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

I started the week on Sunday by having a Sunday family lunch to celebrate my Dad’s 92nd birthday. We had some Tim Sum and dishes at a familiar restaurant near his home. Both my parents have taken their first shots of the Pfizer vaccine a few weeks ago and took the 2nd one this week…

As part of my halftime lifelong continuous learning journey, I have recently become a full-time student again. My learning journey started in 2017 after I left my last banking job. I started to sign up for Skillsfuture courses which were heavily subsidized by the government for citizens, especially mid-career people like me. Over the next…

It has been once in a lifetime year that we have witnessed. Each and every human being on Planet Earth had been through a traumatic experience which only the Marvel movie plots could have conceived. An invisible enemy had attacked the world with its deadly hands. It’s really unbelievable that we had survived a 1…

After the last 12 months of pushing hate speech and scapegoating the Asian American for the COVID pandemic, the cold massacre of 8 people was a rude wake-up call to all Americans this week. I really could never understand American politics under the orange moron which had aimed to divide to encourage racist rhetoric to…

It has been exactly 1 year since WHO declared the start of the COVID19 pandemic. And here we are now, 365 days later. I started the weekly blog count 2 weeks earlier when I sensed that things are getting worse after my last Yangon business trip ended at the end of Feb 2020. My wife…

We say farewell to Feb and entered into Mar this week. Two months into 2021 and many exciting things have already happened. 06 Jan Capitol riots, Myanmar military coup and Biden’s first 30+ days of presidency had passed. While there is more optimism built into the pandemic front, chaos seems to reign everywhere as countries…

With the Skillsfuture initiative in S’pore, I have had the opportunity since 2017 to participate in multiple training courses to learn and improve myself as part of my lifelong learning journey into the next part of my halftime path. I had taken courses that included a specialist diploma in Business Analytics, understanding financial statements, Aquaponics,…

Time flies and it has almost been a year into COVID19 since I started my weekly blog with a count down 51 weeks ago. It seems so long ago when we were in the old normal, travelling for vacations and taking frequent flights everywhere. No one a year ago would have believed me if I…