• Travels

    Travelling, Just Do It!

    Scene: Airport lounge. Time: Morning peak hour. Camera pans to a lone individual hunched over his laptop amidst the noise and chaos of Kuala Lumpur International Airport… he starts to type… Oh Wooooow! Ladies and Gentlemen, to say that this trip has been an epic adventure would not be justifiable in terms of epic adventures. I don’t think I’ve ever had one of these holidays for a long, long time. Seriously, need another holiday just to recover from this trip – somewhere which allows me to sit on a beach and pretend to be comatose for 8 hours at a time. The eye-opening encounters and unique experiences in the past…

  • Travels

    Kuala Lumpur (Second Leg)

    What’s up guys! It’s me again – and this time I’m in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It’s the second and final leg of my SEA (South East Asia) trip with my friends and we’ve just landed in KL. I’m really looking forward to some more low-key adventures here in Malaysia because Thailand was just an assault on the senses. The noise, people, lights, traffic, smells of Bangkok hits you like a tsunami. So it’s with a lot of agreement that we decided to have more of R&R (rest and relaxation) here in KL. Fine by me! Been here less than a day but there are many things I’ve noticed about KL……

  • Travels

    Bangkok (Love this place!)

    Hi guys, Me again, yes would you believe that I am blogging on my bucks trip? Dedication yo! Fact is – if you’re passionate about something, you do it irrespective of the location and occasion. You do it because you grind, because you need persistence to achieve. Settle down tiger, intensity much? Look alright, I just wanted to let you know that I’m here for you guys and for my dreams OK? OK OK, continue weirdo. Anyway before I was interrupted, just wanted to say that we’ve managed to make it to Thailand! Funny story here, on the tarmac at Sydney airport, we were delayed for a fair while because…

  • Life

    Grit and the Art of the Grind

    Hi Frugal Samuraties! Welcome back to the latest from TheFrugalSamurai. Can you guys believe that it is the end of February already? Far out, soon it will be Easter, then June 30 (end of financial year), and before you know it we are heading into spring and knocking on the door of Xmas. Seriously, where oh where does the time fly. It’s been almost six months since The Frugal Samurai was born (the blog not me, I am older than 6 months), and during that time I’ve written a lot, said a lot and most of all learnt a lot. That’s why I started the blog and continue to plug…

  • Real Estate

    Investing in Real Estate 105 (Your Team)

    Yo Yo Yo – what’s happening peeps! Not sure why I decided to talk like that – must be because I’ve been watching “Any Given Sunday” again, one of my favourite sports movies. Basically it’s a take on a fictional NFL team with an all-star acting cast. Al Pacino as the old school head coach, Jamie Foxx as the narcissistic rising star QB, Cameron Diaz as the hot-headed young franchise owner. It gives a pretty darn good insight into the trials and tribulations of professional sports. But one key message which I came out of it is that, without a supportive and cohesive team, the individual fails. Exactly how it…