I have to say that I did quite a lot of things this week. Getting sick at the later part of the week was a bummer though.
Went to Yangon on Sunday afternoon, ahead of my regular monthly ALCO meetings on Monday morning. Had a great Korean BBQ dinner with a nice bottle of Italian red that evening with my colleague at the mall near our hotel. Monday morning was an intensive 2.5 hours meeting followed by a quick lunch before I had to catch my flight back home.
The following day on Tuesday, a group of us finally made it for our much-discussed day trip to Batam. We had been talking about how cheap it is to visit the place for food and massages. The last time I had been there was almost 10 years ago. One of the guys was a regular there for golf and he was our tour guide for the 4 of us.
We started our marathon massage session in the late morning with a facial and a pedicure. This was followed up with a lunch of roast duck and many dishes before we moved on to a massage establishment for 3 hours of intense relaxation. One hour of foot reflexology was followed by another 2 hours of full body massage. Then we had a bit of mall shopping to buy some food stuff to bring home.
Finally, we sat in a large open food court to enjoy the late afternoon breeze, watching the sun setting and ordering so much seafood dishes that I lost count after a while. The beer, wines and whisky certainly helped to digest the food. We headed for the jetty before 8 pm and managed to make this day trip an eventful 14 hours excursion. The all in cost for everything was less than SGD 150 per person, so it was really value for money.
Maybe it was the travelling, maybe it could be the food. But I started to feel lousy by Wed. Son was also sick and I might have caught some virus too. Had coughing fits, diarrhoea and a sore throat. It was worst at night and the sleep over the next few days was terrible.
Went for a follow-up investment discussion on Thurs afternoon. This was the Aquaponics investment we attended in Aug/Jul 2018. The founders tried to bid for a land earlier this year but were unsuccessful, hence they decided to refocus on acquiring land from a new shareholder instead.
Their presentation this time seems more complete and sharper after we provided our feedback to them in the last 2 meetings. They were seeking more secondary series B funding and wanted to gather our thoughts on the materials and also to see if we are interested to invest. We gave them some pointers from an investor’s perspective and they agree to look into it to further fine-tune their sales pitch.
Overall, a very busy week for me. The body may have been trying to tell me to slow down but I was having so much fun. Have not been sick for a while, due to my regular exercises. So this was a bit of a surprise for me as I feel more lethargic than normal. Could be the medicines that I was taking and that the viral cycle took a while to reach its peak.
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