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

S’pore continues to have daily high positive Covid cases even as the 3rd booster shot is being rolled out to the most vulnerable group (>60 years old). The other factor that is more depressing is the death rate. We had hit an all-time daily high of 15 persons a few days ago. For the death…

The world is resigned to the fact that Covid19 is here to stay and it is virtually impossible to eradicate the virus completely from the face of the earth. We simply have to live with it like what we have done for the flu virus, hoping that it will slowly die out first before a…

In the last few weeks, many countries have seen a surge in cases caused mainly by the Delta variant. Even as billions of vaccines have been injected and countries like Israel and S’pore hitting a greater than 80% population being vaccinated (plus a 3rd booster kicking in), the positive cases seem to be exploding. To…

Delta has thrown every country’s reopening strategy into chaos in the last 3 months. The only Covid startegy of herd immunity via vaccinations is now a big question mark. Since Dec 2020, it had been the main goal of many governments to roll out the vaccination plan as quickly as possible to stop the virus.…

We just completed our second 4 days/3 nights cruise to nowhere this week with our older son. We wanted to have a short vacation with him before he returns back to the UK for the start of his new school term next month. The first cruise to nowhere was in May with our younger son…

In our country, we have just entered into a new and complicated phase of treating pandemic Covid as endemic even as positive cases surged. Mixed and worrying signals are causing everyone to be confused and fearful at the same time. Markers like unlinked cases that were being tracked for the last 18 months as part…

I concluded a 6-month full-time virtual classroom program recently, courtesy of government subsidies. I wrote about it last week as that chapter of my lifelong learning journey closes. What’s next for me now? By writing this down in my blog this week, I hope to crystallize my thoughts and develop a new game plan going…

Our class has finally completed our last exam for the 6 months IBM AI (Artificial Intelligence) on Wed morning. There is a sense of accomplishment that a bunch of us mid-career folks had survived hundreds of hours of online classes, project submissions and exams. We have just graduated!! Yahoo!! The government had created the Skillsfuture…