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other blog: the everyday minimalist
talk to me: contact me here
location: canada/usa
works: business consultant
net worth: ~$155,000 as of Dec 2011
eats: sashimi, tartiflette, pho
drinks: earl grey cream tea
gadgets: macbook pro 17", ipod touch (pda)
beauty: fb's list of toiletries/makeup
wants: roland rd700-gx piano
reads: ayn rand, tom stanley, sophie kinsella
watches: bones, mentalist, castle, top chef
wears: wrap dresses & necklaces
loves: minimalism, $$ management, traveling
hates: wearing shorts & being late for anything
About
I'm a 20-something year old who got out of $60,000 of debt in 18 months, earning $65,000 (gross) a year.
This is more of a lifestyle blog with hint of money talk, like a moneythropologist.
You can read more about me here in The FB Story, check out my favourite posts or you can send me a note if you have questions (please be nice).
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Come and visit my other blog The Everyday Minimalist which is all about achievable everyday minimalism, simplifying my life, living like a modern nomad.
Learning Archive
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Can you learn how to be a genius?
Posted on March 9, 2011 | 5 CommentsTweet This BBC News Article – Is there a genius in all of us, seems to think so. Talent researchers Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Kevin Rathunde and Samuel Whalen agree. “High academic achievers are not necessarily born ‘smarter’ than others,” they write in their book Talented Teenagers, “but […] -
Languages, prices and the ups and downs
Posted on October 9, 2009 | 9 CommentsTweet Well-Heeled talked about this recently with paying a tutor to help her brush up on her Mandarin. For me, I am taking a different tack, and the tack has a name: FREE. No paid tutor (BF is free and willing to help me learn […] -
I failed, y’all… but it was the best failure ever.
Posted on October 20, 2008 | 17 CommentsTweet But I am strangely optimistic! I failed my driving test. *sigh* It’s too embarrassing to talk about. I think my problem was I was expecting it to be harder, so I made myself UBER nervous. I was PERFECT for 3 hours in the car, […]