I thought I'd be gone for the longest time, my long 4-day weekend allow me to spare some time for writing.
Let's talk about finance.
When I was studying for my bachelor in Malaysia, I opened Maybank Investment Account in Pulau Pinang, I was just 19 years old and was an intern at Airasia. I barely had any cash at that time, my spending all goes to the beneficiary credit card with Papa as principal holder. So everything I spent, were all in the statements. So I started to cashout money in many ways.
One of the ways that me and my friends find it funny was. Lets say, we all went out to eat, I'd always offer to pay obviously using the credit card and everyone else can either transfer to my account or pay me in cash. Then those money, I will buy Airasia shares (which was a dumb decision to get into stocks, nobody buys airline shares).
The money at that time doesn't really do the compounding, merely because it was in MYR. So, I thought, the only way I can own US stocks, simply by earning in other strong currencies, and earning in GBP obviosuly put me in the strong position and the only way to do that, I have to work there. So I told Papa in one evening, I'm going to study in UK which started as a half-joke.
Now, apart from holiday spending, it's pretty easy to recur a 1grand into stocks at a proportionate and with those Strategic Business Reporting lesson contribute to analysing for my own benefit. Five years ago, I tried metatrader5 because my lunatic ex boyfriend was crazy about getting rich quick, the lesson was temperament and I always know I dont dwell on the unrealised losses when other people went into depression because of that..
I get into my first RM100K couple of years ago, then I celebrated lavishly way too soon, and to get back onto track was not easy. Books helped my way through, having to move to London, allow me to do some aggressive reading. I wouldn't trade that with anything else, books are the most valuable investment when you actually read it.
So now - I'm still debt-free and getting clearer to where I'm heading financially, and most important, independently, despite having five holidays booked for this year.
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