“How to determine a good property for rental investment?” My friend Lincoln asked me. He told me, he has been on the property hunt and has no idea where to look. Perhaps in districts 19, 20, 21, 22, 23? Which district has the highest rental growth and which condo project…

My friend Jack, a dividend investor was having coffee with me when he popped a question. Is it still worthwhile to invest in reits (i.e real estate investment trusts) during the period of rising interest rates? Hmm…I asked him can we qualify what are reits and where does it gets…

I have a friend, John who was curious about forex trading (i.e trading currency pairs). He wanted to know, if it possible to get forex data from the internet to analyse forex movement. He knows that I had used python to scrape data and would like me to help him…

I was having lunch with a security chief. He was complaining about the countless cctv (i.e close circuit television) he has to monitor and download on a monthly basis. He was telling me, everyday there are recordings of cctv footages in both his security guard training facilities and the shopping…

Each of us live in a different country and has different ideas on what retirement life is about. For me, its about having enough funds to pay my bills in my retirement and able to go for an occasional travel once a year. …

The other day, my wife and I were sitting on a bus on our way to a shopping mall. I noticed my wife was glued to her phone. I wondered and asked what is it she was looking at. She told me that she was searching for promotions in products…

My old chinese neighbour has a problem. He can only read chinese. He has a grand daughter studying in Australia and he misses her dearly. While he is able to use whatsapp to do video calls with her, he misses her whenever she is offline. …

Ever wonder why you like to spend so much time on online shopping? We have seen the rise of online shopping with many e-retailers, brick and mortar shops jumping on the ecommerce bandwagon. See below on the growth of online ecommerce. There is the data science behind the scenes of…

In 2019, there is a 54.2% increase in scams vs 2018 which resulted in $168 million in losses. This represents an increase of $23 million from a year before. We have observed that other crimes such as theft, housebreaking, crimes against other persons are dropping, but scams crimes have increased…