About Me

During your school life, do you have that one nerd classmate who don’t join any club and only study whole day?

Or you have that one uni friend who eat the same cheap meal every day without feeling bored of it?

Or you have that one colleague in your office who come and leave office on time every day?

Yup, that person is basically me.

My Backgrounds

My name is Marcus who born and live in Malaysia. I’m married with a beautiful wife and blessed with 1 daughter. Currently I’m working as a full-time software engineer.

During my free time and weekends, I usually spend family time with my daughter and wife. I enjoy cooking for my family and try out new recipe.

When I’m alone, I enjoy watching educational videos (mainly fitness and finance related) and anime on Youtube. When it is available, I opened my Pokemon TCG pack in Pokemon TCG Pocket to collect them all.

And of course, writing blog post is one of the things I do when I free to keep my creativity flowing.

My Life Goals

My current goal in life is to build a fit body (or better, a six-pack body) for myself.

I used to be very passionate on finance and investing. Now the passion somehow not as strong as before.

My guess is my financial status is pretty stable now, hence I don’t have to focus as much as before.

I have 2 big life goals in life:

1. Retire by 50.
2. Live until 100.

Retiring early requires financial independence, while living long requires a healthy body.

These goals also align with some of my life philosophies, such as able to do what I love in life freely, less chance to get sick and don’t have to rely too much on my children when I’m old.

In order to achieve both goals, I need to make sure both my financial and physical health are not in the drain. I don’t want to become the typical office worker who retired with a full body of pain, illness and regret.

My Blog Purpose

I just be honest here. I created this blog so I can use my free time to earn some side income.

But after working on my blog for several years since 2020, I had several times of burnout.

I kept asking myself “why I have to live my life so hard while I already have so much? A house I own, a family with a kid, a stable job and some good savings.”

So I decided to overcome my perfectionist behavior toward my blog by letting go all the monetization, SEO and personal brand things.

Now the only reason why I still writing on this blog is to write whatever things I want to share with my younger self or my children.

Whether it is about money, investing, self-improvement or life experience, I will just write it out here.

This blog is like my own life magazine. The target audience is the past me (or my children), or maybe the future me to read again what I have gone through in life.

Whether the blog will earn money or not, it shouldn’t bother me much (well, I tried not to). If it does, that’s a bonus to cover up my blog hosting fee.

That’s All About Me

Thank you for dropping by my blog and having an interest in me~ *blushes*

I wish you a good day ahead (or good night if it is over 10pm now, and hey you should go to bed!)