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I attended an event on Wed evening that was organized by a group of old boys from my Alma Mater. That was the highlight of my week. It was fun and stimulating as the topics of the speakers of the event were so close to my heart. Not only because it was a gathering of…

Watching American politics unfolding into the Nov Presidential elections is like death by a thousand paper cuts. Non-Americans can genuinely see the slow decline of the once-great nation imploding from within as a divided nation fights against itself. This week on Thurs, it was the first presidential election debate hosted live by CNN. We see…

For my current job, I had to read up on sustainability topics and understand the urgency of climate change and why we are running out of time to provide future generations with a livable earth. The more I read, the more I learn of the reasons to be afraid of if there is no coordinated…

It was a tense and long Friday (07 Jun). I was about to meet up with some old friends for breakfast and discuss investment ideas when I received an urgent call that my dad had injured himself while exercising. Their domestic helper called me to say that an ambulance had sent him to the hospital…

Nvidia did it again and announced another back-to-back quarterly financial result that blew everyone’s mind this week. The stock price surged another $100+ to cross $1k each, adding another $200+ billion to its market cap. At $2.6 Trillion today, it is now the 3rd largest company in the world, just behind Microsoft and Apple. Its…

Given that the value of JPY had weakened by 15% since our last Japan trip in Aug 2023, we decided to plan another trip again. This time it was to a city we had never visited before. My friends were always talking about Fukuoka and how wonderful it was. It has lovely weather, cheap and…

I have always been interested in how American politics had degenerated to the current state of facts doesn’t matter and it’s us against them mentality. We see a total distrust of the political system and media leading to the widespread belief in conspiracy theories and the “trust no one” mindset. This led America down the…

There is just so much AI-related news coming out every week that it is so hard to track which are the ones that will change the world and which are just the flavour-of-the-day types that will fade away. But the trend is clear newer innovations will continue to amaze us and set the tone for…