Friday, August 1, 2008

Logic9 (Sudoku)

I am surprised that Logic9 on my website is one of the most frequently visited. It rank second to my FAQs.

http://www.tankinlian.com/logic9/

There are many other websites offering Sudoku puzzles, but it seems that my website has some attractive features. They are:

1. Can play online
2. Easy to play
3. Can play 4 levels
4. Option to choose flowers and letters, instead of numbers.

I shall be updating the website to have more puzzles.

Enjoy.

Joke: race horse telephoned

John had a restless night and keep on calling "Eva, darling" in his sleep. His wife Joan asked him who Eva is.

John replied that she was his favourite race horse. His wife accepted the explanation.

On returning home, he found his wife furious. He asked why. She replied "Your race horse telephoned today".

Advice on Financial Planning

Hi Kin Lian,
I have read your articles in your website and found that they were very informative and also gave us very good advices.

I would to find out do you provide financial planning for us. If you do, I would like to seek your advice.

REPLY
I do not give specific financial planning advice. You can read the FAQs in my website and decide for yourself.

Read the FAQ on "Financial Planning for the Young". It tells you how much to set aside for your retirement and how to invest in a low cost fund. You can read the FAQ on "Personal Insurance" to decide on the type of low cost insurance that you need.

Land Banking Scam

Hi Mr. Tan,

I've just read your blog on land banking scam and though I would share a email that I sent to ST a while back when they had a relatively positive article on land banking back in 2007. I feel ST has not been as investigative as they should have been and many times, have articles that doesn't give a complete picture of investments , almost to the extend that it would appear they dare not provide any additional information or view other that so called "experts" with vested interests.

LETTER TO STRAITS TIMES JOURNALIST

I wonder if you have done a proper investigation into the whole land banking issues, especially about companies like X since there has been numerous discussion about scams by them in the internet ? A simple search on the internet will throw up lots of information about such scams and how these scams works even if the titles or funds are put into escrow until the sales completed.

Your article by not addressing such issues does a great dis-service to the general public. I hope that ST will follow up with the investigative style that expose the previous NKF and that that has made us Singaporean proud of ST.

http://mywealthplanner.wordpress.com/2006/10/28/profitable-plots-investing-in-land-banks-1/

While I have tried to put reply to this article in the forum, I feels that this is insufficient for those readers that do not make use of the internet as much.

I would appreciate if yourself or your editor could look into this and do a proper follow up articles. And in view of the large amount of money changing hand just because of a simple article like this . I've also got calls from various companies trying to sell the land banks ideas and doing some "talks" over this weekend and having read your articles, I'm wondering if the timing of these calls is co-incident or deliberately timed to be after your article.