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Let’s face it: Malaysia is NOT a good place for LGBT individuals to freely express themselves. But no one can choose where they’re born at, can they? Discrimination is sadly common, usually justified by religion. If you disagree with ‘the LGBT lifestyle’, I ask for your empathy. This is not a ‘guide to be gay’…
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Accelerate your personal finance knowledge with this regular feature on Ringgit Oh Ringgit – the Link Roundup! I promise you’ll find these 10 links informational 🙂 1. ‘Quit your job and travel the world!’: A travel blogger confesses the grim financial reality behind the Instagram dream – Business Insider Hands up if you follow Instagram influencers and…
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Because money and personality are two topics I love to mesh together. Your Personality, Using the Big Five Personality Traits Before we go on, we have to spend some time talking about personalities – what is its definition? In comes behavioural science. The book Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art…
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I can’t be the only one curious about other people’s online purchasing habits, right? 😛 Recently, I asked the RoR community on Facebook about the last thing they bought online. There were some really great answers, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to share those here, because they’re fun to read! Plus, lots of…
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Accelerate your personal finance knowledge with this new regular feature on Ringgit Oh Ringgit – the Link Roundup! I promise you’ll find these 10 articles informational 🙂 1. 7 work-from-home jobs that pay over $100,000 – CNBC Because chances are you have dreamt about working from home, and making bank at the same time. Any of these…
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Budget Update: May 2018 I have a confession – in the last few months, I have been spending more than I earn. This is weird to admit, but I have let lifestyle inflation creep up on me. I honestly didn’t realise my bare-minimum monthly spending – the amount I need to live comfortably but minimally –…
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Budget Update: March 2018 Professional life = awesome. Personal life = sucks. Total expenses = scary, but mostly for the right things. Two-thirds of March 2018 expenses went to donations. Almost a quarter went to essentials like business, taxes and rent. The remaining went to groceries, a flight ticket, insurance, public transportation, mobile bill and…
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Mafan = slang for ‘annoying’, ‘malasnya nak buat’ If you find personal finance mafan, you’re not alone. Heck, I still find it mafan. I’m lucky to get a head start on it, but actually it’s still really quite the mafan. There are just so many things that you have to sort out to be at…
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Budget Update: February 2018
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While I have never been truly broke, I’ve had moments when money was tight. It became necessary to save money. It became necessary to allocate where each ringgit should go. Therefore this guide. Here I’ve compiled all the strategies you can use to get through moments when you’re tight with money. To make things clear and…
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Budget Update: January 2018
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After being self-employed for a couple of years, I know a thing or two about getting clients. Happy to share what I know with you!
