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Time really flies when you work full-time. The weekdays pass quickly; before you know it, it’s TGIF again. I felt it much more because I stopped having a normal job when I left my last bank job in Oct 2017 and was always trying to find new things to do to kill time. The last…

I had a good first week of work last week after not working full time for the past 6 years since my last one in Oct 2017. It turned out better than I thought as I was trying to figure out strategically what needed to be done. I was mentally exhausted every day and slept…

I finally started my first day of full-time work on Monday with much trepidation and anxiety as my last full-time job was in 2017. In last week’s blog, I had elaborated on what I had been doing during the last 6 years and how I managed to land this new role. I had prepared for…

I am 57 this year and my last full-time job ended in Oct 2017 when I left a UK bank after less than a year there. For the last 6 years, I have pivoted to project-based consultancy roles as well as become a full-time student in various new lifelong learning interests I had discovered along…

An interesting podcast from Scott Galloway interviewing Mo, an expert on AI and its inevitable progress. That ChatGPT’s current IQ is about 155 versus Albert Enstein’s 160 and will be unmeasurable with future versions soon. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-prof-g-pod-with-scott-galloway/id1498802610?i=1000620994812 The bonus was the last 19 minutes where Mo shared his views on life, death and happiness. That was…

Presidential elections are upon us in Singapore soon. This reminds me of my project in early 2022 during my NUS Fintech full-time 4-month program. One of the modules dealt with Blockchain and smart contracts. The goal of the project was to have a concept paper using Blockchain technology to solve a current problem. My 4-page…

The country was hit with bombshell news mid-week when it was revealed that 400 officers had conducted a massive islandwide raid to arrest 10 foreigners over suspected money laundering and forgery charges. What shocked us, even more, was the amount of assets seized doing the raid – they included properties, cash and hard assets like…

July 2023 has just been confirmed to be the hottest month on record ever. All around the world, cities hit record hit temperatures we have never seen before. Authorities have to warn people working under the sun to take precautions to avoid heatstroke and hydrate regularly. I had personally felt the intense heat during my…