The Sun's Financial Diary

I was tagged by Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge last week to list 8 random things about myself. Actually, both Jeremy at Generation X Finance and Super Saver at My Wealth Builder a couple months ago for five obsessions, but I didn’t reply last time as I thought I already have the 5 things you may not [...]

was quite boring actually.
I showed up at 9:00 am this morning (that was quite early according to my standard) and spent the whole day doing nothing but sitting there and reading some document that doesn’t require much time to finish. No computer, no internet. It’s a big company and, as expected, everything is slow. I [...]

Tomorrow, after two weeks of lay off, I will start a new job at a company that’s not really in my area.
The start up company that I worked for in the past two years last month decided to significantly reduce man power as the product we developed failed to win any customer (at least till [...]

Early last week, Lazy Man at Lazy Man and Money shared 10 ways personal finance blogging has helped him to get better financially. Looking back at the short history of this blog, I found myself also a beneficiary of blogging. So what are the reasons to get me into blogging in the first place?
1. Nothing [...]

JLP at AllFinancialMatters today named this Diary the Blog of the Week. It's nice to be recognized by a successful blogger in the personal finance arena.
If you are a new reader coming from AllFinancialMatters (as well as all other places), I welcome you to the Diary and hope you enjoy your stay. A good [...]

Not just that I love my ears. I don't want my hair look like as if it was ganwed by a dog. 
Actually, my wife used to cut my hair for me until late 2004, several months before our daughter was born. Since I bought the hair cut kit from BJ's in 1998, every two to [...]

Late last month, I was informed by Marquis Who's Who that my biography will be included in the 2007 edition of Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Prior to these inclusions, I was also selected for the 2006 edition of Who's Who in America, but the Science and Engineering inclusion [...]

Do you have a budget for your own domain?
It really took me some time to make up my mind to switch from free blog at Blogger.com, which I started in June, to this domain. First of all, I am not sure if it’s worth it. Secondly, where does the money come from to pay for [...]

After several days of hard habor, my new site is finanlly up and running. I have been switching back and forth in the past couple of days between different templates WordPress offered, trying to find one suitable for me yet not too difficult to make modifications (I am a newbie of CSS and php programming, [...]

Finally, I got my own home! Isn't that exciting? Well, considering that I have to move my blog posts on Blogger to this new home and set all the functions and tools, it probably will take a while before it finally gets into shape. But I look forward to the challenges ahead. [...]