Overcoming Writer's Block

Money for Monkeys

Background

A fellow blogger would've generalised the title as 'financial management for Malays'. He had written about "The Bankrupt Mat" - Malays’ Current Money Habits Will See the Community in Financial Disaster.

I wouldn't want to argue with him. We live our lives differently. I've written in an earlier post; "that we have a right to have our own views in life. And how to live it". So perhaps, what one sees as a problem, another would see it as a challenge. What one sees as a forsaken cause, another may hold on to hope and faith. Even in storms, clouds have a silver lining.

This write-up however, is an attempt to share some of the generally simpler methods of managing one's wealth for anyone who cares to read - regardless of race, religion, sex, political affiliations or profession. It will be written in plain simple english devoid of financial jargon so that even the ahpek-under-the-block who owns the Hotel 81 chain, millionaire taxi-driver auntie, the opposition parties' bankrupt lawyer & doctor and the next Singapore Idol wannabe, could understand.

Disclaimer

This is the part where I have to say that I am not to be held liable for any financial mishaps, loss of money-laundering friends, being arrested for not having enough to pay for your tv license or any other disasters in your life should you choose to practice what I have to share here. I am neither a financial advisor nor working for any insurance company whatsoever. So, rest assured that I am not trying to earn a single cent from this.

I am not in any way 'qualified' to give financial advice. In fact, I do not even have enough money to marry or hold a wedding with the savings I currently have. I earn about a thousand dollars a month, and after CPF deductions - I have less than a thousand bucks to spend and save. So, you have been forewarned. Only if you are still really interested, then carry on.

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