« Read the previous post for context Our first priority is to build our emergency fund. An emergency fund is essentially 3-6 months’ worth of your living expenses, stored in a highly liquid place,...

A friend recently encouraged me to blog about personal finance. It was quite a timely nudge given that we have just moved to Singapore. Here, I find ourselves rethinking and reapplying a lot of the...

This passage of scripture is famous for the qualities of a noble woman. In fact, the Bible headings itself would label this passage as “A Woman of Noble Character” (NIV) or “A Woman Who Fears the L...

This is a story of a recent conversation I had with a 2-3 year experienced young professional that I was working with. Scripture Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an ...

Azure Video Indexer is a video-metadata extraction service from Azure Media Services (read more). One of its key features is that it runs the video through the Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech-t...

I am setting up a set of SAP HANA VMs in a new subscription on a different tenant. These VMs comprise of: 1 WS 2016 Jump Box Server with 1 unmanaged OS disk 1 SUSE Linux App Server with 1 man...

Created a quick POC for translating an SRT file from English to a different language. In my mind, the POC is simple and shouldn’t take a few hours to write. Using the Azure Cognitive Services – Te...

I was looking for a quick, screenshot-based, step-by-step guide on how to deploy ASP.Net sites to an existing Azure App Service instance using an Azure DevOps pipeline. Maybe it’s my search keyword...

Deep Work by Cal NewportI was quite busy last quarter of 2018 due to juggling many things. This caused me to be quite stressed and at times quite demotivated. With many responsibilities, carving ou...

Thanks to the people who mentored and invested significant time on me, I learned 14 years ago that I should read books even when I’m not required to. But life has a way of making us prioritize the ...