在同安会馆，爱书、爱文字、爱写作的人很多，文教股股长蔡良乾便是其中一位。 要找他并不难， 每个星期有那么两三天， 你可以在国家图书馆或百胜楼一带，看到他的踪影。 除了到书店找朋友聊天， 他也找创作资料。 其实，专注于东南亚华人研究的良乾，家里有不少相关的书籍。
不过， 如果以为良乾只懂得往文字和书堆钻， 那就大错特错了。
出生于印尼的他，早年是南洋商报的政治与财经记者。 33岁那一年，他获得了共和联邦秘书处奖学金，负笈英国修读财经新闻学。 1977年，他加入海峡时报协助推出双语版。 双语版的概念是由当时的总理李光耀倡议的，目的是确保优秀的传统价值观得以传承。 及后，良乾成为新加坡广播局（新传媒前身）新闻执行编辑。 他也曾担任香港亚洲周刊驻新加坡特派员。
拥有丰富的采访经验，他将自己的文稿结集起来，出版了《狮城采访》和《南洋采访》。
作为文字工作者，良乾有着一般人没有的、对人物性格的敏锐观察和刻划。现阶段，他致力于东南亚华人，特别是闽南人的历史研究，对象包括同安人如商人兼教育慈善家陈嘉庚、前复旦大学校长李登辉(非台湾前总统)等人。
退休后，良乾曾自组公司，从事翻译和剪报。他也在股票和房地产市场投资。套他自己的说法，他采取的是”傻瓜笨蛋投资法”，不要浪费太多时间看股市的起起落落，只需追随李氏基金所投资的上市公司， 结果没有让他失望。“这是因为我的岳父张振智毕生都在李光前的南益有限公司工作，没有打过另一分工。他对我说过：李光前经常交代：胶价越上涨就应该越卖出！价格越惨跌就越买进！” 良乾的投资组合包括：大东方控股、华侨银行、海峡商行、花莎尼、罗敏申、联合工程、维信等。
除了在股市有所斩获外，他在房地产投资上，收获也不小。他目前在荷兰村和政府大厦地铁站一带，拥有商店出租。
“傻瓜笨蛋投资法”果然一点也不笨蛋傻瓜。良乾从学术界跨越到投资领域，而且是在半百以后，印证了活到老、学到老这一句话，也让人看到他在学术和投资领域之间游走的潇洒姿态。（蔡良乾先生已故）
撰稿：林丽平
Reading with Pleasure and Adopting the Idiot Investment Strategy
Within our association, there are many book lovers and writers, Mr Chua Leong Kian is one of them. He heads the Cultural and Educational section.
One can easily find him inside the National Library and Bras Basah Complex. Almost three times a week, he visited the library for research and reading. He has many friends in the book shops nearby. At home, he had also a large collection of books on Southeast Asian Chinese.
You will be wrong if you think that he is just a book worm.
Born in Bagan Si-Api Api, Indonesia, he was educated in Yok Bin High School and St. Francis Institution, Malacca, Malaysia. He started his journalism career in the Nanyang Siang Pau in 1963. At the age of 33, he won a Commonwealth Secretariat scholarship to study Financial Journalism in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. In 1977, he joined the Straits Times to launch the Bilingual Page, which was then, the current Minister Mentor’s idea, in order to inculcate oriental values and culture. Later, he was recruited by the then Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (now MediaCorp) to be an Executive Editor of the News Room. In 1987, when the Time Inc. launched its Chinese current affairs magazine, Yazhou Zhoukan in Hong Kong, he joined them to be a Senior Correspondent based in Siingapore, but covering Indonesia as well. He used to run a translatin and press clipping agency at Peace Centre, he said, “we were paid to read the newspapers and magazines for our clients, searching for key words.” No wonder he is very knowledgeable.
Mr Chua is also very focussed in his investments in stocks market and real estate. He said he practised an idiot strategy for stocks investment, by simply following what the Lee Foundation invests in. This was a peice of advice given by his father-in-law, Teo Chin Tee, who worked for the Lee Rubber Ltd throughout his life. “He used to tell me that Mr. Lee Kong Chian always reminded us, ‘the higher the price of rubber goes up, the more we sell. The lower the price comes down, the more we shall buy.” His stocks portfolio are mainly in Great Eastern Holding, OCBC, Straits Trading, Fraser & Neave, Robinsons, United Engineers, WBL and Bukit Sembawang. His shop units in the Adelphi and Holland Village are also reaping good rental incomes for his retirement. So he is neither stupid nor an idiot.
English script written by Mr Chua Leong Kian.