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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

So much happened in America this week. 2 powerful Jan 06 sessions piled on more damning evidence on the orange one. The supreme court also just overturned Roe vs Wade last night. These 2 events will have lots of ramifications plus new late-night comedy material into the US mid-term elections in Nov. The long-delayed tightening…

Wikipedia defines a Ponzi as a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. The greater fool theory revolves around the pushing of an asset price higher by attracting more people and creating a FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) environment. The above 2 points perfectly…

I am a 56-year-old Asian male. I started this blog 6 years ago when I turned 50. I was at my halftime turning point trying to make sense of what I would like to do with the second half of my life given that I had worked and lived in this little red dot all…