The Sun's Financial Diary

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 [...]

Reporting time again!
The momentum we saw in April continued in May as we experienced another record-setting month. This time, the S&P 500 Index joined the Dow to close at the highest level in its history. For the month, the Dow gained 491 points, or 3.74%, the S&P 500 rose 44 points, or about 2.96%, and [...]

The Digerati Life is hosting this week’s Money Question. The question that was asked this time is
What are your investing strategies and how have you decided to allocate your money? What does your portfolio look like?
I have discussed several times in the past about my portfolio, the most recent one was in April after I [...]

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 [...]

When I posted our latest net worth early this week, I didn’t realize that we have kind of reached a milestone until I was reminded by FMF at Free Money Finance. For the first time ever, our net worth (excluding house and cars related items) has passed the $500,000 or half a million mark. Having [...]

Just as I am occupied almost entirely by this blog and totally forgot that I still have a couple of items listed on Amazon.com market place, an email came in last night, informing me that an USB flash drive that I listed a couple of months ago was sold for $20.95.
I bought the item, [...]

For the first four months of the year, our net worth has grown at a rate of 9.81%, adding more $45,000 to our nest egg. Of course, a major part of that increase came from contributions from our salaries as well as company matches in our retirement accounts. Nonetheless, our investments in various accounts (regular, [...]

Another month has concluded and it’s time to take a look how we did in April.
April is very solid month in general as the markets regained momentum after all the volatilities we experienced in late February and early March. It has been a record setting month (except the last day) for the Dow as the [...]

Some how I started to feel that we need to make some overhaul of our finance to make it more efficient and easier to manage, though we haven’t reached the point that things are out of hands yet. Partly because that getting a credit card, opening a bank account, and buying a stock are so [...]