But few people know I had a really rough beginning.

When I was just starting out 20 years ago, I graduated from NUS and landed a decent job like most of my peers. I was working hard to save money for my upcoming wedding, but I felt like the money wasn't coming in fast enough.

It was at this time I began to invest in stocks to make quick profits. I was a total beginner and chose to buy stocks based on what my friends were investing in or what seemed like the hottest stocks at the time.

Things were ok in the beginning, the stocks I invested in began to show some promise, even making some money…

But it didn't last. The quick profits soon became quick losses. And the more I lost, the more I poured into the market—in hopes of hitting a jackpot.

I was practically gambling my money away. The final stroke came during the dot.com crash in 2001 which resulted in me losing $50,000 just weeks before my wedding.

All my savings were gone in a split second. I couldn't give my wife the grand wedding she wanted. What's worse is I had to take a $50,000 loan from her to pay for our wedding expenses and could only hold our dinner banquet at Dragon Gate restaurant—instead of a five star hotel we initially planned.

Determined to pay her back, I started working two jobs. But even so, my income was not enough to pay back my wife, and earn back what I had initially lost.

What followed were years of hard work and self reflection to get back on my feet.

At the same time, I learned that halfway across the globe, someone became one of the richest person in the world simply by investing. He did so using a systematic way. I thought to myself "If he can do it, so can I. How hard can it be?"

That's right. As you would have known by now, the strategy is Value Investing — and its biggest proponent, Warren Buffett.

I became obsessed with studying his methods. I read all about this investment strategy and took investing courses from overseas to understand the subject. But still, I felt it wasn't enough.

That's when I decided to fly to United States to learn directly from the only 2 professors in the world who were teaching Value Investing.

With two of my mentors, Professor George Atthanassakos from the Ben Graham Centre For Value Investing, and Professor Bruce Greenwald from Columbia University of New York

My learning didn't stop there. Years after coming back from the States, I continued to compile the insights I learned and tested the methods rigorously...until I am able to develop my own unique tools that enable anyone to