Archive for April, 2007

IQ not a bet for Financial Intelligence

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Apparently, people with high IQ are just as stupid (or as smart) with people with average IQ when it comes to keeping their money despite earning a lot more…

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Road trip to Ali Shan, Taiwan

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Ali Shan, Taiwan - It was about 6 hours after landing in Taipei (I landed at about 6pm) that I boarded a night bus to southern Taiwan for a 3-day road trip to Ali Shan. And boy, was it luxurious! Each row had only 2 seats (as opposed to the 3-seat-per-row VIP bus we have in southeast asia), and each seat had a LCD monitor with TV and nintendo games! Ooh all my childhood favourites - Balloon fight, Mappy, Tank 1940, Bomberman, etc. Plus, back vibrating massage! Beat that, heh.

We got off at a little town called Chiayi, about 80km west of Ali Shan, rented a little scooter (125cc) with my provisional 2B Singaporean license (haha!) and zoomed up a beautiful, lonely old little mountain road.

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