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Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Browse 3 books today ...

These are the 3 books I browse today

The Guru Investor writes about a list of greatest investors and their methods over time.

The Great Depression of Debt - Just because someone asked about debt and loan in my finance blog, I suddenly pay more attention to this topic.

Profit From the Panic - doing the opposite is always in my radar



These are my comments after browsing them:

Profit From the Panic is really about technical analysis.  They talk about trends and use tons of charts showing you how easy to earn from the market.  Most of the analysis methods are really simple and basic so you could have easily obtain them in internet and also my finance blog.  Some readers may already know that I claim technical analysis is actually just trying to make sense out of gambling strategies.  Although I use it a lot, but I strongly warn people who invest PURELY base on technical analysis.  Anyway, if you are new and want to start learning basic patterns in technical analysis, then this could be a good book.

This book is very Singapore oriented.  So a lot of great tips showing there is not suitable for Malaysian.  However, international and singapore market trading could have used those tips.

I used 6-10 minutes browsing time.


Although The Great Depression of Debt mentions it is talking about the 21st century Great Depression but it is really base on 19th and 20th stuff.  I don't find any special methods or tips about debt control at all.  Basically it is warning you the depression is coming, bigger and bigger.  Which is kind of already known by quite a lot of people already.  2008 start the cycle, then 2017, followed by 2029 etc.

This book is very USA oriented, so some stuff are not applicable for people from south east asia.  Further more this book also shows you how much you need to save in order to retire.  But all are just simple compounding interest varies across different period of years.  Which I strongly recommend reading my finance blog for similar analysis.

I browsed for 4-6 minutes.




At first glance, The Guru Investor is one of those typical books which compile a lot of existing info together and make it easy for reader to find them all in the book.  I normally do not buy this kind of book because most of the info there are already known, I just take note of what I didn't know and then do my own research on it, slowly expanding my knowledge on it.

Usually this kind of book is also the most expensive ...

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Browsed for 15 minutes, then another 40 minutes in depth.

but eventually I ended up buying this book.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Buying kclau book in MPH

I went to MPH One Utama  the other day looking for the book titled "Top Money Tips for Malaysians" written by kclau.com

I first browse around the local writers section but couldn't find it.  Most book displayed in that section is politics.

Then I found this kiosk where I can search available books in that particular book store ...

So I click one of the search buttons

And I typed in "money tips"


the result came back in split second, 25 books available !!  Yea !!



Then what ?  I had no idea so I asked for help from Customer Service desk.  Afterall, we still need their help, don't we ?  The kiosk is just for fun I guess ...

For the next 45 minutes, the staff runs up and down couldn't find the book neither.  The system said received 25 books and kept in "Personal Finance" section, but its just not there !

1 hour later, the staff finally informed me that there may be some problems in receiving the books.  The books arrived in One Utama MPH but not sure exactly where the package is yet.

Anyway, if you have credit card you can buy it online from this link.  Its a great book !

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Best Gift in My Internet World

Last month marked one of my greatest achievement in my newly created "Internet Life".

One of the very successful personal finance bloggers, kclau, actually sent me a copy of his new book for a review !!

KC Lau has been blogging about Personal Finance for a long time.  I actually contacted other Personal Finance bloggers before I started one myself but almost all other bloggers always refer me back to kclau as their mentors.  So kclau is my sifu's sifu, mentor's mentor.  And I have this idea of kclau is the founder of Malaysia Personal Finance blog as to liewcf to Malaysia Blog ( I think that liewcf is the earliest serious internet earner )

Anyway it arrived in Pos Express ...

and kclau even write a little note for me ...


The book is also personally signed by kclau !!

OMG, when I started blogging I just wanted to share some of my personal view points that I haven't seen else where.  Who knows I would be getting a book from my mentor's mentor !!

Its like Mahathir calling me by my first name and Bill Gate wanting to hire me as his consultant ...

man ... I am still too excited to talk about this.

I will be writting my review on this book in my personal finance blog but you can learn more about this book from here : http://kclau.com/about-2/moneytipsbook/

and you can buy it from ME through this link 
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