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

I spoke about mental health in these Covid times last week. There is one segment of society that is hit much harder then all of us during these times. I had the opportunity to interact with this group a few days ago. In normal times, a segment of the population is already struggling to survive…

One topic that is less talked about during normal times but getting greater notice in these Covid times is mental health. On and off lockdowns and being confined to our homes over the last 18 months can be a tough transition for many. Imagine being cooped up in your little apartment for weeks on end.…

Over my last few blogs, I have been discussing the upcoming debate between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. Things are becoming more heated as the unvaccinated becomes a minority in countries where countries have enough vaccines to protect their population. I try to seek out the reasons behind the hesitation to get the vaccines via a…

Last week, I blogged about the upcoming new Covid battle between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. The voices in this debate are getting louder as Delta ravages the world, even in our compliant Little Red Dot. As the privileged countries debate on this, many others with no supply of vaccines try their best not to…

The next impending COVID battle is coming very soon and it is not what we would have expected. More of this later. After the KTV saga last week, it seems that this was the lesser of the 2 developing virus spread issues that the authorities were worried about. With the KTVs, there was a more…

The national KTV fiasco exploded into all our faces on Sunday for our sunny island. It was a disaster that was waiting to happen. Again and again, the virus seeks and expose a country’s weakest points and exploit them to the fullest extent possible. Just a small gap is enough for the new variants to…

Michael Lewis recently published his new book “The Premonition” about the pandemic America went through in 2020. He is the author of books like Liar’s Poker, The Blind Side and The Big Short plus various insightful articles he wrote for magazines like Vanity Fair. His books are usually not too long at about 200+ pages…

The Old Normal is dead. The virus has changed the world to a New Normal where we are still trying to figure out as we evolved with the pandemic and use technology for workaround solutions. It has been 1.5 years into this once in a 100 years event which has changed our lifestyles and ways…