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The Pokemon Go mobile phone game started almost 3 years ago in July 2016. In the beginning, whole families like mine got into it big time. We had numerous family outings specifically to “catch them all”… The servers crashed as Nianti (the game developer) couldn’t have anticipated how successful it would be globally. If you…

Wife and I were so amazed by China after our Alibaba study trip to Hangzhou last Oct that we decided to explore China further this year with another trip to a scenic part of the country. The original venue to Jiuzhaigou and panda-watching in Chengdu was scrapped as an earthquake 1.5 years ago destroyed much…

Guess what happened this week? I just completed my online submission of my 2018 tax assessment and realised that I have reached a critical milestone in my tax paying career… I discovered that my tax deductions were more than my income for the first time in my work career!!! Does that mean I can get…

Moving into the end of Mar already and a quarter of the year is over soon. Sometimes it is good to just reflect on the last 7 days about what I have been doing and see if I could make it better, more productive from a personal growth angle. By recording it down in my…

I completed my diploma in Business Analytics in Aug last year and will have my graduation event in May. This had started me since late 2017 on a learning journey of understanding what is out there in the world which I am not aware of. https://www.tp.edu.sg/courses/part-time-courses/industry/ict-and-media/specialist-diploma-in-business-analytics The initial 6 months was tough for me, being…

Human mortality is a touchy subject especially when you hit the half-century mark. Thanks to a friend, I developed a morbid fascination of reading the daily newspapers backwards from the sports page and stopping at the obituary columns to scan through all the persons listed there. When a see a familiar face, I will feel…

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…

Just completed my 6 weeks Intro to FinTech MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) from HKU last week. Though it cost me about $100 to sign up for the self-learning program, I believe that it was worth it. I learnt a few new things which helped to fill in the info gaps I had for FinTech.…