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

Quite an eventful week for me after a long period of non-event days on a personal front while covid again reared its ugly head. Just when we thought that Covid recovery is rounding the corner for everyone, the sudden and vicious flare-ups around developing countries like India and Brazil took the world by surprise. Multiple…

This week was one of those times where we experience once in a while. It was hard to figure out where the various asset classes were heading as prices were all over the place. It seems like there were multiple diverging views as investors try to grapple with the “what’s next?” million-dollar question. The stock…

US stock markets rose to historical highs this week. One will be hard-pressed to realize that we are still in the midst of a pandemic though. Markets are forecasting months ahead, where things could possibly go back to the good old times pre-Covid. It was a broad-based rise in the overall American indices where many…

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…