Musings of a 50+ year old boy – a halftime journey
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Getting Used to an Endemic Normal, Opening Up – Week 69
When will the Covid19 virus pandemic nightmare end? It is likely that it will never go away and that we have to get used to having it with us for a long time to come. Countries around the world are realizing that with new variants popping up once in a while and that vaccinating the…
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Disappointments, Delays, Milestone Completion – Week 68
The Western world is slowly opening up after more than a year of hibernation against the virus and Biden was targeting Independence Day as a nationwide reopening date. Then disappointment strikes… The newly termed Delta variant from India is slowly sweeping through the world and moving westwards. S’pore experienced it more than a month ago…
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It’s OK, GOP Reckoning, Vaccine Acceleration – Week 67
The video went viral this week of a performance in the American’s Got Talent show. A friend shared it in our WhatsApp group chats and all of us were humbled by the brave lady and what she has gone through in the last year. The COVID year had made everyone a mental wreck and even…
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A Quiet Week of Contemplation – Week 66
A relatively quiet week for the markets as the US had a long Memorial day weekend. The only excitement was the release of Fauci’s emails from last year and accusations of more conspiracies from the usual GOP suspects. With mounting legal battles ahead, the orange one once again made a desperate attempt to rally his…
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Crypto Weakness, Vaccine Worries – Week 65
This was the week that cryptocurrencies continue to be volatile while trending lower. Too many Elon tweets have burst the bubble as BTC (Bitcoin) dropped from its 65k high to as low as 30K in a matter of days. It was like Jan 2018 for me again when my crypto portfolio suddenly went up 6x…
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Get Ready For the Next Wave, New Lockdown – Week 64
The week started with a call from an Indian minister to ask the people to be aware of the new S’pore virus variant mutation that affects children and to ban flights from that country. Funnily, the S’pore strain does not exist as it is had been already scientifically tagged and identified as originating from Indian…
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Room Reset – Week 63
In the Clubhouse app, chat room moderators have been using the term “room reset” periodically. What does it mean? When the discussion veers off the main topic or whenever there is some unwelcomed distraction, the moderator will call time out and ask for a room reset, to bring everyone back to the same page again,…
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Clubhouse App, What My Dad Told Me, Cruise to Nowhere – Week 62
The Clubhouse app has been around for more than a year and a kind friend gave me an invite a few months back. I just wanted to share my experience of the app in this blog. Imagine if you can invite yourself into a unique room full of strangers from anywhere in the world anytime…
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