First Million Challenge

Pursuing Interest Over Money

Low Hang Wei — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:31:16 +0000

After a long period of struggle, I finally decided to pursue my interest and accepted a job offer in Market Risk Management at OCBC. With my decision, it means that I have to work much harder, enjoy less flexibility and yet get paid less. From doing something that I have years of experience with, I switched [...]

Making Tough Decisions

Low Hang Wei — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:08:01 +0000

This is a period of time that I feel quite lost since this is the first and only time in my life that I am about to step into the labor force. To be honest, it has been very difficult to make my decisions, because interest and money are two major factors that seem to [...]

Why Create RSS Feeds For Websites

Low Hang Wei — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:13:16 +0000

RSS Feeds was something that I did not totally understand until just a while ago. To be honest, I am still not used to using RSS Feeds, but I can already see how effective RSS Feeds can be for the ordinary user. However, not many people understand how RSS Feeds work, so it still has [...]

Major Overhaul of My Own Life

Low Hang Wei — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:59:23 +0000

Recently, I just deleted four posts of a specific topic, the first time I ever did something like that. I would also be deleting all comments related to that in future. It is a very drastic decision, but one I feel that I have to make to protect those being flamed in the comments. It [...]

Boast Your Victories, Hide Your Losses

Low Hang Wei — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:32:39 +0000

Have you ever wondered why is it that so many people seem to be doing great in their lives? Everyone seems to talk about themselves like they are perfect and should be promoted to the CEO of their company. Everyone talks about how much money they win in the casino, 4D, stock market or anything [...]

Lack of Budgeting Causes Poverty?

Low Hang Wei — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:48:05 +0000

Recently, there are quite a few people losing jobs and going into debts. However, there is nothing surprising about that. In fact, the surprising thing is that a lot of those who get into real big problems are not the really poor folks, but rather those once-rich highly-paid executives. It is bad to lose jobs for anyone, [...]

Twouble With Twitter

Low Hang Wei — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:14:10 +0000

When I was reading up more about Twitter and seeing how it can possibly help in a business platform, I came across this video. It's pretty cool. :)

Google Pagerank Update

Low Hang Wei — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:45:14 +0000

Just when I started focusing on Internet Marketing with real actions done, Google has a pagerank update. This update is not particularly favorable for my websites, since all of them fell in their Pagerank. Over the past few years that I neglected the websites that I built up, all of my websites had fallen in pagerank [...]

Written My First Wordpress Plugin

Low Hang Wei — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:35:45 +0000

I have always wanted to learn more about how to do additional things in Wordpress and finally got around to doing it. My first wordpress plugin is only intended for my own use, although I may decide to publish wordpress plugins in future. For those visitors that constantly refresh my blog for updates, you may [...]

Rejected a Job Offer

Low Hang Wei — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:31:32 +0000

Recently, I was contacted by the boss of a company where I used to work for. He actually asked for my help to work on a web portal and offered a reasonable pay for my services, making me slightly hesistant to reject him at first. After all, I think he is sincere in his approach and that the [...]

Security Vulnerability of a MNC Detected

Low Hang Wei — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:42:33 +0000

When I was trying to automate some tasks with Microsoft Excel, I was exploring a website of a MNC in detail. As I was browsing through different pages and exploring different permutations of the URLs, I got a great surprise. I was able to see information of clients that I am not supposed to be [...]

Competitive Advantage in Business

Low Hang Wei — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:03:07 +0000

I am currently attending a workshop on getting seed funding. We were just talking about innovation and value proposition, so all the teams started presenting. As all the teams presented, one question kept lurking around as a stumbling block. Some of the teams have very good presentations and ideas, but almost everyone can’t give a perfect answer when [...]

The Career Effects of Graduating During a Recession

Low Hang Wei — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:55:22 +0000

I stumbled upon an interesting article that will probably interest many people of my age, since we are about to enter the job market. This article is from the National Bureau of Economic Research and the study is done on Canadian students. The highlight of the article is the point where it stated that young [...]

Looking For a Business Developer

Low Hang Wei — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:23:16 +0000

MyWobile is currently looking for a business developer to work on the business aspects of the company. As a startup company that is funded by MDA, cash is pretty tight, so the salary offered is going to be low. However, significant shares will be given as you are expected to be a key partner, with [...]

The Man Without Limbs

Low Hang Wei — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:39:48 +0000

This is not a blog post asking for sympathy and donations. If you are expecting to see beggars or people cursing their fate for their loss of limbs and asking for donations, this video is not where you will look. Look here and be touched, be inspired.

Second Appearance on Channel 8 News

Low Hang Wei — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:08:29 +0000

This is my second appearance on Channel 8 News for another topic, basically about university graduates running startups. This is sort of self-solicited, since it is part of the publicity strategy I had in mind for MyWobile, a startup funded by MDA. After months of hard work, we are starting to see the fruits of our [...]

The Power of The Last Word

Low Hang Wei — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:28:30 +0000

Have you ever felt that bloggers hold a lot of potential power? I mean, imagine how much they can change people’s perceptions about different things by just writing a post. For example, there are a lot of food blogs out there currently and a restaurant owner pleasing the owners of these blogs may mean a [...]

Conclusion of My Internship

Low Hang Wei — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:04:16 +0000

As two months flew by, my internship just concluded with effect from today. I am glad to have undergone this internship because it taught me a few important things and also got me to explore my own interests. Some of you may be wondering why is there no posting throughout the duration of my internship [...]

First Three Weeks of Internship in OCBC

Low Hang Wei — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:31:11 +0000

After tomorrow, I would have completed three weeks of internship in OCBC and to be honest, my internship seems to get better by the day. I can’t express enough thanks to my supervisor and colleagues who allocated value-adding work to me and not just admin or repetitive work. To date, I have done 2 in-depth analysis of [...]

First Day of Internship at OCBC

Low Hang Wei — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:17:10 +0000

Today marks the first day of my internship at OCBC Bank and I got to say that the number of interns that they took in is pretty impressive given the current economic outlook. I still do not know the exact details of my job scope yet, but hearing from colleagues, it sounds better than what I read [...]