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  • Reunion Post Mortem

    And the “Post-CPF” reunion party is finally over on Thurs evening. It is a completed project for now until the next one, which may be in 4 years when we all hit our 60th – another big figure change event… The whole planning process started in early Jun as my previous co-organizer and I had…

  • Organizing Class Reunions

    I think I have a most unusual hobby in the world – I like to organize class reunions :-0. Over the last 10 years, I had done 4 and one is coming up next week. Most are for my secondary and junior college class of 1982/84 and one for my university cohort. Each reunion gets…

  • The Americans Are Crazy – Part 2

    A while ago, I wrote about the craziness of the American gun culture. Faced with so much evidence and violence, they continue to advocate more guns as a solution and refused to adopt common-sense regulations to reduce senseless killings. We will never understand them as their form of democracy and first amendment rights seem too…

  • Mapping Out My Game Plan for the Rest of 2022

    It will be Aug soon and we only have 5 months left to the year. It has been an interesting and difficult 2022 for most of us as markets turmoil and aggressive rate hikes curb the excesses of loose monetary policies since the 2008 GFC. Weak portfolios aside, there is a window of hope that…

  • History of My Blog

    BLOG: short name for a weB-LOG. It is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. 408 blog postings later, I am now into my 6+ year of penning down my thoughts since Apr 2016. Time indeed flies… Back in 2016, I was at the crossroad of my life journey…

  • My One and Only ICO Experience in 2018

    ICO: Initial Coin Offering. ICOs are another form of cryptocurrency that businesses use in order to raise capital. A process or event in which a company (especially a start-up) attempts to raise capital by selling a new cryptocurrency, which investors may purchase in the hope that the value of the cryptocurrency will increase, or to…

  • Dipping Into New Investments

    In life, there will always be many new things to try. Like a buffet spread, there are a lot of dishes you might not have tasted before that you might want to experience. Investments are the same. I believe that one can study something forever but until you dip into it, you honestly cannot say…

  • When One Door Closes Behind Me, Many Other New Ones Open in Front

    Life has a way of throwing new adventures at you even when you think you are stagnating and not moving forward. We try our best to make way for fresh discoveries, to plan in advance for whatever is within our control to enable new doors to open. Sometimes life does throws you a curveball. We…