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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. [...]
August 2006 Score Card — Part III: Asset Allocation
Morningstar instant X-ray shows that for our mutual fund portfolio, more than 52% are in US stocks as of August. Another big chunk is foreign stocks, which counts more 38%. The foreign stock part has got a little bigger than what I desire 30%, and the growth mainly came from investments in Dodge & Com [...]
August 2006 Score Card — Part II: Networth
I have already summarized our expenses in August. Now it’s the networth’s turn to appear on the score card. Not included in the plot are 1) car loan (as well as the values of our cars) and 2) mortgage (as well as the value of our house). The main reason of not including these two [...]
August 2006 Score Card — Part I: Expenses
As the month of August has come to an end, it’s time to see how I did in the past month.
The first item on the score card is the monthly expenses. This is the first time in a while that I kept a complete record of how we spent the money this month. Not included [...]
Amazon.com Sales Update
Well, after what seemed to be a booming month of August, my sales on Amazon.com run into stalemate in the past week. The last sale was made on August 19th, since then all the remaining seven items still belong to me. I admit that those leftovers are not very attractive, so it didn’t and won’t [...]
