coconut oil and butter. Our body needs fats to function.

You could supplement your diet with Omega 3 capsules too. 


This is something I do because I don't take fish everyday.

Don't buy low fat food because they are usually filled with other stuff to take the place of fats. 

Just look at evaporated milk being sold at the supermarkets, for example. 

I would buy the full cream version and not the filled or low fat versions.

However, to lose weight, avoid milk for a start. 


It is because of the milk sugar.




Take enough protein. The guideline for a sedentary person is 0.8 gram of protein for every kg of body weight per day.

Take enough protein to maintain our muscle mass. We want to lose fats but not muscles. 

If your body weight is 60 kgs and your lifestyle is sedentary, you need 48 grams of protein a day, for example.

A medium size egg gives us about 7 grams of protein, for example. A small egg weighing 55 grams, about 6 grams of protein.

If we throw out the yoke which contains all the nutrients and eat only the white, we will get about half the protein.

I eat the whole egg.





Being fat is the reason for many health problems and with a sedentary lifestyle it is very easy to become obese if we are not careful with food.

Some of my meals in recent days:


Spinach, eggs, butter and olive oil.

Chicken, coconut oil and spinach.
Salmon, butter and olive oil.

I always add turmeric powder and black pepper because they are good for the joints. 





They are supposed to have other health benefits too if you are into Ayurvedic studies.

The gain will outweigh the loss.
Related post:

Small savings might not add up to big money but...

Sunday, September 10, 2017

It has been a while since I blogged about my money habits.

Readers who have been following my blog for a long time might remember the blogs on packing lunch to work and not buying drinks when eating out (and definitely not from Starbucks), for examples.





For sure, the blogs did not sit well with everybody and I was even labelled a person with a peasant mentality (or a person with a "poverty mindset") in wealth building because of them.

Well, I hope people who don't like my money habits don't read this blog.

Wait a while.

Filtered.

Still reading?

OK, you have been warned.


Since I changed my diet more than a year ago, I have been consuming more eggs and this is how I have been buying them.


In a tray of 30.
I transfer the eggs into smaller trays for ease of storage.



Tray of 30 @ $3.30.

Tray of 10 @ $1.65.

I save $1.65 each time.

What? $1.65 only? 

It is a 33.3% savings! 

Hey! It is like getting 10 eggs for free!
As you can tell from the scribbles on the label, I have been doing this for quite some time.

I know many people think that it is not worth saving small amounts of money. 

Maybe, saving small amounts of money gives them a "poverty mindset" and they don't like it.

Small savings are for poor people and they want to feel rich.

AK, you not poor wor. Why you so giamsiap? So cham like that.






Well, saving small amounts of money might not make us rich but it definitely won't make us poorer. Now, doing the opposite would definitely make us poorer.


Almost bankrupt, AK's family was once quite poor. AK doesn't want to go back there.

Related posts:
1. Money habits and $100K savings.
2. Earn $32,000 with a mug?
3. My family almost went bankrupt.

Financial freedom for average Singaporeans?

Friday, September 1, 2017

From time to time, I get emails from readers who wonder if average Singaporeans could ever become financially free. 

Of course, I will remind them that AK was once upon a time a pretty average Singaporean too.

If we are from a humble background and if we have a humble lifestyle, I believe that these are strengths and not weaknesses.






I remember when I was a teenager about to join the armed forces, some wondered if I was going to make it because there were stuff I didn't like eating. 

Then, when they remembered that the stuff which I didn't like to eat were crabs, prawns, abalone, lobsters and a whole list of atas (i.e. Malay for high class) foodstuff, they knew I was going to be OK. 

I didn't have atas taste buds.







When I shared my liking for green tea, I was asked to try roasted green tea, Hojicha. Today, I was given some Hojicha as a gift when I met a friend for lunch and later visited a supermarket. 


Drinking Hojicha will transport me to a higher plane of existence (figuratively, of course), apparently. Zen? I like.

Well, I tried it just now and it tastes like Chinese tea to me but it costs a whole lot more. 

$7 or so for a box of 20 tea bags.

I think I will stick to my cheap cheap Japanese green tea. $5 or so for 50 tea bags.

Atas food and drink are wasted on AK. Seriously. The fault is mine and not the food and drinks'.

What is this leading to?





Some might not agree with me but I am just sharing my own experience here.

If we don't have expensive tastes, it is easier to achieve financial freedom, all else remaining equal.

There is no doubt in my mind ever that average Singaporeans can be financially free too. 

If you are not financially free yet, you should not doubt that you can one day be financially free too.

It just depends on what you do.

Related post:
Average income workers can be rich.

Don't be the 1 in 9 Singaporeans who has diabetes.

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

From time to time, ASSI would have a public service blog.

What? Don't bluff?

I am always blogging about the CPF? That is public service. 


Orh.

Anyway, since PM Lee talked about the dangers of diabetes, I decided to kay poh a bit too.





AK was overweight and being overweight is a risk factor. Fat people have a higher chance of getting diabetes.

Change our diet. 


For a start, consume less sugar.

Change our lifestyle. 

For a start, become less sedentary.

Yes, go out more but not like this:

Or this could become the reality:

Overweight? Lose weight.




Instead of frozen yogurt or ice cream, try something healthier.
Granny Smiths.

Carrots, broccoli & cauliflower.

Vitagen or Yakult for pro-biotics.

Blend everything together!
Yummy and healthy dessert!





Don't be the 1 in 9 Singaporeans who has diabetes.

If AK can do it, so can you!

Related post:
My weight reduced!


See also:
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/beating-diabetes-starts-with-small-steps-pm-lee

AK is egg-static! (Inexpensive and nutritious food.)

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Although ASSI is mostly a personal finance and investment blog, I really do blog about anything which I might fancy.

It might sound unbelievable but I do have a small following of readers who are always curious about what I have at mealtimes.

When did this start?





Maybe, it started from all the stuff I wrote about how we could save money by packing lunch to work. Maybe.

AK is a giamsiap fellow.

Dinner today?

Microwaved scrambled eggs with unsalted butter, garlic salt and a dusting of black pepper.



Time to prepare: 
Less than 3 minutes.

Cost:
About 50 cents.

Oishi! 

In more ways than one too.

OK, this is the last blog for the day. In case you just dropped in today, these are the links to the two other blogs published today:

http://singaporeanstocksinvestor.blogspot.sg/2017/07/blog-about-my-increasing-portfolio-value.html

http://singaporeanstocksinvestor.blogspot.sg/2017/07/do-this-to-get-higher-interest-income.html




Myth: High Cholesterol Is Caused by What You Eat
The biggest factor in cholesterol is not diet but genetics or heredity.

If you're still worried about the cholesterol in your diet, take a look at the newly released 2015 U.S. Dietary Guidelines. As recently as 2010, U.S. dietary guidelines described cholesterol-rich foods as "foods and food components to reduce."

They a
dvised people to eat less than 300 milligrams (mg) per day, despite mounting evidence that dietary cholesterol has very little to do with cholesterol levels in your body.

The latest guidelines have finally removed this misguided suggestion, and they even added egg yolks to the list of suggested sources of protein.

Source:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/04/20/cholesterol-myths.aspx

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Added on 12 August 2017:


Egg curry! Oishi!
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Added on 14 August 2017:


In this version, I added full cream evaporated milk and some meat floss after the mixture (eggs, water, coconut oil and turmeric powder) came out of the microwave oven. Oishi!



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Added on 15 Aug 17:
Sedap! (Don't always oishi lah!)
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Added on 16 Aug 17.
Feeling lazy today.




Didn't even bother to scramble the eggs. Bad AK! Bad AK!
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Added (19 Aug 17):
Yum yum.
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Added (21 Aug 17):

I like.
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Added (2 Sep 17):
So healthy!
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Added (30 Sep 17):
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5 minutes and less than a dollar? Perfect.

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Have you ever had a craving for some food which you have never liked before? 

OK, I know the ladies who have been pregnant before might have experienced this but what about us guys?

Well, I have never enjoyed porridge much. 

So, being on a low carbohydrate diet, it is one thing I do not miss. 





However, whenever I am feeling unwell, I seem to crave porridge. 

I don't know why it is so.

When I told a friend I have been having porridge recently, he asked what about my low carb diet? 

When I told him I have been preparing porridge without using rice, he was dumbfounded.

His expression was priceless and I thought my porridge recipe might be blog worthy.

.





Heat up some frozen fried chicken, frozen cooked vegetables (carrots, broccoli and cauliflower) in a microwave oven. 800 watts, 3 minutes. 

Then, put them in a blender with some hot water.

Blend and we get this. Porridge.
I added some black pepper for taste and also a spoonful of olive oil so that the meal keeps me full longer.
Sedap!





Time taken to prepare the meal? 

5 minutes or so.

Cost? 

Probably less than a dollar.

Add an egg if you like.
Cost?

Probably still less than a dollar.






What did you say? 

Spend 5 hours preparing the perfect bowl of porridge?

Hey, do you think I am really mental? 


OK, don't answer that.





Related post:
How to recession proof your life?

Old Chang Kee and AK the chef.

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

A reader complains that I no longer blog about my cooking. When I told her I share in Facebook, she says that she does not follow me on Facebook. 

So, this is a special blog for her.

I found an Old Chang Kee curry puff in my fridge. Don't ask me how old it is.

I dug out the insides.
Heat up some coconut oil. Add a couple of eggs. Stir the mixture around a bit.
I don't know if it is because I am such a good cook but it is delicious! Really!

Yes, I know.

Bad AK! Bad AK!

Related post:
Have our Old Chang Kee curry puff and eat it too.
Time really flies! It really does not feel like I have been a shareholder of Old Chang Kee since October 2011 but it is true!

Food inflation in Malaysia and Singapore.

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

We are always saying how things are cheaper across the Causeway and I do it too. 

I have said it often enough to get rebuked by some of my Malaysian friends.

"You Singaporeans only find it cheap because of the strong S$. 

"Life is actually very difficult for common Malaysians, you know.

"And you people come here and drive prices up.

"You think the people in Johor like higher prices?"






I grew up loving McDonald's fast food.

It was always a treat.

These days, I still go to McDonald's and I like ordering the S$2.50 Fillet o fish. 


Since they dropped the price to S$2.00 before increasing it to S$2.50 for the burger alone, I have not had the meals.

The meal comes with fries and a drink but costs S$5.00.

It is just paying more for extra (and empty) calories which I don't need.






In JB, I remember it cost me about RM9.00 for a Fillet o fish meal.

That is less than S$3.00!

It is like paying 50c for fries and a drink!

It is a no brainer for me.

Of course, I would take the meal! 


Yes, I know.

Suddenly, I am OK with with the extra (and empty) calories.

Bad AK! Bad AK!






For the Malaysians, however, paying for a Fillet o fish meal in Malaysia is like Singaporeans paying for a Fillet o fish meal in Singapore.

It is not more affordable for them.

Actually, it is the opposite.


I found out that an optometrist makes about RM4,000 in Malaysia but an optometrist makes about S$4,000 in Singapore.

The former pays RM9.00 (0.225% of his salary) while the latter pays S$5.00 (0.125% of his salary) for the same meal.


Although inflation is affecting food prices everywhere, it is worse in Malaysia than in Singapore.





Malaysia Food Inflation  Forecast 2016-2020

Food Inflation in Malaysia is expected to be 4.50 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Food Inflation in Malaysia to stand at 4.70 in 12 months time. Source: HERE.

Singapore Food Inflation  Forecast 2016-2020

Food Inflation in Singapore is expected to be 2.50 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Food Inflation in Singapore to stand at 2.90 in 12 months time. Source: HERE.


I have made a mental note to be more sensitive when I talk about the cost of living when I am with my Malaysian friends.

Malaysia cuts food subsidies.




Related post:
We manage our savings better!

Malaysia and India pay higher interests in similar pension schemes but our Singapore dollar is rated AAA and has appreciated against the currencies of many other countries.


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