Musings of a 50+ year old boy – a halftime journey

Looking back at my school days, I always had a beef to pick with my history lessons years later. I question its relevance to my education and how it could have been much more enriching if it concentrated on topics closer to home. Why would I want to learn about ancient history? Mesopotamian and Egyptian…

Sometimes in life, you feel like a rabbit sitting in the middle of the highway facing an impending truck with high beam lights staring at you. You freeze in your tracks, paralyzed with fear, waiting for the truck to hit you. Alternatively, you can snap out of it and proactively try to do something to…

Life is mostly about being in the right place at the right time most of the time. Sometimes you are being dealt a wrong hand and given lemons. You then have to learn to make lemonade to make the best of the situation. Queen Elizabeth’s passing this week is a celebration of the life she…

It was a hilarious week of American shenanigans as we saw the ex-president’s lawyers trying to justify themselves with every crazy reason possible, only to be shot down one after another within hours. If you try to defend the indefensible, you start to dig a deeper hole and make yourself a bigger fool than you…

Two comments over the last week stood out for me. The first one summarizes the topic this week. It was from one of our ministers who said: “We sleepwalk into conflict”. This perfectly describes the situation now in the 3 conflict zones around the world, namely Ukraine, Taiwan and Myanmar. I will attempt to forecast…

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…

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…

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…