Quitting

I have been thinking of quitting on either 14 Aug 20 or 19 Feb 21.

If I decide on the former, I have to tender resignation within the next two weeks. If I go for the latter, I still have half a year to weather.

Half a year is a lot more money (26.5k or so), and a lot more pain too. With the current unstable stock market it would certainly be better to take this choice... but can I bear with another six months?

26.5k is 2 years of living expenses. Also, the market might be truly recovering by then. The US election is another key factor to consider.

Sigh. Be strong, me.

Yesterday, Leo once again offered to let me stay at his grandma's place if she were to leave this plane of existence. I am so grateful for that.

Currently 60% of my expenses go to paying rent. If I could cut that off I would be so much more well off. It seems like a great location too.

After quitting, I probably will never be an employee again. I would find ways to make money myself, and just live like that for the rest of my life. I do wish everything would go the way I plan.

June 2020

I made a lot of dumb rookie investment mistakes in May.... Probably lost a thousand bucks in USD.

For this month, I plan to put all my remaining cash in stable etfs and stop speculating. Speculation simply distracts me way too much.

Also, I think I will be quitting in the coming February. I estimate to have 150k SGD by then, which should be able to generate enough passive income to cover half my expenses. Hopefully by then I will be good enough at speculation to cover that other half. Then perhaps I will start my own shop and/or youtube channel.

Go me!

100k achieved.

I reached $100,000 SGD in liquid net worth yesterday. 

This took 3 years and 4 months of working, saving, and investing.

Next goal : $200,000k by end of 2022

Circuit Breaker... Nice way of saying lockdown.

I'm pretty sure I'm living through a historical moment in humanity's journey right now.

Singapore is in lockdown for a month. This is the second week. I am currently working from home. As one of the few people in the company with a laptop, I have more work than the others, but it's still not much compared to the usual workload.

The company asked us to do e-learning while not working. I picked a video editing course by Jordy Vandeput. Enjoying it so far. It's something I would eventually need to learn, since I planned to quit my job soon. But thanks to corona I will have to postpone that plan by maybe a year at least. The market must fully recover before I can quit, or I won't feel safe.

Corona has reduced pollution and crime rates, but at the same time caused a surge in domestic violence. Seems like plenty of couples can't stand seeing each other for too long. 

This lockdown doesn't affect me much since I hardly go out anyway. I am enjoying it, actually. Had a crazy game backlog, and now I finally have a chance of clearing them.

Rune Factory 4 Special (currently)

Final Fantasy VII Remake

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX

Trials of Mana

Persona 5 Royal

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition

That's the order I'm tackling it. I will be occupied for a long time to come.

A month ago I wrote about my investments going south. Since then it went a thousand times south-er. Hah... I have learnt a good lesson. Nothing much I can do but wait it out. Right this moment I am waiting for the market to open to sell my gold etf, but I think it's gonna drop a fair bit right away. Probably gotta have to wait some more.

And... it opened at a good price. Now I'm just hoping for Kristal to sell it asap before it plunges.

Stay safe

I dreamt of you again. 

Many times in the last few weeks. Wonder why.

I pray that you're safe from the virus.